Darshan Maharaja
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Seeing Canadian issues through a multi-cultural lens. Writing on some of these issues, too. Often mistaken as a 'c/Conservative' or 'right-winger'.
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I have emailed my MPP for update on the $85 million funding that was announced in Jun 2017 to decontaminate water at Grassy Narrows & Wabaseemoong FN (email copy below)
Will keep everyone posted.
@Quea_Ali
@BowhunterJonny
@GillPowell4
@MelissaMbarki
@SundanceConstr1
@teririch
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So far this year, police in Canada have told us that:
* CCTV footage ON YOUR PROPERTY violates the privacy rights of home invaders &
* we should leave our car keys outside our doors so thieves don’t have to go to the trouble of breaking down your door.
And we’re just in March.
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Canada ships coal to China.
China burns coal to generate power, uses that power to manufacture solar panels, sends the solar panels to Canada on ships burning oil.
In Canada we install those solar panels & call it ‘emissions free’ electricity.
Creative accounting at its best.
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Me: “Fully vaxed can get Covid too.”
Them: “But it’s much milder, no big deal.”
Me: “Then why are you scared that unvaxed will infect the vaxed with Covid?”
Them:
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I am hearing that instead of asking GoFundMe for a refund, if you ask your bank / institution for a charge back for services not rendered, GoFundMe gets charged $35 & your money gets returned.
Can anyone check if this is true?
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I wonder how it was safe for PM Trudeau to visit a war zone but too unsafe to attend an even where there were some protesters.
How do they gauge the level of risk?
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I am not exactly a fan of Rebel News, but this transparent attempt by RCMP
@rcmpgrcpolice
to frame the Menzoid was absolutely shameful.
It seems like the OBJECTIVE of various police services in Canada is to lose the trust of the people.
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When monumentally inept people have ‘big plans’, it’s time to be very afraid.
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Her beliefs are so strong that she doesn’t want people to be able to reply.
I believe in science.
I believe in democracy.
I believe in the rule of law.
I believe in Canada.
#IAMCANADIAN
❤️🇨🇦
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For Jagmeet, today is just a(nother) Sunday.
Not Easter.
Shameful.
Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend.
Here's a throwback of Anhad listening to
@POTUS
' speech. Isn't she the cutest? 🥰
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Former principal advisor to the Prime Minister telling us that the police are not trustworthy.
I’ve seen a lot of bad takes, but this one beats them all by light years.
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After weeks of calling the protesters all sorts of names, journalists are upset that the protesters called them names.
Some protestors have ramped up their anger at journalists.
@glen_mcgregor
and I were both doing reports at a camera and protestors surrounded us, yelled fake news, lies, Nazi, disrupted Glen’s live hit, one guy spat at us and then followed us as we left. Getting worse
#cdnpoli
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Prediction:
Once
@PierrePoilievre
becomes PM, he will have 2 reduce drastically the intake of immigrants, international students & TFW’s, to cope with the crises in housing, healthcare, infrastructure, jobs etc.
LPC, NDP & the media will then brand him as racist.
Do you agree?
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Joshua Boyle
Jaspal Atwal
Laith Marouf
Yaroslav Hunka
How many times has team Trudeau failed to vet people?
Making a mistake is one thing. Failing to learn from mistakes is quite another.
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The controversy over flying the Pride flag in York Region schools is an example of how, by demanding unquestioning acquiescence, Progressivism has acquired one of the characteristics of totalitarian ideologies.
My latest article:
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This is heartbreaking.
Imagine the outcry if this was a bird covered in oil.
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What are the odds that the ‘temporary / time limited’ measures turn out like the ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’?
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Liberals don’t know how to govern.
Conservatives don’t know how to get elected.
NDP‘ers don’t know, period.
We need a reboot of politics in Canada.
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NDP lost all the 3 seats that it held in Brampton. Now all 5 seats are Conservative.
Losing NDP MPP’s include the Deputy Leader Sara Singh.
I think this may be a fallout of Jagmeet’s deal with Trudeau. Jagmeet’s brother Gurratan Singh also lost (Brampton East).
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This popped up in my Facebook memories today. The only person wearing western clothes is Indian.
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Canadian healthcare system had been on crutches for decades before Covid hit, barely held together by duct tape.
