@paulcyr.ca.bsky.social
Isn't this just trickle down economics?
05.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That's historically inaccurate. Andrea Horwath was in the 70's for her first two leadership reviews.
21.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No, she didn't. I was in the room.
20.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How does it set the stage? The requirement for an election is under 50%, and even Crombie's opponent in the Liberal Party said a result over 66% gives legitimacy. She stood with a united caucus, recognized that changes need to be made, and committed to moving forward and making those changes.
20.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dear North America, can we please start using DIN rails for residential applications? Every manufacturer doing their own thing makes my vendor-lock-in-hating heart hurt.
26.06.2025 23:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I see a lot of people saying "strategic voting" led to the NDP collapse or even CPC gains from NDP losses.
I think the issue was in fact non-strategic voting. In a desire to keep the CPC out, people flocked to Liberals in ridings where they shouldn't have.
The Commission’s April 10, 2025, response to our April 9 demand regarding Rebel News Network Ltd. (“Rebel News”) and the 16 accredited journalists the Commission has confirmed for the Leaders’ Debates on April 16 and 17, 2025, fails to resolve our client’s legitimate grievances. Negotiations are at an impasse. The Commission’s insistence on capping Rebel News at one reporter and one photographer for the media scrum—while granting multiple slots to Postmedia, CBC/Radio-Canada, and other multi-division media organizations—reveals a starkly unfair and inconsistent policy that demands correction. The Commission’s “one reporter, one photographer per media organization” rule (April 8, p. 1; website) is a sham of equal treatment. Rebel News, spanning five divisions—Rebel News Canada (Ezra Levant/Efrain ‘Efron’ Flores-Monsanto), Quebec (Alexa Lavoie/Guillaume Roy), Ontario (David Menzies/Lincoln Jay), Prairie (Sheila Gunn Reid), British Columbia (Drea Humphrey)—is unjustly confined to a single entity (April 10, p. 1-2), while Postmedia (e.g., National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and others), CBC/Radio-Canada, Global News (with regional arms in 2021), and CTV (national and local divisions at the 2021 scrum) enjoy multiple slots (April 10, p. 1). The Commission dodges our demands for proof of past limits it claims to have applied to CBC or CTV, undermining its “plurality” assertion (April 10, p. 2)—this is a deliberate tilt against Rebel News, among many others we've easily identified through recent correspondence with the Commission. These rules reek of secrecy. When Rebel News applied on March 31, 2025, the Commission’s website
offered a vague “media organization” definition—“produces original news content... or covers political, social and policy issues”—with no trace of the division-specific criteria the Commission now wields (April 10, p. 1). Rebel’s geographic (Quebec, Ontario) and linguistic (French, English) distinctions match those the Commission accepts for CBC/Radio-Canada, yet it imposes a retroactive standard—based on uniform letters—that was never disclosed. This smacks of the “complex and convoluted” tactics courts struck down in Rebel News v Canada, 2019 FC 1424 and 2022 FC 313, where Rebel secured multiple questioners by Court Order, thwarting the Commission’s predictable, recurring, and unrelenting unfairness. The Commission’s capacity claims are a shambles. It asserts “no numerical cap” on the scrum (April 10, p. 1), yet confines it to a press room capped at 135 (p. 2), with 60+ participants from 30+ organizations (p. 1). This contradicts the Commission’s earlier “capacity restrictions” warning (April 4, p. 1), and deferring “further details” (April 10, p. 3) invites the last-minute exclusion Rebel endured in 2019 and 2021. No “capacity” definition or enforcement plan clarifies this mess—our 2 million viewers face irreparable harm from the Commission’s opacity. Regrettably, it appears the Commission is choosing to continue to disregard the Court’s prior directives to uphold its democratic mandate, as ordered twice in 2019 and 2021. This is a flagrant breach of procedural fairness (Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65). The Commission’s July 2024 policy lacks the division-specific criteria it now enforces selectively, singling out Rebel News while bending for Postmedia, CBC, Global News, and CTV. We hereby demand, by 2:00 PM ET, April 11, 2025, written confirmation that one reporter and one photographer from each of Rebel News’ five divisions shall be permitted to attend, participate, and ask questions during the media scrum—on par with CBC, CTV, Postmedia, and other multi-divisional media
RE: Rebel News Media Accreditation for the 45th General Election I am in receipt of your letter dated April 10, 2025. I disagree with your allegation that the Commission’s application of its one reporter and one photographer per media organization policy is unfair or inconsistent. However, rather than devote further resources towards answering your letters and a potential injunction, which is neither necessary nor in the public interest, I will permit Rebel News to have one reporter and one photographer from “each of Rebel News’ five divisions” participate in the scrum for the debates for the 45th general election. This is without prejudice to the position that the Commission would take in any litigation commenced by Rebel News in relation to the upcoming debates or for debates in a future election. I do not agree with your characterizations of my prior communications, including with respect to how the policy is being applied to other media organizations. Given the above, I do not consider it necessary to respond to those allegations, but my silence on them should not be interpreted as acquiescence. Questions by telephone were permitted in 2021 as a result of COVID-19 and will not be used for the upcoming debates. Sincerely,
People keep asking why far-right alternative media outlets got to ask so many questions
The reason, once again, is because Rebel threatened to go to court and get an injunction. The Debates Commission backed down and agreed to let Rebel have one person from each of its regional "divisions"
Here is Ricochet Media's @ethancox.bsky.social dressing down Ezra Levant for disrupting the leaders debate
"What I don't like Ezra is you preventing us from being able to ask questions on behalf of the public -- you created a circus here"
Clip of David Cochrane earlier reporting that Ezra Levant got into an altercation, attempted to disrupt a live CBC News broadcast and suggesting Levant may have had his credentials revoked
18.04.2025 00:19 — 👍 721 🔁 242 💬 52 📌 75Trump on greater trade cooperation between Canada and the EU:
"If you leave, I'm gonna punch my family even harder I swear to god."
Not asking about how I compare to others. The coordinate chart shows me close to the LPC and 3-4x that distance to the GPC and NDP. However, the chart of policy alignment by party shows I'm most aligned with NDP and GPC, with LPC in third. The two charts representing the same data are incongruous.
26.03.2025 01:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can someone explain to me how both of these results for me from @votecompass.bsky.social can be true at the same time? #cdnpoli #elxn45
25.03.2025 23:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0CBC's Katie Simpson managed to corner the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and extract a 7-minute interview. (Control room currently processing.)
What a journalist. I love her.
Two of those were concessions to the NDP for the confidence and supply agreement. The Liberals didn't want to do them and the NDP had to threaten to tear up the agreement in early 2024 because the Liberals were dragging their feet on the pharmacare bill. The Liberals don't get credit for those.
02.03.2025 22:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Events, dear boy, events
02.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 604 🔁 96 💬 25 📌 13The Convoy was supposed to be about patriotism, but they're awfully quiet when it comes to Trump's aggression towards Canada. 🤷
11.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Duverger's law and the resulting narrowing of the Overton window strikes again.
31.01.2025 01:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's not an offence; it's part of a contractual agreement. It's also a stipulated remedy clause and the amount is so disconnected from any conceivable damages that it would almost certainly be deemed an unenforceable penalty: www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/...
28.01.2025 03:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
