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2026-02-11 13:09:42 GMT

▶️ Bridge reaction. ▶️ Alberta deficits. ▶️ Japan v China.
The 🇨🇦#cdnpoli 📰Roundup for WED FEB 11
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidakin/p/david-akins-roundup-bridge-reaction?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2026-01-30 15:27:35 GMT

At #CPC26, Rob Staley, who leads CPC fundraising efforts says that, in 2025, the CPC spent 17¢ for every dollar raised versus over 30¢ per dollar when he took over after Poilievre became elected. LPC in 2024 spent 19¢ per dollar raised. #cdnpoli

2026-01-20 17:55:58 GMT

Very important speech here from Carney. Watch it in full at this link. "Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5" https://globalnews.ca/news/11620850/mark-carney-davos-speech-greenland-nato/ #cdnpoli

2025-11-17 19:55:54 GMT

Just now in QP, something I've never seen: the Liberals gave up one of their QP slots to ask a question to GPC MP Elizabeth May. And PM Carney -- who normally only answers questions from leaders of recognized party leaders -- answered May. It was a Q&A about commitment to climate action and reconciliation. Significance? My gut says: May is voting for #bdgt45

2025-11-09 14:17:14 GMT

The BQ, in the 3rd quarter of 2025, had just 956 donors who gave an average of $108.29 to the party. The CPC had 53,725 donors in the quarter giving an average of $78.80. The Liberals easily had the most donors — 77,064 — but they gave on average just $38.39. The NDP’s 30,677 donors gave an average of $28.64.
The per capita donations for the CPC, LPC, NDP were the lowest in a decade. #cdnpoli
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/520/164/863/165/065/original/765598069e3dddd0.png

2025-11-07 00:09:38 GMT

As leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre has now had three members of his caucus quit on him. Alain Rayes quit to sit as an Independent and on the day Rayes quite Poilievre would not take questions — until I interrupted a “statement” he was giving and did not relent until he agreed to take questions about Rayes leaving. (In hindsight; probably a dumb way to do that). But now … Chris d’Entremont just quit on Poilievre to join the LIberals on Wednesday and Poilievre took no questions; and tonight Matt Jeneroux quit Parliament and, once again, Poilievre took no questions from reporters. #cdnpoli

2025-11-05 21:11:08 GMT

OBSERVATION: Not once in the 493-page budget document does the word Trump appear - and yet, that individual is clearly the motivation for the whole darn thing. Download the #bdgt25 book here https://budget.canada.ca/2025/home-accueil-en.html

2025-11-04 01:14:23 GMT

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Whoop. Just updated with link!

2025-11-04 00:14:03 GMT

A Post investigation shows where hidden rivers in the sky are fueling deadly floods
(Some really cool graphics in this presentation.) The Post found, the amount of water vapor moving through Earth’s atmosphere has increased 12 percent. That increase is equivalent to 35 Mississippi Rivers flowing through the air every second. | WaPo (🎁 link)

2025-10-19 12:25:56 GMT

▶︎ Boss Carney. ▶︎ Tariff stepback. ▶︎ Diddy dawn.
The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for SUN OCT 19
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidakin/p/david-akins-roundup-boss-carney-tariff?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2025-10-15 14:31:40 GMT

▶︎ Anand's repair. ▶︎ Wakeham win. ▶︎ CBC plan.
The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for WED OCT 15
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidakin/p/david-akins-roundup-anands-repair?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2025-10-07 19:19:20 GMT

Endgadget: Mastodon is adding Bluesky-like starter packs | The feature for finding people to follow was already copied by Threads.
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/mastodon-is-adding-bluesky-like-starter-packs-182014446.html

2025-09-30 15:52:46 GMT

Hottest of hot takes so far I've read from 404 Media: "In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI
https://www.404media.co/in-unhinged-speech-pete-hegseth-says-hes-tired-of-fat-troops-says-military-needs-to-go-full-ai/

2025-09-20 11:46:55 GMT

Alex Tabarrok on H1-B visa: Overall, getting (approximately) one extra high-skilled worker causes a 23% increase in the probability of a successful IPO within five years (a 1.5 percentage point increase in the baseline probability of 6.6%). That’s a huge effect. Remember, these startups have access to a labor pool of 160 million workers. For most firms, the next best worker can’t be appreciably different than the first-best worker. But for the 2000 or so tech-startups the authors examine, the difference between the world’s best and the US best is huge.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/the-united-states-is-starved-for-talent-re-upped.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-united-states-is-starved-for-talent-re-upped

2025-09-10 15:50:42 GMT

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No again. I think I've filled in 2-3x in 7 years. Usually its colleague Eric Sorenson. Don't mind doing it -- but I'm busy with own day job :) and hosting a show like that takes a significant amount of time.

2025-09-10 12:10:56 GMT

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No. Usually Mercedes Stephenson. She's on parental leave.

