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James 🇨🇦
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While in the middle of a housing crisis and an affordability crisis the Liberal government chooses to spend its resources on mass deportation #cdnpoli
Canada spent $78 million deporting 18,000 people in 2024 — the most since Stephen Harper
The vast majority of those deported have been asylum seekers whose refugee claims have been rejected, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.
www.thestar.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
From ethical banker to butler for the billionaires the depressing arc of Mark Carneys values #cdnpoli
Mark Carney’s journey from climate ‘visionary’ to pipeline promoter
Environmentalists believed the former Bank of Canada governor was a true believer in the need for the world to move away from fossil fuels. Then he became prime minister.
www.thestar.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Billionaire’s banker?
Big Business Is Pushing Mark Carney For More Handouts
“We have been promised for decades that handouts to business are going to get us more and better jobs.”
www.readthemaple.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Doug Ford's runaway gravy train should alarm us all #onpoli
Marit Stiles | Doug Ford's Skills Development Fund Scandal
YouTube video by Marit Stiles
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December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Carney waffles on the environment but stands firm on eliminating taxes for American Billionaires doing business in Canada #cdnpoli #values
What happened to Mark Carney’s promised consumer incentives for green purchases?
An early Mark Carney promise to make heavy industries help pay for your green renovation or electric cars appears to have been shelved, amid lingering questions about federal consumer incentives
www.thestar.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As Doug Ford orders civil servants back to work, his MPs get to work from home until March 2026 #onpoli
Doug Ford ordered Ontario public servants back to the office. Now, nearly 11,000 are asking to work from home
The Treasury Board Secretariat said it has been so inundated with "remote work alternative work arrangement" requests that it cannot process them all.
www.thestar.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There was a time when building reliable train service was considered nation building. #cdnpoli
Via Rail passengers make it to Ottawa after being stranded overnight in Brockville, Ont. | CBC News
Via Rail passengers travelling from Toronto to Ottawa were stranded for 12 hours overnight after an earlier train broke down near Brockville, Ont.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Maybe if Carney had paid his dues, sat in parliament first and learned how it works he wouldn't be making such a hash of things #cdnpoli
Carney government faces impasse over budget bill as MPs head into final week before break
Lack of a formal partner for the government in the House is proving to be difficult, finance committee chair says
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Considering the guys book was titled Values it’s surprising to discover he doesn’t seem to have any #cdnpoli
Climate change advisers quit over Carney government’s energy deal with Alberta
Two departing members of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body say the Carney government is shredding any hope the country will meet its climate goals.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Mark Carney's nation building project threatens to tear the nation apart #cndpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social
Opinion: Ottawa risks billions in investments for a pipeline to nowhere
B.C. stakeholders’ voices are not being heard in discussions about building pipelines that make little economic sense
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Carney says his obligation is to seek the highest return on investment regardless of human rights, environment or other foreign policy objectives. Our highest return will not come from Europe. It comes from the United States. Carney has waved a white flag at Trump. No more elbows up. #cdnpoli
No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#Carney is ready to take up a principled fight to defend his agenda of austerity, militarism, attacks on immigrants, law and order, environmental degradation and an assault on Indigenous rights. How noble of him!
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'This is not a game,' Carney says as he signals he's ready to fight election over federal budget | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled at the close of the APEC summit that he'd be prepared to fight an election over the upcoming federal budget — remarks that set the stage for a parliamentary showdo...
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"the settlement does not constitute an admission of liability". It's just your basic pay off.
YouTube to pay $24.5-million settlement over Trump’s account suspension after insurrection
Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits brought by the President
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I agree with Ben Mulroney on one thing-he is not a journalist.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's not just about economics and turning Canada into the world's gas station. Elbows up is also about who we are as a people. Mark Carney needs to grow a spine and defend Canadian values against US fascism @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social #cdnpoli
Russian dissidents in U.S. warn of deportation unless Canada intervenes
ICE has already sent at least 80 people back to Russia this summer. Activists say a third mass-deportation flight is expected in the coming weeks
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Carney looking less like an elbows up enforcer and more like a player who fakes an injury so he can sit the game out.
Justin Ling: Mark Carney needs to stop placating the mad king and actually fight Trump
Expecting a reasonable deal from the U.S. president is a mistake.
www.thestar.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
They say it was a submarine sandwich but to me it will always be a hero.
A judge once said any good prosecutor could indict a sandwich.

Well, the Trump DOJ just failed to indict someone for throwing one.
D.C. Residents Rebuke Justice Department and Refuse to Indict DOJ Official Who Threw Subway Sandwich at Cop
A stunning rebuke by D.C. residents
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August 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I also would like in on the new MPP pension plan. I mean what kind of greedy self serving legislator would grant themselves a better pension than the people they govern? #onpoli @maritstilesndp.bsky.social
Former MPPs want to be included in Doug Ford’s new pension plan for legislators
For three decades, Ontario MPPs didn’t have a full pension plan. But now that Premier Doug Ford has restored what then-premier Mike Harris axed in 1995 in a populist move
www.thestar.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trying to imagine what the world would be like if Churchill had folded like @mark-carney.bsky.social after Dunkirk. If he had told Britons hey we can be proud that we tried, now let's give up and move on. #cdnpoli #wrongendup
Opinion: Canadians can put their elbows down and keep their heads high
With countertariffs on U.S. goods threatening our most important trade deal, Mark Carney was wise to revisit Canada’s strategy – and Canadians should support him doing so
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Why is Carney in the process of choosing a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government, short listed between: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle?

Services Canada operates 4 enterprise data centres.

#cdnpoli #canada

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August 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM