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Family Compact Tory; John Strachan, George Grant, Eugene Forsey, Walter Gordon, Mel Watkins/James Laxer stan. Error has no rights. ♑♌♍
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Conservatism is about respecting & fostering our national institutions and folkways. Know what? Mindlessly aping the vacuous slogans & degenerate values of the most nativist faction of a foreign political party is not conservative. You fucking morons.
#cdnpoli
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London is showing the United States what a free society really looks like. Heads of government & state from dozens of nations crammed together in a city of 9 million. Not a single weapon-bearing cop in sight. The police are barely visible.
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An American citizen, the former US Ambassador to Canada, has condemned a mob attack against our prime minister.
To date, the Leader of the Official Opposition has not.
That's where we are in this country.
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Being old-fashioned, I guess I just prefer the old days, when wining and dining a foreign racist stochastic terrorist was career-ending for a premier.
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@ATLboneNbred
I knew shit was going to get real as soon as that guy hoisted himself onto the dock.
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Tucker Carlson: Too vile for the deeply vile Fox News. Perfectly acceptable to the Premier of Alberta.
This is the dumpster Canadian "conservatism" has staggered into.
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So it appears that Canadian right-wingers are currently turning a German MEP who happens to belong to the neo-fascist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party into a heroine because she bashed Justin Trudeau on the floor of the EU Parliament...
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...it's hard not to conclude that "conservatism"--once a dignified political orientation with articulate exponents--is simply a burlesque pageant of human failure populated exclusively by the emotionally broken, socially maladaptive, and intellectually pauperised.
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Under what fucking circumstances does a non-military truck carry over 2,000 weapons in Canada?
#Peterborough
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The glee being displayed on the right at the news of the Trudeaus' separation demonstrates, once again, that the core deficiency in today's conservatism isn't about policy--it's about character. Right wingers are just loathsome, mephitic vapours emanating from necrotic tissue.
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If you consider the sweep of "conservatism" in North America over the last 15 years--from Rob Ford's crack- & booze-addled misrule, to Trump's circus, to rock-throwing neo-Confederate "Fuck Trudeau" mobs, to Peterson's benzo-fuelled meltdowns, to Romana Didulo's freakshow...
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I am truly overwhelmed and touched by the many loving responses to my post about Catherine's passing. Thank you all. I hope she had an inkling of how profoundly she inspired those lucky enough to know her.
Catherine's family has posted an obituary.
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Catherine passed away earlier this week after a brief battle with cancer surrounded by those who loved her. I know she touched many on this platform over the years; to them, this news will come as a dreadful blow. It is a loss beyond calculation. It scarcely seems real...
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So what do you think? Should Red Canoe Brands sue?
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This post, one of Catherine's last handful, exemplifies so much of what animated her life: a respect for truth and an indefatigable, unapologetic urge to speak it. She spent not a single day being anything other than unbossed, unbought, and unbowed...
I respect truth and democracy more than any individual.
Yesterday I tweeted a couple of completely laudatory remarks on Mr. Mulroney’s passing.
Maybe if we respected truth more than a set of silly social customs, we’d be in a better place.
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Oh look. MAGA/convoy lowlife are reminding us all of why Canadians loathe them. Again.
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Fascinating how Canadians--who for decades willingly, ritualistically placed their kids into the hands of priests and hockey coaches without a care in the world about what might happen to them--are suddenly terrified at the prospect of Billy calling himself "Susie" during recess.
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As Ezra Levant offers a "bounty" on a private citizen & urges his moronic audience to harass him, let's all recall which federal party has provided Rebel Media with 100% of its founders, leadership, & fraudulent claims to credibility...
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I'm starting to think maybe Erin O'Toole isn't cut out to be prime minister. Or Leader of the Opposition. Or the leader of a federal party. Or the leader of a provincial party. Or a municipal councillor. Or a village reeve. Or a justice of the peace. Or a court bailiff.
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The "Fuck Trudeau"/convoy thing has become a permanent fringe subculture. It went from a protest to a lifestyle. These barking freaks are a QAnon version of Deadheads, with aimless rage and conspiratorial lunacy replacing groovy music and massive amounts of weed.
