Alex Boutilier @alexboutilier
Senior National Politics Reporter @GlobalNews | @alexboutilier.bsky.social | [email protected]/[email protected] Ottawa Joined March 2009-
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*major* crimes is investigating?
*major* crimes is investigating?
I paused activity on Twitter before it was cool.
While the overall integrity of the 2019 vote apparently wasn’t compromised, foreign interference remains a serious problem for intelligence and law enforcement agencies. trib.al/ZIsesd3
Yes, after the last 14 hours let's decide it was the journalists who behaved inappropriately.
Yes, after the last 14 hours let's decide it was the journalists who behaved inappropriately.
"I do Not have any opinions about any one, no matter how they choose to cope with Failure and Divorce" - The @ DRIL Social Media Crew
Is this what it feels like the second before your Tesla explodes
Any reporters from the new “FREE PRESS” gonna cover Elon’s unilateral decision to ban these journalists or nah? @bariweiss @NellieBowles @walterkirn @rupasubramanya @KTmBoyle One week in and you’re already failing your own litmus test for “honest, fearless, independent.”
The NYTimes' @RMac18 has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat.
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
This story is wild. theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
Foreign interference has put the government in an awkward position: It has to warn Canadians that China is actively meddling in the democratic process, but it also doesn't want to undermine the legitimacy of the election results that have kept it in power. theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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Michel Foucault’s first pride parade was in the company of Olivia Chow and Jack Layton. It’s a fact that will mean nothing to most of you but some of you will LOVE it 🌈🤓
A Quebec teacher tried to adapt Grade 2 Mother’s Day craft sessions for some motherless kids and the federal leader of the opposition has decided to get involved.
The woke wants to delete Mother’s Day. This ugly and weird ideology—which Trudeau endorsed at his party convention—wants to delete everything except the state which would control everything and everyone. nationalpost.com/news/canada/co…
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As politicians do what they do, a reminder, via a Canadian government report, about who are the primary victims of Beijing's foreign interference activities in Canada.
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@alexboutilier I'm thankful to have experienced The Darkness with you at the peak of their powers.
@alexboutilier I was going to say ‘sad to see you go’; but anyways…
If you only read one Twitter thread today, make it this one.
I've decided to actually bail on Twitter, but before I go I wanted to say something important. I know it might lose me some friends. I'm at peace with this. (1/n)
@alexboutilier Bon voyage, Monsieur Bootillyay.
@atRachelGilmore @alexboutilier That's ridiculous. A caesar would go better with the baconator.
@alexboutilier This feels worryingly believable.
If and when this platform ceases to exist or be functional I think I’m gonna just try to get my pre-social media brain back, tbh
Today is the tenth anniversary of the time I got bumped from talking about the cultural infeasibility of a "Maritime Union" on a national TV network to make room for coverage of the Ikea Monkey
Today is the ninth anniversary of the time I got bumped from talking about the cultural infeasibility of a "Maritime Union" on a national TV network to make room for coverage of the Ikea Monkey
"[E]mails at Global Affairs Canada, obtained by Global News under access to information law, state that officials were aware that some types of foreign influence in Canadian politics slipped through the cracks of existing laws." By @alexboutilier globalnews.ca/news/9321299/c… #cdnfoi