OTTAWA – Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, a senior military officer who was acquitted of a sexual assault charge late last year, has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Canadian government.
Fortin is also suing 16 high-ranking officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, alleging defamation, misfeasance in public office, negligent investigation, public disclosure of private facts, breach of confidence and conspiracy to cause damages.
Russia said on Wednesday that it would try to retrieve the remnants of a US drone that crashed into the Black Sea.
The large MQ-9 Reaper drone plunged into the water on Tuesday.
The US said it brought down the damaged drone after it became “unflyable” when a Russian jet clipped its propeller – but Moscow has denied these claims.
Speaking on state television, Russian security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev confirmed Moscow was attempting to find the aircraft.
“The NSA’s surveillance network “has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic”… the NSA, working with the FBI, engaged in the bulk collection of phone records of U.S. citizens’ phone records. Other programs may allow for data collection from Google, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms. These are the alleged capabilities that have been leaked to the media and government watchdog groups. One can only imagine what the federal government’s more secretive and advanced programs might be capable of collecting.”
No one today who is a consumer of journalism can claim our national media are strictly, soullessly objective and nonpartisan. But the Left is still on a long march through the media, insisting that any shred of adherence to a notion of objectivity is an embrace of white supremacy.
Take a panel discussion at the trendy leftist South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin titled “Building an Antiracist Newsroom.” Their website summarized: “In a time of great racial reckoning in this country, traditional news media have largely failed to meet the moment.” It doesn’t matter how much leftist agitation we witnessed after George Floyd’s death. It’s never enough.
A proposed class-action lawsuit over the ‘Freedom Convoy’ has expanded to include more potential downtown Ottawa plaintiffs and added more defendants.
In a decision Monday, an Ontario court judge rejected an attempt by Freedom Convoy organizers to quash an updated version of the lawsuit against them and will allow the potential class-action claim to proceed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named his special rapporteur to oversee a suite of foreign interference probes: former governor general David Johnston.
The Prime Minister’s Office says Johnston was appointed after consultations with all parties in the House of Commons.
He will have a “wide mandate” to look into allegations of interference in the past two elections and make recommendations to the government, the PMO said in a statement.
Just another Laurentian crony.
Trudeau says some politicians are playing partisan games on foreign interference
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the search for answers on foreign interference should be free of partisanship, even as his party’s MPs have filibustered for more than 24 hours at a key parliamentary committee.
What horseshit, Junior turned a blind eye to Communist China’s election interference because it benefited the Liberal party.
Love him or loathe him, country music superstar Morgan Wallen has a dedicated following, and with the recent release of his new album, One Thing at a Time, his fans have made their devotion known. The album, which has a whopping 36 tracks, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album charts, and Wallen set a record with every single one of the 36 tracks appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Accuracy of leaked CSIS documents is not clear, so let’s not over react
It is possible that Canadian Security Intelligence Service is unofficially correct and that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) embassies, consulates and United Front networks and agents have been, and are, involved in specific efforts to unlawfully impact the outcome of Canadian federal elections.
After all, Australia’s Security Services has openly discussed evidence relating to their election. And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pointed out that European countries must keep up their guard against these interferences.
German authorities have called to cancel concerts in Frankfurt and Munich given by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters. The reason given by the authorities of the German state of Hessen, where Frankfurt is located, is due to his “continued anti-Israel behavior.”
Now, the rocker is threatening to strike back with legal action, saying the claims against him are unfair.
Volkswagen has just chosen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., because the federal government offered them large subsidies. How much money? Ottawa isn’t saying.
That is a big deal because we are no longer talking about a billion here or there. The Financial Times reported last week that Volkswagen was putting plans for a European battery plant on hold because it could get €10-billion in subsidies – $15-billion – to build a plant in North America.
Did the federal gov't have to cut @VWcanada a cheque to secure an EV battery manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, Ont.? And if so, how much?
Watch Innovation Minister @FP_Champagne 's interview with @VassyKapelos👇
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For a technology that even the car companies are stepping back from.
The European Union is scolding its member states for not enforcing immigration laws harshly enough. Currently, its member states are very lax about deporting migrants who are ineligible for asylum, sending only 1 out of every 5 illegal migrants back to their home countries.
Is the defence of Canada a national priority for the Liberal government?
We will find out when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveils the 2023 budget in two weeks.
But, despite alarms being sounded by current and former senior military officers, it is extremely likely that defence spending on new equipment will be squeezed out by domestic issues like health and affordability.
Chandigarh: The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake.
Talking to indianarrative.com on phone from Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth said that after passing +2, about 700 students applied for study visa through Education Migration Services, Jalandhar headed by one Brijesh Mishra. These visa applications were filed in 2018 onwards till 2022.
What a mess. h/t DM
OTTAWA – The senator who pushed for Canada’s assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental disorder says the debate about that policy is now over.
“The issue of expansion has already been decided upon,” said Stan Kutcher, who sits with the Independent Senators Group.
As far as Kutcher is concerned, the what was determined two years ago, when his arguments in the Senate convinced the Liberal government to move forward with an expansion of eligibility.
EXPOSED: Euthanasia in Canada is now disguised as palliative care
Canada’s disturbing slide into offering euthanasia as standard medical practice marks another disconcerting milestone in the degradation of civil society. Even in cases where a person is not deemed terminally ill, Canadian patients and their guardians are now proffered the option of accepting and accelerating their deaths—all in the name of mercy.
