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Radio host, journalist and commentator. Host on News Talk 580 CFRA in Ottawa. Opinions do not reflect my employer. 🇨🇦 Bylines: CTV News, CBC News, CBC Sports, Ottawa Citizen, CityNews. Substack: https://substack.com/@andypinsent?r=18f5g6&utm_medium=ios
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Scoop: White House officials are studying the costs of taking over Greenland, attempting to determine price-tag to maintain & what revenue could be gained, per sources Government officials working on Greenland www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is real. Trump appears to be suggesting his tariffs on Canada will result in fentanyl dealers getting dinged at customs.

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If SignalGate was bad: Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say wapo.st/42dVyTk

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New: Canada Proud is dominating Facebook ahead of the election. The group is behind 31 of the top 50 most-viewed posts mentioning Mark Carney on Facebook in the past 7 days. All this is happening while Meta continues to block access to news on its platforms in Canada. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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Feb. 1 was the first time Trump announced tariffs and you see how it’s gone since.

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Remember all that talk about “sheeple”? (Chart: economist.com/graphic-deta...)

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The United States government has pinpointed Quebec’s Bill 96, “An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec,” as a hindrance that could impact trade between the U.S. and Canada.

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Making everything more expensive is going to make everyone wealthy. Who knew.

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Whoopsie! Accidentally disappeared a legal citizen!

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“With a little imagination, we can glimpse the America that Project 2025 proposes,” writes @dgraham.bsky.social. “It is a vision that suggests Reagan was right: Freedom really is a fragile thing”:

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Whoa. The US’s annual list of trade complaints is out. And here’s a new one for Canada: Quebec’s language law, Bill 96. The US had already begun complaining about it, and now it’s officially on its target list. ustr.gov/sites/defaul...

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Liberal candidate Paul Chiang resigns over Chinese bounty comments www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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It’s like taking economic advice from the cash for gold guy.

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“We need to make sure local issues are still a priority in this election campaign even if the overarching narrative is about to be about the relationship with the United States and the Trump administration.” www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

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The Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University has a deep fake tracker. Carney started showing up in earnest in false posts in January. deepfakestracker.org

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Myanmar’s earthquake death toll jumps to more than 1,000 apnews.com/article/myan...

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March 29, 1966: Muhammad Ali fought Canadian boxer George Chuvalo at Maple Leaf Gardens.

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Trump has made the Canadian election all about finding new friends. So, let's get to it. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/decoupling...

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Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded in 2023, in an unusual arrangement that may raise conflict-of-interest questions. @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/t...

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Elon Musk on Friday evening announced he has sold his social media company, X, to xAI, his artificial intelligence company, in a deal that values X at $33 billion, much less than he paid for it in 2022 but a significant rebound from its moribund valuation just a few months ago. cnn.it/4ckfE31

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Those poor kids.

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NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-sig...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you for your attention probably says it all. #cdnpoli

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‘Please destroy your bottom line so I can avoid the negative consequences of my actions.’ www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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