RCMP investigation in legal ‘grey zone’ with ‘green slush fund’ documents: commissioner

OTTAWA – RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme is concerned that some of the documents on the so-called “green slush fund” sent to Mounties via a controversial House of Commons order are beyond the normal reach of investigators, putting the force in an awkward legal “grey zone.”

Sounds like the ground work for the usual “Some crimes are best unsolved” gambit.

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Donald Trump Is in Much Better Shape, Poll-Wise, Than He Was in 2016 and 2020

I recently wrote that the 2024 election won’t be that close. Part of my thinking was that pollsters have yet to solve their “Trump problem.”

The pollsters have tried different methodologies, different algorithms. and different ways to contact voters, all seeking to address the “missing Trump voters” that fail to show up in their polls but end up voting by election day.

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The four fatal ‘I’s of Justin Trudeau

Liberal support is a shadow of what it was nine years ago. Why? In brief: Incumbency, inflation, immigration and identity

Just shy of nine years ago, Justin Trudeau led his Liberals to a majority government with 39.5 per cent of the popular vote. Today, depending on which poll you prefer, the Liberals have lost a shade less than half of that support. Where did it go, and why?

Liberal support began leaking during Mr. Trudeau’s first four-year term. The result of the ensuing election was a minority Liberal government. Since the last election, in 2021, which produced another minority, the Liberals have tried many tricks in the political book and unveiled a range of policies designed to meet social needs, as the party sees them, and to tickle the electorate’s fancy. Politically speaking, nothing has worked. The party has at most one year left before the next election to avoid a crushing defeat. Recently, the Liberals lost by-elections in seats they had long held in Toronto and Montreal, a harbinger of electoral disaster.

Long read but worth it. Trudeau’s immigration scam is a plot to destroy Canada, no one cane deny that.

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School food programs hope $1B from Ottawa will fill need as they wait for governments to sign on

By 8 a.m. — as most people begin weekday morning routines or sit down for breakfast — Debbie Marshall’s already got pots heating on the stove and meat thawing, and is prepping fruit and veggies. Every morning, from an apartment-sized school kitchen in St. John’s, she whips up healthy, hot lunches daily for anywhere from 140 to 200 elementary students.

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STIRLING: The other side of climate change claims that you’re never allowed to hear

The University of Toronto’s magazine “The VarsiTea” is celebrating that, “On September 26, 73 Canadian organizations and 106 academics, including seven U of T professors, issued a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling on his government to stop all public financing of the fossil fuel sector.”

These groups are also calling for an immediate cap on oil and gas production, claiming this is the only way Canada can meet Paris Agreement targets.

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Ukraine military recruiters raid bars, restaurants looking for men not registered for conscription

Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, media and witnesses reported Saturday.

Officers descended on Kyiv’s Palace of Sports venue after a concert Friday night by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy. Video footage aired by local media outlets appears to show officers stationed outside the doors of the concert hall intercepting men as they exit. In the footage, officers appear to be forcibly detaining some men.

I’m a bit surprised the CBC ran this piece.

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Province investigating reports of illegal fishing in rivers near Lake Ontario

However, a spokesperson for the department couldn’t comment specifically on a recent TikTok video that was shared to other social media sites purporting to show conservation officers “busting” salmon poachers in Bowmanville, 75 kilometres east of Toronto.

In the video, several large salmon are laid out on the ground before two people begin loading the fish into a cooler beside a parked vehicle. Enforcement officers can be seen off to the side before one official begins writing on a notepad.

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Is Justin Trudeau fated to lose just like Kathleen Wynne’? We asked MPs who were there for the last days of her government

OTTAWA—Is it déjà vu all over again?

That’s a loaded question for the half dozen Liberal MPs who were part of the doomed Kathleen Wynne government that lost to Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in 2018 and now sit in Prime

Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal caucus facing Pierre Poilievre’s surging Conservatives.

Two of those veteran politicians wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole, their silence a telling indication of where things appear to be headed and how history could repeat itself.

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Trump Has Clear Edge on Handling Israel, Ukraine Wars, WSJ Poll Shows

WASHINGTON—With wars in Ukraine and the Middle East looming over the U.S. election, voters give former President Donald Trump the edge over Vice President Kamala Harris on who would better navigate the country through both conflicts, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll of seven battleground states.

Trump leads Harris among swing-state voters, 50% to 39%, on who is best able to handle Russia’s war in Ukraine and has a wider advantage, 48% to 33%, on who is better suited to handle the Israel-Hamas war. The Republican nominee has pointed to his tenure in the White House as a time of relative peace around the world and has claimed—without providing details—that he could resolve both conflicts quickly if he wins in November.

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