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Today, Steven Del Duca, Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, issued the following statement:

Today is an important day for Ontarios Sikh community, as they celebrate the 552nd anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the first Sikh Guru and the founder of Sikhism.

Guru Nanaks teachings of peace, harmony, selflessness and service can guide all of us as we work to build bridges between communities, and serve the people of our province.

During the pandemic we have seen Ontarios Sikh community embrace these values, providing support in many communities as we work together to get through these challenging times.

On behalf of the Ontario Liberal Party, my family and myself, I wish all Sikh Ontarians a wonderful and safe day of celebration!

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Before there werecountries,there were tribes.In politics,there still is.Almost everyone identifies with a particularpoliticaltribeand, ifeven if ones primary tribeis not one of the two contenders for government,most also identifymore strongly with oneof the major tribesthan the other.

Tribes began asextended familygroups,butthemore successfulonescooperated with other tribesformutual benefit.Apart fromintermarriage and trade,thatmeantconfrontingenemies.Even when the Roman Empire was at its peak, parts of whatisnow Germany remained unconquered because theGermanictribes(whichhad endless internal squabbles) would unite at critical momentstorepelthe Romans.

Australias two main political tribes are based around the Liberal and Labor parties. As elections approach they enlist supporters, expanding the tribe, to win government. You might think both parties would take a similar approach expand the tribe, win a common objective but youd be wrong. While Labor brings in minor parties and interest groups to enlarge the tribe, the Liberals are inclined to do it all by themselves.

The composition of the Labor tribe at election time not only includes the party itself but most unions, the Greens, Getup!, plus various left-leaning lobby and policy groups. Many would argue some in the media, including the ABC, SBS, Guardian and elements of Nine media also join up.

This hassignificantconsequencesinour preferential votingsystem.Many Labor members of parliament owe their seats to Greens preferences, while many Greens senators are elected with Labor preferences.Other minor left-wingandsingle-issuepartiesalsodirect theirpreferencestoLabor.

Labor is quite pragmatic in its relationships with minor parties and never overly concerned about ideology. Despite our obvious policy differences my party, the Liberal Democrats, has always found Labor to be professional and receptive to negotiation. Moreover, quite a few of the Labor people with whom I have negotiated later became members of parliament while retaining an interest in preference negotiations. As a result, there is a close link between the parliamentary and political perspectives.

The Liberal tribe is comprised of the party and its formal coalition partner, the Nationals, plus some business organisations. Certain media, including the Australian, The Spectator and Sky News, might offer support on particular issues. But it is a noticeably smaller tribe because, except for its coalition partner and the Christian Democrats in NSW, the Liberals regard virtually all other parties as mortal enemies.

Furthermore, eachstate division of thepartyhasitsownapproach topreferences,generally under the control of the State Director.This can have bizarre consequences;my party has oftenhadless favourable treatment than parties with which the Liberals have nothing in common,andon one occasionwas rankedlower than a micro party withblatantlynational socialist policies.Few politiciansgetinvolved and there is little interest in negotiating with minor parties, irrespective of relationships in parliament.The disconnect between the parliamentary and political perspectives isalmost total.

This was clearly shown in 2016 when the Federal Director of the Liberals sought to challenge my partys name in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, claiming it was confusing voters and that a vote for us was a vote lost to them. In retaliation, we ran in the Canning by-election and preferenced Labor ahead of the Liberals. This prompted enormous indignation among many Liberals, particularly Andrew Hastie (the Liberal candidate), yet when they were told why we did it, they insisted that the two issues were unrelated.

The legal actionwas only dropped when Itold Malcolm Turnbull I wouldvote against all their legislation, noting that I had supportedhis partyon nearly all their key billsto date. Even then, he couldmerelyasktheFederalDirectortodrop it.

To this day theattitudeof the Liberals isthat primary votes are all that matter, and a vote forminor partiesis a vote lost to the Liberals. Laborsview, thatits the total vote of the tribe that matters, just isnt part of theLiberal mindset.

