Canada

Ottawa ready to pay financial settlements to the two Michaels over their ordeal in Chinese prisons

Ottawa is willing to sign off on multimillion-dollar settlement packages for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to compensate them for the nearly three years they were incarcerated under harsh conditions in Chinese prisons, two government sources say.

Federal lawyers are in compensation talks with the two men and are hoping to conclude financial settlements early in the new year, the sources say. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to discuss the delicate legal negotiations.

Huh?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Hope you don’t lose Christmas Dinner … The Rosemary and Justin Show

Despite a difficult 2023, Trudeau says he’s not ready to ‘walk away’

While it hasn’t been a terrific year for the Liberal government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no intention of stepping aside.

Recent polls have placed the Liberals well behind the Conservatives in voter support.

But Trudeau told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton in a year-end interview that he’s determined to stay on as Liberal leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Antique box tells heart-breaking and forgotten Canadian history

Five years after it was discovered in a Scottish auction house in Glasgow, a long wooden box of about 80 glass negatives is now in Canada, where it is putting a spotlight on the heart-breaking history of the British Home Children.

The child migration scheme sent a group of 100,000 impoverished children from Britain to overseas colonies between 1869 and the 1940s. The images discovered inside this humble wooden box in 2018 – now seen for the first time – reveal much about a difficult history shared by the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

“This box is a critical part of our history,” Lori Oschefski, president of the charity Home Children Canada who has just purchased the box for the foundation’s archives, said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. By far, it’s the most complete box that I have ever seen.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, UK

Hamas supporter threats cross the line. Mall marchers exceed Charter limits, Canadian tolerance standards

HAD ENOUGH yet? Of disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in Canada, I mean. Screaming mobs waving the Palestinian flag this week stormed into busy shopping malls in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver disrupting Christmas shopping — hauling down a Christmas tree at one.

Terrified children could be heard on videos crying as their mothers whisked them away from Christmas displays swarmed by demonstrators, leaving one mall Santa stunned at the commotion.

Freedom of expression carries with it the democratic limits that the Charter allows for. It does now allow for harassment, intimidation, mischief or counselling hatred and terrorism. It certainly should not allow thugs to ruin some kids’ Christmas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Fentanyl super labs in Canada pose new threat for U.S. opioid epidemic

At a rural property an hour outside Vancouver in October, Canadian police found 2.5 million doses of fentanyl and 528 gallons of chemicals in a shipping container and a storage unit. Six months earlier, they raided a home in a cookie-cutter Vancouver subdivision packed with barrels of fentanyl-making chemicals, glassware and lab equipment.

Thousands of miles away outside Toronto, police in August found what is believed to be the largest fentanyl lab so far in Canada — hidden at a property 30 miles from the U.S. border crossing at Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drugs, USA

Pro-Palestinians ‘attack’ counter-demonstrator, Canadian flag at Toronto protest

An Iranian-Canadian activist says violent pro-Palestinian demonstrators dislocated his shoulder and ripped away a flag at a protest in downtown Toronto on Saturday.

Video on social media shows Salman Sima, who has counter-protested at recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Toronto, struggling with protesters to keep his “lion and sun” version of the Iranian flag, used by opponents of the Islamic regime of Iran. Goldie Ghamari, an Ontario MPP, said the flag represents “freedom and democracy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Trudeau’s Christmas Gifts to Canadians: Unaffordable Housing, Inaccessible Health Care, Out-of-Control Immigration and Sagging Productivity

On Tuesday Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s population leapt by 430,635 people from July through September of this year, after previously reporting that our nation added 1,050,110 people in 2022. That was the largest such annual number ever recorded and the nation’s highest percentage growth rate since 1957. The ostensibly non-political federal agency proclaimed this result as “certainly cause for celebration.” Ninety-six percent of the growth came from international migration. People accepted as new permanent residents accounted for 437,000 of those immigrants, while 613,000 were classified as non-permanent. In November, the federal government announced plans to grant permanent residency to 465,000 this year, with a goal of half a million by 2025. Combined with a high rate of non-permanent arrivals – such as students and temporary foreign workers – this means Canada will continue to have by far the highest immigration rate of any G7 country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Murder charge laid in ‘senseless’ stabbing of newcomer from Ukraine: Winnipeg police

A 19-year-old man is charged with murder in what Winnipeg police call the “senseless” and unprovoked stabbing of a recent immigrant from Ukraine.

Ivan Rubanik, 46, died in hospital after he was stabbed at Watt Street and Talbot Avenue on Wednesday morning, police said. He was taken to hospital in unstable condition, where he was pronounced dead.

h/t MW

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Could the progressive vote shift from the federals Liberals to the NDP?

The downtown riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s has been a safe Liberal seat for more than three decades, with the Conservatives coming in second and the NDP usually a distant third. Nonetheless, the New Democrat vote will bear close watching in a by-election there that must be called now that incumbent MP Carolyn Bennett has retired.

The results in Toronto-St. Paul’s could tell us much about the political future of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP. It could even signal whether there is any realistic prospect of the New Democrats one day overtaking the Liberals as the dominant progressive party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Grading Trudeau, Poilievre, Singh on their 2023 political performances

This year saw some significant movement when it came to political party support in Canada, amid a series of major news-making moments and federal policy challenges.

In the second half of the year, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives led the Liberals in polling by a two-digit margin as housing and the cost of living became top of mind concerns for Canadians.

That sliding support prompted questions over whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will continue to lead the Liberals into the next election, which is currently scheduled for fall of 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Foreign Interference Inquiry Officially A Farce After “Justice” Rejects Full Standing For Conservatives

Commissioner rejects Conservatives’ appeal for full standing at foreign interference inquiry

Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, who heads Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference by China and other states, on Friday rejected an appeal by the Conservative Party for full standing during the fact-finding phase of the probe.

Hearings will begin Jan. 29, the commission announced Friday.

The Conservative Party was only granted intervenor standing during the first phase looking into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections, meaning it can present evidence and suggest witnesses but will not have the power to cross-examine witnesses or gain access to evidence presented outside of the hearings.

The Liberals need to lose every seat they hold and then we kick Quebec out of Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

It’s not misquided it’s their religion

SNOBELEN: Religion an easy target for misguided haters

By now, everyone has seen the social media clips of Hamas supporters “protesting” in malls across Canada. Seems they don’t like shoppers or Santa or something.

I can understand Christians getting a little testy with Santa. Christmas trees, reindeer and even Frosty the Snowman aren’t, last I checked, religious symbols.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Something ‘clearly wrong’ when Hamas praises Canadian foreign policy

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received the equivalent of a long-distance high five from Hamas last week, after Canada’s affirmative U.N. vote on Dec. 12 supporting an “immediate sustainable ceasefire” in Israel’s war against the Hamas terror organization.

In a five minute English-language video statement posted on Dec. 18, Ghazi Hamad, a senior leader of the terror group, praised Canada, Australia and New Zealand by name.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

Key Prosperity Indicator falls for 5th straight quarter under Trudeau government

A key indicator to measure living standards has dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter in Canada, with the latest reading being called “unprecedented outside a recession” by the National Bank.

The bank’s Monthly Economic Monitor for December and January says that GDP per capita recorded an annualized contraction of 4.4 percent in the third quarter.

The indicator measures the economic output per countries’ populations. Statistics Canada said in a mid-November analysis that per capita output and business productivity are “trending lower” and below pre-pandemic levels.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?