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Imagine if that "other guy" was exploiting his kids in this manner. It would be national news. And I assure you that you'd have heard about it, because the outrage would be felt all across Alberta 1/

"Look what that man is doing! It's shameful, disgusting, and a blatant attempt to score cheap political points!" 2/

Alas, it's the Great Pretender, Erin O'Toole, who actually thinks he's got a shot at becoming Canada's next Prime Minister (sorry, Cons, he doesn't have a hope in hell) dragging his elementary school-aged kid onto the political battlefield 3/

Of note, in case you miss it, while O'Toole and the Conservatives are screaming that we need to open up the country, his son admitted he hasn't been to school in months.

Go figure 4/

Many on Twitter try to show people what's gone wrong with the media in this country 5/

The news and stories we get are most often so politically lopsided in favouring one party in particular, that even when a story comes along to dispute the nonsense we're inundated with every day, no Conservative supporter believes it 6/

Our media is failing us, and has been for some time (it coincides with Stephen Harper okaying the deal that saw Postmedia sold to American interests) 7/

We deserve better. Billionaires with eyes on even bigger tax breaks than they've already been handed over the course of the last fifty years, are steering the narrative /8

Whether it's Global, Corus, Postmedia, or the Globe & Mail, all are guilty to some extent in overlooking facts, and instead offer biased op-eds from writers who would be out of work if they refused to play along 9/

We used to be able to pick up a paper secure in the knowledge that those behind the articles performed -- at the very least -- a modicum of research. That's no longer the case 10/

It's a threat to our country's democracy. Billionaires won't suffer at all if, say, we increased spending on healthcare, education, helping the poor, & subsidizing daycare. The rich will carry on just the way they were. It's not any of them that will miss a meal, like, ever 11/

Our news shouldn't be entangled in a one-sided game of Monopoly, being played out by the rich Fin/