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No recent precedent for a major party barring reporters from accompanying campaign

The Conservative national campaign director told media outlets Tuesday their journalists won't be allowed to travel with leader Pierre Poilievre on his campaign plane and bus during the upcoming election, ending a decades-old tradition of reporters embedding with a prospective candidate to lead the country.

There is no recent precedent for a major federal party barring reporters, producers, camera operators and broadcast technicians from travelling with a leader during a national election campaign.

In the most recent federal campaigns in 2019 and 2021, for example, major broadcasters, including CBC/Radio-Canada, CTV and Global, a number of print outlets and the wire service, The Canadian Press, had journalists with past Conservative leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole throughout the campaign.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago

They know his goose is cooked lol

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

She said the party would "like to assure you that this campaign will be one of the most accessible and transparent campaigns in recent memory."

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 45 points 15 hours ago

This is what maple MAGA looks like.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 55 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

An election hasn't even been called yet but I've already seen a Conservative attack ad. In it, they refer to "Carbon Tax Carney" as being a sneaky character with conflicts of interest.

I mean wth. Carney ended the carbon tax as one of his first acts in office. (Not that I had anything against it, but whatever.)

And let's talk about conflicts of interest for a moment. Poilievre refuses to get a security clearance to get briefed on foreign meddling in Canadian political campaigns which was deemed urgent by CSIS. They decided to make an exception for him and offered the briefing regardless but he basically screamed LA-LA-LA I don't have to listen to this!

The only conclusion I've been able to draw from all this is that he and/or his party are the beneficiaries of said foreign interference and he wants plausible deniability in case it surfaces. It would also explain his reluctance to have embedded press following him around digging into things.

[–] Dearche@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

I mean, if you listen to any of his speeches, he does nothing but blatantly lie constantly. The carbon tax, Carney's "hidden funds", his secret hidden tax plan, and countless attacks that are obviously lies if you actually looked into them for even a second. His entire scheme is to outdo the FSB's disinformation campaigns to the point that it feels like he's actually a recipient of Russia's #1 propogandist award.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

I'm not sure if it's plausible deniability or the desire to attack his opponents with insinuation that he wouldn't be able to use if he had security clearance, and it doesn't matter to me. Both are putting party over country, and we've seen where that leads.

[–] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 21 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

We're about one year into a constant deluge of off-season CPC-sponsored attack ads everywhere.

Well, apparently.

I need to go give the team behind uBlock Origin a hug, or a beer.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

That just gave me an interesting thought. I wonder what the Venn diagram looks of Trump/Poppinfresh supporters and people who don't use adblockers...

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I have not seen an CPC-sponsored ad anywhere either, I wish I could give the pi-hole team a hug as well. Not happy with there new update and how it has made it not work with homebridge but I still would be happy to hug them!

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

It's a TV ad.

[–] one_fot_mon@lemm.ee 25 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Those ads work. My 60yo mother told me, "I don't know much about him but he just seems sneaky to me for some reason."

And then I later saw the intentionally sinister red-washed ads and it all made sense.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah my Dad who spends all his time on Facebook is already bashing him with every point brought up in that dumb attack ad…

[–] one_fot_mon@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

I gotta hand it to them, they are very good at marketing to potential voters. All I've learned is that the average voter can only be reached with bright colours, 3 words or less, and constant repetition. People don't have the attention span for much more than that.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago

Man that is depressing. I know people like this too, alas.

[–] breen@lemmy.ca 52 points 19 hours ago

Conservatives hate freedom of, well, anything.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Do Canadians want Trump lite, because this is how you get a Trump lite.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I prefer Maple MAGA over trump lite, just my two cents.

Either way I do not want a CPC majority or minority.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If there isn't a majority, will any of the other parties work with CPC

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Unless there are multiple PPC people sitting I do not see a coalition.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 43 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Antagonizing the journalists, what a strategy β€” it worked so well for Maxime Bernier.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 35 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

If you aren't willing to get grilled by This hour has 22 minutes you don't deserve to be PM.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I like this as a measuring stick.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Rick Mercer literally went to Stephen Harper's house lol

https://youtu.be/2KMcEwsT-10

PP could hardly put a sentence together when ambushed at a rally by Dan from 22 minutes.

https://youtu.be/85FD0ogBGec

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

That was awesome.

[–] cdnwaffleiron@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

Lol damn right... πŸ‘

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

Worked very well for Stephen Harper. He told them he wouldn't take questions from them, and then they covered his press releases with vigour.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago

Not even allowing wire services is peak cowardice. Literally the least biased reporting you can get.

0 transparency 0 accountability

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 28 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Does he finally have security clearance?

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 25 points 18 hours ago

To quote a famous political ad, β€œhe’s just not ready”.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

PP doesn't even trust PP to have security clearance, apparently

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They're scared he will say something they don't want him to say. The puppet masters pull the strings.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 16 points 18 hours ago

He’s so slimy that everything he says will hurt him.

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago

I bet they won't show up for all-candidates meetings either.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I’m hoping Carney keeps up the momentum here. As much as I didn’t want the liberals to rule Canada again, the recent nonsense of the US and PPs week in the knees bend over for Trump, religion and privatization status, we need to nip the Canadian cons in the butt.

[–] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If you nip it in the bud, no one has to do any butt stuff. πŸ˜‰

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My understanding is conservatives love butt stuff, even though publically they deny it.

[–] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe, but we can't be sure until they call their rivals sodomists.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

That’s fair.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

It’s all gonna hinge on the next couple of weeks/months with Trump, IMHO. His (probably perceived) handling of the situation, and how much he can limit the damage for your average voter will probably dictate the results.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 18 hours ago

Drop the transparency PP and the people drop the support.

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

It's because pp is a pussy! CANADA DOESN'T NEED A SMALL pp