Thirty-two cannabis retailers have closed in St. Thomas, Windsor, Ottawa, Hamilton and the Toronto region, the AGCO said.
No reasons were given for the closings, and the tally didn’t include proposed stores that didn’t make it through the application process.
TikTok has emerged as one of the leading platforms for snappy false videos about the war in Ukraine which are reaching millions.
With a user base of more than one billion people – more than half of whom are under 30 – TikTok is where many young people have been getting updates about the conflict, as the platform struggles to stem the flow of misleading information.
New translations of Osama bin Laden’s personal documents show that the intention behind 9/11 was not only to kill Americans, but to incite U.S. protests, like those seen during the Vietnam War.
These documents, first recovered in the 2011 raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, have been declassified since 2017, but were unorganized and mostly untranslated, until now. The letters offer one of the closest looks yet into the mind of America’s most infamous terrorist.
Ottawa needs more codebreakers — but spy agency says finding them isn’t easy
… Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who is helping to oversee Ottawa’s national cybersecurity strategy, said that one of his goals is to scale up the cybersecurity workforce.
Part of that effort, he said, could involve looking abroad.
“I think we should be creating dedicated pathways to attract talent in cybersecurity,” said Mendicino.
I bet he hires from China and North Korea.
With or without Congressional support, President Joe Biden has determined to move the U.S. as quickly as possible toward an economy predominantly powered by wind- and solar-sourced electricity. In his earliest days in office, Biden issued multiple Executive Orders directing the federal bureaucracy to bend all efforts to achieve this goal. One of those early Executive Orders, dated January 27, 2021 and titled “Tackling the Climate Crisis At Home and Abroad,” stated:
“It is the policy of my Administration to organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis to implement a Government-wide approach that reduces climate pollution in every sector of the economy…”
When burned to generate energy, fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — all emit carbon dioxide, otherwise known in Biden-speak as “climate pollution.” Thus, under Biden’s directive, they are all to be suppressed. The alternative of expanding nuclear power has meanwhile equally been made impractical by regulatory obstruction…
Twitter has agreed to sell the company to billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion in cash, a deal with major implications for online discourse.
The social media giant’s decision to sell will give major influence over public debate to Musk, who has vowed to overhaul the platform to orient it toward free speech.
Snowy northern winters tend to see a drop in asylum-seekers crossing from the United States into Canada at Roxham Road, Quebec. Not this past winter.
In December the number of asylum-seekers entering Canada outside formal land border crossings reached its highest point since August 2017, government statistics show.
The growing caseload is lengthening wait times for eligibility hearings, leaving claimants waiting months on social assistance before getting work permits, one attorney said.
City police say they have a plan and reinforcements coming to tackle this coming weekend’s “Rolling Thunder” event, preventing a potential reprise of the “Freedom Convoy” occupation that paralyzed Ottawa for weeks this winter.
The City of Ottawa’s stance is that no motor vehicle protests, rallies or events will be allowed in designated downtown core areas, the Ottawa Police Service said in a statement Monday.
Systemic racism is rampant throughout the Canadian Armed Forces, “repulsing” new recruits and putting at risk the country’s national security if jobs continue to go unfilled, according to a bombshell report.
In stark terms, the report probing racism in the Canadian military lays out the rationale for why fixing the “toxic” environment goes to the heart of the military’s ability to do the crucial jobs entrusted to it.
To sum it up: more and more Canadians will have no interest in joining until the military fixes its longstanding, interconnected issues of racism, abuse of power, gender discrimination and sexual misconduct.
No one wants to join a Woke Supremacy outfit.
To Canadian national security officials, Samy Nefkha-Bahri is a supporter of “armed jihad abroad,” who had “dubious associations” and wanted to take part in “combat in Syria.”
Classified government reports obtained by Global News allege he led a group that was preparing to travel “for the purpose of participating in the activities of a terrorist group.”
But instead of arresting and charging the Montreal resident, federal officials grounded him: they denied him a passport “to prevent the commission of a terrorism offence.”
OTTAWA – A national inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to bring an end to the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protests and blockades has been launched, with a mandate to examine the circumstances that led to the use of the Act, and the measures taken through it to deal with the emergency situation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Paul S. Rouleau to lead the “Public Order Emergency Commission,” which will have the better part of the next year to lead the independent public inquiry before having to present a final report to both the House of Commons and Senate within 360 days after the revocation of the emergency declaration.
Russia has already ‘failed’ in Ukraine, U.S. says amid promise for more military aid
The United States promised on Monday to reopen its embassy in Kyiv soon, as Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ukraine’s capital and hailed its success so far against Russia’s invasion.
Both men said the fact they were able to come to Kyiv was proof of Ukraine’s tenacity in forcing Moscow to abandon an assault on the capital last month, and promised more aid to fend off Russian troops now attempting an advance in the east.
There is no disputing that Ukraine’s armed forces have performed admirably and in the process shamed Russia’s military.
No war lasts forever but how long can the effort be sustained if needed?
Will NATO/EU solidarity hold given the reliance on Russian gas and oil by member states?
Can anyone afford trust in the Biden Potemkin Presidency?
‘We were hated. We were literally hated overnight.’
This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official: His city is in decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” Harrell said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtime small businesses closing their doors for good or leaving our city.”
But it’s not just small businesses.
Much of Seattle’s core looks like a pockmarked ghost town.
The RCMP considered charging Justin Trudeau with fraud over a family vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, but decided against doing so because it was unclear if the Prime Minister had the authority to approve the all-expenses-paid gift for himself.
RCMP documents from 2019, recently released in response to an access-to-information request, outline the force’s investigation into the 2016 Trudeau family Christmas vacation at the Ismaili Muslim leader’s luxurious retreat. The documents reveal the Mounties looked at whether they could charge Mr. Trudeau with breach of trust or fraud based on the findings in a report from the federal Ethics Commissioner.
The December 2017 report, issued by former ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, concluded that Mr. Trudeau had violated four sections of the Conflict of Interest Act by accepting the vacation, because there was ongoing official business between the federal government and the Aga Khan.
So the RCMP weren’t sure that Justin was allowed to authorize personal graft. That’s some loophole, pure Banana Republic standards.
OTTAWA – Defence Minister Anita Anand will release a highly anticipated report this morning that is expected to take the military to task for not doing enough to address racism in the ranks over the past two decades.
The report is the result of a yearlong review by a panel of retired Canadian Armed Forces members tasked with identifying ways to address hate, racism and discrimination in the ranks.
The review was launched in December 2020 amid concerns about systemic racism in the military, as well as reported links between some members with hate groups, right-wing extremism and white supremacy.
What about Woke Supremacy?
