Justin Ling (Has Left)
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I'm not here. Bsky: https://t.co/zlkTWBh5Ov Substack: https://t.co/5Y2BQGr0Au
Joined October 2008
For the past year I've kept sharing links on this bad place, but now that the exodus to Bluesky is in full swing, I'm going to stop. If you want to keep up with my work, follow me on Substack or Bluesky. Goodbye!.
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NEW: A senior Canadian official tells me that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been working the phones since Tuesday to build support for cutting Russia off from its foreign currency reserves. It looks like the EU has reached consensus on that point tonight.
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Anonymous has knocked offline the website for Russia's defence ministry, and there are claims they have leaked the personal information of ministry employees.
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This is absolutely deranged. A group of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists organized an occupation of our capital, encouraged by the Conservative Party. After three weeks, the police are clearing out the city as slowly and non-confrontationally as possible. This is the reaction?.
I'm disturbed & saddened by what we are seeing today in Ottawa. This situation was created by the PM & his desire to divide Canadians. It’s time for MPs to return to the House tomorrow to stop the overreach by this government & restore unity, wholeness & hope back to our nation.
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For about a week, I've been chasing a lead: that someone was sharing internal police communications with folks involved in the occupation. I haven't been able to nail it down. But: Far-right influencer Jeremy MacKenzie just posted a bunch of screenshots of an RCMP group chat.
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Life comes at you fast. NRA spokespuppet goes from chiding the mayor of Edmonton after a terror attack to waiting for the facts in Las Vegas
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I expect it's going to be a big day in Ottawa. Follow this thread for updates.
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The murder rate in St Petersburg is 2.5 times higher than London, you melting racist muppet
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The Prime Minister will be providing an update on the ongoing occupation anytime now. I'm hearing he WILL NOT be resigning and handing over power to an anti-vax junta to arrest Pfizer executes and Bill Gates, but we shall see.
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As Russian disinfo channels continue to suggest that President Zelensky has fled Kyiv — something they've been peddling for weeks — he posts a video of himself and his top advisors in the streets of the capital.
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The occupiers are having a press conference right now. They say they "threw out" CTV. Because they're "teaching the fake news industry what news is.". Can't stress enough that these people only want to face questions from people supportive of their movement.
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We, of course, ought to consider that a crowd of mostly-white folks got this light-touch treatment while homeless encampments and Indigenous occupations get systematically more aggressive and dangerous interventions. It's hard to ignore the stark difference.
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I've been sounding this horn for weeks: The rhetoric has been deranged, conspiratorial, and dangerous for awhile now. We just haven't been paying attention.
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Now that The Great Honkening is drawing to a close (for now?) I'm catching up on some work. But just a short(?) thread about the police operation this weekend, because I'm seeing a lot of rather heated takes about the whole thing.
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I think it bears constantly repeating: Vaccine mandates and passports are not a restriction on the freedom of the 90% of the population that is vaccinated. The 10% that is unvaccinated are free to remain so, albeit with consequences.
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Opposition MP Andrew Scheer just accused the government of "trying to crack down on dissident.". Another MP just yelled "dictator.". What is happening.
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let's all come together in solidarity for Ukraine, and stop sharing videos of Tucker Carlson being a complete morally bankrupt trust fund slug.
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hi, canada calling. what the fuck.
LOL -- Trump's fans boo after he suggests they sing "Oh Canada" together
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A law enforcement source tells me two of the occupiers attempted to arrest Ottawa Police officers yesterday. They were rebuffed, obviously, but they are "getting more bold.".
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"We are not saying don't go for a walk around," Ford says, minutes after announcing that people will be stopped by police, interrogated, and ticketed for walking around.
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Sounds like Ottawa Police are trying to clear how downtown today. Talk on the scanner that police are instructing vehicles to move, and will be issuing tickets every four hours if they don't.
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Media outlets that are more interested in propaganda than actual journalism are "reporting" that someone died today. It's not true.
Please note: No one has been seriously injured or passed away in any of today's police actions. Safety is our priority. ~.Veuillez noter que personne n'a été gravement blessé ou est décédé en lien aux interventions policières d'aujourd'hui. La sécurité est notre priorité.
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Bad news for the Ottawa anti-vaccine occupiers. A class action lawsuit was filed this evening on behalf of the citizens of Ottawa, against the organizers, for nearly $10 million in damages. Will be heard 2pm tomorrow. And GoFundMe says they're cut off:.
