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SUNDAY, MAY 19 (3rd batch of tweets posted here)
third batch of today's tweets NYT editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder http://nyti.ms/114EfMa The NDP didn’t react cuz internal polls still showed Dix w/ 4-5 pt lead headed toward a majority gov’t http://bit.ly/10bGBda "He is a giant egghead," said one disgruntled New Democrat of Adrian Dix http://bit.ly/11OojFq Jim Hume: Election result proves that voters know more than pundits http://bit.ly/12lMJkK Every one of us — including the ones I consider media giants in B.C., such as Palmer, Mason and Smyth — didn’t see this one coming http://bit.ly/12E0Za6 second batch of today's tweets Stephen Harper’s failure to address Senate scandal is hurting his party: Editorial | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/189tf6J ! Sunday Telegraph front http://bit.ly/R3YkNZ 'Swivel-eyed loons' hit back at PM http://bit.ly/12lW8IU Who had the worst week in Washington? President Obama - Washington Post http://wapo.st/15YipTw Hey, Brigette DePape, the “rogue page” is back! http://bit.ly/13yiV3E The world needs more Bombardier? http://bit.ly/18ULhe9 Why all Canadians almost w/out exception long to spend the long weekend in Victoria British Columbia http://bit.ly/N7AMbV first batch of today's tweets Not ‘honourable’ at all/Both Mike Duffy and Nigel Wright need to resign: @thejohnrobson http://bit.ly/12E4aPb Sherring: Skippy’ aka MP Pierre Poilievre has sunk to new low http://bit.ly/16yXcj7 Calgary Sun front http://bit.ly/10bTi7U Redford wants prov tax break given back to Calgary taxpayers http://bit.ly/10bTi7U Iain Hunter: Andrew Weaver represents more than Oak Bay http://bit.ly/13ygApm Sore losers: Will B.C. enviro extremists 'rise up' again as they did in the 1990s? @ezralevant http://bit.ly/10EvRHs Times Colonist: B.C. Liberals' internal polls predicted win, campaign chief says http://bit.ly/12LrysJ Er, exclusive look at internal Liberal polls that predicted Christy Clark's shocking upset @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/10bGBda Dix campaign workers were counting potential seats; How many? Forty-seven? Fifty-three? Maybe even 60 http://bit.ly/11OojFq British Columbia voters serve pundits humble pie: @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/12E0Za6 Survey says: Can't trust those polls: @jmbryden http://bit.ly/14jjfWG first batch of today's tweets All things considered, Nigel Wright gets some pretty favourable treatment from the Globe today! http://bit.ly/NorOEh The harassment of Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy should cease. ..Puritanism has its place, but not in government http://bit.ly/187L5qI Yours truly on Pamela Wallin and the Duffy stuffy last evening on #CTVNN http://bit.ly/16FwEfo On Nigel Wright, I’m a Chretienite http://bit.ly/14fMCcs not a Martini http://bit.ly/1139Pdm Eddie Goldenberg above: “I have to take the word of a prime minister. But I haven’t heard the word of the prime minister” The Duffy stuffy is serious and this is seriouser http://wapo.st/18SwWil Tough editorial on Tom Mulcair, and for once I agree http://bit.ly/12J4nPC Unvarnished obit: He ran into trouble when a drunk-driving accident forced him from cabinet. He pleaded guilty http://bit.ly/10Bi7x5 ! NY Times front http://bit.ly/T9yfDf From Canadian Oil, a Black Pile Rises in Detroit http://nyti.ms/YQpDDT Dear Christy Clark: The competition for LNG export contracts has just gotten a tad tougher http://wapo.st/16uUY4f It would appear that the #BCNDP were not doing this kind of expensive polling http://bit.ly/109Ap5q Not every pundit got the BC election wrong http://bit.ly/10YqmFa CBC Victoria political panel w/ Martyn Brown @heaneyjohns & yrs truly on the election that http://bit.ly/10beSwO ! Daily Telegraph lead story: PM [Cameron's] ally: our party activists are 'loons' http://bit.ly/12JjusC ! Guardian front http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 Scottish protesters "yobbo, fascist scum" Ney, your policies "obnoxious"http://bit.ly/19K0sVe second batch of today's tweets Dear
In 09 BC election, mail-in/advance ballots = 6% of total; expected to be higher this year http://bit.ly/183wAE8 WSJ: Canadian Prime Minister Lobbies U.S. for Pipeline http://on.wsj.com/17EeYB8 NYT: Interior Proposes New Rules for Fracking on U.S. Land [enviros displeased] http://nyti.ms/12GoOg4 In the NYT, the world needs more Canada! http://nyti.ms/16psKrJ first batch of today's tweets Front page T Star FORD IN ‘CRACK VIDEO’ SCANDAL http://bit.ly/19D8xei Front page Ottawa Citizen Duffy leaves Conservative caucus http://bit.ly/YO6lPk Globe line story Mike Duffy quits Tory caucus http://bit.ly/11JssKW Harper stands by chief of staff on cheque to Senator Mike Duffy http://bit.ly/12zTC3i Michael Den Tandt: This scandal will linger even after Duffy’s departure from the Conservative caucus http://bit.ly/17DL14j Canadian Senate problems go far beyond Mike Duffy: Walkom http://bit.ly/185ATin Front page La Presse http://bit.ly/RnKOZZ SNC counter-attacks http://bit.ly/12GjCJd French http://bit.ly/Z0JzWF Globe front: ‘All the facts’ support Keystone pipeline, Harper tells U.S. audience http://bit.ly/12g3ihV Rick Smith: Pipeline dreams turn to ashes for Big Oil | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/YO8CKz Globe (print ed hed): Mulcair revealed encounter with Laval mayor 17 years later http://bit.ly/12yV7id Van Sun lead story: B. C. women wield more political power http://bit.ly/108EV7T Recent turnaround elections gave Liberals valuable lessons the NDP ignored @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/12Geogz Jeff Simpson: Who lost the B.C. election? Pollsters, pundits (and yes, the NDP) http://bit.ly/13rOprY The only sure election winner: negative campaigning: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/10UWEB3 Front page NYT http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Pressure of War Is Causing Syria to Break Apart http://nyti.ms/Z0KlTN first batch of today's tweets Line story in the Globe/lead story in the Post and p 4 in the Toronto Star http://bit.ly/13v5TXU Interesting that there’s no by-line on this follow up to yesterday’s line story suggesting chicanery http://bit.ly/18HWEWB The Broadbent Institute hopes Justin Trudeau will spur progressives as Obama did? http://bit.ly/YGK06l Tom Mulcair’s and the federal #NDP’s big test http://bit.ly/17pggQp Gawd, would you check out the front page of Tuesday’s Toronto Star! http://bit.ly/12gjtuw Great photo of Adrian Dix on front page of Van Sun (indicative of fair elexn coverage of #BCNDP) http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ (Vancouver) Province endorses BC Libs http://bit.ly/13v6sBb Dix will likely win but where he repeatedly refused to give clear answers to basic questions, Clark was direct 1/4 Where she acknowledged past mistakes of her party, in Dix’s world, the NDP is without flaws. 2/4 Where Clark was warm and engaging, Dix was jumpy, combative and condescending 3/4 Clark carried herself like a premier; Dix behaved like the hyper-partisan policy wonk he’s been for most of his life. 4/4 In light of Province editorial hafta question Dix photo on yesterday’s front page (above) Dix is slipperier than a buttered escargot: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/YGPgXD Dear @TheTyee: VdZ acquitted/found in conflict of interest http://bit.ly/17obOBj Glen Clark wasn’t? http://bit.ly/10EJV0A NDP holds strong lead despite nasty Liberal campaign: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/18I78VW BC staff not involved in editorial board discussion that led to Globe dissing Dix endorsing Clark http://bit.ly/14jYb1G Don’t know if any1 w/ BC experience on Globe editorial board that dissed Dix/endorsed Clark http://bit.ly/10ViRsO Or, depending on how close it is tonight, they could both earn the moniker “The Combeback Kid” http://bit.ly/10vQO3e Forum poll haunts N Post! Recent polls suggest gap that separates B.C. Libs and NDP has narrowed http://bit.ly/YGhHEX Can an endorsement of the #NDP to govern Ontario be far behind! http://bit.ly/17pfO4B Front page of the Toronto Sun http://bit.ly/PalHIF and National, oops Toronto Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C 4 young people 2 note in Worthington’s self-obit: career I never planned unfolded in way I’ve never regretted http://bit.ly/15IWj7s La une du JdeM http://bit.ly/N40YBj ! Guardian front page http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 3 main parties down 4 pts each, w/ Ukip picking up 9 to reach 18 http://bit.ly/12qWQ9o Hafta love yesterday’s front page hed in NYT! I.R.S. Focus on Conservatives Gives G.O.P. an Issue to Seize On fourth batch of today's tweets Front page of the Province features the Comeback Kid--or kids? Neufeld made 12 recommendations that Elections Canada accepted, including moving to NB model http://bit.ly/YQ9iRJ Say what! (Guardian): European Bank energy chief puts forward case for funding coal http://bit.ly/12oDDVL third batch of today's tweets Globe fesses up to 2 errors in @globejunius Dix-diss/endorsement of Libs [suggesting less than perfect knowledge of BC!] Markets missed Flaherty’s clues on next Bank of Canada chief: @barriemckenna http://bit.ly/1255hFI ! J Post front (print edition hed) Bieber’s manager-Reactions to Anne Frank visit were ‘atrocious and insulting’ http://bit.ly/17X95wq second batch of today's tweets Calgary Herald front page with more manna from heaven for Wildrose! http://bit.ly/10HiDLK Same stinker http://wapo.st/13TeMKn on WSJ http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn W Post http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ NYT http://bit.ly/T9yfDf front page Wherein a former senior Harper aide says the man will step down before the next election http://bit.ly/13seFpz AG Ferguson said there cd B 3 reasons he couldn’t find the $3.1 B http://bit.ly/10DmJzD first batch of today's tweets Prime Minister expected to conduct ‘major’ Cabinet shuffle this summer http://bit.ly/13seFpz Gov't vows to fix widespread ‘irregularities’ in election day voting procedures/opposition say Tories stalling http://bit.ly/YQ9iRJ RCMP probes payments to senators Duffy, Brazeau, Harb http://bit.ly/10lclzD Interesting column on a famous Senator: Mac Harb the plumber http://bit.ly/10RTms8 Unaccounted $3.1 B spending shows House has lost ability to ‘follow the money,’ say MPs http://bit.ly/10DmJzD Pressure mounts to reform opaque financial system: @IvisonJ http://bit.ly/17khnkr Samara report (Citizen): MPs range from windy to nearly mute in House of Commons http://bit.ly/10t228F Situation might be different if #cdnmedia *covered* the House outside of #QP! http://bit.ly/164ZWo4 I found today's @nationalpost story interesting http://bit.ly/YEpumM in yesterday’s NY Times! http://nyti.ms/13PSwkq 1 e-mail to a work address http://bit.ly/10HlqEK 1 banner headline on front page of Citizen! http://bit.ly/P59tRU N Post front http://bit.ly/MuO99C Below the Blue Leafs: Greens make splash in B.C. riding http://bit.ly/17knTYh Irresistible Alberta oil meets immovable B.C.: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/YQi4Pw CP http://bit.ly/16tJcXk Globe http://bit.ly/10RVBvG reports on BC election campaign ! Better oil price needed for emissions controls to work: environment minister http://bit.ly/14gVuOy Keystone missteps, Senate scandal have Harper stumbling: @JohnIbbitson http://bit.ly/164NyEM #BCNDP 's @adriandix ends campaign with 14-stop, 1700-kilometre, 24-hour blitz http://bit.ly/10teoxw Think @adriandix walked away from the Premier’s Office with a pile in severance? A ‘great’ Alberta moment! More than $2.1M in severance paid to premier’s advisers, but details remain secret http://bit.ly/10HiDLK third batch of today's tweets Whoa! Report: Top IRS officials knew in 2011 that conservative groups were targeted - Washington Post http://wapo.st/18Dlyqw The T C, like the Van Sun, not endorsing any party [likely out of fear of alienating readers] http://bit.ly/10BBRh3 Benoît Aubin worth reading: The PQ’s problem http://bit.ly/17huOBy French http://bit.ly/YCSg7c second batch of today's tweets Still waiting for #CPC anti abortion MPs and @nationalpost editorial on this @jonkay http://bit.ly/ZRPMiY T Star: “responsible development” of the oilsands would overcome opposition in EU/US/BC http://bit.ly/16rko2d Tax avoidance, you say? This guy was on Paul Martin’s guest list! http://ind.pn/YOlYIF first batch of today's tweets T Star front page: Giving up on the American tourist http://bit.ly/ZRMo7G W Post front http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ lead story: Syrian regime gains ground http://wapo.st/13PVOEk ! NY Post front page http://bit.ly/QNUNqJ Thousands of American teens crushing on Boston Marathon bomber http://bit.ly/14eR62s NYT lead story: Some Countries [including Canada] Lobby for More in Race for Visas http://nyti.ms/13PSwkq The world needs more Canada?! (NY Times): Canada Exports Mafia War to Sicily http://nyti.ms/10F7gnk ! Observer lead story: Recession is a good time to exploit cheap labour says Cameron aide http://bit.ly/13abSxT A ‘great’ moment in journalism http://bit.ly/161w4Jg Lotta trashing of Al Gore. In Canada http://bit.ly/19erL9U http://bit.ly/13PPrAS http://bit.ly/10jxDO0 http://bit.ly/10Mv56V Conservatives may be losing more than the faith @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/ZYaNfg W Post editorial: appalling 2 learn IRS improperly targeted conservative groups 4 scrutiny/no Obama apology http://wapo.st/17gMblQ Times Colonist front page http://bit.ly/N7AMbV [but it doesn't really mean anything re % on Tuesday] Clark looking to make history @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/15BikoG Clark vows to fight for B.C. despite threat of her ouster by 801 group http://bit.ly/14eOv8R Christy Clark campaigns against voters’ hunger for change: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/YOepBP Clark claims BC Liberals have the momentum as election day approaches http://bit.ly/12mADcy second batch of today's tweets Uh-oh. (WS Journal front page) U.S.: Russia Withheld Intel on Boston Bomb Suspect http://on.wsj.com/10hKxMo Via-related plot suspect Ahmed Abassi asked NDP MP to help him get back to Canada http://bit.ly/17Tqfez French http://bit.ly/ZVW5Wg charges related 2 terrorist plot cd be added or supersede visa charges after more evidence re Abassi considered http://bit.ly/10N06rm Dix says Liberals playing a ‘game’ by encouraging Victoria voters to support Greens http://bit.ly/120xZYd Polls suggest change is in the air for B.C. @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/137j5yH first batch of today's tweets T Star (print edition hed): Questions raised over Senate expense audit http://bit.ly/19b63n2 !! Conservatives praise Duffy's 'leadership' in Senate expense scandal http://bit.ly/11snl1w National Post editorial says we shd expel Duffy & co and reform the senate—neither of which can be done today http://bit.ly/11ZPfwC Three military helicopters grounded in Labrador during search-and-rescue emergency http://bit.ly/ZVI0I8 ! Conrad Black says independence for QC no longer a threat [addicted to transfer payments] http://bit.ly/17cX4oT Pierre Trudeau's tie will be in exhibit at new Canadian Museum of History but not War Measures Act! http://bit.ly/1372N99 Since this was why @acoyne voted #LPC in 2011--as I recall his words back then--I’m not surprised to read http://bit.ly/11ZOt2L Frankly, I can’t see how Harper can lead his troops into the 2015 election w MPs wanting to reopen abortion http://bit.ly/17RsHlJ ! Don't bring parents here for welfare, Kenney says http://bit.ly/12jyqyy CETA negotiators have finished their work; agreement now at political approval stage: @jflisee http://bit.ly/10CfVqL Tories, under fire for ads, seek $20M to run additional campaigns http://bit.ly/10z58Ji Jeff Simpson: We all pay for the government’s hockey ads http://bit.ly/1209N8m VIA-related Terror suspect did not enter US from Canada http://bit.ly/10oYofU ‘Great’ hed! NDP widens lead in new B.C election poll, but not by much http://bit.ly/16oeQp9 Life is full of choices! The Vancouver Sun ain’t endorsing anyone in this election http://bit.ly/12nKwWd Picking a government: @CraigMcInnes worth reading http://bit.ly/10CevMW Globe and Mail editorial: "a very good number [of BCers] seem to feel the NDP is too risky an option. We agree." http://bit.ly/19bloEh ‘Great’ hed! NDP widens lead in new B.C election poll, but not by much http://bit.ly/16oeQp9 #bcpoli ! N Post lead story: “with just a few days left [BC election] is surprisingly too close to call” http://bit.ly/13nGT4Y NDP leader Adrian Dix gambles the high road leads to victory: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/13MFNyZ Hungry NDP likely to win on Tuesday, but Clark has earned a consolation prize: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/19aWQv1 BC, according to the National Post lead article, is “a province known for fruitcake politics” http://bit.ly/13nGT4Y Elsewhere in the National Post, Victoria is BC’s “obnoxiously isolated” “geriatric, island capital” http://bit.ly/11rXTZR Diane Francis makes the case for voting Liberal next week #bcpoli http://bit.ly/10yNWU2 QC? Ha! isolated capitals [like Victoria] leave themselves much more open to corruption http://bit.ly/11rXTZR JdeM: L’Effet Couillard: La chute se poursuit pour le PQ Léger/JdeM: #PLQ 35 #PQ 27 #CAQ 19 #QS 11 Conrad Black disses Tom Mulcair (and thought pretty much the same on this point about Brian Mulroney) http://bit.ly/YApW5q Horwath’s change in tone presents a confusing image : @aradwanski http://bit.ly/13nYbPt NYT front page http://nyti.ms/11s7CiV Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears http://nyti.ms/136NixU W Post: Obama donors compare Keystone decision to Lincoln’s outlawing of slavery http://wapo.st/15Xo7ok Rex Murphy disses the Globe for its Al Gore front page [as opposed to the Post flogging an abortion law!] http://bit.ly/10Mv56V Guardian: Labour 'must prepare for coalition talks' with Lib Dems says close Miliband adviser http://bit.ly/17TjER8 first batch of today's tweets Globe line story (print edition hed): Dirty oil’ label will stick, EU says http://bit.ly/196ZHoJ Simpson: Bitumen needed statesmen, not salesmen http://bit.ly/18y66vE T Star front (print edition hed): Harb quits Grits after colleagues order repayment http://bit.ly/10mEv9h Citizen: (print edition hed): Duffy, Tkachuk talk concerns Liberals http://bit.ly/10yAtQZ A 'great' Ottawa moment! Sen Harb has retained former SCC Justice Bastarache to challenge the investigation Another! CRA surprised when CBC told them that Britain has had the offshore data for nearly 3 years http://bit.ly/10KkkSL Front page of the Guardian w/ what’s making news in Canada too http://bit.ly/MuO99C Anti-abortion march dominates the front page of the very sympathetic National Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C Conservative MPs rally for renewed abortion debate http://bit.ly/13lOAbH “People can protest [abortion] but that’s not going 2 change my opinion (or) opinion of Trudeau” said Leblanc http://bit.ly/ZMNkdC Anti-abortion MPs advance agenda in small steps: @IvisonJ http://bit.ly/1498hCo Harper must remedy Conservative chasms if he plans to run in 2015: @mdentandt http://bit.ly/10weJk1 T Star line story (print edition hed): Tunisian tied to Toronto terror plot NY Times (2nd graf): Ahmed Abassi came to US from Canada in March http://nyti.ms/12kLUsy Wall Street Journal: Visa-Fraud Charges for Tunisian Accused in Train-Bombing Plot http://on.wsj.com/13m0um0 VIA plot? insufficient evidence to charge Abassi w/ terrorist conspiracy; accused instead of immigration fraud http://bit.ly/16lyt19 CBC: Canadian attacker worked at Algeria gas plant http://bit.ly/17QpXVG ! Toews bristled when asked if [project being funded] will look at the root causes of terrorism http://bit.ly/YyvkGm Front page of Le JdeM features goings-on in QC… + Switzerland and Panama! http://bit.ly/N40YBj The only politician looking good after yesterday’s gangsterism bust is Tom Mulcair http://bit.ly/ZTieV1 Today’s Globe cartoon is all you need to know about Tom Mulcair and/in #cdnmedia http://bit.ly/13J8CML Van Sun: B.C. Liberals a favourite of big pharma http://bit.ly/133jSk3 BC fiscal mgmt? Harcourt did better than Libs; they did better than er, Glen Clark http://bit.ly/11Xvfec Honest journalism- [Green candidate] Weaver is "a contributor to Al Gore’s 2007 Nobel Prize" http://bit.ly/178CwOb Party leaders' futures hinge on election results: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/1976NcQ Liberals’ 801 group will find Clark harder to oust than they hoped: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/YypqVM Don Cayo: Harcourt out-managed the Liberals, but other NDPers did not, study says http://bit.ly/13J0qfe ! Wynne has no date for car insurance rate cuts http://bit.ly/10wo3nV Hey, look: The Globe and Mail editorial board doesn’t support Ontario’s NDP! http://bit.ly/13IUgvV second batch of today's tweets Times Colonist lead story: B.C. election race tightens as NDP lead shrinks: poll http://bit.ly/15spITr ! On Christy Clark's future, a ‘great’ #cdnmedia moment: Global BC http://bit.ly/18vM9pl vs The Globe http://bit.ly/11V4Uxo Watching Global, I learned that Christy Clark is a federal Liberal & that Martyn Brown doesn't support her! NYT front page http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Obama/Clinton muzzling diplomats? http://nyti.ms/12Z5Xvl first batch of today's tweets Guardian: Canada # 1 for number of women in high profile public positions http://bit.ly/12igZ09 Globe front page http://bit.ly/NorOEh Oliver threatens action against EU on oil sands http://bit.ly/10tYzfz Globe: Senate to investigate RCMP over allegations of witness intimidation http://bit.ly/13DfzPj Globe: Ottawa to support [private member’s] bill giving victims more access to parole hearings http://bit.ly/13jxlrK Interesting how little one hears these days about the #CPC being Canada’s Natural Governing Party http://bit.ly/ZRfqYH By far the most interesting column on the Harper government I’ve read today http://bit.ly/ZJMOgk Mulcair could not normally be confused with a ray of sunshine. But he was as frisky as a colt in Question Period To Adrian Dix from @VaughnPalmer: Harper will likely have his own agenda on treaty process http://bit.ly/17NG5qQ ! Global BC-Movement w/in BC Libs to oust Clark; Globe BC P1 hed: Late Lib surge pushes party insiders 2 new embrace of Clark Van Sun lead story (print edition hed): Dix targeted in new