And now theLiberal Party haspassed legislation to forcethe Liberal Democratsto changeitsname or be deregistered. They want exclusive ownership of the word liberal.Needless to say, thetribe willnot benefit.

If my partys name was the Labor Democrats,we would be embraced aspart of Labors tribe.Even if things becamefractious,such asbetween Labor and the Greens, there would never be any doubt about wanting us on their side.And if we were to win seats, they would preferit wasusratherthan someone from the Liberal tribe.

If the Liberals followed Labors approach they would welcome parties like mine. Even if someone voted for us because we share a word in our name with the Liberal Party, they would ensure that those votes came back to them via preferences. They would also use their preferences to help elect our candidates rather than candidates from parties that are in the Labor tribe. It seems such an obvious point to make, yet they seem incapable of understanding it.

Tribes have always succeeded by uniting against a common enemy. Labor reminds me of the Germanic tribes, mentioned earlier. The Liberal tribe seems more like the tribes of neighbouring Gaul (now France), which the Romans defeated.

David Leyonhjelm is a former senator for the Liberal Democrats

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The Conservatives and the NDP are calling on the Liberal government to release email and text messages between the party and Clerk of the House of Commons Charles Robert in response to claims that Robert broke the cardinal rule of his job by acting partisan.

According to Robert's official job description, he's expectedto advise the Speaker and all MPs on parliamentary procedure "regardless of party affiliation" and "with impartiality and discretion."

CBC News reported last week that Robert is facing claims that he made partisan comments and shared confidential information with the Liberals that could have given the party a strategic advantage over the opposition in the House.

The Conservatives' deputy leader, Candice Bergen, calledthe allegations "deeply concerning."

"The clerk is to be completely nonpartisan," Bergen toldCBC News. "The clerk is the referee ... We need to find out which Liberalswere complicit in this, if it's indeed true, which Liberals spoke to the clerk."

The Conservatives say they want the Prime Minister's Office and the offices of theLiberal House leader and whip to release correspondence with Robert. The NDPsays it supports the push for the release of documents.

"Those documents are key," said NDP deputy House leader Lindsay Mathyssen. "It's extremely concerning and troubling to me that these allegations are out there and they certainly need to be investigated."

The Conservatives are also calling on MPs to elect a new Speaker to the House next week who will commit to an independent review ofthe claims against the clerk. The NDPsays it wants the Board of Internal Economy, which oversees administration of the House, to discuss the matter in-camera since it likely would involvepersonal human resourcesinformation.

CBC News reported last week on a series of claims based on written complaints and letters sent to Robert's supervisor,the Speaker of the House of Commons. Ten sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Robert'sofficecorroborated the claims and provided additional examples. The sources asked not to be named because they didn't want to jeopardize anyone's career.

Staff said they heardRobert make comments they deemed to bepartisan. Multiple sources allegeRobert stated that he was happy with the outcome of the 2019 federal election which was aLiberalminority government.

Robert is also facing claims that hesharedwith the Liberalsconfidential information given to him by opposition parties.He's been accused specifically of sharing with the Liberals in advance an unfavourable ruling by the Speaker onmedically assisted dying and of asking the government when it would like the Speaker to deliver the rulingin the House so it would notdisrupt the party's agenda.

That move went against normal practiceand could have given the Liberals a tactical advantage in the House, said multiple sources.

Robert's office issued a statement on Monday saying that the clerk and his staff keep such information confidential.

"In providing services to members, clerk and the House administration regularly communicate with members and House officers of all parties in the House of Commons," wrote the clerk's office. "The House administration keeps these communications confidential. As in all matters, the House administration is subject to any directions it may receive from the board or the house."

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Robert also has been accused of treatingsome staff members with disrespect, while somecomplainants also claim he'sbeen spottedsleeping on the job while in the chamber during question period.

Last week, Robert wrote in a statement that he's devoted his career to serving Parliament.

