Ben Oates

@Fostus @kristinaennis And for the land - there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the cost was fair and to the public’s advantage. It might be beyond your comprehension, though.

@Fostus @kristinaennis Each of these issues is not solved overnight, and the Furey & Hogan administration took actions to fix them. Retention, recruitment, more med school slots, not to mention having facilities fit to work in. Tell me what the value add of having a PC hack on the tit is. You can’t

Why do people keep saying there’s nothing about education in the blue book. It’s page 16 and 17.

@Fostus @kristinaennis Accept that it’s wrong, and your team is incompetent. Then try and be better.

@Fostus @kristinaennis Go ahead. You want to make yourself look like a complete imbecile, knock yourself out. I’d rather continue to point out that those “accounting differences” exist for a reason. Taking a family doctor out of the system to pay him as a political crony does nothing for NLers.

@kristinaennis @Fostus No. It’s too critical a juncture for this province to have this kind of nonsense going on. The Whelan payments are inexcusable, and the government’s continued defence of it is a sign of gross incompetence.

@boates02 @Fostus Ben. Deep breath man.

@Fostus @kristinaennis It’s complete bullshit, and I’d advise you to stop defending it lest you continue to make yourself look like an idiot.

@boates02 @kristinaennis Comes out of exact same pot of $ we all pay into. In essence, people are fighting over accounting entries rather than anything material. How is housing doing? What every happened to 500 new units promised, or $34 MILLION? Those are more important than accounting entries!

Committee of the Whole today proves one thing. We have a government that thinks it’s in opposition, and an opposition that’s acting better than the government. It’s going to be a brutal 3 years for the PCs if they keep having tantrums each time oppo speaks. #nlpoli

@GerrySByrne It’s the member for Lab West today instead!

@boates02 Oh well my oh my!

Hogan’s taking the government to the woodshed today. Holy smokes. Tony doesn’t make any apologies for his crony being paid $275k/yr to go talk about planes though. Bys. You can’t make it up. #nlpoli

@GerrySByrne “Pacifically”, you can prevent wildfires by having the good doctor involved too at least the member for Carbonear was awake today

@boates02 But don’t you know, you can eliminate the social determinants of health by pretending that the good doctor can somehow get the price of seafood reduced? Or something foolish like that.

@kristinaennis @dmay001 @GovNL Not fighting. Just pointing out that the economic headwinds this place faces did not disappear just because government changed. We’re still up shit creek - but without a clear plan (MoU) to give us back our paddle.

@boates02 @dmay001 @GovNL Ya knows all about it. Not everything needs to be a fight Ben my god. Hah Jesus.

The latest seasonally adjusted labour market data from Statistics Canada show that NL is going against national trends. Full-time employment is up. The unemployment rate is steady at 9.2%. The percentage of the population employed is also up. #nlpoli @GovNL

@kristinaennis @dmay001 @GovNL Talk to the insolvency trustees and ask them what having the second highest credit card debt per capita in the country means (hint: it’s not economic health) globalnews.ca/news/10464556/…

@boates02 @dmay001 @GovNL Talk to the food and beverage sector and ask them what an unexpectedly busy service means to them in the off season.

@kristinaennis @dmay001 @GovNL Downtown being chinched is sadly not an indicator of economic health - it’s more likely an indicator of economic anxiety; people resort to vices in times of strife

@dmay001 @GovNL Housing is also up! Realtor Jason Piercey has a video up on his socials about it. Reminding folks that the “Canadian Average” is not what’s happening here at all. Downtown was chinched this evening. Optimism fostering investment/confidence in spending more on nonessentials?

@RealAlbanianPat 5) and this is most important - physical exercise. I don’t care what it looks like for you - what sport, what activity, whatever - do some sort of movement. Good for the body, better for the mind. Be well, my friend.

@RealAlbanianPat 4) You’re 17. This is the time to be sneaking beers out of your parent’s fridge and getting the giggles in a gravel pit, not wearing the weight of the world on your shoulders - the work will still be there when you’re done.

I don’t feel proud of my works anymore, I don’t feel motivated anymore, I don’t feel anger anymore, I don’t feel hope anymore, I don’t feel anxious anymore; All I have left is pure emptiness