Laura Babcock 🇨🇦
@laura-babcock
Passion for people, politics and progress. Proud Mom, advocate for social justice, PR communications expert @powergroup.ca, Current Affairs Pundit, former CBC Journalist, Host of The OShow Canada's Pro Democracy Podcast. Subscribe on YouTube and Spotify 🇨🇦
“If you’re sick of Danielle Smith or Doug Ford you’ve got to get out and protest! Democracy is a muscle if we don’t exercise it, it gets weak. We’ve seen how that’s impacted our neighbours in America.” 🇨🇦 Protest this weekend! #FightFord #Onpoli #Ableg 🔗 youtu.be/Y10vBqOdeJA?si…
It’s Horrific! Gov of Louisiana tried to bribe Greenland’s children with handing out chocolate coins with a layer of gilded paper but they refused! Apparently some people in US think you can treat people like that, but you can’t treat Greenlanders that way!” OShow youtu.be/Y10vBqOdeJA?... 🇬🇱 🇨🇦
“Majority of Albertans say this is ridiculous! You’re going to destroy our economy! People look at each other with suspicion! Families are arguing! Imagine doing this for two more years?!” @lukaszukab.bsky.social on Danielle Smith’s hot mess of a referendum plan. 🇨🇦 OShow youtu.be/3RomE0SKQcY?...
🚨ONTARIO: Enough of Doug Ford’s cruelty and corruption! Show up at #FightFord Protests this Saturday May 30! Here are the locations and the awesome rocker Robin Magder with her “Doug Ford’s Ontario” protest song! I’ll be playing it at my local protest! You can too! #Onpoli 🇨🇦🤘
“She flew to Mar-a-Lago. She flew to the inauguration. She has been on MAGA podcasts in USA. Danielle Smith is playing a very dangerous game and like Trump don’t pay attention to what she says pay attention to what she does!” 🇨🇦OShow youtu.be/3RomE0SKQcY?si… #Cndpoli #AB @lukaszukab.bsky.social
“We own the fucking house and yet we have a king Ford in the house who’s taking over and is shunning all the rules of a normal democracy, and it leads me to think only one thing: Ford’s got a fucking shit load of stuff to hide!” 🤬🇨🇦Scandal Panel 🔗youtu.be/VlvYY0X5Afc?si… #Onpoli
“In Canada treason is given all the resources and those who stand up and work hard to defend our country are scrambling around with their little clipboards going door-to-door to try and save 🇨🇦! Smith & Separatists have the advantage! The OShow youtu.be/t6i9d2PuFmk?si… @charlieangus104.bsky.social
“I don’t believe for one second Danielle Smith is being dragged around by bunch of losers in cowboy hats. I believe that she wants to be part of Trump’s MAGA fucking universe and she’s trying to make that happen!” 🇨🇦 OShow Scandal Panel youtu.be/VlvYY0X5Afc?si… #Ableg #Cndpoli #Alberta
“He’s hiding information, he’s appointing pals to top positions, he’s involved in scandals, there’s all kinds of grift, he wants to fly around in a freaking gravy plane and says horrible things to women! Ford is more like Trump every day!” 🇨🇦 youtu.be/FV2FhHMJiIQ?si… #Onpoli @tylerwatt.bsky.social
“The jet is a terrible story. It shows Premier Ford for who he truly is: selfish and he totally misuses taxpayer dollars - the opposite of what he promised in 2018 - but the FOI thing is is really dangerous!” @tylerwatt.bsky.social 🔗youtu.be/FV2FhHMJiIQ?si… #GravyPlane #Onpoli #FireFord
Prime Minister Carney I know you’re being diplomatic, but Pete Hoekstra - throw that bastard out! This guy is undermining us. They’ve been threatening our nation.They can’t beat us from the outside.They are targeting us from the inside!” @charlieangus104.bsky.social 🇨🇦 youtu.be/t6i9d2PuFmk?si…
“Reporting is that it’s all one big swampy thing with what’s happening in Alberta and the Trump regime! If we can’t find out if there’s treason afoot, if we can’t kick out an ambassador, what the hell kind of power do we have as a country?” 🇨🇦 youtu.be/t6i9d2PuFmk?si… @charlieangus104.bsky.social
“Pierre Poilievre has not denounced the data breach of 3 million Alberta voters! You’re either for democracy and the protection of voters or you’re not! You’re either for Canada or pack your bags and leave!” 🇨🇦 our sovereignty is under attack! youtu.be/t6i9d2PuFmk?si… @charlieangus104.bsky.social
“The fact that they’re allowing - in the United States - Donald Trump to set up heavily armed and heavily funded militia groups that are loyal to him?! Well that’s Fascism 101 right there!” @charlieangus104.bsky.social @meidastouch.com 🇨🇦 The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/t6i9d2PuFmk?si… #Cndpoli #USpoli
“Ask yourselves why a political movement has no concern for safety, security of 3 million Canadians? They’re pumping political and rhetorical fentanyl into blood system of Canadian society! They need to be stopped!” @trueeager.bsky.social 🇨🇦 OShow youtu.be/cFSLUzlCmXw?si… #Ableg #cndpoli
“That’s how bad it is in Ontario: there are LEGO videos of Ford’s Gravy Plane! He’s not coming back from this! Anyone in PC Party with ambition that wants to keep their job or be Premier get away from Ford! Fire Ford !” 🇨🇦OShow @trueeager.bsky.social youtu.be/cFSLUzlCmXw?si… #Onpoli #FireFord
Punta Canada before dark 🇨🇦 we spent weekend entertaining great friends, lounging and dancing until wayyy to late lol!
