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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh spent day three of the federal election campaign in Toronto, pinning the blame for the housing crisis in Canada on corporate landlords. He also admitted for the first time that his party is up against ‘massive challenges.’

Disinformation is the greatest threat to our democracy, according to the findings of Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, the commissioner of Canada's public inquiry into foreign interference.

But what even prompted the Foreign Interference Commission? What are the key takeaways from Justice Hogue's final report on Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions?

And how does America — specifically President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and social media platforms — affect Canada's information ecosystem and, ultimately, our country's sovereignty? Taylor Owen, the director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, explains.

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MTD Director @taylorowen.bsky.social on CBC's FrontBurner for a critical look at Canada's information ecosystem heading into the election: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/16135703-an-election-in-a-polluted-media-environment

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In "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy," @rondeibert.bsky.social chronicles how @citizenlab.ca became a world-renowned digital watchdog. He tells @spaikin.bsky.social why a bilateral data sharing agreement with the U.S. is "bananas." Tonight at 8/11pm

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Across Canada, people are looking for change.

They’re looking for a government that will work for them - not the rich and powerful.

Together, with incredible candidates like @bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social, the NDP will deliver.

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This federal election, let’s remind Canada: proportional representation means real democracy.

No more governments with all the power and less than 40% of the vote.

Help us deliver door hangers and spread the word!

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Is the NDP suffering from "junior partner-itis," asks @davidmoscrop.com, where the party "get no kudos for the wins, but you get all of the criticism for the losses." At 8/11pm with @shachikurl.bsky.social (@angusreidinstitute.bsky.social), @lobbygrl.bsky.social & @jeyantvo.bsky.social #cdnpoli

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A federal election is coming—and once again, our broken voting system could hand total power to a party with just 40% support.

@canadiangreens.bsky.social co-leader @elizabethemay.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the problem in this video.

Watch and share!

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"What we're seeing is the NDP's lunch get eaten by the Liberals. The party's support base is being hollowed out." — @shachikurl.bsky.social (@angusreidinstitute.bsky.social), tonight at 8/11pm with @davidmoscrop.com, @lobbygrl.bsky.social (Wright Strategies) & @jeyantvo.bsky.social #cdnpoli

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Who benefits most from proportional representation? Urban Conservatives and Prairie Liberals.

We’re not as divided as we think—we just need a voting system that stops distorting our democracy.

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Since 2001, Ron Deibert and his team at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab have uncovered dozens of covert spy operations around the world, including the creators of the phone hacking spyware, Pegasus, created by the Israeli company, NSO group, whose clients include Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman, and Rwanda's Paul Kagame.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Deibert tells host Steve Paikin about his recent trip to the White House, the impact that the Trump administration's policies will have on cyber security worldwide, and why Canadians ought to be concerned by a bilateral agreement with the U.S. called the Cloud Act.

His new book is called, "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy."

After a busy two weeks as prime minister, Mark Carney is on the campaign trail.

As the first in Canadian history to be named prime minister without ever having held public office, Carney is hoping he can win the trust of Canadians. He’ll run for a seat in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.

Trustworthiness is awarded to those who are at least perceived as knowledgeable, transparent and concerned. Can Carney pull it off?

In order to get Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives elected as prime minister and government of Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told an interviewer from pro-MAGA Breitbart News in a March 8 podcast, she’s asked officials of the Trump Administration to “put things on pause” until the election if over.

This admission resurfaced on the weekend and has turned into a major brouhaha in the lead-up to the April 28 federal election called by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A lot of people in my social media feeds are thinking of voting Liberal in the coming election. Mark Carney seems like a safe bet and the fear of a Pierre Poilievre victory in the Trump era is frightening. If your main issue is the best person to deal with Donald Trump, he is probably that. I understand.

Carney seems trustworthy and kind. He says he understands that private industry is good at creating wealth but not so good at protecting vulnerable people in the process. Unfortunately, it’s not 1990 anymore and the idea that providing private corporations with tons of government money and tax cuts will produce wealth for everyone has been thoroughly discredited through lived experience. What it has produced is massive wealth, all of which is concentrated in the one per cent or more likely the 0.1 per cent and more and more suffering by the poor and the working class. The result is Trump and Elon Musk and the other authoritarians and fascists gaining ground around the world. And Mark Carney as the head of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England as well as a senior executive in important private equity companies has been part of the problem not part of the solution.

Richard lives in a pup tent in downtown Ottawa, next to the Bank of Canada and about a block from the temporary home of the House of Commons. He’s a thin, tough man in his sixties. Or he could be in his fifties. When you’ve worked outside for years as a roofer and then end up on the street, your face has seen a lot of sun. Carrying a heavy load of trauma and anxiety is also a great way to look older than you are.

Richard gets by on $789 a month from the Ontario Disability Support Program. That’s what everyone gets, whether they’re paying for a home or not. A few years ago, he might have been able to afford to share a small apartment, but that wouldn’t work now: Rentals.ca reported average rents in Ottawa ranged from $1,699 for a bachelor apartment to $1,892 for a one-bedroom in April 2023.

This math leaves Richard and many of the other 3,000 unsheltered people in downtown Ottawa living in pup tents. They’re all over the place. And a lot of homeless people spend cold nights lying in sleeping bags in doorways or on ventilation grates that blow hot air.

Danielle Smith must resign immediately.

The Alberta Premier can be friends with anyone she chooses — including the adjudicated rapist threatening to ruin Canada. However, Smith crossed a line by asking Trump to interfere in Canada’s federal election.

It doesn’t matter that Smith’s request to Trump administration officials to pause the tariff war doesn’t meet the formal — arguably outdated — definition of election interference. Smith clearly stated that her request was a consequence of the tariff war benefitting Mark Carney, and that a pause would benefit Pierre Poilievre.

Were this not enough, Smith advocated for Poilievre because she thinks he and Trump are “in sync.”

Smith doesn’t care about Canadian sovereignty, and it shows when she flew down to Mar-a-Lago, when she attended Trump’s inauguration and whenever she speaks to the American far-right, which is unfortunately often.

She is supposed to represent the people of Alberta — Canadian citizens — not the interests of the Trump Organization. Her actions — always immature, often childish and completely unacceptable for any Canadian politician — have proven her unworthy of her office.

We are a forgiving society to not call them treasonous.

If Danielle Smith doesn’t want to stand up for Canada, then it’s time for her to stand down.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith came into the federal election campaign hoping her words would leave an imprint.

Well, maybe not like this.

She wanted her points about oil and gas regulation, and her demands on pipeline approvals, to influence the conversation. Less so her weeks-old remarks to a Trump-friendly media outlet about a strategic Washington "pause" on tariffs to avoid boosting Liberal fortunes, and that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was "in sync" with the direction of Donald Trump.

After her interview with Breitbart News surfaced on the eve of campaign launch, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was most forceful in denouncing Smith's talk of advising Trump administration officials to pause tariff plans "so we can get through an election" and ideally elect Poilievre to deal with the U.S. president.

"Shameful," Singh termed it.

"If you're loyal to this country, if you care about Canadians, you say, 'Stop the tariffs. Don't hurt Canadian workers. Don't hurt Canadian families. Don't hurt Quebecers,'" Singh said while on the stump in Montreal.