federal election

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MANDEL: Ousted Liberal Jane Philpott fails to win as independent
Michele Mandel
Published:
October 22, 2019
Updated:
October 22, 2019 9:47 AM EDT
Jane Phllpott addresses supporters after losing as an independent candidate in the Markham-Stouffville riding on Monday October 21, 2019. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun
STOUFFVILLE, Ont. — If this federal election were a morality tale with a happy ending, ousted Jane Philpott should have won as an independent after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked her out for daring to stand up against his shameful handling of the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
Alas, this election was no fairytale and occupying the moral high ground was no match for the forces of party politics.
“Oh no, third,” were the cries as the first results were broadcast on the big screen at the 19 on the Park theatre. Liberal candidate Helena Jaczek won the riding with 24,743 votes. Conservative Theodore Antony was second at 19,750 votes and Philpott came in third with 13,216 votes.
Philpott made headlines when she bravely followed colleague Jody Wilson-Raybould in resigning from the Liberal cabinet over Trudeau’s interference with the decision to prosecute the Quebec-based engineering firm.
In return, the PM kicked both out of caucus.
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Despite being courted by the NDP and the Greens, the women decided to pursue the risky route of running as independents.
It’s virtually impossible to win a seat without the backing of a political party — an independent hasn’t won a federal election since 2008. Philpott, though, had several advantages over any ordinary solo candidate: She’s well known in this riding north of Toronto, not only from recent headlines, but also as a former Liberal star who served as treasury board president as well as from her past career as a family doctor.
Without access to party coffers and their fundraising machines, independents face an uphill battle. But like Wilson-Raybould, Philpott easily managed to surpass her fundraising goal.
She just couldn’t convince voters that she could do enough for them without party backing.
Knocking on doors, Philpott played up her non-partisan freedom — no leader could now tell her what to say or what to do. “When I became an independent MP, I didn’t lose my voice. I found my voice. I can speak freely on behalf of the people of Markham-Stouffville,” she wrote on her blog.
“Some political pundits note that independent candidates rarely get elected in Canada. Other sceptics say that if by some chance independent MPs are elected, they will be powerless. Those naysayers lack imagination.”
Her slogan was “Colour outside the party lines.”
It was bold. It was different. It just wasn’t enough.
In 2015, Philpott only narrowly won her seat over the Conservative challenger. This time, her former party was so worried about her newfound notoriety, they chose Helena Jaczek to run against her — not only a woman Philpott considered a friend, but someone with a similar high profile resume. Jaczek is also a doctor and former Ontario Liberal health minister.
Philpott’s bid was always a longshot and unfortunately, her integrity and honesty weren’t as valuable commodities as party affiliation.
“There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles,” the daughter of a Presbyterian minister wrote in her March resignation letter, “but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”
Even if that means she no longer represents Markham-Stouffville in the next Parliament.
mmandel@postmedia.com
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-fired-liberal-jane-philpott-fails-to-win-as-independent

 

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'STRONG VOICES MATTER': Jody Wilson-Raybould wins as Independent
Canadian Press
Published:
October 22, 2019
Updated:
October 22, 2019 9:08 AM EDT
Independent candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould celebrates her election win in Vancouver, B.C. on Monday, October 21, 2019. JIMMY JEONG / THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says her victory as an Independent candidate sends a message to Ottawa about the need for change in the country’s politics.
Wilson-Raybould will be the only Independent in the House of Commons after she was ousted from the Liberal party over the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
“We accomplished showing Ottawa, showing our political process, that independent, strong voices matter and that we can do politics differently,” she said to roars of applause in her victory speech.
Wilson-Raybould said she’ll use her Vancouver Granville seat to fight for better climate change policy, electoral reform and “true reconciliation” with Indigenous Peoples.
The federal campaign was plagued by divisive politics but Vancouver Granville voters have shown there’s a different way, she said.
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“That is not the type of politics we need to address these issues. We need to collaborate, we need to come together, we need to, again, work across party lines to address these big issues and I know that we can do it.”
Wilson-Raybould quit Justin Trudeau’s cabinet after she accused the prime minister and his office of inappropriately pressuring her as the attorney general to intervene in the criminal prosecution of Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin on corruption charges.
Wilson-Raybould’s decision to leave cabinet was followed by her colleague Jane Philpott, who failed in her attempt to win as an Independent in the Ontario riding of Markham-Stouffville. The two politicians supported one another at events throughout the campaign.
Trudeau eventually kicked both women out of the Liberal caucus and many of their supporters saw it as vindication when the federal ethics commissioner concluded that Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.
After trailing in early results, dozens of supporters erupted in cheers when Wilson-Raybould pulled into first place ahead of her closest challengers, Conservative Zach Segal and Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed.
They chanted “Jody! Jody!” each time more results came in, solidifying her position after what was initially a tight three-way race.
“That was a nail-biter, yes?” Wilson-Raybould said after taking the stage.
Campaign volunteers said they weren’t surprised it was close.
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Jennifer Canas said she heard some hesitation from voters when door knocking during the campaign.
“People would ask about, ‘Well, you know, she’s an Independent.’ I would say, ‘Well, you know, she has a powerful voice,’ ” she said. “And they listened. It worked.”
But in Markham-Stouffville, the reality of running as an Independent proved a tougher hill to climb for Philpott.
Wilson-Raybould paid tribute to Philpott.
“I know that Parliament will be lesser without her presence, but I know that Dr. Jane Philpott will go on to continue to do extraordinary things,” she said.
Wilson-Raybould won her seat in Vancouver handily for the Liberals in 2015.
She pledged throughout this campaign to do politics differently through a non-partisan approach, a message that was backed by the support of Green Leader Elizabeth May at a rally in September.
Wilson-Raybould became a star candidate for the Liberals in their 2015 bid for power after serving as a B.C. regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Entering the race this time, she had the advantage of a significantly larger profile than her challengers. But her campaign team was challenged with persuading voters that she would be an effective MP as an Independent without the same privileges in the House of Commons as the member of a major party.
Noormohamed tried to seize on that vulnerability in his bid to take the seat for the Liberals, saying in an interview during the campaign that voters in Vancouver Granville should have a voice in government.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...tter-jody-wilson-raybould-wins-as-independent

 

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Controversial Conservative MP Leona Alleslev retains seat
Aidan Wallace
Published:
October 22, 2019
Updated:
October 22, 2019 9:52 AM EDT
Leona Alleslev at her campaign office on October 10, 2019. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun
Controversial Conservative MP Leona Alleslev won the riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill.
Alleslev, who crossed the floor of Parliament in September 2018 to sit with Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives, was in a tight race the whole night against Liberal candidate Leah Taylor Roy.
With more than three-quarters of polls reporting in, Alleslev had won 45.3% of votes while Roy had 41.8%.
The remaining votes went to Aaron Brown, NDP, with 6.9%, Timothy Flemming, Green Party, with 4.0%, Priya Patil, People’s Party, with 1.0%, and Serge Korovitsyn, Libertarian Party, with 1.0%.
Alleslev joined the Conservatives after three years as a Liberal MP, saying at the time the Federal Liberals answered her concerns about the handling of key issues with “silence”.
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Speaking with the Toronto Sun, Alleslev said her decision was supported by her constituents.
“The citizens of AORRH have repeatedly said that my decisions to change political parties and honour my commitment to them is why they chose to once again entrust me with the responsibility to serve as their federal representative,” she said.
Roy told the Sun in her experience, constituents said they felt “betrayed” by Alleslev’s decision to change parties, saying she could “guarantee” she would never cross the floor.
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http://torontosun.com/news/national/controversial-conservative-mp-leona-alleslev-takes-early-lead

 

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BONOKOSKI: If Trudeau had learned a lesson, it totally escaped him
Mark Bonokoski
Published:
October 22, 2019
Updated:
October 22, 2019 1:48 PM EDT
So, after 40 days and 40 nights of raining the cat calls and dog whistles that led to a minority Liberal government, Canadians who stayed up into the early hours to listen to Justin Trudeau’s speech heard not one word of humility.
It was not expected, of course, but it was hoped.
His party had lost its majority. For the first time in history, his party won governance but lost the popular vote. Fewer Canadians went to the polls than in his 2015 coronation.
But Trudeau was still self-worshipping.
His opening line set the tone.
“From coast to coast, tonight, Canadians rejected division and negativity,” he said. “They rejected cuts and austerity, and they voted in favour of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change.
“I have heard you, my friends. You are sending our Liberal team back to work; back to Ottawa with a clear mandate.”
A rejection of “division and negativity?” A “clear mandate?”
The man is clearly delusional.
And he knows nothing about learning a lesson.
Saskatchewan and Alberta are now a sea of blue, with the defeat of Ralph Goodale in Saskatchewan removing from Trudeau’s cabinet the only one with the maturity to wear the long pants.
If that’s not division, what is? There are now three distinct Canadas — the Prairies, Quebec and the Rest.
In the far-off riding of Vancouver Granville, the woman who ran as an Independent because Trudeau had bounced her from her high-profile cabinet post (and then from the Liberal party) for refusing to roll over like a lap dog and give SNC-Lavalin a get-out-of-criminal-prosecution card when she was attorney general and justice minister, was judiciously re-elected as a comeuppance to Trudeau for challenging her deep-seated principles.
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the first indigenous woman to hold such a lofty cabinet post, was catapulted to national stardom after she testified in the spring that she faced a campaign of inappropriate pressure from Trudeau and 10 of his most senior henchmen to offer a deferred prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec mega-firm charged with international corruption.
Remember Trudeau’s lie — that the Globe and Mail story that opened the floodgates to the scandal was totally bogus?
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Well, for a supposedly fictional news story, it rained hell on the Liberals, had his chief adviser Gerald Butts resigning from the PMO, had former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott also getting the boot from the party for backing Wilson-Raybould, and earned Trudeau his second slap to the head for breaching ethics.
If there were any justice in politics, Philpott would have been re-elected as an Independent in Markham-Stouffville, but she wasn’t.
As she wrote in her letter of resignation from Trudeau’s former cabinet, “There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”
Listening to Trudeau deliver his victory speech, however, he projected nothing that was principled, and had no sense of being chastised by the electorate, as if losing 21 seats and seeing the Bloc Quebecois tripling its seat count in his own province was of little or no consequence.
To him, avoiding the embarrassment of being a one-term prime minister erased any silly notion he might have had to be humble.
He had escaped a litany of broken promises during his first four years, including his love of blackface, the ‘Kokanee Grope’, his faux fight of climate change, his weak professing of indigenous love, and more than his share of scandals.
Humility is a trait foreign to his shallow soul.
He is privileged, after all, lest anyone forget.
markbonokoski@gmail.com

http://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...u-had-learned-a-lesson-it-totally-escaped-him

 

[Ron in Regina]

GOt a link? NOt going to happen if they have to depend on the dippers to prop up their shaky government.

If the vote was on Trans-Mountain or Energy-East or any other pipeline....I think I know where Justin can count on 121 MP votes in favor of a pipeline. Only 1/2 of Justin's liberals would have to vote in favour of the pipeline they purchased with Conservative backing for 200/338 votes in Parliament. Same with a vote on an Energy Corridor across Canada as long as it isn't an odoriferous omnibus bill. No support from the Bloc or NDP or Greens or even 1/2 of the Liberal Seats needed. He could have a real legacy of nation building in Canada's best interests beyond being a fake feminist in blackface sucking on UN dick.

