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Toronto, Canada
Joined April 2011
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JUST IN: Canadian man wins city council election after telling voters he has no idea what he's doing, doesn't enjoy politics, & is unqualified for office.
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Bob Rae and Kathleen Wynne, probably the two worst Premiers in Ontario’s history, have endorsed Olivia Chow.
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Hey so fuck that guy
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Bob, I say this with respect. Somewhere along the way you lost the plot. Come downtown with me. Any day. Ride the TTC, take a walk down Queen West, the street that used to be the coolest strip in the country and now looks like a plywood showroom. Then look me in the eye and tell me Toronto's on the right track. I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. You've lived here for decades. You know what this city used to feel like. Right now 35% of Torontonians don't feel safe walking their own neighbourhood after dark. Subway delays are up more than 50% since 2019, and "disorderly behaviour" is one of the top reasons. Even after the numbers came down, the city's own count found more than 12,000 people experiencing homelessness last fall. And on Queen West, shops that were there for decades are gone, and the boarded-up windows are what's left. These aren't talking points. This is people's everyday. So I'm asking for real: get on the subway, walk those blocks, and tell me what you see. Toronto deserves better, and so do the people who live here.
I am voting for Olivia Chow for Mayor of Toronto. Her commitment to a city that works for everyone has been clear and deserves support. She is wise and caring. She pushes forward with courage and compassion and has the integrity and consistency we need at this moment.
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All the individuals who were close to Justin Trudeau and stuck with him for a decade (or most of it), and who are NOW saying publicly how horrible / unqualified he was... ...owe an explanation to all Canadians as to why they didn't speak up when it would have mattered.
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did a dog write this
A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
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As Canadians, we can't call ourselves progressive, or feminists, if we allow women to be segregated in a public setting. Speak up now, or tell your daughters you're cool with this... and this is their future.
Milton, Ontario: A mayoral candidate forum was held last Saturday at the Muslim Association of Milton. The event was advertised as “all are welcome” but non-Muslims who attended were surprised when they were told they had to move seats. Seating was segregated by gender in accordance with Sharia Law even though the meeting was held outside of the temple and open to the public.
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My daughter's middle school has the most direct fundraising strategy and I'm here for it. We can skip the whole charade.
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Students didn’t break OSAP. The Ford government failed to properly oversee it, and students shouldn’t pay the price. They were warned in 2023. Nearly $1 billion later, we deserve to know what happened, why it took so long to act, and how 7 private career institutions received so much despite the major red flags. #onpoli thestar.com/politics/provinc…
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The scale of this fraud against the people of Ontario is mind-boggling. Seven private career colleges, fake schools filled with thousands of foreign "students," received the same amount of OSAP funding through grant payments as all public colleges in Ontario combined. Real Ontario students, young Canadians, who are supposed to receive financial support to learn and study at legitimate colleges and universities, were undercut by a fraud scheme that redirected hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars back into these fake schools. It's enough to make you sick. I look forward to seeing what the police can uncover.
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Lena Almeida retweeted
Complete the sentence: Toronto is a city where…
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Sad news: I’ve been fired by the Portland Trail Blazers for typing 58008 into a calculator and holding it upside down in 2009
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UPDATE: The MarineLand signs are coming down. Soon, only memories will remain.
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The UN called a Canada's TFP a "breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery". Canadians by and large ignore, because double double. If you need cheap foreign labour to survive, good riddance.
Six Tim Hortons restaurants in Eastern Ontario have gone bankrupt. According to Blacklock’s, their operators blame changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. If your business depends on cheap labour to survive, you need a different business model.
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omg they all grown up now 🥹
Some BBC Dad content. It's been awhile: My birthday; James and I hiking; Marion looking very grown-up; BBC Mom and I at a street festival. James is now 10; Marion is 13.
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WELCOME BACK TO TORONTO, KAWHI 🦖
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We would like to congratulate a longtime employee at CHCH. Last night, camera operator Duane Worth received a lifetime achievement award from the RTDNA. The recognition from the Radio Television Digital News Association is one of the highest honours bestowed by the group. It is presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding service and continued excellence during the course of their career in audio, digital and/or video journalism. For more than 40 years, Duane has been a vital component in the daily coverage that CHCH news has provided to our viewers.
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This is TERRIFYING 🤯
Are we still pretending that we're not cooked? This is an ad. Human content still outperforms most of my ad accounts. But the imagination of humans with AI ads is slowly scaling too. Wouldn't have imagined this 10 years ago.
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I’m so glad they roasted his ass live on air like that
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