#canadiantire
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So the "convoy" cancer has spread to BC, where it's putting the lives of fire crews & other emergency personnel at risk.
This is the nihilism to which Poilievre delivered doughnuts. He made a conscious decision to sponsor these imbeciles.
He owns this.
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"I can't afford the carbon tax, so Imma jump into my F-150 and burn a shit ton of gas to protest against it!"
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I totally get why Tamara Lich is on trial. I'm not sure I get why Pierre Poilievre and his pro-clownvoy CPC comrades aren't in the dock as co-conspirators or accessories after the fact.
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So we've got a CPC that aided & abetted a criminal MAGA-inspired mob action in Ottawa; an Alberta premier who broke the law in order to give aid & comfort to criminal blockaders, arms smugglers & would-be cop killers; and a crooked Ontario government run by corrupt developers...
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I'm well-versed in the political history of this province & I can say with a fair degree of confidence that this Saturday, during which virtually every police service mutinied against provincial authority, was the most humiliating 24 hours ever suffered by an Ontario government.
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I've developed a neat way to simplify the standard IQ test. It asks only one question: "Do you understand the difference between a protest & a weeks-long occupation by foreign-funded extremists seeking to destabilise an elected government & allied with armed border blockaders?"
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Getting a bit tired of all the "Don't worry, be happy" takes. A hugely influential province has just elected a patently unhinged far-right ideologue who openly & unrepentantly allied with literal domestic terrorists...
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In honour of Pierre Poilievre's continuing leadership on the anti-racism file, I thought I'd do a thread on all of the meaningful anti-racism initiatives the CPC has sponsored since its 2003 creation, with a focus on its 2006-15 term in government. Ready?
Here goes... 🧵 1/?
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The loss of 𝘞5, the longest-running TV newsmagazine show in North America & inspiration for countless imitators like 60 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴, needs to be a wakeup call. A nation unable to nurture and sustain that kind of high-quality programming is in trouble.
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See how easy it is? The ads virtually create themselves.
The Libs/NDP should be pumping a dozen of these out daily. Two dozen on Sundays.
Pierre Poilievre: What are you talking about? What page? Can you give me the page? Give me the page!
The page:
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Canadian "conservatives" cheering on German fascists to own the Libs. That's where we are in 2022.
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Proposition: "Poilievre will make my groceries cheaper and help me buy a McMansion" is Canada's version of "Brexit will make Britain an empire again".
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You know,
@fordnation
, I think many Ontarians would gain a smidgen of respect for you if you just went to the Lieutenant-Governor & said "I've been elected beyond my competence threshold. I can't cope. I am this province's greatest liability. I owe it to Ontario to resign"...
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Something to keep in mind about Poilievre's jihad against the CBC. Most people are contemplating merely the elimination of the network. That would be dreadful enough, but that's not the worst, or most likely, scenario. I don't think the plan is just to get rid of the CBC...
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I wonder if the CPC sheep who've been keen to denigrate the thinness of Justin Trudeau's CV realise that, as the well-traveled son of a long-serving PM, Trudeau had gained more experience of the world by the age of 10 than Pierre Poilievre has accumulated over his 44 years...
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Just read the text of Poilievre's convention speech. There's a shameless, glaring lie literally every second sentence.
More to the point, it's the most viciously vituperative speech I've ever heard from an Opposition leader...
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This is the closest a premier has come to treason in the post-war era. Much, much closer than anything Levesque or any other QC separatist premier has done.
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That responsibility is also ours. Let us then brace ourselves to the task.
And let us never capitulate, retreat, or flinch.
Let's not make Catherine have to come back and kick our asses.
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I can just hear the CPC base's disingenuous bothsides fetishists screaming, "Buh...Sophie Gregoire used to regularly taunt CPC leaders on social media too!"
Yeah, no she didn't. Nor did any previous leader's spouse.
This is a toxic, sleazy norm-violation that we don't need.
Mr. Trudeau, you can quit. Our family is ready to fight for Canada. 🇨🇦🤍
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So an angry mob kiboshes a JT event in the GTA, where the Libs are leading by double digits. Pretty good chance the "protesters" aren't from the neighbourhood.
