Roundup: The good and the bad of Star Wars Day tweets

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It was Star Wars Day yesterday (May the Fourth be with you…), and as happens every year, various government departments put out Star Wars-themed tweets, and some of them are good, and some of them are…not so good. For example:

Some really missed the mark.

As you can imagine, I am a pedant over social media about naming Grogu.

Some of the better ones were these:

As for party leaders, Erin O’Toole’s was…bad. Not quite as bad as last year’s shoddily-animated Grogu video (for which the person who was in charge of it needs to have their ass removed), but still bad, especially because it’s not done in good fun, but is trying to spin the notion that the government is trying to turn the CRTC into a personal Twitter censorship bureau. (There are issues with Bill C-10 – this is not one of them).

Jagmeet Singh’s was painfully earnest.

Justin Trudeau, being a true fan, hit a pitch-perfect note.

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau and Dr. Theresa Tam reiterated the message to get the first vaccine available, after the (deliberate, in some cases) confusion around NACI’s advice.
  • Trudeau also called on MPs from all parties to a better job of creating safer spaces for victims of sexual assault and harassment who appear before committees.
  • Here is another Q&A on AstraZeneca and some of the questions arising around it.
  • GST/HST will be applied to streaming services like Netlix and Disney+ this summer, as well as a possible “digital services tax.”
  • The federal budget has funds for new judicial positions around the country and restoring the Law Commission, but won’t do much to address court backlogs.
  • The commandant of the Canadian Forces School of Military Intelligence has been temporarily removed pending an investigation into “possible breaches of conduct.”
  • The member of the Navy who made the report of sexual misconduct allegations against current CDS Admiral McDonald has been the victim of an attempted smear.
  • Gun control advocates want the government to rewrite the current gun control bill, citing that it’s “hollow” (as Matt Gurney has explained on numerous occasions).
  • Some MPs agree that they need to do a better job of treating witnesses at committee – and then snipe about what happened. Yeah, consider me unconvinced.
  • The Conservatives and Greens voted against the government’s Net Zero emissions bill, for different reasons (obviously).
  • Peter MacKay owed $1 million after his losing leadership bid, and he’s still paying it off with digital fundraisers.
  • Doug Ford is ramping up an ad campaign to blame the federal government for variant cases instead of doing something about it in his own backyard.
  • Here’s an interview with a long-time doctor in Alberta about the situation in that province with their third wave still climbing.
  • Kady O’Malley’s Process Nerd column explains what a Charter statement is, and why it’s being debated around Bill C-10 and its amendments.
  • Heather Scoffield worries that the rhetoric around “preferred vaccines” will disadvantage marginalized essential workers, yet again.
  • Colby Cosh reflects on ten years since Stephen Harper’s 2011 majority victory and the crest of the Orange Wave, and how much things have changed since.
  • For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about how the Conservative candidate in Milton out-organizing the riding association’s board and ousting Lisa Raitt was not a “coup.”
  • My column looks at the bill to entrench some of the changes in the “new” Senate, and why there are plenty of potential unintended consequences to it.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: The good and the bad of Star Wars Day tweets”

  1. Still wish someone had addressed the Cons as a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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