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Journaliste parlementaire @NationalPost parliamentary reporter. Broadsheet reporter with a tabloid ❤ & whisky liver. cnardi(AT) Tweets🗑️≤ 14 days
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Last Seen Profiles
Monday, the House of Commons Health committee will launch a study on "Women's health".
I admittedly couldn't help but notice the composition of the committee.
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Thank you to all my fans who sent me this CPAC screenshot I really wanted this visual it’s so great thanks
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NEW: Metal ball bearings, acetone and an oxidizer were some of the bomb making materials allegedly in the possession of an Ottawa youth facing 5 terrorism- and explosive-related charges targeting Jewish people at the time of his arrest on Friday
My story⬇️
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It took me 1.5 week of questioning
@PHAC_GC
, pressure from the CPC, NDP and Bloc and potential emergency hearings at the Health Committee, but we now know which "unfulfilled" COVID vaccine contract led to a $150M loss to PHAC.
Medicago.
Exclusive details🔽
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This CBC story is WILD.
A Kia regional manager told dealers that a bunch of cars (which are already slow to be delivered) will sit in compounds in Canada until the new year.
Why? To avoid appearing too successful and have their marketing budget cut by HQ.
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Curious as to why PMO suddenly "clarified" yesterday that the PM was staying for *free* in Jamaica vs previously saying Trudeau was covering costs?
"Trudeau given free stay at $9,300-a-night luxury Jamaican villa over Christmas holidays" via
@glen_mcgregor
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Petition to rename the candy cane wall room in Rideau Hall the "Mojo Dojo Rideau Casa House"
Like, look at those walls.
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It’s mf inquiry time baby.
Subbing out for
@RyanTumilty
this morning on Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference coverage this morning. On the docket: Public Safety minister Dominic Leblanc.
Go to
@nationalpost
for all the coverage, stay here for Deep’n Delicious pics.
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New: The CRA has fired 20 of its employees and is investigating roughly 580 others for claiming the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while working for the tax authority.
A stark increase from the 10 workers CRA told MPs it was investigating in March.
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Why did Trudeau drop 7 ministers, and how did he pick their replacements?
A dive into their ridings provides at least part of the answer.
Six of the new ministers represent likely battleground ridings in the next federal election.
The 7 dropped did not.
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Scoop: For years, Blue Jays all-stars José Bautista, Russell Martin and Josh Donaldson wowed crowds and enthralled Canadian baseball fans.
But since they retired, CRA is calling foul on their tax filings and is fighting all 3 in court over millions. Story:
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After Boris caught the feds suddenly including older, unrelated programs in their progress towards planting 2 billion trees, the government suddenly changed its tune and claims that the "2 Billion trees" program never actually promised to fund the planting of... 2 billion trees.
SUIVI : Le gouvernement fédéral précise que malgré son nom, le programme intitulé « 2 milliards d’arbres » n’a jamais eu pour ambition de financer la plantation de deux milliards d’arbres, et que cela était « très clair » dès son lancement.
#polcan
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Two weeks after Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly promised to increase Canada’s presence abroad, her department is shutting down an arctic centre office in Norway and relocating it to Ottawa.
A decision that "truly makes no sense":
@Arturmaks
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Conservatives and Bloc Québécois are calling for an emergency committee meeting to delve into my report on how the federal government “squandered” $150 million on an unfulfilled contract and why it refuses to share any information about the loss. ⏬
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Liberal government is struggling to find a commissioner to oversee a possible public inquiry into foreign interference, with at least half a dozen current or retired judges having declined the job.
Scoop by
@RyanTumilty
and I
@nationalpost
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Find yourself a partner that looks at you like Guillaume looks at his boss
Bon anniversaire à un patron extraordaire,
@jyduclos
! 🎉
Happy birthday to a great boss! 🎉
Crédit :
@TetreaultAJ
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The charges against the minor also suggest he’s accused of communicating with others in Canada and the United States about bomb-making in order to “ facilitate a terrorist activity.”
