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US correspondent, CBC. Ex-POLITICO, CP alexanderpanetta on đ§”. Also testing: alexpanetta on BSky
Washington, D.C.
Joined June 2009
Also alexpanetta @ Blue sky â testing out different sites, while paradoxically trying to cut down on phone time.
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it's suing the government of Canada over emergency powers. Says the standard has not been met. And these powers can't be normalized.
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Just listened to a wild podcast exchange between Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani. Rudy is spinning the Antifa-did-this đ€Ż. And Bannon is like, âRudy. Rudy. Rudy. OK. OK. Fine. Fine.â. Bannon: âI donât mind being shut down for my craziness. Iâm not gonna be shut down for yours.â.
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Washington residents outside the White House holding up "Thanks Obama" signs. Cars passing by honk horns.
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Macron to Le Pen: âWhen you talk to Russia, you are not talking to another leader, you are talking to your banker!â.
« Quand vous parlez à la Russie, vous ne parlez pas à un autre dirigeant, vous parlez à votre banquier ! ». Emmanuel Macron rappelle avec raison, la dépendance de Marine Le Pen à Vladimir Poutine. #DebatMacronLePen
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U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources tell CBC News.
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How busy is the news lately? Former government officials say there's a program that tracked friggin' alien visits to Earth, & they've seen beyond-next generation technology, & recovered material that does weird things to the human body and it's like STORY NUMBER 19 OF THE WEEK
A former Pentagon official who led a recently revealed government program to research potential UFOs said he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth
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The longest pause Iâve ever seen at a press conference, ever.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was just asked to comment directly on President Trump's handling of the protests and violence in the US. Trudeau, who is usually quick to answer, paused for a very, very long time. This was his response.
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That moment the president blamed his staff for not telling him $1 TRILLION on infrastructure would drain the treasury
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Honestly, this reaction struck me. Look at the size of this crowd. Nobody clapped at the anti-NATO, anti-Ukraine stuff. Gives the impression this view is much more popular on social media than it is in the real world. Even here.
David Sacks blasts NATO expansion and Ukraine aid at the Republican convention. I estimate approximately 7 people in the entire arena clapped.
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Canada's last Conservative PM unloads on Trump: "I must admit to being shocked by some of the things he's said. They're just not so.". "First of all we don't actually sell dairy into the United States.". The trade deficit? "You buy our oil and gas at a discount from world.
BREAKING: Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper pushes back on President Trumpâs comments about making Canada the 51st state. âWe want to be friends, not annex.â
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This new Russian troll-tracking tool by @SecureDemocracy shows today's top messaging priority from the Kremlin: Firing NSA HR McMaster
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BREAKING: This is now the most *bipartisan* presidential impeachment in American history. Six Republicans have already voted to impeach Trump - the most ever from one party again a president of that same party. Previous record: five Democrats vs Bill Clinton in 1998.
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Here's another twist in the Trudeau-Trump story. It turns out, the meeting details may have been. wait for it. made up. The Canadians are unsure what meeting Trump's referring to. One said the conversation might have been by phone. Apparently, 1/2
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How much does Beijing not want an inquiry into this? This much â>.
China threatens to stop Australian imports if government continues to push for an inquiry into the origin of the global coronavirus outbreak. via @canberratimes.
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@carolyndunncbc Yikes. If everyone began interpreting the rules that way it would mean no foreign agencies could, ever, send reporters for a major breaking event. Like, say, an election or shock event like a 9/11. Would be a game-changer for global coverage of US stories, if this were new policy.
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/ I even wrote about it at the time. The Trump administrationâs official policy in the NAFTA renegotiation was to REDUCE baby formula production:
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"'Who's gonna pay for the wall?'. 'We are, by kicking transgender people out of the army to score a funding deal'" wouldn't had same ring
Trump banned transgender service members to secure funding to build border wall, Politico reports .
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For the record, covering a mass-shooting is the most miserable, soul-crushing thing and, while Iâve never even bothered discussing this point with a colleague, Iâm sure most journalists fear being assigned to cover one.
The NRA's Dana Loesch looks at media in back of room at CPAC and says: You guys "love" mass-shootings. Because crying white mothers are ratings gold, she says to the press.
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Just remembered: A) Canada hosts the G7 in a few months. B) Incoming Canadian PM, last I heard, may have to award special permission for Trump to enter Canada â following his conviction. C) Canadaâs next PM would have to offer this special invitation for someone talking about.
