Not long after Russia began bombing Ukraine, Oleksii Martynenko packed his bags and fled Kremenchuk, a once-tranquil but now war-torn city roughly 190 miles (300 kilometres) from Kyiv. He moved to Stockholm and took a job as a line cook. One year later, as his work visa approached expiry, he relocated to Canada’s largest city.
h/t Mauser
A recent study reveals hundreds of publications from Toronto universities collaborating with Chinese academic institutions linked to the military on sensitive research. A former intelligence officer said the ongoing partnerships signal an incentive gap in curbing such practices.
The study, released in October by the Frontier Assessments Unit (FAU), identified a total of 371 publications from collaborations between Canadian universities and seven Chinese academies known as the “Seven Sons of National Defence” due to their strong affiliations with the People’s Liberation Army, the primary military force of communist China.
WINDSOR, Ont. – A man accused of killing four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., was found guilty Thursday of four counts of first-degree murder in a case that had sparked a national conversation on combating Islamophobia.
Jurors in a Windsor, Ont., courtroom also found Nathaniel Veltman guilty of one count of attempted murder.
Veltman, 22, had pleaded not guilty to all the charges and quietly looked straight ahead as his verdict was delivered after the jury deliberated for roughly five hours.
OTTAWA – The country’s top court is slated to decide today whether it will hear the case of four Canadian men held in Syria who argue Ottawa has a legal duty to help them return home.
The detained Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in ramshackle detention centres run by Kurdish forces that wrested the war-ravaged region from militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The men are asking the Supreme Court to hear a challenge of a Federal Court of Appeal ruling, handed down in May, that said Ottawa is not obligated under the law to repatriate them.
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party sent the Liberals back to the drawing board in drafting their upcoming pharmacare legislation, as the end-of-year deadline set in the supply-and-confidence agreement between both parties is rapidly approaching.
“We’ve seen a first draft and we made it very clear that the first draft was insufficient for our support. So the government has taken that back and is working on some amendments,” said Singh during a press conference in Toronto in describing the ongoing negotiations between both parties.
A couple of drama queens strutting for the media.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now has the dubious distinction of being the only world leader to be publicly rebuked on Twitter by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Which says a lot given the lack of love the Jewish state generally gets from the international community. Yet, as Julius Caesar found out, it stings much harder when your own friend stabs you in the back.
A House of Commons committee is set to question Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland about Canada’s dealings with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which has been accused of being under the influence of Beijing. This comes five months after Ms. Freeland’s commitment to suspend collaboration with the bank.
MPs voted in favour of an Oct. 23 motion asking the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations to invite the Minister of Finance to appear as a witness in its examination of “Canada’s freeze in government-led activity” with the AIIB, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
LISTEN: “Bill Morneau said it was about jobs, jobs, jobs. There were no jobs. Then whistleblower @BobPickard came out and said the bank was a ‘cesspool’ of Communist intrigue.” #cdnpoli https://t.co/iY6nQVw6gR
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) November 14, 2023
Why is the American economy booming (sort of) while Canada’s is shrinking on a per-capita basis?
There are two culprits: rampant immigration and the economic cluelessness of the Trudeau government.
A Canada Border Service Agency employee opened himself up to the threat of exploitation by “hostile intelligence services” after visiting massage parlours in China, Japan and Canada, documents obtained by CBC News reveal.
The case is just one of more than 500 allegations the CBSA deemed “founded” last year and released as part of an access to information request.
Really? No one cared when Jack Layton was found in at the Velvet Touch. Not even Yoko.
One in 10 people in Toronto are now relying on food banks, twice as many as the year prior, a new report finds.
Food bank usage has smashed another record this year, with more than 2.5 million visits between April 2022 and March 2023 — a 51 per cent increase from the year before — and there are no signs of slowing down, according to this year’s Who’s Hungry report from Daily Bread and North York Harvest food banks.
Daily Bread and North York Harvest indicate in the report they are anticipating Toronto food bank visits in 2023 will surpass three million visits.
The leader the federal official Opposition is calling for immediate action against the Iranian regime, in the wake of Global News reporting revealing the extent of the Islamic republic’s interference in Canada.
Pierre Poilievre was in Vancouver Monday, where he responded to a Global News investigation that revealed hundreds of regime insiders living in the country.
from an election
Breaking…
The Trudeau Liberals are being absolutely smashed in the polls and may soon fall behind the federal NDP.
This epic Liberal implosion is totally deserved for the horrendous things they have done to Canadians. pic.twitter.com/LuF3o73UQt
— Paul Mitchell (@PaulMitchell_AB) November 13, 2023
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a “massive pressure campaign” to push the governing Liberals to help pass a piece of legislation that would remove the carbon tax from fuels used in some agricultural activities.
“My message to Canadians is: Call your Liberal MP, tell them to get Justin Trudeau out of the way,” Poilievre said about the prime minister, during a news conference in Vancouver on Monday.
Poilievre was speaking in favour of a private member’s bill put forward by Conservative MP Ben Lobb. Bill C-234 passed the House of Commons in March, mostly supported by opposition parties. It’s now in the Senate, but procedural wrangling has delayed a vote on it until later this month.
With poll after poll suggesting the Liberals are trailing the Conservatives by double-digit margins, pressure is ratcheting up on Justin Trudeau to reconsider his plans to lead the party in the next election, say some former senior Liberals, but others say time is on Trudeau’s side and there’s a pathway for the prime minister to get out of this slump in the coming months.
I don’t see how anyone can believe the economy will be back on track when Trudeau’s immigration plan will exasperate the affordability issue and further the decline in Canada’s standard of living. Not to mention his Net Zero madness.
Misunderstanding from social media spurs rise in international student food bank visits
A misconception about how Canadian food banks operate — combined with some misleading information on social media — has led to a sudden increase in usage among international students at London’s food bank along with others in Canada.
London Food Bank co-executive director Glen Pearson said his staff was already dealing with a 43 per cent increase in visits at the start of this school year when they began to notice a spike in food requests from post-secondary students.