An investigative media that enjoy finding stuff out would probably look into who these "protesters" are.
#Elxn44
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I think some of us have yet to fully assimilate a fact that is perhaps too shocking & depressing to fit within our concept of what Canada is: a major party & much of the MSM have accepted as legitimate the leadership of a man who endorsed the attempted overthrow of democracy.
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Andrew Scheer seemed doomed to finish his first (and perhaps last) election campaign as CPC leader without having accomplished anything of significance. Then, he managed the impossible: He ceded the moral high ground to Maxime Bernier.
#KinsellaGate
#MaximeBernier
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So Pierre Poilievre is running against the mythical "Gatekeepers", and Leslyn Lewis is running against Bill Gates.
Seems like 50% of
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#cpc
#leslynlewis
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How humiliating for the CPC, who claim to favour a foreign policy based on "Canadian values", to watch Harper kissing ass among butchers who behead & stone people to death for being gay--not because he *must* during a state visit but on his own time, as a fun hobby.
Shameful.
I am honoured by the warm reception I received in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this week. Our friends in the Kingdom are focused on regional security, economic prosperity and building a bright future for generations of Saudis to come. It is truly incredible to witness their
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Oh look! Here we have Tamara Lich--whom Pierre Poilievre and Postmedia hacks revere as Canada's Joan of Arc--enjoying some quality time with one of Europe's most notorious neo-Nazis.
#tamaralich
#ChristineAnderson
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@MelissaLantsman
I notice that your pinned tweet conveys a (rather too mild) condemnation of the use of repugnant symbols by the convoy. Bravo. That said, you clearly still support the convoy as such; thus, it's not inaccurate to say that you stand with people who have behaved reprehensibly...
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Congratulations, Ezra. You managed to make heroes of the Montreal police, which had previously been thought impossible.
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If the wife of a Liberal Opposition leader or prime minister inserted herself into a media campaign like this, the right-wing howls about norm-breaking and the exploitation of family for partisan gain would be deafening.
But, yeah, crickets when the CPC does it. As usual.
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Imagine thinking it's the Canadian government's job to help US/Albertan Big Oil billionaires sell their products but it's *not* the Canadian government's job to help struggling Maritimers sell theirs, and failing to understand what an elitist fuck you are.
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Jesus H. The public service has had to spend 100s of millions of dollars creating a whole new pay system from scratch because Stephen Harper's catastrophically flawed Phoenix system, which cost $4 billion, has been deemed totally unsalvageable...
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Like mentor, like pupil. Like Harper, like Poilievre.
*Everything* is ideological with this guy. He sees nothing beyond the partisan fishbowl. He's unaware of culture--art, music, literature, film, etc. He's a political gumball machine: pull the lever & get a new talking point
Here's what Conservative Leader Pierre Pollievre had to say at Toronto's Carribbean Carnival Parade. Once he started talking about the state of Canada, someone began playing music.
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Remember when Narendra Modi murdered a Canadian, and Pierre Poilievre responded by saying Trudeau was a big meanie because he'd pissed Modi off?
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In word and deed, Catherine admirably discharged her responsibility to help foster a society where integrity and compassion prevail, relations of reciprocal obligation are nurtured, and love is acknowledged as the supreme law...
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Amazingly, Pierre Poilievre, as a candidate for national leadership, is actually *worse* than Trump when he also was a candidate for national leadership.
The Trump of the 2016 primaries had never supported an insurrectionist mob. That was in his future.
Poilievre already has.
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Have any of the right-wing pundits currently pearlsclutching over ArriveCan (created under emergency conditions) uttered a single whisper about the CPC's two-billion-dollar Phoenix pay system catastrophe (created for purely political purposes) at any time over the last 10 years?
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So is any journalist going to ask Pierre Poilievre how the fuck a simple lawyer's letter can cost 37 grand? I mean, that would appear to be a blindingly obvious question...
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I've no way of knowing if Poilievre's makeover project was aiming for the "Middle-aged Romanian furniture store floor manager who hasn't slept for three days" look. But that's what it ended up with.
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How dare Lich and her gaggle of lice-ridden thugs sully the memory of Canada's fallen by associating their pathetic cause with the heroes of Juno Beach?
