@hollyanndoan:
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Cabinet aides yesterday confirmed New Democrats and Liberals held closed door meetings to rewrite the Elections Act. One revision guaranteed parliamentary pensions for dozens of MPs.

🧵blacklocks.ca/confirm-secret… Allen Sutherland, assistant cabinet secretary, confirmed only New Democrat and Liberal MPs and staff attended secret meetings on drafts of Bill C-65 An Act To Amend The Canada Elections Act prior to its introduction last March 20.
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Canada's annual Inflation rate crept upward to 3.3% in July, an increase from 2.8% in June, and once again outside the Bank of Canada's target rate of 2% with a range of 1% to 3%.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti… 'Acceleration in headline consumer inflation was mainly attributable to a base-year effect in gasoline prices, as a large monthly decline in July 2022 (-9.2%) is no longer impacting the 12-month movement. Excluding gasoline, the CPI rose 4.1%, edging up from 4.0% in June.'

When @gmbutts attacks @RobertFife & the @globeandmail on social media for reporting on China's interference in our elections, does he believe people don't know he resigned from the PMO in the wake of Fife's accurate reporting on SNC-Lavalin, that @JustinTrudeau called 'false'? Feb. 7, 2019
@Robertfife @stevenchase @SeanFineGlobe PMO pressed Wilson-Raybould to abandon prosecution of SNC-Lavalin; Trudeau denies his office ‘directed’ her
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Um, June 17, 2022:
'Due to the inherent characteristics of substitutes, the reduction in plastic waste from the six categories of SUPs depicted in Table 6 will have an associated increase in waste from substitutes (e.g., substituting paper for plastic increases material weight).'

https://twitter.com/s_guilbeault/status/1616123844846141467

'The Regulations are expected to increase the tonnage of waste generated from substitutes by an estimated 275 943 tonnes in 1st year of full policy stringency (2024) or 2.9 million tonnes over the analytical period (2023/2032), almost all driven by paper substitutes.'

The value of the controversy over Trudeau's
'Just Transition Plan' broken by @mindingottawa is that it ends the myth only oil, gas & coal workers will be impacted by his green energy plan: In fact, 7 major sectors of the economy could face “significant” disruptions in employment They are: Oil & gas, transportation, buildings, heavy industry, agriculture, electricity, waste disposal & 'others'
See here: canada.ca/en/environment…
Also, carbon prices don't just impact gasoline & natural gas. They apply to 22 different fuels.
See here: canada.ca/en/revenue-age…

Yeah, Trudeau's 'Just Transition Plan' is going great. Really.
April 26/22: Report of the Federal Environment Commissioner on the Just Transition Plan: 'Transition to a low-carbon economy shows insufficient government preparation to support affected workers and communities.' 1/4 'Natural Resources Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada and other partners acting on behalf of the federal government were not prepared to support workers and communities through a just transition to a low-carbon economy.' 2/4

Paul Wells: Morneau on Trudeau: "Sorely lacking" Chronic weaknesses in the Liberal government weren't fixed, the former finance minister says in a new book, and Canada's prosperity suffered. open.substack.com/pub/paulwells/… Trudeau’s “management & interpersonal communication abilities were sorely lacking"

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in advice to doctors recommends use of prescription medications and/or psychotherapy for patients fearful of getting vaccinated so as not to enable avoidance behaviour. 'It is also important that physicians work with their patients to manage anxieties related to the vaccine and not enable avoidance behaviour.'

Why mask mandates likely wouldn't solve the crisis in children's hospitals: No province or territory has opted to make the use of masks mandatory again cbc.ca/news/health/ca… 'The top doctors in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have all said now is not the time to reinstate mask mandates, but continue to recommend masks to slow viral spread.'

David Webster: Why did Xi scold Trudeau?
Maybe because Canada spent years helping China erode human rights: To see how we got here, look to Chrétien’s Liberal government of the 1990s. Canada was among the world’s top enablers of China's rights violations nationalnewswatch.com/2022/11/18/why… 'Chinese leaders believe they can push Canada around, because Canadian governments have been broadcasting for decades that they don’t mind being pushed around.'

