Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government will establish mandatory minimum prison sentences for anyone convicted of extortion. [CP]

Police say their extortion investigative taskforce has made five arrests in a 'disturbing trend' that has targeted primarily the south Asian community in Peel Region. [Global]

Condolences and stories about well-known former MP and MPP Daryl Kramp pour in as family, friends and political constituents remember him following his passing Thursday. Daryl was a real gentleman and an MP I was always glad to spend a few minutes with. Condolences to his daughter Shelby Kramp-Neumann who now holds his old seat in the House of Commons. [Global]

Nova Scotia's Liberal leader is committing to cut the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax by two percentage points if his party wins the next general election. [CP]

BC Health Minister Adrian Dix says the number of family doctors in British Columbia is increasing, but there are still almost 900,000 people without a primary care provider. [CP]

Ontario will spend $3.1 billion in federal health-care funding on increasing access to family doctors, reducing backlogs and adding more health-care workers, the premier and the prime minister announced Friday. [CP]

Candidates backed by the party of jailed Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan plan to form a government, a senior aide to the former prime minister said on Saturday, urging supporters to peacefully protest if final election results are not released. [Reuters]

Polling shows it’s a broad concern expressed about President Biden, not just one person’s opinion. [NYT]

New Hampshire authorities started an investigation into AI robocalls that mimicked President Biden’s voice to discourage voters. [AP]

Paul Wells: Here, government has begun to believe the problem is not that the policy framework is chock-full of incentives for lousy or unproductive behaviour — or even that Canada can sometimes be a hard country to govern — but rather that people with retail clout in our society use it badly. So businesses must be scolded or, at least, implored to use their power in beneficial ways. [Substack]

Ken Whyte: Last year, McGill’s Media Ecosystem Observatory released a survey suggesting we’re kidding ourselves if we think we’re immune from these dynamics. Every one of the twenty-eight news outlets measured by the survey had fallen in the esteem of its Canadian audience over the last five years. Not a single English-language news organization in Canada is trusted “very much” today. Poor Maclean’s plummeted from quite respectable to the verge of “do not trust at all.” Radio-Canada is the only French-language serve that might be considered “very” trustworthy, and it’s right on the line with “somewhat” trustworthy. [Shush]

If you watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, you no longer have to wait until the big game to see what advertisers have in store for viewers. [AP]