2025-09-09 21:05:15 GMT

Ben Mulroney to host Global's political affairs show, 'The West Block' https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/ben-mulroney-to-host-globals-political-affairs-show-the-west-block/article_95a0534e-bde1-5df2-a9a2-9ea4785a4586.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @CdnPressNews

2025-09-05 12:01:38 GMT

🆕 #cdnpoli poll. ANGUS REID INSTITUTE. Leaning + Decided. | #CPC 40% | #LPC 38% | #NDP 10% |n=3,363 Aug 29-Sep 4 online.

2025-09-04 12:53:48 GMT

Project 2025 author Kevin Roberts had been invited to address the Canadian cabinet today on Canada-US relationship (backstory: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kevin-roberts-project-2025-carney-1.7624327) but PMO just announced that Roberts has had to cancel those plans. Cabinet will hear, tho, from former AUS PM and current AUS ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd. #cdnpoli

2025-08-29 22:53:03 GMT

Hey @npub1fdr…lvhs : You've been translated (with credit!) : La « merdification » des États-Unis https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chroniques/2025-08-29/la-merdification-des-etats-unis.php?lid=vlcvdqbdepkt&oeid=e617b8e6f96c8d2eade92566f296748e7f3e9c1dd88854103167f637305e4666&utm_campaign=lpp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=date_29aout&redirectedFrom=https%253A%252F%252Fplus.lapresse.ca%252Fscreens%252F3c3a17d9-1981-4e8b-a2ef-51c5b1c673da__7C___0.html%253Flid%253Dvlcvdqbdepkt%2526oeid%253De617b8e6f96c8d2eade92566f296748e7f3e9c1dd88854103167f637305e4666%2526utm_campaign%253Dlpp%2526utm_medium%253Demail%2526utm_source%253Ddate_29aout

2025-08-09 19:45:00 GMT

How many smartphones does the Government of Canada manage? 219,000. Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/transparency/briefing-documents/ministerial-transition-may-2025.html#toc02 My2c: Number seems small as there's 400k+ govt employees.

2025-07-26 11:42:08 GMT

▶︎ NDP rules. ▶︎ Ford's lead. ▶︎ Paywall effect.
The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for SAT JUL 26
https://david-akins-roundup.ongoodbits.com/the-roundup-ndp-rules-ford-s-lead-paywall-effect
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2025-07-22 16:55:20 GMT

The #CPC was silent when Longest Ballot Committee went to work in by-elections in Miss-Lakeshore (2022) , Wpg S Centre (2023) Tor St Paul's (2024) LaSalle—Émard—Verdun (2024) - LPC lost the last two - but now that its leader is facing LBC initiative for a 2nd time, all of a suddent CPC is calling for new laws to outlaw LBC initiatives. #cdnpoli #elxn45

2025-06-26 20:10:46 GMT

Bill #C5 -- the One Canadian Economy Act -- just cleared the Senate unamended. It will now receive Royal Assent. #cdnpoli

2025-06-12 13:15:52 GMT

Lastest premiers' approval ratings from pollster Angus Reid Institute.
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/670/576/702/140/466/original/3438ddcbd67b10f2.png

2025-05-16 13:19:23 GMT

"Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech
Making the case for journalists on the Fediverse." #media
https://wedistribute.org/2025/05/mastodon-journalism/

2025-05-14 20:21:03 GMT

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"rich guys" = the boomers/homeowners who overwhelmingly voted LIberal. For many of them, their major asset is their home. No way they want home values to drop. Th CPC / Poilievre, by contrast, attracts huge support from non-homeowners/non-Boomers who want prices to drop. When non-homeowners vote at higher rates than homeowners, then, I assume, the feds will force prices down. Until then ..

2025-04-20 13:47:54 GMT

Are campaign signs allowed inside a polling place? And other helpful FAQs answered by Elections Canada: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?document=faqelsi&lang=e&section=faq

2025-04-18 00:22:52 GMT

Debates Commission has cancelled the post-debate scrums after this English leaders debate. This cancellation follows an altercation prior to the debate involving Rebel News and other journalists. #elxn45

2025-04-05 13:57:51 GMT

Deeply reported #LongRead piece here for anyone interested in some of the murky backroom activities of #CPC politicking/fundraising around nominations. 3elxn45 #cdnpoli https://thepointer.com/article/2025-04-04/you-re-the-star-candidate-conservative-hopeful-says-he-was-courted-for-donations-then-dumped-without-explanation

2025-03-11 15:39:10 GMT

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has really annoyed US Pres Trump. Here's what Trump posted on his Truth Social account at 1000 ET today. Serious stuff #cdnpoli
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2025-03-04 16:19:07 GMT

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "We’ve courted Mr. Trump’s ire by calling the Mexico and Canada levies the “dumbest” in history, and we may have understated the point. Mr. Trump is whacking friends, not adversaries"
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-the-dumbest-tariff-plunge-5da57946?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s

2025-03-04 13:10:21 GMT

🆕 poll from Angus Reid Institute: The USA🇺🇸 24 per cent favourability in 🇨🇦 is just 4 points higher than 🇨🇳 China’s (20%) and well behind the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 (82%) and Mexico 🇲🇽 (75%).

