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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🍁🇨🇦🦞

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Apr 6

We all have opinions of what is currently going on in the world, but who do we believe when it comes to actual facts and data. From my point of view there is a constant push of propaganda, from unknown and known sources. The propaganda is coming in the form of attacking /1

/2 government institutions, that have set up regulations that protect citizens. These services w/ regulations are under attack due to the disinformation, stating that the experts or people in charge are not knowledgeable, thus destroying our faith in our governments. They will

/3 also continue to destroy our faith in the media by calling them liars, and use insults to attack them. They will create websites that are NOT reliable for factual data, but are used as click bait, baiting those who are NOT educating themselves to find the

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🍁🇨🇦🦞

@mini_bubbly

Apr 6

Great article. Must read. 🔥

Does the 1978 EnMod Convention Grant the ICJ Jurisdiction Over Climate Cases? foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/05/uni…

Screenshots if you are unable to read behind the paywall

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🍁🇨🇦🦞

@mini_bubbly

Mar 11

Great article from CBC

Retired - Ex-Conservative senator Vern White pushes back at Conservatives' dismissal of NSICOP

Vern White, former member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), didn't mince words when describing Conservative /1

/2 Leader Pierre Poilievre's characterization of the oversight group.

Poilievre accused him of covering up the issue "with a secret process that he controls." Michael Chong, the Conservative critic for foreign affairs, described NSICOP's work as "secret hearings, secret evidence

/3 and secret conclusions, all controlled by the prime minister."

"Obviously, that's BS," White, a former "Conservative" senator, told CBC's The House.

"Our work was done unfettered, totally unfettered."

NSICOP is a bipartisan assembly of MPs and senators who are sworn to

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🍁🇨🇦🦞

@mini_bubbly

Mar 11

WestJet gets government OK to take over Sunwing, with conditions

Deal will see Calgary-based WestJet take over vacation-focused airline

But the approval is "subject to strict terms and conditions that are in the interest of Canadians," /1

/2 Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said.

Among those requirements are stipulations that the vacation-focused Sunwing extend its getaway package offerings to five new Canadian cities. The combined airline must also maintain its capacity on routes "most affected" by the merger.

/3 The government is also requiring the airline to maintain a head office for the vacations business in Toronto and a regional office in Montreal for at least the next five years, and is demanding that net employment at Sunwing's Toronto head office grows

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🍁🇨🇦🦞

@mini_bubbly

Mar 10

https://twitter.com/mini_bubbly/status/1634222581296386049?s=20

The Provinces were warned about charging patients for services covered under the Canada Health Act.

Now they are clawing back some funding in the Health Transfers.

https://twitter.com/mini_bubbly/status/1634222581296386049?s=20

https://twitter.com/mini_bubbly/status/1634160289997373440

/2 This is the loophole item that Provinces have been using to charge patient fees, by using a doctor in a different province.

User charges

19 (1) In order that a province may qualify for a full cash contribution referred to in section 5 for a fiscal year, user charges

/3 must not be permitted by the province for that fiscal year under the health care insurance plan of the province. Link: laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-6/p…

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