🧵@PierrePoilievre is the classic bad actor fingerpointing when the finger points back to him. His attacks on objective CBC journalists are baseless. Most Canadians get news from American-owned PostMedia outlets that are right-leaning promoters of conservative POV.
CBC’s straight news reporting is consistently low-biased, factual, and covers both sides of issues. Editorial positions lean slightly left and rate high for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. mediabiasfactcheck.com/cbc-news-canad…
Postmedia outlets have right-leaning editorial bias often and publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favour conservative causes. postmedia.com/brands/#brands…
@PierrePoilievre's baseless attack on CBC journalists and his demand to defund the CBC are acts of an obscenely fragile politician, who benefits from supportive right-leaning coverage from 130 media Postmedia outlets and wants to eliminate the single left-leaning media outlet.
When it comes to freedom of expression any amount of @PierrePoilievre's relentless unbalanced online #ragebaiting is too much for Canada's diverse population. @PierrePoilievre's online attacks on freedom of the press in Canada need to be addressed by very strong public pushback.
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#cdnpoli 🧵@JustinTrudeu
does NOT set #fueloilprices and @PierrePoilievre
knows that. We live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. The price of oil is set in the global marketplace so the supply/demand balance determines the price of O&G products around the world.
The Canadian government has constitutional authority to regulate gasoline prices only in an emergency. However, provinces and territories can regulate prices, and Quebec and the Atlantic provinces do so. consumerscouncil.com
@JustinTrudeau does NOT set #groceryprices and @PierrePoilievre knows that. They result from factors that include yields, wildfires, drought, global supply chain problems and grocery chain price gouging, etc. Implying otherwise is #misinformation.
The majority of Canadians didn't blockade supply chains or occupy the national capital for a month-long party and bitch-in clearly designed from the outset to be an attack on our PM @JustinTrudeau under the guise of a mandate protest that was identical to the US border mandate.
@JustinTrudeau 1/2 “The Government of Canada and the United States have now made being vaccinated a requirement to cross the border. This regulation is not changing so, as an industry, we must adapt and comply with this mandate,” said CTA president Stephen Laskowski.
2/2 “The only way to cross the border, in a commercial truck or any other vehicle, is to get vaccinated.” Canadian Trucking Alliance Statement to Those Engaged in Road/Border Protests cantruck.ca/canadian-truck…
🧵 "Nearly a year after the start of Canada’s 2022 #FreedomConvoy—a series of protests and blockades that brought together a wide variety of #farrightactivists and #extremists, as well as ordinary Canadians who found common ground with the aggrieved message of the organizers ...
the question of whether and to what degree foreign actors were involved remains largely unanswered. This paper attempts to answer some of those questions by providing a brief but targeted analysis of #Russia’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy via #media and #social media.
The analysis examines Russian involvement in the convoy through the lenses of overt state media coverage, state-affiliated #proxywebsites, and overlap between #Russianpropaganda and #convoycontent on social media.
"The plot of the populist story is simple, unchanging, and melodramatic: Life consists of a perpetual struggle between “common people” and the elites who exploit them. The former are noble, virtuous, and righteous;
the latter are corrupt, arrogant, and self-serving. The key to eradicating social ills and injustices lies in helping the people recognize their true enemies and mobilize to defeat them." ...What populist rhetoric adds to the mix is fear, outrage, and an all-consuming urgency.
If you're eligible for the #BCclimateactiontaxcredit, you'll receive the credit payment from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The credit payment is combined with the federal goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit into one quarterly payment.
#BCclimateactiontaxcredit payments are issued four times a year in July, October, and January usually on the fifth day of the month. The B.C. climate action tax credit payments are non-taxable so you don't include it as income when you file your income tax return.
If your adjusted family net income is above the threshold amount, the #BCclimateactiontaxcredit is reduced by 2% of the adjusted family net income above the threshold until the credit becomes zero. See here for specifics and details on the alpha.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ta…