Click the photo for more details and comment by
@StephanieCarvin
:
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New: Nearly half of foreign nationals flagged by security agencies to the Immigration Department for ties to serious offences including war crimes, espionage and terrorism were allowed to take up residency in Canada between 2014 and 2019, per a gov audit
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Canada's Public Health Agency is refusing to disclose any information on how it lost $150 million in taxpayers’ money for a single unfulfilled contract last year.
Who was the contract with? What was it for? And why did it go unfulfilled? They won't say!
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Boom! Congratulations to Canada's 40 millionth resident, the new non-permanent resident to B.C.! Good luck trying to buy a house!
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This is an incredible story. Adrian solved a 70 year old gold heist that stumped police for decades. The police didn't even know how it was stolen, no one was charged, and now Humphreys did all the work for them!
While we can’t yet solve 2023’s baffling Toronto airport gold heist, let me do the next best thing: Solve its bizarrely similar antecedent, the uncanny 1952 airport gold heist;
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New business idea: a media outlet's website, but that 🤬 keeps you signed in.
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Scoop: Global Affairs Canada is scrambling to investigate a “data breach” caused by a month-long “compromise” of a VPN system that may have exposed the data and emails of numerous employees.
New from me 🔽
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@ClaraLoiseauJDM
Elle porte tout le poids de la gente féminine sur son dos le temps de l'étude en tout cas!
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Also,
@borisproulx
is a damn legend for following this ongoing headache of a program the way he has. Letting no detail or attempt to polish the numbers slide.
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A unique (and strong!) Canadian whisky for a uniquely Canadian parliamentary moment.
After 30 hours, MPs are finishing their last vote on 120+ amendments 338 MPs finally get to go to bed.
Go behind the scenes of the overnight votes with me and
@RyanTumilty
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BREAKING: Former RCMP director general of intelligence Cameron Ortis is found GUILTY on all six charges he was facing, including four under Canada's current espionage laws. Story to come on
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Great scoop from
@RyanTumilty
: The RCMP is failing to fulfill provincial policing contracts across Canada, with vacancy rates up to 17 % in every single region it serves.
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NEW: Canada’s judicial watchdog is probing if Ontario Superior Court judges made donations to a political party after their appointments, a potential grave violation.
The review comes after
@kteschneider
and I asked questions about data findings
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Holy shit: Russell Brown has resigned from the Supreme Court as he's being investigated for the drunken altercation incident in Arizona. He is 57 years old, meaning he still had almost 20 years left to sit if he wanted to.
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Scoop: In June, Mélanie Joly stood in front of >100 Canadian diplomats and promised that
@GAC_Corporate
would “strengthen” foreign language knowledge.
Two months later, GAC halted two key foreign-language training programs due to budget cutbacks.
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Conservative MP tells Freeland to "like, share and subscribe" to Poilievre's housing video as parties clash over home prices.
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BREAKING: The Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unreasonable, unjustified and violated the Charter, the Federal Court has rules.
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Making Canadian news on a Meta platform? Ironic.
Tune in tomorrow
#live
on Facebook at 11:00 a.m. EDT as Minister Steven Guilbeault makes an announcement on the next step to building a clean, affordable, and reliable electricity system in Canada.
We will be live here 👉:
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Hey guys look I wrote news look at this news I created news I love news news is so good look at my news it's fresh and newsy!
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'It's a content studio': Inside the rule-bending, highly-scripted strategies to make a splash in question period.
Great piece on the modern-day Question Period by
@RyanTumilty
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So, you know that GoFundMe page raising funds for legal fees of 2 of Paul Bernardo's victims' families?
It's now deactivated at the request of the families' lawyer because it turns out, the government dropped its claim for $4k in costs in Jan.
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Breaking: the
@FedCourtApp_en
reverses ruling forcing Canada to take steps to repatriate 4 Canadian men detained in Syrian prisons for suspected ISIS members.
