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Lisa Robinson, who was dropped by the Conservative Party as a Toronto-area candidate over the weekend, says she never wrote the online posts that led to her dismissal and that she’s gone to the police because fake posts continue to appear under her name online.

… Ms. Robinson said those Twitter posts, which appear to be from 2017, first circulated when she was running for city council in Ajax, Ont., in 2018. She said she filed a police report about it at the time and had informed the Conservative Party about the issue as part of her screening process as a candidate.

WTF? Go incognito

Only the most fanatical Justin Trudeau partisans will begrudge Jody Wilson-Raybould for her moment of revenge.

Reading the first excerpt of her book, I did find myself occasionally cocking an eyebrow at the portrayal of a wide-eyed innocent who somehow awoke to find herself in a den of partisan thieves.

About an hour before Erin O’Toole, the man many believe will be Canada’s next prime minister, appeared in the ballroom, a blue van sat blocking the exit lane outside the Crystal Fountain Event Venue in Markham, Ontario. Inside, visible behind a propped up trunk door, lay a stack of blue campaign signs, all bearing the name Melissa Felian. Nearby, two Felian volunteers, blue masks around their chins, struggled to sink another sign into the hard ground beneath the late summer grass.