Holly Doan
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http://www.blacklocks.ca 07-09-2012 17:49:47
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Commons transport committee orders hearings into poor VIA Rail Canada service for second time in two years. Follows routine 4-hour trip that turned into 14-hour odyssey. “There were passengers who were crying.” blacklocks.ca/mps-probe-via-… Luc Berthold #cdnpoli
Happy 252nd birthday, Grandpa! Thanks to Sharon Temple NHS for telling the story of Ebenezer Doan. #cdnhistory
Hey JimEVAI, pretty spicy interview! Loss of Facebook revenue and federal court erosion of paywalls is threatening #cdmedia survival. What should gov’t do? “Back. Right. Up.” Shalene Curtis-Micallef (she/elle) Pascale St-Onge Arif Virani Michael Geist The Globe and Mail Patrick Brethour Peter Menzies
Don’t tell me, tell fans of ripping off struggling #cdnmedia here: CIPPIC Canadian Heritage Michael Geist Shalene Curtis-Micallef (she/elle) Arif Virani Pascale St-Onge
Green Party leader Elizabeth May proposes Parliament nationalize Canada’s two largest railways for sake of “ensuring the future of sustainable public transportation.” blacklocks.ca/greens-like-na… Canadian National CPKC Green Party of Canada #cdnpoli
“The pharmacare legislation needs to pass through the Senate,” says Mark Holland. Minister’s appeal follows mounting criticism of Bill C-64 An Act Respecting Pharmacare as vague and incomplete. blacklocks.ca/appeals-for-bi… Health Canada and PHAC #cdnpoli
REPORT: Feds tell Senate of Canada defence committee that Canada has not exported arms to #Israel. Follows repeated false allegations that Canadians are complicit in “genocide.” blacklocks.ca/export-claim-i… Heather McPherson
“My constituents do not see Justin Trudeau as the person who should carry the Party into the next election.” — Alexandra Mendes Assistant deputy speaker is first Lib MP to publicly demand Prime Minister’s resignation. blacklocks.ca/first-breach-i… #cdnpoli
“If I listen to my constituents, which is supposedly what we’re meant to do, yes, I have to say we would have to change leadership.” — Alexandra Mendes
“The only question now is, will it be a long, drawn out and painful exit? Or a short exit? Those are the options.” PODCAST: Government caucus meeting, two by-elections and a Liberal MP says Justin Trudeau is “no longer the right leader.” pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/tr… #cdnpoli
Host Richard Syrett @Sauga960AM: “How do you think Liberals working with Bloc Québécois is going to go over with voters? Blacklock’s: Any port in a storm! This Parliament is hanging by a thread.” PODCAST: drive.google.com/file/d/1vnNPDK… #cdnpoli Yves-F. Blanchet 🎗⚜️
CBC Ombudsman faults radio host for Sept 8 Cross Country Checkup broadcast in which he said people "want more immigrants to come to Canada." blacklocks.ca/cbc-garbled-op… #cdnpoli
Internal emails show Parks Canada feared “public and political perception” in managing fire hazards in #Jasper. “At what point do we make the organizational decision to cancel planned prescribed burns?” — Jonah Mitchell, Dir, prairie division blacklocks.ca/wildfire-risk-… Dan Mazier
Not much “left of the leadership of Mr. Trudeau,” says leader of Bloc Québécois. Yves-François Blanchet says he’ll press for passage of bills of interest to Quebec but won’t “artificially extend the mandate of a Liberal government.” blacklocks.ca/pm-is-slim-pic… #cdnpoli