An Alberta front-line RCMP officer has been arrested and charged in what the police force calls a national security investigation involving allegations of aiding a foreign actor.
In a statement Tuesday, the force alleged the individual “accessed non-Top Secret RCMP records systems in order to assist a foreign actor.”
Canada’s electric vehicle manufacturing subsidies are not “investment” – they are economic illusions. There has been over $40-billion worth of Canadian federal and provincial handout announcements, including up to $15-billion for Stellantis and LG, up to $16.3-billion for Volkswagen, $7.3-billion for Northvolt, and a continuing race to give billions to Honda and others. As Dutch, South Korean, German, Swedish, and Japanese companies build their value chains using Canadian taxpayers’ dollars, what’s in it for Canada?
The head of Belgium’s central bank urged EU lawmakers to tell the truth about the real costs of “greening” the economy and the loss of wealth that will follow ― because they will face public anger if they don’t.
“This transition is not going to make us collectively richer,” Pierre Wunsch told the European Parliament in Brussels. “We should be more candid … don’t lure people into thinking that greening carries positive opportunities that could augment GDP and create millions of well-paid jobs.”
There Are Only Two Things That Can Stop the Re-election of Donald Trump
The Biden news cycle is disastrous—and unending: a perfect storm of his failures abroad, disaster at the border, and reasons why sky-high prices nullify the Bidenomics hype.
The bad news is interspersed…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
Tent encampments prove ‘exactly how broken’ Canada’s system is, federal housing advocate says
A new report on tent encampments across Canada calls for urgent action from all levels of government to end what the federal housing advocate describes as a “life and death crisis.”
Marie-Josée Houle said her report released Tuesday is the first of its kind in Canada. The report — titled Upholding dignity and human rights — outlines six calls to action to address ongoing homeless encampments across Canada.
“It is a physical manifestation of exactly how broken our housing and homelessness system is from coast to coast to coast in Canada. It needs urgent measures,” Houle told CBC News.
National conservative parties continue to make sizable gains across Europe, with the French populist Right especially looking to break all previous records during June’s EU elections, according to claims by a fresh poll.
The “nationally and politically representative” survey, conducted by Portland Communications of over a thousand voters across five countries each (France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands) says that populists are looking at major breakthroughs nearly everywhere.
The following was written in response to “Canada’s temporary residence program for Palestinians from Gaza has serious flaws,” published Jan. 29:
In his opinion article, Matthew Behrens criticized federal government restrictions imposed on Gazan refugees who want to come to Canada under a temporary new immigration policy.
Behrens took issue with statements made by Immigration Minister Marc Miller, who, in a recent interview, used the words “terrorism” and “security” 11 times when talking about the program. Behrens wrote that, in doing so, the federal government has been “repeatedly painting Palestinians with the unfair brush of suspicion,” saying “that suspicion is also built into application forms that ask unprecedented questions about the origin of every scar … ”
As the Biden administration and “shadowy network of secretive nonprofits” facilitate the greatest migration invasion this nation has ever seen on the southern border, new concerns are mounting that illegals are finding alternative routes into the country via the unfenced northern border with Canada.
New US Customs and Border Protection data shows more than 12,000 migrants were apprehended on the northern border last year, more than double the number from the year before of 3,578.
The record-breaking surge of illegal entries from Canada continues in Swanton Sector. A citizen’s report in Champlain, NY, led to the arrest of 10 Bangladesh citizens. Agents rely on the vigilance of our community.
If you see something, say something! Call 1-800-689-3362. pic.twitter.com/eSTMV8HwOu— Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia (@USBPChiefSWB) February 8, 2024
h/t DS
A Russian-Canadian national has admitted scheming to violate US sanctions by exporting $7 million in weapons to the Russian military for use in the Ukraine war.
Kristina Puzyreva, 32, pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn court to money laundering as part of a shadowy global conspiracy to send technology to blacklisted entities in Moscow.
Exports included components used in unnamed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and guided missile systems which were later found to have been used in Ukraine.
Seems like she gets things done, maybe put her in charge of procurement for the armed forces.
French left takes a swing at ‘racist’ golfers in new culture war
Golf is on a roll in France: last month Matthieu Pavon became the first French player to win on the PGA Tour since 1907, and Céline Boutier made history last year as only the third French woman to win a major championship.
Yet for all this surge in popularity, all is not well on the courses. Players are cutting up rough over claims from a left-wing firebrand that slugging away for 18 holes is on a par with being racist.
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— RCMP (@rcmpgrcpolice) February 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Trudeau is promising a “Team Canada” approach to this impending danger. Editorial comments are being made in the usual places that we should brace ourselves for what amounts to the American renunciation of the Western alliance to be replaced by U.S. non-aggression pacts with Russia and China, which would enable those countries and the United States to carve any spheres of influence for themselves that they wished and demarcate the world at their pleasure. If Canadians had not learned by now that they cannot rely upon their journalists for anything, and especially not a sophisticated analysis of international affairs, the country would be in a mood of acute anxiety over possible impending developments in the United States.
Two women accused of sticking images of paragliders on their backs at a pro-Palestinian march were actually displaying a “cartoon parachute” used as a “symbol of peace”, lawyers have claimed.
Heba Alhayek, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, allegedly wore the pictures of paragliders at a march in central London seven days after militants from Hamas used paragliders to enter Israel from Gaza on October 7.
A third woman, Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, 27, is accused of displaying the paraglider picture on a placard at the protest.
Update: Women guilty of terror offence over parachute image at pro-Palestinian march
This is Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
The hospital was established because Jewish doctors had no place to train or work due to anti-semitism.
Tonight a crowd is chanting for violence against Jews outside this place of healing.#antisemitism #BillC3 @SinaiHealth pic.twitter.com/YxiFumKVuE
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) February 13, 2024
Energy critics within the NDP’s provincial affiliates in Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against MP Charlie Angus’s private member’s bill targeting fossil fuel advertising.
The dispute between provincial and federal New Democrats comes days after two candidates to lead the Alberta NDP expressed openness to loosening the formal ties that bind the party branches.
However, federal party leader Jagmeet Singh said while there may be disagreements on some particular matters, “we’re a large party and that’s a normal thing that happens.”