wave of attack ads http://bit.ly/13jvcMG B.C. campaign will only get nastier/New Dems threw 1st mud ball yesterday: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/10ubsGv Globe: Alberta’s new boom from old oil http://bit.ly/12gdbxw Van Sun line story (print edition hed): LNG plants will scuttle emission cuts http://bit.ly/15rO4wv EPA Chief Gives State Dept Draft Keystone Review a ‘C’ W Post: Environmentalists seize on Biden’s Keystone XL remarks to launch new attack http://wapo.st/13DrHzU Next King of Canada attacks global warming sceptics (Guardian) http://bit.ly/ZReRxV Ontario #NDP leader is one smart negotiator (apparently doesn’t believe everything she reads in the T Star!) http://bit.ly/145RWOR JdeM front: QCers want the truth re patriation http://bit.ly/N40YBj Léger JdeM: Yes 38 No 62 (after reapportioning undecided) Léger JdeM: Important that Ottawa disclose all docs related to 82 patriation? Yes 68% Léger JdeM: Important that QC ‘sign’ the 82 Constitution? Yes 43 No 37 Léger JdeM: Supreme Court is neutral/politically independent? Yes 37 No 39 third batch of today's tweets NYT: Israel Halts Settlement Plans for Now [according to dovish Peace Now] http://nyti.ms/12UgXKw Not a great French moment: Dylan ruled “unworthy” of Légion d'Honneur http://bit.ly/10aPI0E I do wish the Kays and other Posties wd enlighten us on the specific abortion law they’d like to see http://bit.ly/15pcIhh second batch of today's tweets Uh-oh—it’s spread to the WS Journal: Canada looks like a tempting target for short sellers http://on.wsj.com/10G3GU6 Hey, what about us Your Majesty! Queen’s Speech to 'unleash the talents' of Britons by 'firing up' economy http://bit.ly/ZGXuwd A ‘great’ moment: Vatican, U.S. in Anti-Money-Laundering Deal http://on.wsj.com/10pvr9c WS Journal: Prostate Test Could Cut Need For Surgery http://on.wsj.com/11ikurI first batch of today's tweets Front page Globe http://bit.ly/NorOEh Research council’s makeover leaves Canadian industry setting the agenda http://bit.ly/YtXsdH Globe front: Ottawa races to clinch EU trade deal before summer break http://bit.ly/12TUFZg Front page of the Star Millions in taxpayer-funded consulting work kept secret http://bit.ly/12U1ZEr Ottawa clearing way for Canadian airlines to use fewer flight attendants | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/13hmqyI Senator Mac Harb selling house amid expenses scrutiny http://bit.ly/13hhaeu ‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience http://bit.ly/10oI3Jc Front page of the New York Times http://bit.ly/T9yfDf NY Post http://bit.ly/QNUNqJ ! NYT: Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users http://nyti.ms/18WyQvy NYT: border inspections of Canadian food exports may be eliminated? http://nyti.ms/11hFejk Front page of the Wall Street Journal http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn Watson: Central bankers aren’t so shady and mysterious http://bit.ly/16gmOAz BC will continue its trend toward economic irrelevance compared with the rest of the country? http://bit.ly/12cAKra Uh-oh (Simpson): Watching B.C., business might decide to bide its time http://bit.ly/1439xHb ‘I love Canada’: BCNDP candidate denies accusation he’ ‘underground member’ of Chinese communist party http://bit.ly/13gYADc Sharp contrast with Globe http://bit.ly/16g35AS reporting of this incident in BC campaign Hmm.. The party leader most trusted by BCers will not be elected to the Legislature http://bit.ly/12cD957 Vaughn Palmer: Legal costs of investigating government actions cost B.C. taxpayers dearly http://bit.ly/12T9Kdy B.C. Premier Christy Clark campaigns against Alberta, Ottawa: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/11i1Uju Province cover story: Who do you trust? http://bit.ly/16XgEp1 Glavin: Some fresh voices in Victoria would be good http://bit.ly/16Xh0Mo Braid: Tories, government meld on the taxpayer’s dime http://bit.ly/10aH2Yi Front page of the Calgary Herald http://bit.ly/PETBRW Front page of the Province http://bit.ly/PDVl21 Jean Charest’s agenda chockablock w/ fundraisers http://bit.ly/17Ll00c French http://bit.ly/12U3S3U second batch of today's tweets Globe lead story: Slow down and earn public support for resource projects, Dix says http://bit.ly/11eNy3l NYT lead story: U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks http://nyti.ms/12dl2L8 Telegraph lead story: China freezes out Cameron for meeting Dalai Lama http://bit.ly/13r7gWL Pincus: History is a good teacher when it comes to the U.S. and Syria. http://wapo.st/140HbNU first batch of today's tweets Globe front: Ottawa throws its weight behind social investing http://bit.ly/17Jhq6Z Citizen front (print edition hed): Statscan staff face strict rules on what to say, wear http://bit.ly/16dAhsV Globe: Experts debate how much National Household Survey statistics count http://bit.ly/YC8n7s Whoa! Is Poloz Carney’s legacy? http://bit.ly/12OCpk4 Ipsos poll (post-Justin ads): #LPC 35 (up 3) #CPC 32 (up 1) #NDP 25 (down 2) http://bit.ly/ZMIZKK L Martin: Our Conservative rewrite begins with this book http://bit.ly/11PJhhW On the Harper gov and unions, Ivison http://bit.ly/12OkERV vs McQuaig http://bit.ly/10kpISf The #NDP’s federalist mission: @MeganLeslieMP http://bit.ly/YCcmkq Feds eliminated more than 15,000 public service jobs last year: PCO report http://bit.ly/ZMJg0d Chantal Hébert’s column is mostly about why the Harper gov’t shd continue funding the #CBC French-language service! http://bit.ly/108hJpK A ‘great’ Ottawa moment: Bureaucrat's private Spanish lessons under fire http://bit.ly/15mqQrq If NDP win in BC next Tuesday, they will become a larger problem for Cdn unity than Québec: @ezralevant http://bit.ly/ZMJsg5 Van Sun: A Dix-Harper partnership may be surprisingly fertile http://bit.ly/10DJWk5 Some interesting data on BCers, resource dev’t and the enviro http://bit.ly/YC4MWQ Tom Mulcair sides w/ Al Gore over Joe Oliver on climate change http://bit.ly/140xjUv Campaign attack mode is officially under way #BCNDP: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/10fIGUo Liberal handling of HST the heaviest drag on their political fortunes: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/ZMKecR B.C. election outcome crucial for Alberta: Steward http://bit.ly/11evczH One thing on which I’m fairly certain is that the BC election won’t turn on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! http://bit.ly/16dCC73 Alberta 2 impose tax on BC natural gas 2 retaliate against xenophobic bogey fed by Dix/Clark? http://bit.ly/18Ro4GT Did Dix's quandary hand the B.C. Liberals a potential victory?: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/16dzE2z ! Hollande, Marois, même déception | André Pratte http://bit.ly/17Jm2dd Gazette: Most immigrants to Quebec feel attachment to Canada: poll http://bit.ly/10DKqqf second batch of today's tweets NYT A Homemade Style of Terror: Jihadists Urge Solo Strikes in US http://nyti.ms/12JiZNp Front page of the Globe and Mail will not make Christy Clark popular back east in Alberta ! Dix was asked 2 clarify views on coal exports by someone in crowd who grew more unruly as time passed http://bit.ly/YpkjXR Hey, front page of the T Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY features a poll that coincides w/ the paper’s position! Front page of the Times (London) http://bit.ly/NrRRQU Tories tell Cameron to scrap gay marriage Bill first batch of today's tweets Globe line story: Clark-‘We don’t need Alberta’/ B.C. can forge its own path on natural resources http://bit.ly/10iE5Sl Globe lead story: Ottawa strikes back at Gore’s remarks on oil sands as ‘open sewer’ http://bit.ly/18LTMW5 W Post front (print edition hed): Europe’s carbon market goes bust (will affect QC-California) http://wapo.st/10BttwR Gazette: Little to show for QC’s $1.5B global warming plan http://bit.ly/17HigkI Globe ROB front page: Ottawa to toughen rules for foreign investors http://bit.ly/17Hg0d3 HT front http://bit.ly/18p1GY6 #NDP MP Donnelly vows to continue fight to ban shark fin imports into Cda http://bit.ly/13c1Dwv AG says trying to track $3.1-billion in anti-terror funding would be like ‘tracing serial numbers on dollars’ http://bit.ly/127oCHZ How a terror suspect slipped through immigration's cracks @GregWeston30 http://bit.ly/10dv6B0 Mission accomplished! Via Rail terror plot arrests helped ease Canadian fears after Boston bombing, poll http://bit.ly/YpnUoQ Why Canada remains ‘on the sidelines’ when it comes to Syria: @JohnIbbitson http://bit.ly/15jOqFq Civility, vigorous debate missing in Ottawa: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/18p7p04 L’anti-libéral | @ChantalHbert http://bit.ly/12IRKm7 Peter White says Justin wd have to save Cda if PQ holds referendum/no mention of Mulcair http://bit.ly/ZKNvcH Star: In Nfld, too many want recognition as Mi’kmaq Indians, federal government says http://bit.ly/11NomMo T Star front page (print edition hed): Horwath should back the budget, poll finds http://bit.ly/17HkvEo Flanagan: Can social media change Canadian politics? Haven’t yet http://bit.ly/18LTf6l first batch of today's tweets Front page of NYT/WSJ/W Post all lead w/ decline in unemployment rate Front page of the Vancouver Sun is a bit overly dramatic on recent polls New polls a positive sign for Liberals, but they still face an uphill battle @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/16D09yd *even* at 41% NDP cd expect a big win so long as they remain in first place among the parties NDP still strong; however Dix over Clark on who wd make best premier has gone from 15 to 2 http://bit.ly/16CZVqO Surging B.C. Liberals press NDP to mount more aggressive campaign: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/10c5AwH Front page of the Ottawa Citizen http://bit.ly/P59tRU features next best thing to Omar Khadr interview! If U read to end U’ll see this is about guy convicted on terrorism charges eventually applying for parole http://bit.ly/18k7LoD Some sources say Jaser was outraged about the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq http://bit.ly/11IY9hT Jeff Simpson wishes Canadians lived in a better political world http://bit.ly/114MY8p Chantal Hébert describes the political world we live in http://bit.ly/15g8ys1 Justin praises Redford pans Harper criticizes Mulcair re Keystone http://bit.ly/18k6hdS Justin Trudeau's visit to Sisler High School Thursday was never meant to involve the media http://bit.ly/101Qa1d Front page of the Guardian captures the political world in Britain—a sight to behold http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 Famous Canadian singer concerned about Enbridge pipeline reversal http://bit.ly/YuwPaB Front page of Le Journal de Montréal http://bit.ly/N40YBj A column worth reading: Supporting Quebec Inc., no matter how distasteful that may be http://bit.ly/15dJnpL third batch of today's tweets Best approach to stopping home-grown terrorism? David Ignatius in W Post worth reading http://wapo.st/123OQd7 Keep Reid poll in perspective: #BCNDP still leading Libs in Metro Vancouver – 45 to 35% http://bit.ly/YrOAaG Dix won debate but margin was slim so Clark made up ground on people who weren’t voting for her http://bit.ly/164VlSe Clark can now say 2 Cons: We cd not unite B4 election but this is your moment to come back into the fold http://bit.ly/164VlSe second batch of today's tweets WS Journal front page http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn US Bulks Up to Combat Iran http://on.wsj.com/10wpQIq NY Times: Infectious Salmon Anemia Threat Divides Scientists [Canadian angle] http://nyti.ms/15dTzyF Dear @CraigMcInnes Clark promising 2 try 2 balance budget in yr 1, Dix isn’t/dodged yr 4 in DB8 http://bit.ly/120wD1l T Star might as well have put editorial http://bit.ly/11GPX1H on its front page! http://bit.ly/ONwQiY All you need to know about T Star bias: an opinion column as front page lead article, news report on p 14 Dear Toronto Star Public Editor: The Globe leads with a news report on ON election; your paper leads w/ an opinion column first batch of today's tweets #LPC support @ 35% not quite as high as #NDP 36% after election of Mulcair http://bit.ly/111h9gM Central Cda’s manuf economy shrinking at same time as commodity-driven economy of West heading into a funk http://bit.ly/ZZDPdZ Poloz’s most important attribute is understanding Harper government agenda @IvisonJ http://bit.ly/12vugko While Cons largely approved of Carney’s mgmt of monetary policy – some felt he was too much of a hawk on interest rates 1/2 they disliked profile in media/long resented Mr. Carney got credit internationally 4 Cda’s relatively lustrous ec performance 2/2 http://bit.ly/120oFVQ ! “Not that I’m excited about economists but [Poloz] an economist who doesn’t just sit in ivory tower.” http://bit.ly/ZrPNK4 A day in #cdnpoli: H of C sitting/Justin in Winnipeg/#NDP trustee bans him from speaking to students? http://bit.ly/123x7Cl N Posties like @acoyne might think Harper’s no conservative, but T Star guy says he's re-shaping Canada http://bit.ly/10wkFbn Le Devoir buries news that #NDP SCC motion on its Laskin scandal story has gone pfft http://bit.ly/10wkqND Hmm.. About the PQ demanding respect 4 the separation of powers… http://bit.ly/10wid4J One of these Toronto papers wants an election and one doesn’t http://bit.ly/PalHIF http://bit.ly/ONwQiY W/ ON election in balance Globe http://bit.ly/NorOEh T Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY N Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C front pages Globe front-page lead: Centrist budget gambles on NDP support; TStar? Liberal plan is too loaded for NDP to resist ! T Star front column hed: Liberal plan is too loaded for NDP to resist P 14 report? Horwath cagey on support of budget Hey, what a coincidence! Lead hed on front page opinion column http://bit.ly/ONwQiY coincides w/ T Star editorial position! Liberals no longer far behind NDP in B.C. election poll http://bit.ly/YiOUpK Narrowing NDP lead over Liberals puts pressure on Dix: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/164VlSe Whoa! (Cal Herald front): Redford attacks ‘extreme’ Opposition [Wildrose *and* NDP!] http://bit.ly/18yop0Y NYT lead story: Boston Plot Said To Have Focused On July 4 Attack http://nyti.ms/ZqGr1k third batch of today's tweets NDP expects post-debate polling to come out this week that will show race tightening @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/120rJ32 BC campaign: National Post has Forum Poll http://bit.ly/11EwsXH Province cites Abacus poll released Monday, Sun ignores that poll in projecting seats 33% thought Adrian Dix won leaders debate/30% thought Premier Christy Clark emerged the winner Front page of the Toronto oops National Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C second batch of today's tweets ! Daily Telegraph line story: Cameron takes on `the fruitcakes' http://bit.ly/YgEaZ8 The press has more power than parliament (as the tax avoiders do). http://bit.ly/16287RC Canseco: Fear at top of list for B.C. election support http://bit.ly/1324qrP first batch of today's tweets Harper assailed for cutting Elections Canada budget despite vote problems http://bit.ly/ZBozo0 Globe lead story: Arab states seek to strip Canada of UN agency/ Move marks displeasure with support for Israel http://bit.ly/16s9s43 Whoa! Ottawa’s new public service powers include turfing poor performers http://bit.ly/16rX4AW Recommendations on tax havens don't go far enough, opposition MPs say http://bit.ly/16sflhv Sun News : Trudeau Liberals see surge in BC: Poll http://bit.ly/10ucXyH Harper’s challenge: To reboot and refresh his government: @stevenchase http://bit.ly/ZBjlst Harper’s overhaul means getting back in control of the agenda: @JohnIbbitson http://bit.ly/12qmmsp un-Cdn 4 a fed ldr 2 suggest SCC not immune to pol temptations just cuz it says it is? @ChantalHbert http://bit.ly/YovYs3 John Ivison: Grim report warns Canada vulnerable to an aboriginal insurrection http://bit.ly/10uixkB Hutchinson: ‘Chinkasaurus’ comment makes B.C. NDP candidate latest poster child for dubious conduct http://bit.ly/18tkXEY Canseco: Fear at top of list for B.C. election support http://bit.ly/1324qrP NDP expects post-debate polling to come out this week that will show race tightening @garymasonglobe Based on most recent Reid poll-NDP 45 Libs 31- Dix wd win 60 of the legislature’s 85 seats http://bit.ly/ZoTYq9 B.C. Liberals keep their chins up, but may soon be looking at Plan B : @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/131Zmnw FWIW-NPost/Forum poll post debate NDP 39 Lib 35 Gr 12 Con 9 projects 1 seat Dix majority MOE 3 According to Forum's Bozinoff, trend over past month in various polls shows NDP shedding on average a point a week Abacus poll released showed the NDP with just a 3-point lead over Lib in the Lower Mainland @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/105wdn7 Abacus poll re fed parties in BC suggests prov results may not be the outlier some have been suggesting http://bit.ly/10ucXyH Yaffe: B.C. NDP back out of war on deficit http://bit.ly/13ODevI NDP candidate er, not available for Van Sun interview re riding profile Yet another huge Liberal ad above the fold on T Star front page http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Hockey legend Beliveau surprised to hear his name dragged into Quebec inquiry http://bit.ly/16sf7XC third batch of today's tweets Globe and Mail gets a free ‘scoop’ cuz everyone was chasing temporary foreign workers issue yesterday http://bit.ly/12V3THe More evidence that Eugene Forsey was right about the superiority of our political system over the American http://nyti.ms/YdT9mw Tom Friedman worth reading: We now live in a [scary] world of defined contributions, not defined benefits http://nyti.ms/11XizEi Le Devoir reports on criticism of Tom Mulcair in #cdnmedia http://bit.ly/17xpVSz - the “most virulent” being that of @jonkay Dix sidesteps the issue, but proposed fracking review would take some time: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/16nqNv0 Clarity on some B.C. election issues remains . . . debatable: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/18p1o0m Betcha George Will, who stole “commit sociology” quote from Auden, is as well-educated as Citizen op-ed writer http://bit.ly/YdOLUP One question left unanswered in yesterday’s Postmedia shuffle is who will edit this paper http://bit.ly/OFNtbI third batch of today's tweets W/ Cummins bombing/Sterk shining/5 pts in favour of Dix DB8 win, Clark hasn’t had better news in many months Leaders’ debate akin to watching parents argue: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/Yb1nvO Canada and Syria at war? It’s not an impossible scenario Van Sun: W/ chemical weapons used in Syria, we cd B part of mil intervention; Gaz: Cda unlikely 2 go 2 war against Syria in near future second batch of today's tweets As you reflect on post BC debate polls, keep in mind that the NDP core vote is around 35% Split Over Political Islam Divides Muslim Partners Into Feuding Camps, Complicating US Efforts in Syria/Egypt http://on.wsj.com/10RlR0t Israel's 5th Dolphin submarine unveiled in Germany/provides nuclear second-strike capabilities http://bit.ly/ZxpUfF first batch of today's tweets T Star front http://bit.ly/ONwQiY omits (Globe reports) “agency advised what wd require regulation + 2 date no application has been made” Mulcair may outlast Trudeaumania (print ed hed) http://bit.ly/ZP1Wxe On N Post front page @jonkay tears a strip off Mulcair 4 Friday comments but paper doesn’t report http://bit.ly/18gDeW0 Ott Citizen op-ed co-written by @adamgoldenberg denounces Mulcair 4 Friday comments but paper doesn’t report http://bit.ly/18gDeW0 T Star does report on Mulcair and the SCC docs http://bit.ly/18iS5zc S Dion in T Sun: “I think #NDP will B alone w/ the Bloc once again” [re the above ] If Michel David doubts SCC docs issue will get traction in QC, it likely won’t! http://bit.ly/15WzQ6a This column is really about preparing 4 coalition scenario after 2015 election http://bit.ly/10phx10 Hafta disagree w @VaughnPalmer: thought Dix looked nervous, even furtive at times during debate http://bit.ly/11SzWYd Province http://bit.ly/PDVl21 TC http://bit.ly/N7AMbV front pages Clark's red-light move dumb, NDP on fracking, dumber: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/189Jp0R Dix wins on points @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/16gV66m Hmm... (Ipsos post-debate poll) Who won? Dix 35 Clark 30 Most like a Premier? Clark 44%, Dix 32%, Sterk 5%, Cummins 4% Net improved minus worsened impressions: Sterk +27, Dix +4, Clark -9, Cummins -26 Most likeable? Sterk 33%, Clark 31%, Dix 21%, Cummins 4% Most believable? Dix 32%, Sterk 24%, Clark 21%, Cummins 8% ! Ex-Mtl mayor Tremblay under police protection after a suspicious incident involving his car http://bit.ly/YiV77x Female US soldier pleads guilty to desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid 2nd tour in Iraq http://wapo.st/ZZFGMC second batch of today's tweets N Post editorial: Mr. Trudeau’s theory wd not seem 2 cover cases such as Raed Jaser, who was embraced by the culture he reportedly came to despise 1/3 Nor does it explain Boston’s Tsarnaev brothers, believed to be responsible for the attacks in Boston 2/3 Our best defence against such evil plots is simply to do our best to catch their planners, and deal with them swiftly when we do 3/3 Guardian: Carbon bubble makes Australia's coal industry ripe 'for financial implosion' http://bit.ly/ZflQNx first batch of today's tweets Globe front page line story: Changes to foreign workers program (coming today) http://bit.ly/Y7ZEXX Ottawa Citizen front page http://bit.ly/P59tRU line story: Canadian linked to Boston bomber http://bit.ly/15TEgKV Globe: DND spent $700,000 to undo renovations for delayed helicopter http://bit.ly/ZKbGc5 As a former DM, not sure I buy this explanation for changes at DND, but then again I’m a long way from Ottawa http://bit.ly/15TIYbM Globe: Canada’s trade talks with Japan focus on [additional] car plants http://bit.ly/15TKcDT Guardian: Canada attacks 'evil' of Sri Lanka hosting Commonwealth summit http://bit.ly/11wijMe ! NYT front page http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Karzai’s Office Gets Bags Full Of C.I.A. Cash http://nyti.ms/153zbQE Front page of W Post http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ lead story: Push to expand Internet wiretaps http://wapo.st/12HPwpG Only certain types of tragedies spark swift political action: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/11R7i8x NDP’s new reality as contenders: @montesolberg