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[Victoria Watcher]

BREAKING: Federal election to be held on April 28: sources.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2025 - 10:24 AM.

[Mike K.]

Brookfield Asset Management was part of the Panama Papers offshore tax haven leak: https://offshoreleak.../nodes/80038758

[Sparky]

Pete has a month to drag a skeleton out of the closet.

Should be doable…even if there isn’t one there.

Welcome to politics Mark.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Regarding this ad:

 

 

 

 

https://x.com/MarkJC...567614267310182

 

 

 

Our answer to US tariffs can't be just "elbows up", a fight with our own tariffs.  But many Canadians are too stupid to see beyond some fight call.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Torontonians rubbed elbows with a few Canadian celebrities in Nathan Phillips Square Saturday afternoon to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and annexation threats.

 

Part of the grassroots "Elbows Up, Canada!" campaign, Saturday's rally was billed as a "peaceful show of unity, resilience and strength," at a time when Trump is making threats against Canada's sovereignty and slapping tariffs on Canadian goods.

 

Fittingly, chants of "elbows up!" echoed through the crowd several times as organizers and homegrown celebrity speakers took the stage.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...rally-1.7490826

 

 

 

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was invited to speak, along with famous Canadians like Dragons' Den star and business leader Arlene Dickinson, comedian Shaun Majumder and Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, who performed his new trade war-inspired song, We Used to be the Best of Friends.

 

 

 

^ Oh, that should work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.C.-Washington border communities rally for peace amid rising political tensions

 

Organizers say the 'Peace, Love and a Handshake' rally aims to strengthen ties between the 2 neighbours

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...-arch-1.7490981

 

 

 

 

 

Which is it?  Elbows up rally or peace and handshakes?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2025 - 11:17 PM.

[Matt R.]

Cringe. Just a couple of Canadian dudes being bros even though neither have lived here or paid taxes here for decades.

Elbows up, cool.

Where are we at on the healthcare, grocery, and interprovincial tariff issues? I think the only change we’ve had since trump came in was Blackhawk’s on the border, a new prime minister and increased taxes.

I know we just solved climate change, which is a relief.

My daughter wonders why I seem so cynical.

[Victoria Watcher]

Cringe. Just a couple of Canadian dudes being bros even though neither have lived here or paid taxes here for decades.

 

 

https://x.com/Martyu...654708499345517

 

 

 

Canada flag just randomly duct-taped to the wall behind them.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2025 - 11:36 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Matt R.]

^ that’s why my daughter said I’m cynical.

[Victoria Watcher]

Parliamentary hopefuls across Vancouver Island are turning vacant storefronts into campaign offices filled with election signs, riding maps and party paraphernalia ahead of Canada’s 45th federal election.

 

In Sidney, Cathie Ounsted cut the ribbon for her new 4th Street campaign office on Saturday morning in the building where the Boondock’s Bar & Grill once operated.

Her Conservative Party volunteers began a door-knocking campaign in Sidney later in the day.

 

Ounsted’s team say they have prepared 1,500 campaign signs that will be deployed across the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding.

 

Liberal candidate David Beckham, running in Saanich-Gulf Islands, also started his campaign on Saturday, opening his office at the former Beach House Restaurant building on Cordova Bay Road.

 

He’s one of three Liberals running so far on Vancouver Island. The others are Will Greaves in Victoria and Jennifer Lash in North Island-Powell River.

 

Greaves, who secured his riding candidacy with the Liberals in January, said he has seen a surge of interest, donations and volunteers since Prime Minister Mark Carney became party leader.

 

He’s hopeful that the Liberals will be able to field candidates in all seven Vancouver Island ridings.

 

The New Democrats are the only major federal party with a full slate of candidates on the Island.

 

 

https://www.timescol...island-10416333

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2025 - 03:24 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

VICTORIA:

 

 

SAANICH GULF ISLANDS:

 

 

ESQUIMALT - SAANICH - SOOKE:

 

 

COWICHAN - MALAHAT - LANGFORD:

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2025 - 03:29 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Voters living in Saanich have to figure out which of the three districts they belong to.

 

Most of Saanich West (rural) is in Esquimalt/Saanich/Sooke.

 

Most of the east side of Saanich, east of the highway is Saanich and the Islands.

 

10-Mile Point is part of Victoria, as is bits of Saanich east of Shelbourne and south of McKenzie.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2025 - 03:34 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

VICTORIA:

 

Incumbent Laurel Collins - NDP

Will Greaves - LIBERAL

Michael Doherty - GREEN

 

No Conservative candidate for Victoria or Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke has been announced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAANICH GULF ISLANDS:

 

Incumbent Elizabeth May - GREEN PARTY

Cathie Ounsted - CONSERVATIVE

David Beckham - LIBERAL

Colin Plant - NDP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESQUIMALT - SAANICH - SOOKE:

 

Maja Tait - NDP

 

Former NDP incumbent Randall Garrison has retired.

 

No Conservative candidate for Victoria or Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke has been announced.

Green spokesperson Rod Leggett said the party’s candidates in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke and Nanaimo-Ladysmith are still being nominated.

Tracy Foran, who has been campaigning to run for the Conservatives in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, said in a post on social media this month that she was being passed over for a parachute candidate with “military contracts.” That person is expected to announce their candidacy on Monday or Tuesday, Foran said in the post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COWICHAN - MALAHAT - LANGFORD:

 

Incumbent Alistair MacGregor - NDP

Kathleen Code - GREEN

Jeff Kibble - CONSERVATIVE

 

 

https://www.timescol...island-10416333

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2025 - 03:54 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Mike K.]

Nepean residents weigh in on long-time MP and Carney leadership candidate Arya’s removal to allow Carney to run in his riding.

https://www.cbc.ca/p...video/9.6693916

[Mike K.]

Tracy Foran, who has been campaigning to run for the Conservatives in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, said in a post on social media this month that she was being passed over for a parachute candidate with “military contracts.” That person is expected to announce their candidacy on Monday or Tuesday, Foran said in the post.

My understanding is it will be a much-liked (by navy personnel), either former or very recently retired member of the Pacific Naval Fleet brass who lives in Sooke.

[Stephen James]

^ that’s why my daughter said I’m cynical.

They all seem to do it, lol... hence the cynicism I suppose.  

There's a lawsuit about the CP of BC punting a Gulf Islands candidate for made-up reasons because they liked a different one better, and a federal example in Sooke.

Happens all the time.

[Stephen James]

Brookfield Asset Management was part of the Panama Papers offshore tax haven leak: https://offshoreleak.../nodes/80038758

Every major financial institution discovered out they had accounts there. (There are 11 entries for CIBC.)

A bit of a scramble in the industry.

Edited by Stephen James, 23 March 2025 - 07:55 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

TD was laundering cartel drug money. Canadians just shrugged.

[Mike K.]

Could that be why Trump kept bringing up the Canadian banking industry when asking for better fentanyl control in Canada? Canada didn’t take that bait, knowing where it would lead to.

[Victoria Watcher]

SNC Lavallin broke criminal law.

We just awarded them the biggest contract in Canadian history. No bid. Canadians shrugged.