The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled late September that the criminal records of Indigenous persons can be excluded from their trials to preserve fairness. Trial fairness, to Ontario’s top court, means creating race-based procedural rules to supposedly make up for the effects of systemic racism. In other words, these rules aren’t fair at all.
Top pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is demanding a brutal Stalinist response to ‘plunge Ukraine into dark times’ and round up all Russians against total war in the wake of the humiliating hit on the Crimean Bridge.
Alluding to an enemy within, Solovyov called for a return of the notorious Stalin-era SMERSH counter-intelligence to crush all internal opposition to a full-scale war against Ukraine.
SMERSH, whose motto was ‘Death to Spies’, was a conglomeration of counterintelligence agencies used by Stalin to root out and obliterate those trying to subvert his regime during and after World War II.
Voters who live in Toronto have endured two particularly awful election campaigns in the past year.
The federal vote called by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for last September was a pointless affair in which the leaders of the three major parties alternated between trashing one another and hurling promises at every interest group and voting bloc in sight. It cost $600-million and ended with the three holding almost the same number of seats as they had before it all started.
Boring like a slow motion train wreck. Tory will win, that’s a given. More tax dollars will be wasted on identity-politics driven issues as bit by bit we become indistinguishable from a Democrat run city in the US. Services will decline as taxes rise, crime will increase, businesses will leave and those residents that can will flee as the city becomes an unaffordable, perverse amalgam of the rich and social housing residents.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and likely next Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticised a French minister over remarks that France may monitor the country for violations of rights and freedoms.
Did Justin Trudeau need the controversial Emergencies Act to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’? A judge will hear the arguments for and against this week
OTTAWA — The shock waves — political, legal and historical — from the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” have crashed through Canadian society for more than eight months.
And they’re about to surge again.
On Thursday, long-anticipated — and delayed — public hearings are set to begin for the independent judicial inquiry tasked with probing what happened during those weeks last winter, when anti-government protests occupied the streets around Parliament Hill, blockaded key border crossings, and peppered Canadian politics with frustration, conspiracy theories and COVID-19 misinformation.
The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.
Mulroney backing Conservatives’ Poilievre, but cautions he won’t win going ‘extreme right’
OTTAWA – Former prime minister Brian Mulroney told CTV’s Question Period he’s impressed with new Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre — who’s been on the job for nearly a month — but that he cautioned him to tack closer to the political centre if he hopes to win a general election.
“I thought he was very good,” Mulroney said of the first time he watched Poilievre in the House of Commons as the official leader of the Opposition. “He developed a sense of humour, and he thinks on his feet, which is indispensable for a successful opposition leader or prime minister.”
Iran’s state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country’s leader.
A mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him.
The group called itself “Adalat Ali”, or Ali’s Justice.
OTTAWA – Alberta premier-designate Danielle Smith says she’s ready to take the fight to Ottawa for Alberta’s autonomy to develop its resources, so that it can build pipelines to get oil and gas to market and boost the forestry and agriculture sectors.
“We’ve always been treated like a subordinate level of government,” she said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period, airing Sunday. “We’ve acted like it. But we’re going to stop acting like that. We’re going to take our place as a senior partner in Confederation.”
Smith also plans to take the federal carbon tax back to the Supreme Court, after it ruled just last year that the policy is constitutional.
The blasts which wrecked the network taking Russian gas to Germany have been blamed on various players – we assess the possible instigators
With its brooding pine woods and mist-shrouded beaches, the Danish island of Bornholm has long been a setting for Scandi-noir intrigue. In days of old, trolls were said to haunted its many caves. In Cold War times, its radar towers at the mouth of the Baltic helped the West eavesdrop on Russia and East Germany.
No mystery though, is quite on a scale with the one that began bubbling up through the waters off Bornholm’s coast two weeks ago. At around 2am on September 26, German engineers noted a dramatic drop in pressure in Nord Stream 2, the newly built pipeline that ships Russian gas to Germany. Later that day, the same problem was reported on its older sister pipeline, Nord Stream 1, which runs nearby.
A Danish air force jet that investigated found three huge gas leaks in the sea, creating vast, bubbling cauldrons on the surface as if new volcanic islands were forming underneath. Over subsequent days, up to 350,000 tonnes of pure methane was released, some in bubbles more than half a mile wide. Bornholm residents could smell it from their island and were warned to keep away.
Andrea Skinner, interim board chair of Hockey Canada, has submitted her resignation, CBC News has confirmed, days after a controversial parliamentary committee meeting where she defended Hockey Canada’s handling of group sexual assault allegations involving past junior players.
The hockey organization has been under intense public scrutiny since May, when it settled a $3.5-million lawsuit by a woman who alleged that eight hockey players — including members of the 2018 world junior team — sexually assaulted her at a hotel in London, Ont., while she was heavily intoxicated.
I’m not kidding about that New Board Chair: If, as seems increasingly likely, Hockey Canada is replaced by a new organization, Professor Ross said that it would be important to rethink that organization’s structure and not simply replace the current outfit. Any new governing body, he said, would have to be led by a board with women as at least half of its members and would have to include Indigenous people, people of color and para-athletes and draw from the entire country.
As we all know, because the Trudeau government constantly reminds us, that it is appalled by displays of anti-Semitism and works vigorously to condemn them immediately.
Except that’s not what the testimony of Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage revealed Friday.
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The United States has accused Russian mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage”.
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the Wagner Group of mercenaries are exploiting natural resources and “these ill-gotten gains are used to fund Moscow’s war machine in Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine”.
After weeks crossing the Atlantic, the 294-metre Murex gas tanker was finally tugged into the import terminal in Eemshaven, northern Holland, in early September.
Loaded at Cheniere Energy’s export plant located on the Sabine Pass waters, which divide the US states of Louisiana and Texas, the 173,000-cubic-metre capacity ship carried vital gas to Europe as it battles to replace Russian supplies.
But while its arrival was cheered by European leaders seeking solutions to a cost-of-living crisis stoked by soaring energy costs, the local attitude where the shipment began its journey was less enthusiastic.
