Harrison Lowman
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Journalist. Managing Editor, @TheHubCanada. Formerly: @TheAgenda @CBCNews @CTVNationalNews @reviewcanada @munkdebate @exparl. Childlike sense of wonder intact.
Toronto
Joined July 2009
@MrLukowski @MariaRMGBNews @JakubKrupa This woman is posing on a railroad track that brought hundreds of thousands to their murders. There is no nuance here.
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Quite sure I will never understand what this means.
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Wab is single-handedly changing left wing politics in Canada. A progressive and a patriot (surprise, the two can co-exist). He’s a force.
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“They’re often misogynists, also often racists” “Should we tolerate these people?” says PM Trudeau of Canadian anti-vaxxers.
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Longtime Ontario Liberal staffer texts me about the problems Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie is facing. Inadvertently texts me something that describes the larger problems the federal Liberals, Ontario Liberals, and U.S Democrats will all be facing in 2025:. “We are a.
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“It’s time for Canadian conservatives to abandon Donald Trump” - @SpencerFernando in @TheHubCanada
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"[F]rom the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours during the Iranian hostage crisis, those 444 days, we worked around the clock from our.
LIVE: Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs | EN DIRECT : Réplique aux tarifs douaniers américains
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"I think we [journalists] are the whiniest industry in the world. We have a preachy tone that is, 'Woe is us. Oh my gosh. We're being so hurt. Oh, we're not safe.'. 'It's a calling. It's not a job. We have a calling. I felt this, urge when I was 18 to just be drawn towards this
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"A recent Ipsos poll found that over 40 percent of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 would vote for Canada to become the 51st American state, if the U.S. offered all Canadians full U.S. citizenship, a full conversion of the Canadian dollar, and all their personal financial
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New direct messaging from Premier Ford at Fordfest here in Kitchener: “Parents rights. They need to be. informed when they [students] make a decision. It’s not up to teachers and school boards to indoctrinate our kids. I can’t even figure out what school boards do anymore”#onpoli
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“Word on the Ottawa streets is that Conservative leader, and likely next prime minister, Pierre Poilievre, has now finished crafting his plan for the CBC. This week, I was told by a well-placed Conservative that Poilievre intends to eliminate all funding for the English arm of.
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The PC's campaign manager Kory Teneycke once told us, "I think you’re one of the very best broadcasters in Canada." Then why won't he let Doug Ford come on our show? As premier, he has never appeared on Ontario's public broadcaster for an interview #onpoli
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“Canada spent last year, in 2023, more money on consultants and professional services, than it did on the army, navy, and airforce combined. Which, quite frankly is madness.”.
Watch Andrew Leslie deliver the most damning critique of the Canadian Armed Forces in his opening statement to the Standing Committee on National Defence today. Coincidentally today Melanie Joly was playing up Canada's role in the Arctic. she clearly needed to hear this before
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Just witnessed this: “I can’t do it. We’re on the wrong side of history” - woman (leaves line ticket line and walks away)) #MunkDebate.
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“The PM showed up, though his press secretary insisted he was not in the room — even as cameras were broadcasting footage of him on live TV. (Only after images started to circulate on X did the PMO realize cameras could see into the room’s oversized windows. Barriers were put up.
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“To support Trump as a Canadian means effectively siding against your own country. It means choosing to hate your political opponents more than you love Canada. It means in my judgement giving up a claim to patriotism. So, how should Canadian conservatives view Trump? As the.
“It’s time for Canadian conservatives to abandon Donald Trump” - @SpencerFernando in @TheHubCanada
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“Canada is a G7 nation, a nation that has the potential really possibly to be something like a super power. A real player of good on the global stage. But due to ill advised decisions and corruption, we have become a playground for the worst criminal and terror espionage networks.
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What’s TVO Jeff? Don’t your remember? . We’re the journalists who caught you trying to deny you told Ontarians former Premier Kathleen Wynne was a “scumbag” who “belonged in jail”. (14:49) #onpoli.
“What’s TVO?” - most Ontarians.
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Great day to be an Ontarian and have two levels of government not sitting on the eve of 25% tariffs being dumped on us.
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Still trying to wrap my head around this quote from the newsletter sent around by my Liberal MP here in Toronto. "As the Prime Minister stated, we took on debt so that individual Canadians didn't have to." #cdnpoli.
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RIP Hugh Segal. A true Red Tory. An advocate for the poor. A man who believed and fought for things bigger than himself. A guy who truly loved this country.
"Poverty is one of the very best predictors of bad health outcomes." — Hugh Segal, tonight on The Agenda at 8/11 p.m. #basicincome #onpoli
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@adwbto Andrew with respect you’re missing the second half for the polling question: “(78%) of Canadians would like to see the CBC/Radio-Canada continue if it addresses its major criticisms.”.
