No cabinet retreats.
ICYMI - Blacklock’s Reporter, Monday, August 26, 2024
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•Elections Canada says it can't refute affidavit by ex-MP that it unwittingly hired Chinese Communist Party agents as poll workers: "It would be impossible for us to make any determination”
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Apr 5 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Which concerns you most?
ICYMI - summary of what we learned this week at the foreign interference commission @PIFIEPIE
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CSIS confirms Communist Party agents worked to elect "pro-China" MPs amid evidence of illegal $250,000 payments to public office holders
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Mar 5 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A sharp response to our story about an @GCIndigenous program offering free snowmobiles to Arctic residents that cost $32 million last year.
Is it just me, or did it seem like Alberta’s proposed policies for treatment of trans-identified children was the only story in Ottawa yesterday?
Blacklock’s Reporter, February 2, 2024
See the difference.
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DOCUMENTS: $8M solar-powered Rideau Hall warehouse included $498,000 in architects' fees: "It looks like a 1960s garage."
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Feb 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Blacklock’s lineup for February 1, 2024.
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MPs told Navdeep Bains as Industry Minister ignored ethics warning, knowingly appointed Liberal donor to fed post in violation of Act of Parliament: "He did it anyway?”
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Jan 31 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Follow the money. Blacklock’s Reporter, Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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• CBC CEO defends $100,000 bonus on $497,000 salary while issuing layoff notices: "It is extremely difficult to not have the love," Catherine Tait testifies at committee
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Jan 8 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
They say there’s nothing going on in Ottawa when MPs are on holiday. Incorrect. There’s ALWAYS something going on.
Today in
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DOCUMENTS: Immigration Minister faked claim over job impacts after dropping 800,000 foreign students into the full-time workforce. #cdnnfoi: “Info you're seeking doesn't exist”
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May 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How many Twitter followers know that Blacklock’s Reporter blacklocks.ca files stories straight out of @OurCommons and @SenateCA committee testimony and documents tabled in the House? Check out today’s sources here:
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Sep 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
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DOCUMENTS: #RCMP sent blacklist of #FreedomConvoy bank account holders to investment industry, bank & credit union lobbyists, mutual fund dealers…
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— March 19 @TorontoStar story that police found “weapons inside some of the trucks,” that “loaded shotguns were found.” None were found.
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Aug 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Two words you’ll never read in Blacklock’s Reporter: “sources say”. Canada’s only media outlet focussed on document journalism. blacklocks.ca Tuesday, August 24, 2021… 1/4 2/4 • ACCESS TO INFORMATION #cdnfoi: Justice Department spends $15K/week fighting Residential School claim
• EMAILS: Digital Services Minister questioned feds' reliance on #China contractors for 90% of Covid supplies when #Taiwan one of world’s largest producers of #PPE
So far, 8,000 pages have revealed... 2/6 * lobbyist contacted cabinet seeking contract for his son
* lobbyist won $118 million contract for client after boasting of “getting things done”
Apr 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
“I am in charge of stock”: Sally Thornton, manager of @GovCanHealth $300M #pandemic medical supply stockpile. Thread. #cdnpoli2/ @HoCCommitee on Health:
* MP Jansen: “I’m assuming you keep it in the stockpile because you need it?”
* Thornton: “We keep a minimum level…”
* MP Jansen: “What’s your minimum level of stock on masks?...”
* Thornton: “I couldn’t tell you.”