Mar James
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Mar James
@legallassy
🇨🇦 9th Gen, military mom, wife, college instructor, business owner
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Ağustos 2018
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@NotaliaMateo Muslims, without a doubt. It'll take many decades, but it will happen.
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@JimChuong @fbzand01 The TSX outperformed all US indices in 2025 though
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‘Summer House’ star KJ Dillard slams ‘sickos’ Amanda Batula, West Wilson for Yankees game PDA trib.al/neD7gAg

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I'm agnostic about whether it's appropriate that Ontario purchased a $28 million private jet for Doug Ford's use.
Ford is essentially the CEO of Ontario, a province of 16 million people with a $1.1 trillion CAD GDP. That job requires him to travel throughout the province for high stakes negotiations, on top of constituent engagement. Many of those visits take him to northern or remote communities that aren't easily accessible by commercial aircraft.
I would rather that he, and high-value members of his professional entourage (e.g. provincial ministers; accompanying business leaders), fly comfortably so they can do their jobs more effectively.
Some people say that the premier and his ministers should fly economy so that they can be more relatable to the public – but that's stupid. You can't get any real work done in economy class, and it can make flights exhausting, so that it's harder to resume work after you land. I'm viscerally aware of this reality as a journalist who always flies economy. The private sector already knows this – hence why business class exists. Why would we undermine the performance of our provincial economic executives for the sake of populist theatre?
The real alternative option here, for Doug and co., is to use business class or to charter aircraft as needed (obviously). There's a strong case that this achieves the same results as a private jet, but at a lower cost. But the public doesn't seem to have enough information to do a real cost-benefit analysis here. We don't know how much the province already spends on airfare; how much is spent flying to remote or northern communities; etc.
I'm not sure if the Ford gov conducted a CBA, or, if it did, whether it released any details on it. So, in the absence of information, I think it's hard to have a strong opinion either way.
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Does he think people have forgotten his scandal?
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
Navdeep Bains is leaving Rogers Communications, clearing the decks for his Ontario Liberal leadership bid. trib.al/8dik0VE
South Hinksey, England 🇬🇧 English

@Sflecce @MayorPellegrini @StevenDelDuca How quickly would the plane get me from Major Mac to Hwy 9?
As quickly as you can say bye to my vote.
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@ColinDMello What an asshole. Now we'll be stuck with shady Bains for a decade.
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Premier Doug Ford's taxpayer-funded purchase of a private jet is getting pushback from critics who say regular Ontarians don't have the same luxury.
#onpoli
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@JoshDehaas Denmark tried this, it didn't work out well. But it's good for Liberal votes.
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"Canada was the only country in the world to waive immigration rules to permit entry by Gazans otherwise ineligible to enter. They were given $3,000 per adult and $1,500 per minor child, free health care, free work permits and free language training" blacklocks.ca/feds-count-918…
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@NotaliaMateo I do this for restaurants, but I'd never get gas if I used the same metric.
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Do we need to go into gas stations now to see who it's owned by before we start filling up?
CTV Edmonton@ctvedmonton
A shop working on vehicles that got contaminated gas at a south Edmonton Esso Circle K station this week says the gas was 50 per cent water. #yeg ctvnews.ca/edmonton/artic…
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Only 4 out of 10 Ontario high school students meeting government attendance target cp24.com/local/toronto/…
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@Melanie51994762 @MVdlJCardinal @jec79 I never said they were banned Melanie. Now who's making stuff up.
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@legallassy @MVdlJCardinal @jec79 You know you'd have a point if it were straws. Red solo cups are not banned in Canada either, so you made up some bs and are offended by your own delusions.
But do carry on the grievance bs that is tanking your party, it looks great on you!
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Because he’s not dead inside?
Jack@jackunheard
Why is Justin Trudeau attending music festivals at 54 years old? Canada does something to men.
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@DeleteLawz2024 @joemacdonald905 @globalnews Oh nooo Eddie, our friend Joe blocked us! I'm sure he has another account to keep up with our comments. 😂
GIF
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@joemacdonald905 @legallassy @globalnews He did indirectly....stay and vacation in Canada was his post.
Classic Trudeau.
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The former Canadian Prime Minister was spotted living a 'Teenage Dream' with girlfriend Katy Perry at Coachella over the weekend.
globalnews.ca/news/11798715/…
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@joemacdonald905 @DeleteLawz2024 @globalnews Here ya go big guy. I bet you're fun at parties. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7StXWS…
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@MVdlJCardinal @jec79 Drinking out of red solo cups to boot after lecturing us for a decade about water bottle thingies.
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@jec79 Or is it because he's a hypocrite, travelling in the US while blaming them for every ill in Canada?
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@RickAnderson Yeah, my kids' Canadian Dream is to leave Canada, because they don't want to be crushed by taxation and never own a home.
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I am truly fatigued by this negative line of dreck about Canada. Yes, we have challenges, more at the moment than usual. But this is a tremendous country, and yes we have a Canadian Dream, the belief that people can come together to build better lives, and in doing so build a better country: fair, decent, and diverse.
The Globe and Mail@globeandmail
Opinion: Whatever happened to the Canadian dream? theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
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