OTTAWA – Liberal MPs are set to gather for what is expected to be their final caucus meeting of the year, a day after Canada shifted its stance to join international calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Canada’s vote at the United Nations General Assembly was a departure from its long-standing policy of voting alongside Israel at the international body, which on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to demand a humanitarian ceasefire.
In business — as in life — warnings don’t usually come attached with loud blaring sirens.
They often first appear as weak signals, one after the other, and as they become more frequent, they also get a little louder.
A number of news stories over the past few weeks have been exactly those kinds of signals — under-the-radar warnings about the state of our economy and our society.
The federal government knew for several months of serious governance, conflict-of-interest and human-resources infractions at its main funding agency for green technology, but softened a report that detailed the evidence to keep senior leaders in place, the whistleblower who made the initial complaints testified on Monday.
OTTAWA — Canada’s tax on Netflix Inc. and other foreign digital services companies may be a major irritant for the United States tech sector, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it doesn’t seem to be much concern to President Joe Biden.
If the Conservatives maintain a double-digit margin lead until the next election, they will target safe Liberal and NDP seats instead of just marginal ridings, say senior political strategists.
“It’s going to be a bloodbath. It’d be worse than 2011 [that year’s federal election] for the Liberals,” said Dan Robertson, a former senior Conservative strategist in the 2021 and 2011 election campaigns who now works as a senior adviser of Focaldata. “We’re looking at 1984 seat counts, not 2011.”
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at “scapegoating” the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.
Trudeau says in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press that the carbon price is not to blame for the cost-of-living crisis, and eliminating it will neither lower prices nor make climate action cheaper.
He says cancelling it, as the Conservatives are demanding, would also eliminate rebate cheques that are worth between $240 and $386 every three months for a family of four in most provinces.
It’s like government by Tourette’s.
British intelligence has praised Canada’s electronic spy agency for being “nimble” and more advanced in some areas than they are, notably in cybersecurity where Canada is “at the head of the pack.”
A five-year study by the British House of Commons’ Intelligence and Security committee, said Canada plays a “leading role” in cybersecurity in the Five Eyes intelligence partnership, which also includes Britain, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
Canada announced a plan to encourage farmers to reduce emissions from cattle through a credit trading system, the latest climate-change initiative introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
The Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle proposal would grant farmers who reduce methane emissions generated by cow burps to earn credits that can be sold to other businesses to meet their own emission targets.
HALIFAX—Is democracy becoming a form of hope in which people no longer believe?
A hint of that has surfaced in a number of ways that could be described as declining citizen interest: apathy toward elections, political events, public meetings, and voting itself. Ontario offers a disquieting insight into the depth of that apathy.
Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, warned on Saturday that the former president would invade U.S. allies Mexico and Canada if he’s reelected to the White House in 2024.
Cohen has been a staunch critic of his former boss in light of Trump’s plethora of legal troubles. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, and was sentenced to three years in jail. Cohen’s charges were in connection to hush-money payments made in 2016 on behalf of Trump—who faces 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations that he falsified business records to cover the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels who alleged she had an affair with Trump. The former president has denied the affair and maintains his innocence in the case.
Over the past month and a half, Jews around the world have acquired incredible clarity on antisemitism.
The view in Canada is chilling — massive pro-Palestinian and even pro-Hamas protests featuring thousands of furious people calling unequivocally for the genocide and extermination of Israel “from the river to the sea.”
Sorry to break it to you Jenny but Canada has been Mass Immigrated & Multicultured into a sick society. There is no going back.
And FYI all the demos are “Pro-Hamas.”
A pro-Palestinian rally turned violent Sunday afternoon as police clashed with protesters outside the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, leading to at least one arrest.
The Star observed a police officer on foot ram his bicycle into the bicycle of a woman standing in front of him. The woman, who was holding her bicycle, fell over as the bike toppled. A man ran up after and shoved an officer to the ground in retaliation. Police then tackled, beat and arrested him.
Toronto police arresting an anti-Israeli protester today pic.twitter.com/zLzHJQsr5s
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 10, 2023
It’s been a slow burn, simmering out of the spotlight, but the Liberal Party’s campaign against Pierre Poilievre is beginning to crystallize.
The bite-sized videos disseminated via their official channels wield Poilievre’s own words like a double-edged sword. One called “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” revisits his infamous apple orchard interview, juxtaposing his commentary with accusations of disseminating fake news, endorsing woke ideologies, and fighting a so-called radical left authoritarian agenda.
The Liberal record of unethical governance and punitive policy decisions that have deeply harmed Canadians cannot be overcome by a few lame videos screaming “Trump.”
British Columbia Liberal MP Ken Hardie now claims he didn’t mean to link Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre “directly” to the quadruple murders in Winnipeg two weekends ago.
I think that’s rubbish.
Translation – Libs are getting owned on Twitter!
Senators are about to turn the table on themselves and study the consequences of their own actions on social media. It’s a needed exercise as more and more politicians seek to whip up public outrage online and end up putting their colleagues in danger in real life.
What’s unfortunate is that it’s not in the Senate where the behaviour is most egregious. It’s in the House of Commons where chasing views and a larger reach on social media is incentivizing MPs to be more extreme in their rhetoric and less collegial in person.
