Perched beside a church, two petitioners pose two question for passing pedestrians:
“Do you live in St. Paul’s? Did you know there’s a federal byelection happening?”
I do and I do.
And then a third question: “Do you know about what’s happening in Gaza?”
I believe I do.
The petitioners are polite and to the point: Please sign their pledge vowing to vote against any candidate who “fails to condemn the decades-long injustices perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.”
A Chinese Canadian human rights group taking part in Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission (FIC) has linked two Canadian senators to NSICOP’s explosive June 2024 intelligence review.
The submission to Ottawa’s FIC from Chinese Canadian Concern Group points at Senator Yuen Pau Woo, also an intervener with the Commission, and Senator Victor Oh.
The ascendancy of Beijing’s powerful proxies, agents, dupes and apologists in Canada: Usually overlooked, unreported and otherwise unmentionable. Will the NSICOP hubbub make a difference?
Worth your time. The China scandal runs much deeper than they want you to know.
A device federal public servants call “the little robot” began appearing in Gatineau office buildings in March.
It travels through the workplace to collect data using about 20 sensors and a 360-degree camera, according to Yahya Saad, co-founder of GlobalDWS, which created the robot.
“Using AI on the robot, the camera takes the picture, analyzes and counts the number of people and then discards the image,” he said.
Hurrah. Finally. At last, the Trudeau Liberals have listed as terrorists the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the most dangerous organizations on the planet.
The fact it has taken them so long to do something so simple is an indicator that national and world security is not a high priority for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Of course, the Chinese election interference debacle has told us that already.
Toronto voters say federal byelection is a referendum on Justin Trudeau’s future
The upcoming Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection will be a critical test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his party — a bellwether indicating how the party is faring in an area of the country where Liberals have performed well for decades.
CBC News spoke to 15 voters in the riding to gauge support for the incumbent party and to learn more about what’s motivating people at the ballot box.
While the June 24 byelection is being held to pick a new MP for Toronto’s midtown, some voters are treating the summer vote as a referendum on Trudeau’s time in power.
I am not expecting a Liberal loss. It is a decades long safe seat in a city that consistently votes stupid.
How stupid are Toronto voters? They elected Chairman Chow.
Further Toronto is its own little eco-system of progressive idiocy, an outlier surrounded by normalcy.
The article below (From 2019) is an accurate reflection of current concerns expressed by progressives in the CBC piece.
Toronto is often an outlier for public opinion, researchers say
Toronto is often an outlier in terms of public opinion across the province on various topics, such as immigration and climate change, a survey has found.
Research conducted on behalf of the Mowat Centre, a think tank at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, found that otherwise, there are not many general differences of opinion across the regions.
But a main finding of the research is that Toronto seems to be different than other regions.
In the ordinary course of heated political controversies, Canadians can sort out the issue that’s launching their politicians at one another’s throats. In the “foreign interference” upheaval that has in turns paralyzed, confounded and outraged Canada’s political class in recent days, we’re not even allowed to know what the federal party leaders are arguing about, exactly.
Announcing the Liberal government’s proposed changes to capital gains taxes last week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland repeated a thought experiment she first suggested in her budget speech back in the spring.
The richest Canadians, Freeland said, should ask themselves whether they “want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury, but must do so in gated communities behind ever higher fences, using private health care and airplanes, because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less-privileged compatriots burns so hot.”
Days later, after announcing his party’s intention to vote against the changes, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a 16-minute video on the topic that referenced Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
The two major international conflicts currently roiling the world, in Ukraine and Israel, should be fairly morally unambiguous, but a new poll shows a stark contrast in how Canadians view them.
Although there are clear differences between Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, both were unprovoked acts of aggression against western-aligned states orchestrated by dictatorships intent on upending the liberal postwar international order. Both Kyiv and Jerusalem have been forced to fight existential wars they did not ask for, against enemies with military ambitions that go far beyond the current conflicts.
