My primary engagement on Twitter has been around political issues. For now, and perhaps for good, Twitter has sunk below the level where it feels meaningful in any way. At best it's a placebo - the illusion of doing something. Maybe it always has been. #cdnpoli #onpoli 1/5

A friend is in crisis over a very sick dog and started a #gofundme. I do know them personally and money isn't the real issue. I'll cover what's needed. But moral support also helps. So if anyone wanted to kick in just a few dollars it would be welcome. https://t.co/5Gm7nejjBK

A friend is in crisis over a very sick dog and started a #gofundme. I do know them personally and money isn't the real issue. I'll cover what's needed. But moral support also helps. So if anyone wanted to kick in just a few dollars it would be welcome. https://t.co/5Gm7nejjBK

For anyone still interested in my advice, there are so many great organizations out there, starved for volunteers and participants at every level. Climb out of the Twitter dumpster and into the light. You'll be happier for it, and more useful to society too. #cdnpoli #onpoli 5/5

I won't say I'm done with Twitter. Never say never. But if anyone wonders where I've gone, I'm not looking for the next great thing. I'm going back to the last great things - actual organizations that do good work in my community. I'll be doing more of that. #cdnpoli #onpoli 4/5

I've volunteered on community boards, in my riding associations, and I've done other things in the past. Perhaps I've done less lately. Very likely, I can find something better to do than wait for the next online platform to broadcast my various opinions. #cdnpoli #onpoli 3/5

Like others, I've been hoping something better would replace Twitter. After all, what worked once could work again, right? But that's missing the fact that Twitter didn't emerge in a vacuum. It too replaced other, perhaps better, forms of engagement. #cdnpoli #onpoli 2/5

Turns out the Government of Canada managed to screw itself with the Phoenix pay system in one more, unexpected way. It's hard to deter striking employees with the cost of being on strike when the government can't actually figure out how to stop paying them. Just saying. #cdnpoli

I paid for Twitter a couple of months so I could record longer videos. I don't care if people believe I am who I say I am. Look me up. Now that Musk has turned the blue checkmark into a referendum on him personally, I can't wait for my billing cycle to end and lose it.

I'm about as pro-union as it gets. But it isn't "union busting" to allow existing employees to continue working and get paid while a strike is ongoing. If a union can't convince people to strike, that's their problem, not the employer's. #cdnpoli https://t.co/zRB9MJ4Uj4

Danielle Smith announces not only will she refuse questions about her interference in public prosecutions, and restrict reporters to just one question each, but she'll only give one word answers. Asked how she can justify this, Smith replied "because." #abpoli #cdnpoli

Radical individualism is not only mean-spirited and ugly but illogical and willfully blind. No one gets rich without a society to support and protect that wealth. Taxes aren't charity - they simply acknowledge our dependence on one another. And rightfully so. #abpoli #cdnpoli 3/3

Meanwhile, liberal philosophy is not only that misfortune is shared rather than individual, but success and affluence are not solely individual but are owed, at least in part, to the society that enables that success. Which is why it comes with obligations. #abpoli #cdnpoli 2/3

When Smith and the #UCP talk about how people should be "accountable" for their cancer, their heart attacks, etc. it's not a mistake. Their philosophy is that misfortune should be individual, not shared. "Accountability" is code for "you're on your own." #abpoli #cdnpoli 1/3

It's one thing to lie. It's another to be a serial liar. But the biggest blunder of all, is the lie that insults the voter. Nobody is vacant enough to believe the conversation was booked because she wanted to chat with a party leader-a party led by a pastor without a prayer.

I don't care who our Prime Minister is. It's ridiculous and embarrassing we can't provide our PM with a decent residence. Maybe the endless nickle-and-dime stories about the cost of having a government have something to do with this. #cdnpoli https://t.co/iizIJwU5ru

If hygienists expect patients who haven't had dental care in years, or ever, that proves the program is working and desperately needed. I don't care how Singh and Trudeau want to jockey over who gets the most credit. This is a win for Canada. #cdnpoli https://t.co/vus7VoE8h9

So deleting the video deletes the problem? Do you want to be taken seriously as a party worthy of government? You don't care whether a #UCP candidate is a lying bigoted kook - as long as they don't confess all of that in a video? Lesson learned. Thank you Alberta Nutbar Party.

Doing my job, I see victims and families struggling with loss and harms they've suffered. It's unreasonable to hope they'll take a wide view on root causes and social issues. This grieving mother's grace and charity is beyond words. #topoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/bGFL5pPqTX

Senator Brazeau is an inspiration, and a great example of what an independent Senate can be. Appointed by Harper almost fifteen years ago but so clearly his own man. No elected politician could have evolved as he has and stayed in office through it. Congratulations. #cdnpoli