GoFundMe says the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser “is now in violation of our Terms of Service (Term 8, which prohibits the promotion of violence and harassment) and has been removed from the platform.”.
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If you're thinking "wait, who the hell is marazzo guy?" . trust me, you're not the only one.
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I'm going to expand on this in a longer piece, but just briefly: The operation I witnessed over the weekend was one of the most cautious, slow, methodical crowd operations I've ever seen.
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The fact that we got through this with only ~200 arrests and a few bruises is incredible. It was far from perfect, but this is an operation that could be studied as the benchmark of how crowd control situations don't need to be as violent and confrontational as they often are.
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A source in the emergency response team told me that Ottawa Police planned, then cancelled, at least one operation after discovering details may have been leaked to the occupiers. They suspected an officer who was on leave without pay for refusing to get vaccinated.
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Greetings from (maybe?) the last day of the Ottawa occupation.
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I am genuinely shocked at the state of things in the downtown core. Whatever benefit Mayor Watson thinks he achieved by striking a deal with the occupiers, I don't see it. They've entrenched themselves considerably since the first weekend. Some lanes have opened up, yes, but. .
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NEW: I have seen unclassified intelligence assessments that warned Ottawa Police that ideologically-motivated violent extremist elements were involved in the "Freedom Convoy." . "We knew these people were coming," a source just told me.
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may i offer a fucking suggestion.
Quebec wants to increase hiring of visible minorities in the public service as part of anti-racism strategy
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That members of a far-right group, connected with a contingent now accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers, could have police sources and access to internal police comms: It's very bad!.
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Obviously I'm biased, because I'm in it. But the @cbcfifth convinced the Ottawa occupation organizers to say out loud what they really believe. And it's incredibly compelling.
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Just a friendly reminder this Halloween, and I can't believe I have to say this, but going as 'the Prime Minister of Canada' is not a justification to do blackface.
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Nothing will sway the residents of downtown Ottawa to the anti-vaxxer cause, and keep the movement unified, better than an 8am Sunday truck-honking wake-up call.
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This is surveillance footage of two individuals entering a downtown Ottawa apartment building, near the center of the convoy, barring the doors and attempting to start a fire. If you can identify either of the men, and don't feel comfortable contacting the police, please DM me.
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A Toronto court just struck down Doug Ford's mandatory anti-carbon tax gas pump stickers. The court called them compelled speech, thinly-veiled partisan messaging, and “incomplete in such a significant way that it does not convey the true state of facts.". Story coming!.
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My tolerance level for this nonsense is zero. We need opposition to the Emergency Act. That's essential. But to crank up the histrionics over every single aspect of this shitshow is so cravenly self-interested and dangerous.
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Interim leader Candice Bergen, pictured here having friendly pizza with the protesters in the downtown occupation zone, accuses Trudeau of "escalating" the situation by "name calling."
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President Volodymyr Zelensky steps back onto the streets of Kyiv, even after a night of fighting in and around and city, to urge Ukrainians to not trust disinformation.
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Canada is not going to meet its Q1 vaccine delivery targets from Pfizer and Moderna: It's going to exceed them, by about 30,000 doses.
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Let's talk a minute about the policing posture in Ottawa right now. For starters: I don't think anyone really knows what's actually going on inside the Ottawa Police Service right now. (That includes many people inside the Service, I think.).
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so we're going full conspiracy theory, then, are we? good to know
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Trudeau, by the way, is going to go scorched earth against Poilievre. It will not be a campaign to govern, but a campaign to stop Poilievre from doing so. This next election is going to be miserable. Brutal, democracy-harming, miserable. Strap in.
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This absolutely crackers letter has been spreading like wildfire on the convoy Telegram channels. Supporters are apparently calling and emailing the Governor General en masse to demand. a coup.
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Guns were not drawn. This is wrong.
Breaking News: The police arrested demonstrators at gunpoint near the Parliament building in Ottawa in an effort to end the weekslong protests.
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You may be inclined to go "oh, well, it's just a liquor license" but targeting businesses in this way — using state power to intimidate minorities and political opponents — is absolutely a hallmark of fascism.
#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is revoking the Hyatt Regency Miami's alcohol license for hosting a "sexually explicit show with children present". The venue hosted "A Drag Queen Christmas" on Dec. 27, 2022.
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CTV News reporting that Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson tapped former Doug Ford chief of staff (whose tenure in office was, in short, *chaotic*) Dean French to negotiate with the truckers. He led to the, er, "breakthrough" of having more truckers move onto Parliament Hill.
