Trudeau’s senior adviser is in weed-growing business

In a story about how the Conservative government is going to revamp the corrupted medicinal marijuana grow-op industry, comes this nugget:

Chuck Rifici of Tweed Inc. has applied for a licence to produce medical weed in an abandoned Hershey chocolate factory in hard-scrabble Smiths Falls, Ont.

Rifici, who is also a senior adviser to Trudeau, was cited in a Conservative cabinet minister’s news release Friday that said the Liberals plan to “push pot,” with no reference to Health Canada’s own encouragement of marijuana entrepreneurs.

Rifici says he’s trying to help a struggling community by providing jobs while giving suffering patients a quality product.

“There’s a real need,” he said in an interview. “You see what this medicine does to them.”

Tweed Inc. proposes to produce at least 20 strains to start, and will reserve 10 per cent of production for compassionate, low-cost prescriptions for impoverished patients, he says. (see here)

This doesn’t put both Trudeau and Rifici in a massive conflict of interest and do we now know where Trudeau gets his weed from?

Update: How deep are the ties Rifici has with the Liberals?

Most controversial, however, is president and CEO Chuck Rifici, who has a lengthy financial and entrepreneurial ties but is closely linked to the Liberal Party of Canada – serving as CFO to its national board of directors (see here)

Update: Sun’s Ezra Levant shows that this company has 3 top Liberal insiders running it (see here)

Trudeau was told about his economic star running Reuters website into the ground

I ran across this very interesting tweet from Ray Heard that states an aide to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told him Trudeau was fully aware that his Toronto Centre candidate Chrystia Freeland was a flop at Reuters:

Looks like Trudeau’s inner circle isn’t interested in taking blame for their boss’ lack of judgment.

Also: See earlier post on Freeland’s staff at Reuters outing her here

Video: Global reporter breaks law? Enters and refuses to leave MP’s property

What does this Global News reporter thinks she is doing going on to MP Dean Del Mastro’s property and then when asked to leave, won’t? (watch here)

Are there not laws in Canada to protect one’s right to private property or are the media above it?

Update: I’ve been told that the reporter is Christina Stevens

Citizen’s McGregor calls most Blogging Tories “Fringe cranks”

The Media Party certainly didn’t like it when I posted about Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s questionable participation in the Ottawa Army Run.

First it was Postmedia’s Ismael N. Daro calling me a conspiracy theorist (see here) for daring to ask if Trudeau had properly registered even though Daro confirmed that the race’s database has no record of Trudeau.

Then the Ottawa Citizen’s Glen McGregor went full-smear to protect Trudeau and justify why no real reporter like himself would write such nutty things:

Keep in mind that McGregor is part of the Ottawa Press Gallery that has allowed the lunatic Lefty blog site rabble.ca in as a credentialed member (see here) and which is run by NDP MP Libby Davies’ wife Kim Elliott (see here).

Also, check out this tweet from McGregor in which he states Trudeau’s race finishing time was 43:44:

Just by looking at McGregor’s physical attributes, it’s a pretty safe guess he doesn’t jog himself so that’s probably why he didn’t clue-in how bad that time would be for an in-shape 41 year old male. The time McGregor quoted is closer to an average runner doing 10km.  A 40 min 5km runner would finish close to last (see here) and the Liberals have said Trudeau finished the race in 28 minutes.

Missing that glaring detail puts McGregor in with us fringe bloggers or does he belong in a category all his own?

But hey, at least no one at the Citizen blogged about Harper’s Wafergate right?

Trudeau’s economic ‘expert’ and Media Party super-star accused of driving Reuters website into the ground

Now that Chrystia Freeland has left Reuters as the Managing Director and Editor, Consumer News, there are apparently a few employees who are talking about what a disaster she was as their boss:

“The project came about through sheer force of will, without Chrystia’s championing, it never would have happened,” says one Reuters employee. “Monetization was not the priority, the priority was building something for the brand.”

But any effort to build a consumer-facing product that would serve up Reuters content yet not be an obvious revenue center was bound to run into some resistance from the existing organization, which includes over 2,000 journalists and derives significant revenues from sales of terminals like Bloomberg’s to business and newsroom clients.

“[Freeland] basically tried to build this thing outside of the entire operation,” says a former Reuters employee. “She had very little contact with the newsroom itself.”

As a result, sources on Reuters’ digital side said there was flat opposition to making the consumer-facing product as good or better than Reuters’ terminal and subscription products. Of the decision to kill Reuters Next, a different former employee said that “the direction the company now wants to go in is about giving power back to the profit centers and abandoning any innovation on the consumer side.” (see here)

So, did Freeland really come back to Canada because she was about to be fired from Reuters and needed a cushy new job as a Liberal MP?

Also: See earlier post where I linked Sun’s Ezra Levant exposing Freeland as an economic fraud here