{"id":7753,"date":"2018-08-03T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2018-08-03T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T05:44:10","slug":"not-so-silent-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7753","title":{"rendered":"Not So Silent Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong>The self alleged inventor of the term <em>fake news<\/em> Donald J Trump has reportedly given Ontario minister Lisa MacLeod permission to use the term <em>fake news<\/em> in Question Period or whenever it may be useful on Ontario News Now.\r\n<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7756\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.54.40-PM-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.54.40-PM-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.54.40-PM.png 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 85vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7758 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/not-so-silent-partner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/not-so-silent-partner.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/not-so-silent-partner-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/not-so-silent-partner-768x445.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ontario minister Lisa MacLeod recently called reports that she admitted to breaking a campaign promise &#8220;<strong>fake news<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>MacLeod said the decision to continue Ontario&#8217;s basic income pilot project changed after the election because of the &#8220;realities of when you&#8217;re in government.&#8221; That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2018\/08\/02\/lisa-macleod-ontario-basic-income_a_23494621\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rapid-elm=\"context_link\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link\" data-rapid-sec=\"{&quot;entry-text&quot;:&quot;entry-text&quot;}\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">was reported as an admission<\/a> of breaking the PC&#8217;s campaign promise not to cancel the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not break a promise. That <strong>fake news<\/strong> that was in the news today totally mischaracterizes what we are doing,&#8221; the minister for children, community and social services said during question period at Queen&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MacLeod-Ford-with-Trump-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MacLeod-Ford-with-Trump-portrait.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MacLeod-Ford-with-Trump-portrait-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MacLeod-Ford-with-Trump-portrait-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>Minister Lisa MacLeod and Premier Doug Ford gush over the portrait of self alleged inventor of the term fake news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7759 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-not-so-silent-partner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-not-so-silent-partner.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-not-so-silent-partner-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-not-so-silent-partner-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>Court Painter after another busy day in the studio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self alleged inventor of the term fake news Donald J Trump has reportedly given Ontario minister Lisa MacLeod permission to use the term fake news in Question Period or whenever it may be useful on Ontario News Now. Ontario minister Lisa MacLeod recently called reports that she admitted to breaking a campaign promise &#8220;fake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not So Silent Partner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}