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The Manning Centre put out a
fundraising call for election ad-
vertising and then passed that
money along to a series of third-
party political groups that have
been running attack ads against
the federal Liberals, the organiza-
tion said.
But the source of the Manning
Centre’s donations to those
groups, worth more than
$300,000, will remain hidden
from public view since the Cal-
gary-based conservative think
tank, which has not registered as
a third party with Elections Cana-
da, does not intend to disclose
them.
Elections Canada says there is
nothing in the law to prevent out-
side groups from raising money
and then passing those donations
along to third-party advertisers.
However, the group Democracy
Watch plans to file a complaint
with the federal elections com-
missioner in response to The
Globe and Mail’s reporting on the
Manning Centre donations.
The Manning Centre, which
was created by former Reform
Party leader Preston Manning,
who now sits on the board of di-
rectors, has so far donated a total
of $312,450 to five groups that are
affiliated with one another. The
largest donation, $240,500, went
to a group called Canada Strong
and Proud, and another $45,
to Québec Fier (French for Que-
bec Proud). The Manning Centre
also provided smaller donations
to NL Strong, NS Proud and
Proudly New Brunswick.
Mr. Manning said in an e-mail
that his centre’s election spend-
ing is merely intended to “bal-
ance the playing field” by coun-
tering well-funded anti-conserva-
tive groups. He said the centre has
not dictated how the third-party
groups spend the money or the
ads they create.
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-scooters don’t always get an easy

ride. Rolling into cities around the

world, the ride-share electric scoot-

ers have been damaged, defaced

and destroyed in a vast variety of ways, in-

cluding being knocked over like dominoes,

smashed, thrown down stairs and off

buildings, buried in sand, left dangling

from trees, stolen, disassembled and

tossed into lakes, oceans, rivers, swimming

pools and fountains.

They’ve been snapped in half in Balti-

more, hacked to play dirty messages in

Australia, doused in oil in Indianapolis,

defecated on in San Francisco.

And still, Edmonton managed to do

something different.

Edmonton police are currently investi-

gating “multiple mischief reports” around

a rash of scooter burnings that both the

city’s e-scooter companies, Bird and Lime,

say is exceptional – even if some level of

broader scooter destruction is not.

“In a lot of markets there’s mischief go-

ing on, so Edmonton’s not unique in that

respect. The difference is that it was pretty

acute in Edmonton,” said Bird Canada chief

executive officer Stewart Lyons. “In Cal-

gary, we had the odd troublemaker throw-

ing scooters into the river or whatever, and

in Montreal, we had the odd thing here and

there. But nothing to the level of Edmon-

ton.”

Lime spokesperson Alex Youn con-

firmed that his company’s scooters had

been targeted as well, and that police are in-

vestigating.

“Lime takes vandalism seriously and

will pursue appropriate legal action against

those that damage or vandalize our prop-

erty,” Mr. Youn said in a written statement.

E-scooters arrived in Edmonton in Au-

gust to curiosity and excitement and, as in

other markets, soon sparked debates about

safety, sidewalk usage, parking and, more

broadly, whether the scooters are #fun or

#annoying.

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Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh will

campaign in Quebec on Wednesday, right

after Andrew Scheer spent a full day in the

province, highlighting the importance

placed on swing voters in cities such as

Montreal, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City

in the final week before the election.

The leaders of the Liberal Party, the

NDP and the Conservative Party are not

only battling one another in Quebec. As

they embark on a last-minute pitch in the

province, they are also contending with

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François

Blanchet, who has focused his campaign

on voters in Quebec’s francophone-ma-

jority ridings.

On Tuesday, Mr. Blanchet accused the

previous Conservative government and

the Liberalgovernment of Mr. Trudeau of

having neglected the Davie shipyard for

years.

Speaking in front of the facility in Lévis,

he said Bloc MPs, wielding the balance of

power in a likely minoritygovernment,

“offer the best hopes for Davie’s ability to

obtain its fair share of [federal shipbuild-

ing] contracts.”

Campaigning in Quebec City, Trois-Ri-

vières and the Montreal area on Tuesday,

Mr. Scheer took a series of shots at Mr.

Blanchet and the Bloc, which is compet-

ing with the Conservatives for the votes of

Quebeckers disappointed by the Liberal

government.

“Voting for Bloc MPs is the best way to

allow Mr. Trudeau to stay on as Prime

Minister,” Mr. Scheer said.

Mr. Trudeau will be spending two days

in Quebec starting on Wednesday, with a

focus on Montreal, suburban ridings on

the South Shore and cities such as Trois-

Rivières and Sherbrooke. Mr. Singh will al-

so be in the Montreal area on Wednesday,

including a stop in Hudson, where former

NDP leader Jack Layton grew up.

At the start of the campaign, the Liber-

als and the Conservatives each hoped to

add to their respective tallies of 40 and 11

seats in Quebec, while the NDP wanted to

salvage its 14 ridings in the province.

The Bloc, however, is now confident it

can hold its 10 seats and steal from the

other major parties on Oct. 21. The Bloc

has endorsed all positions supported by

Quebec’s popular Premier, François Le-

gault, garnering positive media coverage

in Quebec during the campaign.

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ELECTION

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his is not what the end of Justin Tru-

deau’s first term was supposed to look

like.

When the Liberal Leader soared to

power four years ago, even his political rivals gen-

erally assumed that it was the start of a long and

comfortable reign; that a second mandate was all

but a foregone conclusion.

Mr. Trudeau and the people around him envi-

sioned something bigger and better than that. He

was ushering in a newly positive, anything-is-pos-

sible era in which collective purpose transcended

partisan division. He was going to strengthen this

country’s sense of self, serving as the youthful

and charismatic embodiment of its progressive

values. He was going to offer generational lead-

ership that put Canada at the forefront of tackling

the most confounding issues of our time, from

mounting economic inequality to the tensions

around mass migration to climate change.

Now, fighting for his political life, Mr. Trudeau

has mostly traded in his soaring rhetoric for a very

well-worn Liberal message, about the perils of re-

turning the Conservatives to power and the need

for voters to rally behind his party to stop them.

It’s a crashing to Earth that was well under way

before this strange fall election campaign; before

people who had admired Mr. Trudeau for his

modern sensitivities were forced to reckon with

images of him in blackface.

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