Instead of blaming the people who brought it to that sorry state, many Canadians are blaming the unvaccinated.
SMH
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Has
@theJagmeetSingh
/ NDP issued any statement regarding
@marcomendicino
backdating official documents to mislead a federal judge?
Asking because NDP is supposed to be ‘the conscience of Canada’.
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Your periodic reminder that Canada’s boreal forest has enough carbon reserves to absorb the CO2 emissions *of the entire world’s fossil fuel consumption* for 36 years.
We shouldn’t be paying any carbon tax.
If anything, the countries with big emissions should be paying us.
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I see my Indigenous friends face this regularly, today it’s my turn. The stance of many on the LPC/NDP side that:
If non-white Canadians lean towards CPC, it’s because they are confused or have been gaslit.
This denies agency to them, denigrates their intelligence & is racist.
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I landed at Toronto Pearson last night. Haven’t seen such chaos ever at any airport of any country in all my life.
I will write an article on this, but in a nutshell, the customs counters processing arrivals were woefully understaffed. Out of 33 counters, only 6 were open.
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I wonder if Prime Minister Trudeau thinks about monetary policy now.
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Call me old fashioned, even outdated if you like, but I have a visceral dislike for elected representatives using such language in public.
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Friends,
In case you are wondering, Andy shut down her account so she could focus on her personal issues (custody of her children).
She posted this before shutting down her account & also told me personally.
This has nothing to do with her investigative work on here.
Thanks.
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So, it is illegal to demonstrate within 100 metres of a drag performance, but not illegal to impede movement into and out of a military base as part of a demonstration.
That’s where we’re at in Canada.
Bonkers.
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My mom passed away today peacefully, surrounded by family.
What a great life she lived. If my life is half as meaningful, I will consider myself lucky.
I will be tied up with her final rites for the next few days.
Aum Shanti 🙏
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Real estate market is getting fierce now that interest rates are higher. 😂
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Reminder for people who say that PM Trudeau shouldn’t meet with the protesters because (insert grievance here):
PM Trudeau met with Joshua Boyle when he was under active investigation by the police on multiple criminal charges. PMO would have known about them.
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If you have 200 chairs at a venue and you invite 500 people to attend the event, do you have too few chairs or did you invite too many people?
How does this drivel pass for worthwhile commentary in Canada?
This is mediocrity of the worst kind.
My latest: It’s not that we have too many people. It’s that we have too few houses.
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Loblaw’s $529 million profit on a revenue of $14.01 billion works out to a net profit margin of 3.78%.
CBC could have provided that context. This headline just plays into Jagmeet’s rhetoric.
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I am beginning to think that instead of acquiring herd immunity, we have acquired herd mentality.
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In the highly unlikely event that I get into politics, I am first going to delete all my previous posts from social media.
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When was the last time Christians in a western country contemplated gathering in secret for a religious service because they feared the government’s response to their gathering?
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If Jagmeet gets his wish to 'cancel student debt', then the debt won't be 'canceled' - it will be turned into public debt.
Jagmeet doesn't know how money works.
It's simple, we should cancel student debt.
Conservatives might be trying to do everything to stop it in the US.
But YOU can do something about it here in Canada. Join our team.
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Combine vaccine passport with Bill C-10, and you get a situation where the government can monitor every move of yours AND prevent you from saying anything about it.
North Korea of the west, Canada.
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I am still on my break, but this piece of info is important enough for me to make a brief appearance here:
Thousands of international students are claiming refugee status after arriving in Canada.
In 2022, their number was 4,880.
This was discovered via ATIP.
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No society is perfect, but that said, I never expected the police in Canada to act like regime goons like they do in some tinpot dictatorship of a Third World country.
Much disappointed today.
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“We are rich Canadians and we support higher capital gains taxes”
Couple of tweets like this since yesterday, now a TorStar article. I’m getting convinced that this is being orchestrated by the PMO.
If they’re so keen to pay more, they can donate, no?
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@Hannah_Bananaz
In fact, it is the people who want to force others to do something so they can feel safe who are selfish.
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“Sea levels are rising”
Of course Jagmeet Singh doesn’t know that in 1988, the ‘rising sea levels’ were predicted to result in the island nations of Maldives & Tuvalu getting completely submerged in the oceans by 2018.
