The governments of B.C., Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador lost up to $2.47 billion in tax revenues over four years due to the growth in illegal tobacco sales, says a convenience industry report.
The Convenience Industry Council of Canada report released Wednesday examined the downward trend in legal tobacco sales in the three provinces since 2019, compared with the rising growth in the underground contraband tobacco market.
No one studies history anymore?
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Police Department says it’s beefing up security outside India’s Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential link between India’s government and the killing of a Sikh community leader in B.C.
Const. Tania Visintin, the department’s media relations officer, says police are “closely monitoring the situation” since Trudeau’s announcement about the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter of an independent Sikh homeland, who was shot dead in Surrey in June.
Father of two believes there should be no age of consent. pic.twitter.com/QR3sD80M4Z
— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) September 19, 2023
OTTAWA – Conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on Parliament Hill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle LGBTQ+ issues.
The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the message sent to members of Pierre Poilievre’s caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.
That was cowardly. Unlike Max.
There’s a massive crowd this morning at the Ottawa #1MillionMarch4Children and the PPC is there to say we must protect our kids against radical gender ideology! pic.twitter.com/mWOpr3ad7t
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 20, 2023
SCOOP: A parent emailed @DJUSD regarding a lesson on gender identity and the principal responded explaining that there are 13 genders including “trigender” and “pangender.”
This is what the people in charge of your children’s education are promoting in schools. pic.twitter.com/ECSTnzicnI
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2023
Ukraine is reported to have rejected a consignment of Germany’s Leopard 1 tanks – on the grounds that they are technically flawed, and that Ukrainian engineers lack the skills and training to fix them.
Embarrassingly for Germany, this is the second time that Ukraine has turned its collective nose up at a delivery of German armour. When the first ten tanks – the advance guard of a total of 110 Leopard 1s that Berlin has agreed to supply to Kyiv – arrived in Ukraine, they too were found to be unsuitable for deployment on the front line. This despite the desperate need for armour to break through Russia’s defence lines resisting Ukraine’s vaunted counter offensive striking south towards the Sea of Azov.
The delay in his charging, and the lone misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, fuels theories.
The headlines read: “Ray Epps Charged With Jan. 6 Crime—After Conspiracy Theory Claimed He Worked For FBI” (Forbes), “Ray Epps Charged Over Jan. 6 Riot, Dealing Major Blow to Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory” (Mediaite), “Feds charge Jan. 6 protester at center of unproven, hard-right conspiracy theories”.
Presidentish Joe Biden’s crackdown on hunter education in schools is being met with an act of defiance in Wyoming, best summarized with two words in ancient Greek familiar to American gun owners: Molon Labe.
On August 29, 2023, Sheikh Issam Amira, a prominent member of the Palestinian Hizb al-Tahrir party, argued that the “liberation” of Palestine is nothing compared to the potentially great conquests that Islam has in store for the rest of the non-Muslim world — including the United States:
“What is the Palestinian cause compared to the conquest of Rome, for example? Or the conquest of Latin America in its entirety? Or the conquest of North America?”
Amira went on to say that he personally knows that Australians are “dying of fear” from the nearby Muslim nations of Malaysia and Indonesia, “because they know that one of these days the Muslim armies will come from Indonesia and bring Islam to Australia, like it or not.”
Another massive best-seller for Mark Levin has just been published, but the title is the most provocative of his oeuvre: The Democrat Party Hates America. Our Democrat media elites have always aggressively ignored every Mark Levin best-seller, but this title is going to infuriate them more than any other.
OTTAWA — A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
Left-wing actor John Cusack hammered the Democratic Party in a lengthy X post accusing liberals of being too cozy with the monied classes, not being far enough to the left, and selling out the working class.
On the bright side, Justin Trudeau got one promise right: Canada is back on the world stage.
Sadly, it’s for all the wrong reasons after the prime minister accused the government of the world’s fifth largest economy of dispatching assassins to kill a Sikh separatist leader in broad daylight outside a Surrey, B.C. temple.
The world took notice, but didn’t exactly rush to Canada’s side despite having advance warning the bombshell would soon be dropped into the public domain.
Police returned articles of clothing to a Tanzanian fashion designer they obtained while executing a search warrant of disgraced ex-Department of Energy (DOE) official Sam Brinton’s home.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police Department confirmed the clothes were returned to Asya Khamsin, who has alleged Brinton publicly wore clothing she designed, but which was in her bag she reported missing at Ronald Reagan National Airport years ago. In May, MWAA police officers executed a search warrant in connection with the case at Brinton’s Maryland residence.
By pandering to violent extremists, Canada is creating a grave future for itself where it becomes a safe haven for all kinds of extremists, including jihadis of ISIS.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen to set a time bomb ticking in relation to India. By accusing Indian agents of assassinating Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan Canadian named as a terrorist by India, Trudeau has picked appeasement politics over pragmatic foreign policy. The Canadian government has not submitted any clinching evidence to the Indian government, except to state that there were “credible allegations” (try beating this as an oxymoron!). India has described the allegations as “absurd”.