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The Canadians are pretty easy to spot in this picture. đ·
Itâs an important time in the Canada âU.S. relationship. Great to be on Capitol Hill yesterday with the Prime Minister for productive bipartisan meetings with House and Senate leadership.
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Hawley objects to Pennsylvania, forcing the two houses to withdraw for separate debates.
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From the deposition: âQ. When did you first learn about the existence of . The Dossier?â A. âNovember 2016 Halifax International Security Forum. The exact date was November 19th.â . McCain was informed later that day, in a meeting room in Halifax. 11 days *after* the election.
So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) âlast in his classâ (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!.
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Another line in the story: "Investigators have also been looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates".
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The Associated Press has also fact-checked Trumpâs comments on Canada/Trudeau/trade Friday night. The verdict: âTrumpâs account is puzzling and at odds with U.S. trade statistics. Trudeau is right that the US has a trade surplus with Canada.â
AP FACT CHECK: Trump makes dubious assertions about monument lands, economy; Alabama's Roy Moore wrestles with accusations.
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Something unusual unfolding in DC. White House NSA Sullivan says he made a rare offer: to personally brief intel committee members in Congress on a serious national security issue. Briefing scheduled tomorrow. Sullivan says he's surprised to hear Turner talking publicly today.
House Intel Chair Mike Turner says all members of Congress have access to info on "a serious national security threat.". Requesting Biden "declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss" response actions.
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An insight into the NAFTA renegotiations where the US fought â hard â to limit baby-formula production in Canada.
The US did all it could to prevent Canada from developing excess production capacity so we couldnât compete with them in Asia. Thatâs why they freaked about a Chinese dairy investment in Kingston, ON. They wanted it shut down. We said no, because jobs. It was a full blown thing.
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Update to this tweet from four years ago: President Trump did not forget. Today, White House granted executive clemency to Conrad Black.
.@ConradMBlack, what an honor to read your piece. As one of the truly great intellects & my friend, I won't forget!
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4/ So. this Trump anecdote about making up a fact on an allegedly made up trade metric might have been slightly. made up. Behold, a matryoshka doll of tall-tales
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One thing Bannon believes âas do Iâis that a number of Senate GOP want to seize this moment to disqualify Trump from ever running again and be done with him. And hope to make Schumer/Democrats the face of conviction while they quietly abet it. (One way: not showing up for a vote).
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CNN early exit polls from South Carolina: Electorate today 55% African American, 29% over age 65 (vs 10% 18-29), and the most common ideological category was "moderate" at 40%. All these numbers are pretty good for Biden.
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A just-unsealed U.S. criminal indictment has unleashed an unprecedented flood of details about an alleged Indian government-connected plot to carry out multiple assassinations in North America. It alleges there were *3* such assassination plots in Canada.
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Canadian deputy PM Freeland is in DC at a Council on Foreign Relations event - asked why Canada's GDP has under-performed vs the US. Her answer: The US is the anomaly. It's doing extraordinarily well, versus other developed countries -- and that's good news for the US. Canada.
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Canadaâs health minister: âI will speak directly to those people who are returning to Canada from March break or the snowbirds who are coming back. When we say you must stay at home for 14 days that means you stay at home for 14 days. You do not stop for groceries. 1/2.
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Have no idea whether these NY Times and CNN stories are accurate but, is it just me, or if government officials had said in previous years, âHey we think we saw aliens and retrieved alien stuff,â it might have been slightly bigger news? đœ đž.
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Just got a bunch of details of the Trudeau/Trump meeting, which we at CBC will be fleshing out over the day. The TLDR: No guarantee Trump tariffs are coming off. Trump didnât specifically say, âI need X, Y, Z,â to drop tariffs. But both sides see a solution as attainable. The.
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Dems demand 5 things: -White House transcript of Russia conversation -Any Comey 'tapes' -Comey memos -Comey to testify - Special prosecutor.
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Periodic reminder: The Trump administration still hasn't appointed diplomats to the region
We need Ambassador to South Korea, Secretary for East Asia Affairs, and Secretary for Asian Pacific Security Affairs sent to Senate now.
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David Sacks blasts NATO expansion and Ukraine aid at the Republican convention. I estimate approximately 7 people in the entire arena clapped.
