Dan Leger
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Unrepentant Maritimer. Author & editor of books, recovering journo. Best of all, devoted dad/gramps. Fervent admirer of sailboats and dogs. #COYQ
Halifax, N.S., Canada
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OMG what utter baloney. Putting this guy in power will guarantee years of small-minded disinformation about every aspect of life in Canada. That's not "common sense," it's pure delusion. And he's asking us all to buy into it. No.
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I worked for The Canadian Press for 12 years. It has written standards for accuracy, accountability and it enforces its policies on corrections and retractions when it makes mistakes. I dare the Conservative Party and
#Poilievre
to do the same.
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Isn't just wonderfully accidental and random that all these anti-vaxx, anti-govt protests are happening just as dear old Putin gets ready for a Ukrainian adventure? Total coincidence I'm sure.
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I can't imagine what it's like to be an Albertan, a member of that brilliant and hardworking society, listening to this flippantly irresponsible figurehead of a premier wax on with her malignant ideology. How do people like this get elected?
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Extremely bad news. As a former Herald editor, this realizes a longstanding fear, soulless right-wing dark money buying the fine old paper. So much for 150 years of history & a vicious blow to local coverage. Plus more garbage Post columnists.
BREAKING: PostMedia to "acquire" SaltWire note the use of "acquire" and not "purchase"
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If only Americans knew of the contempt we Canadians feel for this poseur and fraud. He thought he should be prime minister and actually tried to make it happen! He was humiliated in the attempt, so now he tries to tear down his own country. FU Kevvy.
Kevin O'Leary insinuates that Kamala Harris has no experience to take up the job.
What kind of an alternate universe do these people live in?
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The Conservatives want us to know "the real Pierre Poilievre." But after his 19 years in Parliament & his many hyper-partisan escapades, we know him only too well. Rebranding can't change 19 years of nasty partisanship and ugly behaviour, because that's the real Pierre.
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#Poilievre
has been a taxpayer-paid politician his entire adult life, guaranteed a taxpayer-paid pension worth at least $230K a year, for life. He lives in a $5 million mansion with servants. Now tell me how he's a man of the people. It is to laugh.
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They are right to worry. The newspaper disaster that has befallen Atlantic Canada will have dire, long-lasting effects. The vacuum might be filled, but with what? Regurgitated pap from foreign-owned PostMedia can't replace the community & cultural value of local print.
As Newfoundlanders say goodbye to a daily print paper, some worry culture will suffer
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Mounties are doing a swell job of distracting attention from their failures at
#Portapique
by dangling political shiny objects. Trudeau gov't didn't shoot anyone, didn't botch an investigation or cover up its actions. The guns aspect is a sideshow helping the RCMP.
#MCC
He testified that he believes political inference was behind the RCMP Commissioner's determination to have police release details on the guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
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I mean, come on Postmedia. This is such BS. Who believes this crap? Whose life is being controlled by the gov't? Certainly not mine. And I bet not yours either. This is no replacement for
#Saltwire
in Atlantic Canada.
Carson Jerema: Progressives want to control our lives, and Canadians have had it
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For a job offer in 2019, I obtained a Canadian security clearance. I provided bio information, past addresses,m references, fingerprints and a retinal scan. I felt put upon but the job would have been worth it to me. Why doesn't
#Poilievre
rate the job he wants so highly?
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Do not let mad Musk get control of any public infrastructure in Canada. Build vital comms systems in Canada and control them here. It's a matter of sovereignty. Expect more of such daft, irresponsible proposals from the likes of PP and the Cons.
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I wonder if there's an example, even just one, of PostMedia doing anything innovative in journalism. Or enhancing it in any community. Or holding any gov't to account, except for Trudeau's. Or offering balanced coverage of any subject.
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Higgs doesn't have a single real economic or policy accomplishment worth mentioning after five years in office. So he will try to bring out the worst in NBers to win back power. I can't remember a more cynical NB premier in my (long) lifetime. Vote him out.
N.B. gender policy in schools: Premier won't back down, says it's an election winner
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Fair argument can be made that with events like
#SanBernadino
, the NRA is a pro-terrorist organization.
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Smith just said on
@PnPCBC
that the feds were going to imprison people who don't toe the line on climate laws. Embarrassing.
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@pdmcleod
This is standard fare from Hopper, twisting things into pretzels to titillate his audience. The kid is a mendacious menace.
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Wondering why the Houston PC gov't seems so casual about homlessness in Halifax, or transit or rents, remember they are a rural party. Tents in the parks and crap bus service are city issues. Their MLAs are all from small towns & rural. They have other fish to fry.
