Toula Drimonis
@ToulasTake
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Writer/columnist. Feminist. Bylines: @thecut , @macleans , @msmagazine , @NatObserver , @cultmtl , @mtlgazette , @ricochet_en , @nationalpost . 📧toulastake @gmail .com
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Friends, I wrote a book and I hope you’ll read it. It’s about immigration, xenophobia, how counterproductive “othering” can be for social cohesion & integration; + a whole lot more. It will be available in September but those interested can pre-order now.
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This is some of the finest trolling of mansplaining I've ever seen. Thank for the Friday laughs,
@AmandaRTubbs
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A friend shared this and it's a real Adelaide University poster and I will be over here laugh-crying until I die.
PS: Just look at these poor women's faces... 😂😂
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“The land of the free,” my *ss. What a horrific, tragic, scary day for American women. Sending nothing but solidarity and strength their way.
#roeoverturned
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, ending the constitutional right to abortion. More to come.
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Greek is my first language and I studied Ancient Greek for 3 years in high-school. He could be speaking Klingon for all I can tell here. This is just really bad parroting...
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“They were ordinary people with ordinary wishes, ordinary hopes. But when you come from the Middle East that can be a little difficult.”
My heart breaks for this man who lost his wife and daughter in the crash and remains so dignified and composed in his grief.
#IranPlaneCrash
Hamed Esmaeilion says his wife Parisa and with their daughter Reera were killed in the Ukrainian flight that crashed in
#Iran
last night: I called her school today and said Reera will be absent forever.
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All the man-baby tears and tantrums this post has elicited has brought me so much joy. 😂
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Imagine being on the right side of history and looking this good while doing it.
Paul Newman in Washington, D.C. attending Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech August 28, 1963.
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I’m on the metro. There’s a baby peaking over its mom’s shoulder to smile at a woman in a hijab who’s reciprocating the love. A young student next to me is reading Hitchens’ God Is Not Great. Everyone is co-existing and minding their own damn business.
#Montreal
at its finest.
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I want to meet the 12-year-old that is responsible for making the editorial decisions for the front page of the
@JdeMontreal
because I refuse to believe an adult is in charge.
Who thought this was an acceptable image to report on the Indian variant in Canada?
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I’m truly so tired of people spewing anti-refugee rhetoric every chance they get. Peace by Chocolate’s owner, a Syrian refugee, didn’t “steal” Canadian jobs. He literally created a business that employs more than 75 people, making it the 3rd largest employer in Antigonish, NS.
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This image of 84-year-old primatologist and conservation expert Jane Goodall and 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who just gave a fiery speech at
#Davos
, makes me want to cry. The connection, mutual admiration, and quiet determination in their eyes is just beautiful.
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As a fellow Canadian and just... you know... a human being devastated by the pointless loss of so many lives, I share this man’s grief & anger and I’m glad he’s using his platform to speak out w/ no regard to his bottom dollar. The hashtag
#BoycottMapleLeafFoods
is shameful.
I’m Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and these are personal reflections. I am very angry, and time isn’t making me less angry. A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran...
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#Montreal
’s crazy intense storm last night as taken by photographer
@safesolvent
. Phenomenal pic!
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Orbán isn’t “right leaning.” He’s an anti-immigrant, Islamophobic fascist who cites Russia & China as examples & aims to “maintain racial purity.” Is Harper for real? /
Ex-PM Stephen Harper seeks closer ties with Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orbán |
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Sitting in a cafe in Westmount, listening to two business dudes effortlessly switch between impeccable French and English while I speak to my mom in Greek. A woman walks by on her phone, “Mira, mira, te lo dije... “
This is my Montreal and I rather love it. ❤️
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I can’t help but feel that if the Quebec gov’t had categorically shut down things earlier in December instead of promising Christmas gatherings and other pipe dreams, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess right now. I feel for overwhelmed healthcare workers. What a mess...
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“Police have now confirmed: 14 students dead, all women.”
30 years later, that sentence still sends shivers down my spine.
30 years later, I still think of who these young women were and of everything they weren’t allowed to become.