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BREAKING: "Faith Goldy, Kevin Goudreau, Canadian Nationalist Front, Aryan Strikeforce, Wolves of Odin, and Soldiers of Odin (Canadian Infidels) have been banned from having any further presence on Facebook and Instagram" #cdnpoli.
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What happened at the Freeland launch was disgraceful. The disrupters should be ashamed of themselves.
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Journalism schools are not nefariously building an army of “big L” Liberal partisan flying monkeys so that they can dive-bomb Conservatives from the sky. But they are developing almost exclusively left-leaning storytellers who question objectivity. My take:
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My self-hating boomer father often asks me: . “Son. I don’t get it. If I was in your generation I’d be furious. I’d be protesting in the streets over the hand my generation dealt yours.” . I’m not sure what to tell him. We aren’t engaged? He’s wrong? We don’t care enough? We.
The Bloc motion on increasing OAS payment has passed, 181 to 143. CPC, NDP, Bloc and Green MPs voted in favour, along with five Liberal MPs, Rene Arseneault, Serge Cormier.Wayne Long, Ken Macdonald and Mike Kelloway. The rest of the Liberal caucus voted no #cdnpoli.
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I am chuffed (I’ve always wanted to use that word) to announce that I will be taking on the role of Managing Editor of @TheHubCanada in 2024, helping to lead a growing team of journalists and columnists cover and comment on Canada. I chose to work at The Hub because it provides
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Witold Pilecki, a man who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gather intel on the death camp being built, escaped, fought the Nazis and then the Polish Communists, only to be killed following a show trial.
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The insanity that Canada will not have a COVID inquiry.A once in a century event that upended the country. Killed thousands. Rolled back rights. Overwhelmed our hospitals. Unresolved emotions/arguments about our failures, solutions for the next pandemic. To stay in stasis forever.
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.@TheRealKeean, former Rebel reporter in line to ask a question to Trudeau. Dude’s journalism notepad says “Epstein didn’t kill himself”. #cdnpoli
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THREAD: After nearly 10 years working at @TVO’s @TheAgenda, it is time for me to hit the old dusty trail. I grew up in that current affairs newsroom. I’ve been raised by a family of journalists who respected one another, mentored one another, thought out loud around the pitch
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Harrison Lowman: The old news is dead. Long live the new news:. "Journalists today face a public that is far less interested in what we have to say. Reuters and the University of Oxford now report that the number of Canadians who say they are “very or.
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Tonight on @TheAgenda 8/11pm: @RM_Transit tells us how fare integration could transform the GTHA transit system. Ford govt is promising a fully funded fare integration program by the end of this year that will include Toronto and surrounding regions. Will it happen?
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I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. This is clearly the perfect most accurate physical representation of the massive dump being taken on Canada’s historical symbols.
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Does one laugh or cry when at 4am on actual day of the federal government’s national summit on car theft, someone throws a cinder block through the car in your driveway? #cdnpoli
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I am delighted to make known that @TVO will be hosting the Ontario provincial English-language leaders debate on Monday, May 16th @ 6:30pm at our @TheAgenda studios. #onpoli
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Today I was supposed to be producing an in-depth panel discussion on the Greenbelt scandal for @TheAgenda. Instead, myself and colleagues are on strike for fair wages. For the first time in its 18 years on the air, tonight, our show will not have a season premiere. #onpoli
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What does it take to be fired as a cabinet minister in this government?.
Ethics committee reopens Boissonnault inquiry in wake of new ‘Randy’ texts, @kristahessey reports. Find out more at
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The team that brought you @TheAgenda’s coverage tonight of the 2018 PC leadership decision #onpoli
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"Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie (@BonnieCrombie) is calling Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) out for keeping a statue of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, covered and out of public sight for five years. “Outside Queen’s Park, there’s a statue of our.
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As Kyiv is now surrounded by Russian troops, Canadians gather in Toronto’s Yonge Dundas Square in support of #Ukraine
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@acoyne Am I oversimplifying this?: Elected officials must avoid not just actual conflicts of interest, but equally important: “perceived” conflicts of interests. It seems like they are constantly missing the latter point.
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"The Department of Foreign Affairs is censoring records detailing Canada’s hurried flight from Kabul in 2021." - @mindingottawa . Your yearly reminder that Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan Reid Sirrs closed our embassy and fled the country with staff, as the Taliban entered
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“Younger journalists entering newsrooms are often more committed to sticking to their own idealism than considering a story from every angle.” “They have practised technical skills, but lack news judgement, perspective and are unprepared to be challenged”-anonymous CTV journalist.