http://bit.ly/12bcjrk T Star front page http://bit.ly/12gjtuw with (another) huge ad for the Ontario Liberals Globe: Critics slam new ‘high-risk’ designation for mentally ill offenders http://bit.ly/11wexCx Watching soccer game at a bar, a mass groan, not loud but notable, when #CPC ad against Justin appeared http://bit.ly/12U18ag Harper style of politics is about controlling the message-meaning gov't & journos too are at war http://bit.ly/12b3ei0 Harper government message control now includes the RCMP (hopefully not during election campaigns!) http://bit.ly/13Fz7lq Globe editorial disses mandatory carriage by CRTC order—be it for Starlight or #SUNTV http://bit.ly/YgcS7l Front page of National Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C w/ @IvisonJ on cabinet shuffle The Justin Trudeau camp gets out its message in papers across the land http://bit.ly/13FtG68 Hill Times: @RickAnderson and @brucanderson invest in National Newswatch http://bit.ly/14G479n T Star front page http://bit.ly/12gjtuw with (another) huge ad for the Ontario Liberals La Presse: Accurso cède le gros de ses actifs http://bit.ly/11whXFo Author raises questions about top court's review into Constitution allegations http://bit.ly/12bduqJ Le Devoir: Enquête interne sur l’affaire Laskin-Estey - Couvercle supreme http://bit.ly/15TRJm1 La Presse: Le bras droit de Lisée chez National http://bit.ly/YghH0n Quebec to launch Enbridge pipeline reversal consultations http://bit.ly/ZX4iFJ Pollster: Dix's new opposition to Kinder Morgan unlikely to breathe new life into the BC Lib campaign http://bit.ly/12HWECy Province: Christy Clark changes her tune, says running red lights is wrong http://bit.ly/11PJumX This just in! (Van Sin): Rich ridings lean Liberal, poor ridings NDP in BC http://bit.ly/10n0k8x Looming debate puts pressure on Clark and Dix to connect with voters: @justine_hunter http://bit.ly/16aXZFU BCers (of all political stripes) shd brace 4 more of this from Ontario w/ Adrian Dix as premier http://bit.ly/15TMiUe Yakabuski--Peace in the woods: The boreal pact is the test http://bit.ly/12bfi2Y Hard to believe this idea is in trouble in Ottawa w/ all the support by Hill journos for Vancouver’s http://bit.ly/ZYrkLv third batch of today's tweets LA Times front http://bit.ly/16lWodR North Caucasus to Boston: Rise and fall of the Tsarnaev brothers http://lat.ms/17qP8xM Great hed (LA Times): Netherlands adjusts to idea of a male monarch Not-so-great hed (LA Times): Nevada lawmaker comes out as gay on Senate floor ! Obama admires CNN "commitment to cover all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate" http://bit.ly/151aaWg second batch of today's tweets ! (NYT front page): Departing French Envoy Has Frank Words on Afghanistan http://nyti.ms/11NdX51 Goldstein: Fighting the Canada-bashers http://bit.ly/12RAfng Meanwhile, Justin’s advisers were unavailable for comment on this story according to all reports in French http://bit.ly/10l5tOp first batch of today's tweets CBS: Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev caught on Russia wiretap http://cbsn.ws/13DtvrQ W Post front page http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ The Tsarnaev family: A faded portrait of an immigrant’s American dream http://wapo.st/10KSMUd NYT: root cause of Tamerlan’s terrorism had to do with boxing! http://nyti.ms/14uFYSR NYT lead story Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy http://nyti.ms/162J804 Obama: “I remember when BuzzFeed was just something I did in college around 2 a.m.” http://wapo.st/13DuOXV Obama showed cover of “Senior Leisure” with his photo on it: “I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be” http://wapo.st/13DuOXV Personally, hafta say I’m waiting for this visitor to Canada to say something, er quotable! http://bit.ly/11u4dL8 A Canadian photo worth a look at: Jennifer Tory received the diversity award http://bit.ly/ZPvQAa Sacha/Justin had falling out-according 2 @vmarissal -anyway Cdns will judge Justin on his positions not adviser’s http://bit.ly/165URuU *Not* in T Star Harper report-People all over country ask where I’m from "I say I grew up in a small town in TO" http://huff.to/YdO3sE Trudeau, Dix positively opposed to going negative: @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/ZVhxqz Front page of the Sunday Star features a huge Ontario Liberal ad http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Pipeline politics may B weakness 4 NDP/ Kinder Morgan raises concerns in BC business @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/11OEDRx third batch of today's tweets Hey, @kenneyjason and the leader of Britain’s Labour Party agree on something! http://bit.ly/17oDvYg Mulcair’s position on Clarity Act was not unanimously supported in #NDP caucus or in his inner circle http://bit.ly/11LIwqg Obama took aim at N Dakota law which bans abortions when fetal heartbeat can be detected at around 6 weeks http://wapo.st/161ySVL ! NYT: UK Speaker wants Britain’s legislators to behave like plausible grown-ups, not overexcited adolescents http://nyti.ms/14qtv2G ! Van Sun editorial note: Major parties invited a month ago to submit the 3 columns published today; Cummins missed deadline NY Times editorial: Blocking the Keystone pipeline is one obvious response to global warming http://nyti.ms/11rCtXr second batch of today's tweets #NDP 2 seek all party approval next week 4 inquiry into Laskin; @JustinTrudeau team unavailable for comment http://bit.ly/ZUAiJS French papers all reporting ! Understatement: #NDP "It appears someone dropped the ball….. There's the pardon. There's the deportation." http://bit.ly/11M5m12 While reports [er in Globe] suggest Jaser flew back 2 Mideast on fake Jordanian passport, family says not true http://bit.ly/12P6iEq first batch of today's tweets Big changes to Postmedia papers coming soon (Is the N Post to become the Toronto Post?) NYT front page Obama Avoids Swift Response On Syria Arms http://nyti.ms/10Ie6tM I suspect PM Harper will learn more from Frum from away http://bit.ly/ZCIUdx than from Hebert at home http://bit.ly/12P3Y02 Jeff Simpson: Our money for attack ads – how low can the Harper Conservatives go? http://bit.ly/183paSg All U need 2 know about Harper strategy (Globe editor): was 1st time I’ve seen him seem proud in saying he was “born and raised” in TO Leader of Opposition re Laskin stuff: the SCC had no intention all along of ever dealing with this issue seriously http://bit.ly/12O8OL7 A former Prime Minister accuses residential schools of 'cultural genocide' http://bit.ly/160YZwa ! Omar Khadr 2 appeal murder, terrorism conviction; case is er complicated cuz he pleaded guilty http://bit.ly/ZCMHrb Police shouldn’t play politics and politicians shouldn’t play police: @stphnmaher http://bit.ly/ZSHvuK Postmedia: MPs study climate change quietly http://bit.ly/10jjdsS The smartest piece I’ve read on our parliamentary system in a very long time http://bit.ly/10GzmzY Good profile of Christy Clark in Vancouver Sun http://bit.ly/185jnZF On BC leaders debate, @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/14pGema and @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/11JkEVI worth reading Lovable NDP geek faces off in B.C. against feisty Liberal soccer mom: Walkom http://bit.ly/12vNCbC #bcpoli ! The Globe and Mail er corrects yesterday’s explosive Rita MacNeil column http://bit.ly/10GViLe T Star Public Editor blames journos, not Facebook, for an egregious error that led to unusual front page apology http://bit.ly/ZTvgOI Big changes to Postmedia papers coming soon (Is the N Post to become the Toronto Post?) http://bit.ly/MuO99C Personally I think Rabble TV wd balance #SUNTV & be a valuable addition to the #cdmedia spectrum http://bit.ly/10GNKrX #CPC-friendly journos are under-represented in #cdnmedia but #ndp-friendly journos more so A ‘great’ Montréal moment: Man steals $830 worth of supplies from sex-toy store http://bit.ly/15YUr9D second batch of today's tweets NYT: signals from Obama admin indicate he is inclined to approve Keystone within months http://nyti.ms/10h9iUG A US front page you’ll never see in Canada (in part because of our different political systems) http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ Christy Clark unbowed in the face of grim polling: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/14VgMWg Whew! (WSJ) Einstein Proved Right on Gravity—Again first batch of today's tweets ! Montréal in talks to purchase an LAV http://bit.ly/11JlZdT French http://bit.ly/12sjGNH When it comes to security, this is something I definitely want my government to fix http://bit.ly/180P0U9 Dear @kenneyjason: U.A.E. official says Jaser traveled to the U.A.E "several" times on a Jordanian passport as recently as Sept 2011 http://on.wsj.com/Y8R7Gp By far the best piece I’ve read on Justin’s Boston attack comments http://bit.ly/17m9w3h Brilliant column: Rita MacNeil’s death should make us angry http://bit.ly/11Jcw68 Root causes U say? #NDP Leader Tom Mulcair also questioned the timing of Trudeau’s [Boston] comments yesterday http://bit.ly/17m9ici Reading Salutin, you’ll understand Y Justin is mum now on root causes, and Y Harper/Mulcair won’t engage http://bit.ly/17mcbtK Believe this about Gov’t-RCMP relationship has been reported in the past, but in case it hasn’t http://bit.ly/17masVd Trudeau, Harper and Mulcair and two weeks that have changed Canadian politics: Tim Harper worth reading http://bit.ly/11Jeeoi Tom Walkom sees trouble on the horizon for #BCNDP, but I’m dubious http://bit.ly/14V3FUV Dix’s pipeline flip-flop is a resource chiller @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/11YItWI ! Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Liberals and NDP compete for worst management of big public projects http://bit.ly/Y1rsNU Gawd, anything but this if #NDP win the BC election! http://bit.ly/17m9ZCy second batch of today's tweets Dear Sun News/N Post journos & pundits: Another “freedom-loving libertarian” candidate bites the political dust http://bit.ly/XYXYA8 W Post editorial: Is the FBI focused enough on the real bad guys? http://wapo.st/12K4tsf George Will w/ a caution re Boston based on the Japanese internment http://wapo.st/ZuMEh9 Fareed Zakaria praises Canada’s outreach to Muslims approach http://wapo.st/XYWypb E J Dionne on jumping to conclusions after a terrorist attack http://wapo.st/12K4nAV first batch of today's tweets Globe: Conservatives pass anti-terror bill decried by civil-rights advocates (& supported by Globe) http://bit.ly/11TEyuh RCMP gets out one of its main messages of the terrorism arrests on the front page of the Globe RCMP rationale for arrests is slipped into the scoop on the front page of the T Star RCMP: recent change in behaviour not political expediency/Boston bombing led to arrests now http://bit.ly/17jW13T Toronto suspect in alleged terror plot from family of 1947 Palestinian refugees who remained stateless http://bit.ly/13wQ8y4 By the time Toronto imam came to raise concerns about Jaser’s extremist rhetoric, authorities already aware of both men http://bit.ly/12Ibiuh W Post front page http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ w more on the security screw up that’s part of Boston story http://wapo.st/YUcbeZ LAT front http://bit.ly/16lWodR Tamerlan got training in bomb making during Russia trip http://lat.ms/13wOYms NYT front page http://bit.ly/T9yfDf w Assad’s efforts to get Obama on side http://nyti.ms/11mDQa1 Order in (slightly) changed Commons after Speaker’s ruling/ Rarely have so many journo crests fallen http://bit.ly/12JXekc Albertans believe they’re being BS’d on bitumen bubble http://bit.ly/15Pu461 Hey, what a coincidence: As NDP rises in polls, corporate money starts to trickle in http://bit.ly/11GdBf7 What BCers know at this point about fiscal fitness under an NDP government http://bit.ly/11mAjsj Labour code changes another example of the NDP’s “elect-us-now, we’ll explain-later” strategy http://bit.ly/15J7yvC Les Leyne: Dix lays out NDP's election platform, comes up empty on jobs http://bit.ly/11TyUbz Don Mapherson: Liberal parties see popularity surge in Quebec, but will it last? http://bit.ly/Zmyhuc more important story of latest CROP poll is not still fragile Lib revival but potentially irreversible slump in PQ fortunes http://bit.ly/15PjxYi ! Harper, Kenney moving Cdatoward the failed two-tiered societies of Germany and France-or worse, Saudi Arabia http://bit.ly/ZmyBt9 Lysiane Gagnon says Conrad Black got quicker health care cuz he’s well connected http://bit.ly/10ePcuf Nocera column in NYT: Canada’s Oil Minister, Unmuzzled http://nyti.ms/11mzjV5 third batch of today's tweets Kinder Morgan resolute on Trans Mountain pipeline http://bit.ly/12HIvWP Hard to square Adrian Dix on Kinder Morgan in 1st graf http://bit.ly/11BqQ1W with what he told Palmer 2 weeks ago http://bit.ly/11A1mkm Hostility toward Dix from Albertans is palpable; a bigger problem if extends to Ontario after May 14 http://bit.ly/142L7kU If one sticks with this Globe report, one finds a dark horse candidate in the race to succeed Mark Carney http://bit.ly/14ORgSt second batch of today's tweets Feelings of exclusion? Tsarnaev told investigators they were striking back at US for killing Muslims http://on.wsj.com/10cTJgR WSJ editorial portrays FBI as Keystone cops in Boston Marathon attack http://on.wsj.com/11jYyHy The Speaker’s ruling overturned procedure dating from PET’s day; HofC today will debate Justin's motion (he'll be in Labrador) In the NYT, correspondence between two 22 year-olds: J D Salinger and a Toronto woman now 95 http://nyti.ms/11jULdh first batch of today's tweets On the front page of La Presse the Liberal resurgence http://bit.ly/15JklxY French http://bit.ly/13u2Xt6 On the front page of the Post, a two-fer! Terrorism allegations *and* a prior pardon! http://bit.ly/12Heh6v W Post front page: Suspect points to anger at US http://wapo.st/14OF58n NY Times front http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Boston suspects seen as zealots, and self-taught http://nyti.ms/ZLX0op Harper Gov’t: RCMP controlled timing of arrests http://bit.ly/ZMcpF9 look what FBI says about RCMP! http://on.wsj.com/YNXIRM Whoa! RCMP accelerated the arrests after Boston, rebuffing FBI request to wait for further investigation http://on.wsj.com/YNXIRM I really want to believe the RCMP wasn’t trying to burnish its image in the wake of Boston http://on.wsj.com/YNXIRM Boston bombers were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs but were not acting with known terrorist groups http://nyti.ms/ZLX0op Boston bombers driven by hard-line Islamist views and anger over the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq http://wapo.st/14OF58n Tamerlan was looking 4 connections between wars in the Mideast and oppression of Muslim population around globe http://nyti.ms/ZLX0op Boston bombers learned to make the pressure-cooker bombs from Inspire, the online Al Qaeda magazine http://nyti.ms/ZLX0op ! Obama made repairing relations w/ Islamic world a foreign policy priority even as he expanded drone operations http://wapo.st/14OF58n Good way to disprove it! Tamerlan was angry that the world pictures Islam as a violent religion http://nyti.ms/ZLX0op A Tory two-fer! One of the guys arrested by the RCMP had a prior conviction *pardoned* http://bit.ly/12Heh6v Toronto terrorism plot takedown helps Conservatives sell anti-terror measures: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/17Rlro7 Hafta disagree w/ this column: What *worse* time to debate terror legislation? http://bit.ly/YOb9B9 In the Globe, Craig Forcese makes the case for the anti-terror legislation http://bit.ly/11NRDp4 Andrew Mitrovica: While you were watching the terrorism show ... http://bit.ly/14OzNcO Blatch: RCMP operation already well underway by time imam called police over concern about an extremist http://bit.ly/10yT1BL Globe editorial on the Speaker’s ruling worth reading http://bit.ly/10ySeAQ Speaker’s ruling shows he’s more loyal to his conscience than the party whip: @IvisonJ http://bit.ly/11NNx0a NYT op-ed: There are no Kennedys or Bushes in Canadian politics… And yet. Enter Justin http://nyti.ms/17W7s3c Simpson: Trudeau’s terror gaffe a winner for Conservatives http://bit.ly/ZklRmx Star: Justin T TV ads make pitch to end negativity http://bit.ly/11NMIV2 (also reporting he won’t be in HofC to debate MP freedom) Yaffe: The West presents Trudeau with his greatest challenge http://bit.ly/13u5jYQ CROP poll/QC: #LPC 38 +19 (32 among francos) http://bit.ly/15JklxY French http://bit.ly/13u2Xt6 CROP poll/QC: #NDP 30 (down 9) #CPC 10 (down 7) BQ 18 CROP poll/QC: Couillard crushing Marois http://bit.ly/15JklxY French http://bit.ly/13u2Xt6 Whoa! Toronto Star acknowledge that it fell below their standards of journalism in reporting this matter http://bit.ly/14OBTJG Van Sun front http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ A #BCNDP gov’t negotiating $ next year w/ its largest contributor http://bit.ly/15GhOF5 Dear Toronto: Dix defuses Kinder Morgan pipeline debate is not what yr BC reporter is reporting! http://bit.ly/11BqQ1W Vaughn Palmer: Adrian Dix’s election strategy — crush opponents and avoid the one-term blues http://bit.ly/11Bl4gN B.C. Premier Christy Clark scores with attack ads but could lose seat in election: Walkom http://bit.ly/11NLOrx N Post column mostly re-hashes campaign coverage but some interesting insights in the last 2 grafs http://bit.ly/15GneQl Eilperin/W Post: How much does EPA’s objection to Keystone XL matter? A lot. http://wapo.st/10yJhra Whoa! Calgary Mayor seeks probe of videotaped boast about fundraising http://bit.ly/141FT9b second batch of today's tweets When did the RCMP advise the government of what we learned yesterday? http://bit.ly/10b1tzJ NYT: Tsarnaev admitted attack to F.B.I. agents waiting outside his hospital room for him to regain consciousness 1/2 invoking public safety exception that allowed them to interrogate w/ telling him he had right to remain silent http://nyti.ms/17MR6XQ "He eats pork, he parties," Ms. Smith said of Dzhokhar. "He does normal things." Dear @decloet: Brian Mulroney is on the advisory board http://bit.ly/12ap6wD according to the NY Times http://nyti.ms/ZDEKR1 Globe reporting that residential school compensation has risen from $960M 1st estimated to more than $4-billion first batch of today's tweets (RT from yesterday) Hmm.. RCMP received tip 1 ½ yrs ago/...investigating since last Aug/announcement today http://bit.ly/15DNdb1 I really hope the RCMP will persuade me today that they made yesterday’s announcement purely for operational reasons-not Boston/HofC I also really hope the Harper government had no inkling of the RCMP announcement when it scheduled Monday’s debate Globe front page hed quite clever in the circumstances T Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY T Sun http://bit.ly/PalHIF go w same hed (tho photos differ!) This front page http://bit.ly/16YGGWm serves up meatiest RCMP piece I read today http://bit.ly/Y12f8k The family of one of the RCMP suspects are long-term Canadian residents http://bit.ly/11A9fGp Whoa! @globejunius rows back from yesterday’s Globe editorial on security/terrorism [cited by #NDP in debate] http://bit.ly/11zPSNu NYT: RCMP officers were asked repeatedly about link to IranBut US has accused Iran of aiding Al Qaeda http://nyti.ms/11gCzBl ! Blatchford column hed (Ed Journal): Canadian train passengers should stay strong in the face of terror ! Iran FM spokesperson: al-Qaida is killing people in Syria while enjoying Canada's support http://on.wsj.com/ZkXBlk ! T Star: @JustinTrudeau’s reaction yesterday was more er “restrained” than after the Boston Marathon bombings http://bit.ly/12Ey868 A ‘great’ moment in #cdnpoli #journalism: No need for tips for Trudeau family from the Harpers-Laureen Harper http://bit.ly/11gAJ3i Hard to reconcile Yaffe’s hed w/ Yaffe’s column on Justin Trudeau! http://bit.ly/YJjaYf A Trudeau? @JustinTrudeau reacted to terrorism like his Dad http://bit.ly/15Dyuga Did not http://bit.ly/ZceChD ! Lawrence Martin: in the new leader’s first week, Kid Trudeau nearly went down without even swinging If @JustinTrudeau is losing this columnist, he must have had a *really* bad week! http://bit.ly/11IhgY8 Andrew Cohen: The Canada that Lester Pearson built http://bit.ly/11gAdSZ Some of this could be happening cuz Afghanistan South *is* more dangerous than the North! http://bit.ly/11I2Szo I’m just hoping Harper won’t appoint a former journo (or a friend) to this high office! http://bit.ly/17UfR7b Sheesh: Kevin Page went to court w/out even asking any DM for info for #NDP Mulcair http://bit.ly/17UebL4 ! Globe lead story yesterday: Obama set to okay pipeline-former insider; Globe today p 6 EPA letter adds to uncertainty over Keystone Whoa! This gives Obama all the excuse he needs to delay a decision on Keystone http://nyti.ms/11y513a W Post: If the EPA continues to challenge State’s analysis, Obama will have to make the call http://wapo.st/Zi2cDV Toronto/Calgary Sun readers don’t read much about PQ/Péladeau relations, so this is for them http://bit.ly/15Dqj3C #BCNDP ’s surprise pipeline stand wins green thumbs-up http://bit.ly/Zi0qT6 Politicking trumps a matter of principle for Adrian Dix: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/11A1mkm Green stance forces Dix to nix pipeline support: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/Y19TiY Adrian Dix’s Kinder Morgan pipeline reversal blindsides #NDP-friendly columnist http://bit.ly/17Mu17t Ed Journal front Redford gov’t on wrong path: poll http://bit.ly/17Un735 Like a fish, single-tier health care rots from the head http://bit.ly/15DLGBE Video reveals Calgary developer’s plan to control city council [reference to Preston Manning] http://bit.ly/17TVDKU first batch of today's tweets Boston Globe: Evidence mounts of radical turn for bomber http://b.globe.com/12AAS4v Hmm.. NYT: Tamerlan had already found religion by the time he landed in Dagestan http://nyti.ms/15yE8jJ Tamerlan in Boston the 5th since 9/11 to B suspected of committing terrorism while under investigation by FBI http://nyti.ms/13q7PPZ LA Times: Tamerlan called his Mum hours before being killed in Boston police shootout http://lat.ms/108NtXm ! Citizen: Bombings show need for tougher laws, Toews says http://bit.ly/13Ls8ev Oops! (Globe) NDP slams timing of anti-terrorism-bill debate --House of Commons Order Paper here http://bit.ly/17HrGuA Oops! http://bit.ly/YFiYcc Seems MPs may B debating Trudeau’s channel-changer not Harper’s today! http://bit.ly/17HrGuA Globe ed: Justin’s motion “adds unhelpful layer of