Canadian Civil Liberties Association:
Cara Zwibel, Director of Fundamental Freedoms for the (CCLA): 'This week we have heard from federal officials but none have been able to back up the claim there was a national emergency as defined by the Emergencies Act.' 'The government witnesses to date have admitted that the government did not feel bound by the plain language of the Emergencies Act. Their understanding of what constitutes a threat to national security was broader and included things the Act does not contemplate.'

Um, no, that not what I said. What I said was:
Trudeau should offend China’s Xi more often
torontosun.com/opinion/column…

https://twitter.com/Boxcar1717/status/1593595248869097472

'Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fit of pique in accusing PM Justin Trudeau of leaking some innocuous details of a brief talk the pair had at the G20 meeting in Indonesia, is typical of what China does when criticized by other nations. It plays the victim card.'

Seriously?
"Saturday’s (Toronto Star) editorial said the tweets were considered “confusing, hurtful and inflammatory to many, many readers,” and said that many readers considered the display “overly provocative and hateful.”

https://twitter.com/BarbLarochelle/status/1561028349195014144

"Many readers thought the statements were the Star’s view, like a front-page editorial; others thought it was the headline to the story, the editorial said. It added that it was accused of “inciting” people against the unvaccinated."

You know, many people are furious at the media in general because some of us in the media said the unvaccinated should be fined, denied health care and left to die. It didn't come out of nowhere. And it wasn't just the media:
Trudeau and Ford governments fuelled vaccine hesitancy torontosun.com/opinion/goldst…

Federal anti-racism expert:
“You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine & they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being ... bitches of thier Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.” Federal Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen calls for Canadian Heritage probe of ‘disturbing’ tweets by Laith Marouf, a senior consultant on a $133,000 government-funded anti-racism project. nationalnewswatch.com/2022/08/19/fed…

Justice is blind:
Tamara Lich denied bail after JP found she exchanged congratulations with fellow Freedom Convoy organizer at an awards gala in Toronto
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…
326 people charged with firearms offences in Toronto out on bail: police chief globalnews.ca/video/5746433/… Clip from then Toronto police chief Mark Saunders is from 2019, but nothing's changed. It never does:
Tory wants action on bail as shootings continue: Movement isn't happening fast enough on bail reform for those accused of gun crime, Toronto mayor says torontosun.com/news/local-new…

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts: halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/rcmp-… #cdnpoli "RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki 'made a promise' to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed."

Time to challenge @JustinTrudeau & cabinet ministers every time they talk about a "Just Transition" for workers in the energy sector from fossil fuels to green energy. As the federal environmental commissioner reported last week, there is, literally, no such thing. #cdnpoli 'The Commissioner of the Environment concludes Natural Resources Canada, Employment & Social Development Canada and other partners acting on behalf of the government were not prepared to support workers and communities through a just transition to a low-carbon economy.'

My Thursday Sun Media column: While inflation soars, PM Trudeau is ignoring repeated warnings from his govt’s environmental & financial watchdogs that his carbon pricing/tax regime is hurting most Cdns in their pocketbooks, especially the most vulnerable torontosun.com/opinion/column… For the benefit of 'pundits' who don't read government reports while accusing those who do of lying, sources for this column can be found as follows, although you'll have to do a lot of reading so we know you won't be bothered.

This is the CRA's rejection of Rebel News' application to be designated as a Qualified Journalism Organization. It is literally like something you would expect to find in George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future -- 1984. See below: assets.nationbuilder.com/therebel/pages… 'The Advisory Board found that Rebel News produces content which is of general interest including coverage of democratic institutions and processes, and not primarily focused on a particular topic.

Pro-tip: Liberals losing their minds over my @TheTorontoSun colleague @brianlilley asking a question at a Queen's Park news conference today without wearing a mask, have apparently forgotten their recent maskless campaign launch. #onpoli @cselley: Maskless Ontario Liberal rally a reminder our political parties aren't as different as they want us to think: nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-…