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Ben V

@benveldman

Views are my own.

Toronto, Ontario Katılım Nisan 2010
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Ben V@benveldman·
@JonFraserTF Pride Toronto was founded in response to the discriminatory mass arrests of gay men at a Toronto bathhouse in 1981. Pride is and always has been a radical act, and it exists to support every person within the LGBT+ community.
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Jon Fraser
Jon Fraser@JonFraserTF·
Perhaps if Pride Toronto stuck to their roots and didn't: - allow nudity in their parade - allow special interest groups including BLM and Palestinian protestors to co-opt the event. - allow radical agendas There are plenty of people like me who support the LGB community, but Pride has absolutely gone off the rails. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/05/30/goo…
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Ben V@benveldman·
Let @CHogarthPC’s loss be a lesson that campaigning against bike lanes in the GTA is a losing strategy.
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Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau@JustinTrudeau·
You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.
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Doug Ford
Doug Ford@fordnation·
It’s been five days already. The Trudeau government needs to name a fentanyl czar now.
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Bonnie HQ
Bonnie HQ@BonnieHQ·
This election, Ontario has a choice: A family doctor for everyone, or a tunnel.
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Brianna Wu
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu·
I wish I had the words to make people care about trans people or even just have compassion. Imagine how desperate you'd have to be to become something so many people openly hate. I didn't ask to be born this way. I would not wish the trauma of a trans childhood on my worst enemy. My family disowned me for transitioning. Ever 20 years later, I feel like I've lost a limb - phantom pain that never goes away. But even through homelessness, constant abuse from strangers and even having my human rights dismantled by my own government in the last two weeks- I've never doubted I made the right choice.
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Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦
Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦@BonnieCrombie·
In Doug Ford’s Ontario, Doug always comes first, and the people of Ontario always come last.
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Ben V@benveldman·
@PierrePoilievre We've all tuned you out. No one wants you at the table negotiating for Canada after you've spent years defaming our great country. We need a serious leader, not someone who's only talent is living off the public purse and repeating gimmicky slogans.
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Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre@PierrePoilievre·
We must put CANADA FIRST.   That is why Common Sense Conservatives condemn President Trump’s massive, unjust and unjustified tariffs on Canada’s already weak economy. Canada is the United States’ closest neighbour, greatest ally and best friend. We share the longest undefended border and fought alongside Americans in two world wars, Korea and Afghanistan, where 158 of our brave men and women died helping the U.S. avenge the 9/11 attacks. There is no justification whatsoever for this treatment.       The Liberals must put aside their partisan interests and recall Parliament now to pass a Canada First Plan that will:    1. Retaliate with dollar-for-dollar tariffs carefully aimed at maximizing impact on American companies while minimizing impact on Canadian consumers. That means targeting U.S. products that we can make ourselves, buy elsewhere or do without. For example, we must retaliate against American steel and aluminium, as Canadians can make those vital products at home.    2. Put all the tariff revenues into help for affected workers and businesses; Government should not keep a dime of the new revenue.    3. Pass a massive emergency Bring It Home Tax Cut to bolster the economy, stop inflation and save and create jobs. Canada needs a massive tax cut on work, investment, energy, homebuilding and making stuff at home. The Liberal carbon tax and capital gains tax hikes must be the first on the chopping block.     4. Immediately scrap the Liberal anti-resource law C-69 and greenlight LNG plans, pipelines, mines, factories, and port expansions to overseas markets.     5. Bring in truly free trade within Canada by knocking down interprovincial barriers to help replace lost north-south trade with east-west trade and to make us self-reliant.   6. Rebuild our military and take back control of our borders to regain the confidence of our partners, assert our sovereignty, protect our people and put Canada First.      We will protect our economy, defend our sovereignty, bring home production and paycheques and never back down. We will put Canada First—now and always.
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Ben V@benveldman·
It's time for Canada to nation build so the world takes us seriously. A good place to start: investing in our military, building monuments across the country and in our capital commemorating our shared history, and building a residence befitting the Prime Minister of a G7 nation.
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Lucy 🇨🇦
Lucy 🇨🇦@TheBlueGem3·
Imagine being Canadian and thinking Trudeau was a dictator then supporting Trump who’s literally trying to annex your own country. That’s a new level of stupidity.
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Warren Kinsella
Warren Kinsella@kinsellawarren·
Running around saying "Canada is broken" isn't very helpful, is it, when a hostile foreign power starts saying the same thing - and declares the solution to be a takeover.
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𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳
Deleted the blackrock tweet cuz it may have been factually incorrect but I maintain the sentiment of it, which is that it will be easy for big companies to come in and buy up a lot of LA now.
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Ben V@benveldman·
@SteveSaretsky @IceCapGlobal This is unfortunately what happens when a generation is priced out of home ownership / affordable housing.
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