Fed judge dismisses complaint from maskless returning officer barred from polls in 2021. Elections Canada was preoccupied with Covid mandates at the time. blacklocks.ca/maskless-polli… #cdnpoli

President NRC Canada promises no more shenanigans in corporate subsidies: "Canadians are skeptical when they hear senior civil servants uttering words like 'trust us.'"  blacklocks.ca/vow-no-more-in… Larry Brock

Public accounts committee by 6-5 vote saves @S_Guilbeault from questioning over shares in a heavily-subsidized Quebec firm: "Where there is smoke there is fire." blacklocks.ca/guilbeault-ski… Rick Perkins

DOCUMENTS: feds' court fine program collapses @PPSC_sppc with 95% of penalties uncollected at a loss to taxpayers of $272M: "It's as if justice exists only on paper." blacklocks.ca/95-of-fines-un… #cdnpoli @ViraniArif

No comment from @JusticeCanadaEn after senior counsel in vulgar LinkedIn post describes gov't media critics as dog urine. Dep't Code of Conduct mandates "respectful communication." UNLOCKED  blacklocks.ca/calls-media-cr… #cdnpoli Alexander Moreno Gay @dm_justice Arif Virani

Feds @PrivyCouncilCa plan big seminar on equity to "reaffirm values & ethics," made no mention of in-house report that Privy Council executives use n-word and tokenize Black employees.  blacklocks.ca/plan-big-staff… #cdnpoli

Can't predict the future, @BankOfCanada Governor tells reporters after incorrectly predicting the future: "It's not like we got everything right." blacklocks.ca/futures-uncert… #cdnpoli

Latest #RCMP investigation sees manager @ISED_ca plead guilty to breach of trust by awarding contracts to his own firm & pocketing a 39% margin: 'Taxpayers are getting soaked.'   blacklocks.ca/name-another-d… #cdnpoli Michael Barrett

Senior counsel Justice Canada deletes vulgar 'dog pee' post on LinkedIn. Alexander Gay earlier told interviewer he was fit for judicial appointment: "We are capable of being judges."  blacklocks.ca/lawyer-erases-… #cdnpoli @AlexanderMGay Shalene Curtis-Micallef (she/elle) Min of Justice/Attorney General of Canada

Commons returns from summer recess Sept. 16 as @TheJagmeetSingh calls Lib cabinet "too weak, too selfish" to work with: "Do you now have to start thinking about maybe calling an election?"  blacklocks.ca/libs-too-weak-… #cdnpoli

“How can you describe the Prime Minister as weak and unreliable and then vote on the Fall Economic Statement? They’re just going to be at each other’s throats.” PODCAST: Jagmeet Singh ends confidence agreement with Justin Trudeau pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/tr…   #cdnpoli

“Here we have a senior counsel with Justice Canada comparing journalists to dog urine. We have public service codes of conduct about respectful communication.” PODCAST: Sr counsel Alexander Moreno Gay deletes social media posts. iheart.com/podcast/962-th… Lorne Gunter #cdnmedia

Opinion: The government is taking a puzzling approach to newspaper subscriptions theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Canadians tell @PrivyCouncilCa focus groups they fear climate-related food shortages. AAFC Canada has predicted climate change will boost production "Food is abundant with plenty to spare."  blacklocks.ca/fear-climate-f… #cdnpoli

Execs Parks Canada withhold figures on forestry management at Jasper prior to disastrous July 24 blaze, won't release data until May 2025. blacklocks.ca/feds-withhold-… #cdnpoli Dan Mazier

MPs are told of 100 people who applied to be chair of a fed agency, cabinet picked the one who was Lib donor with $12M conflict, Annette Verschuren: "How?" blacklocks.ca/pick-donor-fro… #cdnpoli Rick Perkins Annette Verschuren: Bet On Me

MPs question how much was paid to disgraced anti-Israel Human Rights Canada chief: "The gov't saw fit to offer him a compensation package." blacklocks.ca/suspect-appoin… #cdnpoli Larry Brock

"I'm not afraid," @TheJagmeetSingh tells reporters as 44th Parliament hangs by a thread: "If there is an election we will be ready."  blacklocks.ca/im-not-afraid-… #cdnpoli

“It is bizarre for Mr. Trudeau’s gov’t to be going to the barricades to defend what it interprets as copyright user rights in a manner that could undermine an industry” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…