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This weekend stakeholders have seen a longer list of Bidenâs planned executive actions than what was publicly reported in a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain. That purported list includes a reference to cancelling Keystone XL on Day 1 â Wednesday.
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The deposition describes whatâs already been reported repeatedly: McCain was informed of the Steele dossier 11 days *after* the 2016 election - not before - at a security summit in Halifax, Canada.
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Context: the CDC has suggested a 9-page checklist for schools on everything from cleaning to distancing practices. It has also produced guidelines with different reopening standards for different case levels. The checklist: 1/2.
I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!.
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Republican voters are massively, massively siding with Ukraine vs Russia in this conflict according to polls contrary the click industry takes. For starters, this survey showing they favour Ukraine; accuse Russia of war crimes; and see Putin as a liar .
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Canadian deputy PM Freeland says she told Russian representatives at the G20/financial meetings in DC this week that they had no business being there. She called it a meeting of financial firefighters: âThe arsonist has no place in a meeting of the firefighters.â
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A Canadian intelligence task force warns in a new report that Canada has to prepare itself for the possibility of US democracy crumbling and the United States becoming a source of instability.
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Canadian government folks sound genuinely perplexed that there are people in the White House who think thereâs any threat of Canadians fleeing to the country with the fastest growth of COVID-19 cases in the world.
PM Trudeau says Canada is pushing back against the idea from the U.S. that troops are necessary near the border.
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I wrote this about 6 election deniers looking to take control of elections in US swing states. Now looking like they went 0 for 6.
BIG: Republican Mark Finchem HAS LOST the secretary of state election in Arizona. Dem Adrian Fontes wins. Finchem was THE election denier of this cycle, running to take over elections in Arizona. He'd have had the power to certify elections (and made it clear he wouldn't).
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Wow. In a mere 10 days, ex-POTUS Obama has come out against his successor: 'fundamentally disagrees' with EO
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Fox News is now running a segment targeting Robert Mueller.
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Canada has amassed both human and signals intelligence in a months-long investigation of a Sikh activist's death that has inflamed relations with India, sources tell me and @EvanDyerCBC . That intelligence includes communications involving Indian officials themselves. đš.
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There are theories floating out there that Biden could get stripped of PA votes because the so-called segregated votes (postmarked but not received by Nov 3) could be invalidated by SCOTUS. This is not true. All the votes being counted now are ones received pre-Nov 3.
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Texas Republican lawmaker Will Hurd, on raid: "Bob Mueller should stay. He should be allowed to turn over every rock, pursue every lead. This was done by the US atty in NYC. A judge there agreed there was probable cause.".
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Update: Justice Merchan wants changes in the juror info that gets out to the public. He says jurorsâ employer name will be redacted from court records. And he urges the press to âapply common sense.â Says press reports intimidated this woman and cost the case a juror.
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Young guy goes skating on an outdoor rink in Quebec countryside. Out of an SUV pops the worldâs best player, Sidney Crosby, skates with him for an hour; says he misses outdoor rinks; keeps trying to practice his French; and waves away girlfriend when she says itâs time to go in
Excellent texte du collĂšgue @mathiasbrunet.
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Department of Justice announces charges against 13 more people over the Capitol raid. A couple are alleged to have weapons. Including 11 Molotov cocktails, a 9 mm handgun and ammunition.
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/ publicly announced its intention to sign climate orders on Day 1 including rejoining the Paris accord . What hasnât been publicly reported, and itâs apparently something the transition team has indicated in stakeholder briefings, is that an order to kill KXL is coming on Day 1.
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My Habs won the Stanley Cup when I was 15. I asked my folks to skip school for the parade. They said no â wait for the next parade. 31 freaking years later and the whole damned country hasn't had a parade. What I'm saying is: Donât mess this up Edmonton. Weâre all rooting for you.
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Just moved on POLITICO Pro: Canada has kicked the U.S. off a list of countries it uses to regulate drug prices, saying the U.S. lacks policies to control costs and does not belong on a list of benchmark countries
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Rudy replies: âIâm really very frustrated. Iâm not crazy.â. Bannon: âI know.â They continue talking, and Rudy comes back to his earlier point. Rudy: âAnd I donât say crazy things.â. Bannon: âI know. Iâm just teasing you.â.
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This is extremely rare for a former president. Note that GW Bush didn't do this to Obama - although Cheney did.
