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Ben Barnes. Bluebird of Friendliness.

Ben Barnes. Bluebird of Friendliness.

@BenjaminABarnes

Political Junkie. Labour lawyer. Fan of good political analysis, major league baseball, doggerel, funny people and the works of Patrick O'Brian.

Toronto เข้าร่วม Eylül 2010
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It's interesting how many people are shocked by the notion of a right-wing nutbar belonging to the LPC caucus. It's like they've forgotten that Dan McTeague, Albina Guarnieri, Tom Wappel et al. existed.
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Dan Seljak@anotherglassbox·
I honestly don’t know what to say
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Barry R McCaffrey
Barry R McCaffrey@mccaffreyr3·
Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George probably the best leader I’ve encountered in uniform. Integrity. Experienced combat leader. Solid judgement. Courage. Modesty. Takes care of soldiers. A war going on.
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom

Firing the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war is always a sign that things are going great

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@CornwallHeath And maybe we’ll do In a squirrel or two While we're poisoning pigeons in the park We'll murder them all Amid laughter and merriment Except for the few We take home to experiment My pulse will be quickenin' With each drop of strych'nine -Tom Lehrer
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Heath MacDonald@CornwallHeath·
Today, to address multi-million dollars worth of damage from the recent Richardson Ground Squirrel infestation, the Government of Canada is authorizing a time-limited and controlled emergency registration of Strychnine.
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Jeffrey Luscombe
Jeffrey Luscombe@JeffreyLuscombe·
March is Multiple Myeloma awareness month. Here I am before the 5K for Multiple Myeloma at Princess Margaret Cancer Hospital a few years ago running for my dad (who died of MM). Fun fact: a couple of years later, I would be at Princess Margaret getting treatment for my own cancer. Remember, the person you’re donating for today may, someday, turn out to be you.
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Aaron Rupar
Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
JD Vance's message to Canada: "If we're gonna be true friends, you have to treat our workers as fairly as we've treated Canadian workers for 40 years"
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Scarlett’s Movie Musings
Scarlett’s Movie Musings@ScarletCinema·
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”
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blogTO@blogTO·
Which Toronto business that's closed would you want to reopen?
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@thirtyspace @foolishyangban Over 25000 nurses were on the 2023 list. Over 80000 teachers on the 2024 list. I work for trade unions. This list was designed to suppress wages for working people as part of the Harris government austerity program. .
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Birdy.
Birdy.@thirtyspace·
@BenjaminABarnes @foolishyangban How many nurses are on the sunshine list? I doubt its a lot, and this is a false equivalency. In actuality, i would prefer to see more nurses than Metrolinx VPs and cops on the list. Lack of accountability is conservative kryptonite it seems
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jeho
jeho@foolishyangban·
Why the Ontario Sunshine List isn’t indexed to inflation is so puzzling to me.
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rachel mcmillan 🇨🇦
rachel mcmillan 🇨🇦@rachkmc·
I swear no one else cares but for years I've always been like " hey! I think there's a copy of The Unknown Shore in Bill's workshop in The Last of Us". Has anyone else ever noticed or cared ? lol I'm such a nerd
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Ben Verlander
Ben Verlander@BenVerlander·
THROW BACK SOME CAESARS BABY!! TEAM CANADA ADVANCES FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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John Axford
John Axford@JohnAxford·
JAAAAAAAMES PAAAAXTON!!! CAAAAAAAAANADAAAAAA!!!! ⚾️ 🇨🇦
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Birdy.
Birdy.@thirtyspace·
@BenjaminABarnes @foolishyangban I find it important that government employees be held to accountability given all money is taken from taxpayers. Irrespective of the value. I absolutely want to know if a police officer treats people like shit and makes over 100k. Thats my money being used inappropriately.
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@foolishyangban It achieves nothing of value while exposing the names, salaries and employers of hundreds of thousands of people. I suspect it is mostly now used purely for trivial curiousity - who earns most? How much does my neighbour the police officer make? etc.
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jeho
jeho@foolishyangban·
@BenjaminABarnes The standard argument against this would be: "Why are you against transparency?" I'm interested to hear why you think it's a bad idea. I personally am pretty neutral on this.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Trump refers to Prime Minster Mark Carney as "the future Governor of Canada"
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