Jonathan Kay on Twitter: "Particularly interesting the way teens talk about trudeau. I still see trudeau as a young guy who connects with young adults. But teens grew up with him as PM & take a different view. Young ppl have finely developed antennae for hypocrisy. And this guy hits 11 on the phoney meter" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonkay/status/1558564532355825666?cxt=HHwWhIC86eeLkaErAAAA

#canpol #JustinTrudeau
#JonKay

'I think the word we're all looking for is "cowardly"'

#JonKay

https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1493669024223346693

#FreedomConvoy2022
#canpol

"[W]hile conservative populist sentiment is largely taboo within Canadian institutional politics and mainstream media, radicalized liberal dogmas are not only tolerated but performatively embraced. [...]

"[I]n 2020, when a mob tore down a statue of Canada’s first prime minister, Trudeau and other Canadian liberal leaders stared silently at their feet, a fact not lost on the truckers now being excoriated for every stray act of rudeness in Ottawa."

#JonKay

#canpol

My major source of news has long been #CBCRadio . I have always trusted "The World at Six" and other such news shows.

However, I am not confident about their coverage of the #Ottawa #convoy . The general impression I get from the news is that it is a set of hooligans and thugs, with some component of white supremacists. On the other hand, when I read #JonKay 's Twitter feed, the truckers seem like normal working class Canadians with a hostility to #covid19 restrictions. https://mobile.twitter.com/jonkay/

@whiskeysailor That was #JonKay of Toronto, making a self-deprecating joke.

Who can predict what will catch the notice of the world on the interwebs?

"the many (many!) bulk emails I've gotten from principals & coaches over the last 2 weeks offer an anecdotal look at one way that omicron is spreading in Toronto..."

"... A typical email will say that a cluster of kids in a certain grade, or on a certain team, have gotten it. The numbers seem very high...7 kids here, 5 kids there. But the stories all seem to involve no/light symptoms, early detection, & instant mass notification of others..."

https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1472574134748069889

#JonKay
#covid19 #Omicron

"explains why going hard against anti vaxxers is dangerous for Liberals & NDP. Yes, the noisy anti vaxxers are the populists tossing gravel. But beneath that iceberg tip is a quieter, larger, more genteel corps of health-food energy-amulet lefty soccer moms"

writes #JonKay on Twitter about the article below:

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/corbella-the-vaccine-hesitant-are-typically-40-something-women-in-ontario-who-tend-to-vote-liberal/wcm/17082ce0-fb6c-43e4-a977-e7f90816a178/amp/

The article itself says that the "vaccine hesitant" can be persuaded.

#canpol #covid19
#CalgaryHerald

"Once imagined by the left as a light unto nations, Canada is now trashed in newspaper columns and the social media feeds of blue-check Can-con culturati as an incurably bigoted colonialist artifice. At the Toronto Star, one author recently instructed us to avoid singing the national anthem on Canada Day, and instead spend the day reflecting gloomily “on the many lives that the building of the Canadian state has cost.”"

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-how-the-lefts-obsession-with-american-style-culture-wars-corroded-canadian-identity

#JonKay

@keithzg @ezralevant@mstdn.foxfam.club To really get an insight into #JustinTrudeau, the man, the best I've seen is https://thewalrus.ca/the-justin-trudeau-i-cant-forget/

#JonKay #TheWalrus
#canpol