OTTAWA – Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
Guilbeault is taking the stand after Tuesday’s federal budget promised to amend the Financial Administration Act so government payments accepted for deposit at Canadian banks will carry whatever title the government wants.
"My name is Mohammed, slave of Allah. Are you a slave of Allah?" The plane that left Sydney and headed for Kuala Lumpur was forced to return to Australia after threats from a Muslim man, who was later arrested, to passengers and crew members. pic.twitter.com/oKROj8AkdJ
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 19, 2024
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party.
Peter Murrell, the party’s former chief executive, was taken into custody at 9.13am on Thursday morning by detectives investigating the funding and finances of the party.
Police Scotland said he was charged more than nine hours later, at 6.35pm, after further questioning. He was released from police custody, and a report will be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in due course.
Proper socialists.
“99.87 per cent of Canadians will not pay a cent more,” the prime minister said this week, in reference to the budget announcement that his government will raise the inclusion rate on capital gains tax in June.
The move will be limited to 40,000 wealthy taxpayers. “We’re going to make them pay a little bit more,” Justin Trudeau said.
But it’s hard to see how that number can be true when the budget document also says 307,000 corporations will also be caught in the dragnet that raises the inclusion rate on capital gains to 66 per cent from 50 per cent.
h/t DS
… Omar argued that campus demonstrations were merely “pro-war” or “anti-war,” but House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., further pressed Shafik on whether she considered anti-Israel agitators’ chants of “F– the Jews” and “Death to the Jews” in fact anti-Jewish. Shafik conceded that those slogans heard on campus were “completely anti-Jewish,” amending her earlier testimony.
#NOW Pro-palestine protesters light up flares outside of Columbia University in NYC. Cops lined up in helmets all along the road.
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— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 18, 2024
The recruiting hole in which the Canadian military finds itself is deeper and potentially more serious than it might appear at first glance — in part because of all the new equipment the federal government has ordered, or plans to order in the near future.
Just recently, Defence Minister Bill Blair estimated the military is short up to 16,500 members and said the Armed Forces’ failure to boost recruitment is leading it into a “death spiral.”
But the country’s top military commander, Gen. Wayne Eyre, told CBC News in a recent interview that the problem is actually bigger than the numbers cited by the minister suggest.
Russian national Oleg Ponomaryov’s asylum application was turned down by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) at the end of February. BAMF said he was at no risk in Russia and should leave Germany within 30 days. If not, he could expect to be deported.
Ponomaryov’s despair is palpable. He fears he will be arrested as soon as he arrives in Russia and be sent to fight against Ukraine.
“The situation in Russia is getting worse and worse, a total mobilization is on the cards and my fitness level and driving license allow me to drive military vehicles,” says Ponomaryov, who came to Germany in September 2022 after Russia announced a partial mobilization.
After learning that samples of deadly Ebola and Nipah viruses had been sent from Canada’s top-security lab in Winnipeg to China, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said his reaction was similar to that of an MP who expressed incredulity upon learning of the move.
“I’m really concerned about the March 2019 incident where [Winnipeg lab scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng] were implicated in a shipment of live Ebola in Hanipah [Nipah] viruses on a commercial Air Canada flight. How the hell did that happen?” NDP MP Charlie Angus asked during a House of Commons Canada-China committee meeting on April 15.
San Francisco residents are balking at the sky-high cost of the city’s new homeless cabins.
A complex of 60 ‘tiny homes’ for unhoused Californians each cost taxpayers an eye-popping $113,000.
That’s several times higher than the price of similar cabins in nearby Oakland and San Jose.
I give you, the world’s most insane people.
My work here is done. pic.twitter.com/bch5Y2ewet
— Binky (@TheOnlyGuru) April 18, 2024
The journalist was perplexed.
Why, he wanted to know, were the guys accused of pulling off the brazen $20 million gold heist at Pearson International Airport out on bail?
They were released because they failed to meet diversity goals.
The rest of Europe, Remainers like to tell us, is forging ahead into a glorious green future while Brexit Britain is stalling, the government backsliding one by one on its net zero commitments.
It is hard to square that narrative with what’s really going on across the channel. In March, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, registrations of new electric vehicles plummeted by 11.3 per cent. In Germany – the grown up country that’s supposed to show childish Britain how it’s done – the drop was even more precipitous at 28.9 per cent.
Not All Heroes Wear Capes But Some Drive Audi’s… pic.twitter.com/8ey0n5Cr2T
— (@Emilio2763) April 18, 2024
Among people who immigrated to Canada in the last decade, more think Canada’s latest immigration targets will bring in too many people, a newly released Leger poll suggests, while fewer recent newcomers think the plan will bring in the right amount of people or not enough.
The German parliament has passed the so-called “self-identification law,” which allows people confused about their sex, including minors, to change their legal gender once per year.
A vote in the Bundestag (German federal parliament) on April 12 saw the law passed as 374 MPs voted in favor, 251 voted against, and eleven MPs abstained.
