OTTAWA – The federal government gave up to $200,000 in funding since 2020 to a Quebec charity the RCMP suspects may be hosting a secret Chinese “police station.”
Experts on Chinese foreign interference fear that funding may have helped pro-Beijing actors grow the Chinese Communist Party’s network in Canada, while “legitimizing” the organization police suspect may be supporting efforts to intimidate or silence critics of China’s ruling regime.
Two unwelcome imports arrived in New York this week. You may have heard about Harry and Meghan’s big night in the city.
Accounts of their time here differ.
According to the couple themselves they suffered the ordeal of a two-hour, “near-catastrophic” car-chase with paparazzi tailing them all the way.
They have no shame.
A former journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) testified at the National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) in Ottawa on May 18, saying that the news outlet failed in its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by barring journalists from writing stories on lockdown harms, COVID-19 vaccine injuries, and protests against vaccine mandates.
“I know that as a public broadcaster, you’d expect us to be telling you the truth, and we stopped doing that,” said former CBC Manitoba reporter Marianne Klowak. “And it was a number of stories that I have put forward that were blocked, but it seemed to me as a journalist who’d been there 34 years, it’s like the rules had changed overnight. And it changed so quickly that it left me just dizzy.”
For the last seven years, conventional wisdom has told us a singular story about the FBI and Hillary Clinton. That story had a clear headline: the FBI was out to get her.
Let’s go back to 2016, when the FBI was investigating both major presidential candidates in the run-up to the election.
At the time, the bureau was looking into Donald Trump’s campaign’s ties to Russia as well as Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
Long before David Johnston was given a role in Canada’s foreign-interference saga, and even before he served as governor general under a past prime minister, he had a walk-on part in a famous work of fiction.
Johnston was the real-life inspiration for the character “Davey Johnston” in Erich Segal’s tragic novel “Love Story,” which was made into one of the most wept-over films of the 1970s, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw.
So what made an over privileged frat boy become a ChiCom sympathizer?
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75m (£60m) to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of women who accused the German lender of helping facilitate Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations.
The settlement is expected to draw a line under legal claims related to Deutsche Bank’s relationship with Epstein, who became a client in 2013 after he was dropped by JP Morgan.
Deutsche Bank accepted Epstein as a client even after 40 underage girls made sexual assault claims against him, and maintained that banking relationship until 2018.
h/t Mauser
New fuel regulations set to take full effect in 2030 are expected to increase the price of fuel and shrink the size of Canada’s economy, according to a new report from Canada’s budget watchdog.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a distributional analysis of the federal government’s Clean Fuel Regulations Thursday.
After its release, the report became a lightning rod for federal politicians, with the Conservatives calling the policy a financial burden on families.
The other political parties criticized the PBO because they said the analysis ignores the cost of inaction on climate change.
So the Libs and NDP are upset that the report failed to take into account whatever made up numbers were necessary to make the tax grab look good.
Olivia Chow remains the front-runner in the race for Toronto mayor, but another candidate is gaining support, according to a new poll.
A Mainstreet Research survey released on Friday finds that Chow is still the top choice among decided voters to take on the city’s top job, with 30 per cent support.
She is followed by Ana Bailao with 21 per cent support, up six percentage points from last week’s poll.
I hope for all our sake that people are waking up to the fact that Chow is a stupid commie unworthy of public office. In her first go round Chow saw her early “overwhelming” poll leads dry up faster than the handiwipes at the Velvet Touch.
OTTAWA – A senior Conservative campaign official said the government’s system for sharing foreign interference information left him with the impression there were no major issues during the campaign.
Walied Soliman, who was co-chair of the Conservatives 2021 campaign, was also one of the party’s representatives to a special task force of Canada’s intelligence agencies.
TOKYO (Reuters) – A lack of resources means battery electric vehicles (BEV) cannot be the auto sector’s only answer to climate change, Toyota Motor Corp’s top scientist said Thursday, warning that focusing on BEVs could lead some drivers to hold onto polluting vehicles.
Some investors and environmental groups have long criticised Toyota for being slow to embrace BEVs, saying it has lagged Tesla Inc and others amid growing global demand.
The world’s top automaker by sales has countered that BEVs are just one option and that gasoline-electric hybrids, such as its pioneering Prius, are a more realistic choice for some markets and drivers.
Not the first time Toyota has pointed out EV’s are not the Wunderwaffe they are portrayed to be.
Toyota is working on their own ‘solid state’ battery powered EV’s.
Bill Blair took months to approve CSIS surveillance of Liberal powerbroker, national-security source says
… Although lawyers for CSIS and independent counsel from the Justice Department approved the warrant as did the office of CSIS director David Vigneault, the source said Mr. Blair, a former Toronto police chief, did not sign off on it until June.
The four-month delay left little time for CSIS to get the approval of a federal judge and to figure out the best ways to plant bugs in Mr. Chan’s cars, home, office, computers and mobile phones before the election campaign got under way.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered the election in August, 2021, for Sept. 20 – a ballot in which the Liberals returned to power with another minority government.
The LPC is in the bag to China.
After months of late-night picketing in North Hollywood, the dancers of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar have become the only unionized strippers in the US.
Their victory was finalized with a unanimous vote by 17 dancers in favor of unionization on Thursday morning , and marks the first time that the Actors Equity association, a century-old union for stage actors, singers and dancers, will represent strip club workers, the union said.
Will the public finally be provided some details behind the mysterious firing of Chinese-Canadian scientists who were working at the country’s top biosafety lab?
The Liberal government announced on May 17 that an ad-hoc committee of selected MPs will be able to review documents pertaining to the matter, and a panel of arbiters composed of three former justices will decide what can be released to the public.
Up to now, the government has resisted revealing details about the scientists Qiu Xiangguo and Cheng Keding, who were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in 2019 amid a police probe and then fired in January 2021.
Used nappies should be used in housebuilding to save sand, scientists have said.
Up to 8% of the sand in the concrete and mortar used to make a single-storey house could be replaced with shredded used nappies without significantly diminishing their strength, scientists from the University of Kitakyushu, Japan, have found.