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I've just finished writing a book about Stephen McNeil and can't understand NSLibs making Zach Churchill leader. His skills are average, he has a short fuse and limited public appeal. Ppl know him, they just don't care. Angela Simmonds represented change & was the better choice.
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Spoiler alert: no they're not. The Cons are not going to fix the housing crisis because Ottawa doesn't have the money or the power to do it. The Cons should quit pretending otherwise. As soon as they get elected, they'll say "the market" will magically fix it.
We had a deal. You work hard, you get a house. Trudeau broke the deal, and now 9 out of 10 young Canadians have given up on home ownership. But common sense Conservatives are going to fix it 👇
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@EvanLSolomon
@MaryscottG
@ConradMBlack
HI Evan. Sure but sometimes the two sides thing just makes it all worse. We're too fair to the Trump side and Black got pardoned by Trump. Anyway, I think both-sides-ism is the deepest pothole we've fallen into in western media. It's getting worse by the day.
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This is why the Konvoy Kooks thought they could drive to Ottawa and take over the government. Lack of education, low engagement in politics and civil life means mis/disinformation can have a massive impact.
Canadians Lack Basics of Civic Education and It’s Impacting Our Democracy, polling analysis from my colleague
@OksanaKishchuk
#cdnpoli
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@CWNH
National party leaders do not arrive at random doorsteps to talk to unscreened "ordinary voters." They knock on doors where they know they'll get a friendly reception, like that stupid person gave Poilievre the other day. Nothing random there at all.
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Graham Dennis must be rolling in his grave. Post founder/fraudster Conrad Black tried to buy the Herald back in the day, Mr. D showed him the door. Told me Conrad was a pompous prick. The same vandals now got it, for a fraction of what Black would have paid.
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To my non-political friends, this is what is called a trial balloon, from a former senior Harper staffer. If it is met with anything short of mass public revulsion, Poilievre might well bring back the boss. And won't that be great to have him sneering at us again?
New from me: Harper to foreign affairs in a Poilievre government?
Love to hear your thoughts!
via
@ipoliticsca
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If Poilievre and the Cons Party are to be believed, Canadians are all for fighting
#climate
change and for saving the environment, as long as it doesn't cost them one red cent.
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Ayn Rand was a preposterous bullshitter and intellectual poseur. Worse, she was an execrable novelist. Don't waste time reading her books, or her "philosophy."
Since Ayn Rand’s death, in 1982, she has been embraced by tech billionaires, free-market politicians, and their acolytes. In “The Book of Ayn,” a recent novel by Lexi Freiman, Rand takes on a new role: North Star for the cancelled.
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@CTV_PowerPlay
putting on Connie Black to cover for Trump. Come on
@EvanLSolomon
you can do better than that craven apologist.
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You know damn well that if
#Rota
had been elected as a Conservative, this would have been a one-day story and he'd still be in the Speaker's chair. PP and the rest would have explained it all away as a staffing error, which it was.
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Brenda Lucki might be a lousy commissioner, but she wasn't the one flailing around in all directions while a killer ran loose. This guns disclosure thing is a distraction and nothing more.
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That's the secret sauce of all this, a gigantic scam to entrap the rubes by telling them how downtrodden they are. Trump is the scam-king, but these folks are the minor league imitators.
Lich used donations for plastic surgery, hair & makeup, convoy trash are suckers making grifters rich, but wahhhh carbon taxes
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Absolutely right. Fix the management problems, but let the CBC thrive for the millions of us Canadians who enjoy it and value it.
This is getting so old. In my real life far from the Twitter sewers.people obsessed with CBC have problems that have nothing to do with CBC. The conservative movement’s obsession with CBC is creepy.
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R.I.P. Stevie Cameron. A great, fearless journalist and perpetual thorn in the side of the powerful. She was very kind to me when I was a kid reporter and I'll always be grateful.
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@robhoadley
@susanholt
New Brunswickers should recognize Higgs for what he is: a lifelong opponent of NB linguistic rights and equality for the francophone minority.
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@BillArcher72
Still struggling with the concept of peaceful protest vs violent occupation eh? Thousands of peaceful protests are held every year. That hasn't changed. Occupations and overturning democracy, nope. And that crap has no support among Cdns.
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I'm going to guess that this headline was written in Toronto or elsewhere because no Maritimer would ever call New Glasgow "a town north of Halifax," even if, strictly speaking, it is.
A 42-year old woman from New Glasgow is dead after being involved in a fatal crash in a town north of Halifax.
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@CFIB
You represent firms that rarely offer employee pensions. You should rejoice that all taxpayers help fund the retirements of your employees. The CPP is a feature for small business, not a bug.