Two key paragraphs in new FCA ruling:
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NEW from me: A long-awaited RCMP project meant to help fill 100s of vacancies in crucial federal policing areas like counterterrorism and espionage is on hold after a labour board found the force ignored “serious” safety and legal concerns from its union.
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Un Esti de nom pareil
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have welcomed a son via surrogate, just five months after Teigen gave birth to their daughter Esti
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In a letter posted by
@drsdelliscc
, Conservatives and the Bloc want the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Minister Mark Holland to discuss the "egregious abuse of taxpayer money."
Based on my original report:
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Health Committee will have an emergency meeting to launch an investigation into $150 million that has gone missing.
The Public Health Agency can’t tell us who got the contract or what it was for.
This is 8 years of Trudeau.
#cdnpoli
#cpc
#Pierre4PM
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As shuffle day inches closer, another minister announces they aren't running again, presumptively meaning they leave their cabinet spot as well.
Current confirmed leaving crop: Murray,
@Carolyn_Bennett
,
@OmarAlghabra
,
@HelenaJaczek
.
Rumour has it 7 ministers are leaving cabinet.
After much thought and reflection, I have decided not to run again in the next election after my current term.
My work in politics and time serving my community both federally and provincially as an elected official has been the honour of my life.
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
When life quite literally throws limes at you, stay inside.
Severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon including 90km/h winds, up to 50mm of rain and "lime sized hail" in the Ottawa region. I've honestly never seen anyone use limes as a sizing category before. I guess it's Margarita season.
#OttNews
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NEW: Michael Kovrig, the former Canadian diplomat China detained in a bout of hostage diplomacy, penned a support letter for Cameron Ortis arguing that the ex-RCMP intelligence director general convicted of leaking top secret information deserves “mercy.”
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Over 20% of RCMP hard-body armour units used by in firearms calls are expired, according to data obtained by
@NationalPost
.
“It’s not useless, but would you want to wear hard body armour that is past its expiry date? Of course not” -
@MichaelKempa1
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Honestly, did literally anyone in Canada get a code for Taylor Swift tickets in Toronto? Like anyone not on the waitlist?
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Google to block news from search, other products in Canada Via
@AnjaKaradeglija
via
@nationalpost
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Et même si on sait ben que tout' dure rien qu'un temps
J'aimerais ça que tu sois pour un moment
Mon étoile filante
Les Cowboys fringants annoncent le décès de leur chanteur Karl Tremblay, à la suite d'un cancer. On n'oubliera jamais sa force et son courage sur les plaines d'Abraham.
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I spent all together too many hours studying pension plan law and Retirement Compensation Agreements for this story so please read it please
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This is deeply concerning for all journos and the communities that would be impacted.
Ce serait aussi désastrueux pour la nouvelle-ish salle de nouvelles de Noovo (à laquelle je collabore), qui forme d'excellents journalistes et fait du super travail.
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From
@ExnerPirot
: The Arctic is where Canada should be leading, not turning out the lights
Insightful piece that leaps off the fact Canada is relocating its Arctic Centre from Norway to Ottawa at a crucial moment on Arctic policy
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This is a follow to my story published Thursday morning on PHAC's complete silence on the $150M loss due to what it said were confidentiality clauses in the unfulfilled contract.
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Trudeau's advance team gotta feel like they were done dirty by these event chairs eh like damn
Conférence de
@JustinTrudeau
à la
#CCMM
| Le PM a réitéré la volonté du gouvernement 🇨🇦 de réduire les coûts et d’accélérer les mises en chantier de nouveaux logements et infrastructures en réduisant la bureaucratie.
La
@villedelavalqc
est pleinement engagé dans cette vision et
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Ottawa MP
@MonaFortier
denies rumours of imminent resignation, replacement by Mark Carney.
“I still confirm I’m going to be running in the next election."
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Liberals say cuts will end 'unnecessary spending' amid reports of $288k travel tab by ex-senior official in only 19 months.