 

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LILLEY: Advice for the Conservatives and their leader
Brian Lilley
Published:
October 22, 2019
Updated:
October 22, 2019 8:32 PM EDT
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer speaks at a news conference the day after he lost the federal election to Justin Trudeau in Regina, Oct. 22, 2019. (REUTERS/Todd Korol)
While Andrew Scheer is saying that he will stay on as leader of the Conservative Party, the question is whether his MPs and party faithful will let him. It will take some time to figure out the future of the Conservative leader but there are already rumblings.
Some candidates, such as Richard Martel, have been critical.
“It’s not the best campaign he’s done,” Martel told local media of Scheer’s effort in the national campaign.
As far as criticism goes, that’s pretty mild. It’s also an understatement.
It’s true that Scheer was up against a candidate who is part of Laurentian Elite royalty, who was literally born living at 24 Sussex and who most pundits, myself included, thought was a shoo-in for a second majority. So that Scheer held Trudeau to a minority, increased the Conservative seat count and won the popular vote speaks well of him and the campaign the party ran.
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That he didn’t win, though, is a problem. Gone are the days when party leaders hang around for two or three elections before getting turfed for not winning power.
Scheer had Trudeau at his weakest and couldn’t beat him. This was a PM found guilty of breaking the ethics laws twice, a man who was exposed during the campaign as a fan of wearing blackface and who had faced scandal after scandal over the past two years.
That Scheer couldn’t beat Trudeau this time is a problem.
Whether Scheer stays or goes will be up to party members and the leadership review that the party constitution calls for. In the meantime, the best I can do is offer some friendly advice for Scheer, or another leader come the next campaign.
Give up on the myth that a more moderate leader is the path to success. I’m not saying that the leader of the Conservative Party has to be a fire-breathing dragon from the far right, but this idea that the party just needs to elect a moderate to easily win simply is not true. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is not a social conservative in the least; Ford isn’t actually all that conservative, period.
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Yet for having the PC name attached to him, the media and his opponents regularly portray Ford as something he’s not. Had Rona Ambrose or Peter MacKay been leader of the Conservative Party this election, not much would have changed — the claims of hidden agenda would have persisted.
That said, own your issues. A big problem for Scheer was giving a straight answer on a number of fronts. On abortion, he should have said right from the start that like Justin Trudeau he was opposed to abortion but would not change the law. Instead, he gave the impression on this issue and others that he was uncomfortable answering and therefore hiding something.
The media are not friends with the Conservatives. I know most newspapers, including this one, endorsed the Conservatives but that is the owner’s point of view. Nearly 20 years of working in this business right across the country have shown me that most reporters, the ones doing the daily stories, are instinctually Liberal. It’s how they think, it is how they view the world, it is why they will always be tougher on Conservative proposals than Liberal ones.
Issues that media folks will automatically call controversial are often not controversial with the public. The media and the voting public are not the same, woo voters, not the media.
Speaking of wooing, while the Conservatives did very well in Western Canada, they were virtually shut out in the Toronto area. If you can’t win in the area with the most seats in the country, then you can’t form a government. Either change policies or do a better job of explaining them to voters.
The Conservatives have weakened the Trudeau Liberals this time. They will get a rest before the next campaign at which point, whoever is leading them, must simply do better.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-advice-for-the-conservatives-and-their-leader

 

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Elections Canada can't keep track of baloney ballots?
Liz Braun
Published:
October 23, 2019
Updated:
October 23, 2019 4:09 PM EDT
A sign directs voters to a polling station for the federal election in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 21, 2019. Chris Helgren / Reuters
A story in Blacklock’s Reporter claims that Elections Canada doesn’t really know how many non-citizens are voting in Canada’s elections.
Just how many people were incorrectly or illegally on voting lists for last Monday’s federal election is, apparently, a mystery.
The story says chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault told reporters in September that the agency would “clean up the list” after 112,000 non-citizens on the National Register of Electors had been identified.
Elections Canada says it has already begun ferreting out the fakes.
Said Perrault, “We have used Immigration Canada data to verify whether people who are on the Register are indeed Canadian citizens. We’ve written to over 100,000. We have received confirmation from several thousands of them, that they are Canadian citizens, and we have removed approximately 75,000 who did not respond either because they are not citizens or simply neglected to respond.”
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That figure of nearly 75,000 names scratched from voters lists before Monday has been confirmed by Elections Canada, but nobody seems to know how many more names are still on the National Register of Electors.
This is according to an internal memo at Elections Canada, Blacklock’s Reporter claims.
It is also claimed that the Office of the Commissioner of Elections confirmed 57 instances of people who were not Canadian citizens voting in the 2015 federal election.
As there was no reasonable prospect of conviction, no action was taken.
There were several ridings in the 2015 election where results were decided by fewer than 500 votes, and some where fewer than 100 won the day.
Those include Elmwood Transcona, Man. (by 61 votes); Desnethe-Missinippi, Sask. (82 votes); Barrie-Springwater, Ont. (85 votes); and Edmonton Mill Woods (92 votes.)
http://blacklocks.ca/didnt-count-illegal-voters
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/elections-canada-cant-keep-track-of-baloney-ballots

 

