The darndest thing -- about 5:21 ET, these two tweets appeared on the #GoC timeline. 1/4 The links led to live-on-the-Web press releases about changes to Canada's foreign investment rules, changes that were embargoed to 5:45 pm. Officials scrambled to take them off line -- which means some people got an early look at what's up. Some didn't. 2/4

Why is interim #CPC Leader @CandiceBergenMP posing with convoy protestors and endorsing convoy participants? Why, per @MariekeWalsh , is she trying to make the protest Trudeau’s problem? A thread … First: This protest is all about removing COVID restrictions. The People's Party of Canada is all about removing health restrictions. The only "partisan" symbols I've seen at this protest have been PPC flags

The anti-Trudeau advocacy group @WeAreCanProud is pushing a data project of @TrueNorthCentre (a project of conservatives @CandiceMalcolm @anthonyfurey and @AndrewLawton and others) that says QC has received 62% of @Ottawaspends funds since the HoC rose and that AB has got >0.1% It is notoriously difficult to track every federal loan, grant, and handout. They are announced via canada.ca, via dept Web sites, and via several newswires. (All tracked by @Ottawaspends Deets: globalnews.ca/news/3600967/t… ) But, in my view, ... 2/

A review of a busy 10 days in the vacant riding of Chicoutimi--Le Fjord, vacant after a Liberal MP who won it by a handful of votes quit. No by-election called yet but, my oh my, this riding is attracting significant federal (Liberal) interest. 1/ in 2015 April 30: Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier (whose riding is a long way away in the Gaspé) shows up in the riding to hand out interest-free loans to 4 local businesses worth a combined $2.5 million. newswire.ca/news-releases/…