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OTTAWA — A salty-language Twitter spat between Chief Theresa Spence and Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau broke out Thursday morning while a press conference marking the end of Spence’s hunger protest was underway.

Chief Theresa Spence missed the press conference to mark the end of hunger strike because she was hospitalized, but the person operating her official twitter account called Brazeau an “asshole” in response to comments the Conservative aboriginal senator had posted.

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“And that is the typical “traditional” angry, victim speech I’ve heard all my life, which is why I got involved in politics,” Brazeau tweeted Thursday morning as Canada’s aboriginal leaders spoke Thursday.



Whoever was operating Spence’s account wasted no time in responding.

“Typical colonized indian asshole,” read a tweet from the @ChiefTheresaSpence account.

The tweet was deleted a few minutes later.