Bank of Canada Trademarks ‘Digital Canadian Dollar’

The Bank of Canada has taken its first steps toward trademarking a “digital Canadian dollar,” records show. The move comes despite the central bank saying last year that its future actions on a digital dollar would be decided by voters.

The Bank of Canada (BoC), in a December filing under the Trademarks Act, has claimed ownership of any “digital dollar” launched within the country.

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Iranian student, denied permit to study in Canada, disputes security danger label

OTTAWA – An Iranian man is challenging the federal government’s decision to deny him a permit to study at a Montreal university because he is considered a danger to the security of Canada.

A lawyer for Reza Jahantigh says his client was distraught upon learning of the refusal and will seek judicial review in Federal Court.

The Immigration Department’s decision last month is the latest indication Ottawa is tightening restrictions on academics deemed to pose a national security risk.

Why is he even granted an appeal?

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John Robson: Canada Can’t Afford More Failure on the Defence File

In April 2023, then-Defence Minister Anita Anand claimed a $400 million National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System provided by Canada was “en route” to Ukraine. But it wasn’t, and still isn’t. So if you’re concerned about instability abroad, our broken government, and the ominous juxtaposition of the two, it’s worth pondering how such a bizarre thing could occur.


Cripes … I recall senior officers denying that their woke assault on the CAF had anything to do with the recruitment crisis.

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‘Nil’ research done on impact of foreign students working unlimited hours: Report

Access-to-information records showed that federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign students to work unlimited hours without researching the impact on unemployed Canadians.

The Liberals made sure their Corporate cronies have plenty of low wage slaves.

We are governed by Dickheads.

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Freeland looks like she’s enjoying it …

She is despicable.

h/t Everyone

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Parents weigh in on giving consent for children changing names or pronouns at school

A legal challenge to Saskatchewan’s new law requiring parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school is back in court this week. New Brunswick enacted a similar measure last year, and other provinces are looking at doing the same.

Lawyers representing UR Pride, an LGBT group in Regina, say the rule discriminates against youth who aren’t able to come out to their families. The Saskatchewan and New Brunswick governments have said they made the changes after hearing from many parents that they want them.

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John Ivison: Trudeau won’t shake off this latest vacation fail as easily as the others

The British public accepted the Royal Family’s six-week-long summer sojourns as long as they were taken at a gloomy, cold castle in the rainy Scottish Highlands.

Similarly, the Canadian public is amenable to their prime ministers taking vacation time, as long as they don’t look like they are having fun.

Liberal graft.

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NP View: Hate in the streets fuelled by Trudeau’s ‘post-national’ vision of Canada

In recent months, we have witnessed a critical mass of antisemitic Canadians willing to vandalize Jewish businesses, protest relentlessly for a Palestinian nation-state “from the river to the sea” and even threaten police officers with death.

It’s not entirely clear how much of the blame for this despicable behaviour can be placed on the fundamentally racist ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion that has been allowed to fester in universities for years, and how much is a result of the erosion of shared values among Canadians.

Give this a read, it nails what we have discussed on this blog for years. I am frankly surprised a mainstream media source printed it.

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ANALYSIS: Canada’s Spike in Youth Crime Induced by Culture Shift, Addiction

A decade ago, young offenders were mostly motivated by poverty, say some youth workers. Now, you have kids as young as 13 getting high on crystal meth, making them paranoid and violent; violent subcultures are reaching into middle-class homes like never before; and young men are increasingly lacking positive masculine role models and struggle with self-esteem, causing them to seek brotherhood in gangs.

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Video of Toronto cops delivering coffee to anti-Israel protestors sparks outrage

Facing mounting criticism for an alleged tolerance of a series of road-closing anti-Israel protests, Toronto police members have sparked renewed outrage thanks to a video showing them delivering coffee to said protestors.

Posted to social media platform ‘X’ at 2 p.m. on Saturday by Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d, the video shows a Toronto police constable — his face concealed behind a black neck gaiter — delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee and a stack of cups — to anti-Israel protestors occupying the closed Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401.

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MP-Promoted Petition to Remove Canada From UN Gains Over 71,000 Signatures

A petition filed in the House of Commons asking for Canada to pull out of the United Nations has garnered over 71,000 signatures as its Tory MP sponsor takes flak from Liberal ministers.

“Over 60,000 Canadians have now signed a petition calling on Canada to protect our national sovereignty by withdrawing from the UN and its subsidiary organizations,” wrote Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis on the X platform on Jan. 3. Ms. Lewis is sponsoring the petition filed by Doug Porter from Burnaby, B.C.

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FOURNIER: Canadian pathologists stumped by explosive growth in deaths from unknown causes

Statistics Canada has a talent for reporting deaths with numbing precision, but in such a way that makes it hard to know what’s really going on. Perhaps it’s just me but for example, if 16,043 people out of 334,623 are recorded as having died of unspecified ‘unknown causes,’ I’m sure they’re right. But take a look at the chart below.

H/T XC

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Michel Maisonneuve: Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world — and it’s our own fault

The relative peace we have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War has never been as challenged as it is today, and Canada, once a reasonably formidable player on the international stage, has no role in shaping the world’s uncertain future. Our military and diplomatic capabilities have been permitted to diminish, and major voices in both defence and business have taken to warning the rest of us of the consequences.

Perrin Beatty, former minister of national defence and current CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, decried the woeful state of Canada’s presence on the world stage last weekend in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This was not Beatty’s first public plea to end the government’s complacency and take defence seriously. In 1987, as minister of defence, he tabled a white paper proposing to rearm the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), increase funding and add nuclear submarines to the fleet. His idea was good then and it is good now.

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