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'BECAUSE IT WORKS': Raising voter fears helped Trudeau to victory in Canada
Reuters
Published:
October 23, 2019
Updated:
October 23, 2019 8:17 AM EDT
Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau wave on stage after the federal election at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 22, 2019. Carlo Allegri / REUTERS
OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pulled off a second consecutive election win on Monday with a late change in tactics designed to scare progressive voters who showed signs of abandoning Liberal candidates, four Liberal campaign sources said.
As polls indicated he could lose, Trudeau ditched his “sunny ways” persona that had swept him to power in 2015 and started hammering away at three smaller parties on the left, warning their supporters that if they didn’t vote Liberal, the progressive vote would splinter and allow the opposition Conservatives to take power.
During the last two weeks of the campaign, Trudeau repeatedly told supporters that voting for the rival New Democrats, Bloc Quebecois and Greens would result in a progressive opposition, not a progressive government.
“We’re doing this because it works,” one Liberal official said of the strategy as the campaign reached its climax last week. He and the three other Liberal aides and strategists in this story declined to be named because they were not authorized to discuss campaign strategy.
Rival parties lately complained about what they saw as fear-mongering by Trudeau, who won a healthy minority and should be safe for the next two years.
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“The Liberals like to talk progressive, but they govern conservative,” Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democrats, said on Oct 15. “I want people to dream big. Don’t settle for less.”
Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin used the same fear-inspiring technique in the last week of 2004 election, during which he managed to fight off a challenge from the Conservatives.
“It’s absolutely a legitimate strategy by people who want to drive votes towards them based on fear of the worst result,” said Tim Murphy, who was Martin’s chief of staff at the time.
Former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley said Monday’s results in the populous province of Ontario, where the party held onto virtually all of its seats, showed the tactic had worked.
Support for the New Democrats, seen as a major left-leaning challenger in some seats, fell markedly in the last few days, allowing Trudeau to stay in power, he noted.
“You’d rather people voted enthusiastically for you rather than against someone else, but at the end of the day, who won?” Manley said in a phone interview.
Neither the Liberal nor Conservative campaign spokespeople were immediately available for comment.
The victory was all the more remarkable because Liberal campaign officials had heard from the first day about deep dissatisfaction with Trudeau from long-time supporters.
Trudeau came into the campaign trying to shake off the effects of an ethics scandal and ran into further problems when photos emerged of him wearing black face.
“Some people are telling me ‘Normally I would vote for you, but a vote for you is a vote for (Trudeau) and I’m not voting for him come hell or high water’,” said one Liberal legislator who declined to be named.
Liberal parliamentarians and strategists described what they saw as a poorly-run campaign that did not focus nearly enough on the party’s economic successes and spent too much time talking about progressive issues.
“The thing that has absolutely frustrated me the most is that the economy has really been smoking … and he has not sung that song,” said the Liberal legislator.
The party presented proposals designed to appeal to voter-rich inner cities, such as a clamp-down on gun violence and a proposal to cut cell phone bills. The polls did not move, much to the consternation of Trudeau officials.
A senior Liberal campaign official said the shift in strategy to a less sunny tone was designed to underscore how different Trudeau’s policies were from those of the Conservatives, especially since the parties were locked in the polls.
“We knew we first had to establish a plan … and then be able to say, ‘These are the things that we want to be able to do, vote for your values, but vote for your values in a way that turns it into action,” the official said.
Unlike 2015, when the Liberals had a year to get ready for the election, two of the Liberal campaign officials said, preparations this time were delayed by months as the party struggled with the pressures of governing and the after-effects of the ethics scandal.
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Canada’s independent ethics watchdog found Trudeau had violated ethics rules when he tried to push his former justice minister and attorney general to drop criminal charges against a Quebec engineering company.
The scandal – which cut the Liberals’ popularity ahead of the election – also temporarily cost Trudeau the services of close aide and key strategist Gerald Butts, who resigned in February but returned in July.
He was not present as Trudeau’s inner team started lengthy debates over what the main planks of the platform should be.
In the end, the Liberals chose a mixture of proposals designed to build upon advances made since 2015 while adding promises for big-ticket items such as expanding a program to provide coverage for the cost of prescription drugs.
In the last election, Trudeau attracted millions of new voters including women, young people, aboriginals and environmentalists.
Since then, however, Trudeau had alienated various parts of this coalition by ditching plans for electoral reform, forcing two prominent female former ministers out of caucus over the ethics scandal and buying a crude oil pipeline opposed by environmentalists.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ter-fears-helped-trudeau-to-victory-in-canada

 

[spilledthebeer]

The end is nigh

The NDP will be able to press the Liberals on this now.

IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The LIE-berals INTEND TO SIT ON THEIR ASSES for the next four years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


YES - just collecting their GRAVY and going through the motions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Deficits and the DEBT WALL??????????????????



LIE-berals say deficits balance themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THUS NO NEED to worry about money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AFFORDABLE HOUSING??????????????????????


As LIE-berals HAVE ALREADY DEMONSTRATED when they had a FOUR YEAR LONG MAJORITY............................


they had NO MONEY for stuff like that and they certainly DONT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Public transit????????????????????????


Why would LIE-berals help out with public transit IN EITHER Ontari-owe or B.C.??????????????????????????????


Neither province is friendly to LIE-berals???????????????????????


And yes Toronto HOGTOWN is SOLID LIE-beral................................


but the HOGS have already SOLD THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If they shun Our idiot Boy then they are left ALONE to deal with Ford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There will be NO SPECIAL DEAL for desperate Hogtown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Changes to federal transfer payments to provinces??????????????????


LIE-berals NEED ALL THEIR GRAVY to win back Quebec!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The Bloc Quebecois DID TOO WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MORE Quebec LIE-beral BRIBERY IS CLEARLY NEEDED to SAVE LIE-beral bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Kinder Morgan pipeline???????????????????????


It is "IN NEGOTIATIONS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AND WILL REMAIN SO AS A BARGAINING CHIP FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


UNLESS LIE-berals get DESPERATE ENOUGH to make some deal or other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Immigration and illegals??????????????????????


LIE-berals now have ONLY A MINORITY GOVT and thus .........................................



LIE-berals have MADE IT CLEAR THEY NEED MORE voters who can be BOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And homeless welfare recipients - who would not even be allowed into the country..............................


without LIE-beral sponsorship are the CHEAPEST TO BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The lack of education and language skills of illegals means.....................................


they WILL SELL THEIR VOTES FOR A LIFETIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



In exchange for that LIE-beral gravy they cannot survive without!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The crime wave overtaking Canada?????????????????


LIE-berals have already told us "WE CANNOT ARREST OUR WAY OUT OF THIS PROBLEM"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals HAD FOIUR YEARS of majority govt to take some sensible action...............................



and LIE-berals FAILED UTTERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And of course actually JAILING criminals costs to much gravy for LIE-beral comfort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What about all the data breaches and assorted FRAUD artists preying on Cdns???????????????????


LIE-berals have let us know they believe property crime...........................................


IS LESS SIGNIFICANT than physical violence.............................


and so they are even LESS FOCUSED on FRAUD than criminal violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What WE CAN BE ASSURED OF...................................


IS HIGHER CARBON TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals are very excited about carbon tax SCAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And NDPees like carbon tax SCAMS as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So the ONLY AREA where there will be cooperation is with carbon SCAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals want MORE CARBON GRAVY to buy votes from civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And NDPees will support the carbon crap in exchange for a CUT of the gravy........................


to get funding for NDPee pet projects....................................


like catering to rug addicts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What of the catastrophe that is life on a typical native reserve????????????????????????


LIE-berals HAD A MAJORITY GOVT AND DID NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals did nothing for natives for 4 years..............................


other than to change our jury election process to make it easier to EXCUSE...............................


DRUNKEN IDIOT THIEVES like Colton Boushie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The DO NOTHING BRIGADE is firmly in control in Ottawa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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LEVY: Federally funded guide tells Muslims how to vote
Sue-Ann Levy
Published:
October 25, 2019
Updated:
October 25, 2019 7:47 PM EDT
Canadian Muslim Voting Guide
A federally funded Canadian Muslim Voting Guide — released three days before the Oct. 21 election — gives Conservative leader Andrew Scheer a series of failing grades for apparently associating with far-right, Islamophobic figures, opposing the M-103 motion and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and for proposing immigration policies that “compromise asylum seekers.”
The highly partisan, anti-Zionist guide — produced by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project out of Wilfrid Laurier University — contends that newly re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been the “target of Islamophobic hate campaigns” and gives him a free pass for his black face antics because of his public stance against Islamophobia.
The 34-page guide was put together by Jasmin Zine, a professor of sociology and Muslim studies, as well as graduate students Fatima Chakroun and Shifa Abbas.
The guide’s cover states quite clearly that it was supported by a grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. According to the SSHRC website, Zine, in conjunction with National Council of Canadian Muslims, got a $24,923 Partnership Engage grant in September of last year to map the Canadian Islamophobia Industry.
According to her own biography she has developed “award winning curriculum materials that address Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism” and has published numerous journal articles on Islamic feminism.
Story continues below
She also received an $80,339 SSHRC grant in 2009 to study Canadian Muslim youth post 9/11.
Attempts to reach Zine were unsuccessful.
However her guide states that it is not just a resource for Canadian Muslims but for anyone interested in “political decision making that will affect the future” of Canada.
“Islamophobia is on the rise in Canada and political speech can fuel or quell it,” said Zine in an Oct. 18 press release. “We’ve examined party leaders’ stances based on their public statements and voting records to help Canadian Muslims, and anyone interested in the issues we’ve identified, decide how to vote in the Monday, Oct. 21 federal election.”
The guide scores Trudeau, Scheer, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May and Maxime Bernier in five key areas. These include ties to alt-right groups and Islamophobia; support of M-103 (the federal anti-Islamophobia motion); religious freedom in Quebec; immigration/refugees; support of BDS and foreign policy.
MOSTYN: A new way to fight campus anti-Semitism this year
MOSTYN: Anti-Israeli protest rooted in hate
LEVY: City Hall turns blind eye to hateful Al Quds Day rally
Teacher who spewed anti-Israel rhetoric back in classroom
Not surprisingly Bernier gets a resounding fail on every issue and is described in the guide as having “little concern for the plight of oppressed people around the world,” a supporter of individuals with blatantly Islamophobic and anti-Muslim views and engaged in policies that are “blatantly xenophobic, Islamophobic” and reinforce “white nationalism.”
NDP leader Singh gets a pass in every area except on religious freedom in Quebec and on the BDS movement.
Singh and the Green Party’s Elizabeth May are the only leaders to get a “needs improvement” on the latter issue — both for not clearly aligning with the BDS movement.
Trudeau received a fail for apparently claiming that supporting the BDS Movement is “anti-Semitic.”
“This rejection turns a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinians,” the report says, noting that the “Palestine-Israel conflict remains an important subject for Muslim communities in Canada.”
Conservative senator Linda Frum said as disturbing as it is to see academics using Jew-hatred as a “useful metric” on how to assess a political party, what is worse is that the Liberal government paid for this “hateful propaganda.
“This is a clear violation of parliamentary ethics, election law, not to mention simple decency,” she said Friday.
B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn called it “totally unacceptable” that government funds were used to promote an anti-Semitic movement in Canada.
“It is (also) deeply troubling that taxpayer dollars were used to subsidize a document ‘guiding’ Canadians on whom to support in an election,” he said.
Late Friday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) issued a statement saying SSHRC has launched an investigation into what appears to be “an unapproved use of funds” allocated for a different purpose.
SLevy@postmedia.com

http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=soci_faculty
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/levy-federally-funded-guide-tells-muslims-how-to-vote

 

[spilledthebeer]

