Whenever a politician insists on the phrase “Let me be clear,” the one thing anyone within earshot can be assured of is that clarity will be in very short supply. The only phrase that foretells an even foggier utterance is the worrying assurance that a politician is being “absolutely clear.”
Zakaria Amara would like to be forgiven.
Forgiven by Canadians. By Muslims. By his family. Even by the men he conspired with to commit atrocities.
“I ask the Canadian public to forgive me for betraying their trust and welcoming arms,” he wrote in a newly released, self-published book.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents have infiltrated Wealth One Bank of Canada and coerced shareholders.
The news comes just two months after a special committee confirmed there are 11 spies on Parliament Hill who have worked for or cooperated with CCP operatives.
The Liberal Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.
Brampton, Ontario, situated in the sprawling outer suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area, is in many ways your typical Canadian city: rows and rows of middle-class houses with verdant lawns line quiet streets, with strip-mall parking lots and big-box stores in between. That it has been for years a majority non-white city, with South Asians accounting for over half the population, speaks to the success of Canada’s classical immigration regime. For even as Brampton grew more ethnically diverse, its orderly if monotonous suburban social template remained the same, attesting to the motto of late Ontario Tory premier and Brampton legend Bill Davis: bland works.
It’s a tale of two realities in the city, with people standing in two separate lines.
In one, people hope to catch a glimpse of a star. In another, people wait for food.
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hung out with members of The Tragically Hip and Hollywood stars on Friday, not far away were lineups at food banks.
RELATED: Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt opening night of TIFF
Protestors interrupt the opening night premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, criticizing fest sponsor RBC: “RBC funds genocide!” The crowd is extremely hostile, shouting back “go away” and booing them pic.twitter.com/5cRShKyJx7
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) September 5, 2024
Questions are being raised about the case of a 36-year-old Ontario woman who died of liver failure after she was rejected for a life-saving liver transplant after a medical review highlighted her prior alcohol use.
Amanda Huska died Aug. 15 after spending six months in an Oakville, Ont. hospital. She had been referred for an urgent liver transplant to the University Health Network Transplant unit in March. However, documents show the Alcohol Liver Disease (ALD) team at UHN rejected her in part because of “minimal abstinence outside of hospital.”
The woman’s partner qualified but was denied the opportunity to act as her donor. I see the logic behind the denial, harsh as it is.
U.S. authorities say a Canadian resident has been arrested in Quebec over an alleged Islamic State terror plot to kill Jewish people in New York.
The U.S. Department of Justice says Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested on Wednesday in relation to the attack it says was to take place around Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel last year.
Niagara police have arrested a 21-year-old man Thursday in connection to explosive devices being found in a Niagara Falls neighbourhood.
EDU officers safely removed the devices and examined them before determining them to be improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in varying stages of completeness.
Following the execution of a search warrant of the home later that day, Taha Sleiman was arrested and charged.
Taha Meaning
Muslim: from the mystic letters Ṭā and Hā mentioned at the start of sura 20 of the Koran
Sleiman : Arabic (mainly Lebanon and Syria): variant of Suleiman.
Two Canadian residents are facing 36 human trafficking-related charges following a 10-month interprovincial investigation that started in eastern Ontario last fall.
Reports of suspected human trafficking in eastern Ontario last September led to the launch of “Project Nebula” by a joint police task force known as the Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Strategy, police said in a press release.
No names released. Of course.
Hamilton resident Omar Abugalib has been charged with theft under $5,000, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, three counts of assault with a weapon, assault with intent to resist arrest and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) said two people were injured during an incident at a Fortinos’ grocery store at 2515 Appleby Line yesterday (Sept. 4) at around 2 p.m.
“We responded to what was a theft, and the person responsible produced an edged weapon or knife,” HRPS Staff Sgt. Peter Bishop said. “Other members of the public intervened prior to police arriving. I believe there was a minor injury that occurred when the citizens went to intervene. There was another party who had intervened who also received a minor injury.”
h/t Mauser
There was likely no New Democrat more relieved to learn that federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had ripped up his deal with Justin Trudeau than Saskatchewan’s NDP Leader Carla Beck.
Beck is in a tough election fight this fall, trying to break the hold on power that the conservative Saskatchewan Party has held on that province since 2007.
Singh is very nearly as toxic as Trudeau and that state will not be mitigated with time and forgetting.
Russian propaganda in the war against Ukraine could get a boost from the release of a secret report naming hundreds of alleged Nazi war criminals who later came to Canada, the federal government has been warned.
Ottawa has been considering releasing the remainder of an inquiry report that has been kept secret for decades and contains the names of around 900 alleged war criminals who came to Canada after the Second World War, including members of a Ukrainian SS division.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s announcement Wednesday that he’s “ripping up” his supply and confidence agreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau means Singh wants a snap election.
In the real world, he wants to avoid one given his party’s dismal standing in the polls.
Ditto Trudeau and the Liberals, given that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have had a double-digit lead over them in the polls for more than a year.
Breaking 54% of Canadians a little slow … Canadians were slightly supportive of Liberal, NDP deal, new poll shows
The Liberal-NDP deal is dead.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh revealed Wednesday that he’s “ripped up” the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals. With this major parliamentary pact now caput, here’s a look at everything the deal accomplished — and what’s been left unfinished.
OTTAWA—It was once the driver of Canada’s nascent clean-technology industry, supported by Liberal and Conservatives alike.
Publicly funded but arms-length from government bureaucracy since 2001, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) was a lifeline to entrepreneurs desperate to find money for their clean-tech innovations.
That was until a damaging mismanagement scandal rocked the agency and the House of Commons last year, forcing the Trudeau government on its heels and prompting it to launch a drastic overhaul of the fund.
It’s a green slush fund.