“2.9 MILLION of our fellow Canadians had their data breached! It’s reasonable to assume that for at least one of them it could end up in death!” @trueeager.bsky.social urging law enforcement and all of us to take the Alberta voter date breach deadly seriously youtu.be/cFSLUzlCmXw?si… #Ableg 🇨🇦👀
“How is this not TREASON? They’re going to an enemy asking for support: military, financial and otherwise! What do we need to do to have some fucking teeth in this country?” Canada is still under threat from Trump MAGA separatists! 🚨🇨🇦 youtu.be/cFSLUzlCmXw?si… #cndpoli #AB @trueeager.bsky.social
“You know what Danielle Smith? You’ve got to decide: if you’re for Canada don’t worry about losing your job and stand against these attempts to break up our country!” There’s no appealing court decision with Alberta tax dollars if Danielle is on Team 🇨🇦 The OShow 👀 youtu.be/GGxeyRaFcJk?si…
“They don’t need to win referendum to cause maximum chaos to undermine 🇨🇦 but we’re seeing no serious response from CSIS, RCMP, federal government to say ‘we want an investigation we’re gonna go after foreign interference’!” @charlieangus104.bsky.social on The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/GGxeyRaFcJk?si… 👀
“In Alberta their democracy is being attacked, their healthcare is being attacked, their public school system undermined and 3 million people have been doxed! When Jason Kenney and I are on same page you know we are in the end times!” @charlieangus104.bsky.social OShow 🇨🇦 youtu.be/GGxeyRaFcJk?si…
“Keep up boycotts Canada! We’ve already stopped 40% of travel! Let’s make it 80%! Why go to Trump’s America if you don’t absolutely have to? As Ben Meisalas said it might be most successful boycott in world history!” 🇨🇦 OShow 🔗youtu.be/GGxeyRaFcJk?si… @meidastouch.com @charlieangus104.bsky.social
“Ottawa has to wake up! National media have to wake up! Nature of this threat is all the malevolent players are coming to the table and this is going to be about attacking Canada in such a substantive way.” 🚨 @charlieangus104.bsky.social of @meidastouch.com 🇨🇦 The OShow youtu.be/GGxeyRaFcJk?si…
“These leaders are not gods! Get them out! There might be someone worse coming up behind or not - but we still have to get rid of Doug Ford and Danielle Smith!” Ontario and Alberta have right wing authoritarians to oust from office. 🚨🇨🇦 youtu.be/6Of6huWAxxg?si… #Onpoli #Ableg
“The United Conservative Party of Alberta doesn’t play footsy with separatists. They’re in the backseat making out.” 🇨🇦 The OShow with @therealdkgray.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/6Of6huWAxxg?si…
“DOUG FORD’S ONTARIO” by Robin Magder youtu.be/6Of6huWAxxg?si… #Onpoli
“Ontario: Doug Ford can be taken down electorally because he’s been shown to be the millionnaire Nepo baby who loves America and is willing to get a private jet at our expense rather then help 85,000 people in homelessness. The GravyPlane! It will stick!” 🔗youtu.be/6Of6huWAxxg?si… #ONpoli
“I’m not leaving Canada! 72% of Albertans are the same as me! However with millions and billions being spent on propaganda by bad actors I’m worried that we could have a Brexit situation.” Alberta Economist @therealdkgray.bsky.social The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/6Of6huWAxxg?si… #Cndpoli #Ableg 🇨🇦 #Canada
“Ford has so many scandals: fresh new hell of 500M potential secret payout to pal for air *rights, he won’t give us records on Gravy Plane, and passed law putting his friends in charge of elected mayors! We should be in full revolution mode!” 🚨youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… #Onpoli
Here’s Chef Dero (17) in action at The French making Mother’s Day Brunch 💕
Woah! That one was close! Big storm oustide Punta Canada 🇨🇦
The most beautiful sight 🇨🇦
The haunting sound of a siren echoes over the massive Gore Park Community Outreach line for people suffering from hunger and homelessness. I always worry it’s responding to an overdose in the downtown area given the toxic drug crisis and lack of supports there are now. #Onpoli 🥹
Another Saturday another massive Gore Park Community Outreach line for people suffering from hunger and homelessness.
