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Jan 28, 2020
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Charlie Angus NDP @CharlieAngusNDP
The top Facebook lobbyist in Canada is now a visiting "scholar" at @Carleton_U in their new FB-sponsored election "integrity" program. The company that blew off Parliament subpoena, thumbed their nose at breaking privacy law The company with oodles of cash
nationalobserver.comCarleton’s new election-integrity scholar comes from Facebook. The NDP says that’s like Dracula overseeing the blood supplyNDP’s ethics critic blasts Carleton University’s appointment of a Facebook official to be a visiting scholar on election integrity.
1:19 AM ∙ Jan 28, 2020
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Facebook is partnering with Carleton University to give academic gravitas to the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative. Kevin Chan, who was a Liberal adviser before he joined the social network, will be a visiting scholar in Ottawa. Likening the appointment to Dracula overseeing the blood supply is a great line from NDP MP Charlie Angus.


The war on whatever works

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Erin O'Toole @ErinOTooleMP
Canada isn’t working. Too many people are out of work while politicians in Ottawa continue to raise taxes and waste money. It’s time we start fighting and take Canada back. Join the fight: erinotoole.ca #cdnpoli
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5:20 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2020
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Erin O’Toole launched his Conservative leadership bid by pledging to fight “cancel culture and the radical left.” Talking with the National Post, the Durham, Ontario, MP took a shot at a Liberal government “led by the editorial board of the Toronto Star.” The populist platitudes are up against seizure-inducing bromides from Peter MacKay.


Peter MacKay and the question of speaking French. A lack of second-language fluency is dogging the leadership hopes of the former Conservative cabinet member from Nova Scotia, even if Erin O’Toole is also bereft of bilingualism. CBC’s new online analysis writer Rosemary Barton believes that both candidacies will suffer.


A hammer ahead for Netflix

Steven Guilbeault is the latest federal heritage minister handed the file of how to compel foreign-based digital giants to fund Cancon: his line is that it’s better to be “at the table than on the menu.” With the next recommendations from a government appointed panel due comes the counterpoint that consumers are better off without it:

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Michael Geist @mgeist
A Demonstrably False Premise: Why “Inevitable” Canadian Internet and Cancon Regulations Won’t Level the Playing Field, Support Canadian Stories or Save a Thriving Industry michaelgeist.ca/2020/01/a-demo…
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3:15 PM ∙ Jan 28, 2020
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Toronto finally makes it into the title of a major motion picture. Kevin Hart and Jason Statham were revealed as the stars of Man From Toronto, an action film set to premiere on November 20. And yet, Columbia Pictures has released no other details about it. The only real guess is that it’s a remake of a British romantic comedy released in 1933.


Finally, farther away in time

Martha and the Muffins had their single “Echo Beach” released 40 years ago this week in the U.K., where it became a top 10 hit. It was inspired by Toronto’s Sunnyside—even if the British single cover had a map of Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. But its legacy endured long enough to be the name of a concert venue sponsored by a bank:

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3. Martha and the Muffins – “Echo Beach” b/w “Teddy The Dink” (DIN 9) bit.ly/36pyu5j released on this day in 1980 #OTD
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