Christy Somos
Writer at SBS
| Personal acct | Journalist+AP | Views are mine, not my employers | Likes & RTs are news I’m following ≠ endorsements | She/her 🏳️🌈
Articles
-
1 week ago |
christysomos.com | Christy Somos
Which brings us to point three: creating a Senior Transaction Shielding Protocol (STSP). Everyone loves a good acronym, and STSP delivers - requiring a 24-hour delay for “high-risk transactions” on seniors’ accounts - or on anyone else who requests to be under STSP - during which time a verification call and fraud check must occur. Sounds like common sense, right?
-
2 months ago |
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh |Emma Paling |Peter McFarlane |Christy Somos
For the first time in over a year, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s lead in the polls is tightening substantially. His biggest challenge? Responding to United States President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada. Since Trump’s inauguration in January, polls have shown an uptick in support for the Liberals — particularly in a scenario where leadership candidate Mark Carney takes the helm, but also even with Justin Trudeau still in charge.
-
2 months ago |
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Peter McFarlane |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is signalling what Canadians can expect if his party forms government later this year. “We need a massive patriotic tax cut,” he said last month. “We […] need fewer bureaucrats,” he said a few days before. "We’re going to cut bureaucracy, cut the consultants, cut foreign aid, cut back on corporate welfare to large corporations,” he told Jordan Peterson before that. While those comments were short on specifics, the top-line agenda is clear: cut, cut, cut.
-
Jan 23, 2025 |
readthemaple.com | Peter McFarlane |Emma Paling |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel
Few wars have been more often and more accurately predicted than the current Russia-Ukraine war. From the 1990s on, American and European diplomats and scholars warned that expanding NATO into Ukraine was the “brightest of all red lines” for Moscow — under any Russian leader.
-
Jan 21, 2025 |
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel |Alex Cosh
Canadians have been clear: they don’t want their country to be absorbed by the United States. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CNN last week, one of the main things Canadians are proud of is not being American. Other points of pride — and difference — include our public programs, specifically universal health care, which Canadians consistently tell pollsters they feel pride in.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 2K
- Tweets
- 22K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @NatashaBertrand: Fort Bliss has been chosen as a site to detain and house migrants, and contracts have been signed to start the constru…
RT @CTVNews: Petition to remove controversial Conservative candidate reaches 15K signatures https://t.co/f9fmcP0p8J
RT @David_Moscrop: He’s not wrong. The NDP in parliament is good for Canada. But a lot of questions to ask of senior party folks about how…