partisanship"/it's Speaker who needs 2 defend MP privileges http://bit.ly/11D0HNx Ivison: Ruling on alleged breach of Warawa’s privilege to speak freely could head off Tory rebellion http://bit.ly/15B58iG Attack ads a waste of Tory money @montesolberg http://bit.ly/ZDiw1I T Star editorial: Don’t turn weather site into billboard for Harper government http://bit.ly/11uooKw I’d feel more confident about Keystone if this on Washington Post instead of Globe front page! http://bit.ly/XZwPPH HT: Tories, NDP not worried by polls, but Liberals say they should be http://bit.ly/ZIr971 HT: ‘Definitely something going on’ in political landscape, shift http://bit.ly/11CYaTn In light of N Korea, this wd be an interesting debate 4 Cdns to be having going into the next election http://bit.ly/XZtJuU HT: Tory backbenchers voice support for a House committee to better protect MPs’ freedom, powers in Commons http://bit.ly/11wfHhz Citizen front page http://bit.ly/P59tRU Canadian soldiers at war again! http://bit.ly/ZDdC4D Bill Neville RIP http://bit.ly/15B5TZ5 ! Alleged Quebec election night shooter trying to sell Crown evidence for book http://bit.ly/17dkM1M Globe front page http://bit.ly/NorOEh Believe the lead story http://bit.ly/XZwPPH when you see it on Washington Post front! Majority of QCers against Alberta oil http://bit.ly/YFoY4Z French http://bit.ly/10tnu4e Whoa! Enbridge is being mightily generous w/ QC municipalities along its pipeline reversal route http://bit.ly/11uddBA Good piece on BC election 1st week: Punchless Liberals still waiting for their big shot @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/17HX8ZN ! the time U need best quality food is when yr sick/NDP wd increase the amount of local food in hospitals 5% http://bit.ly/ZHxZur ! Guardian front page http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 Short sessions make MPS look lazy http://bit.ly/13Lz4s8 HT: Saskatchewan Tories opposed to boundaries, but now propose smaller changes to urban-only riding plan http://bit.ly/11wbLNY fourth batch of today's tweets François Hollande now holds record 4 most unpopular Pres of 5th French Republic! http://bit.ly/12xwlzG French http://bit.ly/107l580 Sheesh: Violence grows as gay marriage bill divides France http://bit.ly/15x2dYe ! Observer hed: Skateboarding, weed … and jihad. Inside the minds of terror suspects Obsever: Less than half of the British public would be comfortable with the election of a prime minister of a different race Senator Brazeau, oops Sacha Feinman/LAT: Boston bombings: Don't blame boxing http://lat.ms/ZFR0xh ! The neck wound apparently did not initially silence Tsarnaev who was swearing profusely in ambulance ride http://lat.ms/YDuc0Z third batch of today's tweets In the NY Times, Brian Mulroney has a new gig (involving a large sum of money) http://nyti.ms/11sSQnb W Post front: Boston bombing suspect’s YouTube playlist evolved in path toward radicalism http://wapo.st/13oQU0g One thing I've noticed about Boston is there doesn't seem to be much squeamishness in #cdnmedia to calling it 'terrorism' This is progress Now that the Boston perpetrators are known, looking forward to hearing Justin’s views tomorrow on the root causes Personally, I think that Tom Mulcair of the #NDP has probably won the day as best opposition leader on the Boston attack! Ottawa says tariff on hockey helmets [but not IPods!] was a mistake http://bit.ly/17bERFz second batch of today's tweets Obama: One of the things that makes America greatest nation on Earth, but also, one of things that makes Boston such a great city… 1/2 is that we welcome people from all around the world — people of every faith, every ethnicity, from every corner of the globe 2/2 So as we continue to learn more about why and how this tragedy happened, let’s make sure that we sustain that spirit 3/3 W Post: Advances in image analysis empower law enforcement but worry privacy advocates http://wapo.st/11rsXFj W Post (print edition hed): Europe, U.S. differ on cameras and privacy issues (Canada too) http://wapo.st/13G7lsN Oops! (W Post sub-hed, p 6) Brothers made life in U.S., became citizens NYT http://nyti.ms/YDkz2n Dear (most of) #cdnmedia: Part of the job of a Public Editor is to praise a paper when it’s deserved http://nyti.ms/YDgIlQ Dear @andrewphil @kathyenglish T Star http://bit.ly/12tlh6B No client disclosure required on this 1? http://bit.ly/12xll5j first batch of today's tweets "there's no ? this happened cuz there's some1 who feels completely excluded" looking shaky on T Star front page Front page of the Washington Post one of my faves today http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ Front page of the New York Times contrasts w/ NY Post http://bit.ly/QNUNqJ Tamerlan’s application 4 US citizenship recently held up after file showed he had been interviewed by F.B.I. http://nyti.ms/ZFBn92 Er, previously reported that Tamerlan’s application 4 US citizenship held up because of domestic abuse episode http://nyti.ms/YDkz2n NYT: Bombing Suspects’ Immigration Story Adds Layer to Debate on Overhaul http://nyti.ms/12xfsVK Whoa!--just noticed the photo from Ottawa that accompanies this piece on Justin and @acoyne It’s @CdnPress’s turn to cover for Justin http://bit.ly/13DyIDZ here’s Y it don’t hold water http://thebea.st/1071lBf Getting warm (print edition hed): Root cause--Terrorist ideals: @thejohnrobson http://bit.ly/13FCn44 Trudeau right on terrorism/No, not Justin, but Pierre, who knew how to deal with terrorists: @sunlorrie http://bit.ly/ZceChD Obama investigating at least a couple of tracks http://nyti.ms/1073wVy but @ezralevant has answer re Boston! http://bit.ly/ZceWwJ Hoping there aren’t too many Vancouverites today walking around feeling completely excluded! http://bit.ly/YDjHKZ Tom Mulcair’s #NDP prediction is spot-on; or not! http://bit.ly/ZFGLcr Negative ads that doomed Dion, Ignatieff could sink Trudeau: @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/17DKY41 Clark went on 2 fairly smooth 1st week campaign/Dix wobbled under pressured questioning from reporters http://bit.ly/13oJKsW third batch of today's tweets Justin Trudeau, oops Barack Obama: “We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had.” http://1.usa.gov/12uWkbb Pretty sure from what I've read so far that the roots of the Boston terrorist attack are not two guys who felt socially excluded New poll shows sharp slide for Alberta PCs http://bit.ly/12uXNhu #ableg Don Braid: Leadership review no trivial pursuit http://bit.ly/17AjFYl second batch of today's tweets Corbella: Trudeau is his own attack ad when he’s unscripted http://bit.ly/11v370x I have a sneaking suspicion that we won't be hearing Justin talking about the root causes of Boston in the coming days http://b.globe.com/XWuftN US gov’t/NGOs very critical of Russian war in Chechnya; No Chechen leaders have overtly threatened to attack US http://lat.ms/17A2S7N Hey Justin and the Brazman and #cdnmedia journos, maybe this is among the root causes of violence http://lat.ms/11qvej1 Tough profile of Christy Clark by @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/179R3Xm first batch of today's tweets NY Times http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Post http://bit.ly/QNUNqJ front pages Obama urged people not to rush to judgment about the motivations behind the attacks http://nyti.ms/11o6hpv Obama: Why did young men who grew up/studied here as part of our communities/country resort 2 such violence? http://nbcnews.to/10oZFdI W Post http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ WS Journal http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn front pages Dzhokhar not read Miranda rights 2 him re other potential explosive devices/accomplices & to gain intelligence http://nyti.ms/11o6hpv W Post front: FBI had investigated/dismissed Chechen radical link; Tamerlan increasingly drawn to Islam http://wapo.st/1199hnW About 3½ years ago Tamerlan married an American woman who mothered his child and converted to Islam http://on.wsj.com/119bLTq Tamerlan’s wife wore a black head-covering "down to her eyebrows" and was the friendliest of the group. http://on.wsj.com/119bLTq 6 months ago, Tamerlan, after being clean-shaven, grew a beard; he must have shaved it only recently http://on.wsj.com/119bLTq Justin: there's no ? this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded, completely at war with innocents (1/2) And our approach has to be, where do those tensions come from? Yes, there’s a need for security and response (2/2) ! @acoyne I grant that JT’s choice of words in places was unfortunate; talk of feeling “excluded” suggests something was done to them Globe ed: a poorly timed and misinformed statement that suggests Mr. Trudeau has a learning curve ahead of him http://bit.ly/119er3i Lysiane Gagnon on Justin: The inner child http://bit.ly/105wuoW French http://bit.ly/Zz7lXO NYT profile: Justin Trudeau in His Father’s Footsteps, Only More Uphill http://nyti.ms/YB2Zfk On the Harper government @ChantalHbert http://bit.ly/13zS7Wj @IvisonJ http://bit.ly/ZDxxNE The House of Commons could be a very ugly place (uglier than usual) on Monday and Tuesday http://bit.ly/11oeKsT Good piece by @stphnmaher if you ignore Postmedia hed: One tiny victory ahead for democracy (Citizen hed) http://bit.ly/11PKK9e Citizen print edition hed (Why Mulcair is dancing with separatists) spoils @_scottreid’s fine piece http://bit.ly/11uI7Hi Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair buy into free-trade theory that doesn’t work: Walkom http://bit.ly/11PW19t Whoa! (Globe) #BCNDP letter asking for donations has some businesses seeing red http://bit.ly/Zz45vA Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair buy into free-trade theory that doesn’t work: Walkom http://bit.ly/11PW19t Jeff Simpson worth reading: Canada’s constitutional dramas cracked jaws in London – from yawning http://bit.ly/Zz5an0 Good profile in the Van Sun: Adrian Dix Surviving all challenges Calgary Herald: Premier Redford’s first year marked by triumphs, ‘mishaps’ http://bit.ly/XWpgZY Ed Journal front page http://bit.ly/M5zNwl Wildrose 37 PC 29 Libs 17 ND 14 in Léger poll #BCNDP vows to fight child poverty with annual bonus http://bit.ly/15qENU8 second batch of today's tweets Dear @allangregg Politics unlike Big Mac/Burger King competition cuz # 2 means you’re a bum http://bit.ly/11Im4Q1 Question: Is Adrian Dix #BCNDP trying to win 85/85 seats in this election? http://bit.ly/XKqJQV Dear @ianabailey: Bill Vander Zalm is “a former premier who” *resigned* (cuz of a conflict of interest) http://bit.ly/Z8f7rV Dear @garymasonglobe: The Green Party candidate in Oak Bay received a US$1.2 million Nobel Peace Prize? http://bit.ly/17L4Ogy first batch of today's tweets Globe: Trudeau stumbles over Quebec history, father’s legacy http://bit.ly/ZBHkUG Monday N Post front page pic.twitter.com/ey34E4vNNp Today’s editorial http://bit.ly/177Ak7f No surprise Justin Trudeau’s a Liberal on terrorism: @sunlorrie http://bit.ly/Yz4lY9 ! Liberals crafted leadership rules to avoid debt buildup http://bit.ly/15lZqRu Dear @nutgraf1: “Politics stops at shoreline” means opp party shd not undermine gov't abroad (eg Harper/WSJ) http://bit.ly/177IlsP Only problem w @jonkay thesis is that Globe still has not printed Justin’s words http://bit.ly/11Iovlr Dear @cselley http://bit.ly/116VWN2 Even yr page-mate says perpetrators mightn’t have serious beef w/ society http://wapo.st/XUKU0W Postmedia: Most Canadians back call for Commons to accept online petitions http://bit.ly/XKfh7S Whoa! Federal Court upholds law allowing federal government to toss old immigration applications http://bit.ly/13lSmk1 Postmedia: Greenhouse gases drop in most sectors, except oilpatch http://bit.ly/11nqlaq ! Jim Flaherty in Globe: Tariffs being raised on ex-LDCs, but no ipod tax http://bit.ly/Yz5MFM NY Times: Foes of Keystone Pipeline Sound Off In Nebraska http://nyti.ms/11nBnwm Sanity prevails (Post) Keystone XL: Joe Oliver says rejection wouldn’t hurt US-Canada ties http://bit.ly/Yz3975 W Post: Backers, opponents of giant Keystone XL pipeline face off in Nebraska http://wapo.st/1173vDy #CPC MP omits leader’s election promise (& Justin’s Charter re abortion) as reason 2 follow party line http://bit.ly/11q33Pw Postmedia columnist new Justin Trudeau #LPC adviser http://bit.ly/11nq72S Dear @camrclark: Harper appointing a Mountie as ambassador is “another sleight” to the foreign service? http://bit.ly/Yz6kvB In the T Star, a spokesperson 4 @HonJohnBaird dismissed Mountie/ambassador story "1st reported by Postmedia News" as “pure speculation.” Vincent Marissal worth reading: Marois and Trudeau—the best of enemies? http://bit.ly/ZDpm30French http://bit.ly/12rPNxR ! On N Post front, PQ language bill dead http://bit.ly/Z7YoVO (in French papers, PQ’ll be negotiating w/ CAQ) On La Presse front page, Marois considering moving off balanced budget pledge http://bit.ly/RnKOZZ Van Sun lead story: NDP says education will get more cash http://bit.ly/177GQLe Black’s Kitimat refinery project signs China’s ICBC as financial adviser [and investor] http://bit.ly/XULLPb Times Colonist front page: the real thing or election politics? http://bit.ly/N7AMbV Globe: Price of natural gas heats up as commodities cool down http://bit.ly/ZBBTVI On the election we’re having, @VaughnPalmer has it about right: Dix avoids issues by promising studies http://bit.ly/14B9JC5 Good: Former Capital Health CEO repays colleague’s $7,800 bill to taxpayers http://bit.ly/17KIHXr second batch of today's tweets Good analysis of the BC election so far http://bit.ly/12paydD ! JJ SAMSON on Laskin stuff-discovering that Montcalm's wife was cheating on him wd not change the outcome of the Plains of Abraham first batch of today's tweets Front page of the Ottawa Citizen features the most bizarre story of the day (maybe year!) Hard to imagine a sharper slap in the face by Harper to Cda’s foreign service than Ottawa Citizen line story http://bit.ly/10jJz5l Whoa! Is it time to put Jim Flaherty’s picture on a milk carton? http://bit.ly/YwXsGC Struck by the fact this Mideast matter hasn’t been raised in Question Period http://bit.ly/Z5eSxN Interesting piece: Baird meets Iraqi official to talk about a deal gone sour http://bit.ly/YZ5r3N I’m w/ @acoyne on this right after his paper joins the Press Council or Parliament legislates http://bit.ly/ZzfUyF Not one of the wisest appointments by the Harper government it would seem! http://bit.ly/17r6ZTF If your paper is the Globe, you won’t be reading this reported by the T Star http://bit.ly/114RhLs No doubt where the T Sun stands on this story (that the Globe isn’t reporting) http://bit.ly/PalHIF Toronto Star journos must have missed this exchange in Question Period http://bit.ly/ZtpeXQ Say what? even the Toronto Star has outsourced jobs? http://bit.ly/17r2NTP CP reports (Toronto Star doesn’t mention) Justin’s cheap Charter attack on #NDP http://bit.ly/11jOZIX Yakabuski: A divided Quebec unites for a (constitutional) fight http://bit.ly/11gbxLZ Amanda Pfeffer: Trudeau and Mulcair drawing battle lines on Quebec http://bit.ly/17rcNfI Michel David sur Laskin etc: La motion de miel http://bit.ly/ZBtUqD Dear #NDP: This columnist has Justin, not Mulcair as Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa! http://bit.ly/ZBtUqD In other words, the #CPC backbench revolt story is being fuelled by Hill journos http://bit.ly/17r3VXz Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press a sight to behold! http://bit.ly/ROBCLx Ya think maybe Tom Mulcair should think about muzzling some of his MPs! http://bit.ly/YYO82X Not among Mark Carney’s journo friends I guess! http://bit.ly/15ofKl4 and http://bit.ly/15hpM78 Firm in QC corruption/party financing has obtained $19M in fed contracts since 06 http://bit.ly/11AxcOT French http://bit.ly/17ra8md Picard: Uproar over Health Council’s demise isn’t worth it http://bit.ly/175aC3c A 'great' #cdnmedia moment-N Post: World BankSNC settle bribery probe; Globe: WB locks out SNC-Lavalin over Bangladesh bribery scandal Gazette: SNC-Lavalin unit barred for 10 yrs from bidding on World Bank projects http://bit.ly/Z5g9VJ Front of Ed Journal http://bit.ly/M5zNwl Thomson worth reading: Taxpayers footing the bill, once again http://bit.ly/10jTzeA fourth batch of today's tweets Hmm… Margaret Thatcher’s vital role in ending apartheid http://bit.ly/ZqOf6a Hed in Independent! They kill because they hate life; we run because we love it. And we’ll keep going Hmm.. @kinsellawarren\s first point applies to *everything* journos w/out pol/gov’t experience say/write http://bit.ly/15fd9JI NYT: Agreement [including Canada] Would Regulate Fishing in Arctic Waters http://nyti.ms/10fAmuA NYT editorial: Indisputable Torture of Prisoners http://nyti.ms/17GedG4 Le Devoir front page hed re National Assembly motion! Patriation of the Constitution – Unanimity for the truth National Post lead article hed! Patriate games begin anew Frédéric Bastien: Réplique à Philip Girard sur La bataille de Londres - Défendre l’indéfendable http://bit.ly/11tha9r On the 31st anniversary, who woulda thunk that an overblown story about Bora Laskin cd threaten to re-awaken the patriation pissing match? third batch of today's tweets NY Times front page http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim http://nyti.ms/11sTqlL Boston Globe front page http://bit.ly/11cW3XH WSJ front page http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn Boston Bomb Clues Surface http://on.wsj.com/11eYCH6 Still no reports in the press on this #CPC Justin-attack http://bit.ly/14s2ImS second batch of today's tweets Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press is real ugly! Sure hope this isn’t what Adrian Dix means by #NDP having best record of fiscal management in Canada! http://bit.ly/YuAb8j Martyn Brown: B.C. Liberals' TV show offers no threat to NDP http://bit.ly/13fAN8R Dix clear on what he opposes [re party financing], less so on what he stands for: @CraigMcInnes http://bit.ly/ZwNoxz Don’t see much in the papers today about today being the anniversary of this http://bit.ly/172IXQn first batch of today's tweets IMF warning to Canada economy: Policymakers must support growth http://bit.ly/XQKZ5D CP: QC parties unanimous in calling on Ottawa to release Constitution archives [w federal parties’ reactions] http://bit.ly/ZqeXeX Whoa! SNC-Lavalin defends Algerian relationship in open letter to media http://bit.ly/13fyHGb Justin to announce the appointment of Cyrus Reporter as chief of staff http://bit.ly/Z2r56j French http://bit.ly/11stmqM #NDP might be polling better vs Justin http://bit.ly/15cXZEF if Postmedia News had any columnists in the tank for Tom The Star’s @TomWalkom is too smart to let a good scandal go to waste! http://bit.ly/Z2oNnY Van Sun lead story (print edition hed): Underdog Liberals launch aggressive campaign http://bit.ly/13iETsY Dix's forest industry proposal modest: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/XFQ6Do Yaffe: Dix would be bad for B.C.-Ottawa relations (and Harper? takes 2 to tangle, no?) http://bit.ly/15ePA3N T Star’s T Harper worth reading on #CPC and Justin http://bit.ly/15eUqxY Jeff Simpson: “the opposition parties aren’t ready intellectually to defeat the Conservatives” http://bit.ly/13fS8yk Ian Macdonald: Question Period isn’t where Trudeau needs to be (spoiler alert: and won’t be) http://bit.ly/ZzhSOt For a professor, William Watson is a pretty smart guy! Justin Trudeau’s little red wagon from China http://bit.ly/15ePPfc Lysiane Gagnon in Globe http://bit.ly/15lwAkz leaves out part about Justin prevaricating about PET’s position http://bit.ly/YOmsxK Political campaign strategists are generally not paid [but Carol Goar points out one exception] http://bit.ly/ZzjJCX Globe: Advocates decry Ottawa’s decision to stop funding Health Council of Canada http://bit.ly/13fERpJ On the front page of the Calgary Herald (and Edmonton Journal), a ‘great’ moment in public health care http://bit.ly/11cjfXf Globe’s @globejunius comes to the defense of Maggie Thatcher http://bit.ly/17mZflk third batch of today's tweets Pfft (Cattaneo): National energy strategy is all talk http://bit.ly/17DPulH Like father, like son? Why Justin Trudeau could be weak on economic policy: @jackmintz http://bit.ly/17DPfal Two years in the making, an unpredictable B.C. election campaign is set to officially begin @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/13fc0OA Wall Street Journal opinion writer wins Pulitzer Prize http://on.wsj.com/XP8EDz Keystone? Gateway? (WSJ): Big Spills From *Aging* Oil Pipelines http://on.wsj.com/119i8YB W Post (print edition hed): Small Web publication wins Pulitzer for oil spill coverage http://wapo.st/119Lsv9 second batch of today's tweets Pierre Martin: Trudeaumania II a tough sell in Québec http://bit.ly/13eBZ8B Like PET, Justin is someone men wd like 2 B and women wd like to be with/big problem 4 #CPC #NDP http://bit.ly/119D7Ys W Post: Is White House media-shy? State Dep’t granted permit last week 4 major U.S.