iPolitics By Linsey Raschkowan. Published on Apr 15, 2021 11:13am The West Block of the Parliament buildings on Jan. 15, 2021 (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan is welcoming a new face to his office this week, with Blake Oliver joining the team as a policy adviser.
Prior to working in O’Regan’s office, Oliver was the policy adviser handling rail and road transportation at Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra’s office, as well as serving at Alghabra’s Ontario desk.
Blake Oliver (photo courtesy of Blake Oliver)
Oliver announced the change via Twitter, stating, “When I started at Transport Canada last March I had no idea the ride I was in for. Bittersweet today to say goodbye to an incredible team.”
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While conservative columnists dismiss the idea it could ever get to the same point here, the anti-state and anti-government sentiments expressed by those who took part have already infected the mainstream in Canada. On the same day as armed protestors attacked the Capitol, in Toronto a motorcade of supporters waving Trump 2020 and Stop The Steal flags drove from Queen’s Park t
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Trump s malignant populism has turned far-right violence into a domestic terrorism threat By Enzo DiMatteo
Jan 27, 2021
For Canadians, there has been much to unpack after four years of Donald Trump. And while we fancy ourselves above the darker forces of racism, nativism, fear and demonization (not to mention misogyny) that have been unleashed under Trump, our proximity to our neighbour to the south – and a porous social media – has made us particularly vulnerable to the spread of right-wing extremism of the kind witnessed during the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
While conservative columnists dismiss the idea it could ever get to the same point here, the anti-state and anti-government sentiments expressed by those who took part have already infected the mainstream in Canada. On the same day as armed protestors attacked the Capitol, in Toronto a motorcade of supporters waving Trump 2020 and Stop The Steal flags drove from
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