Utterly depraved. A clear index of how morally worthless they are.
A brief statement from the Juno Beach Centre regarding recent posts on X (formerly Twitter) mentioning our institution.
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So, within the space of about a week, we saw Pierre Poilievre accuse the government of setting Alberta's wildfires, and we saw Danielle Smith claim to be vindicated by an Ethics Commissioner report that charged her with a serious violation, with possible sanctions pending...
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Let's face it. Pierre Poilievre is precisely the kind of ruthless yet cowardly, nihilistic, conscience-free, narcissistic, cold-blooded technocrat for whom the term "banality of evil" was conceived.
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Imagine how revolting a con has to be to lose Robert Fife.
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So yeah, the CBC actually obtained the transcript and verified it--thus meeting basic standards of journalistic integrity and professionalism.
No wonder Pierre Poilievre hates them.
"CBC News has obtained a full copy of the recorded conversation and has verified it."
Nota Bene, Global and Globe & Mail. This is how you do journalism: You read and verify the bloody transcript. You have much to learn from the CBC.
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So CPC MPs have had a full day to denounce Stephen Harper's nauseating hand-holding spectacle with Viktor Orbán. Crickets so far...
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Holy shit. Macron looks set to go full Napoleon on Putin's ass.
Wouldn't it be fascinating if France, long dismissed as "surrender monkeys" by Anglosphere lunkheads, ended up being the sharp end of the Western spear in Ukraine?
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This convoy BS should be treated as a national security threat, not a "protest". Protestors use their bodies, not huge vehicles. The column should be stopped by Armed Forces personnel far outside Ottawa and informed that they can either 1) turn around or 2) continue on foot.
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If you're like me, you're wondering if there's a more squalid species of bad-faith cynicism than moving a motion that you know the PM can't act on without putting Canadian lives at risk but that will help you score points precisely because you know the PM won't be reckless...
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So the party that can't even keep its own leadership races free of foreign interference wants us to believe that they can keep Canada safe from it.
BREAKING | "Govt of India agents appear to have interfered in the Conservative’s 2022 leadership race by purchasing memberships for one candidate while undermining another, and also boasted of funding 'a number of politicians at all levels of government,' according to CSIS," as
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So do Pierre Poilievre and his CPC drones think Scott Moe was lying when he said he'd no idea one of his MLAs had invited murderer Colin Thatcher to Saskatchewan's Throne Speech?
I'm just wondering if the CPC has one standard for the Libs & another for their ideological buddies.
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Still no condemnation of the Belleville mob from Pierre Poilievre. Not a sound. Nothing.
What a fucking coward.
So there's now a concrete, empirical link between the illegal occupation that Pierre Poilievre endorsed and the Belleville mob that included at least one vocal anti-Semite.
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So far, we've got Andrew Scheer and Tony Clement back in senior positions in the CPC. This party's becoming like those pathetic 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 reunion specials in the '90s. Just really sad.
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The latest outrage: Justin Trudeau and family are taking a vacation over the holidays.
Because normal people never do that, I guess.
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I don't know. I'd say the real narcissist is the guy who has turned his party's comms into a personal vanity project in which a relentless deluge of campaign-style ads transmit his smug mug and fridge-magnet vapidities into every nook and cranny of the Internet...
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BREAKING: Michelle Rempel announces that Canada isn't good enough for her husband.
#abpoli
#MichelleRempel
#cdnpoli
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I hope Canada's right-wing Christians didn't suffer whiplash when they shifted from "Let us celebrate the resurrection of the Holy Victim" to "Let poor kids eat shit" within the space of about 18 hours.
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BREAKING: NORAD command launches its key tactical anti-surveillance balloon asset, the feared, state-of-the-art PF-106 Balloon Interceptor.
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We've reached the stage (at which we may have arrived some time ago) where the CPC, UCP, and allied right-wing orgs can be safely considered US/GOP proxies rather than authentic Canadian parties.
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The most recent Chong-related collapsed soufflé of a non-story has followed a familiar pattern: some anonymous "leak" is uncritically peddled by media without meaningful context or third-party corroboration, gets pumped by partisan hack punditry, & is ultimately largely deflated
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Wow. People talk about the "swamp". This is some Florida Everglades-level python-infested shit.
