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Vol 19 - Issue 9
Saturday, March 30, 2019
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PM Trudeau now has lower approval rating than Trump, with Tories way ahead: Ipsos poll
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M Trudeau appears to have suffered more damage from the SNC-Lavalin scandal than U.S. President Donald Trump has from the Russia investigation, hush money payments to a porn star, alleged campaign finance violations, threats of impeachment proceedings and the litany of new investigations launched by Democrats. That’s according to a new Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News,
which found that Trudeau’s approval rating (40 per cent) has now slipped below Trump’s (43 per cent), even as the Conservative Party established a double-digit lead over the Liberals. The Liberal government’s federal budget did little to quell the damage, the poll found, with most Canadians indifferent about it and only a small minority impressed by Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s offerings. The Conservatives are now sitting pretty in crucial provinces Ontario and British
Columbia, with Trudeau managing to fall behind among two of the key demographics that swept him to victory in 2015, women and young people. If an election were held tomorrow, the Conservatives would receive 40 per cent of the vote among decided voters, according to the poll of 1,002 Canadians conducted between March 25 and 27. That’s unchanged since Ipsos’ last poll on March 4. Continued on page 6
CRA executes search warrants on Vancouver properties in Panama papers case The Canada Revenue Agency says its investigators executed search warrants on two properties in Vancouver today — part of an effort to find further evidence in a $77 million tax evasion case related to the Panama Papers. The CRA says 40 criminal investigators took part in the operation. The agency says investigators uncovered a series of transactions involving offshore tax havens linked to an alleged attempt by a non-resident to avoid paying tax he was Continued on page 2
Owner of trucking company involved in Humboldt Broncos bus crash fined $5000 only The owner of the transport truck involved in the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has admitted he did not follow provincial and federal safety rules in
the months leading up to the collision. Sukhmander Singh of Adesh Deol Trucking was not in court Wednesday when his lawyer Continued on page 7
South Asian Calgary political insider alleges voter fraud in UCP leadership campaign Alberta’s election commissioner has ruled that Hardyal Mann made irregular political contributions, and the Calgary political operative alleges the existence of a plan to commit voter fraud in order
to secure the election of Jason Kenney as United Conservative Party leader — a controversy that’s erupting in the midst of a provincial election. Hardyal (Happy) Mann does not Continued on page 3
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