May we honour their memory.
#MontrealMassacre
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Forgive me for questioning Legault’s sincerity when he says he’ll be “premier of all Quebecers.” The last four years —and most definitely the last two weeks—haven’t proven that to be true at all.
#QC2022
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U know you’re a Montrealer when 20+cm of the white stuff doesn’t even faze you. You’re still meeting up for beers at Le Cheval Blanc. You’re still dining at that cute, little Portuguese place. You’re still walking home at night serenaded by the soft crunch-crunch-crunch of snow.
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Nice going,
@JdeMontreal
. Nothing like a little mockery to encourage people to learn and attempt to speak French.
That should do it… 😒
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I’m not saying Premier Legault shouldn’t be reading books, but his PR team posting his reading suggestions on Twitter mere seconds after Radio-Canada announces 96 more COVID deaths & 110 new hospitalizations in Quebec is just… disconnected from reality. The optics are so wrong.
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CAQ Immigration Minister Jean Boulet won with a fairly comfortable lead tonight. It’s almost as if maligning immigrants and uttering false, disparaging statements about them doesn’t disqualify you one bit from being re-elected. Good stuff.
#QC2022
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Oh, shut it already,
@MaximeBernier
!Less than 1% of abortions take place after 21 weeks. No woman stays pregnant for 6-7 months & suddenly decides to get a third-trimester abortion unless her life is in grave danger or the fetus is no longer viable. Mind your own damn business.
Maxime Bernier veut interdire l’avortement au troisième trimestre
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Seeing that MTL mayor Valerie Plante collapsed during a press conference & some of the online comments I’m reading in reaction to the news are a little gross. Ces gens n'ont-ils pas été mieux élevés? I don’t know what’s happened to human decency lately… we’re in short supply.
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Remembering 14 women who were robbed of everything that could have been 34 years ago today.
#December6
#polytechnique
#MontrealMassacre
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This is the New York Review of Books office. It both stresses me out and fills me with joy. ❤️
Also, it makes me feel a little bit better about my own creative mess.
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You’re screaming into a pillow because a place that’s overwhelmingly French translated a sign into… French? 😒
Someone told me that the French language laws in Quebec are so strict that even KFC is PFK (Poulet Fris Kentucky) so I had to check on Google Maps for myself and now I'm screaming into a pillow
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“Montreal is dirty, ugly and depressing” writes a Journal de Montréal columnist this morning. Bof. I could get annoyed or I could just walk out my front door. ❤️
#Montreal
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This government is going to give me an aneurysm. Imagine telling a qualified professional with a teaching degree they can no longer work in
#Quebec
classrooms because of their hijab, but it’s ok for them to volunteer-teach FOR FREE if we’re short on teachers. The gall…
#Bill21
Les parents volontaires n'auront pas à se plier à la Loi sur la laïcité. Ainsi, ils pourront porter kippa, hijab, croix, turban sikh, puisqu'ils n'agissent pas comme enseignants. Ils ne sont donc pas visés par la loi 21, indique l'attaché de presse de
@jfrobergeQc
.
#polqc
#assnat
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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a more inept government when it comes to French-language protection. For the 1000th time, pissing off anglophones isn’t protecting French!
#qcpoli
Fees doubled for out-of-province students attending anglo universities
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LOL This paper… 🤦♀️
P.K. raises an impressive and much-needed $6.3M for the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation and the
@JdeMontreal
and Quebecor universe still somehow manage to spin this news as a shameful secret they exposed.
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Woke up seriously pissed at Legault for his complete fumbling of this Omicron wave in Quebec. We knew 3 weeks ago that it was coming and it was going to hit hard. A population that has largely complied with public health measures is now paying the price of his inaction.
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This is fundamentally the issue we have in
#Quebec
when it comes to minority rights. As long as francophones continue to see themselves solely as a persecuted minority & not also a majority capable of violating minority rights legitimate criticism is only perceived as Qc bashing.
