Finally!

Finally ... Ford blinked.

All unions who had supported @fordnation during 2022 election, came out publicly in support of education workers & against Bill 28. Ontario was on verge of general strike. @fordnation has now pledged to repeal Bill 28 (which only passed 4 days ago). 5/

— Professor Carol Campbell (@CarolCampbell4) November 7, 2022

Don't ever tell me @fordnation is "for the people" again.

Corporations are not people. The workers are people and he proved with Bill 28 that he does not see us as people.#onted #onpoli #Ontario #FireLecce #FordFailedThePeople pic.twitter.com/XY76ecOv8R

— 🄴🄶🄶🅄 (@ohayoodesu) November 8, 2022

Finally .... Canada is finding out who the FluTruxKlan organizers actually are:

I’m so tired of hearing this testimony that “their voices weren’t being heard”.They were heard. For years and years of this pandemic. They were the loudest and most obnoxious in our communities. They just wanted their way.

— mel n | she+her | 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@cmelissa_n) November 4, 2022

Gary Clement on the Emergencies Act inquiry. pic.twitter.com/V3E0xPpUNb

— National Post (@nationalpost) November 5, 2022

Dear Tamara Lich,

I’m sorry your dad felt persecuted for refusing to follow mandates put in place to protect others during a pandemic.

My dad died of COVID last fall. Where are your tears for him? #KuKluxKonvoy #FreeDumbConvoy

— Shxwnx Risdon (@RisdonShawna) November 5, 2022

Most of the protesters weren’t truckers, and most truckers didn’t support the protest. It wasn’t organized by truckers, and wasn’t about truckers. The only reason its right-wing propagandists like to call them truckers is so they can dress up as class warriors. https://t.co/TJqaWBu54m

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) November 4, 2022

Who among us has not threatened to shoot our parents at one time or another? https://t.co/yam8aqiV20

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) November 2, 2022

Well we did wonder how they could stay out there with no income & those trucks literally idling. Now we know. They were paid & paid well.

— Barbara Byers, C.M. (@BarbByersCLC) November 2, 2022

Finally...the US midterms are almost over:

“Voting as Fire Extinguisher,” @elguante pic.twitter.com/wxQ0cjc4fa

— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee) November 7, 2022

Researchers have identified a new and more narrowly targeted Russian misinformation effort ahead of Tuesday’s midterms. It appears intended to not only undermine the U.S. electoral system, but also the Biden administration’s military assistance to Ukraine. https://t.co/uVe4FAbu6M

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 6, 2022

Finally...the Musk Lettuce Watch has begun:

Let the countdown begin pic.twitter.com/RQ7w3OhXcp

— Elon Musk Fondles Dogs (@chaser) November 7, 2022

Starting to suspect this is some kind of “Brewster’s Millions” situation where he secretly has only 30 days to lose all $44 billion dollars

— Joe Muto (@JoeMuto) November 8, 2022

Every Elon post is like watching Joe Pesci enter the Home Alone house

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) November 7, 2022

Today's News: From All Over

Reconciliation visit: 

The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports: 

On Friday, [Pope Francis] met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before an outdoor performance that included traditional throat singing and drum dancing. 

His speech before hundreds began with another apology for the “evil perpetuated” on Indigenous people by church members. Speaking in his native Spanish, Francis’s speech was translated into English and Inuktitut. 

He told them he was sorry in Inuktitut, a meaningful gesture to many in the audience. “I thank you for having had the courage to tell your stories and to share your great suffering that I could not imagine,” he said in Spanish. 

“This only renewed in me the indignation and shame that I have felt for months.” 

The pontiff’s tour has fostered healing for some school survivors and anger in others. 

 ...Early on Friday, before his flight to Iqaluit, Pope Francis held a private meeting with an Indigenous delegation at the residence of Quebec Archbishop, Cardinal Gérald Lacroix. After the meeting, Ghislain Picard, Assembly of First Nations regional chief for Quebec/Labrador, said it will be up to each person to decide if the Pope’s trip met their expectations. “It’s really up to them to take the measure of all this, whether it’s going to provide that kind of way for their healing,” 

Mr. Picard said after the meeting. “It’s going to take time.” 

 

The Pope still has not committed to saying the words that critics of his apology are demanding to hear — that it was the Catholic Church as an institution that was responsible for the residential school abuses and that those included physical, psychological and sexual abuses.

— Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 29, 2022

Saskatchewan: 

For some reason that nobody has yet explained, Saskatchewan has asked the feds for the authority to determine which immigrants will be allowed to settle here, and also they want the feds to give us all the money.

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— Robbert Glennjamin (@BobbGlenn) July 28, 2022

It ain't gonna happen, of course, but maybe the Sask Party thinks they can gin up another grievance against the Trudeau Liberals?