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Tom Parkin

@TomPark1n

a bluntly social democratic point of view

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Poilievre won’t say if he’d kill new drug and dental plans for working people

Two choices to replace Trudeau: Singh, who’ll keep drug and dental benefits, and Poilievre, who gives double talk cbc.ca/news/politics/…

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As if determined to prove correct the CLC president’s charge that Poilievre is a fraud, Poilievre fans respond here with an avalanche of anti-union comment

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Tax policy should help attract and mobilize capital to build productivity and job opportunities. Across the board cuts to capital gains seem to me like a pretty ham-fisted way of doing that.

Of course, many who don’t believe tax policy should do anything. And here we are.

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Ford the flip flop king. Is he Poilievre? Is he Trudeau? He’s both! Just ask him — on different days!

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The little ironies of politics

Working class conservative Pierre Poilievre, defender of rich liberal Bill Morneau and his inheritance

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Pierre Poilievre campaign manager, lobbyist Jenni Byrne, hasn’t yet been interviewed by Lobbying Commissioner in probe into possible inappropriate lobbying at her firm theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

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Did the reporter not ask how much this change would cost multi-millionaire Morneau and his billionaire family McCain wife?

Seems relevant

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Confirmed: The Federal Government has hit the pause button on public transit funding until after the next election. In the middle of a climate crisis.

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BC Premier Eby: if premiers Smith and Ford don’t want federal money to build housing, please send it to me

CMHC data shows in March, workers in BC started building almost as many housing units as in Ontario, with three times the population bc.ctvnews.ca/david-eby-taun…

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Policies to raise wages and the standard of living used to be political table stakes, now the conservative response to it is…

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Conservatives can’t even say raising wages and the standard of living is a good thing. So telling. No ideas. No hope. Just rage.

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