Louis to the rescue! New book explains why Riel has never been more popular as a useful political prop UNLOCKED blacklocks.ca/review-louis-t… #cdnpoli  UAlberta Press

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AUDIT @MelanieJoly dep't finds irregularities in 26% of contracts sampled including conflict of interest. Global Affairs Canada in five years hired consultants 8,000 times at $567M. Not a typo. Half billion.  blacklocks.ca/26-of-contract… #cdnpol

.Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ tells U.S. radio audience Canada is 'open country' for immigrants, explains illegal immigration is minor issue since Canada is bordered by oceans, America and 'a block of ice to the north.'  blacklocks.ca/calls-canada-o… #cdnpoli  @YfBlanchet Bloc Québécois

Fed #EV subsidies up to $52B, triple the annual GDP of the entire Canadian auto industry, though Justin Trudeau won't discuss cost of aid per job: 'How much is the gov't paying for each?'
blacklocks.ca/wont-detail-su… #cdnpoli  Adrian Ghobrial

Black slavery museum is fined for breach of migrant labour rules. blacklocks.ca/museum-broke-l… Marci Ien IRCC
CBC Montreal

'Fact checker' is cited for breach of Elections Act with 2019 posts targeting Andrew Scheer: 'Canada Fact Check is not a fact checking website.” Commissioner of Canada Elections blacklocks.ca/anti-scheer-ch… #cdnpoli

DOCUMENTS: Justin Trudeau housing crisis Inventory of vacant gov't property earmarked for development numbers fewer than 400 incl. cattle barns & boat sheds: 'We need to put everything on the table.'  blacklocks.ca/inventorys-bar… Sean Fraser

No elxn in 2024 please, @TheJagmeetSingh tells reporters after a quarter of his caucus says it won't seek re-elxn: 'I want to hear from Justin Trudeau.' blacklocks.ca/doesnt-want-a-… #cdnpoli  NDP

Shippers cheer Canada Border Services Agency delay in May 13 launch of electronic tariff collections that trade committee witnesses called a looming fiasco.  blacklocks.ca/postpone-big-b… #cdnpoli

A tenth of pensioners work past 65 because they have to, Statistics Canada data show, mainly in retail: 'Many seniors work past their mid-60s.' blacklocks.ca/no-rest-for-te… #cdnpoli  CARP Seamus O'Regan Jr

Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan Jr promises to intro bill by year's end to detect and block imports of slave-made goods: 'The legislation will be strong, effective and enforceable.'  blacklocks.ca/slave-trade-bi… #cdnpoli

“The adjective ‘corrupt’ first appears in Hansard in 1867, we have a rich tradition!
But everyone has feelings all of a sudden.”

PODCAST: MP Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 wants Speaker of the HoC to banish use of the word ‘corrupt’ in House of Commons.

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DOCUMENTS: Feds paid $510K in damages to gov't staff suspended under vax mandate. Figures were disclosed by Ted Falk who called the program unconstitutional: 'That is what happened.'  blacklocks.ca/discloses-fed-… #cdnpoli  Health Canada and PHAC

Audit Canada Revenue Agency recommends refresher courses on ethics. Report comes after Commissioner Bob Hamilton misled MPs over firing of 232 staff as CERB cheats: 'Not very many, obviously.'  blacklocks.ca/cra-back-to-ba… #cdnpoli   #CERB

Budget Office is calculating IRB Canada cost of illegal immigrants; last report in 2018 put expenses at up to $33,700 per person depending on lengths of appeals: 'Staggering.'  blacklocks.ca/costing-of-ill… Larry Maguire Parliamentary Budget Officer

Election Canada begins contracting for August 1 ballot printing in anticipation of next campaign: 'Be ready.'   blacklocks.ca/feds-election-… #cdnpoli Elections Canada

Airport screeners @Catsa_Gc make no promises on wait times despite 33% increase in mandatory security fees and forecast of millions more travelers. blacklocks.ca/no-promises-on… #cdnpoli  canadasairports

Federal report @CIHR_irsc on cocaine: “Buying in bulk may be more economical for people who use drugs.”

PODCAST: Blacklock’s & Richard Syrett @Sauga960AM - “Oh wow. This program has been a smashing success and they’d like to bring it to your town.”

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“Cabinet made a political miscalculation. Canadians expect a frank expression of moral repugnance when confronted with street protests celebrating the killing of Jews. This is unbelievably complicated for Chrystia Freeland even when asked by a Jewish reporter.”

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