Author: Blazingcatfur

Election candidates who have taken positions against the Chinese regime’s human rights infractions and interference operations are finding themselves targets of efforts to rob them of votes, such as smear campaigns, candidates and activists say.

Conservative candidate Kenny Chiu, who is seeking re-election in the B.C. riding of Steveston–Richmond East, says he has been a target of misinformation against him in previous election campaigns, but this year “it has been exceptional.”

“Lock him up.”

No, this wasn’t chanted at a rally of former U.S. president Donald Trump, but by protesters at a campaign event of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

While the words may be the same, experts say the anger expressed at some Liberal rallies is not necessarily directly influenced by events in the U.S., but reflect a simmering resentment that has existed even before Trump.

The outcome of another odd and surprising federal election may depend on whether voters see this exercise as a referendum or a choice.

Speaking to reporters in Kanata, Ont., on Monday, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole called the election a “choice.” But then he spoke of it as a referendum on the incumbent.

This election, he said, is “about whether or not we want to reward Justin Trudeau for breaking his promise and calling an unnecessary $600 million election in the middle of a pandemic “

Stark choice? Mush tastes the same served in any bowl.

An NDP candidate in a key Toronto riding is under fire after appearing to invent and then spread a conspiracy theory about Israel and COVID-19 vaccines.

Sidney Coles, an equity consultant running for the party in Toronto-St. Paul’s, repeatedly claimed on Twitter that Israel was somehow responsible for missing doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States last winter.

The other NDP weirdo who resigned is talked about here.

In related news … Our predatory public service unions will give Trudeau the win. 

We are serfs.

On Christmas Day in 1971, in the maternity ward of the Civic Campus of Ottawa General Hospital, Justin Pierre James Trudeau was born to Margaret Trudeau (nee Sinclair), wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada.

The Civic Hospital is in Ottawa, not across the river in Quebec.

Justin Trudeau’s birthplace is therefore Ottawa. He may be a proud Quebecer, but it’s all in his mind.

PS. I am away at work till Thursday, thank the Gang for keeping the home fires burning. BCF.