Support for Israel is very different from what I have observed in the past, far less grassroots.
Social media has seen a concerted elite lead effort where besides the official organizations a mix of academics, journalists, MP’s and other prominent individuals work to win hearts and minds.
Some of these grandees are base hypocrites who made themselves busy in the past calling myself and my late wife “right wing Islamophobes”. Be assured their Oct 7th conversions will be quickly reversed once the wind changes direction.
Their messaging has been off as well. I have seen some tweets that are real clangers suggesting that Hamas supporters are an affront to multiculturalism when it was multiculty that enabled the Islamists to begin with.
There has been a push by some to denounce DEI not realizing that Jewish organizations such as the ADL continue to seek the blessing of official victim hood status from the DEI cabal.
Others seem to believe DEI was created solely to target Jews forgetting that Whites have been the primary target for years.
What is off-putting is their efforts to secure victim status if successful would leave Whites as the sole official DEI villain.
That’s a bad look for people seeking our assistance.
Make no mistake that Trudeau’s desperate whoring for the Muslim vote has poisoned the land and we will all pay for that for many years to come until Islamist immigration is halted.
Our elites must hate us. Why else would they have imported incompatible 3rd world cultures that have no regard for Western civilization in general let alone Israel.
A truck was spotted in Toronto on Tuesday flashing in LED lighting pro-Canadian messages and denouncing thousands of Muslims taking over city streets for ritual prayer.
Spotted in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/QvPmMYvCPf
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) June 18, 2024
Make no mistake Muslim prayer street takeovers are an act of aggression. Islam is violence.
Of course! The Toronto Police Hate Crime Unit is investigating after a van adorned with video screens saying Canada is “under siege” by Muslims was spotted driving around Toronto.
‘How I spent my summer vacation.’
That classic was often the first composition asked of students when they returned to class in the fall.
What could the essays of the various party leaders look like at the end of this summer’s break?
It would be nice if Trudeau decided to fade away but he believes himself the second coming.
You can tell how desperate the federal Liberals are — and how many political eggs they’ve put in their capital-gains basket — by just how deranged they have become in defending the main tax hike from their April budget.
First, it was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland trying to frighten Canadians into believing that without the $20-billion tax on doctors, farmers, small-business owners, tech firms and cottage owners, Canada will quickly devolve into a dysfunctional wasteland where marauding mobs wielding pitchforks and torches wander the streets looking for the hides of “the rich.”
Lawyers for three men accused of orchestrating the attempted massacre of a family at a Mississauga restaurant say the Crown’s lead witness has “significant credibility issues,” and “should not be trusted to fill the holes in the Crown’s case.”
Naqash Abbasi, Anand Nath and Suliman Raza looked on from the accused box Tuesday, as their lawyers took turns casting doubt on the Crown’s theory that the three were behind a May 29, 2021 plot to kill former business associate Naim Akl and his entire family in order to prevent Akl from telling police about the men’s ties to a terrorist group.
The lawyers, in their final address to the jury, took turns in attempting to rubbish that theory. They called for the men to be acquitted on all charges against them.
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Sgt. Daniel Dubois pulled his unmarked SUV in behind a black Kia hatchback as it began to pick up speed down a two-lane country highway through Quebec’s borderlands with New York State.
Dubois, who leads the RCMP’s Champlain border patrol unit, has a honed eye for the small details that separate local traffic from suspected vehicles on human smuggling border runs through this region of forests, fields and farms about 70 kilometres south of Montreal.
His first sign there’s something off with the Kia was the speed: rising over 100 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on a June evening when most local traffic was heading into driveways, coming back home.
The federal government is preparing to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under Canada’s Criminal Code after mounting pressure, CBC News has learned.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the talks say an announcement is expected as early as this week. Discussions are still ongoing and details not finalized, they said.
Once a group is placed on the country’s terror list, police can charge anyone who financially or materially supports the group and banks can freeze assets.
