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October 21, 2025

Auditor General Karen Hogan delivered a scathing assessment of Canada Revenue Agency call centres Tuesday, revealing that agents provided inaccurate information 87 percent of the time for general tax inquiries despite hundreds of millions in government investments since a devastating 2017 audit.���The report found that Canadians waited an average of 31 minutes to reach a CRA representative by phone, more than double the agency's service standard, with only 18 percent of calls answered within the promised 15-minute window during 2024-25. The situation deteriorated further by June, when just five percent of calls met the agency's service standard.���
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CTV Catches Carney LYING!—Poilievre Drops a NUCLEAR Fact-Check

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Researched and Shared:
Pierre Poilievre's Early Life and Biggest Hits as MP

Pierre Poilievre was born on June 3, 1979, in Calgary, Alberta, to a 16-year-old high school student mother who placed him for adoption shortly after his birth; he was raised by his adoptive parents, Marlene and Donald Poilievre, both schoolteachers from Saskatchewan who had recently relocated to Calgary, alongside his younger brother Patrick in a middle-class Roman Catholic household that emphasized education and public service. His biological parents later divorced when he was around 12, and in his early twenties, he connected with his biological mother, a nurse in North Carolina, and his maternal grandfather for the first time.
Growing up in suburban Calgary, Poilievre enjoyed competitive sports like hockey, football, and wrestling—though a shoulder tendinitis injury at age 14 sidelined him from the latter, prompting him to accompany his mother to a Progressive Conservative meeting that sparked his lifelong interest in politics!

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