@ToulasTake
C’est rendu un sport post-national de taper sur les 2% de francophones d’Amérique du Nord
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Our annual Christmas miracle in Saint-Henri. The little pink house on top of the Canada Malting Plant by the Lachine canal is, once again, decorated for the holidays. Pic: Shaune Thompson 💕🎄
#Montreal
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@yawkeyway
@AP
What kind of heartless human being do you have to be to look at that picture and immediately tweet those words?
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At some point we need to acknowledge that repeated comments about
#immigration
from the CAQ aren’t blunders, missteps, or taken out of context, but precisely how they feel about immigration. And come to terms with the fact many support them despite this or because of it.
#QC2022
Selon le ministre de l’Immigration du Québec, Jean Boulet:
« 80% des immigrants s’en vont à Montréal, ne travaillent pas, parlent pas français ou n’adhèrent pas aux valeurs de la société québécoise »
#polqc
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Duhaime switches to English to scold Anglade about Bill 96, trying to get to English-speaking Quebecers. It’s ok, we speak French, my man. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be watching TVA right now.
#FaceaFace
#Qc2022
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Canada banning handgun imports starting August 19. I’m here for this.
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Food for thought: Farah a quitté le Québec à l'âge de 14 ans. Elle a terminé toutes ses études secondaires et universitaires en anglais. Elle travaille en anglais. Non seulement elle n'a pas perdu son français, elle n’a même pas perdu son joli accent québécois.
#cegep
Pourquoi aller sur Mars?
@farahalibay
, ingénieure à la
@NASAPersevere
nous parle de sa mission avec le robot Perserance
#tlmep
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Booked my mom an appointment & I can’t believe labocardio.hclm.cisssmc16
@ssss
.gouv.qc.ca is a real government email address that a recorded msg gives you over the phone. I had to call 3 TIMES to listen to it to make sure I got it right. Bureaucracy is devoid of common sense. 🤦♀️
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Walked to Verdun to get some air this afternoon. Came across one of my favourite murals in the city, which pays tribute to Japanese-Quebecer artist, Miyuki Tanobe. Her Montreal scenes are so lovingly painted and contain such amazing detail. ❤️
#mtlmoments
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As a woman who grew up playing sports, seeing this kind of love and support from the Montreal crowd for our women’s hockey team makes me so happy. Man, were the naysayers proven wrong!
❤️✊
The women's hockey attendance record was just broken in Montréal 🇨🇦
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I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Happy to share that starting this Friday, I’ll be writing an opinion column for the
@mtlgazette
. While I may look slightly miffed here (no smile allowed, not my fault) I’m very excited for this new role. Let the “straight-shooting takes” begin!
The
@mtlgazette
(my employer) has resumed its Opinion section after a summer hiatus and is adding a new columnist:
@ToulasTake
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“It's scary to build a life here, contribute, & still be reminded almost daily by this gov’t that you’re not the ‘desired’ kind of Quebecer. That your presence here is begrudged, conditional, & always- always- a ‘threat.’ Something to contain in every possible way. Like a virus.”
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Tax the sh*t out of them. Problem solved.
Catholic church officials say they tried their best but could only raise a fraction of $25M promised to residential school survivors.
In the meantime, they built a new $28.5 million church in Saskatoon. Via
@WarickCBC
#SKpoli
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Trudeau: “Do you think women should have the right to their own bodies?”
PPC supporter: “Personally, no.”
I hope this kid is recognized on campus and never gets laid again.
Women who vote for anti-abortion parties need to question their life choices.
#cdnpoli
#AbortionRights
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I respect
#womenboycottwitter
& reasons behind it, but women worked too hard to be heard to now silence their voices. Amplify them instead.
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Forget politics for a minute, or how you may feel about the monarchy. This is an endearing photo of a frail 95-year-old grandma genuinely happy to see someone she’s known since he was a young boy. Look at how happy she looks!!
🇨🇦 This afternoon The Queen received the Prime Minister of Canada,
@JustinTrudeau
, for an Audience at Windsor Castle.