LEVY: Federally funded guide tells Muslims how to vote
Sue-Ann Levy
Published:
October 25, 2019
Updated:
October 25, 2019 7:47 PM EDT
Canadian Muslim Voting Guide
A federally funded Canadian Muslim Voting Guide — released three days before the Oct. 21 election — gives Conservative leader Andrew Scheer a series of failing grades for apparently associating with far-right, Islamophobic figures, opposing the M-103 motion and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and for proposing immigration policies that “compromise asylum seekers.”
The highly partisan, anti-Zionist guide — produced by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project out of Wilfrid Laurier University — contends that newly re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been the “target of Islamophobic hate campaigns” and gives him a free pass for his black face antics because of his public stance against Islamophobia.
The 34-page guide was put together by Jasmin Zine, a professor of sociology and Muslim studies, as well as graduate students Fatima Chakroun and Shifa Abbas.
The guide’s cover states quite clearly that it was supported by a grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. According to the SSHRC website, Zine, in conjunction with National Council of Canadian Muslims, got a $24,923 Partnership Engage grant in September of last year to map the Canadian Islamophobia Industry.
According to her own biography she has developed “award winning curriculum materials that address Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism” and has published numerous journal articles on Islamic feminism.
Story continues below
She also received an $80,339 SSHRC grant in 2009 to study Canadian Muslim youth post 9/11.
Attempts to reach Zine were unsuccessful.
However her guide states that it is not just a resource for Canadian Muslims but for anyone interested in “political decision making that will affect the future” of Canada.
“Islamophobia is on the rise in Canada and political speech can fuel or quell it,” said Zine in an Oct. 18 press release. “We’ve examined party leaders’ stances based on their public statements and voting records to help Canadian Muslims, and anyone interested in the issues we’ve identified, decide how to vote in the Monday, Oct. 21 federal election.”
The guide scores Trudeau, Scheer, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May and Maxime Bernier in five key areas. These include ties to alt-right groups and Islamophobia; support of M-103 (the federal anti-Islamophobia motion); religious freedom in Quebec; immigration/refugees; support of BDS and foreign policy.
MOSTYN: A new way to fight campus anti-Semitism this year
MOSTYN: Anti-Israeli protest rooted in hate
LEVY: City Hall turns blind eye to hateful Al Quds Day rally
Teacher who spewed anti-Israel rhetoric back in classroom
Not surprisingly Bernier gets a resounding fail on every issue and is described in the guide as having “little concern for the plight of oppressed people around the world,” a supporter of individuals with blatantly Islamophobic and anti-Muslim views and engaged in policies that are “blatantly xenophobic, Islamophobic” and reinforce “white nationalism.”
NDP leader Singh gets a pass in every area except on religious freedom in Quebec and on the BDS movement.
Singh and the Green Party’s Elizabeth May are the only leaders to get a “needs improvement” on the latter issue — both for not clearly aligning with the BDS movement.
Trudeau received a fail for apparently claiming that supporting the BDS Movement is “anti-Semitic.”
“This rejection turns a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinians,” the report says, noting that the “Palestine-Israel conflict remains an important subject for Muslim communities in Canada.”
Conservative senator Linda Frum said as disturbing as it is to see academics using Jew-hatred as a “useful metric” on how to assess a political party, what is worse is that the Liberal government paid for this “hateful propaganda.
“This is a clear violation of parliamentary ethics, election law, not to mention simple decency,” she said Friday.
B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn called it “totally unacceptable” that government funds were used to promote an anti-Semitic movement in Canada.
“It is (also) deeply troubling that taxpayer dollars were used to subsidize a document ‘guiding’ Canadians on whom to support in an election,” he said.
Late Friday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) issued a statement saying SSHRC has launched an investigation into what appears to be “an unapproved use of funds” allocated for a different purpose.
SLevy@postmedia.com

http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=soci_faculty
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/levy-federally-funded-guide-tells-muslims-how-to-vote

THE EVIDENCE just keeps PILING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That LIE-berals are DECEITFUL and disrespectful of real democracy ..........................


and HOSTILE to genuine free speech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals REPEATEDLY GAME our electoral system with their "vouching"...............................


that allows total strangers with NO ID to vote in critical swing ridings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



With civil service union HOGS unable to differentiate between the DEAD who are not able to vote.........................


and the LIVING - who are not yet Cdn citizens and thus NOT ELIGIBLE TO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But it has not stopped HOGS from sending out THOUSANDS of cards to people who ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And those voter cards issued issued INCORRECTLY DO GET USED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And then HOGS tell us "WE are on the honour system" meaning those not eligible to vote should do the right thing and throw away their ill gotten voter cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hogs have also sent out voter cards to illegals who are not eligible to vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOGS IGNORE the reality of how many people DESPERATELY want access to LIE-beral GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


REGARDLESS of what they really DESERVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HOGS who are employed at homeless shelters also "got out the VOTE"................................


by dragging the drugged and drunken and crazed "clients" of the homeless shelters out to polling booths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


One wonders what BRIBES were offered to homeless if they would support LIE-beral candidates???????????????????


Is it any wonder that Toronto is ALL LIE-beral Red thanks to HOG efforts and bribery???????????????????


CBC - our Communist Broadcasting corp has systematically violated "fair use" legislation to CENSOR Conservative comment!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals disgrace themselves by claiming that Scheer is making up things about LIE-beral intentions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And yet all Scheer has done is comment on issues BEING DISCUSSED at LIE-beral party conventions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our idiot Boy Justin whines that LIE-berals have NO PLANS to legalize hard drugs like Heroin.........................


yet LIE-beral party records reveal that LIE-beral rank and file APPROVES of legalizing hard drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our idiot Boy is one of only a very few LIE-berals who DO NOT APPROVE of legal heroin and Amphetamines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thus nothing will be done to legalize Heroin and Amphetemines - FOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Our idiot Boy denies there will be a slew of new taxes yet party records indicate there is STRONG LIE-beral party APPROVAL............


for NEW WEALTH TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


With such new wealth taxes intended to cripple so called "white privilege" by TAXING AWAY whatever wealth you want to leave for



your kids to inherit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals DENY they will push their carbon tax SCAM PRICE above %50.00 per tonne..............................


but LIE-berals have promised MANY THINGS that they did not deliver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals promised to "save the middle class" yet such people are paying TWO GRAND MORE IN TAXES.........................


than they were 4 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berls promised a fresh start with Cdn natives and all we have seen is a SPIKE in native suicides!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Before he became premier - LIE-beral Dalton McGinty happily signed that form promising "NO NEW TAXES"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And after he got elected as Ontari-owe premier - he hit us with the BIGGEST TAX HIKE EVER........................


and he EXCUSED HIS BROKEN PROMISE by claiming the new helth tax was a HEALTH LEVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals want to PRETEND that a "LEVY" is somehow different than a tax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The sad truth about our govt is this:::::::



If its LIE-beral.................ITS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mowich]

The liberals intend to continue with the Trans Mountain Expansion.

No shit sherlock.

 

[Mowich]

GOt a link? NOt going to happen if they have to depend on the dippers to prop up their shaky government.

business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-tmx-is-a-done-deal-here-are-five-bad-policies-to-worry-about-instead


Oh it's going to happen all right, ts. The government has little choice but to sell the line - they aren't going to build it themselves. As I have been saying for awhile now, a sale to the Indigenous groups who have come forward with proposals for the purchase would be my choice. I see it as a win- win situation for all concerned.