-Cda construction project http://wapo.st/14sn6EB Guardian front page http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 USA Today front page http://bit.ly/R6kGP6 first batch of today's tweets T Star hed avoids use of the t word http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Pretty much as I saw it in Ottawa: All sides fired up for Trudeau's first day as leader @davidakin http://bit.ly/108O1DC N Post paper @Ivison: J Trudeau: Hardly over his head; web? Mulcair upstages Trudeau in first QP as #LPCldr http://bit.ly/118uIXP ! Trudeau might not be much for book learning, but he wears his shirt undone one button lower than you do http://bit.ly/119nb8r Dear @jonkay It’s well known that Justin has rejected everything his Dad passed on re bilingualism, QC etc! http://bit.ly/15hx8rv Lysiane Gagnon catches Justin lying to QCers about his Dad http://bit.ly/YOmsxK French http://bit.ly/YrSOtx Hmm.. Leader of Official Opposition had to wait until Hill journos finished questioning leader of 3rd party http://bit.ly/ZXADv0 parliamentary press gallery considers #LPC triumphant return to be fait accompli; most had been writing obits http://bit.ly/14s8C7I Globe @globejunius to Justin, Please, pretty please knock the #NDP out of role of government-in waiting! http://bit.ly/11cx6M9 Dear @acoyne: I don’t recall WAC Bennett’s son getting quite Justin’s reception after he entered politics! http://bit.ly/15hx5Mq #CPC attack ads are ineffective; Justin must respond! http://bit.ly/119i2NE “He’s almost as Christ-like as Christ.” And the Trudeau campaign broadcast this. http://bit.ly/119nb8r I’m betting that Justin won’t be doing any more stripping in public—whatever the cause! http://bit.ly/12ipwlE ! Mulcair: 1 one thing my staff doesn’t have to fear is possibility I wd be involved in taking off my clothes http://bit.ly/12ipwlE Mulcair, #NDP down in poll as #LPC surges ahead http://bit.ly/118ACsa Bliss: Liberal leadership not much of a prize http://bit.ly/YZx2Rv disproportionate # of Martinites in Trudeau’s circle. They are back, possibly with a vengeance @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/14s8C7I Yaffe: Was the [federal] #NDP just a passing fancy? http://bit.ly/10Ztmgs Justin & Dion take precisely the right position on the Laskin BS (Boo on Mulcair) http://bit.ly/YrTeQD André Pratte: Leave the Laskin stuff to historians http://bit.ly/Znnnni French http://bit.ly/11loCU1 Don Macpherson: Quebecers are not hostile to Justin Trudeau, just indifferent http://bit.ly/ZXuNtt ! Whoa: In Pierre Trudeau’s former riding of Mount-Royal, only 315 participated in #LPCldr vote http://bit.ly/137HLwt The Tories are using the Justin ads as a fundraising ploy http://bit.ly/118Dfdx The one and only #CPC Justin-attack that Hill journos aren’t reporting on today! http://bit.ly/14s2ImS L Martin: We come from a long line of great prime ministers http://bit.ly/14siMFa Chong argued it's the Speaker's job to determine which MPs get to make statements and to pose queries in QP http://bit.ly/YrOmep Has this been reported? Ottawa still trying to recover nearly $2M missing from South American embassy http://bit.ly/108VOl5 CP: Economy, leadership major issues in B.C.'s May 14 election http://bit.ly/XDQna7 Globe: Greens inch upward on Vancouver Island http://bit.ly/13dHiFo Whoa! Christy Clark's debt-free B.C. vow has no value: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/14s79OG Christy Clark just can't stop talking about the NDP: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/10Ztsox Marc Jaccard: (T Star print edition hed): Killing Keystone would send a signal http://bit.ly/XDRrdO second batch of today's tweets Shame on Tom Mulcair for going down this route http://bit.ly/Ypafee Rabson: NDP, Liberals create chance to get gains over PCs http://bit.ly/10WZp0K Les dix travaux de Justin Trudeau | Vincent Marissal http://bit.ly/Zs2fcF first batch of today's tweets Globe/N Post/Citizen front the same shot (guess which?) but T Star adds hed w/photo that takes the cake! http://bit.ly/ONwQiY If you look hard enough (& it’s about the only one), you can find #NDP on Citizen front page On the other hand, the convention of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons gets page 4 in the Globe, page 6 in the Star! A front page that certainly stands out from all the rest at the dawn of the Justinian era! http://bit.ly/PalHIF Of the majors, only Gazette http://bit.ly/OFNtbI Vancouver Sun http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ feature Mum/Grannie on the front page #CBC: Trudeau to face off against Harper in question period today http://bit.ly/116r5Pn Globe: The five groups the Liberals need to win back to rebuild the party http://bit.ly/119A5ow What remains unclear is who will be leading the Conservatives in the 2015 election http://bit.ly/10WR39b HT: Harper government slammed for its ‘manipulative’ budgets, lack of transparency, details http://bit.ly/116lFnE CP: Some wealthy Canadians come clean with assets after tax-haven lists emerge http://bit.ly/YWs3kt Globe (print edition hed): Trudeau triumph puts new guard in charge of rebuilding Liberal brand http://bit.ly/Zkjobn ! Toronto Star (print edition hed): Easy win launches Trudeau dynasty http://bit.ly/YINFBH Sitôt couronné, sitôt attaqué/Justin Trudeau prend les rênes du Parti libéral du Canada http://bit.ly/159H7ia NY Times (p 6, print edition hed): A Trudeau Again Leads Canada Party http://nyti.ms/136ybGr Justin Trudeau in Globe op-ed: Why it’s vital we support the middle class http://bit.ly/ZrSCL3 Can Justin Trudeau single-handedly rescue the Liberal Party of Canada? @IvisonJ http://natpo.st/11fHT9j Trudeau must turn 'star quality' into votes @GregWeston30 http://bit.ly/YIWQlN As polls showed JT’s popularity surging pundits moved from open disdain 2 bet-hedging 2 heralding Lib revival http://natpo.st/11fINmg No, Peter, I don’t think Justin Trudeau can be compared to Bashar Assad or Kim Jong-un! http://bit.ly/Zkl98l How far will wave of popularity carry J.T.? @montesolberg http://bit.ly/10WNeRq Yaffe: Trudeau the overwhelming choice to lead Liberal party http://bit.ly/114C0fo A contrarian who knows the #LPC from experience on Justin Trudeau http://bit.ly/10WNpfy Andrew Cohen: The Liberals’ rebuilding is still to come http://bit.ly/15faEqZ CP: NDP looks towards 2015 with softer language in party books http://bit.ly/116qFZk Van Sun: Christy Clark pushes economic prowess in TV spot, warns against voters turning to the NDP http://bit.ly/XMvdbR Dix promises ban on 'big money' political donations from unions/corps; wd appear to benefit #BCNDP http://bit.ly/YWr2Jt Northern Gateway appears likely to be rejected by next B.C. government http://bit.ly/134prnX Globe (print edition hed): B.C.’S Clark reaches out to voters as her Liberals face daunting odds http://bit.ly/17APvqI Concern that Portland-Montreal pipeline cd be reversed to transport oil sands crude w/out US enviro assessment http://bit.ly/YIJZQp Pals summon Cdn envoy over @HonJohnBaird EJerusalem meeting; policy remains all issues must be negotiated http://bit.ly/10WQjB2 T Star front: Ex-York U student may have been involved in Somalia attack http://bit.ly/16XzdqD N Post front: Mujahid Enderi refused to sing O Canada at school in London, Ont. He said his Muslim faith forbid it http://natpo.st/ZVurDJ Philip Girard: La bataille de Londres, de Frédéric Bastien - Une thèse fragile comme un château de cartes http://bit.ly/14pdD0K fourth batch of today's tweets Times Colonist: INTO B. C.’ S FUTURE A PROVINCIAL ELECTION PRIMER: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/1586ml7 Christy Clark: Liberal plan is to hold course http://bit.ly/1586CAD Dix: NDP’S goal is to level inequities http://bit.ly/16WeO5g Conservatives, Greens look to gain votes at front-runners’ expense http://bit.ly/14nck2d third batch of today's tweets ! Olivia Chow to #NDPers: don’t write letters or emails to opponent MPs or to PM when you have a beef http://bit.ly/157R7IU Obama guy @ #NDP13 in NYT: we had $ problems at 1st; took risk building size of org believed we needed http://nyti.ms/ZUepda JPost: Pals protest Cda mtg in J'lem; @HonJohnBaird guy: “This doesn’t change our long-standing position…http://bit.ly/10UNsIM second batch of today's tweets Aislin pretty much sums up where #cdnpoli stands this weekend insofar as #NDP #LPC are concerned Say what? (NYT) US to delay rule limiting emissions of CO2/other greenhouse gases from new power plants? http://nyti.ms/ZinrEZ NYT Public Editor: ‘Targeted Killing,’ ‘Detainee’ and ‘Torture’: Why Language Choice Matters http://nyti.ms/15cYRJQ Dear @vmarissal: Don’t you think La Presse shd inform readers when it corrects a mistake? http://bit.ly/17yZqNm first batch of today's tweets About as far below the fold as you can get on T Star front page! NDP touts substance over Trudeau’s style http://bit.ly/113wKFQ On eve of Justinian era, almost surreal 4 #NDP to present itself as “only contender for power” http://bit.ly/116y78z #NDP itching for fight between right and left: @davidakin http://bit.ly/16VMy2y Trudeau wanted the job and now he’s got it — good luck!: @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/12ZzPO2 Hey @jmbryden it’s news to me that @JustinTrudeau called @mpPeterKent a "piece of (excrement)" ! http://bit.ly/16VM7Fw In the T Star print edition, (privileged) white is Black not Bush: Justin Trudeau-Canadian Obama in the making http://bit.ly/128222i Speaking of sons/grandsons of pols look who’s (literally) climbing aboard Christy Clark’s campaign http://bit.ly/127X1XE Elizabeth May’s comparison of Canada to North Korea is asinine: @sunlorrie http://bit.ly/11c4ofh first batch of today's tweets #NDP13 is meeting in town, but look who gets the front page of La Presse CP: #NDP presents air of moderation during #NDP13 convention http://bit.ly/YSupRt It certainly doesn’t look at #NDP13 like the Party has taken root in QC http://natpo.st/XxW4pW Walkom (print edition hed): Killing good jobs just to make a buck http://bit.ly/173CRNY Some folks don’t like fact Canadian politics converging toward pragmatic centre http://natpo.st/YSpfF4 Gazette: Fresh-faced NDP members have risen to the challenge http://bit.ly/ZnDa2A #NDP @mpcharmaineborg re Justin Trudeau: “he’s not really that young” Say what? Justin Trudeau’s not just like us? http://bit.ly/173FsaA Justin Trudeau: One of the things that I found when I was in Ponoka, Alta…. http://bit.ly/ZsgdKI Whew! After all that frenetic tweeting, turns out the Harper gov’t won’t do what is said it wouldn’t do http://bit.ly/YjVZDB Dear #NDP13: #CPC shows easier 2 make policy more attractive 2 voter than turn prickly leader into cuddly one http://bit.ly/ZTFTaf [Quite witty] Trudeaumaniac? Take the test to find out: @GerryNic http://bit.ly/YSt0KH Rabson: Like father [PET], unlike son http://bit.ly/12VjQAk In the Citizen, Bob Plamondon re-visits the sins of the father on Justin http://bit.ly/ZSDK7l ! Wall Street Journal : A Trudeau Follows in Pierre's Dance Steps http://on.wsj.com/125rm9k Lots of questions can be asked about patriation of the Constitution, but this is not one of ‘em http://bit.ly/XxUWT4 Today’s idiocy: @MacphersonGaz equates PET’s patriation to Lincoln ending slavery http://bit.ly/XxYLrr Lucien Bouchard au Devoir - Un «devoir de mémoire» obligatoire http://bit.ly/ZscZqC #NDP dogma is separatist, or it socialist? Scroll down for this Globe correction http://bit.ly/10SgDfG La Presse: A luxury condo for Pauline Marois http://bit.ly/ZgiYCT French http://bit.ly/ZTPzkU Christy Clark hopes the public will be more sympathetic than the media: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/15acGZB Mulcair [& Dix BTW]: The biggest inequity is between generations/a central theme of next #NDP campaign http://bit.ly/10SgDfG Globe Focus front page Adrian Dix--The NDP’s comeback kid in B.C. http://bit.ly/113jUcv NDP gets bad stuff out of the way early: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/14jNpg1 Nothing's surefire about this BC election: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/10Sln4L T Star (print edition hed): 4th Canadian terror suspect named [Mujahid who also goes by the name Ryan] http://bit.ly/ZSAzfV Winnipeg Free Press front page is a sight to behold! http://bit.ly/ROBCLx In the Citizen, Bob Plamondon re-visits the sins of the father on Justin http://bit.ly/ZSDK7l Guardian: Climate change did not cause 2012 US drought, says government report http://bit.ly/ZscQU2 Whoa! NYT front page: Yankees’ Rodriguez Tied to Clinic Records Purchase http://nyti.ms/14jPOHB On the front page http://bit.ly/M5zNwl , a ‘great’ Alberta moment Edmonton ranks second to none as pothole promised land first batch of today's tweets ! Globe line story : Harper vows work-permit reform http://bit.ly/XGWDjj Federal Liberals 35 lead Conservatives 31 in new poll #NDP 24 http://bit.ly/17uKQXf T Sun/Abacus poll: #CPC 33 #NDP #LPC tied @ 27 http://bit.ly/12SsSu8 Mulcair must not become grumpy cousin at dinner table while Trudeau dominates conversation w/ bubbly chatter http://bit.ly/ZO4k90 The centre is about to become the crowded country kitchen of three federal political parties http://natpo.st/10Y7bWF Mulcair’s personal brand in much need of makeover as preamble…cd soon look like an old hat on a new frontier http://natpo.st/XvQl3X Justin Trudeau: “I'm not going to play up resentment against the successful like Mr. Mulcair is doing" http://bit.ly/Zl1MsM If Tom Mulcair is losing *him* to Justin Trudeau… http://bit.ly/ZdJZXp Peter Stoffer: “I wd strongly disagree w/ those sentiments coming either from [Boulerice] or anybody else" http://bit.ly/XGNSG7 Constitution - Trudeau n’entend pas «rouvrir de vieilles batailles http://bit.ly/12ScBW9 Le Devoir begins to row back from this week’s ‘scandal’ re the SCC and patriation http://bit.ly/XvMSSU Gazette editorial worth reading: The Supreme Court and a tempest in a teapot http://bit.ly/ZdG8JW RBC victim of #CBC/PR/HR hysteria over everyday outsourcing: @terencecorcoran http://natpo.st/14gIw7k ! #CBC / Globe among 33,000 companies/agencies making use of the temporary foreign worker program http://bit.ly/17uQecU This could explain in part why the Carneys were so popular among Hill jourmos La Cour suprême et Ottawa - Tabou de l’inceste @Ant_Robitaille http://bit.ly/XvMSSU “all final-status issues [such as Jerusalem] must be negotiated between the two parties”: @HonJohnBaird guy http://bit.ly/ZdBI5Z Wait until Canadians see how this takeover proposal unfolds under a coalition government! http://bit.ly/17uLJiE Globe editorial writer @globejunius appears to believe that the Bible was written in English! http://bit.ly/17uLJiE Looking at the Van Sun front page, U’d almost think the #BCNDP were proposing $2B in tax increases http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ #BCNDP & Lib tax plans look a lot alike: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/16RlxNZ Globe: B.C. NDP would broaden carbon tax http://bit.ly/17uGiQD Talk about robocalls! http://bit.ly/16RfxVk BC Libs have lost the case they were once able to make to voters on the economic/fiscal front http://bit.ly/152FsLf first batch of today's tweets NYT lead story: Obama Budget Whittles Democratic Party Pillars http://nyti.ms/10VEDNA Hey look, Justin Trudeau’s not on the front page of the Toronto Star today—his wife is! http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Justin’s wife speaking about eating disorders better on P 1 than PET’s apprehended insurrection of 1970! http://bit.ly/10Pe93b T Star: The Canadian government reimbursed Attawapiskat First Nation for third-party manager costs http://bit.ly/10VwZmz Tom Berger always worth reading and he’s worth reading on the Metis court case http://bit.ly/ZOEw5n RBC and temp workers? @acoyne NPost http://natpo.st/10VmzmN vs Tom Mulcair #NDP (via @IvisonJ) http://natpo.st/11XzvfN Hey, a first! The Toronto Sun is supporting #CBC against the Harper government! http://bit.ly/ZOxu0m On the ‘scandal’ about the SCC and patriation Yves Boisvert worth reading http://bit.ly/XtQOUf French http://bit.ly/XEMVOs Dear @ChantalHbert: Laskin was in minority on patriation reference; majority forced PET back to table http://bit.ly/XEOiwy ‘Great journalism: JdeM reports Thatcher found *Justin* Trudeau paranoid about the Constitution in 1981 (when he was 10 yrs old!) W/ an election in sight, some pro-BC Lib puffery above the fold on the front page of the Vancouver Sun http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ On BC’s upcoming election, @hutchwriter worth reading http://natpo.st/10Oygyn Hey, @adriandix’s Wikipedia entry has been restored (editor who did cleansing a real beaut) http://bit.ly/Yo1mGe On Christy Clark, BC Rail and conflict of interest @VaughnPalmer worth reading http://bit.ly/155kHPx Hey @MikeSmythNews found both Lib *and* NDP MLAs supporting their pension plan! http://bit.ly/XEMLXl BC Liberals’ credibility gap now extends to economy: @mario_canseco http://bit.ly/10P0n0v A Vancouver Sun columnist gets an arithmetic lesson from BCs Finance Minister http://bit.ly/10VlX23 On Premier Redford @globejunius steps back into the past http://bit.ly/ZOySAg Thomson’s living in the present http://bit.ly/12Nvj1f The Calgary Herald wins today’s award for most absurd front page http://bit.ly/PETBRW article http://bit.ly/ZOCmT9 The Globe should lock Andre Picard and Jeff Simpson in a room and let them fight it out over health care http://bit.ly/16OKBFd With all respect to profs and journos of various persuasions, I’m still betting that I’ll not be paying more for my next Ipod first batch of today's tweets WSJ front http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn America's New Energy Boom Is Bust for Foreign Suppliers (esp Cda) http://on.wsj.com/11TdQWh WS Journal (p 9): One Road to Algerian Attack Began in Small Canadian City http://on.wsj.com/YjG78n A ‘great’ moment: France’s Chief Rabbi busted for plagiarism and fluffing his resumé won’t resign http://nyti.ms/11TvpW7 In its front page editorial, Le Monde like #CBC says it ain’t turning over the offshore tax files http://bit.ly/153DDhy ! How the US nearly turned to Bob Dylan (+ Neil Young/Joni Mitchell) to destroy communism http://bit.ly/12JIJLG I think that’s Meryl Streep on the front page of the Daily Telegraph for the second day running! http://bit.ly/R3YkNZ Statements by Netanyahu & Baird following their meeting http://bit.ly/12HUuG9 first batch of today's tweets Hey, neither Harper nor Mulroney http://bit.ly/ZgOlKg attended Chavez’s funeral! http://natpo.st/12IUzFC Simpson is spot on re Justin (except for the part about Papineau being a tough riding for #LPC) http://bit.ly/ZgOzkA Tom Mulcair’s office distances the #NDP leader from one of his MPs http://bit.ly/10RCpQZ This could get interesting if the Harper Government takes the #CBC to court http://bit.ly/YKNfKp Terence Corcoran: CBC tax haven story feeds its left-wing ideology http://natpo.st/10RAM5H On RBC Walkom http://bit.ly/YctyHG vs Watson http://bit.ly/10Lv2tO Globe line story (print edition hed): Canada offered role in Mideast http://bit.ly/XrPZLz Tom Friedman: The Arab Quarter Century http://nyti.ms/ZMCCSK NYT report on Premier Redford in Washington yesterday http://nyti.ms/11SOV5a Whoa! (Van Sun lead story): Someone’s been cleansing @adriandix’s Wikipedia entry http://bit.ly/16Mi6YQ This just in! Former federal Tory minister to back B.C. Liberals in May election http://bit.ly/16MiyWZ Gary Mason: B.C. voters to decide whether Clark has campaigned too much http://bit.ly/XCBZkt Wherein @adriandix confirms he’s a politician like Christy Clark! http://bit.ly/10SDExM JdeM reporting that Hells Angels prisoners getting passes to visit their doctors in private medical clinics!
A great column in the Gazette on corruption in Québec http://bit.ly/10RGZP6 Tomorrow’s correction today: There was a 2nd shoe in that SCC decision that was welcomed by QC! http://bit.ly/ZmiOWu Dear QCers: it was the SCC ruling that *forced* PET to return to the negotiation table with René Lévesque second batch of today's tweets Ottawa admits it approved request for foreign workers to replace RBC employees http://bit.ly/Ya6OrA Liberals hope Labrador presages federal election: Hébert http://bit.ly/YIcsFd Alberta’s belated ‘Green Shift’: Steward | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/16K9nq2 first batch of today's tweets Juxtaposition of Times Guardian front pages is telling Margaret Thatcher RIP on front page of N Post http://bit.ly/MuO99C vs Toronto Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Margaret Thatcher RIP on front page of WSJ http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn vs NY Times http://bit.ly/T9yfDf As far as I know, 2 of the 4 ex G-7 leaders in photo on Globe front page never dealt in cash http://bit.ly/NorOEh On P1 of Toronto Star re Thatcher: “What a shame — that it wasn’t 87 years earlier,” tweeted columnist/comedian/historian Mark Steel Le Devoir line story: UK wd have recognized an independent QC http://bit.ly/10DFQMa In the Globe, Lawrence Martin advises Harper on resignation timing http://bit.ly/ZzgTF1 if someone at T Star were to suggest sun shines out of Trudeau’s behind it would get printed: @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/ZjLhfE Well, as they tell us, British Columbia is his *grandfather’s* province! http://bit.ly/ZjLZcy In the Globe, @HonJohnBaird is pitch-perfect on Israeli settlements http://bit.ly/10O3bJU What’s not being reported is why foreign service officers just don’t apply for positions in other departments http://bit.ly/10J87PZ Globe: Christy Clark’s ministers play the incumbency card before election campaign http://bit.ly/17ok56V Dix, Clark take their electioneering to the television screens: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/11NfecT Babych has better shot at comeback than Christy Clark: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/11NjdGi Business donations a problem for #BCNDP : @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/ZKK68U Globe: Alberta, industry face wide gap on carbon tax http://bit.ly/147Pyez Reversal of Enbridge pipeline: Vermont concerned about air pollution http://bit.ly/XpvDTa French http://bit.ly/12CBcBZ Graham Thomson: Redford’s approval rating tumbles http://bit.ly/11NfDMq third batch of today's tweets Christy Clark tied for lowest approval rating among preems (25); Adrian Dix at 49 http://bit.ly/145xMsl A column on the #NDP government of Nova Scotia that cd be the template for an Adrian Dix government in BC http://bit.ly/ZIVFNF In the Wall Street Journal, Coptic Christians need more Canada http://on.wsj.com/14Zki0M Since 1980, 75% of US ambassadors to Cda have been pol appointees; how do we rank in G-8? http://bit.ly/10LdW0B WSJ: US grad schools facing increased competition from Canadian cuz of our less restrictive immigration policies http://on.wsj.com/Y9KPFI second batch of today's tweets US plans immediate proportional “response in kind” — hitting source of any N Korean attack w/ similar weapons http://nyti.ms/16HYViF In the W Post, a good column on Obama’s remark about the good looking Attorney General http://wapo.st/12yQgjY ! Sheila Copps in HT: When you danced w/ PET (as I did at an event in Montreal), it was pretty dreamy ...From the moment Justin was born, he would continually have to prove himself For newspapers, a 2 percent decline is good news http://wapo.st/Y7Tap4 first batch of today's tweets Postmedia: Secrecy and ethics cast cloud on Harper government/Most believe PM has ‘hidden agenda’ http://bit.ly/ZhurOe Like them or not, Tories do have ideas: @montesolberg http://bit.ly/17mo57V Hill Times: #CPC backbenchers unwittingly try 2 force PM 2 break election vow on abortion debate: pol insiders http://bit.ly/16HDFYH Hill Times: Morale ‘rock bottom’ at CIDA, still reeling from feds’ budget cuts, policy direction http://bit.ly/Y7KbUM In the coming months, watch for lots more of these kinda leaks from CIDA http://bit.ly/Y91rgM Abbas to Baird in Globe front-pager: “If you are a friend to Israel and a friend to us, then you can play a role.” Graham Fraser challenges Ibbitson/Bricker: In Canada, French is a language of ambition, not decline http://bit.ly/ZhAzpZ Hill Times front: Political parties should be legally responsible for staffers, says Kingsley http://bit.ly/144Vk0H Citizen line story: Federal government ordered to pay nearly $30 million to losing bidder in relocation deal Hmm.. Judge found bureaucrats grew too close to company, incl TB official most knowledgeable about relocation http://bit.ly/ZufOhI ! Taber/Globe March 23-Trudeau builds war chest to take on Tories; Today-Trudeau’s magnetism exerts strong pull on fundraising trail 2 @acoyne s! Citzn-No evidence Libs interested in becoming serious party of ideas/N Post front-Libs’ best hope http://natpo.st/16HEpic
