Jesse Brown
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I've moved over to Bluesky. After October 7th, I began using this account as a place to keep track of the rise in antisemitism in Canada. I'll keep doing that here. Maybe it'll be a useful resource, a timeline of what's been happening.
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The reason why some people are so so upset about Don Cherry is not so much because they love his commentary or him or even that they agree w him so very much. It's because they fear that this signals the end of something for them, that they're now on shakier ground. They are.
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New from me: I got the inside story on the firing of Lisa LaFlamme.
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New from me: Yes, police did in fact arrest Ottawa protesters at gunpoint, and every journalist who said they didn't was wrong.
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A Jewish girl in Toronto was taken on a public school field trip to a protest, where she had to wear a blue shirt to identify her as a "colonizer" during anti-Israel chants. She objected. Her teacher told her, ‘You’ll get over it.".
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In October she posted a video identifying the location of a Toronto hotel where hundreds of Muslim asylum seekers were housed. She called them "illegal migrants" & "criminals" & called for their "evacuation" Hours later somebody tried to firebomb it. 577 were almost burned alive.
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As hate crimes against Jews in Canada reach historic levels, the community made its own history - this was the largest gathering of Jews and supporters I've ever seen in Canada. Neither the Toronto Star, CBC, or Globe and Mail sent a reporter to cover it.
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This is a deeply shameful decision for Canada.
BREAKING: The truck driver who caused the horrific bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team has been ordered to be deported.
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Quite something how Craig Kielburger can smear me as "bottom of the barrel" at the same moment that he refuses to answer whether or not his lawyer hired a private investigator w charity money to find out what school my kids go to and what my then 8 year-old's name is. #WECharity.
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I am outraged that Americans would dare tell me, a Canadian who tweeted about their election 1398 times, how to vote.
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Can't get over the pics that keep coming in from today's march. I've lived as a Jew in Canada all my life, and I don't think I've ever seen this many of us in one place at the same time.
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BBQ boy played the media for suckers. A few minutes of digging reveals who he really is: not a blue-collar freedom-fighter but a kid from one of Canada's richest neighbourhoods, whose dad owned the property on which he ran his faux-Texan smokehouse.
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If only someone in Trudeau's cabinet knew a bit about the historical connections between Ukrainian nationalism and Nazism.
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Reporters invited to @JustinTrudeau photo op but forbidden to ask questions, warned they'll be ejected by police if they ask anyhow.
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Wow now it's CTV following the Globe and the Star, all lining up here to falsely credit this story to the CBC. Our tiny team will work for years to do the reporting others could not, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be polite when they gang up to steal credit for it.
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Ethnic cleansing march in Toronto.
Protestors chant “From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone” as they march in Toronto.
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When the media started asking questions, WE Charity backed away from almost a billion dollars. The questions persisted, and now WE Charity is backing away from our classrooms and our kids. I have more questions.
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Seems the security guard who firebombed & shot up Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday posted a video beforehand saying "this genocide that’s going on in Gaza and throughout the world. inshallah, we will rise against you guys." No mention of this in the Globe.
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Media are calling @FaithGoldy a "conservative commentator," a "white nationalist" and by her own self-description - "Euro-Canadian Catholic Nationalist." We owe her no such deference. The accurate terms are: racist, bigot, anti-semite, Nazi-sympathizer and white supremacist.
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What's happening to Julian Assange is the world's slowest execution. It's payback from the government whose war crimes he exposed. It's a revenge killing because he committed journalism. Every reporter must denounce it if only for the goal of protecting our right to do our jobs.
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The New York Times in fact sent reporters @Nataliekitro and @SarahMaslinNir to the scene, who documented RCMP officers accosting protesters with military rifles drawn.
@nytimes Hey New York Times. If you don’t want to send reporters to the scene then all you have to do is watch Canadian TV. Try a bit harder to get the story right.
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It will be interesting to see how the news media covers today's march, and to compare it with coverage of the pro-Palestine encampments, which have received daily coverage despite comparably small numbers of participants and low support from the Canadian public.
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Mohamed Ilyess Akodad, 19, has been charged with firebombing a Montreal synagogue.
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In 2020 the Trudeau government started paying ongoing subsidies to newspapers. It was a trip into the unknown! How did gov't decide which papers to bail out and which to let die? What about independence of the press?. Big questions. Now, there are 2 years of answers. (thread)
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Dude you work at the National Post.
Not many things baffle me more than the fact Saturday Night Live still exists.
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The response to this guy simply asking a question has been insane. We need more rude questions from reporters to our leaders. More inappropriate questions. More "tone deaf" questions. Why exactly is he being chastised? Because Chrystia Freeland made a face?.