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So it's been confirmed that rabid anti-Canadian MAGA scumbag Tucker Carlson will soon be gracing Alberta with his foetid presence to put on a soirée with Danielle Smith.
Imagine wasting your time & mine trying to convince me that Canada's right isn't inherently anti-Canadian.
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Hey,
@nationalpost
. You could've run up to Jagmeet Singh and painted crosshairs on his forehead for free rather than pay Rex Murphy to do essentially the same thing in your paper.
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I don't know where the Greens go from here, but that Paul statement was the most embarrassing, tough-to-watch moment in federal politics since the last time Erin O'Toole said something.
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I think the plan is to sell it off to private investors with the aim of turning it into an ideologically friendly propaganda org.
Recall that CPC-connected activists tried to establish a Canadian version of Fox News, the Sun News Network, back in 2011...
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So, supporters of a party that rewarded Mike Duffy with a Senate seat after he did a cynically edited hatchet job on a Stéphane Dion interview are pissed off because Chrystia Freeland posted an accurate & fair clip of O'Toole? Have I got that right?
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What a shame that Rex Murphy ended his career the same way he'd lived it for decades--with a puddle of inchoate, fallacy-speckled phlegm coughed up by an impotent partisan dyspepsia that rendered him as pitiable as his consistently clumsy undergraduate invective was contemptible.
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Pierre Poilievre champions free speech, except anywhere in his immediate vicinity.
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@MelissaLantsman
However, it would have been less inflammatory if the prime minister had admonished you for standing for people whose explicit aim has been to overthrow a democratically elected government--an aim which you have not, to my knowledge, ever denounced or disavowed, even mildly.
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Yeats once wrote "In dreams begin responsibility". Catherine kept this sign in a place where she would see it immediately upon waking each day...
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In a truly civilised society, the COVID-19 LTC home scandal alone would be enough to bury Ford, as it should be enough to destroy Legault. That the issue has practically zero traction in either province says some extremely unlovely things about the moral state of the nation.
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We need to understand that Poilievre's anti-CBC jihad is the thin edge of the wedge. He's not just gunning for the CBC. The case he's making for CBC defunding could also be made for the National Film Board, SSHRC, and any number of federal cultural endowments...
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Oh look. One of the many barking lunatics who made their bones during the CPC-endorsed "convoy" occupation of Ottawa--which Pierre Poilievre and Andrew Scheer personally & repeatedly endorsed--is in the headlines.
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Just a brutal, brutal day for the CPC & right-wing trogs. Their IDU buddy & stalwart "ally" Modi has been exposed as a cold-blooded butcher who's masterminded killings & murder attempts all over North America in open contempt for Canadian & US sovereignty...
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This brutal & elegant takedown of the ludicrous "Food Professor" crank is being widely celebrated, and justly. But it illustrates a worrisome trend.
Institutions like the BoC are finding it increasingly necessary to monitor & respond to disinformation like this imbecile's BS...
@FoodProfessor
We have not revised our calculations. The figures 0.15 and 0.6 are answers to two different questions.
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Remember how SNC-Lav was a year-long story with relentless calls for resignations, and notice how Danielle Smith's law-breaking on the Coutts charges file has been completely forgotten, with the MSM acting as though it never happened?
That evil left-wing media at work.
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So it looks like a sizable chunk of Canadian Twitter:
1) Doesn't understand why Don Cherry was fired (he's racist AF);
2) Doesn't understand why Whole Foods banned the poppy (it's US-owned);
3) Is incredibly dumb.
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When Stephen Harper penned a scathingly vituperative obit for Pierre Trudeau before PET's corpse was even cold, right wingers across the country defended (and still defend) Harper by appealing to the ethical supremacy of truth and honesty...
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Wow. The entire CPC absented themselves from a discussion concerning the assassination of a Canadian citizen. This is one of the most vile acts of collective political cowardice in my lifetime.
A Canadian citizen was murdered on Canadian soil.
This goes beyond partisan politics. This is a moment for all Canadians to stand together for our sovereignty and the safety of all Canadians regardless of their faith.
The fact that Conservative MPs are absent is abhorrent.
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