For my Canadian friends

There’s an old authoritarian trick: redefine loyalty as patriotism and criticism as treason. And this week, the trick went live.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, the most powerful Republican in Congress, called the upcoming “No Kings” march an “anti-American” rally. Majority Whip Tom Emmer chimed in, branding it the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party. In other words, a march for democracy has officially been recast as an act of terrorism.

The timing isn’t coincidental. It comes just days after Ken Klippenstein exposed the leaked FBI/DHS intelligence bulletin warning that protests “against ICE or Trump administration policies” may be covers for domestic terrorism. That bulletin explicitly cites the new National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, Trump’s NSPM-7, as its guiding authority.

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This is the Trump regime’s new operating system for authoritarian control. NSPM-7 instructs every federal law enforcement agency to “investigate and disrupt” entities expressing anti-American, anti-Christian, or anti-capitalist sentiment. That’s not a joke or a paraphrase. Those wildly broad phrases appear in the directive. It reads like a revivalist sermon rewritten by the FBI.

Under this doctrine, dissent is no longer protected speech, it’s pre-terroristic behavior. Activists, journalists, and NGOs are now .....

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“I just miss him so much.”

Pierre Poilievre’s obsession with Justin Trudeau continues — and it’s getting embarrassing.

In his latest stunt, Poilievre has accused the RCMP of covering up for Trudeau, despite CBC reporting that there’s no evidence of any such thing. The Mounties confirmed they did investigate the SNC-Lavalin affair, but determined no charges were warranted. Case closed — at least for everyone living in reality.

CBC’s reporting cuts through the noise:

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There’s no proof of political interference.
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The RCMP made an independent decision.
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Poilievre is trying to resurrect an old scandal because he has nothing new — or real — to say.

While Canadians want leadership on healthcare, housing, and climate, Poilievre is stuck in 2019 — ranting about Trudeau like a jilted ex who can’t move on.

CBC remains one of the few outlets still separating fact from partisan fantasy. Without it, this kind of political gaslighting would go unchecked.


Because when politicians start rewriting reality, we need journalists who stick to the truth.
 
Most would not agree that Harper was so great and moral!

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Just a matter of time. They are starting to realize that #CONservativesWillNeverWinWithPoiLIEvre
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The uprising against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre may have officially begun.

Just three months before Poilievre’s leadership review in Calgary, Stephen Harper’s former spokesman is letting it be known that knives should be out.

Writing in the Star, Dimitri Soudas accuses Poilievre of “dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative party Harper worked so hard to lead and bring to power, one of substance, maturity and integrity.”

Soudas, who served as the former prime minister’s communications director, suggests Poilievre is rewriting the legacy of the party, and he reminds the public — and Conservatives — that theirs is a party that is “far greater than any one man,” that was “built to serve the country, not the ego of a single leader.”

The Conservative establishment, it appears, won’t remain silent as Poilievre tries to remake the party into a .....

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Election workers stayed until dawn, counting by hand.

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CALGARY 2025: DANIELLE SMITH’S CONTROL FANTASY BLOWS UP IN HER FACE

The 2025 Calgary civic election will be remembered not for who won, but for how Danielle Smith and David Parker managed to turn democracy into a slow-motion car crash.

What should have been a clean, modern vote became a parody of competence — ballots stacked to the ceiling, exhausted clerks counting by hand, and taxpayers coughing up a quarter of a million dollars for a recount that never needed to happen.

Why? Because Alberta’s United Conservative Party, now hollowed out by Take Back Alberta’s conspiracy caucus, decided to outlaw the tabulators that have worked flawlessly for a decade. The justification was “integrity.” The reality was imported Trumpism — a paranoid ritual sacrifice to the party’s MAGA-adjacent base.

Electronic tabulators didn’t change votes; they counted them quickly and accurately. But Parker, an unelected power broker drunk on his own rhetoric, bragged that ....

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Have to say that I'm not exactly a fan of Ford but the ad is perfect

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It looks like the orange man child is canceling trade talks with Canada over Doug Fords ad that uses Ronald Reagan’s 1987 speech to attack tariffs. His fake outrage over a TV ad, that perhaps it’s a little too close to th mark it’s just his latest irrational ploy to sabotage any progress the Canadian negotiating team might have been making. From the start Trump’s intention has been to destroy our industrial base and bully Canada into economic subservience. He has knowingly broken his own commitments to Canada under CUSMA and he continues to act in bad faith. Hopefully these tariffs will have an impact in next year‘s midterm elections in the United States. Trump has put tariffs on all his allies and it’s time for Canada to diversify, new partnerships and economic opportunities PM Carney just said. Just like Poilievre who was quoted for his remarks calling the RCMP commissioner despicable and then coming out a couple of days later saying he did not say that, Trumps tirade continued Friday with another .....

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If you haven't seen the ad in question

TRUMP GOES NUTS: Ontario's TV ad with the voice over nothing but Ronald Reagan's scathing condemnation of tariffs in his exact words has made Trump throw a giant wobbler. The Ford government has spent $75 million running the ad in red states hard hit by Trump's illegal, costly, and stupid tariffs. It's not an elbows up but a kick in the goolies.

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PLEASE ADVISE! ARE CONSERVATIVES TURNING ON POILIEVRE?

His mud flinging now includes calling the RCMP ‘despicable.’ Time for a good mopping?

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at first defended his attack on the RCMP and call for Justin Trudeau to be jailed in the House of Commons Monday. Photo by Spencer Colby, the Canadian Press.

[Editor’s note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands. In this space he dispenses PR advice to politicians, the rich and famous, the troubled and well-heeled, the wealthy and gullible.]

Dear Dr. Steve,

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre recently gave an interview to media channel Northern Perspective in which he criticized RCMP leadership as “despicable” and suggested former prime minister Justin Trudeau should probably have been jailed for his role in the SNC-Lavalin affair and taking a free vacation from the Aga Khan.

In response former Stephen Harper aide Dimitri Soudas wrote a Toronto Star column attacking Poilievre’s leadership style, saying that in the last federal election Canadian voters did not reject the Conservatives, but just Poilievre.

Is this the beginning of a rebellion within the Conservative party, Dr. Steve?

Signed,
Danton

Dear Dan,

Poor Poilievre. Since the election, he has tried so hard to be good. He would be different. He would show the nation a New Pierre, dignified rather than dickish, a PM instead of a prick.

Poilievre was like a bratty child who has been promised ice cream if he will only behave at the .....

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Pp…you really do have SELECTIVE AMNESIA​

Pp says Justin Trudeau should have been arrested because the RCMP “didn’t do its job.” But if that logic were applied evenly, Stephen Harper’s government would have faced multiple warrants. In 2006 to 2011 Harper’s party ran the “In-and-Out” election financing scheme, illegally shifting $1.3 million through local ridings to bypass national limits.

Elections Canada obtained search warrants. Four Conservatives were charged and the party pled guilty in 2011. In 2008 and 2009 Harper twice prorogued Parliament to dodge accountability, first to avoid a no-confidence vote and then to shut down questions about Afghan detainee abuse. In 2010 the Auditor General found Harper’s government diverted $50 million of border-security funds to unrelated G8 projects in Tony Clement’s riding. Documents were hidden from Parliament. In 2013 to 2015 Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright secretly paid $90,000 of Senator Mike Duffy’s improper expenses. The RCMP found “reasonable grounds” to believe bribery and breach of trust had occurred inside the PMO. Harper denied knowing, but the investigation directly named his office. Harper’s Conservatives were actually investigated by the RCMP. Trudeau was not charged because no law was broken. Poilievre’s demand for arrests is not about justice, it is about politics.

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