I ask many Q's to hold people in positions of power accountable. That is my job. One particular Q I asked this week generated debate & constructive criticism which I am open to. What is completely unacceptable however are continued personal attacks, harassment, bullying & threats.
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WE Charity is closing. What about:. ME to WE.WE365 GP.WE365 Holdings.ME to WE Trips.ME to WE Shop.ME to WE Foundation.Me to WE Asset Holdings.WE Charity Foundation.WEllbeing Foundation.2569144 Ontario.ME to WE Consumables.etc. I'd say keep your eye on the ball, but where is it?.
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Canadians will tolerate without complaint all manner of bullshit information in their social feeds, but they really, REALLY don’t like getting unsolicited copies of the Epoch Times in the mail.
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100 points to the 1st person to convince MAGA-Twitter that we cuck Canadians have already named a public square after Nathan Phillips.
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In a serious country, this would be it for him in cabinet.
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Trust of MSM journalists seems to be at an all-time low, and the fact that media begged Trudeau for a bailout and now depend on bailout money to exist is a factor. Nothing is for free.
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Journalists argued that it was irresponsible to report that the Edmonton City Hall shooter cited Gaza and Islam in his manifesto. I think if your idea of responsibility in journalism is withholding basic facts from the public, you've lost the plot.
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What happens when the news industry is gutted? . Important stories go unreported. So we try to fill in the gaps. Like the mystery brain disease in New Brunswick. It's worse than you were told. 1/x 🧵
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Synagogue targeted yesterday, five windows smashed. No MSM news coverage yet today. Is this just a normal thing in Toronto now, not newsworthy?
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So this is weird. Tony Clement was cited as a "great man" & "mentor" by Craig Kielburger. @TonyclementCPC just messaged me to say he met Craig once, has no other connection at all to Kielburger or WE, and has no idea what he was talking about when Craig cited him as his mentor.
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NP - The Amsterdam 'Jew hunt' wasn't spontaneous retaliation. It was planned
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This really is just incredibly stupid. CBC arguing that Conservatives' use of CBC News footage made @RosieBarton look biased. You know what makes her look biased? Suing a political party while covering their campaign.
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Media colleagues, this is not the time to stop scrutinizing WE Charity, who remain active in thousands of our public schools and still receive millions of dollars in public funds. It's the time to start.
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Toronto4Palestine is one of the main organizers of pro-Palestine demonstrations in Toronto. They have steadfastly denied that their group is anti-Jewish in any way. This is a message they posted then deleted from their Instagram.
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National Post reporters rebuking the National Post, CBC staffers castigating their president. bad coverage from Global dragged & disappeared, dinosaur pundits self-destructing on the air. Last 7 days revealed a media incapable of grasping what's happening, let alone covering it.
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I offended people who thought I was joking about shutting down the Snowbirds right after yesterday's crash. To clarify: I wasn't joking. Stunt flights of military planes over homes is unsafe for pilots and residents. 9 have died, a house was essentially firebombed. Shut it down.
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There is a cancer on Canadian journalism. The malignancy is Postmedia. 1/x
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A minor triumph for sleazy manipulators, a major travesty for our free press. Deeply shameful.
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The Irving family owns both the Telegraph Journal and the oil refinery that 'sploded yesterday. Here's how their newspaper covered their accident.
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Remember how the truckers tried to burn down that Ottawa apartment building?. Turns out, they didn’t.
In early February, residents of a downtown Ottawa apartment building were terrified after someone tried to set fire to their building and, seemingly, tried to lock the doors to prevent people from escaping. Ottawa Police have made an arrest in the case. Some more details below.
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Aaaand the Conservatives have deleted their ad for Justin Trudeau.
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A mass-protest of regular CDNs rolled into Ottawa this week, 200 trucks strong, to deliver a simple message to Justin Trudeau: working people are hurting & won't be ignored any longer. That's the story we heard again & again from CBC, CTV & others. Every part of it was false.
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I don't know how to describe what Jews are living through. It's a surreal mixture of shock and bone-deep recognition. To be suddenly snapped from a lifetime of peace and safety into a reality where people are trying hard every day to make our lives unliveable. menacing us in
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Jesus, finally. The truth is out: . -Proof that it was the Trudeau gov't & not the public service who first put forth WE for the job. -Proof of early PMO pressure. -Proof that WE leveraged relationships w Margaret & Sophie Trudeau to get the $. #WEscandal.