“As Canadians we have to stop being so fucking trusting that nobody could do something bad with the bad guys against us - and realize they’re saying that they’re siding with bad guys against Canada!” There’s TREASON in Alberta 🇨🇦 OShow youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… #Cndpoli #Ableg
“Those days are done, son.” The OShow Scandal Panel has some laughs at Pierre Poilievre’s belief that he can ever beat Mark Carney and become Prime Minister of Canada 🇨🇦 🤣 youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… @markcripps.bsky.social @keithleslie.bsky.social
🤬”Premier Ford you don’t get to tell us what we’re concerned about! You’ve never had to deal with not being able to pay your bills! You’ve accrued the largest subnational debt in the world for Ontario while giving your friends these fucking deals! It’s unconscionable!” 🇨🇦 youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si…
“Why the footsy playing? Why the enabling? Why do separatist think Danielle Smith is doing their bidding? Why is she on stage with Poilievre and Trump regime ambassador who insults Canada? Do they want to run the 51st State?” 🚨 🇨🇦 OShow Scandal Panel 🔗 youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… #Cndpoli #Ableg
“It’s fucking terrible if it’s true! You would work with Russia over your own country? You would side with Russia over your own country? Get the fuck out man!” 🇨🇦 Scandal Panel reacts to bombshell report of Russia helping Alberta separation youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… @markcripps.bsky.social #Ableg
“There is no need for Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith to be playing footsies with these guys! They should be talking against these separatists! They should be promoting Canada!” 🇨🇦 OShow Scandal Panel on growing threats 🔗 youtu.be/e0m7WQjS1Gk?si… #Cndpoli #ABpoli @keithleslie.bsky.social
“In most countries for some reason, conservatives have managed to sell themselves as fiscally responsible (despite their records)… That’s something the average voter might care about more than the Trump links!” @joniaskola.bsky.social on how Hungary ousted Orban 🇨🇦 OShow youtu.be/wkwpWdObbdA?si…
“We have a premier in Ontario Doug Ford who actually passed ban on Freedom of Information law to wipe out any access to his cell phone record. Nothing says corruption like ‘I need to pass legislation that covers me retroactively for decades’. It’s highly alarming!” 🚨 🇨🇦 🔗 youtu.be/wkwpWdObbdA?si…
“In Canada about 40% of our media is owned by a US hedge fund - many of our major dailies even a national paper - rest of corporate media is essentially owned by 5 billionaire families!” 🚨 🇨🇦 we must protect democracy! @joniaskola.bsky.social joins me on OShow 🔗youtu.be/wkwpWdObbdA?si… #Cndpoli
“We either get better regulation and transparency on algorithms and campaign financing and what they do with data or we fight fire with fire - we can’t just stand still!” 🇨🇦 @joniaskola.bsky.social on Alberta data breach and how to stop manipulation by far right! The OShow youtu.be/wkwpWdObbdA?si…
“All of it looks sketchy as Hell! It’s really about how Ford is harming the health and wealth of the People of Ontario! He’s accrued the largest subnational debt and hurt healthcare, education, environment and energy!” 🚨 The OShow with @paulstewartii.bsky.social 🔗 youtu.be/-QvhzrxY7IU?si… #Onpoli 🇨🇦
“Poilievre not getting his security clearance I assume the worst: that he knows he can’t pass so he makes up a reason for not applying!” @brenttoderian.bsky.social on why 🇨🇦 should be skeptical and vigilant in protecting our democracy The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?si… #cndpoli #Ableg
“Ford knows what he’s doing. His modus operandi is secrecy, using throwaway phones, code names on projects, files not existing… and he seems to always be positioned one level away from somebody who knows something.” 👀 @paulstewartii.bsky.social 🇨🇦 The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/-QvhzrxY7IU?si… #Onpoli #ON
“We’re calling bullshit: we say the real conspiracy is all the corporations and people profiting by how far everything is away from us and how we need the car for everything.” @urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social debunking the myths about 15 minutes cities youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?si…
“It’s not up to you Premier Ford to decide when we’re done with the Greenbelt investigations or with the Gravy Plane or the Skills Development Fund or any other scandal!” 🤬 Demand accountability Ontario! Stop this authoritarianism! @brenttoderian.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🔗youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?si… #Onpoli
“That is a form of attack! I don’t know why we don’t treat it as such! It is a form of attack and a very successful and effective one so we need to treat it as an attack!” @brenttoderian.bsky.social on need to fight back on Trump MAGA disinformation 🇨🇦 youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?... #Cndpoli