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Apr 17 2025

The Roundup: Benefits and scams. BQ hopes. 51st State.

Wed April 15 2024
David Akin's Roundup
Debate days. Burner advice. Resisting Trump.
Canada
Trump and U.S. trade war take spotlight in French leaders’ debate
In the French language election debate Wednesday night, the four main federal party leaders were asked to lay out policy priorities that have nothing with the United States. [Global]

The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate Thursday night in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff. [Global News]
Vaughan Palmer: With less than two weeks to go, the race in Abbotsford is closer than the Conservative operatives imagined when they froze him out. [Vancouver Sun]
The Woodstock city councillor – whose father is Oxford’s former longtime Tory MP, Dave MacKenzie – had a bitter falling-out with the party when a Toronto-area lawyer, Arpan Khanna, beat her for the nomination to run in a 2023 byelection, which all but guaranteed a seat in Ottawa representing the Conservative stronghold [London Free Press]

With Conservative Sayid Ahmed not in attendance, the Edmonton Centre candidates event became a Liberal/NDP showdown. [Edmonton Journal]
"Mr. Kent has to be honest with the people in our riding," says NL man who contacts Conservative candidate daily about surfaced selfie. [Telegram]
Avoid U.S. or take burner devices, Canadian executives tell staff
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against travelling to the U.S., marking a greater erosion in the country’s longstanding trust with its neighbour. [BNN Bloomberg]

Canadians are cancelling business trips, withdrawing from conferences and avoiding future bookings to the U.S. as the backlash against Trump hits the world of corporate travel. [Global]
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From the provinces
Premiers Kinew, Akeeagok ink deal to build hydro transmission line from Manitoba to Nunavut
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok have signed a memorandum to work together on a proposed hydroelectric and fibre optic project and ask Ottawa for capital funding. [CBC]
Peter Guthrie crossed Alberta's UCP government with his demands for a public inquiry into contract scandal, now spends his days in silence. [Calgary Herald]
Aurora
Elsewhere

In a hint of a shift in strategy, some of the country’s most powerful institutions have started choosing to resist. (🎁 link) [NYT]
Science and Tech
Space telescope spots possible signs of life on alien planet. Some are skeptical
The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism. [NPR]
The Calendar
  • 1215 ET: Montreal, - LPC Leader Mark Carney campaigns in the riding of Laurier--Sainte-Marie
  • 1900 ET: Montreal, - Party leaders participate in an English-language leaders debate
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… in 1985: Sc 1048a Canadian Feminists. Design: Ralph Tibbles. Illustrations: Muriel Wood. 
Therese Casgrain (1896-1981) fought for and won the the right of women in Quebec to vote. Emily Murphy 1868-1933) was the first woman in Canada to be a judge.

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