They’re still around. Tuvalu’s landmass INCREASED by 2.9%.
The impact climate change is having on our oceans is undeniable
Sea levels are rising & in Canada we have the longest coastline in the world
Those in coastal communities depend on the oceans for their livelihoods
They are relying on elected leaders to do better
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I was at
@PierrePoilievre
’s presser for ethnic media in Toronto today.
I asked him if part of the solution to the housing crisis could lie in reducing the number of new residents coming in (currently over 1 million/year).
Watch the video for his reply.
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So they’ve now blockaded a Canadian Forces Base.
What are the odds that the striking public workers’ escalating methods of protest are characterized as a ‘siege’, an ‘insurrection’ or a ‘threat to Canada’s national security’ by the august members of our media?
Anti social yobs?
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Further update on Andy. Permanent ban confirmed.
She is appealing once again.
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Over the past 4 weeks, it seems like I am being *heavily* shadow-banned. Very little engagement on my tweets (including by people whom I tag in my Grassy Narrows tweets).
If you see this tweet, please hit ‘like’.
Also, is there a way out of this shadow?
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Speak for yourself.
As a Citizen, I am not a guest in Canada. This is MY country - with all that implies as to my rights and duties.
When I go to another country is when I am a guest there.
@ChanLPfa
We are all guests in this country. Teaching kids the factual history of their country of birth is rather important.
Colonization occurred, cultural and physical genocide on the indigenous and origin inhabitants of this land we stole and named Canada happened
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How many residents of Ottawa believe simultaneously that:
1. Canada is stolen land, and
2. The protesters were invading *their* city?
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Does anyone know the status of the case of the Winnipeg Lab / fired scientists where the government refused to release the documents & took the Speaker of the House of Commons to court over?
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No, Minister. They haven’t been heard. They have been dismissed and demonized as a bunch of misfits who are harmful to society. Unfairly so, I might add.
The residents and families of Ottawa need to return to work and school. To the protestors remaining - you’ve been heard - please go home.
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@MarcMillerVM
In all seriousness, Minister, are you contending that running the country into the ground via grossly faulty policies on immigration and housing - and kiboshing the prospects of at least one generation in the process - is ‘serious leadership’?
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Alberta is in a cold snap, temperatures between minus 30 to minus 40.
Wind power is at 7.7% of capacity.
Solar power is at 0.0% of capacity.
Let us be thankful for fossil fuels.
At this moment 94% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 7.7% of capacity and producing 1.3% of total generation, while solar is at 0.0% of capacity and producing 0.000% of total generation. At the same time we are importing 801 MW or 7.1%
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Here’s how I read this data.
PM Harper inherited a car-theft problem & managed to REDUCE IT BY HALF in 9 years.
Under Trudeau, the problem GREW by 34%.
The raw numbers are higher for Harper bc he inherited the problem.
The minister doesn’t know how to read numbers.
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What will it take for Jagmeet / NDP to vote against this government & trigger an election?
Apparently, foreign interference in our democracy doesn’t meet the standard.
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Beautiful B.C.:
205 overdose calls on March 22, a new record.
19 *consecutive* days of over 100 overdose calls in March.
So when are we getting a new bicycle lane? Because that’s the priority, right?
H/T:
@AMCKunneke
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The number of temporary residents in Canada DOUBLED in 2 & half years?
That is insane. No system, however efficient & capable, can cope with that kind of additional demand. And our system wasn’t efficient or capable to begin with.
And where is the media in all of this?
*NEW* Canada's non-permanent resident population now exceeds 2.5 million. We have a runaway train. The federal government has lost control of the system. Hard truth.
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The reason why many Canadians don’t believe that Canada is headed to authoritarianism is because the individual steps that will take us there are cloaked in lofty ideals that these Canadians believe are essential to make Canada a better place.
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Looking back, that video where Jagmeet was seen running away from people in Brampton who wanted to ask him questions was a pretty good sign that NDP was in trouble as far as retaining the 3 Brampton seats was concerned.
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If carbon tax is a ‘price on pollution’ as PM Trudeau claims, & if it is applied on the farming sector, does it mean that they consider farming to be a polluting industry?
“You’re harming the planet by feeding people” doesn’t sound very credible to me.
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70% of Canadians:
“We are hurting.”
