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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 1d

These numbers are disastrous... for Poilievre.
#canpoli #canadasky

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Canada's economy added 60K jobs in September while unemployment stayed flat #Canada #cdnpoli

Economists were expecting only a modest gain in jobs

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada's economy added 60K jobs last month | CBC News

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 9d

Leadership in the USA isn't grounded in law or reality for that matter...

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

We're officially in a new war according to Trump

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 9d

What a waste of time and parliament resources. The Cons really brought forward a motion to remove the tax from groceries that are already tax free.

#canpoli

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 9d

Next, NL proposes a transmission line across Quebec.

Alberta to apply to Major Proj...
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Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News

The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 10d

Isn't this just crazy compared to our system here in Canada. On top of having no possibility of a government shutdown, using the power of government to attack your political enemies is forbidden. One can't even as a minister make a funding announcement wearing a party t-shirt.

#canpoil

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 11d

C(onservative)TV and the Canadian press tells you everyone is now agains't renewable energy.

#canpoli

Renewable energy: Renewables go from boom to bust in Canada's wind capital share.google/4BwYsQj4Cjgb...

‘It’s not us anymore’: Renewables go from boom to bust in the wind capital of Canada

In Pincher Creek, wind is king, roaring down the eastern Rockies, delivering power for generations, so much so the municipal district made a windmill part of its corporate logo. Not anymore.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 11d

Shirley, this is out of context, obviously the commander and chief would never dream of using the military against his own citizens?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 11d

Conservative TV strikes again

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 11d

Alberta - 🖕🤮😡👎 #cdnpoli
When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more. #cdnpoli

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 12d

Did PP include the road taxes on gasoline/deisel and the fed and provincial income taxes paid by the farmer's and fishers and the truck driver and the corperation taxes paid by the company he works for? There is a lot of revenue to dump so we can have truly tax free groceries.

#canpoli

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12d

My god this guy is an idiot, he knows full well that most grocery food items are NOT taxed ffs. #PoilievreIsALiar

Zero-rated basic groceries are:
breads and cereal
dairy products (unflavoured milk, cheese, butter, cream, sour cream, yogurt)
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Holds a News Conference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre discusses the rising cost of food in Canada at a news conference in Ottawa. (no interpretation)

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 12d

Time is everything: The day before National Truth and Reconciliation day PP brings up the churches that got burned down in reaction to the discovery mass unmarked graves at residential school grounds.

#canpoli

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 12d

Pierre Poilievre: "Christians may be the number one group that are victims of hate-based violence."

The facts: Nope.

Receipt: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 16d

Who to invade... Iran, Venezuela, Canada, or Denmark?

The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 16d

🚨A shadow war council convenes at Quantico, no agenda given

Never before has every General & Admiral been forced into one room without cause.

Something up…

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 17d

Like Gilead?

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19d

Christian nationalism is a direct repudiation of this nation’s founding.

In reality, Christian nationalists want to form a new nation - one in which they can impose their will, masked as the will of God, on everyone else.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 18d

The letter doesn't even address the Prime Ministers correctly. In commonwealth countries, the Prime Minister is addressed as "The Right Honorable"

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18d

Meanwhile over the weekend, the US government sent a letter threatening France, Australia, the UK, and Canada if they recognized Palestinian statehood. Despite US warnings of “punitive measures,” they proceeded with recognition.

Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 20d

Remember when there was huge scandal in Canada that dominated the news for months when Trudeau asked his AG to consider a Deferred Procuction Agreement for SNC Lavalin.

#canpoli #canadasky

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 23d

Sound velocity probe? Ya be working hard if you had to put that up by hand.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 24d

Is he drunk or hungover?

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24d

Condescending, ignorant Poilievre belittles and tries to humiliate another female reporter as he always does! #cdnpoli

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24d

Condescending, ignorant Poilievre belittles and tries to humiliate another female reporter as he always does! #cdnpoli

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 24d

I can't understand why the CPC MPs feel they need to do this?

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24d

Lies, lies and more lies from the Conservative caucus. #cdnpoli

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24d

Over in the Bad Place, Conservative MPs are faking committee meetings to make people angry.
I wish I were making this up.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24d

Lies, lies and more lies from the Conservative caucus. #cdnpoli

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24d

Over in the Bad Place, Conservative MPs are faking committee meetings to make people angry.
I wish I were making this up.

There was no meeting scheduled today. The first meeting of this committee this week is on Thursday.
This is bullshit theatre designed to make people angry, and we used to shame MPs who engaged in it.

Quoting MP Larry Brock:
UNBELIEVABLE.

Parliament is back, but Liberal members of the Justice Committee are MISSING IN ACTION.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 26d

My guess is no.

Will Poilievre shift his tone in return to HoC as leader of the opposition?

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 27d

PP garners so much attention from CBC dispite him promising to defund them. Anyways I wonder is this worth my time? Can we expect anything different from Poilievre this session?

#canpoli #canadasky

Poilievre to address caucus on...
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Poilievre to address caucus on Sunday as Conservatives gear up to return to Parliament | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will address his caucus on Sunday to lay out priorities for the upcoming sitting of Parliament. They'll likely include tackling affordability, unemployment, crime ...

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 11

honestly if we're postponing the mandate i think this is perfectly fine. either the canadian car producers start competing or face the market

www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...

Ottawa considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

If Canadians were in the driver’s seat, tariffs imposed by Ottawa on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) would have an easier road to the Canadian market.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · Sep 11

You're right. We don't know the killers motivation at this point. We do know that Hortman's murder was 100% politically motivated, but it was treated very differently by the PP and Trump and pretty much most right-wing proponents.

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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · Sep 10

We can all agree that violence has no place in political debate. But why didn't PP make a similar statement about the killings off Melissa Hortman and her husband?

#canpoli #canadasky

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