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Pierre Poilievre’s next opponent
Sources at a closed-door cabinet retreat in Vancouver dispatched the scoop that Justin Trudeau intends to stick around for long enough to get re-elected one more time.
Chrystia Freeland said she has “two busy jobs” when asked about a possible appointment as NATO secretary general, as initially revealed by Paul Wells.
Jean Charest got one last Canadian Press piece concerning his Conservative leadership plans, in the unlikely event that Pierre Poilievre hasn’t won this one.
CTV News commissioned a Nanos Research poll that concluded about 70% of Canadians see a politician’s support of the trucker convoy as a negative.
Municipal election headline quest
A candidate in the Spadina-Fort York riding did her best with the idea that locals would venture east in order to access a bridge to Toronto Islands, rather than taking a nearby boat.
Mayoral candidate Gil Penalosa is lamenting plastic bottles of Gatorade when he prefers the powder in a can, which he uses as fluid for walking.
There’s now more attention being paid to top Conservative strategists backing Nikki Kaur’s effort to unseat Patrick Brown as the mayor of Brampton.
But the most discussed candidate has been Ottawa school board aspirant Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, who wore a mask for a remote argument on The Agenda.
No greying hair from this guy
The first night on the job for Omar Sachedina included the CTV News anchor reading a statement that acknowledged his predecessor opting to not say goodbye on the air there.
A petition to reinstate Lisa LaFlamme hit 200,000 signatures, which is two-thirds of the way to the organizer’s goal of hitting the homepage of Change.org.
Wendy Mesley says it’s too easy to blame sexism for what happened here, even if the narrative swung to the perception that it was about grey hair.
Grey hair was a useful focus for marketing campaigns that seized upon a story from the Globe and Mail, but LaFlamme herself never mentioned it.
Worse than a broken escalator
Hell hath no fury like journalists and critics frustrated by the ticket process at the Toronto International Film Festival, which eventually developed a solution to assist them.
A few TIFF titles won’t screen at the Scotiabank Theatre because Cineplex is still fighting with Netflix over a refusal to have theatrical windows.
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans is among the big premieres, but the press conferences at TIFF now sound like extremely scripted affairs.
“When a Globe and Mail film critic goes on the other side of the camera” is a personal essay by Chandler Levack ahead of the premiere of I Like Movies.
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Finally, a miracle with Al Waxman
Will Sloan asked Twitter to help identify the cartoon playing on TV in a photo taken 30 years ago in Southwestern Ontario. The second stab at this search culminated in a piece for The New Yorker after a Canadian answer was found: The Soulmates: The Gift of Light was a 1991 production featuring the voices of Al Waxman and Sheila McCarthy: