Canada

Robert Libman: Montreal byelection could spell end for Trudeau and Singh

Despite all the media speculation, the leadership discussion within the federal Liberal caucus has so far remained pretty much bottled up inside the party, with public comments about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relatively mitigated. But the bottle could pop after Monday night, depending on results of the byelection in the Liberal stronghold of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, left vacant with the resignation of former justice minister David Lametti.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

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Major Russian disinfo site featuring anti-Trudeau articles prompts calls for new focus at public inquiry

A website at the heart of an international Russian disinformation operation has produced more than a dozen articles about Canadian politics in an apparent attempt to undermine support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and boost his chief rival, Pierre Poilievre.

The website Reliable Recent News has been identified by officials in Europe and the U.S. as a repository for pro-Kremlin articles that are distributed through a network of affiliated sites disguised to appear as legitimate news outlets.

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LILLEY: Canadian taxpayers funded Russia propaganda

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Russia! Russia! Russia!", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Soccer surpasses hockey as Canada’s top sport amid growing concerns over brain injuries

For the first time, soccer has overtaken hockey as the most-played sport in Canada, according to a Department of Canadian Heritage study.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the shift comes amid increasing scrutiny of hockey-related concussions, particularly in junior and recreational leagues, which have been linked to long-term brain injuries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Release secret list of alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada, say Polish and Ukrainian groups

Canadian Polish and Ukrainian groups have joined calls for the federal government to release the full list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who came to this country after the war.

The list is among documents created by a 1986 federal government war-crimes commission led by Justice Jules Deschenes. For almost 40 years the federal government has refused to release the material to the public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Little-known program dominates Canada’s massive guest-worker scheme

Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.

Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about Ottawa’s international mobility program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.

The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.

It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Blame Trump For Everything Bad In The Whole World Says Blackie’s Star

Donald Trump’s fear-mongering about migrant crime is fuelling hate in Canada and the world

When I was 9 years old and my immigrant family moved to Holland Landing, Ont., to operate the hamlet’s sole Chinese food restaurant, I was told often by well-meaning locals that we were “good immigrants,” and the “right type” to let in. As early as the age of 9, it was pressed upon me that bad immigrants exist and they take away jobs, they commit crimes and they cannot be trusted.

I was a child, so I was seen as harmless and my family hardworking. As a grown woman, a professor no less, I am told I am stealing jobs from more deserving white Canadian men. I am frequently dismissed as a “diversity hire” or was told by seemingly well-meaning white colleagues that I’m “so lucky to be a woman of colour right now” — a notion that dismisses my qualifications and hard work.

She mentions Canadian issues such as Trudeau’s foreign student scam without laying blame where it rightly belongs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, USA

Congress Fed Up with Canada’s Discriminatory Digital Tax

Trudeau’s government has a remarkably poor record managing the digital world.

America is running out of patience with Canada.

This time, the issue is not the northern neighbor’s refusal to meet defense-spending commitments. Nor is it a revival of the softwood-lumber problem, now entering its fifth decade. This time, it is Canada’s break from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) efforts to determine an international agreement on how to tax global tech giants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trudeau says Singh, NDP ‘caved’ to political pressure in fight against climate change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the NDP and its leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday, saying that while they may care about the environment, they have “no idea what to do in the fight against climate change.”

At a news conference in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., Trudeau accused the NDP of “playing simple politics” and “walking away from progressive values” after it ended its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals last week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, NDP, WTF?

Quebec demands Trudeau’s Islamophobia Czar resign

The Legault government is calling for the removal of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia.

The call for Elghawaby to resign was made on Friday by provincial Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry after it was learned Elghawaby had written to Canadian colleges and universities urging them to hire more Muslim, Arab and Palestinian teachers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Auditor general considering probe into Indigenous procurement program

Canada’s auditor general is considering a probe into a multi-billion program meant to boost Indigenous business that has been open to abuse for decades.

Following complaints from Indigenous communities and a recent Global News investigation with First Nations University of Canada researchers, Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office confirmed that it is reviewing a request to investigate the Indigenous Business Directory (IBD)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Terry Newman: In Gaza terrorists need tunnels, in Canada they simply apply for visas

On Tuesday, Marc Miller — breathless, voice quaking, and noticeably nervous — told reporters, “I’ve been getting questions about an individual that entered Canada and has been arrested in charges related to an attempt to cross the border for a terrorist plot.” He then confirmed that Muhammed Khan is a Pakistani national who was issued a student visa in May 2023, and waltzed into Toronto’s Pearson airport the following month. Miller had the disposition of someone surprised by the news, but he shouldn’t have been. Our student visa program has always been one of the weakest links in Canada’s national security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

‘You cannot take us for granted’: Muslim voters mobilize as Jagmeet Singh’s polarizing Gaza stance will get tested in this byelection

MONTREAL—The front window of the NDP’s campaign office in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun features a small selection of flags.

Some represent countries, like Ukraine and Sudan, that are currently mired in conflict. Others represent Indigenous rights and LGBTQ2+ causes.

The Palestinian flag, the largest of the set, is affixed above them all.

I bet we have a Hamas party soon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, NDP

HUNTER: U.S. rightly worried terrorists will slip over Canadian border

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. — The U.S. Border Patrol station chief was worried.

On a late summer day in 2000, he pointed to the hidden inlets along the St. Lawrence River — perfect spots for smuggling drugs, guns and people.

Of particular concern were an influx of people from the Middle East. This was a year before the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that killed nearly 3,000 people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA