Political journalist, author of The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns and Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister.
Ottawa, Canada
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Best John Glenn quote: "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of rocket was supplied by lowest bidder."
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This is the kind of extreme, radical multiculturalism we've been hearing about. Clearly a grave threat to our way of life.
A first snowfall for Eritrean children new to Canada. #NewcomersWelcome #WelcomeToCanada #RefugeesWelcome #privatesponsorship #BVOR
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Wow - at 91, Chretien still has fight. "Nobody will starve us into submission. Canada is and will remain the best country in the world. Vive le Canada".
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Costa Rica has sent 102 firefighters - Los Bomberos - to fight wildfires in Canada. Thank you Costa Rica. Good job, charge d’affaires, @DanaCryderman
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I’m on vacation but can’t stop watching the train wreck taking place in slow motion in Ottawa. Trudeau has now removed the only person in Cabinet with business experience and handed the task of economic recovery to a journalist. As a journalist, I find that concerning.
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This is what Canada is up against: a constituency that is not open to persuasion; that is not only ignorant of, but disdains the facts; that swallows all Trump’s lies and regurgitates them to scapegoat and spread hate. 🇨🇦 has to insulate itself from this madness.
Why can't Canadians understand that the WHOLE ISSUE is that we have been giving Canada 200 BILLION dollars a year and getting NOTHING back. Not even free trade. Nothing. Not even border security. Nothing.
Canda is a BURDEN on the United States. Canda is a TAX on every U.S. Citizen.
You are lazy, grifters, slackers and thieves from my point of view.
Stop throwing your hissy fit and live up to being a good neighbor and not a thieving bum.
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I have a dream in which the prime minister of this country attempts to govern on behalf of all Canadians, not just those who endorse his ideological crusade. Silly, I know….
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Mark Carney in Colchester-Cumberland riding in NS, which was represented last time by Conservative Stephen Ellis. Noisy protesters shout he is controlled by the World Economic Forum. Carney puts his finger to his ear and jokes: “I’m listening for the orders coming through.”
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I honestly can’t fathom Canadians who excuse Trump’s threat to unilaterally impose 25 percent tariffs on three quarters of our exports, in breach of the trade deal he signed. “I’m glad he’s doing it,” said one idiot. Blinded by their hatred of Trudeau, they are apparently oblivious to the long-term damage this would do.
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A future Liberal government would provide $2,000 travel bursaries to send Canadians camping. I think that might be the stupidest thing I've heard so far in this election.
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Bugger. I'm one of 61 Canadians just sanctioned by Russia. There goes the trip to Moscow.
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@JustinTrudeau arrives in Vancouver. Trade secret - the obligatory wave on arrival is a bit of a sham. There’s no-one here but staff and reporters - and he’s definitely not waving at us.
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This resignation letter is savage. Freeland says Canadians know when the government is working for them and "equally know when we are focused on ourselves".
In other words Liberals First, Canada second. From a finance minister whose seat is still warm.
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So you get untold quantities of oil, gas, lumber, critical minerals and limitless amounts of fresh water. We get a country in the 90th percentile for rampant gun mortality, the worst healthcare system in the developed world and ....you.
Tempting.
Trump: "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."
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Surreal moment wandering through Schiphol airport in Amsterdam and seeing Ottawa’s parliamentary precinct all over every TV. The world is watching - and not in a good way.
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I know the arguments against the handgun ban but it is long overdue. It has worked in the UK. I realize it is likely to work less well in a country that sits next to the United States. But just because you can’t do everything doesn’t mean you do nothing.
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The story so far: Ottawa Police had tow trucks lined up; the OPP say there was no threat to national security; and the RCMP indicated no need for additional powers. The government’s case is looking thinner than a hermit’s address book. kitchener.citynews.ca/nation… via @CityNewsKIT
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We’re in the middle of a national crisis and the House of Commons is like a kindergarten sandbox. @MelissaLantsman asks @JustinTrudeau when he lost his way. He replies that Conservative members have been standing with people waving Swastikas. Bedlam ensues.
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Some quite unpleasant folks have come out to greet the Liberal leader in Nobleton, Ont.
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If you’re Canadian and cheering for Trump - give your head a shake. If he wins and imposes the tariffs he’s threatened, it could knock up to 5 per cent off GDP, officials estimate. cbc.ca/news/world/trump-vict…
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This opens the floodgates. Will smokers and/or drinkers be next?
COVID live updates: Unvaccinated Quebec adults will have to pay a health contribution, Legault says
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How the hell is Canada in a diplomatic war with India, which should be a democratic ally? New Delhi accuses the Trudeau government of an ""anti-India separatist agenda" and is threatening "further steps" against Canada. The Biden Administration has dealt with similar concerns about India's actions on their soil quietly and more adeptly.
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My wife has been sick with a persistent cough, so we have self-isolated. I’ve been fine, except I’ve completely lost my sense of smell. Upside - can’t even smell poopy diapers. This, apparently, is a suspected symptom of COVID. I didn’t know, so I’m telling you. Stay home.
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I hope Canadian authorities investigate this. If this guy’s story pans out, we are in a whole new world. ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/…
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"It would be irresponsible and unfair to pass on more debt to the next generations" - Chrystia Freeland, after eight consecutive unbalanced budgets and a doubling of the national debt.
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I’ve been a journalist for more than 30 years and have never encountered this “collusion”. Worst thing is @andrewscheer knows that and is just trying exploit the ignorance of his more credulous followers.
No wonder Trudeau wants to censor all but four or five Liberals news sources: they all coordinate in attacking Poilievre with the same false headline. Collusion?
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The most astounding thing about this story is that Chiang is still the Liberal candidate.
NDP MP Jenny Kwan on the Carney Liberals candidate Paul Chiang advocating for his political competition and a Canadian to be taken to Chinese consulate for a CCP bounty, “in what universe is this normal?”
Kwan has been targeted by CCP officials herself in the past.
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Heart-breaking
Video of Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his kids while he stays behind to fight.
Fuck war.
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You’re a journalist? And you don’t mention what prompted the “relentless bombardment”. Maybe look for another line of work.
Tens of thousands marching in Toronto to mark one year of Israel’s relentless bombardment and genocide in Gaza. I can’t see the beginning or end of the procession.
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Appalling footage of Hamas supporters celebrating in Toronto. In 2015, a Senate committee recommended updating the hate law to consider it an offence to glorify terrorists, terrorist acts or terrorist symbols. Nothing was done.
The Liberals should revisit that recommendation.
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Missed my first budget in 15 years. But my 17 year old son was in the HoC. Here's his take: "Cons made complete fools of themselves".
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There’s simply no justification for the federal public service growing three times population growth, especially when we are also spending $20B on contractors. Shocking to read the latest numbers. financialpost.com/opinion/ci…
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I have to say, I think Poilievre withdrawing "wacko" and replacing it with "radical" or "extremist" should have been the end of the matter.
#BREAKING: The Liberal speaker has kicked Pierre Poilievre OUT of the House of Commons.
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Trump has mistaken Canadian citizens for consumers; he thinks everything has a price but you can’t buy belonging to the best country in the world.
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@MarkJCarney rails against the “politics of slogans”. “We need solutions, not slogans,” he said, which is a slogan.
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Canada should update its hate laws to ban glorification of terror.
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I moved to Canada 20 years ago this month. I'd already studied here at two universities, which means I've spent nearly half my life here. I am grateful beyond words for the opportunities I have had in the greatest country in the world. Happy Canada everyone.
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The extreme lengths he went to emphasize he doesn’t read intelligence briefings was beyond odd. nationalpost.com/opinion/jus…
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“I urge you to vote in the best interests of Canada”. Powerful stuff by someone who understands the big picture.
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It’s taken too long but this is a vindication of the Trudeau government’s strategy of pressuring the Whitehouse to strike a deal with Meng Wanzhou and link it to the case of the two Michaels.
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Compare and contrast: Poilievre says Hamas is a "terrorist death cult" maximizing suffering for everyone, uses human shields in a war it started.
Trudeau says the pathway to peace is "getting more difficult with all the hardship that Palestinians are going through."
Words matter
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It’s always amusing to hear an MP walk the line - “Hunting rifles are not banned - that’s disinformation by the gun lobby” - only to find the PM has changed the line, without telling them - “Uh… we may need to take another look at this…”.
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Carney is proving to be more in tune with the "inner mind" of the nation than Poilievre.
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It is passing strange that @JustinTrudeau can coax a tear for any transgression that took place before October 2015, yet has still to express even a tinge of regret for anything that has taken place since.
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Blue skies for a Liberal rally in Nepean. “Never 51,” says Mark Carney to loud cheers.
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This is a terrible look.
I had a constructive discussion with my fellow Premiers on how best to deal with the threat of tariffs from the incoming U.S. administration. We agreed on several strategies and I look forward to continuing to work with them on this critical issue.
However, federal government officials continue to publicly and privately float the idea of cutting off energy supply to the U.S. and imposing export tariffs on Alberta energy and other products to the United States. Until these threats cease, Alberta will not be able to fully support the federal government’s plan in dealing with the threatened tariffs.
Alberta will simply not agree to export tariffs on our energy or other products, nor do we support a ban on exports of these same products. We will take whatever actions are needed to protect the livelihoods of Albertans from such destructive federal policies.
We also urge our entire nation to use this tariff threat as an opportunity to correct the misguided direction of this country and commence multiple infrastructure projects that focus on developing, upgrading and exporting our oil, gas and other natural resources, instead of effectively land locking them and keeping us fully reliant on one primary customer.
I will be travelling to Washington D.C. this week for the inauguration, and will be returning to the United States several times over the coming months to meet with U.S. lawmakers and officials to continue to make the case against the imposition of tariffs on Canadian products and to strengthen and grow the trading relationship between our two great and independent nations.
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If the deficits for last year and this come in $20B higher than the finance minister forecast, her credibility will be as shredded as her fiscal anchor. nationalpost.com/opinion/joh…
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It feels like Canada is splintering into two tribes - the intolerant, authoritarian woke lunatics on the left and the spittle-flecked, hateful lunatics on the far-right. Where are the voices of compassion and common-sense? The silent majority needs to speak up.
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What bollocks. As the former prime minister must know, the time bell had rung on his government by 2015. Media bias is a convenient scapegoat but makes him sound like a sore loser.
"They would not cover cover my announcements. They would not cover any gaffe of my opponent, they scrubbed it out ... They would not run any ad that showed footage depicting my opponent in an unfavourable light ... We literally were censored out of the coverage." #cdnpoli (2018)
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The Liberal platform is a greater danger to Carney’s lead in the polls than the debates. nationalpost.com/opinion/joh…
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Quebec could deny Carney a majority nationalpost.com/opinion/ivi…
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Governing is hard. There are pressures from all sides and hard choices have to be made. Everyone’s an armchair quarterback. But what is happening in Ontario was foretold in real time by what happened in the UK over Christmas. The failure to respond adequately is inexcusable.
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"Pierre Poilievre will leave us divided and ready to be conquered because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him." This line will be wheeled out time and again in the imminent election.
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This is the tough part of being prime minister: trying to console the inconsolable.
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Was correct in my raw copy, in the newspaper and it appears to be correct online. If I knew you were going to be like that, I’d have left my original description of you in the piece: “rabid partisan”.
Hey @IvisonJ, totally cool with you writing whatever you want about me, but do you think you could attempt to spell my last name right?
You’re not even consistent with your spelling of it within the same article. Thanks in advance. ✌️
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What a farce. Parliament debates a published motion all day and then at the 11th hour, the Libs and NDP cook up a totally new motion. They don't even have the amendments in French. MPs are going ballistic that their privileges have been infringed - and they're right.
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John Ivison: It's time to cancel Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 'morning show' and get back to Parliament nationalpost.com/wcm/e64630c… via @nationalpost
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Welcome to Luna, the destroyer of worlds. Who knew an 8-week-old puppy could wreak such havoc.
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History will not look kindly on decisions like this, I suspect. cbc.ca/news/politics/departm…
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Trudeau makes a funny - Scheer is bringing back Harper's cuts - "the first time the Conservatives have ever recycled anything".
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Debate over. Carney wins because no-one pulled his underpants over his head. He looked more uncomfortable than I have ever seem him. But his French was sound and he survived.
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Anarchists and anti-colonialists are boasting proudly of their intention to #shutdowncanada. They are succeeding - closing ports, rail-lines and blockading legislatures.
Where are the political voices saying this is unacceptable and that Canada will remain open for business?
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Something strange and wonderful has been sparked by @realDonaldTrump's dishonourable comments about this country. I think it might be a Canadian identity.
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How about those of us trying to get home to have dinner with our kids take to the streets tomorrow to protest against professional protestors?
#BREAKING Supporters of the Wet-suweten first nation are blocking traffic in downtown Ottawa. @ctvottawa
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I support MAID as the hallmark of a civilized society - at least I supported it for adults whose death was “reasonably foreseeable”. But granting access to minors and people with mental illness….We have lost the plot here.
