AUDIT: Write-offs under ISED loan program for “future entrepreneurs” have cost $45.9 million. Best-known borrowers include husband of Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. blacklocks.ca/write-offs-ecl… #cdnpoli

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

Feds National Defence refuse to disclose figures to Budget Office to prove claim that Canada will meet NATO spending targets. blacklocks.ca/military-spend… #cdnpoli

“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

Editorial Cartoons for September, 2024 theglobeandmail.com/opinion/galler…

“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

Veteran Vancouver Liberal MP Hedy Fry at caucus meeting in Nanaimo, on her party’s leader: “A lot of people don’t like him but…”

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 🎗⚜️

Canada’s largest book retailer Indigo is attempting to use Trademarks Act to counter anti-Semitic protesters. Indigo is asking Fed Court to block copycat website claiming Indigo is “aiding in the slaughter of Palestinians.” blacklocks.ca/fight-hate-wit… #cdnpoli

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

Finance Minister says public funding should be pulled from Canadian-produced film Russians At War promoted by TIFF. “It’s not right for Cdn public money to be supporting the screening and production of a film like this.” — Chrystia Freeland blacklocks.ca/freeland-oppos… #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