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In an 'emergency' press conference, the truckers' new spokesperson Tom Marazzo says: "I'm willing to sit at a table with the conservatives and the NDP and the Bloc, as a coalition. I'll sit with the governor general."
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I would say this weekend's operation was absolutely in contrast to those other operations. Neither tear gas nor rubber bullets were deployed. Police lines advanced slowly, predictably, and deliberately — instead of rushing occupiers and provoking conflict.
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Can't stress enough that the Canadian public, by and large, support vaccine mandates.
From a survey @abacusdataca completed yesterday. Expect a full report out later this week. n=1,500 adult Canadians, Feb 9 to 13, 2022. Views on vaccine mandates .#cdnpoli #onpoli
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He didn't just say "you people." He said "you people come here" and love "our way of life." He can't Herrick his own comments.
Watch: Don Cherry on what he meant by "you people" in divisive poppy comments, what he would do if he had the chance to go on TV Saturday night
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I just got to Ottawa, where things are already a mess. There's dozens of vehicles either parked or doing loops around downtown. I've spotted about a half-dozen rigs but it's mostly personal vehicles and campers. And holy god is it loud.
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nyt: come over.wapo: we're competing news outlets.nyt: we've uncovered troubling new revelations of abuse of power in the White House.wapo:
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I'll have more tomorrow, but I can confirm Canada has encouraged debated on the United Kingdom's proposal to cut Russia off the SWIFT payment system. Other European allies are not onboard, but Ottawa and London are hoping to keep the conversation going.
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I genuinely can't believe that Canadian politicians are lending their credibility to a movement that believes it can oust our democratically-elected government, and will try and shut down our capital until they succeed.
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This morning, a bunch of bikers are set to descend on downtown Ottawa for a rally, trying to recapture the relative success of the anti-vaccine convoy that occupied the capital for three weeks earlier this year. I'm keeping tabs on the goings-on. So follow this thread.
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Canada cutting off Moscow from "most favoured nation" status will mean its exports will face 35% tariffs into Canada. Ottawa is encouraging other nations to do the same.
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One thing I keep hearing from people is that they're incredulous at being arrested. Just heard someone exclaim "they arrested him just for being on the sidewalk!" . And it's like. yeah. They told you that.
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This is not a movement that's been "hijacked" or "taken over by extremists." That's factually incorrect. The freedom convoy was dreamed up by Bauder as a way to remove Trudeau from power. Since then it's attracted an array of other conspiracy theorists and far-right agitators.
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So I'm in Ottawa right now. I spent my afternoon riding shotgun with @pdmcleod, checking out some of the occupiers' satellite encampments, outside the city of Ottawa itself. A few thoughts:.
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Do you ever get the feeling that maybe, sometimes, our politicians are woefully out of their depth in this pandemic? More concerned about scoring points than encouraging a good public health strategy?. Join me on a short walk. .
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The group chats don't show anything nefarious or particularly pertinent to operational security. But it does show RCMP officers inside the Chateau Laurier, where part of the operation was staged. Users are looking up the names of officers. Very very bad.
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The West has faced its "never again" test. Ottawa and London spent the past four days making sure it didn't fail.
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Arrests were done selectively, and batons were only used when occupiers resisted arrest. I'm told some police agencies (which I know to be particularly aggressive) were strongly cautioned against using their normal tactics. Which is very very good.
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Statement from the head of Canada's special forces command.
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Early this morning, Elon Musk used his private jet like a taxi to hop around Los Angeles, emitting about as much CO2 as an average American produces in a year.
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Marazzo, who serves as police liaison, does a pretty good job of dismantling the idea that these organizers are protesting vaccine mandates. He goes on a spiel about "freedom" that turns into debunked nonsense about vaccine safety.
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At a bar near downtown, Ottawans cheer, wave bye, and offer some middle fingers and "fuck you! go home!"s as trucks drive south, out of town.
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James Bauder, the founder of Canada Unity and the architect of the "trucker" convoy to Ottawa, has said Trudeau “needs too[sic] be arrested and charged for treason, and for participating in committing crimes against humanity.”.
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I guess their plan to form a governing junta with the Governor General and Senate left the door open to "unintended interpretations."
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At the anti-vaccine rally in Toronto right now, a speaker is asking police to "form a tactical team" and arrest the Lieutenant Governor for murder.
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A source tells me officers found "a few shotguns" while clearing the trucks. Carrying a shotgun in your truck is perfectly legal: But the source says they were loaded. That's not legal. Still, no cache of weapons, like what police found in Coutts.
