OTTAWA – The legal team for “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich says she wasn’t part of any conspiracy to break the law when she helped organize a massive protest against pandemic restrictions in Ottawa.
The Crown alleges Lich and another organizer, Chris Barber, were in cahoots to block roads and disrupt locals in a bid to pressure the federal government to drop COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2022.
What is going on with appointing Charles Adler to the Senate? Do they really know the guy? Or do they know him only too well?
Here’s the Adler deal. The old blowhard having had the sense to get out of near-bankrupt Corus (in 2021) while the getting was good, will now be received into the Senate at the age of 69 with a $178,000 annual salary. That will take him comfortably over the next six years to mandatory retirement at 75. Thereafter, the genteel poverty of a Senate pension.
To federal Liberal Party supporters, the end of summer was supposed to bring positive momentum for the country’s governing party. The reality is remarkably different.
Our latest look at the federal political scene shows a particularly dominant Conservative Party, counting on the support of 40 per cent of decided voters across Canada (up two points since April). The Liberals are second with 25 per cent (down one point), followed by the NDP with 17 per cent (down three points), the Bloc Québécois with nine per cent (down one point), the Green Party with six per cent (up three points) and the People’s Party with two per cent (up one point).
OTTAWA — A Charter challenge has been launched against the federal government over its decision not to allow those suffering solely from mental illness the ability to access an assisted-death.
On Monday, a statement of claim was issued at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by Dying with Dignity Canada, a national charity that advocates for people’s right to access the procedure, along with two individuals diagnosed with mental disorders who say it has filled their life with suffering.
How long before conservative political beliefs are legislated as a mental illness requiring involuntary “euthanasia”.
Canada’s state-backed export credit agency is reportedly nursing steep losses after lending debt-ridden Thames Water hundreds of millions of pounds.
The British utility, which has said it could run out of cash by next June, received two loans from Export Development Canada (EDC) in 2018 and 2019 after the Canadian pension fund Omers had invested.
EDC sold the loans at a deep discount in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, which cited unnamed investors.
Thames Water has been pushed to the brink of collapse in recent months after struggling under the weight of debts built up over years by successive owners and could fall into government-handled administration if it fails to find new financing within the next 10 months.
Joao Pedro Da Silva Cordeiro appears to have fully embraced the Canadian way of doing business.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the median family after-tax income in 2022 fell compared with 2021, after adjusted for inflation, with young people being the hardest hit.
The agency says the median family after-tax income of Canadians was $60,800 in 2022, up 2.5 per cent from 2021.
But after adjusting for an annual rate of inflation of 6.8 per cent, the figure was down four per cent from the previous year.
There will be a place in Canada’s history books for the divisive and dramatic blockade at Coutts, a busy border crossing between Alberta and Montana that saw a clamorous protest against COVID-19 health measures in 2022.
Although it stretched just 18 days, its repercussions continue in Canada’s courts, politics, national security and policing.
“Sugarcane” reviews are all over the press, all positive, and all are super spreaders of more deceptions about Indian Residential School history in Canada. National Geographic picked up this documentary for distribution after its win at the Sundance Film Festival. Carolyn Berstein, Executive Vice President of National Geographic Documentary Films said at the time: “National Geographic Documentary Films has a long track record of championing epic and important stories that awaken audiences and transcend their moment.”
According to a report in “Deadline” of Feb. 21, 2024, “Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures.”
Let’s awaken National Geographic’s factual brand and its audiences with some behind-the-scenes facts.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller said he is as “disgusted as any Canadian” that Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi found his way into Canada. A House of Commons committee will now study how an alleged former Islamic State fighter became a citizen only to be caught planning a terrorist attack with his son Mostafa Eldidi on July 31.
While Ahmed Eldidi faces charges of aggravated assault in a foreign country, the allegations have the hallmarks of a war crime. Canada should prosecute them – and it has the laws and the obligation to do so.
Justin will likely appoint him to the senate.
A nationwide rail labour dispute looms on the horizon, potentially starting as early as Thursday, and it has already captured the attention of American media.
The dispute threatens to disrupt a rail network that stretches across the continent—from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. This network is critical to Canada’s agri-food economy, and a disruption involving over 9,300 engineers, conductors, and yard workers could have severe consequences for the entire food supply chain.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party would oppose any government intervention in the ongoing labour dispute between Canada’s two main rail companies and unions as the deadline to avoid an unprecedented service shutdown approaches.
Both the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City remain at loggerheads with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union. The union has been demanding better wages and benefits — including better crew scheduling — for workers.
Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the suspects obtained citizenship and whether any other similarly inclined individuals could be lying in wait.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that departments are conducting a review of the matter and findings would be shared at the “appropriate moment.”
English-speaking residents of Québec report feeling increasingly alienated and unwelcome due to restrictive language policies, according to a federal study by the Commissioner of Official Languages.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the study highlights the growing discontent among anglophones who feel pressured to abandon their language in favor of French.
Intimate texts exchanged between an ousted Royal Bank of Canada boss and her junior colleague have been revealed amid the latest round of legal wrangling over their secret office relationship.
Canada’s biggest lender fired its CFO Nadine Ahn in April after uncovering an alleged decade-long courtship with her subordinate Ken Mason, who reportedly received promotions and raises as a result of the connection.
Nothing really spicy but the texts clearly contradict her denials.