2025-03-03 22:18:59 GMT

America has lost the ability to distinguish friend from foe. (🎁 link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/politics/hegseth-cyber-russia-trump-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E4.qmc8.2NLBzPQzijX1&smid=url-share

2025-02-17 13:24:26 GMT

"...when Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is leading an aggressive campaign against the U.S. federal bureaucracy on behalf of Mr. Trump, recently endorsed Mr. Poilievre as Canada’s next leader, Mr. Poilievre found himself in an uncomfortable situation." #cdnpoli (🎁 link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/americas/trump-canada-pierre-poilievre.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.U24i.SGei4VdnLr8W&smid=url-share

2025-02-15 20:25:36 GMT

Pierre Poilievre to Canada First rally in Ottawa: "We will end cancel culture and stop the war on our history. Our national museums will celebrate the great achievements of Canada, telling the unvarnished truth that, on balance, this is the greatest country on on earth." Vows to build new monuments to Sir John A Macdonald. CDNpoli

2025-02-15 15:14:29 GMT

The #CPC has organized a "Canada First" rally this afternoon. Media have been invited to attend but the OLO's media team says we can't talk to anyone there:
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/008/550/507/927/589/original/807d85eb5d9ed5a7.png

2025-02-14 20:13:34 GMT

Editor-in-Chief of The Verge: "it’s been fairly disconcerting these first few weeks of the second Trump administration to realize there’s a nonzero chance the government will punish our work. All that talk about the media being the enemy of the people is turning into concrete legal action against publishers, broadcasters, and platforms that don’t do what the Trump White House wants. "
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/612069/fcc-brendan-carr-elon-musk-donald-trump-first-amendment-free-speech-censorship #media

2025-02-06 16:55:37 GMT

Finland trains six-year-olds to spot fake news – and they might be better at it than you #media
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/education/26048-finland-trains-six-year-olds-to-spot-fake-news-and-they-might-be-better-at-it-than-you.html

2025-02-05 19:45:34 GMT

PM Trudeau will be on the road this weekend: "Prime Minister to travel to Paris and Brussels to strengthen transatlantic co-operation and advance global progress on AI"
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/02/05/prime-minister-travel-paris-and-brussels-strengthen-transatlantic

2025-02-01 23:49:17 GMT

PMO advisory: Trudeau to speak at 2030 ET

2025-01-24 16:42:56 GMT

Ideas that will grow into columns: Doug Ford is seeking an electoral mandate to deal with Trump. He will almost certainly get it. Now, with Ontario on board, will Danielle Smith and Scott Moe acknowledge that mandate and get on board the retaliatory tariff train?

2024-12-20 17:58:51 GMT

Just in: Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre will hold a Parliament Hill press conference at 1345 ET to responds to the cabinet shuffle and to NDP Leader Jagmeet SIngh's decision to vote to bring down the government. #cdnpoli

2024-11-18 18:48:32 GMT

AT #G20Brazil, Biden and Trudeau met for about 30 minutes. Here's the White House readout https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/18/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-of-canada/ Waiting for PMO readout. #cdnpoli

2024-10-30 20:06:31 GMT

"The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs: The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice. " #media
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/the-washington-posts-non-endorsement-led-to-record-breaking-weeks-at-other-news-orgs/

2024-10-03 17:27:23 GMT

What Meta did to Canadian Journalism https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/the-before-and-after.php #media

2024-09-23 21:18:52 GMT

A dozen or so Parliamentary Press Gallery reporters recently flew Ottawa-->Nanaimo (at our organization's expense) to cover the 3-day LPC caucus retreat. Over 3 days, @JustinTrudeau had a combined 10 minutes for us. Today in NYC tho, he's got all the time Stephen Colbert needs.

2024-08-21 23:07:16 GMT

I’ve watched a lot of political speeches in my day and this one - by someone who has never held office nor is seeking office - is among the best political speeches I’ve seen. https://youtu.be/YgJBFBwRXvc?si=Vbz4CPqKukA188H3

2024-08-18 23:45:44 GMT

Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign
Hard-right provocateurs take aim at how the former president’s aides are positioning him for the November vote -- though not at the Republican candidate himself.
https://wapo.st/4cynVPn

2024-08-17 14:48:52 GMT

Using Google's "ImageFX" AI image creation tool, I gave it the following text prompt: "A senator in Canada Parliament" and asked it to generate a "35mm" camera photographic image. These are the hilarious results. All white guys. One in a wig. And those robes! Where the hell did they come from? #cdnpoli #tech
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