🔗 Find out more about Audiences -
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I feel a pit in my stomach each time I read these types of tweets. I think of these minimum-wage workers, who they are, where they come from, what their situation is. Many are refugees, newcomers struggling to pay the bills while still on waiting lists for French classes. (1/3)
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Well done! I guarantee that if McGill puts out a call among its alumni they’ll happily contribute to a fund for this. /
McGill giving $3,000 to most new out-of-province students to offset tuition hike | CityNews Montreal
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I went for a long bike ride by the Verdun and LaSalle waterfront. I stopped to watch the surfers play in the water and everything turned golden as the sun set. ✨✨
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“It has always been clear to me that it was a crime against women. He told us as much.” - Nathalie Provost, École
#Polytechnique
massacre survivor.
Remembering the 14 women murdered 32 years ago today because of misogyny. And the 18 femicides in Quebec this year alone.
#Dec6
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At some point we’re going to have to address the elephant in the room here in
#Quebec
: secularism has given some an alibi for anti-religion, xenophobia, & Islamophobia. It’s deeply disturbing to see some triggered by the mere sight of a hijab or Muslims praying during Ramadan.
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The best part is people telling me they’re going to unfollow me for calling out the CAQ’s anti-immigrant nonsense. Hahaha!
If standing up for immigrants and refugees offends you this isn’t the Twitter account for you, folks. Move along and be well. 👋👋
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Sitting next to a guy coughing up a storm while I’m waiting to get my Covid and flu shots. I’m the one wearing a 😷 . Three years of a pandemic and people still learned nothing. Sometimes it feels like humans are hopeless. 🤦♀️
Anyways… get your shots, folks. ERs are overflowing.
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1000% this! When you cite maternal language stats as proof of the decline of French in Quebec you are excluding every Quebecer for whom French isn’t their first language. It’s deeply misleading and alienates non-francophones. I appreciate
@MarcMillerVM
’s response here.
#qcpoli
Le Bloc Québécois continue l’abrutissement du débat linguistique. Je refuse cette paresse intellectuelle. Je suis Québécois et fier de l’être!
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“Quebec can strengthen French language & culture by inviting us, including us, & allowing us to immerse ourselves in the language & culture.” That’s the problem with this gov’t; it doesn’t know how.
Thanks, Quebec. My daughter's McGill dream is shattered
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When the world is amazed at Montréal’s snow-clearing operations, but Montrealers are too busy complaining to notice. 😆
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Going to a
@sugarsammy
show quickly reminds you of the chasm between Qc rhetoric and reality. Francophones/anglophones/allophones laughing hard at bilingual jokes that poke fun at everyone. His observational and banter skills remain solid. 7 years later, You’re still Gonna Rire.
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I miss Montreal diner breakfasts so much. The mediocre coffee, eggs over easy, a friend reaching for the ketchup over your plate, the hungover college kids looking like death warmed over, the 3-hour debates, the comforting clang of the background noise.
#Montreal
#CovidSucks
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This is such great news! Eaton’s magnificent Art Deco-style restaurant on the 9th floor (built in the 30s) is set to reopen by the end of the year. I’ve always wanted to see what it looked like inside and now I’ll finally get the chance.
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Shot ☝️ is done! One step closer to hugging my mom, one step closer to getting on a plane, one step closer to all the things that make life better! Thank you to all
#QuebecSant
é essential workers for taking such good care of us! I appreciate you. 🙏🎉
#CovidVaccine
#pandemiclife
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Ouf, non. Désolée,
@LP_LaPresse
mais ceci est inacceptable. Quelle que soit votre opinion sur Lambropoulos, cette caricature n’est pas drôle. C’est un manque de respect envers les politiciennes + femmes qui continuent à être touchées de manière disproportionnée par la violence.
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Buckle up, Quebec anglophones, allophones, and everyone “issu de l’immigration.” It’s going to be a bumpy ride as the CAQ panics, reacts by doubling down on its corrosive conservative populism, the PQ responds in kind, and we get caught in the crossfire.