"For more than 40 years, I have served Parliament and parliamentarians of both Houses with integrity and to the best of my ability," wrote Robert."Prior to my appointment as Clerk of the House of Commons, I was for several years the interim Clerk of the Senate providing advice and counsel to three Speakers, Conservative and Liberal."

Robert said he has addressed the sleeping matter.

Sen.Leo Housakos' office contacted CBC News on Monday after this update to the story was first publishedto defend Robert. Housakoswas appointed to the Senate by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008 and was named Speaker in 2015. Housakos said he worked with Robert during his time asSpeaker.

"I've only ever known Mr. Robert to act in a professional, trustworthy and nonpartisan fashion, serving only the best interests of the institution above all else," wrote Housakos.

"I consider Mr. Robert to be a man of great integrity and a most outstanding Clerk. I was privileged to have his guidance during an extraordinarily difficult time for the Senate of Canada and wouldn't hesitate to work with him again."

The House of Commons shared a copy of a 2018 survey conducted by a third party that estimatesoverall staff "engagement" orsatisfaction with their workin the House at 78 per cent a 4 per cent increase over 2014. The House of Commons scored higher thanthe public sector norm, which is 68 per cent, according to the survey. More than 70 per cent of Houseemployees participated in the survey.

Robert also said in his defencethat he made significant changes to the office when he was appointed and claimeda group of senior managers resisted change.

According to sources and a written complaint, the concerns are more widespread.

The five senior managers worked closelywith Robert and filed the first complaint in 2018 on behalf of their staff, the complaint said.The manager wrote to Robert's boss the Speaker of the House of Commons at the time,Geoff Regan that they were dealing with mounting complaints from staff about his work and the situation had become "untenable."

Foursenior managers in Robert's office have taken sick leave; three have takenearly retirement since last year.

Robert's chief audit executive also walked away from the job over a concern about a conflict of interest, multiple sources said. Robert removedthe auditor's abilityto take concerns directly to the Speaker. If the auditor ever found wrongdoing, the report would only go to Robert.

Two of the senior managers who left sent letters to Speaker Anthony Rotasaying they were retiring early because they had no other option, since the issues with the office were not being resolved.

The clerk met "efforts to uphold the principles of political neutrality, good governance, transparency and sound management with disapproval," reads one of the letters.

The Conservatives sent a letter to all MPs on Friday calling for the next Speaker of the House to investigate the claims against the clerk.

Asked if Rota would commit to launching an external review into the matter, his Speaker's office told CBC News theBoard of Internal Economy "has the ultimate responsibility with respect to any House Administration employment matter."

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner called for cross-partisan support and leadership from the next Speaker to meaningfully address the situation.

MPs cast their ballot for the next Speaker of the House on Nov. 22, when Parliament returns.

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BEIJING, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China Liberal Education Holdings Limited(Nasdaq:CLEU) ("China Liberal", the "Company", or "we"), aChina-based company that provides smart campus solutions and other educational services, today announced that its all-in-one teaching machine, AI-Space, received recognition and recommendation by industry experts from each of the Foreign Language Professional Committee of China Association for Educational Technology ("CAET") and the Educational Information Technology Research Branch of Beijing Association of Higher Education ("BAHE").

On October 27, 2021, the Companyhosted a reception for a number of industry experts, including Mr. Shaogang Zhang, Executive Vice President of CAET, Mr. Junjing Wang, Secretary General of Foreign Language Professional Committee of CAET, and Ms. Fei Li, Chairwoman of Educational Information Technology Research Branch of BAHE. The Company presented and introduced AI-Space to the experts, including its product positioning, main functions, design, technology, and quality.

With the acknowledgement of the features of AI-Space, the team of industry experts reached the following opinions:

The expert team believes that with its novel design, various practical functions, deep integration and wide application scenarios, AI-Space is a leading and advanced teaching machine and will benefit faculty and students by creating a more efficient learning environment.