Expenses included a $12k round trip flight to Dubai, a 3 night stay in a $1,000/night “luxury” hotel in Wyoming and much more. ⬇️
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CRA discovered hundreds of suspicious internal applications after launching a new, “broader internal review process”.
Two gov't sources told me review came after much pressure and Qs from
@DiLebouthillier
, who was very skeptical about low # of employees investigated by March.
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@blais_louise
Louise Blais offers some phenomenal real-life examples of the issues that experts, critics, reporters and even GAC's Future of Diplomacy have highlighted that are hampering our influence abroad.
Ex: IRCC imposed new unpopular visa requirements as we joshed for UN Sec Council seat
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A U.K. man set to be deported for serious criminality gets to stay for now because a judge, unprompted by either Crown or defendant, wondered if the gov's use of gender-neutral pronouns in 1 doc violated the man’s rights.
Story on a case causing lots of🤨:
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New: The federal government will stop advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram as the conflict between the company and Ottawa heats up over legislation that would force Web giants to share revenues with news publishers.
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Unlike much of the documentation tabled by the inquiry to date, all of the Deep'n Delicious is publicly accessible and completely unredacted.
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Tweeting this with no context because you all know what this is about.
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Notice the tie Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
is wearing today in the House? (right pic)
One keen observer noted to me he also wore it on a particularly important date nearly 10 years ago ...
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President of third-largest federal public service union resigns as antisemitic social media posts surface.
"Israel is the illegitimate Zionist terrorist apartheid state that is the root of all evil!," Camille Awada reportedly published on Facebook in 2019.
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Speaker Greg Fergus asked an ex-Liberal MP to defend him in op-ed that ultimately blasted Conservatives days after he was elected speaker in November. Via
@CathLvesque
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Google leaves Canada out of AI chatbot launch as Google’s stand-off with the Liberal government over regulation continues, writes
@AnjaKaradeglija
via
@nationalpost
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New from me: Some Mounties are being sent into dangerous situations with expired hard body armour because the national police force was unable to replace the “critical officer safety equipment” on time.
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The
@JdeMontreal
is reporting that the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission expensed 288 000$ (!!!) in travel in less than two years, including $1000-per-night hotel room in Wyoming and $12,000 round-trip plane ticket to Dubai for a 2 day event.
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The king
@markramzyy
strikes again with another great story
Good piece by
@markramzyy
in the Star, who spoke to the man responsible for what the the Indian government called a ‘threat’ against Air India
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Mon boy
@levrairaphael
qui pose les vraies questions et qui va au fond des choses. Amen
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Overheard from a witness in OGGO committee right now: "He didn't say it was a cottage, he said it was a chalet".
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How tf are those three options at ALL "more downtown" than LeBreton?!
So the mayor of Ottawa has now suggested the possibility of a new arena at:
Bayview Yards
The baseball stadium
Near Hurdman station
DND headquarters Piecing together soon-to-be-empty federal office buildings in SoPA
Confederation Park
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So, who else wants to add me to their "hi" list today?
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A picture of a baby boy born to two fathers in Canada that became an Italian lightening rod for anti-LGBTQ sentiment and a lawsuit that leaves the photog out thousands.
This
@StephattheWhig
story is a great tale well worth a read and a scratch of the head.
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Canada’s top judge called on Parliament to adopt reforms to the disciplinary process for judges that he says is opaque, too long, too costly and undermines the public’s trust amid the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown.
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Canada's cybersecurity czar says he doesn't yet know how to publicly "deauthenticate" AI-powered fake videos as his agency warns of the growing threat of disinformation campaigns in upcoming elections.
New from me 🔽
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New from me: Quebec-based Davie shipyard is suing the federal government to prevent it from releasing a single word of the agreement that made it eligible for billions of dollars in potential federal shipbuilding contracts.
Story in
@nationalpost
⬇️
Davie Shipyard suing Ottawa to prevent any disclosure of shipbuilding strategy deal
nationalpost.com
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Eight months on, a family battles to find out how their son died at Royal Military College
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Ever wonder what MPs do when they're pulling an all-nighter?
