Ben Barnes. Bluebird of Friendliness.

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

[Ben Barnes. Bluebird of Friendliness. @BenjaminABarnes]

Do: Watch the charming movie “Babe” with your spouse. (Well worth revisiting post-The Sheep Detectives)

DO NOT: turn to your loving spouse at the end of the movie and affectionately say “that’ll do pig.”

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@DrKateTO @vickysanderson The Bradford Bypass effect

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@javierzubillaga @RollingStone Fair point. You might say the same of the McGarrigle sisters but I was happy to see them on the list

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@dmrider Micro tones and papier mache !

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@sarobertson_ What exactly has Trump successfully negotiated in his second term? I want links to the documents. He has certainly announced he has been successful. I’m not interested in those statements.

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@joncoopertweets C) stupid decisions by the client

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Toronto needs an Arby’s again.

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Well if you want an actual example of “third world banana republic” behaviour it would be a fake popular nationalist movement masking an actual takeover by an imperial power.

[Rob Anderson @FreeAlbertaRob]

What a dangerous and irresponsible letter by Treaty Chiefs.

Asking the RCMP to investigate and charge a Premier with treason because you disagree with her policy (to hold a referendum in this case) is a dark path that we see in 3rd world banana republics.

It is wrong, it is unAlbertan and it is unCanadian…period.

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@JJ_McCullough There’s none more Scots than the Scots abroad (SOTW)

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@covie_93 @CailinasEirinn She undermines the bases for their bigotry simply by existing. They cannot forgive or cope with evidence that they are wrong

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

I am a signatory to this letter.

Open, fully informed and unbiased public hearings are required, supported by due diligence and meaningful analysis.

The public cannot be expected to provide informed feedback when neither the proposal nor its impacts have been properly presented.

Forgive us for being suspicious, but all we have so far is a process the Province deliberately rushed into place to cut Torontonians out, and a federal consultation process built around a survey that reflects neither the complexity of the issue nor the information needed to properly evaluate it.

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@WarMonitor3 No they don’t.

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@mikenelson586 Whoops. Friendly Persuasion

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@mikenelson586 Gentle Persuasion

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@Suzierizzo1 @AnnJuurinen This guy no?

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@cwebbonline The Ents are gonna have to flood that

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@DrEricDing

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@thetrueshelby Isengard and Orthanc pre and post Saruman

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@JoshuaBarzon What time of year ?