AboutChina Liberal Education Holdings Limited

China Liberal, headquartered inBeijing, is an educational services provider inChina. It provides a wide range of services, including those under Sino-foreign jointly managed academic programs; overseas study consulting services; technological consulting services for Chinese universities to improve their campus information and data management system and to optimize their teaching, operating and management environment, creating a "smart campus"; and tailored job readiness training to graduating students. For more information, visit the company's website atir.chinaliberal.com.

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As liberals shy away from the word "woke," the media has blamed Republicans negative use of the term for its downfall. What actually happened to "woke" may be more complicated, and cause problems for Democrats in coming elections.

After the results of the Virginia election, Democrat strategist James Carville blamed "stupid wokeness" for his partys disappointing loss. In an interview with PBS Newshour, the long-time Democrat strategist said that some of his partys ultra-progressive policies had a "suppressive effect across the country on Democrats."

"Some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something," he added.

DEMOCRAT STRATEGIST JAMES CARVILLE: WHAT WENT WRONG IN VIRGINIA ELECTION WAS STUPID WOKENESS

New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a different approach, saying Democrats' losses on election day were due to "trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign."

When Ocasio-Cortezs comments were branded as advocating for "woke" policies, she balked, tweeting "How can news outlets even attribute words to me I didnt say? Said nothing abt wokeness which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days btw."

Despite her and other Democrats' current disdain for the word, New York-based writer David Marcus said being woke was once seen by the left as a positive thing. "You go back 12, 13 years it was definitely something that people on the left would use in an approving way," he said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

DONALD TRUMP BROKE THE WOKE STRANGLEHOLD ON OUR COUNTRY, AND ON US

But as the comments from Ocasio-Cortez and Carville illustrate, that is no longer the case, and the media is blaming Republicans for the terms downfall.

As far back as 2018, an NPR opinion said it was time to put the word "woke" to sleep due to the "muddling" of the definition.

"Words that begin with a very specific meaning, used by a very specific group of people, over time become shorthand for our politics, and eventually move from shorthand to linguistic weapon. Or in the case of woke, a linguistic eye-roll," the piece read.

A New York Times columnist declared that "Republicans want to recast wokeness as progressive politics run amok," saying the term "has been referred to in the most hyperbolic language imaginable, from ideology to religion to cult."

"No wonder young people are abandoning the word," the piece continued. "Opponents to the idea are seeking to render it toxic."

A New York Times columnist claimed Republicans are trying to recast wokeness.

A piece in The Guardian sought to explain "How the word woke was weaponized by the right," saying the word is "used as a stick often wielded by those who dont recognize how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact."

A Washington Post columnist claimed "the word woke once meant something, kind of. But now its just an empty, all-purpose insult hurled by conservative propagandists, anti-vaccine fabulists, lazy journalists and people who dont want to know our history."

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Despite the medias claims, Marcus told Fox News Digital the lefts disavowal of the word had to do with "so many excesses," and the "commoditization of the concept."

"There are all of these companies whose job it is to go into schools and corporations and do these anti-racist woke trainings," he said. "I just think that the term has become associated with something that a lot of people now see as corrupt or involved with some sort of perverse interests in terms of the money that can be made through it."

Marcus cited research done by Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo, who has written extensively about the infiltration of progressive training and policies into corporate America.

Rufo has brought attention to corporations like AT&T and Walmart for their policies, including White employees at AT&T being "tacitly expected to confess their complicity in white privilege' and systematic racism" or be "penalized in their performance reviews.

CHRISTOPHER RUFO: WALMART VS. WHITENESS - HOURLY EMPLOYEES GUILTY OF INTERNALIZED RACIAL SUPERIORITY

Walmart, according to internal documents Rufo obtained from a whistleblower, "launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a white supremacy system and teaches White, hourly wage employees that they are guilty of white supremacy thinking and internalized racial superiority."

These findings are part of the left wanting to get away from the term woke, Marcus said, but despite the media's push to stop use of the word it will be an issue for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and beyond.

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"I think that especially people who are running in tighter races are going to have to address the excesses. Theyre going to have to find a middle ground," he said. "If the Democrats dont find a way to address this and reel it back in a little bit, I think theyre going to be in trouble."