 

[spilledthebeer]

The liberals intend to continue with the Trans Mountain Expansion.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals LIE about their interest in pipeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


On August 21 - Our idiot Boy told contractors to BE READY to start WITHIN 30 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And it has BEEN 70 DAYS................................


with NOT A SINGLE PIECE OF PIPE LAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If its LIE-beral ......................ITS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


EVEN WORSE - the new LIE-beral Minority govt NEEDS NDPees to survive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And NDPees are OPPOSED to the pipeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thus the "Do Nothing BRIGADE will remain in charge in Ottawa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


EVEN WORSE YET - all it will take is one set of radical native protestors to set up camp on the right of way..........................


and ANY PRETENSE of pipeline progress WILL GRIND TO A HALT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


For one thing - LIE-berals WILL NOT WANT NDPees to get any credit for anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals certainly DO NOT want natives to think they can get a better deal if natives sell their votes to NDPees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As I have said before - the pipeline will have to WAIT for a new govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


All we have at this time IS A CRIPPLED LAME DUCK version ...................................................


of the LIE-beral Sunny Ways Fake News manure spreaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The fact that LIE-berals are encouraging contractors to take the names of potential employees........................


WHO COULD build the pipeline IF LIE-berals got out of the way.......................................


means NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Contractors HAD A PILE of employee names LEFT OVER FROM BEFORE LIE-berals bought the pipeline and killed all progress!!!!!!!


Names cost NOTHING to compile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


For LIE-berals - FAKE NEWS offers HOPE of survival!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



LIE-berals are just playing out the clock.................................


while waiting for a MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[spaminator]

it would appear that beauty conquers all.

 

[spaminator]

Controversial Muslim voting guide not sanctioned by feds
Sue-Ann Levy
Published:
October 31, 2019
Updated:
October 31, 2019 9:11 PM EDT
Canadian Muslim Voting Guide
A Wilfrid Laurier professor who created a controversial guide for Muslim voters using federal funds did so without the knowledge of her funder, a spokesman for the federal agency says.
Andrea Matyas told the Toronto Sun that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) — the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports postsecondary-based research — had no prior knowledge of the Canadian Muslim Voters Guide being created and was “not consulted” in the development of the document.
Matyas said SSHRC provided Zine a $24,923 Partnership Engagement grant for a “Mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry” project, not for the Voter’s Guide.
“SSHRC takes the concerns raised seriously and is looking into the situation,” she said, noting that the SSHRC is an arm’s-length agency and the government plays no role in influencing the selection of grants.
The Toronto Sun revealed a week ago that the guide — released three days before the Oct. 21 election — was put together by Jasmine Zine — a professor of sociology and Muslim studies — and graduate students Patima Chakroun and Shifa Abbas.
LEVY: Federally funded guide tells Muslims how to vote
HASSAN: The Muslim vote will play a role in Canadian election, but how?
FATAH: Dividing Canada into vote banks, one tribe at a time
The guide’s cover stated at the time that it was supported by a SSHRC grant — the $24,923 Partnership Engagement grant she got last September.
Zine, who also received an $80,339 SSHRC grant in 2009 to research Canadian Muslim youth post 9/11, gave Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer a series of failing grades in her 34-page guide for allegedly associating with far-right Islamophobic figures, for opposing the M-103 motion and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and for proposing immigration policies that “compromise asylum seekers.”
Her guide claims that re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been subject to “Islamophobic hate campaigns” and suggests his blackface antics are OK because of his public stance against Islamophobia.
Zine, who has not responded to Toronto Sun requests for comment, issued an Oct. 18 press release noting that they examined the party leaders’ stances based on public statements and voting records to help Canadian Muslims decide how to vote in the Oct. 21 federal election.
The guide is still online; however the government logos have been removed.
Jonathan Newman, vice-president of research at Wilfred Laurier University, told the Sun Thursday the SSHRC logo was removed following discussions between the research council and the university. He added that Zine assented to the removal.
Although the university appreciates the range of views on this matter, he said faculty members at Canadian universities are “protected by academic freedom” — meaning they can freely communicate the results of research.
“As such, universities neither ‘endorse’ nor ‘condemn’ such communications,” Newman said.
SLevy@postmedia.com

http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=soci_faculty
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/controversial-muslim-voting-guide-not-sanctioned-by-feds

 

[spilledthebeer]

Controversial Muslim voting guide not sanctioned by feds
Sue-Ann Levy
Published:
October 31, 2019
Updated:
October 31, 2019 9:11 PM EDT
Canadian Muslim Voting Guide
A Wilfrid Laurier professor who created a controversial guide for Muslim voters using federal funds did so without the knowledge of her funder, a spokesman for the federal agency says.
Andrea Matyas told the Toronto Sun that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) — the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports postsecondary-based research — had no prior knowledge of the Canadian Muslim Voters Guide being created and was “not consulted” in the development of the document.
Matyas said SSHRC provided Zine a $24,923 Partnership Engagement grant for a “Mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry” project, not for the Voter’s Guide.
“SSHRC takes the concerns raised seriously and is looking into the situation,” she said, noting that the SSHRC is an arm’s-length agency and the government plays no role in influencing the selection of grants.
The Toronto Sun revealed a week ago that the guide — released three days before the Oct. 21 election — was put together by Jasmine Zine — a professor of sociology and Muslim studies — and graduate students Patima Chakroun and Shifa Abbas.
LEVY: Federally funded guide tells Muslims how to vote
HASSAN: The Muslim vote will play a role in Canadian election, but how?
FATAH: Dividing Canada into vote banks, one tribe at a time
The guide’s cover stated at the time that it was supported by a SSHRC grant — the $24,923 Partnership Engagement grant she got last September.
Zine, who also received an $80,339 SSHRC grant in 2009 to research Canadian Muslim youth post 9/11, gave Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer a series of failing grades in her 34-page guide for allegedly associating with far-right Islamophobic figures, for opposing the M-103 motion and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and for proposing immigration policies that “compromise asylum seekers.”
Her guide claims that re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been subject to “Islamophobic hate campaigns” and suggests his blackface antics are OK because of his public stance against Islamophobia.
Zine, who has not responded to Toronto Sun requests for comment, issued an Oct. 18 press release noting that they examined the party leaders’ stances based on public statements and voting records to help Canadian Muslims decide how to vote in the Oct. 21 federal election.
The guide is still online; however the government logos have been removed.
Jonathan Newman, vice-president of research at Wilfred Laurier University, told the Sun Thursday the SSHRC logo was removed following discussions between the research council and the university. He added that Zine assented to the removal.
Although the university appreciates the range of views on this matter, he said faculty members at Canadian universities are “protected by academic freedom” — meaning they can freely communicate the results of research.
“As such, universities neither ‘endorse’ nor ‘condemn’ such communications,” Newman said.
SLevy@postmedia.com

http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=soci_faculty
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/controversial-muslim-voting-guide-not-sanctioned-by-feds

