Patrick Smith

Comms. Educator. Sports nerd.
Occasionally yelling into the void, politely.
Follow my football thoughts @batteringrams
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[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Pretty excited to get back to writing about football!

[Battering Rams @BatteringRams]

It's been more than a decade. But it's time.

I'm bringing back Battering Rams in a new format.

Get re-acquainted with me, why I chose the Rams at the worst possible time... and why that wasn't such a bad thing, after all.

https://t.co/UNyuX2dcxi

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

@ColinDMello Appreciative of your work to hold our provincial government accountable, Colin. You ask uncomfortable questions — the role of a journalist — but you always come across as balanced and, importantly, informed.

Those are two traits I don't think most would ascribe to our Premier.

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Ottawa shaped you into a quitter who'd rather hide in his brother's shadow than step up and make his own legacy? Wow, Brady, taking shots on the way out is a bad look.

[Wingmen with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk @Wingmenpod]

“Ottawa truly shaped me into the person I am today.”

Brady has nothing but love for the Senators and the city of Ottawa 🫶

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

@Griddy_FF patlewy

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

We're beyond parody. We have been for a while, granted, but nothing could possibly be as stupid or as nonsensical as the timeline unfolding in front of us.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Like they couldn't just, I don't know, make the conscious decision not to do this WHILE also doing their jobs?

Our provincial government thinks we're idiots.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Government House Leader Steve Clark says the Ontario Legislature will only resume on Oct 27 because the government doesn’t want to “interfere” with the municipal elections.

#onpoli

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

@Griddy_FF patlewy

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

@BrianFromGriddy @Griddy_FF patlewy

[Battering Rams @BatteringRams]

The Los Angeles Rams had a choice: push harder now, or protect what comes next?

Ty Simpson tells you which one they picked ↓
https://t.co/OVn7YGp8ev

#RamsHouse

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Evidence Ford is willing to acknowledge and correct mistakes! Wonderful.

Education and healthcare next, please, Premier.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford is selling the recently purchased $28.5 million Challenger 650 - days after the Premier’s office defended it.

The purchase of the jet, dubbed the “gravy plane” by the opposition was met with fierce criticism.

Statement:

"Despite the best of intentions, I have heard and agree that now is not the right time for the expense of a government plane. The province is working with Bombardier and other partners to sell the plane as quickly as possible."

#onpoli

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

#GoSensGo

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

The best way to fix transit is... to make it someone else's problem and abdicate the responsibility of municipal government?

Genuinely baffling messaging.

[Mark Sutcliffe @_MarkSutcliffe]

The best way to fix public transit in Ottawa is to complete the upload of our LRT to the province. This is what the upload means to you.

La meilleure façon d’améliorer le transport en commun à Ottawa est de compléter le transfert de notre réseau de train léger à la province. Voici ce que ce transfert signifie pour vous.

[Battering Rams @BatteringRams]

The Rams can draft for now, or for later... or they can try something harder.

Could Sonny Styles be the “both” scenario?

https://t.co/K1Spp6hhEu

[Battering Rams @BatteringRams]

The Rams offense is strong, which is a great problem to have.

A closer look at what makes it work, where it can still improve, and why the draft may not be as straightforward as it looks.

https://t.co/WrcZbwlPZx

[Battering Rams @BatteringRams]

The Rams' fearsome defensive unit features a familiar weakness. What does this mean for the draft?

https://t.co/dv3B2r0fni

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Getting pretty sick of hearing these callous motherfuckers pretending like this is all some joke.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Burchett: It kind of ruined my vacation plans—the wife and daughter were heading over to sunny Iran. Guess we’ll have to go somewhere else for Easter

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Oh, good! Backdropped against Algonquin College shuttering 30 programs due to chronic underfunding, but who needs bread when we can have circuses?

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

The Ford government appears to have narrowed down the potential site for a new 2-million sq. ft. multi-billion dollar convention centre: the Exhibition grounds.

The premier is promising no casino.

#onpoli

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Trying to be clever when you don't have an ounce of cleverness in your body just doesn't play well, Sen. Mullin.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mullin: This is war

*moments later*

Raju: You concede this is war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

Reporter: You just said it’s a war.

Raju: You’re not conceding it’s a war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

Oh, good. This feckless, absentee, so-called "leader" is driving our education and healthcare systems into the ground... but at least he's focusing on opening malls on stat holidays. Things that actually matter to Ontarians.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford is holding a scrum at Queen’s Park.

He starts by lamenting that malls weren’t open during Family Day. Ford says people were contacting him with complaints that malls weren’t open.

Ford says he’ll look into it.

#onpoli

[Patrick Smith @plsmithca]

All in the name of avoiding mid-semester layoffs, which could've been avoided entirely with proper funding.

Underfunded schools being taken over by the very administration that is causing the problem.

Underfunded colleges forced to shut down programs.

When is enough, enough?

[Richard Southern @RichardCityNews]

NEW - The Ford government is putting the Peel District School Board under provincial supervision immediately, and putting York Catholic District School Board “on notice” due to what it says is “Infighting, disruption and serious financial concerns.”