#qcpoli
#Quebec
#polqc
Intentions de vote au Québec, sondage Pallas Data:
⚜️PQ 30%
🔵CAQ 24%
🟠QS 16%
🔴PLQ 16%
⚫️PCQ 11%
Détails →
[Pallas Data, 17-18 novembre 2023, n = 1 178]
#polQC
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This image by photojournalist
@joshuabickel
of protestors in Ohio demanding the governor open businesses back up is haunting. It looks straight out of The Night of the Living Dead.
It should win a Pulitzer. The sharp contrast of the reflection of the man walking away is 👌.
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Why are some ppl so jubilant mandates will be lifted? Is wearing a mask, showing proof of vaccination, or taking a test that BIG of an imposition if we want to enjoy some privileges or travel internationally during a global pandemic, while half of the world remains unvaccinated?
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This makes me so angry. I love her hair. She looks positively regal. Women are allowed to get old, dammit. This crass
#ageism
in 2022 is so bloody discouraging… /
Lisa LaFlamme ‘going grey’ questioned by CTV executive, says senior company official
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Vous devriez voir combien d'élèves sont absents de l’école à Noël et à Pâques! 😏
This is a good article explaining why school calendars should be revised for today’s diverse student reality, saddled w/ a clickbait title. Predictable pundits always there to beat the same drum…
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I know there’s more to politics than this, but Erin O’Toole’s charisma makes me miss Andrew Scheer’s sex appeal.
Also, “Let’s Take Canada Back”? Back from what and whom? That’s just a Canuck version of MAGA, my friends.
#CPCLeadership
#cdnpoli
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Au Québec, une enseignante qui perd son emploi parce qu'elle porte le hijab, on appelle ça… une amie québécoise.
Est-ce que c’est ça la
#fiert
é dont parlait premier ministre Legault? Because all I feel is shame & sadness.
#Bill21
#Quebec
#SystemicRacism
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Sometimes I think about how Stephen King’s son, novelist Joe Hill (an excellent writer in his own right) decided not to take his dad’s name so he wouldn’t be associated with his famous father and I’m amused.
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There’s a particular group that just loves shitting on Montreal. It makes me love my city even more.
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An additional $40M for the restoration of “our” Catholic churches with a promise of more to come if elected. If I hear one more person tell me about how secular Quebec is, I might snap. We have a gov’t that openly discriminates against religious minorities, while financing this.
Nos églises font partie du paysage québécois depuis très longtemps.
Elles sont une partie importante de notre patrimoine bâti.
Si nous sommes réélus, nous avons l'intention d’augmenter les sommes servant à entretenir les belles églises du Québec.
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Holy hell… you do not want to see my DMs this morning. Between those angry at me for calling out racism, (when did this become controversial?) folks convinced they’re leading a revolution on the Hill, and anti-vaxxers insisting natural immunity is best, I need another coffee.
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A Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant won best Parisian baguette this year. 🥖🥖
Some people’s heads are going to explode and I’m here for it.
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I’m incredibly saddened to hear that the legendary Main has closed its doors after 50+ years on St. Laurent. No offense to Schwartz’s Deli fans but I loved their smoked meat sandwiches. So did Leonard Cohen. I wish I could have had one last hurrah. 😞
Photo: Frédéric Serre
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It’s frankly frustrating to watch people debate an Indigenous person’s inability to speak
#Canada
’s two “official” languages without questioning why those two languages were the ones ever deemed “official.” Colonialism requires a short memory and a narrow focus.
#GGMarySimon
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I really hope our Premier isn’t handling his own Twitter account these days and this is the work of an overzealous/adoring intern, because this is a little weird and tone deaf with everything going on at the moment. 👀
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I had a really good run, but after 2 years and 3 months I finally got COVID. Not fun. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Dr. Ford's testimony is now over. She was credible, articulate, likeable, and this is what she had to stare at while testifying because all 11 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary hearing committee are men. I am in awe of her courage and grace.
#KavanaughConfirmationHearings
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“Yes, it’s true that 6,399 Ontario students went to Quebec to study and benefitted from QC taxpayer dollars. But guess what? 6,456 Quebec students went to Ontario and benefitted from ON taxpayer dollars!” This piece is 🎯
Follow up on Quebec | HESA
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