Trudeau’s government has a remarkably poor record managing the digital world.
America is running out of patience with Canada.
This time, the issue is not the northern neighbor’s refusal to meet defense-spending commitments. Nor is it a revival of the softwood-lumber problem, now entering its fifth decade. This time, it is Canada’s break from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) efforts to determine an international agreement on how to tax global tech giants.
It must be disheartening to be David Eby and the B.C. NDP these days. Justin Trudeau is sending 22,000 asylum seekers to B.C. in the midst of a housing crisis and Jagmeet Singh has just announced he (probably) wants to axe the carbon tax. How B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad managed to get Trudeau and Singh to campaign for him is a mystery that may never be solved, but we should tip our hat to Rustad’s political deftness.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the NDP and its leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday, saying that while they may care about the environment, they have “no idea what to do in the fight against climate change.”
At a news conference in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., Trudeau accused the NDP of “playing simple politics” and “walking away from progressive values” after it ended its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals last week.
Going into Target and stealing is not a crime, it’s called being resourceful.
Don’t believe me? Educate yourself.
TylerOliveira pic.twitter.com/3pBKsIx96e
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 13, 2024
The Legault government is calling for the removal of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia.
The call for Elghawaby to resign was made on Friday by provincial Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry after it was learned Elghawaby had written to Canadian colleges and universities urging them to hire more Muslim, Arab and Palestinian teachers.
Nothing makes a bigger, bolder statement than concreting oneself to the back of a hatchback.
Why hasn’t climate and political warrior Greta Thunberg done the same? pic.twitter.com/Hh2IXcP1mH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 13, 2024
After an attempted gang murder in the French city of Marseille last year, the police found what appeared to be a toy assault rifle, seemingly crafted from plastic and Lego parts.
“But the weapon was lethal,” Col. Hervé Pétry of the national gendarmerie recalled.
In the past three years, this model of homemade semiautomatic firearm, known as an FGC-9, has appeared in the hands of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, rebels in Myanmar and neo-Nazis in Spain. In October, a British teenager will be sentenced for building an FGC-9 in one of the latest terrorism cases to involve the weapon.
He is a devotee of Karl Marx.
Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump’s father of creating through private enterprise enormous wealth that he turned over to his son. Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris’ father of advocating the taking of enormous wealth through state confiscation.
One learns about the competing philosophies governing both parties by what they regard as the sins of the father.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle.
One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets) are pushing Canada’s response to the ongoing violence in Gaza as a ballot question, Joly proactively used her scrum at the governing caucus’s retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. to rebut claims the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough.
A deliberate incoherence.
Since the results were announced of France’s July 2024 legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron has been unable to build a majority in the National Assembly, which appears more divided than at any time in the history of what the French call “the Fifth Republic”.
The elections produced three blocs, all of which appear to hate each other: the left, coalescing around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”), Macron’s centrist Renaissance party, and Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally).
Three factors seem to favor France’s slide towards an open or latent form of even greater internal conflict.
Canada’s auditor general is considering a probe into a multi-billion program meant to boost Indigenous business that has been open to abuse for decades.
Following complaints from Indigenous communities and a recent Global News investigation with First Nations University of Canada researchers, Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office confirmed that it is reviewing a request to investigate the Indigenous Business Directory (IBD)
How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in Colorado’s suburbs?
The troubling conclusion: The Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs.
And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
Citing security concerns, organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have paused the upcoming North American premiere of the new documentary Russians at War, which has been heavily criticized by members of the Ukrainian community.
The decision, which affects the three public screenings of the film set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, arrives one day after TIFF issued a statement standing firm on its decision to screen the film following a storm of controversy over the production, including the decision by Ontario’s public broadcaster TVO, which helped fund the documentary, to pull its support.
Which Canadian-born CNN regular is more annoying: David Frum or Daniel Dale?
Frum did stop short of banging his fists or stamping his feet. But on today’s CNN This Morning, the Trump-detesting pundit was more taciturn. He said thanks to the “probably stupid” rules of the Constitution, Trump could win the election with an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote count.
NOW – Canada's Trudeau "fully supports" Ukraine using long-range weaponry against Russia.pic.twitter.com/mnaVPzdzs6
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 13, 2024
h/t XC