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I'm done with this game, done w the cowardly evasions. My colleagues & I are reporters who asked valid Qs about a charity which we now know had SERIOUS problems. That charity hired a Republican dirty tricks firm specializing in attacking clients' enemies.
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This looks very bad. Seems @nationalpost ran New York Times wire copy and added copy (!) that cited Breitbart (!) etc., as sources. Kept the whole thing attributed to reporter @meddynyt who confirmed here, to the reader who spotted it, that her story was tampered with.
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Journalists make mistakes. Some are trivial. This one is dangerous. Jews in Canada are currently being blamed for Israel’s actions. It’s the worst wave of anti-Jew hatred in Canadian history… 1/2.
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"the Prime Minister asked me to 'find a solution for SNC'". "In response, I explained to him the law.". Make a note, do NOT fuck with Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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This statement should terrify anyone with a basic understanding of the free press.
Great news for Canadian news! Bill C-18, the Online News Act, has received Royal Assent. Our government will always stand up for Canadian journalists and news outlets and we will always support quality, fact-based, local journalism. @pablorodriguez
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WE Charity was in financial trouble well before COVID. But even as they were in breach of their bank covenants, they flowed funds out of the charity and into the Kielburgers' for-profit company at a level Canada's charity watchdog had never seen before.
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Lady, I will write about that shameful column you wrote for years. I will never let you or anybody else forget it. The fact that you are still published anywhere is a travesty.
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This is a DM I just received from Dean Baxendale, publisher of the book attempting to exonerate WE. The word I've redacted is the name of my 8-year old daughter's close friend. This is the second time my children have been threatened due to our reporting on WE.
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If Google thinks you *could* qualify under C-18 criteria as a news site, then Google will block you. Which suggests the only way to escape getting blocked is to be actively rejected by the government as a legitimate news org. I know of only one such site: Rebel News. 4/4.
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Five hours of often explosive testimony, offering dozens of possible angles for a compelling headline. Here's what the CBC went with.
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The Kielburgers blame the pandemic & a "political quagmire" for #WECharity's collapse. Remember, WE: . -lost its board of directors & laid off hundreds of staff.-moved millions to the Kielburgers' private company.-was in breach of its bank covenants. All *before* their scandal.
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What a disgusting sentiment for the CBC to publish. The idea that harm to Jews in Canada must be compared against harm to Gazans is based on the idea that Jews are responsible for Israel's actions. Would CBC publish someone who says: 'recent acts of racism against Asian
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WE Charity is a $60 million a year charity. Only $8.7 million of that is confirmed to have been spent in other countries on international development work last year.
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So much bullshit flying around about C-11 and podcasting. Here's the bottom line: hardly any CDN podcasters make $10M+ a year so hardly any will have to register. BUT the platforms we need, Apple Podcasts & Spotify will 100% be regulated & that will impact ALL cdn podcasters.
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Since Rex Murphy's take on climate change had him trending today, perhaps it bears repeating that he's taken large sums of money directly from the petroleum industry to say nice things about them, for years.
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Pierre Poilievre has launched a major campaign attacking Safer Supply drug programs & pushing Trudeau to scrap them & redirect funds to detox/rehab. He says there's now hard proof Safer Supply doesn't work – a National Post article by @ZivoAdam. Let's look at that article. 1/x
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This is disgusting. No politician has the right to berate and bully a reporter from their seat of state power, as.@TurnbullWhitby did to @scoopercooper today. A shameful act of revenge for daring to embarrass and expose this government.
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The firebombing of a Jewish-owned business in Toronto amid a historic spike in local antisemitism might warrant a more descriptive and concerned headline than the CBC sees fit to provide here.
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So when Google says they will block ALL Canadian news due to C-18, what does that mean? . Which sites will they consider "Canadian news" and which will they not?. If a news site CHOOSES to not apply for government status, are they exempt? . Nope. Here's what Google told me. 1/4.
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How can he be this fucking dumb?.
Hadrien seems to have misplaced something… but that’s not going to stop him from trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween, everyone – have fun out there!
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BIG shakeup at Postmedia as its new CEO takes Canada's largest newspaper chain on a sharp turn to the right. Ezra Levant's old editor is now in charge of ALL political coverage. Jordan Peterson given a permanent office. FOX News North? @sdbcraig has it:
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I know Canadaland has cooties, but the co-founder of WE Charity *confirmed* to us crime & fraud at the top level of one of his orgs, right as WE was at the centre of Canada's biggest news story, and NO mainstream media org has so much as acknowledged this development. Odd stuff!.
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Context: two days ago we revealed that Peterson botched an attempt at redaction and publicly exposed the names and home addresses of people who complained about him to the Ontario College of Psychologists.