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It seemed obvious months ago that challenging Obamacare in court during a pandemic, with an election looming â and not offering a replacement plan â might pose a political problem. Now you see it in the ol twitter feed.
Republicans will be providing far better Healthcare than the Democrats, at a far lower cost. And will always protect people with Pre-existing conditions!!!!.
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. You do not go visit your neighbours or friends, you rest in your house for 14 days, no exceptions.â She also warns that arrests and financial penalties possible for people who defy public orders.
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Part of Canada being outraged over the defacing of the Sir John A statue, and another part of Canada being outraged over an MP circulating a George Soros conspiracy is a timely reminder that. one of Americaâs biggest exports is its politics.
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2/ they have these sorts of chats about the deficit/surplus once in a while. But this story - "Justin comes in," etc, etc, we send our officials out of the room, they come back in, I was right on trade. Apparently it's a blend of different chats. And one person I heard from.
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Nancy Pelosi was asked on CBSâs Sunday show whether Democrats had a good week. Her reply: Well, I think the American people have had a good week. I think truth has had a good week. I think the Constitution has has a good week. I don't think the president has had a good week.â.
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Iâm wondering if a person â who tried doing this to a US president in front of the Secret Service â would survive to tell the story.
Here's the video of stones being thrown towards the Prime Minister while he was leaving his campaign stop in London, Ontario this evening
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Senator Graham, appearing on Fox now, turns to address its most powerful viewer: "Mr President, if you're watching, I think you're gonna be fine. Unless you screw this up. Let the process play out. I don't believe you colluded with the Russians. But Mueller will soon tell us".
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Holy hell. Radio-Canada reporting that the six dead people on the Canada-US border were migrants. CBC reports one child had a Canadian passport. This is a few days after the Roxham Road closure while Biden and Trudeau met in Ottawa.
6 bodies, including 1 child with a Canadian passport, recovered from St. Lawrence River near Canada-US border in Quebec.
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A less-crazy exchange after that with pro-Trump pollster John McLaughlin who has a warning for the Republicans who voted to impeach:. This is Donald Trumpâs party and youâre all going to be purged in the 2022 primaries. I wrote about this GOP dynamic today
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Only in Washington: Someone nursing a pint of beer shouts out to a crowded bar: "Daniel Richman of Columbia"
Wow, Comey authorized a friend who is a law professor at Columbia to share his memo with a reporter to prompt naming of special counsel.
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Fight with witnesses in obstruction of justice investigation doesnât usually have such a clear paper trail.
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@ddale8 Our people know. Maple-leaf sucking: Not a thing. Maple Leafs sucking: A thing for most of the last half-century.
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Dunno if he read the accompanying editorial which. calls him a man lacking in integrity, desperate for power, says he hurt the people of his state, and his plan to maybe run again would constitute a theft from Utahns
Grateful for this great Christmas honor from the Salt Lake Tribune. For the record, I voted for @SpencerJCox and @rudygobert27. #utpol
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2/2 And here are the school-reopening guidelines Trump calls too strict. Unclear what heâs specifically referring to.
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Obamacare defended by. Obama
"Frustrating to have to mobilize every couple of months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suffering."
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So hereâs where Iâll be working. A rundown on our new project, which Iâm very excited about â>
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30 minutes in politics: Oprah gets a global standing O for speech; instant spec sheâd win a presidential nomination if she ran; major Dems tweet theyâd work for her; she already has a +29% favorability per Quinnipiac; troll-bots start pumping out pics of her with Harvey Weinstein.
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Sign of the times: in a US Senate hearing today on trans-national repression, a new country came up several times alongside the usual suspects -- China, Russia, Iran, Rwanda, etc. That country is: India. Both the top Democrat, and Republican, and one witness mentioned a /.
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đš Donald John Trump is now the only twice-impeached president in the history of the United States. In addition his impeachment has received more votes from his own party than any predecessor. 10 Republicans have voted to impeach. A small number. But a record number.
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Whoa. The province of Ontario says donations to the convoy must be frozen under a provision of Canadaâs criminal code.
