Allen Booth (parody)

TV writer, composer, web/app developer.

[Mark Evans @markevans]

It's easy to think the Liberals support the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport.

Carney's silence (and all the Toronto-based MPs) is deafening.

I don't see the economic rationale for an airport with declining traffic, while Pearson is doing a $3B expansion

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

What if, call me crazy, we introduced a wealth tax instead

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

To understand the stakes of the progressive vs. centrist fight to control the Democratic Party, just compare Zohran's term so far with Spanberger's.

Zohran:
- Free childcare for 2-year-olds
- Banned junk fees
- Filled 100,000 potholes
- New bike and bus lanes across the city
- Wealth tax on luxury second homes
- Millions of dollars won for tenants and thousands of apartments repaired

Spanberger:
- Vetoed bill to let public workers unionize
- Vetoed bill allowing class-action lawsuits
- Vetoed bill to stop warrantless arrests by ICE
- Vetoed bill legalizing cannabis sales
- Vetoed bill to lower prescription drug prices

Trump was defeated in 2020, only to return in an even more dangerous form four years later. So we already know that it is not enough to beat MAGA once at the ballot box.

If Dems don't pair their next electoral victory with Mamdani's commitment to positively improving people’s lives, rather than Spanberger's model of selling out to corporations, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. And this time, we might not be facing an authoritarian as incompetent and self-defeating as Trump has been.
https://t.co/TugdQiSj73

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford inherited a province from the Liberals with 50,000 homeless.
It has grown to 85,000 during his term.

The courts have ruled that he cannot clear encampments unless people have a place to go because it puts their lives in danger.

Ford's solution?
Build affordable housing?

No, use the notwithstanding clause to strip people of their right to life ("security of the person").

#ONpoli

[David Climenhaga @djclimenhaga]

Danielle Smith and the UCP can’t be very happy with Alberta’s chief electoral officer. https://t.co/mDw1Myxvmx #ableg #abpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

"This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist."

Official statement from the NDP.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Ford forced the majority of our hospitals into deficit & is threatening takeover if they don’t make cuts. At the same time, his gov't is shifting $1 billion & more than 1 million patients to private clinics. They’re privatizing our hospitals unless we stop them. 🧵👇

#onpoli

[Neil Pasricha @NeilPasricha]

Canadians, please help:

Please sign this petition sponsored by MP @ElizabethMay and @NoJetsTO urging PM @MarkJCarney to stop Premier @fordnation's plan:

I have signed & so have 6587 (!) others.

Sign here:

https://t.co/ZhpzJIHzQh

My letter here:

https://t.co/JZnFfR5Sgg

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Emilie Nicolas on David Parker and Alberta separatist groups: "I think there's a tactical playbook here that is also being borrowed or imitated and copied. And we need to look at the ways in which democracy south of the border is being eroded to be able to at least anticipate what moves could be done next."

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Less than 1% of OSAP was wrongly issued. Doug Ford invented a crisis to cut student aid...then spent $30M on a private jet. Wrong priorities. Wrong premier.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Here are the letters I wrote to Carney and Smith demanding that they take steps to protect our citizens and our democracy from foreign interference and disinformation in the context of the separatist campaign. Not holding my breath about Smith. She’s part of the problem.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Charlie Angus: "When Donald Trump started threatening our nation, to make us beg to be part of the US ... [Danielle Smith] went down to Mar-a-Lago. She didn't go down with Alberta business leaders. She didn't go down as part of Team Canada. She went down with Jordan Peterson and Kevin O'Leary."

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Just in case there’s any doubt that the separatists are colluding with MAGA Americans and that their ultimate goal is to turn Alberta into the 51st state in Donald Trump’s America … take a look at these posts from Parker and Rath. They’re saying the quiet part out loud.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

White House rolls out an obvious distraction and here’s the most powerful Democrat in the country clapping like a seal

[David Climenhaga @djclimenhaga]

Horse gone; barn door now shut: Elections Alberta issues 568 cease and desist letters. https://t.co/Z9wZBCPE8z #ableg #abpoli

[Allen Booth (parody) @al_booth]

Cons can't quit Poilievre for the same reason MAGA can't quit Trump. They know that when they do the pendulum will swing back the other way. They must keep the extreme leader or their fever dreams will be dead.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre recycles his Dr. Seuss joke from Question Period to a few laughs

[Charles Prepolec 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @sherlockeditor]

"Alberta’s separatists and the UCP are so tight they squeak. And now, the separatists are bent on deepening their influence on the party. Some might call it a takeover. That explains, I’d suggest, why Premier Danielle Smith is so anxious to shift blame..."https://t.co/FnFbqz4SkG

[Richard Warnica @richardwarnica]

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement dangerously, wildly disconnected from what is real.