Globe front page: Trudeau’s rise brings broken Liberal Party machine back together 2 @mdentandt s! N Post-Uniting party policy hardest task; Trudeau's great obstacle ditching dogma for populism http://bit.ly/XnpXsN Meanwhile, back at the #NDP Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition (and of *2nd* Party in the HofC)... http://bit.ly/10xR2de ! HT front: NDP to drill down on data mining at policy convention http://bit.ly/10xXIrV T Sun: Iran on the agenda http://bit.ly/10KkRpI Shedding 'socialism' bad move for #NDP?: @mrabson http://bit.ly/10H0Znd ! Gazette-#NDP holds policy convention; Post-Pot decriminalization & Target’s takeover of Zellers to be debated http://natpo.st/17mthbL LEGER: NDP’s future hangs on ‘back to balance’ claim http://bit.ly/ZIVFNF On silly season in BC @CraigMcInnes http://bit.ly/10MsQkN @justine_hunter http://bit.ly/ZcyyvX In the NY Times, applications to US grad schools from Canada have declined http://nyti.ms/14QVgkn (In the NYT) With the climate changing in Canada, you win some/lose some http://nyti.ms/17mreEJ ! WSJ editorial: The 1% Keystone Confusion/Pres Obama explains to donors how proletariat think http://on.wsj.com/10Ks2hC fifth batch of today's tweets Front page of the Trudeau, oops Toronto Star yesterday http://bit.ly/Y62B8v today http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Christy Clark campaign dir: “When Adrian Dix gets on the ropes, he's unproven. We'll see how he fares." http://bit.ly/14X5jVf Calgary Sun front page http://bit.ly/10tsT7G shows Justin Trudeau’s reach back east (from his grandfather’s province) today If this report on what Palestinians said to Baird about the peace process is accurate, it’s important news http://bit.ly/10JJYrg fourth batch of today's tweets Justin Trudeau’s answers re inexperience/trading on family name/#CPC “attack on teachers”--U be the judge http://bit.ly/14Ouucc Times Colonist http://bit.ly/N7AMbV front page shows Justin Trudeau’s reach out west today #NDP to change title of its national director back to "federal secrt’y" cuz of QC/First Nations? http://bit.ly/ZfLNep third batch of today's tweets Front page of Le Soleil http://bit.ly/10sWP3S show Justin Trudeau’s reach in QC today ! Times Colonist hed: Baird talks with Palestinians LA Times: The Keystone XL oil pipeline: Some questions and answers http://lat.ms/14X2gfS second batch of today's tweets These days, even Toronto Star columnists are ‘bashing’ Québec http://bit.ly/12v7U8e Vancouver Province http://bit.ly/PDVl21 front page shows Justin Trudeau’s reach in his grandfather’s province today W Post runs photo of uncoiffed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in bathing suit http://bit.ly/Z1krwv first batch of today's tweets Who woulda guessed on Saturday morning http://bit.ly/Y62B8v that the Toronto Star would be endorsing him for #lpcldr on Sunday! If you read to end of editorial, U can be damn sure #NDP can kiss good-bye to T Star endorsement in 2015! http://bit.ly/Xx0TSC Juxtaposition of T Star T Sun front pages is all you need to know about bias in #cdnmedia Front page of Le Journal de Montréal shows Justin’s reach in his home town today http://bit.ly/N40YBj #LPCldr candidate Justin Trudeau’s challenges just beginning: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/Y53xyf Dippers need to decide if big government is still essential: @thejohnrobson http://bit.ly/17kvBAc #NDP Damn Yankees! How dare they support the Keystone XL pipeline!: @sunlorrie http://bit.ly/XlEG7Q Ontario man jailed in Mauritania did receive help from Canadian government, source says | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/ZH6C2k Rick Bell: Wildrose meets in Calgary to look at policy purge on path to power http://bit.ly/10JNIJf second batch of today's tweets Calgary Herald front page http://bit.ly/PETBRW vs Toronto Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY W Post: The future of energy: More carbon dioxide? An FDR grandson and oilman is betting yes http://wapo.st/ZlPpCs Kinsella: If Grits are smart, they’ll start studying Tories’ ad playbook http://bit.ly/10Dc2ip David Ignatius in W Post: America the war-weary and war-wary http://wapo.st/10DbMie first batch of today's tweets ! Calgary Herald front page vs Toronto Star front page CP: Canada shed 54,500 jobs in March, biggest one-month drop since early 2009 http://bit.ly/10ESCJ2 NY Times front page A Sharp Drop In Job Growth Sows Concern http://nyti.ms/12tAcfv NY Times lead story: Judge Overturns Age Limit To Buy A Contraceptive http://nyti.ms/YZhsor NYT http://bit.ly/T9yfDf W Post http://bit.ly/NeRqJJ WSJ http://bit.ly/Qo2hmn front pages W Post chart: Top 10 states trading with NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico http://wapo.st/Y0T0UJ L Ian Macdonald: The Conservative government’s spring slump http://bit.ly/16Dw0MJ Ottawa does little about offshore tax dodgers: @stphnmaher http://bit.ly/XjpurO David Frum: By ignoring abortion, Harper is giving Canadians exactly what they voted for http://natpo.st/17iByxy Why the PM is right to silence his caucus: @_scottreid http://bit.ly/10nsdke Hey, look who the Harper government is muzzling now! http://bit.ly/Xv77Ch Trudeau the father vs Trudeau the son http://bit.ly/1404P10 Don Macpherson: Employment Insurance, PQ-style http://bit.ly/Y0Vlz4 Hey, #NDP 2 debate including 100% resource revenues in equalization + Mideast! http://bit.ly/16AuFV0 French http://bit.ly/14UVR4S Whoa! Charles Bronfman in the Post http://natpo.st/16AkTCv vs the Globe http://bit.ly/ZFazVg The G&M editorial board says the #NDP’s roots are ‘poisoned’ but Tom Walkom is more subtle (and smarter) http://bit.ly/Ze25Ey I’m positively certain that Niki Ashton knows more than Sheila Fraser about women on corporate boards! http://bit.ly/Xjpbgv According to the Globe, turns out the IPod tax that was big in blogs and on twitter… isn’t http://bit.ly/XjqZWX Tweeting a lot about plot at Globe to snuff talk of an iPod tax but @acoyne not columnizing about it! http://natpo.st/10EKQPn Not for the first time the Globe’s @DougSaunders finds an ‘ingenious’ way to downplay terrorism http://bit.ly/12tyvyR Moody's is a fan of BC provincial financial management, for now: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/12reJYB Dear Toronto Star: From here in Lotusland, still hard not 2 have the impression that you’re out 2 get him http://bit.ly/10nyjko W Post: Environmentalists hope spill will turn Americans against Keystone http://wapo.st/ZFh8au Obama seeks to temper supporters’ expectations on key issues (eg Keystone) http://wapo.st/10D60hO Van Sun: Japan guarantees $10 billion to boost B.C. gas development http://bit.ly/YBSlIE This shd be interesting! Group concerned about climate change proposes warning labels for gas nozzles http://bit.ly/10ESxVK first batch of today's tweets Hill journos &/or #cdnmedia seem to be having a harder time finding this senator than Duffy or Wallin! http://bit.ly/10yFhCV Dear Tom Mulcair: F*** you. Yrs truly, @TorontoStar http://bit.ly/14JkH7l Those damn Laurentian elites I guess! http://bit.ly/ZDCBjV Another day, another @nationalpost pro-abortion law columnist crapping on pols w/out giving Cdns a look at what that law wd look like ! Globe editorial Why the NDP needs to discard its poisoned roots becomes Farewell to arms, comrades in print edition #BCNDP's fun-with-numbers plan adds up to more creative math: @VaughnPalmer http://bit.ly/10E5lu4 ! NYT: Texas Refinery Expansion Saudis loath to publicize designed to maintain Foothold in U.S. oil Market http://nyti.ms/XW9ugL Adding to urgency for Saudis: US vastly increasing production/replacing OPEC crude w/ Cdn oil sands (2/2) http://nyti.ms/XW9ugL Al Kamen/WPost: For mega-donors, if price is right, US ambassadorship [including to Cda] may be, too http://wapo.st/ZhqIqQ W Post editorial: Lessons from the Arkansas pipeline leak [it’s not about Keystone!] http://wapo.st/Y2hvg3 La Presse: In addition to a pipeline, TCPL planning a port terminal near QC for export of Alberta oil La Presse editorial: Our Keystone http://bit.ly/Z6lgRH French http://bit.ly/10zbpq3 NYT: In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years http://nyti.ms/14SPGy0 In Paris, some ‘great’ Socialist moments! http://nyti.ms/12puHP2 ! Schools in Norway Postpone Exams for Bieber Concerts http://nyti.ms/16Bk6mC This’ll be interesting to watch on Sunday: Anonymous vs Israel—and vice versa (N Post front page) http://natpo.st/14SJrue The Gazette puts Montréal’s mayor on the hot seat http://bit.ly/14JgEaW La Presse: Charest a négoc hausse de redev minière avec Sénégal/recommandé à Teranga Gold par Eddie Goldenberg second batch of today's tweets Saurette: Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s Motion 408 is about abortion, not free speech | Toronto Star http://bit.ly/13TNIOy Whoa! (W Post): U.S. Embassy in Cairo’s controversial Twitter account deleted after one too many public spats http://wapo.st/Xfmr3U James Hansen (LA Times op-ed) Keystone XL: The pipeline to disaster http://lat.ms/13TRN5f Peter Foster: Homer-Dixon’s one-way conversation http://natpo.st/XR1NZp ! T Star print edition: Cdns divided on whether Trudeau fit 2 lead country; web hed: 48 % think Justin Trudeau qualified to be PM ! NYT yesterday Pipeline Spills Stir New Criticism of Keystone Plan; Globe today: Group uses spill as ammunition first batch of today's tweets Globe line story (print edition hed): Alberta cranks up carbon levy http://bit.ly/XZpfPQ N Post print edition lead @IvisonJ : Harper, MPS to talk it out/Ad hoc group to seek remedy for muzzling schism http://natpo.st/11pZVXw Margaret Wente’s “Advice to Mr. Harper: Muzzle them!” http://bit.ly/XffOyw Calgary Herald front page http://bit.ly/PETBRW Citizen #robocalls (P3, print edition hed): Charge signals strong case, expert says http://bit.ly/10AYxNG ! CP: Did they go home? No confirmed departure for temporary visitors backed by MPs http://bit.ly/16yi0Uv Why #cdnmedia shd always keep their eye on what Finance officials and their minister are up to! http://bit.ly/10cPYLz Media analysis 101: Guardian fronts story Cdn papers stuff http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 Hafta wonder whether Harper gov’t knew before budget that tax evasion stuff was about to come out http://bit.ly/XQG6bV Hafta wonder whether #LPC senator was #LPC senator’s 1st choice when he criticized gov't on tax evasion! http://bit.ly/XZmbmG T Star (print edition hed): Canadians divided on whether Trudeau is fit to lead country http://bit.ly/12kpisG Yaffe: Trudeau has stolen spotlight from Mulcair http://bit.ly/ZbFSOo Only problem is that Justin will be running against Harper/Mulcair 2015 not Mike Harris (or Harper 2002!) http://bit.ly/12izvcF Globe front (print edition hed): Wooing the centre, NDP ends opposition to ‘making of profit’ http://bit.ly/ZbOxk0 Quebec poised to be ground zero in #NDP #LPC battle: @ChantalHbert (print edition hed) http://bit.ly/10yB94C Post (print edition hed): Quebec may be heading for financial reckoning http://natpo.st/10cFfkm Calgary Herald lead story (print edition hed): Tory party bleeds red ink http://bit.ly/10cUKc1 NYT article on Keystone protests and 2 Obama fund-raisers http://nyti.ms/YUvIPa Keystone opponents aren’t wedded to public sentiment right now cuz vast majority of support the project http://wapo.st/XZrrqD Terry Glavin: B.C. pipeline follies http://bit.ly/10cxKdk Debates will test mettle of all four leaders: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/16yhFkC ! WSJ lead: Since Newton, states have passed more measures expanding than restricting right 2 carry firearms http://on.wsj.com/YUzyrA The royal suspect: Spain’s Princess Cristina linked to corruption scandal http://ind.pn/10y5IId third batch of today's tweets Talk about a bad cabinet appointment! http://ind.pn/17cOfKe Dear BC: What’s of concern to Californians (judging from the front page of the LA Times) http://bit.ly/16lWodR Looks like this conflict-of-interest complaint against Christy Clark ain’t going too well http://bit.ly/16vSCyP “Bob Rae’s wife is VP of the CJC which supports Israeli apartheid Don’t elect a leader who supports Apartheid.” http://bit.ly/ZzqnJa WSJ: no lethal Islamist-linked terror attack on Cdn soil but residents/citizens taken part in terrorism abroad http://on.wsj.com/16vPBP1 Some days I’m really really happy I came back to Canada after grad school, and today is one of them http://usat.ly/107Xp6V second batch of today's tweets Toronto Sun front page: a sight to behold this morning (in that world class city)! http://bit.ly/PalHIF Dear Elections Canada: Two Deterrents to Robocalls Win F.T.C. Contest http://nyti.ms/10v8bmA NYT finds on CSIS website: “w/ exception of US. more terrorist groups active in Cda today than in any other country” http://nyti.ms/XXdysU Dear DFAIT: In the NYT, what diplomacy has come to (for better or worse) http://nyti.ms/10wMBOn Dear BC: What’s of concern to Californians (judging from the front page of the LA Times) http://bit.ly/16lWodR Worth reading (NYT): Investments in Education May Be Misdirected/Studies Highlight Benefits of Early Education http://nyti.ms/11lsdlU first batch of today's tweets Ottawa Citizen line story: First charge in robocalls affair http://bit.ly/11ljeRy Whoa! Jason Kenney seeks citizenship probe of prime suspect in Palestinian embezzlement case http://bit.ly/17cB8bO US Homeland Security criticized by Cdn pols will be feeling vindicated reading the NY Times http://nyti.ms/XXdysU John Ivison: Conservatives have attack ads set to launch against Justin Trudeau http://natpo.st/13QKDyt Today’s editorial in the @nationalpost (which wants MPs to pass an abortion law) sides w/ anti-abortion MPs http://natpo.st/12fL68z Watson: The real reason parties don’t tolerate dissent http://bit.ly/XLg3CL Gagnon: Across Canada, the Liberal brand is back (for now) http://bit.ly/10uZ2dQ Ian Macdonald: A leader named Trudeau, again http://bit.ly/Z1b5xU Bob Rae – the prime minister Canada never had: @TarekFatah http://bit.ly/ZzqnJa NY Times: Pipeline Spills Stir New Criticism of Keystone Proposal http://nyti.ms/XLnLg8 Le Devoir lead: The arrival in QC of oil from Alberta’s oil sands is becoming more and more a reality http://bit.ly/10wILVk Economy and environment duel from Ottawa to Arkansas: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/10pDNLm Yaffe: Harper's agenda at odds with environment http://bit.ly/10pwYcD B.C. Liberals set to announce five-year carbon tax freeze http://bit.ly/14E48tt Palmer: Distrust is green scheme's fatal flaw http://bit.ly/YvfCfothird batch of today's tweets ! Do you know where your MP has been — and who picked up the tab? http://bit.ly/10lhsi5 W Post: White House isn’t saying whether latest pipeline spill will affect Keystone decision http://wapo.st/Z5tqsK In the US, a famous climate scientist is un-muzzling himself http://nyti.ms/Xnoq8x Kheiriddin: Kyoto’s revenge: How the Tories blew it on the environment http://bit.ly/XUR3EO WSJ editorial: Greens fret over pipeline leaks but are mute about train derailments http://on.wsj.com/YsBpUR ! Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head voted best album by BBC listeners http://bit.ly/Z2RXFE second batch of today's tweets Canada takes a beating on the environment in the International Herald Tribune http://nyti.ms/XUC0Lu A bitumen bubble you say? Look what happened while no one was looking! http://bit.ly/XUMwlR W Post reported this last week http://wapo.st/10Oz5Yz the Globe today bit.ly/ZZQFIg Ed Greenspon disagrees with his friends Ibbitson and Bricker but he’ll help them sell their book! http://bit.ly/ZxB3be Whoa! NY Times pulls back http://nyti.ms/YOMlf7 in a major way from yesterday’s women in Afghanistan story http://nyti.ms/10ob9td Ralph Klein RIP--N Y Times obit http://nyti.ms/16hSiS3 ! Citizen front: Newcomers face Royal welcome; N Post front: Welcome to Canada: Fake marriages not allowed first batch of today's tweets Bureaucratic patronage is Ottawa’s least reported story, but today it leads in the Globe http://bit.ly/14BGXzT Whoa! Postmedia *somehow* got a look yesterday at the new guide for immigrants that will be revealed today http://bit.ly/XUGPnS Hey, #CBC identifies the two Cdns involved in the Algeria attack (and the religion of one of them!) http://bit.ly/10rmSXL Barbara Yaffe on Harper/abortion/MPs worth reading http://bit.ly/129f3ec Oh what a tangled web Stephen Harper weaves (on climate change)! http://natpo.st/179NmSz L Martin says virtually every editorialist and talking head is backing Harper’s anti-abortion MPs http://bit.ly/Z5B7yX On those revolting #CPC MPs, @kinsellawarren is pitch perfect (except for his advice to Harper at the end) http://bit.ly/XasAhI Oh what a tangled web Stephen Harper weaves (on climate change)! http://natpo.st/179NmSz On Canada deserting desertification, Wente http://bit.ly/YsH4dK vs Cohen http://bit.ly/YPEUEr I feel the pain of columnists having to say something fresh about the #LPCldr race http://bit.ly/10ufkmI Hey, look: Some PQ-friendlies will be helping Duceppe with his EI Commission! http://bit.ly/10rubyR French http://bit.ly/Z2ytkv Hey, look what happened *last* week that finally turned up on front page of the Calgary Herald! http://bit.ly/PETBRW Hopefully, future politicos will learn from HST debacle: @MikeSmythNews http://bit.ly/14BHPVh Adrian Dix wuz dodging journo Q’s about deficit yesterday bit.ly/XTHpCq but not in the Globe! http://bit.ly/10uGd8S In Manitoba politics, Crocus (not the flower) won’t go away http://bit.ly/Zxz3ja fifth batch of today's tweets WSJ: Japan Plans LNG Futures Contract http://on.wsj.com/Zw5r5P Women-wise, here’s what we will leave behind in Afghanistan http://nyti.ms/10ob9td Figaro article on Algerian minister caught up in SNC-Lavalin scandal http://bit.ly/10heUkZ Personally, I prefer the Pope’s French name over his English name http://bit.ly/YNCCpi fourth batch of today's tweets ! Exxon spokesman can’t say in W Post whether Arkansas spill came from existing Keystone line http://wapo.st/YNxVMn Supply management? Auto industry an unlikely roadblock in Ottawa’s ambitious free-trade talks: @barriemckenna http://bit.ly/14HP1PT Paul Krugman on Canadian economic/fiscal policies in the 1990s http://nyti.ms/XlG5xd If you’re concerned about the decline in manufacturing employment in Canada, this column’s for you http://wapo.st/14HNGJ2 Stephen Harper wd still be writing columns in this paper had he taken this paper’s advice on abortion! http://natpo.st/178IEEF Hmm.. methinks MPs can think whatever they want about virtually anything! http://bit.ly/10oqmu0 third batch of today's tweets In the NY Times, a Cdn prof says Obama wd be doing us a favour by nixing Keystone http://nyti.ms/10gtJ7f LEGER: Valcourt: rising from the ashes to replace MacKay? http://bit.ly/1273eBx Today’s ‘best’ correction http://bit.ly/1275eK9 Tomorrow’s Globe correction today: Nova Scotia’s “much prevaricating” Premier Dexter? Really @SylviaStead? http://bit.ly/125aK3E second batch of today's tweets W Post lead story: North Korean secrecy on bomb test fuels speculation on nuclear advances http://wapo.st/178GGUQ Dear Canada: (WSJ): North Korea Eclipses Iran as Nuclear-Arms Threat http://on.wsj.com/10rGDgc Next thing you know they’ll be demanding an affirmative action program! http://bit.ly/Q4HuSQ Left needs policies, not empty gestures: @montesolberg http://bit.ly/XSnbJj Albertans who see it will be forgiven a chuckle at the front page of today’s @TorontoStar first batch of today's tweets Say what? Joe Fontana was involved with this shady Arafat crony who somehow got Cdn citizenship in 2003? http://bit.ly/10ojLzK Albertans who see it will be forgiven a chuckle at the front page of today’s @TorontoStar http://bit.ly/ONwQiY Hill Times: PM's tight grip, PMO's 'boys in short pants' frustrating some restless #CPC backbenchers http://bit.ly/14zs7K7 Evidently PET http://bit.ly/178E4WQ didn’t agree w/ Justin http://bit.ly/YVDmpm that state had no place in abortion clinics of nation The Toronto Sun April’s Fool http://bit.ly/PalHIF editorial http://bit.ly/10rKTwu The agenda of the anti-abortion movement (that you won’t read in @nationalpost columns) Best column I’ve yet read on Harper, abortion and #CPC MPs http://bit.ly/126VOhR As you read this [lame] Globe op-ed, check the calendar http://bit.ly/178Es7K CP: Canada praised for its stance on pollution from Arctic shipping http://bit.ly/XSbVg6 Hill Times: #CPC could lose two Saskatchewan seats under proposed riding changes http://bit.ly/16r7gXO Hill Times: #LPC MPs see slim chances of working w/ #NDP in 2015 election run [after election another thing!] http://bit.ly/XzNpVe Hill Times: First Nations Transparency Act passes, opposition critics call it ‘paternalistic’ http://bit.ly/10gCWwh B.C. NDP leader to reveal one platform proposal at a time http://bit.ly/XzD6Ay ! CNN Saudi Arabia may block Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, others #CBC: Y S Arabia is the world's top YouTube nation http://bit.ly/ZVUKNw third batch of today's tweets Easter Sunday Sun column http://bit.ly/ZQV148 Star column http://bit.ly/XQhb3D ! Freddie Mercury 'smuggled Princess Diana into gay bar disguised as a man' http://bit.ly/ZR6eSw In the NYT, a famous Manitoba export from the dark past http://nyti.ms/ZR6Ual second batch of today's tweets Senate reform closer to reality? What a crock! http://bit.ly/116QEDq Oops! Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas http://reut.rs/14xy8ap Ruptured pipeline carrying heavy bitumen crude diluted with lighter liquids to allow it to flow What do Toronto http://bit.ly/ZuUtxf Edmonton http://bit.ly/176N7aN have in common this morning? first batch of today's tweets On Easter Sunday, T Star fronts Conversion-from Christianity to Islam! (+ 2 atheists returning to their fold) Still pisses em off im Montreal but what else wd you expect on the front page of the Washington Post today? This’ll really piss off those eastern bums http://bit.ly/ZuStVV #CPC won’t go heavily negative on @JustinTrudeau cuz fear weak #LPC wd help #NDP http://bit.ly/XkmX2I French http://bit.ly/YUi95c Hmm.. @JustinTrudeau says he won’t go negative except a confidante hints to @kinsellawarren that he will! http://bit.ly/XQ5iLl The Province’s @MikeSmythNews doesn’t say anything new about Prem Clark or #bcpoli, but he says it in 1 place! http://bit.ly/14xrxN7 Some pretty good advice here for @ThomasMulcair and @adriandix http://bit.ly/16pAYfU As of today, the pill is free for 15-18 yr-old French females http://bit.ly/ZQTNWC third batch of today's tweets Notwithstanding it being silly season, @LeyneLes gets to the nub of the carbon offset kerfuffle http://bit.ly/16nV22g Good pieces on SCC http://bit.ly/YQRLmT CRA http://bit.ly/10mtIw3 It's this simple: If Harper had proposed opening abortion ?, #CPC wd never have formed gov’t in 2006—joy to some, sadness to others second batch of today's tweets NY Times front page (print edition hed): Who Wanted to Take the Case On Gay Marriage? Ask Scalia. http://nyti.ms/1206eQa W Post front page: Aggressive talk from Canada, oops North Korea concerns U.S. leaders http://wapo.st/167kXJE Gazette: Constitution? Quebecers largely indifferent: Poll http://bit.ly/YQGOll Gazette: Trudeau would draw more Liberal votes in Quebec: poll http://bit.ly/ZtFlQQ Whoa! Insider Trading Settlement in Nexen Takeover http://nyti.ms/11YqIwx Dear @jonkay & National Post: NY Times editorial on the anti-abortion movement’s agenda http://nyti.ms/14v5tmj Ottawa Sun: #NDP MP and single mom Ruth Ellen Brosseau finds confidence in House of Commons http://bit.ly/ZtEC1X ! Ottawa Citizen: MPS get 1.6% raise, first in four years; Ottawa Sun: No joke, MPS hike their pay (a 'great' #cdnmedia moment) first batch of today's tweets Hard to think of two more dissimilar men with whom I dealt than Ralph Klein and Art Phillips; may they both RIP Front page of T Star ‘You can’t kill that horse’ http://bit.ly/10iycWb Léger poll: W/ @JustinTrudeau as leader #LPC 37 (1st Cda-wide, QC, ON) #CPC 30 #NDP 20 http://bit.ly/YQ8cWk Léger poll: 29% satisfied w/ budget 52% (72 QC) not 36% satisfied w/ Harper gov’t 58% (72 QC. 80 Atl) not http://bit.ly/YQ8cWk In #elexn41, @acoyne must have missed Harper’s abortion pledge (tho I doubt it wd have changed his #LPC vote) http://bit.ly/10oIUtX In many Postmedia papers, a long piece on what we know about the foetus science-wise http://bit.ly/167bf9W In Ottawa, environment takes back seat to oilpatch http://bit.ly/XisW8i : @stphnmaher After smoke clears, taxpayer-funded boondoggle revealed: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/YJJeFn It’s not that I disagree w/ Rex Murphy; it’s just that everything he writes has already been said by others http://natpo.st/174KDKb Léger poll: in sovereignty referendum, 33 yes, 57 no; 44% prefer QC ‘sign’ the Const, 42% sovereignty http://bit.ly/YQaq87 Léger poll: 29% of QCers favour opening Const debate, 39 not http://bit.ly/YQaq87 Jeff Simpson asks the ? every journo w/ guts will be asking former QC pols (and their top advisers) http://bit.ly/174OGWO The Gaz’s Aubin on the numerous folks (including himself) who were fooled by Arthur Porter http://bit.ly/11ZWyFsthird batch of today's tweets La Times front page http://bit.ly/16lWodR Iran appears the victor in postwar Iraq http://lat.ms/ZsjIjY Hey, lock up your daughters, look which member of the Royal Family is coming to Victoria! http://bit.ly/N7AMbV Personally, I’m hoping the Speaker boots the parties from any role in MP SO 31 statements http://bit.ly/XINMsi second batch of today's tweets Hey, Italy’s Beppe Grillo agrees w/ Joyce Murray/EMay/ACoyne electoral proposal! http://nyti.ms/10YE1KB France's President François Hollande Lashes Out at Austerity La Times front page http://bit.ly/16lWodR Iran appears the victor in postwar Iraq http://lat.ms/ZsjIjY first batch of today's tweets Léger/Le Devoir poll: QC Libs with new leader Couillard ahead of PQ 33-29 http://bit.ly/14ADkdH Globe line story (print edition hed): MPS plead for greater freedom http://bit.ly/14AHkLw Good piece in the Van Sun on #CPC MP Mark Warawa “an unlikely rebel” http://bit.ly/14sGZdm Globe editorial on Harper and anti-abortion #CPC MPs worth reading http://bit.ly/11Utgvt Disregard the hed: Toronto Star editorial on Harper and anti-abortion #CPC MPs worth reading http://bit.ly/Xgydgl When this journo says Harper/Warawa is not abortion, you can be pretty sure it’s about abortion! http://bit.ly/Zsg2ie The truth is that @bobraeMP wd likely have become #LPC leader in 2006 were it not for the Jewish & Israel thing http://bit.ly/XLpgXn Washington Post lead story: EPA to require cleaner gasoline http://wapo.st/10mEtjn Washington Post (w/photos) Eight things you should know about the Keystone XL pipeline http://wapo.st/XLtm1Q Let’s hope Obama doesn’t agree w/ E May’s equation of Canada to N Korea! http://nyti.ms/10jm45I Let’s hope this minister is not given the John Manley treatment on his visit! http://bit.ly/X0WRiO Krauthammer: What really happened in Jerusalem. Obama recalibrates. http://wapo.st/XLu1jC I’m shocked, shocked to hear that gambling was going on at this Atlantic casino! http://bit.ly/106dGsG Bi-partisanship! One witness @ Charbonneau had ties to the fed Conservatives, the other to the fed/prov Liberals http://bit.ly/10jlghl second batch of today's tweets I’m shocked, shocked to hear of this kind of thing happening at ACOA! http://bit.ly/YL2NtP Hmm.. Chris Trumpy is criticizing the AG report on carbon offsets? http://bit.ly/XJg1XR Calgary Herald front page “Farewell Iggy” (no, not that one!) http://bit.ly/PETBRW NYT: Looking at financial woes of small, independent Eur states like Cyprus/Iceland Scottish voters may want to think twice about going it alone http://nyti.ms/Yhjws1 Best line about Duceppe appointment to head training commission? Was Gérald Larose too busy? http://bit.ly/102iDml first batch of today's tweets Globe lead story (print edition hed): Harper puts backbench on notice http://bit.ly/13zTdBQ Harper reminded his MPs he made a pledge to Canadians during the 2011 election his government would not reopen the abortion debate and that Conservatives wouldn’t bring forward legislation Harper said he’s determined to keep his word to the people of Canada and he views this motion as tantamount to breaking the promise He vowed he would use whatever tools are at his discretion to prevent the abortion debate from being reopened Bellavance/La Presse reporting Harper didn’t speak at caucus! #CPC MP abortion revolt might have gotten further if guys/gals like him weren’t the ones cheering it on! http://bit.ly/14qclBi Nothing will help Harper more with his caucus than #CBC journos cheering on a revolt http://bit.ly/XIV1QS Best piece I read today on Harper and his caucus http://natpo.st/Yh3aQm In fact @ChantalHbert Harper took the initiative and put his leadership on the line at yesterday’s caucus http://bit.ly/10g7Z9e On the #CPC and its internal divisions, the Star’s @TomWalkom worth reading http://bit.ly/14qczbx Harper’s #elexn41 abortion campaign promise not even mentioned by @acoyne but journos wd be the first to howl http://natpo.st/WY9knj For my part, I also fully respect the right of a woman (journo) to favour a #CPC backbench revolt over abortion rights! http://bit.ly/XINMsi Hey, look who and what story *isn’t* on the front page of the Toronto Star today! http://bit.ly/12gjtuw Wente worth reading on T Star v Mayor Ford http://bit.ly/10kkBgL Citizen editorial dishonestly omits E May’s statement that we don’t need *political parties* http://bit.ly/101SfsE #LPC centralization of ops in Ottawa denounced by QC members http://bit.ly/10kgpgS Devastating column on @JustinTrudeau : Liberals, don’t say you weren’t warned http://bit.ly/101T44M ! JdeM front page: The secret of Tiger Woods’ comeback http://bit.ly/N40YBj NYT front page (also on the front page of most major US papers) http://bit.ly/T9yfDf A piece I wrote on @bobraeMP in 2006 http://bit.ly/XIPlGL @jonkay’s take as he leaves http://natpo.st/Yh54jL AG carbon offset scam, oops spat in BC? The whole truth and nothing but http://bit.ly/15Y5YSe Growing concern for the environment may benefit Greens: @mario_canseco http://bit.ly/YgZAWr In the W Post, David Ignatius on Syria/Iran/Israel/Pals worth reading http://wapo.st/10kfPzZ QC Libs re Duceppe/training: “Is appointing the most famous separatist in Canada the recipe for success?” http://bit.ly/Xiadsk second batch of today's tweets Hey look, Gilles Duceppe is back! (to lead the PQ fight against feds’ training proposal) http://bit.ly/108DIuv Formation de la main-d'oeuvre - Le PLQ refuse de s’allier au PQ http://bit.ly/10hPyCb QC Liberals refuse to support PQ motion in Nat’l Assembly denouncing federal training move http://bit.ly/10hPyCb Montréal’s Mr 3% learned the rudiments of his er trade from Mulroney’s chief organizer http://bit.ly/16hbfpW Montréal’s Mr 3% hired an ex fed bureaucrat to help get Airport contracts? http://bit.ly/11LfwmI French http://bit.ly/WVF24D first batch of today's tweets Tory popularity flags in 'tough' mid-term report http://bit.ly/XGb95R Front page of La Presse w the guy #NDP is trying to tie to #CPC In reaction to latest on corruption in QC http://bit.ly/XGdKfQ #CPC source telling journos Harper cut ties to Mulroney cuz of Airbus Tories claim riding redraw in Saskatchewan benefits NDP http://bit.ly/Zv2mq9 So 20 #CPC MPs campaigned in #elexn41 on re-opening abortion, and #cdnmedia wouldn’t have noticed it? http://natpo.st/Zsmc58 #CPC MPs who object(ed) to Harper’s abortion promise shd have resigned and run as Independents or do so now I respect the right of women (journos) to choose a #CPC backbench revolt over abortion rights! Toronto Star: Stephen Harper says Ottawa looking to resolve cancer mom’s EI sickness benefits case http://bit.ly/16h38tt Former #CPC MP Jay Hill broke rules by calling ministers, ethics commissioner says http://bit.ly/11KQXGq Canadian taxpayers paying more to fund ‘gold-plated’ parliamentary pension plan http://bit.ly/108m7mj Globe (print edition hed): Conservative MPS chafe under Harper’s restraints http://bit.ly/WVw47G Wherein the leader of a party who sits in the Hof C says parties “are not an essential part of our democracy” http://bit.ly/13wf3pF Premier Christy Clark in one of the Guardian’s best photos of the day (scroll down) http://bit.ly/15Tv6JJ Exxon Valdez anniversary sparks renewed pipeline debate in B.C.: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/16XrHNr B.C. First Nation asks court to prevent Kinder Morgan pipeline twinning http://bit.ly/Zv3olO W Post: Awkward! Keystone opponent to host Obama fundraiser in SF next week http://wapo.st/10Oz5Yz A rather more realistic Post column http://natpo.st/YTcXrg than Globe op-ed http://bit.ly/XbEgCR Ian Macdonald serves up some interesting advice for #NDP leader Tom Mulcair http://bit.ly/ZuUOU4 Toronto Star front page: Eight gala guests were ‘concerned’ about Ford http://bit.ly/Zv9YsG Front page of the T Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY vs front page of the T Sun http://bit.ly/PalHIF CP: Toronto mayor Rob Ford denies published report he was intoxicated at event http://bit.ly/YTee1w Toronto Star editorial: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s pattern of behaviour tells a troubling story http://bit.ly/WVtT3K Meanwhile…! 40% of TO police employees earned $100,000-plus in 2012 http://bit.ly/YHVkvA ! Sarah Thomson says she ‘joked’ about sleeping with Conrad Black http://bit.ly/14uLep7 Guardian re Carney: That's rich: new Bank chief's wife condemned for London rents moan http://bit.ly/10dnIpu first batch of today's tweets T Star front page Panda-monium: Pampered pair to get VIP treatment at Pearson http://bit.ly/10cbw9F !! Calgary Herald hed: Panda pair take first step on road to Calgary visit http://bit.ly/10cbw9F Pandas or not, I rather suspect that *this* story on the front page of the Toronto Star will come up in #QP ! http://bit.ly/Ys4odC HT: Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away power over water, resource dev't for continued funding http://bit.ly/11BpN0Y HT: Penashue within Elections Act rules but if wins/convicted only Hof C cd expel him http://bit.ly/15KcXOv N Post: RCMP probing if Canadians killed in Algeria gas plant siege had help from home http://natpo.st/XBeFhH HT: Former AGs critical of Senate’s handling of expense claims review, ‘it’s public money’ http://bit.ly/14oQIBF HT: New political paradigm could be on shaky ground if progressives coalesce/unlikely, say Big Shift authors http://bit.ly/YzgajP Denis Lebel asks top bureaucrat to investigate if fed bridge agency received gifts from a QC construction firm http://bit.ly/X70yWD Van Sun lead story: Paul Simon lends voice to BC group’s anti-pipeline commercial http://bit.ly/16cazSJ Keystone/WPost front: US enviros approach Native American group only when they need something http://wapo.st/10c9cj9 T Star columnist bends over backwards to give federal minister who’s screwed up badly a fair hearing http://bit.ly/16chqM0 When Jim Flaherty gets a rave review in the T Star, fiscal conservatives should be worried, very worried! Don’t recall Hill journos being quite as enthusiastic about this Mulroney initiative when introduced! http://bit.ly/10bfqj5 ! N Post’s J Trudeau is less vacuous than you might think becomes J Trudeau may B more than just a pretty face http://natpo.st/11C26t5 ! N Post print edition @mdentandt: Banking on Quebec with charisma; Gazette? Trudeau speaks truths that Quebecers need to hear #cdnmedia biased against #NDP? Globe A4 Justin + son photo/headline shifting on @mdentandt column quite striking today Hébert: On the constitution, majority view in the #PLQ more marginal than ever in the #LPC http://bit.ly/Y9QuKZ BC Libs? “A little bit of a rebrand,” says @graciestyle, “There’s a freshness there.” http://bit.ly/10E5JMq Elizabeth May cleverly finds a way not to run a candidate in Labrador http://bit.ly/ZOyCUQ Maybe these Canadians featured in the NYT should have stayed home and paid taxes! http://nyti.ms/16cbfYd Globe and Mail editorial board definitely didn’t get this information reading the Globe and Mail! http://bit.ly/ZjCux7 seventh batch of today's tweets Hollande hits new low for French Prez at this stage of mandate http://bit.ly/14mC3H7 French http://bit.ly/YAnsAK Ever wondered what it's like 2B a vicar or dominatrix? Or what brain surgeon or bikini waxer think about job? http://bit.ly/Y8gQx4 40 years since Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon' John Rentoul remembers when bursts thundered in his ears http://ind.pn/YNCSR6 sixth batch of today's tweets In other words, foreign media (and Algeria) were telling us the truth about Canadian involvement http://natpo.st/11xpPa5 Hafta say I’m dubious about this energy project http://bit.ly/X4Oa9u In the NY Times, the world needs more Canada http://nyti.ms/ZfCoGR fifth batch of today's tweets Keystone? In the NYT, Canada’s reliance on renewable energy compared favourably to US! http://nyti.ms/ZfCNJq Andrew Kohut in W Post: The numbers prove it: The Republican Party is estranged from America http://wapo.st/16RfMRk Douthat in NYT worth reading: The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War http://nyti.ms/ZYiyiB fourth batch of today's tweets ! UK playwright plans musical of Anders Breivik's Norway killings http://bit.ly/ZfRBYv Hafta agree @JustinTrudeau is spot-on about JMurray/EMay/ACoyne electoral co-op proposal http://bit.ly/YNoQiF Washington Post editorial: A fracking breakthrough for environmentalists and drillers http://wapo.st/ZYockL NYT analysis: Obama Reveals a Knack for Middle East Mediation http://nyti.ms/11xfGdq In other words Obama abandoned the approach of Globe and Mail and #CBC journos who vilified Harper http://wapo.st/ZLyGEP third batch of today's tweets Whoa! (Washington Post front page): A striking racial divide in deaths by firearms http://wapo.st/16Rd2TT UK FinMin Osborne’s Plan C: invest all your hopes in a Canadian | Andrew Rawnsley http://bit.ly/YAdak1 Celebrating Easter or not, without doubt the best news you’ll read today http://bit.ly/169X85Q second batch of today's tweets The funniest (and truest) column about the Harper government that I read today http://bit.ly/YNps7J Proof that no one loved Kevin Page more than @ezralevant’s media party [expanded version]! http://bit.ly/ZfyKwB Hey journos & pols (esp Liberals): look who’s *not* on the front page of the #1 paper in Montréal! http://bit.ly/N40YBj A message to Sun Media, the National Post and Macleans from the Toronto Star http://bit.ly/16R875j first batch of today's tweets CP: Mulcair reaches out to labour (which will bring smiles to Harper’s face) http://bit.ly/ZfHoeJ A journo http://bit.ly/10yjR9W another http://bit.ly/YNoQiF who know #LPC *very* well report on the #LPCldr debate Postmedia report on #LPCldr debate distinguished by its regional focus http://bit.ly/16R4rjY QC journos (JdeM too) saw #LPCldr debate differently from anglo ROCers http://bit.ly/109JKuC French http://bit.ly/ZLh1gD Time will tell whether @ezralevant was very right or very wrong about @JustinTrudeau as #LPCldr http://bit.ly/Zfx723 CP: Money haul suggests fight for second between Murray and Hall Findlay in #LPCldr race http://bit.ly/XzbyXE Hm.. @kinsellawarren misses on Obama/Mideast http://wapo.st/16R5QqV and therefore misses on Jews in #cdnpoli http://bit.ly/Zfy7U1 More evidence of global warming, oops, climate change http://bit.ly/ZYatKI Dear @sunlorrie: My fave climate change quote? UK PM's "60 days to save humanity" at Copenhagen http://bit.ly/109FZ8p Brit papers http://bit.ly/NTMU4Q all over this story http://bit.ly/11xrY5J second batch of today's tweets Great hed: 2 Popes Meet for Lunch for 1st Time in 600 Years http://nyti.ms/YLOowl Whoa! Charles Moore: Southern Europe lies prostrate before the German imperium http://bit.ly/16P7iKg Those cunning Jews! http://bit.ly/107q7TX Linda Grant: I don’t get David Bowie. Maybe because I’m Female http://ind.pn/WLBxO9 first batch of today's tweets T Star front page: CIDA merger with Foreign Affairs may help the poor http://bit.ly/ZI6DWT Sad to see the worthy PBO initiative come to this http://bit.ly/14dJYGp Canadian voters may be experiencing seven-year itch with Tories: Hébert http://bit.ly/YjYjzZ Simpson: Someone will eventually have to clean up the Conservatives’ tax code http://bit.ly/X1HEQM ! @acoyne files a second budget column with all the stuff he missed yesterday http://bit.ly/ZiWX1S I’m expecting better political advice from him in his second column! http://bit.ly/WVGIwp Mulcair one year later: What we've learned (Postmedia): http://bit.ly/15DiAhq Progress: In PE Trudeau’s day, big sums of money could be donated by anonymous wealthy people http://bit.ly/Xx2pil (In the Gazette) a good piece on the influence of foreign money (including Cdn) in Israeli politics http://bloom.bg/11sSuNt NYT front page http://bit.ly/T9yfDf Erdogan insisted on speaking to Obama before Netanyahu http://nyti.ms/13kzLJ3 Obama visits grave of founder of modern Zionism, which other foreign leaders have avoided http://wapo.st/YLMkoh Today’s howler from Montréal http://bit.ly/Y5O2Fj Harvard-educated? #cdnmedia, not just T Star, shd be more careful, and not just re Ontario premier http://bit.ly/13kKmnb Today’s howler from Montréal http://bit.ly/Y5O2Fj Flaherty says skills training plan open to negotiation http://bit.ly/YLOcNF QC Minister of sovereigntist governance is furious! http://bit.ly/ZbkCoa Vaughn Palmer: With polls refusing to tighten, do Liberals face 1991-style wipeout? http://bit.ly/X1H59y A Journal de Montréal exclusif! (hope they asked her about that packaged smoked meat) http://bit.ly/N40YBj second batch of today's tweets Globe satisfied with a Conservative budget http://bit.ly/13hufGZ T Star wanted an NDP one http://bit.ly/WYZQKO Couldn’t sell a carbon tax and doubt he can sell a proportional-preferential-personalized electoral system! http://bit.ly/YfqUX4 Vaughn Palmer: NDP considers changing political party funding rules http://bit.ly/ZhbOd9 NYT http://nyti.ms/YvQG3K WSJ http://on.wsj.com/YvRa9O editorials on Obama in the Holy Land The Washington Post reviews an er Native American restaurant in Toronto http://wapo.st/15yTGzl first batch of today's tweets Globe line story (print edition hed): BUYING TIME http://bit.ly/104CiRm W Post lead story (print edition hed): Obama urges Mideast Talks/Shift in stance favors Israel http://wapo.st/164E0pE #cdnmedia biased, you say? Hell, not the Toronto Star http://bit.ly/ONwQiY or the Toronto Sun! http://bit.ly/PalHIF ! Citizen: Foreign Affairs to take over CIDA Globe: Agency’s demise shifts control to PMO ! N Post: Foreign aid agency merges with DFA ! Globe: Agency’s demise shifts control to PMO Editorial: decision 2 move CIDA inside DFAIT making it arm of foreign policy is bold ! Globe: Demand peace, Obama tells Israelis; N Post: Abbas on short end of Obama rhetoric In contrast to Globe/Star non-reports, NYT gives you the full story on Obama/Mideast from the 1st paragraph on http://nyti.ms/Z2mfEC Hey, Argo has upset Kiwis too. And their parliament even passed a motion! http://wapo.st/WQXzAv The world needs more Canada? (NYT): Hockey Gear Is the Focus of a Tariff Cut in Canada http://nyti.ms/13hHtU9 ! T Star lead story: Tories choose deficit-cutting over spending; T Walkom: Flaherty delivers classic tax-and-spend budget ! @acoyne Citizen front: News, if there is any, is mixed at best; @acoyne N Post front: Incoherent coddling and other old tricks ! @mdentandt Citizen: A clever plan; @mdentandt Gazette: Tories plan built on caution, hopes – and possibly some prayer ! @acoyne Calgary Herald: Budget hard to hate or love; @acoyne N Post front: Incoherent coddling and other old tricks Best column I read on the er, budget, and on #cdnpoli and #cdnmedia reaction to it http://natpo.st/ZYVWgr On the politics of the budget @JohnIbbitson http://bit.ly/13hu9iF vs Tim Harper http://bit.ly/WQU1y9 Citizen: PBO Kevin Page called ‘scapegoat’ in power struggle http://bit.ly/YsPjpD ! CP: Less than half of Liberal supporters register to vote for #LPCldr http://bit.ly/YvCtnb #LPCldr race will have fewer eligible voters than #NDP had last year http://bit.ly/YvCtnb Hey, if Vic Toews doesn’t go to the bench, he can always get a job as a Global TV producer! http://bit.ly/ZgZrxF NY Times Obituary: Paul Rose, Quebec Separatist Leader, Dies at 69 http://nyti.ms/YJEQlB ! La Presse: Corruption was tax deductible http://bit.ly/Xukrla French http://bit.ly/10qPAdm Hey, QC is er, livid over Flaherty’s er economic sabotage http://bit.ly/15zb8E5 I guess the Bloc would be upset if SNC hadn’t handed this