Linda 🇨🇦

Had to listen, had no choice – Peter Gabriel // Writer, editor, listener, reader, thinker. Former journalist. Non-partisan Canadian. //

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Barlagirlie Agreed! It all feels a little silly, doesn’t it? So many other issues worth crying about.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Barlagirlie As a journalist, I can confirm that media outlets are billed for reporters’ seats on the PM’s plane, which would include in-flight meals. It’s a long-standing convention.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Barlagirlie It’s important to note that reporters, via their employers, pay their own way.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@myabradshaw78 This isn’t new. Do you think military families just turn our homes into armouries? I’m glad to get the barracks boxes out of my basement.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@DanSaidThis_83 Althia Raj, the author, reports for the Toronto Star and appears on a CBC political panel. That *is* mainstream media in this country.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@gator_gum When I share some of the angry, dire takes on here, my husband, who doesn’t use social media, asks: “Where are you seeing this? I hear no one out there saying anything like that. I read nothing like this anywhere.”

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@CraigBaird Happy birthday, Craig! … from one former journalist (I was at the Winnipeg Free Press, mainly) to another. Love your posts and threads.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@myabradshaw78 @MarkJCarney You must not be a military family. They always do that and I love getting that stuff out of my basement.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Oldbutquick @myabradshaw78 Agreed. The grammar was the first thing I noticed.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@KapteinEarhart @Iyon268 @LiebenbergCarl @khnh80044 @Mish_K_ It happened in 2017. Check out the pinned post on dad @Robert_E_Kelly ’s account marking the ninth anniversary of the BBC interview.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@myabradshaw78 @Christy4Change $270million CDN is just about $200million US. Zelenskyy was likely referencing USD, given that is the standard international currency understood and referenced by most.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Kitkat_1216 😆

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@BinsQuan @1goodtern I agree. 💔

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@mwyn4 @myabradshaw78 Agreed. I’ve been a Brookfield shareholder for years. I wish the performance was half as great as some people claim.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Tyler19006844 @kinsellawarren Agreed. I’ve worked as a staffer and the hours are long and the demands are plenty for elected officials. It’s a lot more than just showing up for Question Period.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@myabradshaw78 Military family here. Troops got a significant pay raise last year. Also, my husband has a VA pension for an injury he got on tour and that benefit is just fine — indexed every year.

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Kitkat_1216 How exciting for your family. ❤️

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@Kitkat_1216 Wonderful! What a way to return to this place — so glad you did. ❤️

[Linda 🇨🇦 @celadon2]

@MarcLevesqueEco Thanks!