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For the second time in less than a week, the federal Liberals have been accused of unethical election campaigning, Bryan Passifiume writes.
A bombshell story published Sunday by CBC News says Liberal election staffers planted controversial buttons at last week’s Canada Strong and Free Network conference in downtown Ottawa, which the Conservative campaign says was a failed attempt to smear the Tories.
The conference, referred to often as the Manning Conference — its former name — provides conservative-leaning Canadians a chance to get together to talk about policy proposals and to network. This year’s conference was held at a hotel in downtown Ottawa.
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While the staffers successfully infiltrated the conference and planted the buttons in places where they would be found, their scheme soon unravelled — thanks to Liberal campaign workers who couldn’t resist loudly bragging about it in an Ottawa bar Friday evening. They were overheard by both a Conservative party worker and CBC News reporter Kate McKenna.
Federal election outreach tends to play it straight, but Drag the Vote knows a little camp can move the room, the Ottawa Citizen reports.
The national campaign taps Canadian drag stars, including some of Ottawa’s best-known drag kings and queens, to mobilize voter turnout ahead of election day on April 28.
More than 200 drag performers across Canada have volunteered to fold civic engagement into their shows at bars, brunches and other places that traditional politics don’t reach.
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Organizers say drag uses hope and humour to reach people worn down by a political climate growing more hostile to LGBTQ+ communities.
Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so, Lorrie Goldstein writes.
But don’t take my word for it.
Those warnings came from Chrystia Freeland when she was finance minister and from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.
Freeland’s warning in her Dec. 16, 2024, resignation letter to then-prime minister Justin Trudeau could not have been more clear.
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