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The Debate Commission’s decision to give questions to Rebel Media & other rage farming, disinformation outlets (who focus on attacking progressive politicians & their families as I well know) at expense of credible news organizations is not only absurd, it degrades our democracy.

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Reminder, just last year, Arnold Viersen CPC - brought forward a private members petition against abortion in Canada, so Poilievre lied last night, stating they have not tried to bring forward bills, technically, private members bill still get read in Parliament. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Calls political opponents juvenile names Brags about crowd sizes Marginalizes unsupportive media No real success in the private sector Sells merch to supporters Wants to cancel public broadcasting Exaggerates accomplishments Supports people who occupy nation's capital Detests social safety nets

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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

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🔥🔥🔥Bill Blair 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli In these newly discovered videos, National Firearms Association President Rick Igercich, describes in his own words Pierre Poilievre's offer to sit down and deregulate gun control. Liberals will stand up against American-style gun laws. 👇

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Vote! #cdnpoli

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

Wonder how you lose your democracy? Proactively giving legitimacy to peddlers of disinformation is definitely near the top of the list.

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Where’s Pierre?! He’s missed every debate in Carleton, he doesn’t answer emails from his constituents, and he only visited this riding by accident last week. Help us win. Sign up to volunteer this weekend! event.liberal.ca/en/events/35...

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The Debate Commission should consult Federal Court decision where Rebel Media was found to be not engaged in production of original news content & not entitled to ““qualified Canadian journalism organization”” designation. Scared? Get better lawyers. Stand up for democracy.

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Trump's attack on universities and students is a modern case of fascist book burning. Poilievre vows that if elected he too will target scientific research and cut funding to "woke" universities. Read my latest on the fascist playbook. charlieangus.substack.com/p/book-burne...

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“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”

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decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi... Rebel News Network Ltd. v. Canada (Attorney General) - Federal Court Federal Court upholds CRA’s decision not to grant Rebel News journalism tax credits, because the outfit produces little original content.

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Poilievre says he won't attack a woman's right to choose. 56 of his hand-picked candidates are endorsed by Campaign for Life. #cdnpoli

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63 years old, Canada. I can proudly say I have NEVER missed a vote.....municipal, provincial or federal since I turned 18. Been voting for 45 years. I would drag myself over broken glass to vote. What we saw in the US with tens of millions abdicating their vote...horseshit. #DoBetter. #CanadaVotes

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Karina Gould 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli When someone tells you who they are, believe them. The Federal Govt should not use the Notwithstanding Clause. Here are my thoughts from last year. We can see what's happening in the US when a President disregards the courts, don't let them happen here in Canada.

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So here's the trend. If they can't dictate the questions (such as preferred MAGA media outlets), they just don't show up. Muzzled, scripted slogan slinging repeat, repeat, repeat. No evidence of thought process behind the platform (or lack of) Simple....CONS cant be trusted. #NeverPoiLIEvre #ABC

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The debate commission is meant to make sure the debate and questions after are professional and above reproach. The questions being asked by some of the “media” are ridiculous, wasting everyone’s time and insulting to Canadians intelligence. #fail

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Canada is under threat from America, Pierre threatens our democracy from within. We have one chance on April 28, 2025 to get this right. I do not want to spend the next 4 years living in constant lies and misinformation from right wing news outlets chosen by Pierre. Carney needs a majority. Vote

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US Health Secretary RFK Jr claims autism is a "preventable disease." "We know it's an environmental exposure. Genes do not cause epidemics... You need an environmental toxin." Autism has a strong genetic component. Autism is not a "disease". Autism is not an "epidemic". RFK Jr is not a scientist.

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Canada is truly the greatest place!Great debate between 4 leaders with differing views, but perhaps not completely disparate. Carney, great job!. Jagmeet Singh did an amazing job and he deserves recognition. Blanchet is a smart guy and there was a air of collaboration. Poilievre … washout.