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OTTAWA After getting off to an arguably slow start since winning re-election on Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau's Liberal government appears poised to go into hyperdrive with next week's resumption of Parliament.

OTTAWA After getting off to an arguably slow start since winning re-election on Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau's Liberal government appears poised to go into hyperdrive with next week's resumption of Parliament.

The Liberals promised more than a dozen initiatives in their election platform including the introduction or reintroduction of at least eight bills within the first 100 days of a new mandate.

That 100-day clock started ticking on Oct. 26 as soon as the prime minister's new cabinet was sworn in.

The government will have lost almost 30 days by the time the new session of Parliament opens next Monday.

And it will have only 24 sitting days in which to get things done in the House of Commons before the clock runs out on Feb. 3 with the first two days essentially lost since they must be devoted to electing a Speaker and delivering a throne speech.

The Commons is scheduled to sit for only four weeks before breaking for the holiday season on Dec. 17, and MPs won't return until Jan. 31.

If the Liberals intend to keep their promises for the first 100 days and they insist they do that spells a crammed legislative agenda for the few weeks the House will be sitting before the new year.

"We have a very aggressive agenda to get to in the coming weeks and thats what were focused on," government House leader Mark Holland said last week following the Liberals' first post-election caucus meeting.

In addition to the eight platform-promised bills to be introduced by Feb. 3, the government is also preparing legislation to deal with two pandemic-related issues that weren't specifically mentioned in the platform.

The first would implement last month's announcement on more targeted emergency aid benefits for individuals and sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holland indicated top priority will be given to passing that bill as quickly as possible.

Holland also signalled that priority will be put on passing a bill to impose criminal sanctions on anyone who blocks access to vaccine clinics, hospitals, testing centres and abortion clinics. It would also target anyone who intimidates or harasses health care workers, keeping a promise made by Trudeau as anti-vaccination protests ramped up during the campaign.

"Right now we want to make sure ... that we dont see what happened before where health care professionals who are trying to be on the frontlines of this battle are dealing with protesters and being menaced by that," said Holland.

Privately, government officials are hopeful that opposition parties will recognize the urgency to swiftly pass those two bills, as they've done in the past with other pandemic-related legislation.

Because they hold only a minority of seats in the Commons, the Liberals will need the support of at least one opposition party to pass legislation or to limit debate and force a vote on a bill.

In a minority House, an opposition party can drag out debate for weeks simply by putting up more speakers and running out the clock. It can also impede the government agenda by deploying procedural delaying tactics.

The Conservatives routinely did both in the last Parliament, which was also a Liberal minority, on matters unrelated to the pandemic.

Only towards the end of last spring's sitting did the NDP and Bloc Quebecois support the Liberals in imposing closure to cut off debate and force votes on a couple of priority bills to ban conversion therapy and regulate web giants but that came too late to get the bills through the Senate before the summer break and both died once Trudeau called an election in August.

Nevertheless, the government has signalled it's hoping this time that relatively quick progress can be made on at least two of the bills that the platform pledged to introduce within 100 days.

One would provide 10 days of paid sick leave for federally regulated workers, a measure triggered by the pandemic.

The other would be a reintroduced bill to ban the traumatizing practice of forcing a person to undergo "conversion therapy" aimed at altering their sexual orientation or gender identity. Although Conservatives spun out debate on the ban last time and more than half of them voted against it, it is strongly supported by all other parties.

Other promised bills could take a lot longer than 100 days to jump through all the legislative hoops. They include legislation to:

Regulate foreign web giants to ensure they contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian stories and music. A bill on this issue tabled in the last session proved controversial, with critics claiming it would wind up regulating what individuals post on social media.

Require digital platforms to share revenues from news content they post with the Canadian news outlets that create it.

Strengthen the Official Languages Act and introduce an Act for Substantive Equality of French and English.

Combat online hate, including hate speech, terrorist content, incitement to violence, child sexual abuse and non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Among other things, that would include making social media platforms accountable for the content they host.