@RyanTumilty
and I watched until 1:30am to find out!
Some MPs knit, others Netflix and a whole lot sign stacks of holiday cards.
Come for the colourful story, stay for the Engelbert Humperdinck:
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In a statement, Brown's lawyers list evidence they say they have to support him, including surveillance video of the incident, testimony from the hotel bartender, and a report from a P.I.
They say evidence "completely vindicated" Brown but he retired because of strain of process.
Holy shit: Russell Brown has resigned from the Supreme Court as he's being investigated for the drunken altercation incident in Arizona. He is 57 years old, meaning he still had almost 20 years left to sit if he wanted to.
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Ex-RCMP intelligence director Cameron Ortis' former boss says alleged leaks of classified intelligence by Ortis were “so criminal”, caused “irreparable harm” to the national police force and could have “signed someone’s death warrant.”
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In short, from 2014-2019,
@CanBorder
national security division flagged over 7,000 immigration applicants as "non favourable", suspecting ties to serious criminality.
But
@CitImmCanada
let in over 3,300 of them anyways, mostly because other depts asked them to grant an exemption
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Is this an Ohtani tweet? Click the story picture to find out!
Disinformation the 'threat of a generation': National security advisor | National Post
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Il semblerait que Québecor /
@QubRadio
ait commencé à utiliser l'intelligence artificielle pour rédiger des textes qui apparaissent sur le site du Journal de Montréal.
Faut quand même creuser loin pour trouver la note par contre.
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Government documents from 2019 project Liberals' gun 'buyback' to cost nearly $2B, double minister's estimates. Via
@BryanPassifiume
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Canada has become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as illicit trade in the country is “booming,” according to a report by an American think tank.
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Huge if true
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This story is for National Post subscribers. But wait!
🎶In the arms of the angel🎶
For just $1/month, you too can subscribe and get unfettered access to all sorts of exclusive stories like this + all the work
@kteschneider
and I have done on this file!
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Decision compréhensible mais brutale pour les athlètes, dont plusieurs ont sûrement dévoué les 6 derniers mois à s'entraîner à temps plein juste dans l'espoir de franchir la ligne d'arrivée. Ouf
Le Ironman de Tremblant d’aujourd’hui vient d’être annulé.
Des athlètes sur place qui s’apprêtaient à entamer leur triathlon ont été avisé de l’annulation en raison des feux de forêt.
@tvanouvelles
sur place
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Marooned at a Micronesian air force base after colliding with another aircraft over the summer, the heavily damaged Canadian Air Force transport plane that rolled into a French plane will be scrapped, officials say.
Great story by
@BryanPassifiume
🔽
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Some reactions to the government's stonewalling of info about $150M loss:
"Highly unusual" -
@PBO_DPB
.
"It seems wrong that PHAC refuses to answer your questions" -
@IFSD_IFPD
's Kevin Page.
"It's not normal. It’s public money and so you have to be accountable" -
@Gen_Tellier
.
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Pro-Beijing groups claim credit for helping Olivia Chow win Toronto mayoralty. She says she was unaware and didn't ask for the help.
Very interesting
@tomblackwellNP
story exploring why some pro-China groups appear to have supported Chow's campaign
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Prosecutors want ex-RCMP intelligence director general Cameron Ortis sentenced to 28 years in prison — the maximum possible — to “send a message” after he was found guilty of leaking top secret information to suspected criminals.
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Bautista, Martin and Donaldson's cases share a common issue that experts say could have a chilling effect on Canadian sports teams’ ability to attract top international athletes: How non-resident high earners can protect their income and mitigate Canada’s high taxes.
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New: A group of Liberal MPs want Canadian universities to commit to better protecting Jewish students and to ensure they have the right tools to deal with rising antisemitism on campus.
My story w/comments from
@AHousefather
🔽
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