Knowing this is coming, what do you do?

— 02.24.2020 02:41 PM

You do cheap publicity stunts, in a transparent bid to look somehow relevant, that’s what.

“Dozens of electoral district associations affiliated with the People’s Party of Canada have been deregistered by Elections Canada for failing to meet their reporting requirements, just months after the party contested its first general election.

The PPC captured just 1.6 per cent of the overall vote in the October election and elected not a single candidate — not even party leader Maxime Bernier, who quit the Conservative Party in 2018 to form his own political vehicle.

Thirty-eight PPC electoral district associations (EDAs) were deregistered: 15 in Quebec, 10 in Ontario, 10 in Atlantic Canada and one each in Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia.

…The PPC did not nominate a candidate in 10 of those ridings. In the remaining 28 ridings where the PPC did have a name on the ballot, the party averaged 1.4 per cent of the vote.

Elections Canada deregistered these EDAs for failing to submit a statement of assets and liabilities within six months of their registration, something that’s required of new EDAs. Elections Canada notifies both EDAs and the party when they fail to meet these requirements, giving them 30 days to file or “satisfy Elections Canada that the omission was not the result of negligence or a lack of good faith.”

Once an EDA is deregistered, it can no longer accept contributions or issue tax receipts.”

 


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Friday night! SFH! The Bovine! Dance!

— 02.20.2020 09:50 PM

Friday, February 21: Shit From Hell is playing at the Bovine Sex Club.

Yes. That is the name of our band. Yes, that is the name of the club where we are playing.

Some other great bands are playing. We asked to go first, so we can hang out with our friends and dance. It’s the launch of my new book, Age of Unreason, too.

So, come on by and dance and have fun. I’ll sell you a Donald Trump Is An Asshole T-shirt and throw in the book. Records, too. (They’re taking up too much room in the basement.)

I know you’ve got other crap going on. I know. But we would be grateful if you came by and hung out, even for a bit.

Friday, around 9, at 542 Queen Street West. Come! It will be a blast, and great to see you.

W


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Dem debate: damn!

— 02.20.2020 08:29 AM



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JWR offers a solution

— 02.19.2020 05:08 PM

But Trudeau won’t listen.

He doesn’t like strong women who talk back.

Story:

Wilson-Raybould, now an independent MP, called for Trudeau to fly to B.C. to get personally involved in meetings, a cooling-off period in B.C. during which construction would cease and the RCMP leave the area, and the immediate tabling of long-promised Indigenous land rights and self-governance legislation.

Wilson-Raybould also made a plea to the Wet’suwet’en to take responsibility for providing clarity to Canadians about who speaks for a community that Canadians and governments understand is divided.

Wilson-Raybould was especially critical of Justin Trudeau’s failed promises.

Canada has known for decades “what needs to be done,” said Wilson-Raybould. “But here we are, yet again, in a moment of crisis because the hard work was punted.”

…She said the prime minister and his colleagues know this, “So please look in the mirror and ask yourself why?”

“Let us be honest — the prime minister has to learn to take responsibility,” said Wilson-Raybould.

She suggested Canadians have learned “the true history and the need for fundamental change” yet Trudeau has done little but talk.


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Meet you on the barricades

— 02.17.2020 09:20 AM


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