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Andrew Scheer has developed an unfortunate habit of making claims that prove to be false - Jon Venables, Faith Goldy and now RCMP commish.
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Seven flights landed in Toronto from Vancouver today. BC is seeing record numbers of COVID cases. 1500 of the 1900 P1 Brazilian variety are in BC. Brazil is reporting an unusually high number of infant mortalities that seem to be linked to P1. What are we doing?
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“Neither Jack Layton nor myself would have tolerated it, much less promoted it.” Tom Mulcair on anti-Israel sentiment in the modern NDP. montrealgazette.com/opinion/…
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Post caucus scrum with transport minister Omar Alghabra
Reporter: Can we expect an announcement today about new (airport) measures or --?
Alghabra: Expect an announcement when we're ready to make announcements.
That's a minister who's feeling the heat.
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With all criticism of Theresa Tam - some valid - it should be noted Canada is doing better than many of its peers. A friend who visits hospitals in a professional capacity reports they are “80% empty”. Another who works in public health says: “That’s what success looks like.”
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Everyone has a right to their opinion. But the abuse, intimidation and naked hate have no place in our democracy. There were mothers with children calling our prime minister “a f***ing asshole”. Come on people, we can do better than that.
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There is a bandwagon of MPs out there criticizing the removal from a classroom of a hijab wearing teacher. But where were they during two elections since bill 21 was introduced?
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It's a wire story, with a suggested heading everyone used. Every political rookie knows that - and you're a lifer. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that you are deliberately trying to stoke conspiracy and disinformation. You need to give your head a shake, Andrew.
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So you can protest and not be arrested but you can be arrested for doing your job informing Canadians?Ok. Got it.
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You’d have to be off your meds to go to the US to watch the World Cup with these nuts in charge. Want to watch a game, go to Vancouver, Toronto, Mexico City or Guadalajara.
VANCE: We'll have visitors from close to 100 countries. We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games. But when the time is up, they'll have to go home, otherwise they'll have to talk to Secretary Noem
AUDIENCE: 🦗😳🦗😳
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The ultra-safe, socially distanced campaign continues. First campaign stop was in. Syrian bakery where @JustinTrudeau was asked whether he was aware the event was breaking maximum occupancy limits.
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John Ivison: Trudeau’s intolerance of 'unacceptable views' has brought us to this moment nationalpost.com/opinion/joh… via @nationalpost
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The fragility of life is never plainer than when it is lost in something as mundane as the commute home. Positive energy being sent to everyone affected by today's bus tragedy in Ottawa. Take a moment and hug your loved ones.
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Good stump speech by @erinotoole in Nanaimo. I doubt there’s a person in this room that walks out thinking he’s not winning this thing.
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Carney reminds voters why they wanted to oust the Liberals: Ivison | National Post nationalpost.com/opinion/ivi…
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Hey, American Rush fans. This is what the boys think of your president. Elbows Up!
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I’ve spent the week at the Calgary Stampede and it seems the thrill has gone from the love affair with Pierre Poilievre.
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A very full in-box today from outraged Canadians who don't fit the "multi-millionaire" description offered by the prime minister but will be sideswiped by the capital gains tax inclusion increase nonetheless. 1/2
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BC producer says he can ship his pinot noir to Washington state duty free under USMCA but pays a 71 percent mark-up to get into the LCBO in Ontario.
It may be true that we can give ourselves much more than Donald Trump can ever take away. But we're not.
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John Ivison: Extending restrictions on travel a sign of a government that isn't listening nationalpost.com/opinion/joh… via @nationalpost
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The Conservatives are hearing two more ministers to go today. If true, who can blame them. Trudeau has shown no loyalty to his cabinet/caucus.
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How much is this back room deal between the Liberals and the NDP going to cost the country?
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In case anyone was wondering why their feed is not full of my usual gibberish, I’m on paternity leave with this little beauty. A much more productive and satisfying use of time.
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Canada got it wrong on the Middle East nationalpost.com/opinion/joh…
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This is reprehensible from someone I’ve admired since watching him campaign in London, Ont., more than 30 years ago. Democracy is not a game where you say: “If we lose, we’re not playing.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Thinking of colleagues @glen_mcgregor and Joyce Napier, two of the best in the business, who were let go by CTV today. Who is going to be left to tell our stories?
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