Ontario has claimed that it does not need to pay billions of dollars owed to First Nations over broken treaty obligations, arguing that it has already spent the sum on the historical costs of resource extraction and the infrastructure of “colonization”.
Canada’s federal government and the province have spent the last week in a Sudbury court arguing neither is responsible for compensating Indigenous nations for more than 150 years of lost revenues.
The unmasking of a German football coach as a Russian double agent is the latest in a string of embarrassments for Berlin’s spy unit
On February 24 of last year Bruno Kahl, Germany’s spy chief, was in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin ordered his forces over the border.
He had travelled for “urgent talks” in Kyiv seemingly unaware of the imminent danger of invasion.
The man heading one of Europe’s most important intelligence agencies ended up being escorted home by special forces in a desperate retreat.
Conservatives were beaming on Friday after the Liberal government quietly and suddenly abandoned its hotly debated attempts to expand firearms restrictions through Bill C-21.
“My Conservative team and I have forced Justin Trudeau into a temporary but humiliating climb-down today,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre crowed.
It was a “climb-down” and it was “humiliating” — that much seems beyond dispute. But if Conservative criticism was a deal-breaker for this government, the Liberals would have a hard time getting much of anything passed.
Europe has been warned that a flood of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, is heading this way.
Belgium is on the front line of the new drugs war, as the main entry point for narcotics arriving from Latin America, and its customs chief says fentanyl is a bigger threat than heroin or cocaine.
A string of drug raids that seized small quantities of fentanyl in Europe over recent months has raised fears that the drug, 50 times more powerful than heroin, has arrived in Europe, as
Mexican cartels seek to build a new market on the Continent. The highly addictive opioid has ravaged the US, driving overdose deaths to 110,236 last year.
Honourable colleagues,
There is a certain essay by Cicero called “The Second Philippic” which was written to expose the power of the state against freedom of speech and freedom of thought—and the power of one man, Marc Antony. It is a brilliant proclamation and shows Cicero at his best and bravest. It was delivered in the Roman Senate, and Cicero paid for writing it with his life. His hands were cut off and taken to Marc Antony, as proof that Cicero would never write again.
Cicero lived in a dangerous time.
The US says additional military aid to Ukraine worth $2.2bn (£1.83bn) will include long-range missiles capable of doubling its attack range.
It brings the total amount of military aid given to Ukraine to more than $29.3bn (£24.31bn) since February 2022.
The package includes ground-launched small-diameter bombs (GLSDB) which can hit targets 150km (93 miles) away.
But officials refused to be drawn on speculation that the munitions could be used to attack parts of annexed Crimea.
Loblaw’s suspension of its price freeze this week on No Name products should prompt us to reflect on a bigger issue: The company’s No Frills chain, which heavily stocks these house-brand items, is not a real discount grocer.
This may come as a surprise for some Canadians, but our country doesn’t really have any true discount grocery chain. With higher food prices and a growing number of consumers seeking refuge from record-setting food inflation at the grocery store, real discount grocery stores would really come in handy. But the option is simply not there.
The public is in an uproar over news that a convicted 20-year-old Rochester, Minnesota rapist must serve only 180 days in jail for raping two young girls when he was around 16 years old.
One of convicted rapist Mohamed Bakari Shei’s victims was reportedly nine years old, while the other was four or five at the time.
We were told by the Prime Minister’s Office that Amira Elghawaby was appointed as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia “following an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.” It is beyond my comprehension how such a process would not have involved a simple web search to see whether Elghawaby had said or written something that could be embarrassing for the government or her, or both. For instance, writings that would have revealed a simplistic view of Islamophobia in Québec?
A printing firm is in a women’s rights row after declaring it would no longer make stickers defining them as ‘Adult human females’ for a prominent campaigner.
Helloprint – which has a UK branch but is headquartered in Rotterdam – has suddenly refused to supply them to Kellie-Jay Keen, who is the founder of Standing for Women.
Her now well-known dictionary-style design shows the word ‘Woman’ above a definition which reads ‘adult human female’ and has been printed by them some 80,000 times.
Two executives of a Toronto Chinese business association whose address is on a list of overseas Chinese “police service stations” attended events last year in China with local police and other government officials to discuss providing policing services to overseas Chinese, according to reports and photos posted by multiple local state-run media outlets and on various WeChat channels in China.
The Halton District School Board in Ontario, Canada, encouraged children to wear sweaters to school so that schools could turn down the heat to fight climate change, according to documents obtained by TheBlaze.
For a new (or, more accurately, updated) technology that some people are clamoring to buy — there’s a lengthy waiting list — electric vehicles (EVs) are receiving a remarkable amount of taxpayer support. There are federal tax credits for the purchase of qualified EVs and, for that matter, EV chargers. A number of states also provide incentives for the purchase of EVs. Not only that, the Biden administration has committed to allocating $5 billion to the states to set up a “national charging network” of 500,000 public chargers by 2030. It won’t be enough money, and the target date may not be realistic, but central planning is like that. Another $2.5 billion will be available to help fund various worthy EV-related causes, including supporting “community and corridor charging.”
The first task is to wipe off or cover up the Z, says Anatoly, 44, of the call sign infamously daubed on Russian hardware involved in the war in Ukraine. “We don’t want friendly fire later on.” Then the mechanics get to work.
In a secret location in Ukraine, within a vast warehouse that could be mistaken for a tank graveyard, what was once Russian – Soviet, in many cases – is being turned Ukrainian.
All the headlines have recently been made by the decision of Germany and a host of others to supply Ukraine with western heavy armour: Leopard 2s, Challengers and Abrams.
The Ukraine war has been a powerful catalyst
Japan is on manoeuvres. The country for so long tethered — or protected, according to your point of view — by the “pacifist” constitution imposed upon it by the occupying Americans after the Second World War may be about to break free of its bonds. Last December, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a doubling of the defence budget over the next five years and the acquisition of counter-strike capability to deal with the perceived threat from China, principally, and North Korea to a lesser extent. It is a policy shift which can only be described as seismic.
