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Alix

@_goaskalix

Small business owning, left-leaning, wine-collecting globe wanderer. 🇿🇦❤️🇨🇦

Joined April 2010
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Sue Johanson has died at the age of 93. In 1970, she opened a birth control clinic at Don Mills CI High School, the first of its kind in Canada. In the 1980s, she started the Sunday Night Sex Show, which moved to TV locally in 1985. It went national in 1996.
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Pierre Poilievre wants to be Prime Minister of Canada and still won't undergo a vetting process for National Security clearance. Read that again.
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The “guns don’t kill people” people sure seem to think a book can make you gay.
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#ONpoli This map showing the 413 route and the Greenbelt is all you need to know about why Doug Ford wants to separate Brampton and Caledon from Mississauga...
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Did the marketing intern design this, tho?
Kris Pangilinan (@KrisReports) profile pictureKris Pangilinan@KrisReports10 May 2023
#BREAKING: Canada has unveiled a new design to the Canadian Passport. It will be rolled out this summer. It’s not red.
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Only 5 % of the Canadian land mass is made of prime land. Only 0.5% is Class 1. Ford is removing great swaths of it with all the urban boundary expansions.
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The shot I was hoping for, the show's director missed, but Getty's Kevin Winter got
Short Round hugging INdy

ALT Short Round hugging INdy

Ke Huy Quan hugging Harrison Ford

ALT Ke Huy Quan hugging Harrison Ford

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Police reluctant to police dude who lets them do whatever they want. Also at six: water, wet.
Colin D'Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) profile pictureColin D'Mello | Global News
@ColinDMello2 Mar 2023
NEW: Ontario Provincial Police have privately admitted that they have yet to find direct evidence that Premier Doug Ford or members of his government have violated provincial ethics laws over the Greenbelt deal. globalnews.ca/news/9521047/o… #onpoli
No direct evidence yet in decision around Ford government Greenbelt probe, OPP email says |...

No direct evidence yet in decision around Ford government Greenbelt probe, OPP email says |...

Writing in an email, the detective in charge of the probe said the OPP has yet to uncover evidence of wrongdoing that would lead to a breach of trust charge.

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So the data is in. If you're an anti-vaxxer it's highly likely that you were duped by misinformation. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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I saw Hazel McCallion was trending and thought that maybe she had died, but no, she is literally 101 years old and being invited to make policy decisions that will hurt future generations.
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I got 2 leaked letters that show, while we were on holiday, the Doug Ford gov't actually removed conservation authority powers to review development that impact natural spaces that are "intrinsically linked to flooding." Everyone got 3 days notice thenarwhal.ca/ontario-strips… #onpoli
Ontario fulfills pledge to strip conservation authorities’ powers | The Narwhal

Ontario fulfills pledge to strip conservation authorities’ powers | The Narwhal

Over the holiday break, the Ford government removed powers and revenue tools from watershed oversight agencies with just three days notice

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#PrimeMinister @jacindaardern resigned today. I am not surprised nor do I blame her. Her treatment, the pile on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing. All the bullies, the misogynists, the aggrieved. She deserved so much better. A great leader. Thanks PM!
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Here's why Ford's team keeps trying to deflect from for-profit care: it's a proven, dismal failure. This isn't a debate; it's a measurable fact. Every time for-profit care is tried, it costs more and delivers less. Know the facts. Then tell your MPP. #ONPoli #OHIP #NotOneCent
For-Profit care: A Proven Failure More expensive: For-profit care facilities have the same expenses, but also need to give profits to their investors - so they charge more. Worse care: For-profit facilities often cut corners on care to save money - but the savings are given to the investors, not taxpayers. More deaths: A Canadian Medical Association study showed conclusively that for-profit long term care homes have higher death rates than non-profit or public homes. Longer waits: In 2017, Saskatchewan reviewed a program where for-profit clinics had been brought on to reduce MRI treatment backlogs. The result? Wait times actually increased. Nursing shortage: Ford's own government has been forced to admit to a nursing staff crisis fueled by its own policies. For-profit clinics can't solve that crisis. Indeed, they'll make it worse. Dishonest messaging: There's a reason Ford is refusing to talk about the for-profit concern; he knows all of these problems. So why is he moving ahead

ALT For-Profit care: A Proven Failure More expensive: For-profit care facilities have the same expenses, but also need to give profits to their investors - so they charge more. Worse care: For-profit facilities often cut corners on care to save money - but the savings are given to the investors, not taxpayers. More deaths: A Canadian Medical Association study showed conclusively that for-profit long term care homes have higher death rates than non-profit or public homes. Longer waits: In 2017, Saskatchewan reviewed a program where for-profit clinics had been brought on to reduce MRI treatment backlogs. The result? Wait times actually increased. Nursing shortage: Ford's own government has been forced to admit to a nursing staff crisis fueled by its own policies. For-profit clinics can't solve that crisis. Indeed, they'll make it worse. Dishonest messaging: There's a reason Ford is refusing to talk about the for-profit concern; he knows all of these problems. So why is he moving ahead

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I’m starting to think that @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau and the @liberal_party aren’t particularly interested in upholding or protecting the ‘Canada Health Act’. They seem pretty content to sit idly by as Conservative Premiers actively undermine and underfund public healthcare.
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NOBODY VOTED FOR: Paving the Greenbelt, Privatizing surgeries, underspending by 1Billion on Healthcare during the pandemic, messing with city governance, short-changing nurses...#Ontario
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Canada: make no mistake. We are witnessing the dismantling of publicly funded healthcare in Ontario in a deliberate and orchestrated manner by the Ontario government. There is no effective manner to stop this situation. It is hegemony.
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The fact that the Ontario government watched our public healthcare system collapse due to underfunding...but set aside public funding just so they could invest in private for-profit healthcare…tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
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Is there a name for the feeling when you all you want out of life is to hunker down and eat pizza and watch movies but you also want to break new ground in your profession but you also want to quit society to live in the woods but you also want to go explore the world forever
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I didn't know Miss World was a thing still, but I've been watching how the French woman introduces herself for about half an hour
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