Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian technology is mind-boggling, and is designed to build the People’s Liberation Army as a formidable force against Western interests.
David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told MPs on the Canada-China committee Monday that Chinese hacking and other espionage activities have become a serious threat since Xi Jinping became president in 2012.
Here’s the Worst Moments From Drew Barrymore’s Kamala Chat
Vice President Kamala Harris’s taped interview with actress-turned-daytime-talk-show host Drew Barrymore aired Monday and while it was a brisk watch, it nonetheless remained a gag-tastic abomination as Barrymore sat Indian-style on her curvy couch and held hands with Harris as she gushed over the awkward far-left politician as America’s “Mamala” and someone the country “respects so much” who can be “a great protector”.
The federal government will expect public servants back in the office three days a week beginning later this year.
A federal government source who is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter confirmed to Radio-Canada what the French-language newspaper Le Droit first reported Monday.
The source said the policy shift is due to come into effect in September, but added that could change.
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing.
All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war.
Israel took corrective action in four units, giving “additional information” on the fifth, the department says.
This means all the units remain eligible for US military assistance.
Speaker Greg Fergus kicked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of the House of Commons during question period today.
All Conservative MPs have left the chamber in protest after Fergus gave Poilievre multiple chances to withdraw comments calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “wacko.”
Poilievre said he would replace the word with “radical,” then that he would “simply withdraw and replace” the language with the term “extremist.”
It sounds like an organization from a James Bond film, like SPECTRE or SMERSH. Unlike Ian Fleming’s creations, Arabella Advisors actually exists, and it also seeks to remake America in a Marxist image, according to a new book by Scott Walter. “ARABELLA: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” reveals how America’s wealthiest progressives use dark-money networking to fundamentally transform American politics.
It’s tax time, which is always depressing in Canada thanks to the country’s spendthrift federal government.
The Trudeau Liberals have overspent and overtaxed for years, creating an uncompetitive business environment that drives out jobs. Then, to make matters worse, the government “bribes” companies with subsidies and grants to create jobs. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: subsidies are paid out of high taxes, which in turn increase taxes, necessitating more subsidies in order to maintain levels of employment.
BREAKING.🚨
All charges have been *DROPPED* against Pro-Hamas rioters who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Monday night.
Columbia U. refused to let NYPD in despite protesters allegedly committing unlawful detention, vandalism & assault.pic.twitter.com/kwgFxWtmv6
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 30, 2024
h/t Mauser
There’s nothing like a little blue-on-blue action to really get pulses pounding, and do I ever have some of that for you today.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is now justifying tax increases by quoting from a U.S. Supreme Court decision almost a hundred years ago.
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in a 1927 decision.
Federal U.S. tax in 1927 was in the low single digits, according to the Tax Foundation, an American organization that focuses on tax policy, as opposed to Canada today where the rate is anywhere from 15-33 per cent.
Hunter Biden is threatening to sue Fox News for “revenge porn” and is demanding that the news network retract all stories containing obscene photographs or references to photographs that were “stolen” from his infamous laptop.
The laptop was abandoned at a repair store in April 2019. After 90 days, it and its contents became the property of the shop’s proprietor, John Paul Mac Isaac, according to Mr. Mac Isaac’s attorney.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – The commander of the Canadian Armed Forces Space Division says gaining awareness of what’s going on outside our planet is one of his top priorities.
Brig.-Gen. Michael Adamson made the comments in front of the House of Commons national defence committee, which is studying the military’s role in defending space for the first time.
The Israel Defense Forces will enter the Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza irrespective of the outcome of hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
“The notion that we will stop the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” said the premier during a meeting at his office in Jerusalem with the Heroism Forum, which represents bereaved IDF families, and the Tikva Forum for Families of Hostages.
In his classic A Short History of the World, H.G. Wells asked why the Roman Empire grew, and why it so completely decayed.
He concluded that it grew because the idea of citizenship held it together, creating a sense of privilege and obligation and a willingness to make sacrifices in the name of Rome.
However, the failure to explain itself to its increasing multitude of citizens, or invite their co-operation, led to the demise of its collective mission.
A huge mob of masked pro-terror rioters violently broke into an academic building at Columbia University and seized it early Tuesday – rebranding the iconic hall named after founding father Alexander Hamilton and draping it with a Palestinian flag.
Dozens stormed into Hamilton Hall and sealed themselves in shortly before 1 a.m. – with some using metal barricades, chairs and tables to block others from getting inside, footage posted on social media shows.
Holy…. pic.twitter.com/42Lw4kaRHY
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
McGill requests ‘police assistance’ over pro-Palestinian encampment
McGill University says it has “requested police assistance” about the pro-Palestinian encampment on its lower field.
“We informed participants that this encampment was not authorized and gave them time to gather their belongings and leave the premises,” McGill said Tuesday. “However, most have chosen to remain. As we worked through the steps, we also engaged in dialogue with representatives of McGill students.”
The university says it failed to reach a resolution with the student demonstrators and “decided to take the final step in our protocol.”