Bell confirms there are "several criminals investigations ongoing that relate to the seizure of weapons." Not concluded, no charges yet, no detail about the weapons seized.
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It is absofuckinglutely not like that.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney just decried stigmatization of the unvaccinated. “It kind of reminds me of attitudes that circulated in North America in the mid-1980s about people with HIV/AIDS. There’s this notion that they had to be kind of distanced for health reasons.”. #ableg.
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all THREE types? where will it end? do they just expect us to get polio vaccines FOREVER? smdh we need to just learn to live with the polio.
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Props to the one guy carrying a VACCINES SAVE LIVES sign. MVP of the day.
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The anti-vaxxers have entered Canada's Parliament. Conservative MPs are hosting this "reclaiming our voice" event inside a House of Commons meeting room. Centre is ex-reservist James Topp; left is ex-Trump advisor Paul Alexnader, right is former occupation spox Tom Marazzo.
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New: Canada providing anti-tank weapon systems, 2000 rockets to Ukraine. "Which we will be working to deliver as quickly as possible in the coming days.".
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so you're saying if i've got two dumb kids i could make $500.
#Breaking: Ontario to provide parents $200 per child for students struggling with math
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I'm sorry but the framing of this interview — that it is exclusively a group of truckers objecting to cross-border vaccine mandates — is just flat-out inaccurate.
On today’s Daily: inside the profoundly un-Canadian occupation of Ottawa by hundreds of truckers. @porterthereport went to the protest to figure out what’s really going on — and whether we’re witnessing the birth of a new kind of politics in Canada.
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Whatever your feelings about this union, or this labour action: This is a fundamental erosion of not just labour rights, but most fundamental rights. If you don't stand to object now, why should anyone stand for you when your rights are revoked for political expediency?.
NEW - Laura Walton and fellow CUPE members get kicked out of the public galleries in the legislature as the government passes bill 28, which legislates a contract on the union. It’s the second bill in Ontario history to use the notwithstanding clause to override charter rights.
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Anti-Hate Canada has great background on the MacKenzie, Vriend, and the Diagolon movement:
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Danielle Smith shared pro-Russian propaganda, written by a French 9/11 conspiracy theorist, published on a Holocaust denial blog. The Alberta premier's unbalance media diet is worth talking about.
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These people are the official "scientific" advisors to the occupation. Everyone say it with me: This is an occupation of anti-vaxxers.
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An Ottawa court is set to hear an emergency motion for a class action lawsuit against the trucker occupation. Organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, Benjamin Dichter will be represented — trying to distance themselves from fellow orgznier Pat King.
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But I can't stress enough: If you're still insisting that this protest is about vaccine mandates for truckers, you're wrong. These folks keep explicitly saying they want all COVID-19 measures gone.
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Good god. Andrew Scheer honestly argued that building wider roads reduces CO2 emissions. It *does not.*.
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I take from this report that this group at the Coutts blockade had a very specific list of people they planned on killing. It's worth noting, as @antihateca has done really well, how closely linked they are to a prominent member of the Ottawa occupation.
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Here's the full statement of claim from the Ottawa residents seeking nearly $10 million in damages from the protesters occupying the city right now: If the class action goes forward, anyone who lives in the area is automatically a member of the suit.
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Right-wing conspiracy media outlet Rebel News has sent a crew to Moscow, where it apparently intends on speaking to "Ukrainians, Russians, soldiers, veterans, professors and others to tell the other side of the story.". Their correspondent? A former producer for Russia Today.
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This is why I asked Erin O'Toole what the hell is going through his head, in planning to meet with these people.
Fixed the edit to fully include both @Justin_Ling questions. They were the right questions to ask.
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At his press conference, @CityCynthia just asked Premier Ford why he's still pursuing half measures (if that) on workplace COVID-19 outbreaks. He responded by saying “the variants in the workplaces are coming from the border.”. Does he seriously think people are that stupid?.
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Just a reminder for folks in the city: Do not tweet exact police movements. There's going to be a lot of reports flying around: wait for things to be verified. If you see anything of importance, feel free to DM me.
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At a certain point, there's got to be some action taken against the roaming band of anti-vax miscreants and nutjobs whose presence is threatening enough to warrant cancelling events.
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Despite the expectation that they would be greeted as liberators, polling data shows Canadians are unimpressed with the Freedom (From Vaccines) Occupation. It's day six.
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It's day five of the Great Honkening of Ottawa and I understand that the honking status is: still honking.
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🎶stop assaulting journalists🎶.
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