I think your enterprise is the worst sort of scandal-mongering reputation-savaging narcissistic rag @JesseBrown @Canadaland and that you are more than willing to make your reputation with innuendo and denigration at the expense of others.
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MP Charlie Angus is now poking at something important and thus far unexplored: WE's corporate partners/donors got access to WE speakers at WE Days. When speakers are politicians or family thereof, WE is selling access to politicians and/or their families. #WECharity.
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Something maybe unique to Canada is how quickly pressure builds to move to the epilogue phase of a scandal: can the scandalized recover? Haven't we heard enough about it already? There's this rush to re-establish order, all before we know the full extent of what actually happened.
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The dozens of sources who came forward at personal risk to reveal truths abt WE were not spreading "hearsay," @chris_bittle & neither is Canadaland. They backed it up w proof & then we verified each fact before reporting, some of which WE has acknowledged. It's called journalism.
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📣 Rebel News applied to the Trudeau government for official status as a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization. They were rejected.
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It's not that Jewish students "feel" unsafe in Canada. It's that they are unsafe.
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It's all coming out. WE Charity did not just sell the same development projects to multiple donors, reports @business - they also grossly overrepresented the cost of projects. So where did the extra money go?
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And now I’m learning how many people are ok with assault if they think it’s ‘chivalrous’.
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"Sir, if I may say, with due respect, you are reaching the bottom of the barrel if Jesse Brown is who you are quoting.".
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"You're KILLING a Canadian charity" pleads Craig Kielburger in response to questions about WE's complicated corporate structure. #WECharity.
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The problem he's trying to fix is not that addicts are dying. His problem is that they're still alive.
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For some Jews "never forget" means never forget we have a moral responsibility to do what we can to stop what happened to us from ever happening to anyone again. For others, I guess it means never forget that our suffering was incomparable, unique and sacrosanct. .
I’ve made this warning before: if Trudeau’s apology for Canada’s rejection of the “voyage of the damned” compares Jews fleeing the Nazis to the contemporary crisis of illegal economic migrants, he will require an apology for his apology. Think carefully.
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I will be appearing this Wednesday before The House of Commons finance committee probe into government spending and WE Charity.
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Big emotions for Zelenskyy from Canadian MPs. He was pretty clear though, right? . Guy needs a no-fly zone, not applause.
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The Kielburgers did not have to shutter #WECharity. They chose to end it. As Charity lawyer Mark Blumberg @canadiancharity said:. "They're sitting on $45 million (in real estate).They could probably last for another 200 years.”. They could have resigned and rebranded. So, why?.
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this, I believe, is an attack on free speech on campus. A real one, for a change.
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The Kielburgers kept WE's financial information from WE Charity's board of directors, despite repeated demands, says former chair Michelle Douglas.
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Four months ago, @jordanbpeterson threatened to sue us "immediately" if we ran a story about him. We ran it. He never sued. To state the obvious: 'free-speech warrior' Peterson abuses libel law to suppress speech he doesn't like.
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Trudeau's insistence that he knew the #WECharity deal would be scrutinized due to his connections to them, so therefor he pushed back to make sure it was done "perfectly" kinda makes his decision to not just recuse himself seem even more odd/bad.
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I hate this dumb law but no he's not.
Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada. Shameful.
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If you think the convoy rolling to Ottawa right now is all about border rules for truckers, you've been misinformed. This is a caravan of generalized grievance with broad support, financial backing, and an inchoate intention to fuck shit up when it reaches its destination.
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If any CTV folks, current or former, would like to chat with me on background about Michael Melling, my DMs are open.
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If there is anything going on within @CTVNews that the public should know about, my DMs are open, my email is jesse@canadaland.com, and I have protected my sources inside newsrooms for over a decade.
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1. Well, we're getting sued. But not by who you think. The person suing us for defamation is this guy – Keean Bexte.
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Canadian papers have been plenty critical of Doug Ford. But damned if this headline doesn't carry the exact blunt urgency our press just can't seem to muster.
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They shot up a Jewish girl's school. Again. On Yom Kippur. Would you send your kid back to a school that hateful extremists keep returning to and opening fire on?. The goal is to make life impossible for Jews.
We are investigating the troubling firearm discharges at the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School early this morning. Anyone who was in the area or who may have relevant video or dash-cam footage, please come forward.
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If the government's explicit goal was to kill the Canadian news industry and ensure that no-one dares invest a dime to rebuild it, they couldn't have done a better job.
Unfortunately, we've made the difficult decision that when Bill C-18 takes effect, we will remove Canadian news links from our Search, News and Discover products.
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