NEW - Ontario Premier Doug Fordâs Office put out this statement about the protest fundraiser GiveSendGo:
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Bidenâs chief of staff sent out this memo previewing dozens of executive orders heâll sign in his first days in office to attack 4 crises: âCOVID-19, economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.â. Day 1: rejoining the Paris accord and reversing the travel ban
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Here is what the Biden transition team has publicly reported so far. From a memo by his Chief of Staff Ron Klain â that dozens of executive orders are planned in the first few days. The Biden team has publicly /.
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Democratic lawmaker Ruben Gallego said as a Marine he swore an oath to the constitution as a Marine. Can't believe this happened here. "The names of Cruz and Hawley should go down in history next to people like Benedict Arnold and Donald Trump. They are traitors to this country.".
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Yikes. An assessment of Trump from a guy he was supposedly friendly with â Canadaâs former prime minister, and Trumpâs Florida neighbour, Brian Mulroney.
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âThey see weakness in this president,â said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. âLook, itâs not a nice business weâre in.â
The 2020 shadow campaign, GOP version, via @jmartNYT @alexburnsNYT
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3/ said this anecdote from Trump most resembles a chat they may have had by phone.
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But. why the focus on Jr? Senior White House staffer Jared Kushner was there. Paul Manafort was there and was named campaign manager.
Drudge is linking to this NY Post editorial which says Don Jr is an idiot.
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Ambitious Republican politicians are all over investigating Gofundme. In the replies some Canadians are like, yes, please, we want to learn more about foreign donations to a group that explicitly advocated for the overthrow of the government of Canada.
It is a fraud for @gofundme to commandeer $9M in donations sent to support truckers and give it to causes of their own choosing. I will work with @AGAshleyMoody to investigate these deceptive practices â these donors should be given a refund.
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âThis is pure authoritarianism. Once someone like Trump issues that kind of challenge, it doesnât matter if the indictment is for murder, campaign-finance violations, or mopery with intent to gawk: The issue is whether our legal institutions can be bullied into paralysis.â.
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@carolyndunncbc Whoa. Did you apply for a journalist I-visa or were you just coming in on a temporary assignment? Wondering what ramifications this might, potentially, have going forward.
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So *this* was the day of the Manafort raid - the Jeff Sessions-bashing, transgender-banning, pardon-floating, Scaramucci-fest day.
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Wow - Joe Manchin does Canada a solid. The Buy American-style electric vehicle credit that could have devastated auto production in Canada?. Hereâs the new âNorth Americanâ vehicle credit.
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Yup. Itâs not just Trump made up a trade deficit on the spot with Trudeau - itâs what he did after the facts came in: ignores the service economy, makes up some weird metric on how adding lumber and timber changes everything. Itâs a multi-layered wedding cake of falsehoods
So final summary: 1) The president is bragging that he made stuff up with a foreign leader; 2) He is claiming his made-up thing was then magically proven correct; 3) His explanation for why he was actually correct is fictional; 4) Heâs still currently incorrect. A+.
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Just got a message from the White House: "President Biden organized a call with European leaders in the Quint Format, which we use regularly for consultations, and we also continue to coordinate closely with our Canadian allies.".
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Fauci, asked whether hydroxychloroquine works against COVID-19: âThe data are really just, at best, suggestive. There are cases that show there may be an effect. There are others to show thereâs no effect. So I think in terms of science I donât think we can definitively say yes.â.
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US President Joe Bidenâs first official meeting with a foreign head of government will be a virtual encounter on Tuesday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Itâll be a lengthy meeting â with the leaders, then including officials & cabinet members, with a variety of agenda items.
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So the lawyer. was not freelancing.
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!.
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Former Canadian PM Mulroney on đșđž: âHow the hell can you have an unemployment rate of 3.8% if your trade arrangements are so bad? The answer is theyâre not. I told Wilbur Ross that if I had a 3.8% unemployment rate, Iâd still be prime minister of Canada.â
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The story of a woman from France, educated in French, who studied in Quebec in French, wrote her doctoral thesis mostly in French, rejected as an immigration candidate in Quebec because 1 chapter of her thesis was in English and she. failed to prove sufficient command of French.
Une jeune Française a été refusée par l'immigration au Québec parce qu'elle a rédigé un chapitre de sa thÚse de doctorat en anglais
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The mayor of Canadaâs capital, like several other potential guests, has refused to attend this yearâs Fourth Of July party thrown by the US embassy.
Asked Mayor @JimWatsonOttawa if he was going to the U.S. Ambassador's Fourth of July party this year. Here's what he said: #ottnews.
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