Reform the criminal justice system to address the disproportionate incarceration of Black and Indigenous people. That includes elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for less serious crimes and greater use of conditional sentences, such as house arrest, counselling or treatment, for people who do not pose a threat to public safety.

Safeguard Canada's critical infrastructure, including 5G networks, to preserve the integrity and security of national telecommunications systems.

The platform also commits the government to a host of other non-legislative tasks within 100 days, including appointing a new federal housing advocate, holding a summit on restarting cultural industries, convening with provinces and territories to develop a national plan to legislate paid sick leave across the country, and launching a procurement process for development of a high frequency rail corridor between Toronto and Quebec City.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 15, 2021.

Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press

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Im not sure how popular bowling is these days, but my wife and I went recently and had a great time. There might even be real-life lessons one can glean from the game like the reset button.

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Thats the button you push to reset the pins to their original position. It is quite the opposite of the great reset advocated by our newly re-elected minority Liberal government and others on the left. In that context, it means resetting things to a completely different order.

The great reset is a slogan that aspires to some new world order without Canadian mining, Canadian oil and natural gas and other CO2-emitting industries. The great reset will be so great, in fact, that we will not only be forced to get by without reliable base load energy and resource sector jobs, but thanks to the magic of government, income inequality will be a thing of our dark Darwinian past.

According to this narrative, this reset will be the natural follow-up to the pandemic. And its advocates may be right about that, as there does seem to be a global reset currently underway. And to the extent that it represents unprecedented economic opportunities for Canadas natural resources, agriculture and manufacturing sectors, it could indeed be described as great.

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In a recent Bloomberg interview, Goldman Sachs global head of commodities research, Jeff Currie, talked about a different kind of reset, in which, Poor returns saw capital redirected away from the old economy to the new economy. Its not unique to Europe. Its not unique to energy. Its a broad-based old-economy problem.

Currie explains that, This is the first inning of a multi-year, potentially decade-long commodity supercycle. Its driven by the war on climate change, the war on income inequality. All of these dynamics lead to a structural rise in commodity demand against this whole idea of the revenge of the old economy.

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The evidence in support of what Currie is forecasting is all around us: high gasoline prices, higher grocery bills, general inflation increases and an attendant upward pressure on interest rates. Rising costs of food, gas and other consumer goods, combined with higher interest rates, seems incongruous to the pursuit of income equality, doesnt it? Especially given the disproportionate pain that will be visited on middle- and lower-income households.

As this supercycle gets underway, it will create economic opportunities for western Canada, a prolific source of oil, fertilizer, lumber and agriculture, and there will be a lot less patience on the part of voters for federal policies that both exacerbate the increasing cost of living and interfere with Canadas ability to take advantage of the increased commodity prices.

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There are signs that all of this is already confounding those who have advocated for a great reset. Take U.S. President Joe Biden, who, just before telling those assembled in Glasgow at COP26 about how the United States was back in the fight against climate change, was begging OPEC to increase production, to help provide gasoline price relief for his citizens.

Maybe voters themselves are at the very beginning of another reset one in which they begin to see the costs of Canadas left-wing, anti-natural resource policies, including skyrocketing inflation, shortages of consumer goods and higher interest rates. They will soon feel, if they are not already, the negative impact of a federal government that is not only lacks interest in monetary policy, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau famously confessed during the election, but lacks focus on economic matters.

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Maybe Canadians will demand their own great reset. A reset back to a focus on the fundamentals: the economy, monetary policy, international trade and sustainable natural resource extraction, along with a focus on opportunities in the new economy, such as green energy.

After all, a strong economy, and all the taxes it provides, is the most progressive societal force of all. It provides not only economic opportunities for the next generation of Canadians, but also funds all the government programs and supports that we prize.

Voters may also conclude that there is not much that is progressive about policies that increase the cost of living such as interest rate hikes and sky-high carbon taxes which make it harder for middle- and lower-income Canadians to afford food and shelter, never mind quality-of-life essentials such as access to post-secondary education and quality health care.

