Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭

(he/him) #HamOnt (from #Ottawa) #Cdn writer, educator, arts professional, husband & dad, role-player, Trekkie and pop culture geek. Founder @sameboattheatre

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

In honour of #EarthDay26 and the #Artemis II mission, here's my latest @Substack.
https://t.co/Z3oDTVG8Bp

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Canada's secretly love Mark "Mean" Carney BECAUSE he yells https://t.co/53m7HJgbcA

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@bruce_arthur Why are Conservatives still obsessed with COVID?!

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

The Ford government confirmed we won’t be back at Queen’s Park for 102 days.

While I’m excited to spend the summer in Nepean meeting with residents, businesses, and community groups, Ontarians deserve a government that’s willing to show up and do its job.

After calling a snap election to “Protect Ontario,” it’s hard to understand why this government is taking 5 months off while families continue to struggle with the cost of living, health care, and housing. #onpoli

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

A 102-day summer vacation after sitting for only 29 days this year. If you were trying to avoid questions about your own corruption, this is what you'd do.

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@siomoCTV @andrewaperez I wonder if they’ll listen when they speak to those Ontarians who work everyday and tell them to GET BACK TO WORK!

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Moments ago: NDP leader Marit Stiles demands an apology from Premier Doug Ford for “betraying the people of Ontario” during this 29-day session.

“He spent their money on a luxury private jet… sold out the Toronto waterfront… & changed laws to hide his cell phone records.”

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@ColinDMello @gmacofglebe Must be nice to be privileged Ford MPP. Workin’ hard by taking… five months off! 😳

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@tmcrittenden @agraybee It is so ridiculous. Everyone in the Star Wars universe across the franchise must be universally unafraid of heights.

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

This moment, and these two, live rent free in my heart.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Which romance film has the most believable couple chemistry?

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@mattgurney In other words… Defiant!

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

She’s a separatist. That’s it, that’s all and any assertion she’s otherwise is a lie.

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

Smith defends use of unvalidated signatures to pose separatist referendum question

https://t.co/DHIadIfiJF

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

Congratulations to David Cochrane and everyone at @PnPCBC
#CanadianScreenAwards

https://t.co/X6HhQ9okIP

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

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Separatists are *shocked* by my suggestion that Canada could revoke Canadian citizenship from Albertans following a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI.)

They believe that Alberta would get to determine how Canada would respond to a UDI, and that Albertans would have a right to hold and transmit Canadian citizenship to the nth generation.

But at the same time, they would not grant Alberta citizenship to the ~50% or Albertans born outside the province, i.e. people who are Albertans by choice, not chance.

So half the Alberta population (myself included) would be ineligible for Alberta citizenship, but the separatists would get to keep their Canadian passport to travel and work in the rest of Canada visa-free.

How crazy is that?

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

One of the best edited sequences in film history. 422 individual shots were cut together by Marcia Lucas, Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. Here is one frame from every shot in the climactic 12-minute 'Trench Run' of STAR WARS (1977).

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

First, she blamed Ottawa. Then, it was 700,000 Albertans. Now, she's pointing fingers at the Premier of B.C.

Danielle Smith will blame anyone but herself for this reckless referendum.

We know better.

We deserve better.
https://t.co/zfLWdCJxCK

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Avi Lewis: "The separation movement in Alberta has no point of comparison with the historic sovereignty movement in Quebec. This is a MAGA aligned, potentially funded, disruptive movement that has been really thrown into national prominence by Danielle Smith."

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

Peak cinema https://t.co/VSvGMUbPim

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

Thank you for calling it like it is, Wab Kinew.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

WOW!

Today Smith tried to perpetuate her spin on what duty to consult means and how it applies...

And Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was having NONE of it!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

WOW!

Today Smith tried to perpetuate her spin on what duty to consult means and how it applies...

And Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was having NONE of it!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦🖖🎭 @SNear23]

@SeanFennessey Well, I might need to get TX for this.