Liberal MP:
“Goatherds in the Danakil desert have a way more difficult life, so quit complaining.”
@jenniferelle_
Take a look around the planet. Yes, things are tough for some in Canada, but most of the world would love to trade their troubles for ours.
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Thread:
Update on the mysterious Cambie College in Vancouver, which accepts international students.
TL;dr – it seems increasingly likely that this college does not exist, except on paper.
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Update on Cambie College:
1. Their old website gave the address in Canada Place, Vancouver
2. On phone, they said the college is located in Surrey
3. Their new website says the location is 896 W 8th Avenue, Vancouver,
4. Campus photo on website is different from Google maps.
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The most effective way to stop these attacks on Jewish establishments would be for the Muslim community leaders to call for stopping them.
If any such leader has done that, I would appreciate you sharing the link with me so I can try to spread it around.
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My rudimentary knowledge of law says that consent is a part of a contract - and people below a certain age are not considered competent to enter a contract on their own.
Therefore, this 👇 appears to be illegal:
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The current state of the Liberal Party of Canada:
Poilievre: “Today is Saturday.”
Liberal ministers & MP’s: “That’s a far-right dog whistle!! He is importing American / Republican culture wars to Canada!!”
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PM Trudeau: “Over the past seven years, hundreds of thousands of kids have been lifted out of poverty because of it.”
You ‘lifted’ so many Canadians out of poverty that 11 million of them need a handout to buy food.
I wonder how they used to buy food before you ‘lifted’ them.
We created the Canada Child Benefit to support families. Over the past seven years, hundreds of thousands of kids have been lifted out of poverty because of it. And tomorrow, the benefit is increasing to keep up with the cost of living – so keep an eye out for your payment.
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In 2016, Trudeau govt paid $212,000 for the cover photo of that year’s budget document.
In 2015, under PM Harper, it had cost a mere $650.
The $54 million paid for the ArriveCan app has to be seen in that context. It’s completely in character for this govt.
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Hijabi women protesting gender ideology in education.
Canadian Right: We are with our Muslim sisters 😊
Canadian Left: Hateful bigots 😡
Muslims cheering Hamas attacks in Israel.
Canadian Right: Hateful bigots 😡
Canadian Left: We are with our Muslim brothers & sisters 😊
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I have ‘actually spent time in an autocratic regime’, Ms. Raj.
Everyone had to be careful about what they said, lest their words fall afoul of vaguely defined requirements of ‘unacceptable speech’.
We may not be quite there yet, but we are certainly headed in that direction.
@SarahFischer__
Let’s have a bit of reality please. Have you ever actually spent time in an autocratic regime? Canada has problems, too many Canadians are disproportionately affected, but we also have so much to be thankful for. We do not live in a totalitarian state.
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I am sincerely trying to understand how not flying the Pride flag makes a school unsafe for students.
Can anyone help?
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The more journalists persist with this approach of attacking Pierre Poilievre, the more they are going to help him.
If you are going to claim that Pierre is using ‘ideological language’, you better bring the receipts. Or he will shred your question to bits.
Pierre Poilievre casually smacks down a left wing journalist while munching on an apple.
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Protesters are planning to block traffic on a bridge in Vancouver on August 15.
I wonder if this would cause Trudeau to invoke the Emergency Measures Act?
Or is this blockade OK because they’re protesting against the Coastal Gas Link pipeline?
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Just got a desperate message from a friend who lives in Kelowna. The fire is about 12 minutes from her home.
She sent me this photo.
Why don’t we have / deploy water bombers?
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Why does a government need to ‘promote’ its budget?
Prime minister visits Edmonton on Tuesday to promote Budget 2022
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Mothers are now supposed to be called ‘birthing persons’ according to the woke jargon, but I haven’t come across any instance of fathers being referred to as ‘inseminators’.
Have you?
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I was honoured to write an article for the Times Of India about PM Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India for the G20 summit.
Image below, link in next tweet.
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TWO DAYS after making your life LESS affordable via another tax that will increase the price of everything, PM Trudeau brags about “Making your life more affordable.”
The lack of self-awareness here is off the charts.
Making your life more affordable. And making sure you get the support you need. That’s what we’re focused on. And that’s what these five benefits are for. To learn more about them, visit .