cash *too* to the PQ! http://bit.ly/YvIfWa If you’re wondering about #CPC prospects in BC—given the way N Gateway is going—a column worth reading http://bit.ly/Y3nVPf Province: BC Liberals formed attack team to target John Cummins and B.C. Conservatives http://bit.ly/13hDV4t first batch of today's tweets The Economist Party in full froth this morning; wd be good if some of them ran for public office against this chap http://bit.ly/13eAZ8I On the front page of the paper that banner headlined PET’s ‘apprehended insurrection’ http://bit.ly/WDXy1g In the Mideast, the universe is unfolding as it should http://nyti.ms/13eo7PW Obama’s # 1: More than 3,000 years ago, the Jewish people lived here, tended the land here, prayed to God here http://1.usa.gov/WJlAtb Good move by Premier Redford http://bit.ly/14e5JGm Vaughn Palmer’s devastating piece on Christy Clark http://bit.ly/YHOl4P latest poll http://bit.ly/1022cFm Wente ain’t gonna win any friends in the federal public service this morning! http://bit.ly/Y17YZQ T Star columnist has a better read from away on BC than what you’ve been reading in the Globe and Post http://bit.ly/15uNqc1 Will be interested in @ezralevant’s reaction to this column by Haroon Siddiqui http://bit.ly/162clFZ third batch of today's tweets Worth reading: As teachers talk up the NDP, @adriandix must learn serious math: @garymasonglobe http://bit.ly/15ZPefi Premier Clark eager to hitch onto David Black’s plan: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/WD92SJ One reason some oppose Canada’s electoral system is that it gives the #NDP a chance at power, as in BC #bcpoli I promised a friend never to use the line about Manitoba being a good place to come from! http://bit.ly/ZJFdil Globe: U.K. jobless claims fall to lowest since June ‘11 Guardian: Unemployment rise undermines rosy budget speech hopes http://bit.ly/YqCqZZ Once upon a time this chap and I used to debate the Mideast on #CBC http://ind.pn/11ioEyR second batch of today's tweets Front page of the Ottawa Citizen featuring a big campaign contribution to Harper http://bit.ly/P59tRU Mr Mulcair goes to Washington and the Globe editorializes (Spoiler alert—they’re not impressed!) http://bit.ly/ZuNUOx In BC, the head-tax apology (and cheque) sunk (for the moment) http://bit.ly/15pBS9W Subtle! Tories aim to divide, conquer with envoy who will canvas First Nations on energy projects http://natpo.st/11dZBcD Australia suffered light casualties in Afstan/none in Iraq but respected Chretien's decision! http://bit.ly/147bKEz Obama visits/Palestinians pissed http://nyti.ms/ZJKrL8 Obama’s most important stop during the Israeli part of his visit http://wapo.st/142YKQe first batch of today's tweets Globe and Mail line http://bit.ly/ZZuhx6 National Post lead http://natpo.st/ZuP6S3 story this morning (T Sun stuck on pervs!) Thursday’s budget likely to be modest, with much to be modest about: @IvisonJ http://natpo.st/YFBT5B A union’s major contribution to Harper’s re-election Citizen line story! http://bit.ly/15ZKWV7 Globe view http://bit.ly/Xp2kNv If you read to the end, it turns out librarians and archivists are not being muzzled by the Harper government http://bit.ly/Y3Ra6R Hmm.. #CPC thinks Mulcair has marginalized himself http://natpo.st/15pwQKC maybe not http://bit.ly/ZSGvpS Not a day too soon: PM’s new first nations adviser aims to find accommodation on development http://bit.ly/ZcLDEp ! Calgary Herald: Redford denies she called for national carbon tax http://bit.ly/10gWfGI Oops! (W Post lead story): Islamic law comes to rebel-held areas of Syria http://wapo.st/WUJVxh Lysiane Gagnon on the new QC Lib leader http://bit.ly/15pLIbU Oops! Pauline Marois slips on a banana peel http://bit.ly/15pybRs I’m absolutely certain the Toronto Sun will give equal prominence to this guy if he’s not guilty! http://bit.ly/PalHIF UK newspapers split over press regulator (NYT also reports but #cdnmedia still largely ignoring) http://bit.ly/WGzfRE A ‘great’ moment in public broadcasting http://bit.ly/YVDmrL second batch of today's tweets Braid: Jobs at crux of NDP-Tory blow-up http://bit.ly/15XIH4P The NY Times reports what #cdnmedia party doesn’t appear to http://nyti.ms/ZaPpy4 David Brooks: The Progressive Shift http://nyti.ms/10bV9vU Dear President Obama: China http://bit.ly/Yo9gKX first batch of today's tweets Whoa! In the Ed Journal line story, Premier Redford says Ottawa shd levy a carbon tax http://bit.ly/ZG9aQn Canada-U.S. ties would suffer from a Keystone rejection: Redford http://bit.ly/ZPyRN7 Alberta #NDP leader sides with Mulcair over Redford http://bit.ly/1491ITz SNC-Lavalin admits to paying off municipal party of a former Trudeau cabinet minister http://natpo.st/XW8BE9 Wente on Justin http://bit.ly/YlESnJ #CBC: Joyce Murray savours late momentum in Liberal race http://bit.ly/15XBIZD Pfft… http://bit.ly/16Gi5GP Too much circumlocution in this op-ed for my taste http://bit.ly/15XEpdu @kinsellawarren serves it up straight http://bit.ly/WAFVj0 Fresh off backing a scheme to boot Harper @acoyne advises Flaherty on how to solidify his legacy http://natpo.st/XmGoTg Striking contrast between N Post http://natpo.st/ZWSt39 Globe http://bit.ly/ZaHMYt editorials on QC today ! TStar on Couillard/Const: worthy if ambitious goal if doesn’t lead 2 bitter wrangling w Ott/fan flames in QC http://bit.ly/15ld56M W Post front page support for gay marriage soars to record high 58 percent http://bit.ly/1457XaI In other words, what US/UK media were reporting about a Canadian in January is true http://natpo.st/137cMkt The Globe reports on a rich enviro http://bit.ly/1491bRF the W Post reported on a month ago http://bit.ly/YPPDOq Vaughn Palmer: Information watchdog launches wide-ranging look into Clark’s ethnic strategy http://bit.ly/15XB5PN Front page of the Guardian w what most Canadians won’t be reading about today http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 #cdnmedia party [expanded version] not rushing to report this agreement http://bit.ly/137h2R8 In print @ezralevant serves up a well-merited apology http://bit.ly/YPLSIE Globe P2 corrections still not transparent about source of errors; here’s today’s # 1 deciphered http://bit.ly/10EZwOO Tomorrow’s Globe correction today: Brian Mulroney’s origins weren’t blue collar? http://bit.ly/137kyuS second batch of today's tweets The #NDP in power appears to be having problems going green! http://bit.ly/XTXEmC Dear @CraigMcInnes: Obviously only a gov’t spends gov’t $; *both parties spending *taxpayer* $ http://bit.ly/142SDeS NYT front page: Terror Haven in Mali Feared After French Leave http://nyti.ms/133SNn0 W Post front: Obama to visit grave of founder of modern Zionism http://wapo.st/142YKQe first batch of today's tweets In Vancouver today, Harper gov’t to announce ‘world class’ system to address oil spill fears http://bit.ly/XTQ2QX “PM’s comments [re mid-mandate shuffle] stand.” @PMO_MacDougall http://bit.ly/15gsp4M Globe line story (print edition hed): Flaherty cuts spending on weak forecast http://bit.ly/WQVIws CP: Tory budget will focus on deficit of job skills http://bit.ly/133DURx ! Hill-Times: Flaherty to release ‘austerity’ budget, MPs criticize $5-million for Religious Freedoms Office http://bit.ly/ZlLt0C Justice Minister Nicholson says 'no question' criminal law reforms will pass Charter test http://bit.ly/ZlKei4 Hill Times: Saskatchewan Conservative MPs object to proposed ridings, say they’re too large http://bit.ly/XSSRE4 Most of what you need to know about how the game of #cndpoli is played today http://bit.ly/142QVtZ Yesterday things got a bit better for Mulcair #NDP in QC and a bit worse for Trudeau #LPC http://bit.ly/Z8KCNA Globe front page (print edition hed): Payment that led to probe of SNC was attached to oil-sands deal http://bit.ly/106NMpN A ‘great’ west coast moment! http://lat.ms/ZD6q6i Prof challenges Postmedia pundits on climate change http://bit.ly/118Abkr @mdentandt first to fail! http://natpo.st/YKnnfU Yanks worried about bitumen; Cdn producers say they’re not planning to reverse Maine pipeline http://wapo.st/ZUhlsd Cdn Ass of Petrol Produ's writes the NYT writes the NYT http://nyti.ms/Yjqqg0 on Keystone/US @sunlorrie writes in the T Sun http://bit.ly/15VmN1Z A ‘great’ transportation moment! http://bit.ly/Xk3z0k Guardian: All-party deal for a new UK press regulator underpinned by statute appears to have been reached http://bit.ly/YKs3ma OMG! On the front page of the Telly, Will & Kate disagree in public http://bit.ly/R3YkNZ ‘Great’ hed (Chronicle-Herald inclusiveness!): Dallaire mounts crusade against use of child soldiers first batch of today's tweets Harper gov’t appears to have moved beyond getting Sun papers to cover this kind of thing http://bit.ly/114uMuG Reputable papers like NY Times wd have labelled this Star piece “analysis” (even w/out Prof’s er expertise!) http://bit.ly/10Zhw6S The Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition calls on MPs to do right thing/not be intimidated by media http://bit.ly/15d0lyY Over the years, haven’t seen much of this kind of reporting re Cuba in #cdnmedia http://bit.ly/XOet4v The federal government commissioned a public inquiry and shut it down before it finished its work http://bit.ly/ZA5iAC Unlike @ezralevant I don’t see the connection between this and the SCC hate speech decision Siddiqui supports the SCC hate speech decision and he calls on an old gov’t hand to support him http://bit.ly/YjMZxZ On the #LPCldr race @sunlorrie worth reading http://bit.ly/14117TH Dernier tour de piste mordant de Jean Charest http://bit.ly/XhDkrw In English, CP doesn’t report that most of what Charest said about Canada was said in English http://bit.ly/15TRpkm Any1 thinks PMO staff not thinking bout swing ridings every working hour smoking something grown in BC http://bit.ly/YhtxFb On Keystone, more Americans will see this http://bit.ly/XhygDs than will have seen this http://bit.ly/15cWaTV On the #LPCldr race @kinsellawarren http://bit.ly/Ws9i8g @sunlorrie worth reading http://bit.ly/14117TH When Boris is photo’d w/ a woman who’s his wife (as today) you know a leadership challenge can’t be far behind! http://bit.ly/102L98q first batch of today's tweets In La Presse, Mulcair aide present at mtg says he never told Pelosi Cdns opposed to Keystone, only that #NDP wants east-west capacity Obama deputy press secretary downplays climate impact of pipelines/stresses auto regs http://wapo.st/16zhhTV Nocera in NYT: A Real Carbon Solution http://nyti.ms/1591yYf @acoyne worth reading (if only cuz he sweeps away some of the idiocies you’ve been reading about Mulcair in DC) http://natpo.st/XeQPIr Hmm.. Globe reporter agrees to hold off reporting Mulcair meeting w/ fugitive Gary Freeman in Washington http://bit.ly/142kWdy In the US, the FCC is cracking down on #robocalls http://wapo.st/12YyiI4 Hey, maybe this is the abortion law that the National Post wd like us to have! http://nyti.ms/Z584eA NYT lead story: US Bolstering Missile Defense 2 Deter N Korea http://nyti.ms/YfoWmX Ottawa? http://bit.ly/ZHqUtb PBO Kevin Page continues to win friends http://bit.ly/13YZvK5 @ChantalHbert’s view http://bit.ly/110AzRR He’s right about Joyce Murray but if Stephen Harper had agreed w/ the rest he’d not be PM http://bit.ly/10UzgjE JdeM: Mulroney supporting Bachand in QC Lib race http://bit.ly/ZYCBzb Reading the papers these days one cd almost imagine that public servants used to have the right to speak freely http://bit.ly/16zdKoO *Huge* correction to a front page article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail (scroll down) http://bit.ly/ZMPVV5 More evidence of gambling going on in casinos in BC (likely elsewhere too) http://bit.ly/WnYurO A unilateral declaration of electoral cooperation by the Green Party? http://bit.ly/XeQ8ii Imagine voting in a national election on January 22 and finding out who’s gonna er, govern on March 15 http://nyti.ms/XePmSk A photo of the Queen that #cdnmedia are hoping we’ve all forgotten http://bit.ly/XEcTlB third batch of today's tweets A hoot of a column: Ethnic outreach effort run by stumblebums: @LeyneLes W Post lead story: Senators considering large cut in family visas/boost in skilled as part of immigration deal http://wapo.st/16wU3xR The next King of Canada is studying Arabic http://bit.ly/ZEYuQp This photo of the Queen reminds me of the day PM Paul Martin visited and shook hands with Gadhafi http://bit.ly/XEcTlB second batch of today's tweets ! Globe front page: Hold [Bollywood awards] gala before vote, Clark said http://bit.ly/ZMPVV5 NYT: Obama has given up on moving comprehensive climate change leg thru Congress & has ruled out a carbon tax http://nyti.ms/Zab9NJ WS Journal: Oil Exports Spur More Questions About Keystone Pipeline http://on.wsj.com/ZtEl1e first batch of today's tweets Globe line story (print edition hed): Pelosi questions Keystone pipe http://bit.ly/10VLtIB LAT: Obama to announce plans to fund alternative fuel research today (paving way to Keystone approval?) http://lat.ms/154RUFX Lawrence Solomon in Post: Obama will block Keystone http://natpo.st/YfpgyQ Can’t speak for neighbours back east in Alta/Sask, but National Post misreads public opinion out west where I live http://natpo.st/12Vit59 Smartest move of the week by a politician http://buswk.co/WjpZTw Personally I think it’s wise for Mulcair #NDP to differentiate themselves from #LPC on this issue http://bit.ly/10VXQEG Yakabuski: Will Quebec stray from its ‘virtuous’ energy path? http://bit.ly/Z9TLsv How badly does the Globe editorial board wish to see the #NDP out of the role of alternative government? http://bit.ly/10VTmOd (1/2) Star: thin Trudeau program leaves many questions unanswered, including how he would get the economy moving again (2/2) Star editorial: how he would balance energy development and green policies, and where he would let the tax burden fall. Dear NY Times editorial board: Who needs a government when you have a great electoral system! http://nyti.ms/12Vlxye My bet is that federal-provincial relations will survive this! http://bit.ly/13ZYjGB Neither N Post http://natpo.st/13WMAIA nor T Star http://bit.ly/ZTw4Ww likely to be happy with Flaherty (whatever you call it) Post: We’re living longer, not better’: Average Cdn will spend more than decade suffering from serious illness http://bit.ly/15QdEI5 On the front page of the Guardian and the Times, but #cdnmedia party [expanded edition] not talking about it! http://bit.ly/WLoSNl ! Ambrose comes through with millions for Edmonton LRT http://bit.ly/WrWsFK Have to wonder why public servants didn’t object to this at the time http://bit.ly/15QiBR3 Vaughn Palmer on Van Sun front page: Blamelines in ethnic outreach debacle run straight to premier http://bit.ly/Z9O0Li Badder news for Harper on the (real) western front http://bit.ly/XDH4JD Notably, a former sen’r adviser to Premier Bourassa involved in this corrupt pol party financing http://bit.ly/15QdjVy Ex French intel chief laughs at idea of his country appointing those w ties to foreign countries to SIRC http://bit.ly/Wjr7Xa Dear losers: Have a nice day! http://bit.ly/Yx2eFW third batch of today's tweets On the front page of the Independent, the next King of Canada in a bit of a controversy http://ind.pn/10R5TT6 ! Telegraph (print edition hed): What if a lesbian Queen in a gay marriage had a test-tube baby? http://bit.ly/12QOprd In the NY Times, a ‘great’ Afghanistan war moment http://nyti.ms/Z1oWmu The wonders of proportional rep: 62 days after the election there are reports that Israel is to get a new government today! Those cunning Israelis! http://bit.ly/WpkQba second batch of today's tweets Mulcair is holding Layton’s support for #NDP; Harper isn’t holding support for #CPC http://bit.ly/ZKdi1w In the Guardian, a great UK moment (print hed): Scots give more per head to charity than the English http://bit.ly/10R4dsK Yikes! Ignatius: Prudent for US to plan for the worst in regard to N Korea http://wapo.st/13XIeBo first batch of today's tweets Mulcair tells Washington Harper has failed to protect environment http://bit.ly/X9nM97 ! Postmedia: Mulcair warns Americans of Chinese energy takeovers in Canada http://bit.ly/YcI5CM Obama tells GOP lawmakers that jobs numbers for Keystone overstated - The Washington Post http://wapo.st/Yb24EW Eilperin: unlikely that Obama could make Keystone decision before early July http://wapo.st/Wp8VdB ! Sask #NDP leader er clarifies stance on pipeline http://bit.ly/150oxET The good news is that we now have an independent Director of Public Prosecutions in Ottawa http://bit.ly/13XzACU Radio-Canada (and La Presse) with more corruption allegations at SNC-Lavalin http://bit.ly/ZOpJvo Whoa! (Globe front page): Police search home of exec from earlier (ie Lamarre) period of SNC http://bit.ly/X9jjU2 B.C. Auditor-General knocks legislature’s ‘culture of entitlement’ http://bit.ly/Wp9fZO This happening in British Columbia? Who woulda thunk it? http://bit.ly/16tRwV7 Alberta’s dire fiscal situation hits er, home! http://bit.ly/13UFzrL Michel David: mesquinerie inutile si on retirait leur statut bilingue à certaines municipalités http://bit.ly/X9jjU2 Best piece I read today on the #LPCldr race (and on the #LPC) http://bit.ly/Z1g68n Justin Trudeau set to win Liberal crown, but then what? Walkom http://bit.ly/ZK6HUY Have long thought that if this pundit is so smart he should try his hand at politics http://natpo.st/ZBRMe6 ! @jonkay criticism of @acoyne (in lead graf) http://natpo.st/14ZUzRs edited out of print version of column I’m counting on the twitterverse to spill all the super insights that Globe journos are sharing w digital subscribers only! Competing heds! Globe leads with 15 nominations for national newspaper awards; Post nominated for photography awards Competition! Globe leads with 15 nominations for national newspaper awards; T Sun: Donato up for award Hafta think a bit about this ! (T Sun hed) pic.twitter.com/yhs3HOyYnx Also in the Toronto Sun, a 'great' #cdnmedia moment pic.twitter.com/VrX96WB0eM Even the NY Post treats the new Pope with respect on its front page http://bit.ly/QNUNqJ ! What the Guardian thinks of Canadian cuisine http://bit.ly/ZOsgpn second batch of today's tweets Gallup poll: Worldwide image of Harper’s oops Obama’s int’l leadership declined during first term http://bit.ly/ZzsRYI The crackpot Jean Chrétien overlooked in attending Chavez’s funeral http://nyti.ms/15MnWZG Times Colonist front page http://bit.ly/N7AMbV NDP used taxes for partisan work: Liberals http://bit.ly/10MqVSH Now it’s NDP’s turn in the hot seat: @LeyneLes http://bit.ly/WHkmj4 first batch of today's tweets Dear PM Harper: True or false? can’t possibly meet yr Copenhagen GHG targets precisely because of the oil sands http://natpo.st/XHYsuK Thomas Mulcair wrestles with the Keystone pipeline in Washington visit: Tim Harper http://bit.ly/ZJi8hJ Dear Prez Obama: (NYT op-ed): World’s leading oil importer, China, reaches out to cold Arctic country http://nyti.ms/ZJdsID ! Friedman today: massive amts of oil/gas in US/Cda/Mex making N America the new Saudi Arabia/who needs the old 1? http://nyti.ms/Y96zA3 Getting us into Afghanistan as the alternative may have been too clever by half http://bit.ly/14VJv7V Van Sun front page poops on NDP: Auditor general raps NDP for partisan fund http://bit.ly/W9AUPp Vaughn Palmer: How did a $6-million loan to two ex-government aides magically vanish? http://bit.ly/12OD4I9 Tomorrow’s Globe correction today: Jeff Simpson invents a second #NDP MP who bolted to the Bloc http://bit.ly/10EZwOO Senator Bert Brown should man up and acknowledge that he failed in his decades long quest http://bit.ly/WH7Yzx Dear @kinsellawarren: Bernie Farber is unsure of Doug Christie’s true beliefs? http://natpo.st/12OFu9L Léger/JdeM PQ 31 (37 francos ne permet pas aux péquistes d’être assurés d’obtenir le pouvoir) PLQ 30 Léger/JdeM: taux d’insatisfaction à l’égard du gouv péquiste, qui est passé de 58 % lors du dernier coup de sonde, en février, à 68 % #assnat #polqc second batch of today's tweets Two PQ-connected firms lining up for their bonanza http://bit.ly/Y6Twiz French http://bit.ly/13QS3kf Y all #cdnmedia almost without exception love British Columbia http://bit.ly/Xnd2tv Traveling ystdy, but wd not want to let this (the lead in particular is an embarrassment to Cdn journalism) go unmentioned http://bit.ly/Zils1e NY Times: Web Sites Blur Line Between Fantasy Sports and Gambling http://nyti.ms/Y6Xdoc LA Times front page: Al Qaeda chief's kin, other Salafis push for a puritanical Egypt http://lat.ms/16oD4h8 Guardian (print edition hed): Vienna Philharmonic finally gives up its dark secrets of playing Hitler’s tune http://bit.ly/X2HumZ Best thing about having a foreign monarch as our Queen is not waking up to #cdnmedia reporting all that trivial news about Royals I do hope the beleaguered Cameron gov't isn't looking to wag the dog http://bit.ly/Xnt1I3 Maybe the Harper gov't should increase #CBC funding: Between booting Flanagan and Layton biopic, #CBC doing wonders to boost #CPC fortunes! first batch of today's tweets I’m betting that @acoyne who voted #LPC in the last election won’t be voting #CPC in 2015 either http://bit.ly/WjRDhL Toronto Star report, also on front page, draws attention to this “assault on democracy” http://natpo.st/10zDjl7 On the front page of the Times Colonist “a famed advocate for free speech” http://bit.ly/N7AMbV I think Lawrence Martin thinks Justin Trudeau can win the next election http://bit.ly/W4TcBm Dear Globe and Mail: Loony is what’s been going on in Toronto http://bit.ly/X2l19u Government funds used for partisan purposes in BC, you say? http://bit.ly/WFnVWO Terence Corcoran: The New York Times calls for war on Canadian oil http://natpo.st/WjXJyP La Presse: Deux firmes proches du PQ ajoutées à une liste sélecte Palmer on Dix http://bit.ly/10H8crP Mason on Clark http://bit.ly/YXvvGw Levant: Manning led the charge against Kyoto; what’s happened to him? http://bit.ly/Y7LjaA Will be interesting to see if Trudeau’s experienced handlers decide to cut their losses on this one http://bit.ly/Y7LGlD Tasha Kheiriddin worth reading on loose-lipped conservatives in/and the media http://bit.ly/YXx1IM JdeM gives the GG front-page treatment as it goes after his travel expenses http://bit.ly/N40YBj On the front page of the Guardian http://bit.ly/NOmlc2 a cabinet minister who lied is going to jail http://bit.ly/Xn70Jk Washington Post lead story focuses on the huge shift in US energy supply http://wapo.st/YpbCbJ NY Times front page: Ovarian Cancer Study Finds Widespread Flaws in Treatment http://nyti.ms/15JMkey
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