OTTAWA – An internal RCMP review of the force’s response to “Freedom Convoy” protests found that some officers at the scene of an Alberta blockade were unaware of threats to harm police until after the episode ended.
The review report also describes “chaotic” efforts in early 2022 to mobilize officers in Ottawa, a lack of proper equipment, inadequate training, poor intelligence co-ordination and exceptionally long days that prompted some Mounties to sleep in their offices.
Apple spent $700 million to produce and market three movies that grossed $466 million worldwide, and now claims those movies are profitable.
The three films, with their individual worldwide grosses, are Ridley Scott’s Napoleon ($221 million), Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ($157 million), and Argylle ($88 million).
The NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh describes it as “historic.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about “moving forward with national, single-payer pharmacare.”
But for those who view the Liberals’ new legislation as the baby steps toward a plan that covers all — regardless of income or status — with life-saving medicines, the bill should come with a warning label: “Don’t get your hopes up.”
Topped with razor wire that glints menacingly in the desert sun, a 30ft steel fence runs along part of the vast U.S.-Mexican border, providing an imposing bulwark in America’s war against illegal immigration.
But at a certain point, where the fence runs up against a rocky outcrop, there is a 4ft gap, loosely blocked with more razor wire.
Predictably, it fails to discourage a steady stream of migrants, who simply step around the wire and enter the promised land.
The former national director of the federal NDP says Jews are no longer feeling completely comfortable in the party, warning that this is a national problem for the New Democrats.
Nathan Rotman, who was also chief of staff to former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, made his remarks after former B.C. minister of postsecondary education Selina Robinson resigned from the province’s NDP caucus, citing antisemitism by some of her colleagues.
The three men accused in the suspected murder-for-hire killings of a Bowmanville couple possess blood-stained criminal CVs, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Members of the Jewish community expressed their growing anxiety after anti-Israel protesters picketed a Toronto-area synagogue with chants of “Go back to Europe” and burned an Israeli flag.
Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, the leader of the institution in Thornhill, said religious sites should be exempt from such demonstrations.
Meanwhile in Montreal …
How low can they go? Just watch the latest disgusting display from the anti-Israel mob in front of a synagogue in #Montreal as they threaten Jews by yelling "Am Yisrael chai [the people of Israel live] but not for that long motherf***er" and boasting that the hostages being held… pic.twitter.com/W6si48E0u6
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) March 7, 2024
Joe Biden’s fiery but mostly peaceful State of the Union address prompted many to suggest that he had been drugged before the speech to ensure an energetic performance.
There’s a school of thought that suggests it’s never a good idea to disagree with your boss, at least in public.
Behind closed doors? Maybe.
But in front of an audience of hundreds of people, many of them with strong political views? Maybe not.
Defence Minister Bill Blair still went there Thursday in his keynote speech at the annual Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI) when he chose to address growing unease about Canada’s place in the world — and the military’s waning capacity to be there in a meaningful way when the call comes from the federal government and allies.
There is a different look to spring break in Miami Beach this year, as hordes of students descend from around the country for the annual ritual of sunshine and youthful hedonism.
The palm trees, soft sands and cool blue Atlantic waters that draw tens of thousands to the month-long party are still there. Except now they’re obscured by scores of armed law enforcement officers, many sent at the behest of Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.
Unprecedented images of South Beach almost as a military zone, combined with $100 car parking, alcohol bans, bar and beach closures and curfews, are hardly the impression that the usually tourism-friendly Miami Beach would wish to project.
Great news this morning: thanks to the hard work of Canadians, 41,000 new jobs were created last month! Double the market expectations.
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) March 8, 2024
Public sector hiring is driving the labour market in Canada
Employment gains in the public sector more than offset losses among Canadian businesses last month, highlighting a labour market that has been propped up by government hiring.
In February, public-sector roles rose by 18,800 positions, while the private sector lost 16,400 jobs, Statistics Canada data showed. Over the past year, employment in the public sector has grown 4.7 per cent, versus 1.2 per cent in private industry.
“If you look at how the private sector’s trending, it’s sharply decelerating,” Beata Caranci, chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, said in a phone interview. “That’s tied to the interest rate cycle, not the government hiring that’s tied to specific funds and social policy.”
A self-proclaimed mystic who told hundreds of devotees in Italy that her statue of the Virgin Mary shed tears of blood and could miraculously multiply plates of pizza has been declared a fraud by the Catholic Church.
A commission of Church-appointed experts told Gisella Cardia, 54, to stop gathering her followers every month in Trevignano, in central Italy, where she would go into a trance and write down messages the statue passed on to her.
Surreal to witness. The war is not just happening in Gaza but here in the GTA – all happening in a usually quiet and lawful Vaughan neighbourhood Thursday.
It was mayhem there and a glimpse into what anarchy across the country would look like. This was a powderkeg waiting to blow. While there were a few flare-ups, police managed to keep it from becoming a full explosion. But man, this was close.
What’s most striking when first meeting Philippe Lazzarini is that he is completely alone.
Sat in the dated lobby of Hotel Cornavin, a stone’s throw from Geneva’s central train station, the 60-year-old is fiddling on his phone, head down, glasses on, anonymous.
I look around for a press officer, the scourge of any good interview, but there seems to be none. His staff, Lazzarini soon says, are thousands of miles away – in Jordan, Gaza, and Madrid, his next destination after a whistle-stop trip to southern Switzerland.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing corporate Canada — including natural resources companies and housing developers — of “sucking up” to the Liberals and is urging them to actively campaign against the government.
The audience for his latest salvo at the corporate sector was the sector itself, a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade breakfast, which Poilievre acknowledged isn’t the kind of crowd he talks to that often.
He told a room of business leaders and numerous Conservatives that his affection for the business world lies with the entrepreneurs who risk it all to make a living — not the lobbyists or CEOs who only focus on what’s best for themselves.
