Survey finds Canadians resigned to foreign money influencing federal elections

A majority of Canadians believe illegal foreign money is influencing federal elections, according to in-house research by Elections Canada.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the agency’s study found that more than two-thirds of voters suspect such interference is commonplace, with concerns particularly high among immigrants and British Columbians.

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Politico’s Headline Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How Dems Feel About Hurricane Helene

The Biden-Harris administration is being raked over the coals for its slow response to the Hurricane Helene disaster. Government officials are dithering, no one seems to oversee supply distribution, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that they don’t have enough funds to make it through this hurricane season, thanks to funds being diverted to help illegal aliens. To boot, $157 million was sent to Lebanon. It’s becoming more striking how the slow rollout could be due to the Democrats’ intention to prevent those impacted by Helene from voting.

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Has Justin Trudeau given his cellphone number to the Bloc Québécois leader? The future of this shaky Parliament may rest on it

Justin Trudeau sat down recently for an interview with his fellow Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, and the hour-long conversation has generated a lot of attention since it was posted.
Little wonder — Erskine-Smith is a thoughtful MP who is not afraid to disagree with the prime minister, and Trudeau prefers interviewers who challenge him.

Cell phone number? Trudeau gave Blanchet’s wife a cushy job.

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Conrad Black: Pro-Trump argument carries the house

The C.D. Howe Institute has invited me to use this column to summarize the Regent Debate that the institute held in Toronto on Sept. 24. It was a well-attended and rollicking affair with a learned audience of several hundred or more people. The former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, and I defended the motion that the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States would be an opportunity for Canada. Our very worthy opponents were the former minister of finance John Manley, and the former Liberal politician and chair of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, Martha Hall Findlay. It is well-known that after Christie described president Trump as “Donald Duck” during one of the Republican candidates’ debates (which Trump ignored and dismissed as “an audition for vice-president”), their relations are unlikely to resume anytime soon.

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Hamas rally in Toronto

Maybe a 4K crowd at its height?

Sunday and Monday may see larger crowds.

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Elon Musk for President?

The Constitution limits eligibility to natural-born citizens, but that’s what constitutional amendments are for.

Need a made-in-the-U.S.A. reusable space rocket to end NASA’s reliance on Russia to access the International Space Station? Go to Musk. Need to bolster your party’s war on fossil fuels with a stylish made-in-the-U.S.A. electric car? Go to Musk. Need to develop a functional commercial space program? Go to Musk. Need a low-orbit satellite system to bring internet access to isolated and underserved populations? Go to Musk. Need a rapid relaunch option in case Russia or China starts shooting our satellites out of orbit? Go to Musk.

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On the Moral Status of Addicts

They have become a potent American metaphor.

Anyone raising children in an American city these days has had to confront the following disconcerting scene: a person unconscious or semiconscious, in filthy clothes, stoned at midday, a nuisance if not a menace. As you lead your child gingerly around an adult prone on the sidewalk, the questions come: Why is that person lying there? Are they okay? Why do they take drugs if they know it could kill them? We tie ourselves in syntactic knots trying to formulate credible answers. We want to emphasize personal responsibility: that person made choices, but you can make different ones. We also don’t want our children to think us hard-hearted: that person is still a human being; somebody loves them. This conversation is even more difficult for the millions of Americans who have addicts in their own families.

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What’s floating around between Justin Trudeau’s ears right now

Basically all the chatter in Ottawa at the moment reflects some desire to can-opener the top of Justin Trudeau’s skull and peer into his brain: Will he step down? Does he know he’s toast? What does he think will happen next?

All of those answers live in the Prime Minister’s head and only in his head, and that often feels like a you-can’t-get-there-from-here problem. To be fair to Mr. Trudeau, the blunt questions the media bark at him don’t really invite introspective sharing. And to be fair to the question barkers, Mr. Trudeau’s communication style means his answers usually don’t offer much more enlightenment than a Magic 8 Ball.

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U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangerous and Disastrous

During the last four years since the Biden-Harris administration assumed office, the world has been marked by escalating global crises. One of the most significant has been the war against Israel, in which, a year ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas, a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched a brutal attack on Israel. The assault consisted of massacres, rapes, torture, beheadings, burnings-alive, kidnapping and other crimes against humanity.

Possibly emboldened by the perceived weakness of the US, since its surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021, and its constant appeasement of China, Iran, for the first time, took direct military action on April 13, 2024 by launching hundreds of attack drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel.

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Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents

A professor is taking the Department of National Defence to court in an effort to force it to release records about the Canadian military’s program to target members of the public in various propaganda schemes.

The application for a judicial review was filed in federal court Sept. 27 in Vancouver on behalf of Emma Briant, an associate professor at Monash University in Australia and an expert in military propaganda.

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Democrats fear Kamala Harris being increasingly MIA during campaign home stretch: ‘What the f–k are y’all doing’

Where’s Kam?

It’s a question a growing number of Democrats are asking as the vice president is increasingly MIA on the campaign trail as the 2024 presidential contest enters its final month.

“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” Obama campaign guru David Axelrod told Politico. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”

H/T Mauser

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Federal government plans to warn foreign ambassadors not to interfere in next election

The federal government plans to convene a meeting of foreign ambassadors next month to warn them not to interfere in the next election.

Testifying before the inquiry into foreign interference in Canada, David Morrison, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, said his department is preparing for the next federal election and wants to make sure that diplomats from other countries know where Canada draws the line between attempts to influence and attempts to interfere.

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