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The thing is supposed to keep you from freezing, but *you* have to keep *it* from freezing 😁
@GasPriceWizard
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This chart shows:
2020, no vaccine, deaths per day 55.9.
2022, over 85% double jabbed, about 50% triple jabbed, deaths per day 62.6.
Deaths per day WITH vaccination is 11.99% higher than deaths per day WITHOUT any vaccine at all.
Tell us why vaccination should be mandatory.
Maybe…just maybe…we should stop pretending that COVID is over...and actually do something?
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It is noteworthy that there are no pro-Palestine rallies in the Arab countries.
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“Pierre Poilievre… hasn’t given Canadians much detail about what policies he would adopt to make things better in Canada if he were elected prime minister.”
Maybe Trudeau can call an election & we will find out what Poilievre’s policies are going to be?
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Likely sequence of events this year:
1. Trudeau drops writ, (late Oct or Nov? Or earlier?)
2. ‘Fourth wave’ emerges during campaign, causes another lockdown,
3. Mail-in ballot for all voters,
4. Liberal majority,
5. Widespread suspicion of election fraud,
6. Civic unrest.
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CBC deleted this sycophantic tweet.
Let it live on in the internet world.
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To put ArriveScam in perspective:
It is like when your weekly groceries were supposed to cost $100, but you ended up paying $75,000 (yes, that’s not a typo).
The ratio of original estimate ($80K) to payment ($60 million) is 750.
$100 x 750 = $75,000.
@iamIqraKhalid
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For the umpteenth time:
1. CO2 is not ‘pollution’.
2. Carbon tax is not a ‘price’.
3. Majority families are not getting back more money than what they paid each year.
(And your policy is simply crippling the Canadian economy for no tangible gain.)
PM
@JustinTrudeau
is right, you have a right to know what we’re doing to fight
#climatechange
and support you.
The price on pollution ensures big emitters pay their fair share, while the majority of families get back more than what they paid each year.
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“South Koreans are eligible to work at NextStar EV factory under Harper-era free trade deal”
Aaaannnddd…
CBC blames Harper 😂😂😂
This article must have set a new record in the turnaround time from PMO directive to delivery. Impressive!!
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This is sweet.
Minister Guilbeault says that the feds won’t be providing funding for any roads.
Meanwhile, Canada Pension Plan & Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund invest $1.2 billion in the National Highways Authority of India.
Credit:
@Bird5Ca
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“Let them eat lobster”
The comms strategy (if we can use that term here) of the LPC couldn’t be worse. Millions of Canadians are struggling to put food on the table, and ministers are openly gloating about gorging on expensive food on the public dime.
Read the room!!
Touched down in Malaysia! I'm looking forward to a productive week of meeting with officials, industry leaders, and partners from Canada and the Indo-Pacific to promote our world-class products - like the lobster I enjoyed for lunch in Kuala Lumpur! 🦞
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Government wants us to report if we see someone violating Covid restrictions.
Doug Ford knew that Rod Phillips had gone on vacation (= non-essential travel) to the Caribbean.
Doug Ford did not report this violation.
Why should anyone else comply?
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Has PM Trudeau said anything about this targeted harassment of a Jewish-owned business in Toronto?
I remember that in 2018, when that girl in Toronto pulled the Hijab hoax, he was on it within the hour, hectoring us about hate.
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When the income required to qualify for a mortgage is $230K, promising people that they would be able to buy a home by saving $40K should be a criminal offence.
The new Tax-Free First Home Savings Account is now helping over 500,000 Canadians save for their first down payment! See how much you could save this year for your first keys — tax free in, tax free out 👉
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The guy who claimed that he didn’t know that he was funding a notorious anti-Semite (Laith Marouf) right here in Canada assures us that none of the funding for Gaza will end up with Hamas.
What safety mechanisms do you have half way across the world, Minister Hussen?
Canada is deeply concerned by the crisis in Israel and Gaza and its toll on civilians. We are providing an initial $10M in aid for the civilians affected by this conflict.
Let us be clear, no Canadian aid will be going to Hamas.
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It is a tragedy that the future prospects of an entire generation of young Canadians have been destroyed.
But it also needs to be emphasized that the hard work, struggles & sacrifices of an entire generation of Canadian *parents* have been rendered fruitless.
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