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Aug 26 6 tweets 1 min read
No cabinet retreats.
ICYMI - Blacklock’s Reporter, Monday, August 26, 2024


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Image •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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Image 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.



Curiously, several readers offered this account…

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Feb 2 6 tweets 1 min read
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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Image 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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Image 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


1/6blacklocks.ca • 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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Image 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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HOUSE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: MP Michael Chong says he received multiple threats serious enough that he called police …
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…

blacklocks.ca/lobbyists-got-… @grcrcmppolice @CommrRCMPGRC @PrivacyPrivee @adamchamb #cdnpoli … Unencrypted EMAILS sent by #RCMP included names of #FreedomConvoy sympathizers, birthdates, phone numbers, addresses, vehicle registration, more.

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Apr 29, 2022 13 tweets 8 min read
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Here is list to date of allegations against truckers convoy proven false by police & other federal authorities.

#disinformation #misinformation #cdnmedia #onpoli #cdnpoli #EmergenciesAct #FreedomConvoy #Charter40 @Safety_Canada @JusticeCanadaEN @OttawaPolice

1/8 Image — 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
May 25, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
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Feds @PrivyCouncilCA conceal 992,000 records on pandemic mismanagement, Commons committee told. “Who in gov’t is responsible?” blacklocks.ca/992000-covid-f…

@DonDavies @Steve_B_Lucas @GovCanHealth @CanadianPM @PattyHajdu #cdnpoli

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* 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. #cdnpoli 2/ @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.”
Mar 21, 2019 5 tweets 9 min read
@mindingottawa @scottbrison @apratte @denisebatters @SenElaineMcCoy @senatcarignan ⬆️ 1/ Lawmakers attempt to erase Scott Brison’s fingerprints from regressive Access to Information bill C-58. #cdnfoi #ATI @mindingottawa @scottbrison @apratte @denisebatters @SenElaineMcCoy @senatcarignan 2/ @SenElaineMcCoy: “People are asking for innocent information...and they get information back within 2 or 3 years if they’re lucky.”