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8 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Can you imagine Nixon advertising how wonderful & credible newspapers are, during Watergate?

Or Chrétien, during AdScam?

No politician who feels seriously challenged by the press would say something like this.

Praise from a Prime Minister should shame Canada's newspapers. 1/x
Trudeau in fact disparaged the Globe's credibility, the last time they actually became a problem for him; SNC-Lavalin.

They caught him, and all he could do was deny, and shoot the messenger.

I guess he's not too worried about the press right now.

theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
What I've learned: Trudeau's nice tweets about newspapers are coordinated w the newspaper industry to promote a campaign his goverment pays for.

Heritage paid $249,700 to promote
#NationalNewspaperWeek - a mental hygiene campaign with a familiar bogeyman of "Fake News"
CBC is along for the ride. Their contribution is to stamp lobby group members orgs "good journalism" & urge CDNs to support these worthy "at risk" local news orgs.

It gets comical: Epoch Times is listed as "local Toronto" news people should give money to.
When the PM the public broadcaster & the legacy news industry gang up to fund & promote one specific group of information sources, it's weird & worrisome.

But it's worse than that. Their actual message is, other stuff is "Fake News." That's fearmongering.
All of this discussed & debated on today's podcast:

canadalandshow.com/podcast/280-th…

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4 Aug
1. #WECharity has explained how retired teachers Fred & Theresa Keilburger amassed private real estate holdings recently valued at $25m.

They say the family earned it by flipping houses, and gave WE a building to use as for years, "rent-free"

They said "rent-free" repeatedly
2. Here is a commercial lease for that building, which has been leaked to me.
3. I sent WE the lease today for comment.

They tell me it was not "conventional rent," but a way to reimburse Fred & Theresa Kielburger for mortgage interest & property taxes.
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Craig & Marc Kielburger will testify at a Commons committee tomorrow. It's a rare opportunity to ask them Qs. They've never accepted our intvu requests or answered us directly & I'm unaware of either of them ever agreeing to an accountability intvu from another news org. (cont'd)
Still, I worry that the time will be squandered with partisan speechifying & an over-emphasis on the youth volunteer grant. I realize the grant is the focus, but larger questions about WE are clearly important in assessing the gov't's due diligence here, or lack thereof. (cont'd)
Watchdog @CharityCanada has published a good list of questions they would ask the Kielburgers. charityintelligence.ca/research-and-n… I'll add to those. Here's what I would ask the Kielburgers if I had them under oath:
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11 Jul
Here's a story about #CancelCulture from one hundred years ago. 

In 1920, Henry Ford was one of the most wealthy, powerful and respected men in America.

He was also a disgusting bigot who owned a newspaper.
Ford's Dearborn Independent ran a NINETY ONE part series, starting in 1920, called "The International Jew: The World's Problem."
It was heavily based on "The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion," which is Russian fake news from 1903. Many conspiracy theory idiots believed it to be the actual minutes from a secret meeting of the Jews who run the world (some still do).
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3 Jul
1. Just posted a small but perhaps important update to our last story on WE Charity in Kenya.

I'll provide a bit of context on it here.
2. If you read the story, you know that we obtained a recording of Marc Kielburger on the phone in 2017 with the person who ran WE's Kenya operation, Peter Ruhiu. soundcloud.com/canadaland/i-c…
3. During the call, Ruhiu makes death threats about one of Kielburger's employees, talks about paying-off government investigators, and mentions their organization's "criminal offences." Marc listens calmly and agrees that the situation is "mission critical." He offers his help.
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15 Dec 19
1. I finally had a chance to take a close look at the reporting on this story about @puglass "refusing" to vacate her office, and I think people should be wary of it and think hard about where it came. Here's why... cbc.ca/news/politics/…
2. The narrative CBC published is loaded & the language seems engineered to set off a series of emotional responses: @Puglaas is "refusing" to leave, she's "no longer entitled" to "occupy" her "suite" of offices with a private bathroom. And she calls the *other* side petty...
3. It goes on. CBC dedicates 7 paragraphs to the fact that @puglaas had an elder bless the office. The implication is that she is playing the race card and basing a claim to keep the office on this blessing. But she doesn't.
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8 Aug 19
Here's a little story I'd like to tell about a big circle jerk between government, a think tank and the media.
2. A few years back the Trudeau government hired a think tank run by a former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief to do a big report on why the news biz is so messed up in Canada and what gov't should do about it. shatteredmirror.ca
3. While the reasons for the news crisis were obvious & the same as everywhere else (FB & Google) the report seized on "fake news" & cited it 34 times without any evidence that it's even a thing in Canada. Also, "filter bubbles" (x10) & "echo chambers" (x5) w/out substantiation.
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