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Feb 18 2023

China interference. Ford's failure. FOX scramble.

Feb 18, 2022
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Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics. Still in beta ... 
Canada
‘China is trying to interfere’ but Canadians alone determined recent elections: Trudeau
Canadian voters alone decided the outcome of the last federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday amid reports of Chinese interference.

Trudeau says he expects an investigation into the source of leaks to The Globe and denies Beijing’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections
The “Freedom Convoy” amounted to a national emergency warranting the Emergencies Act, but it was an emergency that could’ve been avoided, the commissioner says.

Ontario’s premier refused to testify leaving the Rouleau commission at a “regrettable disadvantage.”
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says the city needs a new deal with the federal government for policing the parliamentary district and the national capital.
The 30-second TV spot features Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, was shot in St. John's, and attacks the governing Liberals on the cost of home heating.
Canadian military officials are sharing new information about how the Chinese spy balloon came into Canadian airspace late last month.
From the provinces

Alberta cabinet minister and MLA for Calgary-North East Rajan Sawhney has announced she will not seek re-election in this spring's provincial election.

Vaughn Palmer: It's highly unlikely the B.C. Conservatives can win either, but they could win enough votes to earn some staying power

Pour s’assurer que les Québécois ne soient pas « étouffés » pendant cette période de forte inflation, le Parti conservateur du Québec réclame que le gouvernement plafonne les hausses de taxes municipales. La formation fait cette demande afin d’éviter que certaines municipalités imposent des hausses qui dépassent largement l’inflation.

Elsewhere

A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country — defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”

Media
Key facts about the US radio industry and its listeners for World Radio Day
To mark World Radio Day, here are seven facts from Pew Research Center analyses about the state of radio in America.

A court filing in a lawsuit against Fox News lays bare a panic at the network that it had alienated its viewers and damaged its brand by not lining up with President Donald Trump's false claims that he had won the 2020 presidential election.

Tech

Writer Paul Miller spent a year of self-imposed exile from the Internet. Now he's back.

This help document went from basics on crawlable links to a much more robust link best practices.
Issued this day ...
Issued this day in 1998: Scott # 1709: Provincial Premiers - Pane of 10. Design Raymond Bellemare.
There are 10 stamps here but the whole pane of 10 gets the whole Scott number: 1709. Scott catalogues each individual stamp by appending a letter in small-case to that whole number. So, if we go through the premiers here from top row, L-R then bottom row, l-r, we have Ontario’s John P. Robarts (1917-1982) on Scott 1709a. Robarts was the 17th premier of Ontario, serving from 1961 to 1971.
Contining: 1709b Jean Lesage (1912-1980) premier of Quebec from | 1709c John B. McNair (1889=1968), premier of NB from 1940-1952 | 1709d Tommy Douglas (1904-1986), SK premier from 1944-1961 | 1709e Joseph R. Smallwood (1900-1991) was NL’s first premier from 1949-1972| (Bottom row) 1709f Angus L. Macdonald (1890-1954) was premier from 1933-1940 and again from 1945-1954. | 1709g W.A.C. (“Wacky”) Bennett (1900-1979) was BC’s premier from 1952-1972 | 1709h Ernest C. Manning (1908-1995) was AB premier from 1943-1968 | 1709i John Bracken (1883-1969) was MB’s premier from 1922-1943 | 1709j Walter Jones (1878-1954) was PEI’s premier 1943-1953. 
Not a women, Indigenous person or visible minority among them. Maybe a pane of 10 premiers issued in 2098 will look a bit different …

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