Two scientists fired from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg in 2019 had an “extensive relationship” with China that they did not properly disclose to Canadian health officials, according to documents that were finally released over four years later.
Health Minister Mark Holland announced the tabling of the documents in Parliament on Wednesday, after a special ad-hoc committee formed to review the documents recommended they be released unredacted.
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests support for Pierre Poilievre is growing, and most Canadians are optimistic about their household finances.
Support for the Tories was up one point to 41 per cent in the latest Leger tracking poll, which asks respondents for their voting intentions each month.
Fed up with economic issues, many young voters are moving to the right
… At a visceral level, such people simply can’t grasp the sense of futility that so many young Canadians feel at being unable to afford a home. Or perhaps a young couple was able to put down a down payment, but now confront skyrocketing mortgage payments, even as inflation eats away at their wages.
Tarion facing ‘largest claim event’ in its history as builders walk away from projects — and home buyers lose deposits
Ontario’s real estate consumer watchdog says it is facing the “largest claim event” in its history, with the organization expecting to owe more than $90 million to home buyers this year as builders walk away from home and condo projects.
In its 2024 business plan, Tarion said the claims are expected for deposits from homebuyers who purchased homes or condos from builders that either cancelled projects or were operating illegally, and didn’t comply with warranty legislation.
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are condemning Justin Trudeau for “letting down” Ukraine after the prime minister signed a new $3.02 billion aid deal with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but are vague on whether a Poilievre government would abide by the 10-year agreement.
Asked if the Conservatives would commit to honouring the bilateral security agreement sealed last weekend in Ukraine, the office of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre sidestepped a direct answer, saying only that Conservatives would “continue to support Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s illegal invasion.”
Oh c’mon Star, much of what Trudeau has promised Ukraine is still “in the mail.”
Justice Minister Arif Virani says the Online Harms Act won’t give the federal government the power to determine what is and isn’t appropriate content.
The bill, tabled by the Liberal government Monday, includes an amendment to define “hatred” in Canada’s Criminal Code. That definition, Virani said, does not include insulting or offensive content, but rather recognized hate speech like calling for genocide.
“People insult groups or people or races or religions all of the time. That’s going to continue to be awful but lawful,” Virani told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
“But when you call for the extermination of a people, you’re hitting a hate standard that’s already been entrenched by the courts.”
From the river to the sea Virani will invent the crime that fits me.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in 1949. This alliance of member states, most of them based in Europe, established a collective security system to protect against possible outside threats. During the Cold War, the biggest concern was the Soviet Union and its allies. Since the Iron Curtain’s collapse, NATO has shifted its focus to political and military efforts in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
As the House of Commons took a breather after an intense kickoff to 2024, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals appear stuck in a rut in the minds of Canadian voters.
Abacus Data’s latest survey suggests while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives saw a slight decline in their lead over the government, that lead persists nonetheless, with that party holding the support of 41 per cent of those polled, compared to 24 per cent for the Liberals – the same spot they were in the last time the pollster took voters’ temperatures.
OTTAWA — As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to be a grinding stalemate with no end in sight, public opinion about the war in Canada has similarly stagnated.
While a significant chunk of the country supports the government’s efforts to support Ukraine, it is balanced out by a similar number of people who oppose it or think it should be increased.
In the terrifying months after the war in Sudan erupted, Kholoud Abakar and her children abandoned their home five times, moving from city to city in the devastated country in a race for survival.
Now, her Canadian family is fighting to get her and her seven children to safety in Canada. But even as Ottawa prepares a new family-reunification pathway to help thousands of Sudanese reach this country, restrictions in the rules could dash the hopes of Ms. Abakar and many others like her.
On Tuesday, the federal government is set to launch a program for up to 3,250 Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor relatives in Sudan to enter Canada.
Gee, which Muslim state would would welcome Canadian refugees? Oh that’s right none of them.
They don’t even take their own.
Surveillance footage captured the moment a gunman wielding an automatic weapon unleashed a hail of bullets on a blacked-out BMW in suburban Vancouver.
The early morning shooting occurred at around 12:25 am PT on Thursday in Metro Vancouver’s White Rock, and left four men hospitalized in serious condition.
The video, obtained by Radio Punjab, provides a glimpse into the chaotic events that transpired as a gunman on foot opens fire at a driver seemingly attempting to exit a parking lot, leaving the SUV riddled with bullets on the driver’s side.
h/t MW
A man who is suing the government because he says his son died due to taking a COVID-19 vaccine says he finds it “disgusting” that the government wants him to drop the case in return for not having to pay legal expenses.
“I’ve never been insulted so bad in my life as that offer. It’s disgusting,” Dan Hartman told The Epoch Times. “It’s insulting and it’s disrespectful to my son’s memory. They’re saying my son’s life wasn’t worth anything.”
A federal election isn’t scheduled to happen until October 2025, but Joe Rogan is already warning Canadians: a vote for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will quicken the country’s continued slide.
Within 17 days of arriving in Canada, Ali was introduced to methamphetamine.
“I was lonely and was thinking of suicide,” said the international student from Turkey.
Ali said he has been using crystal meth on and off since he moved to Saskatoon in 2022. Now, the 23-year-old is working toward recovery but said mental health services in his language and culturally-specific health care are lacking.
This reeks of “Capacity building” – rent seekers looking for a tax payer subsidized sinecure.
And Ali should be sent packing.
At long last inflation has fallen. The consumer price index rose by 2.9 per cent in January, down from 3.4 per cent in December. That’s great news for, well, just about everyone.
As Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said last November, inflation is “our common enemy — not only because it creates financial pain and social upheaval, but also because no one wins when inflation is high and volatile.”
However, this modest fall in inflation will not remedy the damage and precariousness introduced by the pandemic and the inflationary run up it brought about. Sharp rises in inflation create societal rifts that a subsequent fall in inflation cannot so easily solve.
Conservatives lead by 17 over the Liberals. It’s been 644 straight days that the Conservatives have led the Liberals in Abacus Data polling.
If an election were held today, 41% of committed voters would vote Conservatives with the Liberals at 24%, the NDP at 19% and the Greens at 5%. The BQ is at 35% in Quebec.
Retired general Rick Hillier, Canada’s former chief of defence staff, says he believes the country risks facing “irrelevance” in an unstable geopolitical world.
In an interview on The West Block, host Mercedes Stephenson asked Hillier what he thought Canada’s biggest national security risk is amid the war in Ukraine entering its third year, conflict in the Middle East and aggression from China, Russia and Iran.
It’s Trudeau not Canada that’s being shunned. The world is just waiting for some semblance of sanity to be restored on Junior’s departure.
