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#5801 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 07:50 AM

I’d be surprised if the PPC didn’t lose some vote to the Poliviere Conservatives next election.

#5802 Mike K.

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 07:55 AM

Neither would I.

O’Toole’s last minute capitulation hurt the Conservatives. There were infamously 21 ridings in 2021 that saw more votes for the PPC than the amount needed for a Conservative to win. It’s impossible to claim all of the votes would have gone to the Cons, but surely some seats were lost.

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 07:57 AM

I’d be surprised if the PPC didn’t lose some vote to the Poilievre Conservatives next election.

The same way the Green votes went to the Liberals. 5 major political parties in Canada was never going to last.



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Posted 18 September 2022 - 07:58 AM

Speaking of bots…
“ What’s harder to explain is the utterly disproportionate number of ratings that ArriveCAN has received.

On Google Play, ArriveCAN has received 214,000 reviews. Compare that to the McDonalds Canada app; despite having a similar number of downloads as ArriveCAN (five million) it’s only received 92,000 reviews.

And the disparity is even more pronounced on the Apple Store. ArriveCAN has 568,000 ratings on the Canadian Apple Store. That’s higher than Twitter, whose Canadian ratings currently stand at 498,000.”

https://nationalpost...-number-one-app

#5805 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 08:03 AM

A bit fruitless rating a mandatory app. It’s not like you’ll avoid it and find another. It’s about as useless as downvoting the “Canadian Passport” or the CRA. Or the Malahat highway.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 September 2022 - 08:03 AM.


#5806 Mike K.

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 08:05 AM

There’s footage of Paul Martin flying to the UK on Trudeau’s
plane wearing his mask below his nose.

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 08:06 AM

A bit fruitless rating a mandatory app. It’s not like you’ll avoid it and find another. It’s about as useless as downvoting the “Canadian Passport” or the CRA. Or the Malahat highway.


I think it sends a message. The Malahat is a hated highway, while government spends money on frivolous pursuits elsewhere. The ArriveCan is a hated app, the only one of its kind in the world.
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Posted 18 September 2022 - 08:41 AM

I think it sends a message. The Malahat is a hated highway, while government spends money on frivolous pursuits elsewhere. The ArriveCan is a hated app, the only one of its kind in the world.

The most hated app with the most positive reviews… perfect for clown world.

#5809 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 02:52 PM

Not a single positive reply to her tweet.

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/GraceALore

 

 

 

 

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Posted 18 September 2022 - 02:59 PM

Genius marketing campaign. Well played Big Pharma, well played.

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Posted 06 October 2022 - 05:26 PM

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VIDEO:  https://twitter.com/...095480600694785


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Posted 12 October 2022 - 03:42 AM

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https://twitter.com/TristinHopper


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Posted 21 October 2022 - 04:47 AM

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Posted 21 October 2022 - 07:21 AM

Things are not going well for Ottawa as it works to defend Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. It appears, at least early on in the proceedings, that the act was predicated on misinformation, lies or bias.

Meanwhile, Morris [OPP security chief] hit the nail on the head. He argued that much of the discourse around the protests was “sensationalized” and not “premised in fact.” For instance, assertions of Russian or American influence, or that former U.S. president Donald Trump was somehow behind the protests, simply didn’t accord with reality. Likewise, the claim that the protests and the protesters themselves were somehow “un-Canadian” was a claim that Morris found “problematic” and he saw no evidence backing up such an assertion.

Ironically, branches of the government itself have been debunking some of the claims. On Feb. 10, 2022, Trudeau claimed that more than half of the funding for the Freedom Convoy on online platforms was coming from foreign sources, including the United States. A summary of a call between government officials and CSIS in early February, tabled at the Commission, makes clear that no “foreign actors” had been identified as supporting or financing the convoy.

What’s emerged from the first week of the public hearings is a reality very different from the narrative pushed by elected officials from Trudeau on down, and echoed in sections of the media. The claim that the protesters were violent insurrectionists bent on destroying Canada has simply been falsified. It’s only in Canada where the establishment saw the protests as violent, illegitimate, and seditionist, while most of the rest of the world saw the protests as a legitimate civil disobedience movement in the face of the some of the harshest pandemic restrictions in the world, giving voice to their own sentiments. Ironically, the protests were an inspiration in much of the world, yet an embarrassment for Canada’s political elite.

- https://nationalpost...lls-on-its-face

Meanwhile, in BC, the premier has called efforts to collect votes favouring an underdog in his party’s leadership race “thuggery.”

Something is genuinely amiss in our political realm.
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Posted 21 October 2022 - 07:57 AM

...It appears, at least early on in the proceedings, that the act was predicated on misinformation, lies or bias....

"I'm shocked" said no one with an IQ above room temperature.


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Posted 21 October 2022 - 10:18 AM

that opinion article focuses on some sound-bites that without context seem to support the writer’s cause.

For example, the CSIS call on Feb 6 was over a week before the emergencies act was triggered and the quotes from CSIS make it clear that they were concerned about that situation regarding foreign funding changing. During that week the GiveSendGo fundraising efforts increased and eventually the CEO admitted that 60% of the donors were American. The release of the hacked data confirmed that. Right wing American pseudo-celebrities did ultimately become involved - wasn’t Mike Lindell detained at the border with a truck full of MyPillows?

A quick search of the author shows that she hosts a right-wing podcast on True North.
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#5817 Mike K.

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Posted 21 October 2022 - 10:23 AM

You're confusing, maybe, private donations with foreign agencies/actors.

 

It's not the same threat/risk if private citizens, even those with some social clout, choose to support a protest or movement. The threat is an organized force doing so, with ulterior motives.

 

Here's the CBC:
 

While millions of dollars in donations to support last winter's convoy protest came from outside Canada, the national spy agency told officials during the protest that the money did not appear to be coming from foreign states or "foreign actors."

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...-csis-1.6621944


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Posted 21 October 2022 - 10:25 AM

that opinion article focuses on some sound-bites that without context seem to support the writer’s cause.

For example, the CSIS call on Feb 6 was over a week before the emergencies act was triggered and the quotes from CSIS make it clear that they were concerned about that situation regarding foreign funding changing. During that week the GiveSendGo fundraising efforts increased and eventually the CEO admitted that 60% of the donors were American. The release of the hacked data confirmed that. Right wing American pseudo-celebrities did ultimately become involved - wasn’t Mike Lindell detained at the border with a truck full of MyPillows?

A quick search of the author shows that she hosts a right-wing podcast on True North.

GoFundMe head testifies over Freedom Convoy fundraising, says most donors were Canadian

https://www.ctvnews....adian-1.5804094



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Posted 21 October 2022 - 10:27 AM

During that week the GiveSendGo fundraising efforts increased and eventually the CEO admitted that 60% of the donors were American.

 

You got it bugled up a bit. 60% of the money on GiveSendGo came from Canadians, not Americans. Canadians made up 86% of donors to GoFundMe:

 

GiveSendGo chief Jacob Wells said 60 per cent of the millions of dollars raised on his platform came from Canada and 37 per cent came from the United States. GoFundMe president Juan Benitez said 88 per cent of the money raised on his platform and 86 percent of donors came from Canada.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...-csis-1.6621944


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Posted 21 October 2022 - 10:27 AM

...A quick search of the author shows that she hosts a right-wing podcast on True North.

A quick Google search shows that CBC got $1.4 billion in government funding in 2021. 


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