The ArriveCAN app likely cost Canada’s tourism industry billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to witnesses at a parliamentary hearing.
“It’s been hugely impactful and devastating,” said Jim Diodati, mayor of Niagara Falls. He was one of the witnesses at a Tuesday hearing of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade.
Most of the heartless looters busted in hurricane-ravaged Florida were illegal immigrants, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday — as he said he’d like to “drag them out by the collars” and “send them back to where they came from.”
“We’ve had four looters that were arrested … and they need to be brought to justice,” the tough gov said during an update on the devastation from historic Hurricane Ian.
People forget that championing whiteness is what makes Trump powerful
A growing chorus of voices is warning that our democracy is in grave danger, but there is much less discussion of the exact nature of the threat. Recently, President Biden emphasized the severity of the threat by going to the place where the constitution was signed to give what the White House described as “a speech on the continued battle for the soul of the nation”.
How come these racists never discuss Black crime let alone Black on Black crime? Or Black abortion rates? Or Black fatherlessness? Anyone?
He’s gonna be mad at the Latinos next…
There is no way to enforce building or fire codes on First Nations and pursuing a legislative fix would require significant time and money, federal officials warn in an internal briefing document.
But Blaine Wiggins, the senior director of the Indigenous Fire Marshals Service, said that enforcement gap has “catastrophic” consequences.
I’m surprised Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, didn’t suffer a grade-four shoulder separation giving herself such a congratulatory pat on her own back.
Tam, with help from staff at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), has written a report giving her agency credit for saving nearly 800,000 Canadian lives and preventing nearly two million admissions to Canadian hospitals with the pandemic-fighting measures they have taken over the past two-and-a-half years – masks, social distancing, vaccine mandates.
Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik on Wednesday announced the launch of driverless box trucks to deliver select online grocery orders for Loblaw’s PC Express service.
Drivers will still be on hand to take over if necessary but will be on standby in the passenger seat, Gatik told Global News.
Tell me why we need mass immigration again? Oh yea to fight inflation by depressing wages! Why not just import robots?
The s-word made a rare appearance in the House of Commons on Tuesday after Conservative MP Michelle Rempel implored the Trudeau government to cut out the “woke s—t.”
Rempel is woke herself. What a fucking Conservative fraud. https://t.co/zYfXOIoZsU
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) October 4, 2022
Yup.
Alec Baldwin and the family of late “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have reached an undisclosed settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against the actor and others.
Hutchins’ widower, Matthew, will be an executive producer on film and receive a portion of the profits, according to a statement from Matthew.
Ottawa has been pressing the Taliban for months on women’s rights, fighting terrorism
Canadian government officials have met with representatives of the Taliban on at least 13 occasions in Qatar since it swept to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, documents obtained by CBC News reveal.
The documents, obtained through access to information law, show David Sproule, Canada’s senior official for Afghanistan, has been — along with various Global Affairs Canada (GAC) officials and representatives of allied countries — pressing the Taliban for commitments on extending the right to an education to women, fighting terrorism and granting safe passage to Afghans who want to leave the country.
Wood from primary forests in British Columbia has been used to fuel the U.K.’s largest power plant, according to a BBC investigation. The company that runs it, which denies the allegations, has received over $9 billion in green energy subsidies from the British government.
Those allegations are troubling for Mike Morris, the provincial representative for Prince George-Mackenzie in central B.C., near where the company operates.
OTTAWA—Government officials were heckled after hundreds of people marched to Parliament Hill on Tuesday to mark 1,000 days since the downing of Flight PS752 near Tehran and to demand Ottawa take action against Iran.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down Jan. 8, 2020, by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killing 176 people, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents.
Demonstrator yelled at deputy PM Chrystia Freeland "You are supporting the Islamic brutal regime in Iran. What we need is just not words, what we need is action now." pic.twitter.com/jCmVFjvIpR
— Ashley Burke (@AshleyBurkeCBC) October 5, 2022
OTTAWA – At a committee hearing Tuesday, Conservative MPs accused Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino of targeting the wrong gun owners with the Liberals proposed program for the expropriation of certain weapons, arguing it is a waste of resources and money.
Toronto police have made a series of arrests in connection with the “troubling” rise in carjackings, Insp. Richard Harris of the hold-up squad said Tuesday.
The arrests of several teenagers — including an 18-year-old woman — come as Toronto has 182 reported carjackings so far this year compared to 102 in all of 2021. Fifty-six of the vehicles stolen this year have been recovered.
Time to start shutting down basketball courts.
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