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Everytime Mark Carney talks Canadians learn something about the economy and his strategy for success. This is why the world calls him the rockstar economist. We are lucky he's our PM in this Trade War #DebatsDesChefs #Debate2025 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

CancelTheDeal.ca

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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Rich people are amazing. People will be going hungry out there, and they’ll be like yeah, but I went to space.

submitted 22 hours ago • 367 comments

BREAKING: Peter Guthrie has been expelled from the UCP Caucus for speaking out about government corruption. That makes two! The cracks are getting bigger and Danielle Smith is frantically scrambling. Keep the pressure on, friends. Demand your UCP MLA stand up too. A better Alberta is possible.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

The company you keep says a lot about you. Run with a circus, expect a clown. Vote wisely. #neverCONServative #NeverPoiLIEvre #noCONtrumpAGENDA

submitted 21 hours ago • 44 comments

i keep thinking about the gender breakdowns in the contemporary canadian election (Nanos Research)

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I don't understand how Canadians are not concerned with CONS being members of the IDU, led by Harper, that helps authoritarian dictorships get into power. Don't be naive and don't think that it won't happen here in Canada. The US is falling into an authoritarian dictorship right before our eyes

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Pay no heed to piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s pusillanimous push to reframe the ballot issue away from Trump. Here’s Trump’s mouthpiece cheerily assuring OUR CBC yesterday from the White House that he’s as committed to 51st statehood as ever. #ElbowsUp🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney for Canada🇨🇦😠🇨🇦

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It's hard to really wrap your mind around the depravity of the far-right. It's important to understand their whole political movement is based on brazenly lying. On top of being objectively evil, incompetent and stupid, they lie like they breathe.

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Are they hoping that two debates will suddenly convince the nation that 21 years of being a rage baboon with no accomplishments will be erased and Poilievre will suddenly fool people into thinking he’s prime ministerial? What a hilarious and desperate joke.

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In the melee, you may have missed it: Rubio is telling State employees to snitch on colleagues for "anti-Christian bias." Said "bias" is defined as not agreeing that right-wing Christians are superior and get to dictate the choices of everyone else. www.salon.com/2025/04/15/m...

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Well, the 🍁gun cult’s lawsuit to axe the ban on assault style weapons bites the dust again. They just don’t get how unattractive their cause is to our courts and the population at large. 🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼

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Coyne is correct: It's not about multiple murderers, it's about an excuse to start eviscerating the Charter.

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This is not an accident. This is clear. Harper and Orban use the same playbook, and PP is Harper's gofer.

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A couple of stellar candidates on team Poilievre. Like Pierre, both have troubling comments and behaviour in their past. Maybe that’s why they’re his guys. Or maybe it’s the flattering book that Lawton wrote about him? Remember, if someone shows you who they are, believe them. #NeverPoiLIEvre

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There you have it, folks,straight from Trump’s mouthpiece: he still wants 🇨🇦Canada as the 51st state. #ElbowsUp

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Religion doesn’t belong in politics!!

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Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

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The Canadian Association of University Teachers now recommends against non-essential academic travel to the United States. Out of the six categories of academics that need to exercise particular caution, I am in three of them. @caut.bsky.social www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

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Pierre Poilievre does a lot of photo ops, but the fact is the Harper- Poilievre government closed 9 Veterans Affairs offices across Canada, denying veterans services. In 2016, PM Trudeau reopened them. #CanadianVeterans

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After 18 months of genocide, we can drop the illusion: The mainstream media and these big influencer accounts are NOT "free press" and they never have been. They're the PR wing of a military-industrial complex pushing narratives for war because they profit off atrocities.

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"Six months before the official announcement, the premier and the minister of health knew that DynaLIFE’s fiscal position was unsalvageable and that the company’s ability to deliver lab services was increasingly compromised." www.parklandinstitute.ca/red_flags?ut...

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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

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Keep on rocking in the free world. ✌️ m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/4/artic...

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www.economist.com/united-state...

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Canadian university teachers warned against traveling to the US. Academics who are from countries that have tense diplomatic relations with the US, or who have themselves expressed negative views about the Trump administration, should be particularly cautious about attempting to cross the border.

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