Journalism schools are not nefariously building an army of “big L” Liberal partisan flying monkeys so that they can dive-bomb Conservatives from the sky. But they are developing almost exclusively left-leaning storytellers who question objectivity. My take:
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"The Conservatives are planning to destroy the CBC. The CBC invited me on air to explain why":.
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I spoke to the former head of CSIS Richard Fadden about the NSICOP report. "The alleged behaviour is not treasonous. Canadian law requires it to be the use of force [or violence] for the purpose of overthrowing the government. Or, it requires the communication of information (of
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Close ally to PM Trudeau and Canada’s former ambassador to #China Dominic Barton was once head of the major consulting firm McKinsey. Under his tenure revenues doubled to over $10 billion. The firm was also embroiled in major scandals and deepened its ties with the Chinese state.
"It was under his watch at McKinsey that so many of the problems. festered." — @PekingMike (@nytimes) on former Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton. At 8/11pm with @ae_clarke (@CarletonSPPA), @jaimanchin (@StrategyCorp) & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #cdnpoli
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"There will be a border crisis and trade crisis": David Frum (@davidfrum), in @TheHubCanada, on how President Trump will impact Canada
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#Wetsuwenten #pipeline protest blocking traffic at major intersection: Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton. Not fans of the RCMP.
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The digital investigative team @bellingcat which tracked down Putin's poison assassins + uncovered a massacre in Ethiopia has spent the last year logging hundreds of attacks on civilians during #WarinUkraine. @TheAgenda's @JeyanTVO talks to @gianfiorella:
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Since this piece dropped I’ve been privately messaged by concerned journos from The Canadian Press+more hosts from the CBC, supporting points I made. And before you ask, yes, they included young racialized women. Our industry has a problem. And we are sleep walking into it.
Journalism schools are not nefariously building an army of “big L” Liberal partisan flying monkeys so that they can dive-bomb Conservatives from the sky. But they are developing almost exclusively left-leaning storytellers who question objectivity. My take:
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Little Caesars apparently delivers. The Leafs do not.
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"Carceral Intersections of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Trans Experience in Confronting Anti-Black Racism and Structural Violence in the Prisoner Reentry Industrial Complex" ($400,075 government grant awarded).
Dave Snow: The federal government is spending millions on equity, diversity, and inclusion research.
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The Conservative platform states that an O’Toole government would “Recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem.” #cdnpoli.
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"In the last three-and-a-half yrs, Canada has grown by 3 million people, the level we typically experiences in a decade, and slightly more than we experienced in the entire 1990s. "- @MikePMoffatt .Watch @TheHubCanada tmrw for Four policy priorities for Parliament’s return.
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I'm convinced PM Trudeau believes these conferences: the international travel, the glad handing, the grand speeches, the photo ops in front of flags, the fake small talk and laughing between world leaders, the swanky dinners, the custom pen and notepad loot bags, is one of his.
Great to see @Keir_Starmer last night at the #G20 — and great to know we have a strong, progressive partner like him across the Atlantic.
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@adwbto @StarOpinion I also think this should be included in your piece. It’s just a tad misleading no? You’re not accounting for a 23% gap.
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“A lament for a public broadcaster: Why conservatives despise the CBC, why they can’t wait to tear it to shreds, and why they have a point”. Me today in @TheHubCanada.
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NEW numbers from me at @TheHubCanada: Following years of massive budget cuts and job losses, there are now as few as 54 full-time Canadian foreign correspondents left abroad reporting across all our major outlets, with 40 (74%) of them working for the CBC.
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It's one thing for the @CBC to tell concerned viewers to write an email, share an article comment, or reach out to the ombudsman about how they feel their national public broadcast must do better. It's another thing for them to hand the microphone to critics/citizens/taxpayers
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@FredHahnCUPE Fred. This is horrific. These are slaughtered civilians. I ask this genuinely as someone who is a Jew, with a trans sibling, who was on the picket line with you no less than 7 weeks ago. What do you honestly think Hamas’ views on rights and protections for LGBTQ people is?.
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"I’m not here to make a better Canada. I am just here to tell you things the government is doing that the government would rather you don’t know. Journalists now don’t graduate with a hunger to find information, they graduate with an idea of a better Canada. And so they want.
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Here’s @tvo donor Mel Brooks, who says he gives a dollar a day to Ontario’s public broadcaster.
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I say this as someone who has worked for 2 public broadcasters mentioned in this video:. This message, coming specifically from the Minister of Canadian Heritage and a Liberal MP, is not helping. Former colleagues at the CBC tell me its not helping. In an attempt to.
