The Canadian government on Friday began coordinating commercially assisted departures for Canadians looking to get out of Lebanon amid mounting violence, Global News has learned.
Global Affairs Canada is reserving blocks of seats on commercial flights for Canadian citizens as it becomes increasingly difficult to book seats independently, sources in two government departments said.
They knew the risks. Not a finger should be lifted those who chose to move back.
A transgender Syrian refugee claims she has been stranded in a Turkish airport for seven months after a Canadian diplomat alleged that she underwent gender reassignment surgery in a bid to gain access to the country.
Arwa Almsrawi had initially been granted refugee status by Canada after the nation received a referral from the U.N. Refugee Agency.
But while on her journey to her new homeland, she got into trouble at Istanbul Airport, learning she was on the U.S’ ‘No Fly List’ and eventually had her refugee status revoked.
I’m surprised Trudeau hasn’t personally intervened.
h/t DS
Former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu says he has raised concerns with authorities investigating foreign interference about a veiled “warning” issued by a former Chinese consul-general in Vancouver.
Chiu told The Epoch Times that he was concerned about remarks made by Tong Xiaoling during a July 2020 interview with the Vancouver-based Chinese language radio station AM1320.
“She was practically giving out a warning to Chinese Canadian politicians,” he said.
Documents reveal why Trudeau government needs to speed up NORAD modernization, expert says
OTTAWA—The federal government is off to a slow start on its 20-year plan to improve Canada’s contribution to the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) that it shares with the United States, new documents show.
Tabled in Parliament last week in response to a written question from Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, the documents detail how much money was spent over the first two years of the government’s $38.6-billion “NORAD modernization” plan. As of June this year, the government had spent $69.7 million on the initiative, more than half of which was used for expanding internal government services to start shepherding through the promised projects, which include new radar and communications systems, the documents show.
Trudeau would weaken the ability of NORAD to track Santa.
Government polling reveals that most Canadians are not alarmed over “climate change” and will continue to eat meat.
According to in-house Privy Council research obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, over one third of Canadians think “climate change” could benefit Canada while almost half believe that “adapting to the impacts of climate change is cheaper than preventing it.”
While the Conservatives have been clear that they want an election today, a second federal party—the Bloc Québécois—this week left no ambiguity as to its position on forcing an early election, saying it wants passage of two key bills before November in order to retain its support of the Liberals.
The NDP’s position, meanwhile, still remains ambiguous, with the party saying it will be looking at confidence votes on a case-by-case basis.
I do not expect Trudeau to reject Blanchet’s Oct 29 deadline, both the rise in seniors pensions and the free trade exemption for the agricultural cartels are likely considered vote getters by a desperate LPC.
Asylum seekers became the focus of a jurisdictional tug-of-war this month when federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused conservative premiers of trying to “weaponize” asylum arrivals for political gain.
The federal Liberal government is hoping to alleviate pressure on Quebec and Ontario, where the bulk of asylum seekers are entering through airports in Toronto and Montreal, by resettling asylum seekers more evenly in other provinces across the country.
It’s a puzzle. Whatever its answer, its consequences are likely to foment an upheaval in Canada that the coming defeat of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and the election of a Conservative government should not be expected to forestall.
The puzzle, by the reckoning of urban planner, landscape architect, author and University of British Columbia professor Patrick Condon, can be put this way.
For a few weeks in June, concerns ran high on Parliament Hill about unnamed MPs or senators possibly being compromised, perhaps even consciously, by foreign states — fears raised by a startling but opaque report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
“We cannot and must not remain indifferent in light of such a revelation,” Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure said.
NATO says it wants its members to develop national plans to bolster the capacity of their individual defence industry sectors, a concept Canada has struggled with — or avoided outright — for decades.
At the NATO leaders summit in Washington in July, alliance members agreed to come up with strategies to boost their domestic defence materiel sectors, and to share those strategies with each other. Almost entirely overshadowed at the time by debates about members’ defence spending and support for Ukraine, the new policy got little attention.
Canadian politics are getting fiery.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the young scion of a Liberal family who swept the global political scene off its feet a decade ago, is now a 52-year-old leader with approval ratings worse than President Biden’s.
He is rapidly losing ground to the Conservative Party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, who, despite having vague policy plans, has deployed punchy sloganeering that has kept Mr. Trudeau on the ropes.
Another one from the Katie Telford rolodex.
A father and son from Romania who both applied for refugee status in Canada in early May, but robbed a Lively man in June, have been given the equivalent of five-month jail sentences.
“Gentlemen: your conduct is reprehensible,” Ontario Court Justice Julie Lefebvre told Nicolae Curca, 63, and Laurentiu Vaduva, 37, as she issued identical sentences of one day in jail on Tuesday.
The Crown and defence lawyers suggested the sentences, which take into account their pre-trial custody time.
Oh My! They face possible immigration consequences!
Canada’s fertility rate, which has been steadily declining, has hit a record low and the country is now among the “lowest-low” fertility nations.
Statistics Canada released new data on Wednesday showing that the Canadian fertility rate in 2023 was 1.26 children per woman, which is the lowest recorded level since the agency began collecting data.
The record-low fertility rate was registered across the country in 10 of the 13 provinces and territories.
NO FUTURE. People are reluctant to have children in a nation whose government hates them so much that they import millions from incompatible cultures so they can harvest votes and impoverish their own citizens through depressed wages and unaffordable housing.
Nearly half of all Canadians say their access to medical care has worsened over the last few years, with two-thirds experiencing what they consider an unreasonable wait for surgeries and other services, a new survey has found.
As a result, 73 per cent now say they’re open to major reform of the health care system, including a larger role for the private sector. But that doesn’t mean they support private payment: Nearly two-thirds felt it wouldn’t be fair to allow patients to buy medically necessary care because, “the rich would be better served.”
As southern Ontario’s hot, sticky summer starts to wind down, the last thing on most people’s minds is the vast, frozen tundra of Canada’s Far North. But on Sept. 18, a group gathered in downtown Toronto to hear a broad range of experts discuss Arctic sovereignty and security.
Granted, the Far North has always been a very niche area of interest in Canada, which is curious for a country that prides itself on being a northern nation. But perhaps that’s to be expected when 90 per cent of our population lives within 160 kilometres of the U.S. border, many in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto that have relatively temperate climates.
Ice Breakers, Submarines, Frigates, Supply vessels, Arctic patrol vessels, Fighter Jets, Armored vehicles, Sleeping Bags, Recruiting crisis – is there anything Canada’s armed forces aren’t lacking beyond ludicrous DEI policies?