LIE-berals JUST LOVE those sleazy unreliable DENIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The govt grant was for ONE ISSUE...............................................


and the teacher HOG has used the money for a completely different................................................


and VERY PARTISAN PURPOSE .............................


that JUST HAPPENS to benefit LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And how ABSURD that LIE-berals should TRY TO DENY any responsibility!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If my boss told me to go buy brake parts for his company vehicle................................


and I came back with a lawn mower..........................................


because I felt like it - THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But LIE-beral LIARS hand out grant money for a stated purpose that the teacher HAS IGNORED...........................


and used the grant money for something else entirely...........................................


and LIE-berals are OKAY with that???????????????????????


AND LIE-berals want to CLAIM NO RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL???????????????????????????


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[spaminator]

Recounts ordered in B.C., Quebec ridings after narrow federal election results
Canadian Press
Published:
November 1, 2019
Updated:
November 1, 2019 4:23 PM EDT
Graham Hughes/THE CANADIAN PRESS, file
OTTAWA — Three recounts will take place in ridings where the runners-up are hoping a court-ordered review could snatch victory from the jaws of ever-so-narrow defeat.
Courts in Quebec and British Columbia have made the orders days after hearing challenges to the results of the Oct. 21 vote.
The first recount will take place next week in the B.C. riding of Port Moody–Coquitlam, where NDP hopeful Bonita Zarrillo lost to Conservative Nelly Shin by just 153 votes.
The New Democrats argued that there were 516 rejected ballots — an unusually high number — along with evidence of a counting error in one poll and more than 250 unaccounted ballots. Combined, the party believed a judicial review was warranted.
Elections Canada says the recount will take place on Nov. 6, with the results to be published online once complete.
A second recount is being set up for the Montreal riding of Hochelaga, where Liberal Soraya Martinez Ferrada bested Bloc candidate Simon Marchand by 328 votes.
A Bloc Quebecois source who was not authorized to speak publicly told The Canadian Press there were discrepancies between the final result and the number of votes counted in the ballot boxes.
Elections Canada says the recount will take place Monday, Nov. 4, in Montreal.
Also on Friday, a Quebec court ordered a recount in the riding of Quebec where Liberal cabinet minister Jean-Yves Duclos won re-election by 325 votes to Bloc candidate Christiane Gagnon.
Details are not yet available about when that judicial recount will take place.
Overturning any of the results wouldn’t change the overall outcome from the election, where the Liberals won a plurality of seats in the House of Commons, but failed to earn a majority. Nor would the Conservatives be bumped from their spot as official Opposition.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ridings-after-narrow-federal-election-results

 

[spaminator]

Teen with cancer whose viral video urged Canadians to vote has died
Canadian Press
Published:
November 17, 2019
Updated:
November 17, 2019 3:54 PM EST
This image obtained from a video, courtesy of Maddison Yetman, 18, shows her in a hospital after being diagnosed with a terminally illness encouraging Canadians to vote ahead of the federal election on October 21, 2019. (HO/AFP via Getty Images)
A terminally ill cancer patient who recorded a video from her hospital bed that urged Canadians to vote has died, the teen’s family says.
Brent Williamson, who was Maddison Yetman’s uncle, says in a Twitter post that the young Winnipeg woman died Saturday.
Yetman’s video in October, made shortly after her diagnosis at age 18, showed her holding up cards with hand-written messages saying she managed to vote in advance of the Oct. 21 federal election despite having terminal cancer.
Maddison passed away yesterday afternoon after a short but courageous battle with cancer. She ask that we thank everyone who sent messages of support and love. In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. https://t.co/edr9Iz0855 — Maddison (@MaddiYet) November 17, 2019
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The final card said “#WhatsYourExcuse.”
Story continues below
Within hours of being posted, it was viewed more than 47,000 times.
A message posted on Yetman’s social media accounts Sunday said that in lieu of flowers, mourners should donate to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
“Our beautiful little peanut passed away yesterday. She was stronger than anyone could imagine and left a wonderful mark on this world,” Williamson said on Twitter.
This is my last chance to make a difference. Please share this with your network and get out and vote! #whatsyourexcuse @justinpjtrudeau @andrewjscheer @jagmeetsingh @MaximeBernier @liberalca @cpc_hq @ndp @peoplespca @CanadianGreens #cdnpoli #Elxn43 #canpoli pic.twitter.com/xxfXxuOrEf — Maddison (@MaddiYet) October 15, 2019
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Yetman had been feeling sick for a few days, with achy bones and sore joints, when her family got together for brunch on Oct. 6. They took her to a medical clinic when her symptoms worsened. Soon after, she was admitted into the Health Sciences Centre’s cancer ward.
Within five days, Yetman, learned she has a type of cancer called sarcoma and it had spread through her body, into her blood and bone marrow.
She was given days to weeks to live, Williamson told The Canadian Press last month.
Our beautiful little peanut passed away yesterday. She was stronger than anyone could imagine and left a wonderful mark on this world. https://t.co/pQc0PgzSkI — Brent Williamson (@BrentWGlobal) November 17, 2019
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Yetman had been looking forward to voting in her first federal election since junior high school and cast her vote from her hospital bed.
“If I can find the time to vote, you can find the time to vote,” Yetman said in the video.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...-viral-video-urged-canadians-to-vote-has-died

 

[taxslave]

business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-tmx-is-a-done-deal-here-are-five-bad-policies-to-worry-about-instead
Oh it's going to happen all right, ts. The government has little choice but to sell the line - they aren't going to build it themselves. As I have been saying for awhile now, a sale to the Indigenous groups who have come forward with proposals for the purchase would be my choice. I see it as a win- win situation for all concerned.

That would be best case. I am more concerned that TrudOWE will break it up and sell the parts to his backers for pennies on the dollar.