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Another often missed historical gem: the #Toronto city archives. Formed in 1960 they now have 1.25 million photos dating back to 1856. Some of this stuff used to be stored in a leaky attic. The public is welcome inside. Right now @torontoarchives has an exhibit on the suburbs.
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I’m at Queen’s Park where for the first time in history the four major teachers unions are holding a joint legal strike. 200,000 teachers, 72 school boards, affecting nearly 5,000 schools across the province. #onpoli
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“You see, I have done and can do no wrong” is the message this sends to Canadians, as he heads out the door…Canadians who have not seen or heard from him on their country’s news channels for weeks. No sit down interviews for them though….instead they have to catch their Prime.
On CNN, Justin Trudeau blames "right wing attacks" and social media for "misinformation" creating feelings that his government has been bad for Canada.
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President Donald Trump is now considering pardoning Edward Snowden. Here's an @TheAgenda throwback to an interview we did with @benwizner (Snowden's attorney) and @RadioFreeTom, shortly after he leaked classified documents exposing vast govt surveillance.
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Does NATO/the West deserve any blame for the war in Ukraine? Realist scholars say yes. Others say thats BS. @TheAgenda debates: David Hendrickson (@coloradocollege), @RadioFreeTom (@TheAtlantic), Paul Robinson (@uOttawaGSPIA), @kath_stoner (@StanfordCDDRL)
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Currently stuck on subway car at Bay station with a police investigation on board the train. I can hear a man on platform yelling “Please kill me”. Day after a 16 year old boy was stabbed in an unprovoked attack on the TTC. Is this really our Monday morning Toronto commute now?.
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@somecanuckchick @CNN @AnitaAnandMP @donlemon @kaitlancollins @CNNThisMorning Why does America consistently have a Canadian sized blind spot?.
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National Day For Truth And Reconciliation to cost $388.9 million. “It would be an insult. to the memories of those survivors I have lost along the way if this day were to become yet another paid day at the cottage for federal workers" - Senator Dennis Patterson (Nunavut) #cdnpoli.
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Just started reading @anneapplebaum's "Red Famine" today to learn more about this planned atrocity.
Today we commemorate the 85th anniversary of the horrific Holodomor famine genocide of 1932–33. The #Holodomor caused unimaginable pain and suffering and resulted in the loss of millions of lives of Ukrainians. We will never forget. #Holodomor85
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We were pleased to profile (as part of our The Future of News series) @scoopercooper’s outlet The Bureau today, and his tireless efforts to uncover and report on foreign interference in Canada.
I’m enjoying reading The Hub, here they have profiled my startup (good timing after over 150,000 reads of my Fake Chinese Income investigation) The Bureau: filling in Canada’s intelligence reporting gap
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Since 2015, less than 1 percent of permanent residents admitted to Canada have been through the Federal Skilled Trades Program. Read @TheHubCanada:
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My take on the infamous CTV edit. "By putting words in Poilievre’s mouth, CTV put their foot in theirs". The next move Poilievre makes will set a real precedent for the relationship between conservatives and the media. Read @TheHubCanada:
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BREAKING: Ontario moving BACK to STEP 2 of its reopening plan, with tweaks: .- Remote learning for all students Jan 5-17 (at least).- Social gatherings indoors limited to 5 people.- Indoor concerts/cinemas, gyms closed.- No more indoor dining.- All non-urgent surgeries paused
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“The third wave was predicted, clearly and unambiguously, and we walked right into it. If this isn’t failure, what is? What could be?”- @jm_mcgrath
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Twice-poisoned Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza) has now been imprisoned in #Russia since last April. Trumped up charges mean he could be there for 24 yrs. His wife was just in Canada begging for help. Here he is on @theagenda a while back
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"Canada can no longer afford to ignore its ‘soft corruption’ problem" - @EricDLombardi in @TheHubCanada
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Remember when we said we’d funnel all those wheelbarrows full of cash the govt made on legal cannabis into the ailing healthcare system?.
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@CBSNews The mom’s filming, the friend’s filming. A beautiful moment but have we become incapable of just experiencing things in person?.
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Canada has now been without a permanent Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner for more than a year. The interim commissioner's term ends tomorrow, with no successor in sight. More in @TheHubCanada tmrw. /1 #cdnpoli.
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The tone alone that these questions are delivered in, to a conservative, will be the demise of the CBC.
WOW! John Rustad demolishes Stephen Quinn's claim that @Conservative_BC tried to "scare people" by focusing on impacts of drugs, crime, and SOGI:. "People are afraid . This is what is out there in our society today, and it should not be trivialized.". #bcpoli
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