“Another Damn Election”

According to the latest nightly tracking ending Sunday and released Monday morning, ballot support for the Liberals sits at 32.5 per cent, while the Conservatives are at 31.4 per cent support, leaving a 1.1 percentage-point difference that is well within the poll’s margin of error of ± 2.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Interesting statement from an article discussing the weekend IPSOS poll – “… over one out of three Canadians say that they don’t really like any of the parties in this election.

Big tech and Canada’s state broadcaster are teaming up to censor what you can see and what you can share during this election.

Facebook Canada announced that it has entrusted the CBC to be its “fact checker” during the campaign. According to a 2021 election memo posted by Facebook Canada, CBC’s French language division Radio-Canada will be in charge of this initiative.

Trudeau defends Liberal campaign video flagged by Twitter as ‘manipulated media’

Reporter: How do you respond to Twitter flagging your doctored and manipulated video that clearly misrepresents O’Toole’s position on health care?

Trudeau: Our doctored and manipulated video clearly speaks for itself pic.twitter.com/Avs2MSCUsB

— (@BryanPassifiume) August 23, 2021

A video tweeted by incumbent Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland, who served as deputy prime minister in Justin Trudeau’s government, was given a warning label Sunday from Twitter, which marked it as “manipulated media.”

The video tweeted by Freeland contains several edits and shows Conservative leader Erin O’Toole answering a question about privatized healthcare during an online question-and-answer session in July 2020 during the Conservative leadership race.

A couple of weeks ago the big question surrounding what was then a still to be announced federal election campaign was whether or not Liberal leader Justin Trudeau would be re-elected with a minority or whether he’d secure the majority he clearly covets.

During Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s first week, his campaign plane touched down at the Winnipeg airport, parking right next to the aircraft carrying his chief rival: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

“I can’t verify this, but we’ve been told it broke down already,” O’Toole joked with his campaign team.

In a quest to move from Official Opposition to government, the Conservatives are flying high over what they believe to be a smooth, strong start to their campaign.

EDMONTON — Erin O’Toole acknowledged a long-simmering sentiment within Conservative circles on Saturday: the Tory leader’s carbon-pricing scheme is not universally beloved among the party faithful.

Under the plan, unveiled in April as a loyalty-card style of carbon pricing, consumers would see what they pay on fuel stored into an account that can be used for green purchases later.

“It does price carbon and I do get some questions about it and some people frustrated about that, but it shows my commitment,” O’Toole said.

If only Justin Trudeau had been as serious about getting our Afghan allies to safety in Canada as he was about accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees after he became prime minister in 2015.

This promises to be the most absurd federal election since 2000, when Jean Chrétien was facing four opposition parties of somewhat equivalent strength (PC, NDP, Reform and the Bloc), ensuring he could not possibly lose, in an election he called prematurely, to try to stifle the majority of his own party who were unimpressed with him. The sequence of events he set in motion ended with Chrétien becoming the only incumbent elected prime minister in the history of Canada to be turfed out of office mid-term by his own party.

OTTAWA — The race between the Liberals and the Conservatives is narrowing with upward movement in favour of the Conservatives as week one of the federal election campaign comes to a close, according to nightly tracking conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail.

According to the latest nightly tracking ending Friday, which was released Saturday morning, support for the Conservative Party has increased by 3.9 per cent between Aug. 12 and Aug. 20, during the timeframe that saw leaders begin pitching their platform pledges to Canadians.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau spent the first week of this late-summer election campaign hitting the battleground ridings he needs to get the majority he seeks.

The path to a Liberal majority runs largely through the suburbs of Canada’s largest cities. And the opening moves of the campaign tour foreshadowed the Liberal’s election endgame.

But what was missing was a compelling reason for why Trudeau chose to seek a third mandate in the middle of a fourth wave.

He’s so vain. Convinced of his invincibility in light of his amazing Covid response. Seriously.

O’Toole reverses campaign pledge on conscience rights, says doctors must refer patients

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he believes doctors must refer patients seeking services like abortion or medical assistance in dying to another provider if they object to performing these procedures themselves.

O’Toole faced questions Friday about his position on conscience rights for health professionals after a promise to uphold them appeared in his party’s election platform.

Conservative push to explore legalizing ‘poppers’ is unexpected and practical

Last week, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner sent an open letter to the Health Minister advocating for the legalization of alkyl nitrites (colloquially known as “poppers”). Poppers are a liquid recreational drug commonly used by gay and bisexual men as a sexual aid. They have been functionally banned since 2013, but are nonetheless widely available through a grey market, sometimes by being labelled as a “leather cleaner.”

No issue has knocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau more soundly off his soapbox than revelations he had worn racist makeup.

Seniors cut off from mail delivery after Toronto building overrun by cockroaches

A cockroach infestation at a Toronto Community Housing building has left more than 100 seniors without mail for nearly a month, cutting some off from their pension cheques, bills and doctors’ letters without notice.

Two residents, Joseph Quirk and Wayne Youngs, say Canada Post stopped daily mail delivery to Kensington Manor, at 34 Oxford St., in July after all three mail rooms became overrun by the roaches.

None of the residents were officially informed of the change, or notified about how they could get their mail in the meantime, they said.

John Tory tells federal leaders seeking Toronto votes what the city needs from them

Toronto’s election wish list for federal party leaders includes money to mend the pandemic-ravaged finances of Canada’s biggest city, funding for new affordable housing and the creation of a “more robust mental health care system.”