Those who advocate for the policies that are helping to usher in a commodities supercycle and increasing the cost of living might in fact learn a lot from a night of bowling. Theyd have fun, of course, and they could also benefit from the lesson as to what a reset might actually means.

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Brad Wall is the former premier of Saskatchewan.

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Conservatives political messages on social media reach neutral voters better than those of their liberal counterparts through plain emotional expressions and friendlier interactions, according to a survey.

A team of researchers from the Toyohashi University of Technology, the University of Tokyo and the City University of Hong Kong found that supporters of Shinzo Abe, a conservative former prime minister, had better success than critics of Abe in sharing their views on Twitter with a wider range of people.

This may be among the reasons for the prolonged reign of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a team member said.

According to the researchers, voters personal likings of politicians can affect the level of support for their policies.

Past studies have shown that sympathy for a prime minister can greatly sway the political stances of Japanese voters.

The team analyzed 130 million posts that contained the word Abe in katakana and kanji on Twitter from February 2019, when Abe was prime minister, through October 2020 immediately following his resignation.

After examining accounts that were prone to retweet the same posts, the team identified two large networks of Twitter users: those who supported Abe and those critical of him.

A member of one network tweeted, for example, Thank you for your long and hard work, Prime Minister Abe. A member of the other network described Abe and lawmaker Taro Aso as the worst prime minister and deputy prime minister in the postwar period.

The team categorized accounts that posted aggressively in both of the networks as either conservative or liberal voters.

The others who uploaded messages less frequently were deemed nonpartisan and moderate.

The teams analysis showed that 23 percent of posts by the conservative userswere retweetedto the neutral group. The retweet ratio was as low as 6 percent for the liberal groups messages.

A closer examination of the posts found that the words anger, hatred and other emotional phrases appeared more frequently in the conservative comments than in the liberal remarks.

Emotional words are said to help information go viral.

In their comments about current affairs and other issues, the conservatives tended to use colloquial adjectives that resembled those of the moderate posters, the study found.

If a moderate user followed an account, conservatives followed back in 62 percent of the cases, compared with 51 percent for liberals, the study found.

Liberals looking to push forward their social movement with citizens should pay attention (to the study results) so that they can form connections with those who have different political opinions, said team member Mitsuo Yoshida, a former assistant professor at the Toyohashi University of Technology who is now an associate professor of computational social science at the University of Tsukuba.

But, at least in the social media study, such acts were detected more often among conservatives, he said.

The findings have been published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports at (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98349-2)

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Harvard University, one of the most prestigious Ivy League Schools and one of the most well known academic institutions in the world has offered a new scholarship entitled the Young Liberal Leaders scholarship which will offer up to $100,000 of tuition reimbursement to incoming freshman for having pro-Democrat views.

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While the scholarship has no specific guidelines it has several reference points that, if a student has enough experience in certain fields they can apply for the grant. The guidelines include:

These are just a few of the guidelines set. The scholarship is reported to be giving away upwards of $100,000,000 after a donation from George Soros to make it possible.

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Ms Giles-Gidney, Mr James and Ms Sloane addressed the Willoughby state electoral conference meeting on Thursday night, which is likely to be the final one attended by Ms Berejiklian while she is still the sitting member.

The former premier spoke at the meeting, held at the Armenian Cultural Centre, but did not endorse a candidate. She told party members that she trusted the people of the Willoughby conference to make their own decision about the best candidate.

Ms Berejiklian, who stood down as premier on October 1 when the Independent Commission Against Corruption announced its inquiry into her, has not yet resigned from NSW Parliament and a date has not been set for the Willoughby preselection.

Senior moderate Liberals say the party is keen to avoid a three-horse race and would prefer that Ms Giles-Gidney, the moderates preferred option, be the only candidate.

Ms Berejiklians desire to see Ms Giles-Gidney succeed her will boost the mayors chances because the former premier is still very popular in Willoughby, according to the Liberal sources.

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