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@someMarkFarrell
Eeps... I guess I responded to the wrong tweet. Not pro-Trump. I'd prefer radioactive frogs to fall from the sky.
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@poitrasCBC
Just what New Brunswick needs. Christian conservative groups (not really conservative at all but quite socially radical) increasing influence on provincial politics. More toxicity is all this will produce.
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Premier
#Houston
and the PCs have no right to kick out an MLA who was duly elected by the voters of Cumberland North.
@NovaScotiaESM
is protected by privilege and has every right to say what she said. To try and expel her from the legislature is an abuse of power.
#nspoli
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There's some nasty score-settling going on within the NS RCMP. Because it sounds political, it's also a welcome distraction from the Mounties' accountability over the Portapique disaster, which is the real issue.
“She didn’t seem to appreciate or recognize the importance of maintaining the integrity of the investigation,” Supt. Darren Campbell said of RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
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@carolemacneil
Well said, Carole. I've noticed this too and the rage and jealousy, the willingness of well-off Canadians to kick down at those less fortunate is revolting. Canada is not perfect, far from it, but it is not a hell state wrapped up in a class war as some would have it.
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Irony alert: today is World News Day. Now try to find some. Communities are losing local newspapers & broadcast coverage while govt's become ever more secretive & opaque. This is bad for democracy & our rights. Do you really want to rely on Musk & Zuck for all your info? I don't.
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@TimHoustonNS
will be v. hard to beat in the next elexn, so the new Lib leader has time to get established. There was little risk in choosing a new face, like
@AngelaForNS
. This was a missed opportunity.
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Great news for the Halifax Jazz Festival this summer! Emmylou Harris is one of the greats. kudos to
@HFXJazzFest
Grammy Award winner Emmylou Harris to jazz it up in Halifax
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A ringing endorsement of the current CPC leadership with 11 days before the vote!
#cdnpoli
Allies of former Conservative Party minister Peter MacKay mull leadership bid
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@normaleemacleod
Union concessions, creditor concessions likely as well. And v. important, reader concessions: we give up another piece of our local news & local identity. We lose control of irreplaceable cultural assets. I feel sick.
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WOW.
@nytimes
on
#PMSH
: "Harper seems to think that his job is to prevent democracy."
http://t.co/wOfx4bNBsg
Savage piece.
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#PMSH
says when he found out Wright paid the $90K, "we made that information public." Actually,
@RobertFife
made the info public.
#Duffy
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What's the best way to create success in our schools? By bludgeoning the people who run it!
#nspoli
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@gmacofglebe
Some good stuff in the review: PP's slogans: "as pleasing to his followers as they are stupid." There are other gems like that...
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This is an obnoxious abuse of corporate power in NS. Northern Pulp threatens a little bookstore, forces it to cancel a book signing. NS gov't should pull all $ support for the company until it backs off.
#nspoli
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Quite simply this is one of the greatest achievements in the history of Canadian sport. Betrayed by their
coaches, victimized by FIFA jealous of Canada's success, this team stood together and proved the world wrong. A gold medal is still a long shot, but would not surprise me.
CANADA 🇨🇦 ⚽️ FOR THE WIN
1-0 VICTORY
THE CANADIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM IS MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS
DEDUCTED -6 POINTS. DIDN’T QUIT.
THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS MOVE ON.
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If people can claim that
@theJagmeetSingh
is only propping up the Libs to protect his pension, it can be equally argued that
#Poilievre
wants the govt to fall so he can get a potential pay raise of $107K/annum, with corresponding pension boost.
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@Tim_Bousquet
I've been in this business much longer than you, and I can say it's worse now than ever. At least we used to have facts to argue, now not even that.
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I'm amazed at the sheer gall of a company that pollutes Mi'kmaq land for 50 years, laughs off orders to change its ways, wastes 5 years it could have used to change and now sues to get *potential* profits. Oh, it wants to make NS pay for the lawsuit. F-you Northern Pulp.
Northern Pulp sues province for $450 million | SaltWire
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Really glad that the
@NSTeachersUnion
and NS govt have a tentative deal. Let's hope for fairness and respect for our teachers.
#nspoli
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Bill Casey is actually giggling. Big win for the old dog in NS. And why? He stood up to Harper.
#elxn42
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Does Putin see
#Trump
as his chance to reverse the pol-mil defeat Russia suffered at the hands of Ronald Reagan? Legit question.
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@AndrewNorval
This is the precise question. And why not just explain it? Why is this such a complicated question? I keep thinking it's because CSIS et al can look at around your financial records. I didn't have anything to hide. I wonder if PP does.
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@gmacofglebe
To be absolutely clear, when inflation goes UP, that is solely the fault of the federal gov't. When it goes DOWN, it's a miracle of the market system. Is that how it goes? Wait, let's ask PP.
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Weirdest recession ever.
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Hey Maritime politics aficionados and politics-minded readers everywhere: this high-quality (you can decide that yourself, part of the fun) reading material is now heading out to stores everywhere and the various online options. Let me know what you think of it.
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Legit.
Chantal Hébert speaks facts.
"There is no one this conservative leader has any respect for except for himself and a mirror."
Nov 25 2023
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I feel like this facility at Fort Needham, opening soon, should be named for
@lezlielowe
in view of her invaluable contributions to the public hygiene discourse. It's solar powered and even has a doggy fountain.
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@IvisonJ
The purelaine part might be right, but Que has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada by a good margin. So the second part of your comment is unmerited.
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This is the kind of garbage commentary that readers across Atlantic Canada will be fed now that Postmedia has taken over
#Saltwire
. Get used to it, folks.
Geoff Russ: Pierre Poilievre is right, the 'experts' aren't worth listening to
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If the current polls hold and the Cons win their big majority, the Commons will be filled with idiot windbags like Ferreri spreading lies and misinformation every day. This isn't common sense, it's not conservative, just more US-style right wing agitprop.
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This is what's happening. My biography of Stephen McNeil has escaped the supply chain bottleneck and will be going out to stores posthaste. More details to come.
#nspoli
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The Globe grapples with the profound day-to-day challenges facing Canada's working people.
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Reports that Parks Canada has kiboshed
#MotherCanada
. Bad news for monstrosities everywhere, triumph of common sense.
#cdnpoli
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Thousands in the Halifax Grand Parade for the
#WomensMarch
Did notice anything similar pro-Trump.
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Canada is not broken.
Essential health services coverage index (scale of 0 to 100):
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🇮🇸 Iceland: 89
🇸🇬 Singapore: 89
🇰🇷 South Korea: 89
🇩🇪 Germany: 88
🇬🇧 UK: 88
🇦🇺 Australia: 87
🇳🇴 Norway: 87
🇺🇸 USA: 86
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 86
🇸🇪 Sweden: 85
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 85
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🇳🇿 New
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@iamjmckeown
@SoMersVick
Don't blame the media. That's too easy. Blame the people who voted for Smith and her band of pirates. Albertans are fully capable of making up their own minds, and they chose her.
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@Athena1944
@EvanLSolomon
@MaryscottG
@ConradMBlack
I prefer to hear from commentators who are not in the personal thrall, legal or otherwise, of the subject of their remarks. Black owes Trump, straight up. Of course he's going to cheerlead, to put it politely.
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I can't understand what justification
@TimHoustonNS
has for an early elxn other than his own party's interests. We don't need an elxn, there's no question about his mandate. It's not like they have some ambitious plan to do something, or anything. Just pure cynical politics.
Nova Scotia’s premier says he doesn’t think he needs to respect the fixed-date provincial election law his party introduced
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@HalifaxReTales
This is the valuable and useful house type that Pierre Poillievre called "a tiny little shack." And people are going to make him PM. Get used to it!
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It's not just Portapique. The RCMP needs a root-and-branch shakeup to get rid of disloyal & seditious elements undermining the safety and security of Canadians.
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Do you realize, DR. Ellis, how many people in your constituency will benefit from this program? Oral health is part of good health, but you've lost sight of that to make political points. Shame.
Canadians need to know, the Canadian Dental Care Plan is not free and many dentists have not enrolled in this program.
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Ridiculous stunt from an unserious leader and party.
Pierre Poilievre says his MPs will pitch "thousands of amendments" to legislation to keep Parliament sitting over Christmas if the Liberal government doesn't scrap parts of its carbon tax. .
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@thecyr
I wrote a book about Stephen McNeil. The year 2020, as premier, he faced Covid, Portapique and several other tragic events. No one signs up for that. I admire Houston’s resolution.
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A bit shocked to see
@MeganLeslieHFX
defeated. A fine representative of our city who deserves our thanks.
#elxn42
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This is brilliant. Long Live
#Finland
!
Sauli Niinistö, president of
#Finland
.
@niinisto
❤️
videotaped an invitation to, i think, the
#resistance
#FridayFunny
i might have to take him up on his offer
turn up your speakers
oh, and watch is face 🤣
#Reindeer
#Snow
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100% accurate. Some the freest thinkers (self-described) are also some of the most gullible. And this phoney "media scandal" of Poilievre's proves that yet again.
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