The House of Commons Public Accounts committee has voted unanimously to ask federal administrators to testify about an $8-million solar-powered barn constructed at Rideau Hall.
New Brunswick Conservative MP Jake Stewart put forward a motion on Oct. 24 to devote a future meeting to examining the “seemingly imprudent spending.”
The bishop in charge of overseeing Catholic military chaplains says some are feeling betrayed after a new directive was issued which bans prayer during official functions.
“I have heard from Catholic chaplains and other members of the Military Ordinariate who are experiencing frustration, a sense of betrayal, and even vocational crisis,” wrote Scott McCaig, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Canada, in an Oct. 21 statement.
Bp. McCaig added there exists “significant concern” the new policy could undermine morale and spiritual resiliency for “scores” of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members and their family.
Embassy in Lebanon prepared to help every Canadian there evacuate if necessary, ambassador says
Canada’s ambassador to Lebanon says the embassy and its staff are ready to assist the approximately 17,000 registered Canadians in the country should they need to evacuate, amid escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.
Stefanie McCollum told CTV’s Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an exclusive television interview airing Tuesday that “planning is underway” for possible assisted departures, and that she “feel(s) prepared” if the federal government announces it’ll go ahead with that measure.
Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., new report warns
A U.S.-based research group that specializes in gauging geopolitical risk says Canada is showing signs of the same political contagion and polarization that has afflicted American politics.
The warning is contained in Eurasia Group’s annual “Top Risk” report for the new year, released Tuesday.
While Canada does not make the consultancy’s “Top 10” in terms of geopolitical or instability risks, the group produced three standalone sub-reports on countries affected by worldwide political turbulence: Canada, Japan and Brazil.
This is pure propaganda. Junior is losing on every issue mentioned.
Citing inaction from the Biden Administration on the New Hampshire border with Canada, the governor of the Granite State is taking action.
A joint task force comprised of local, county and state law enforcement has been established to conduct patrols along New Hampshire’s border with Canada to combat threats and illicit activity.
Gov. Chris Sununu, Attorney General John Formella and New Hampshire Department of Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn announced the establishment of the Northern Border Alliance Task Force today. The task force will perform patrols along the northern border to reduce crime, illicit activity, threat response and collect criminal intelligence in cooperation with federal law enforcement.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announced in August that they had legally separated, neither offered any explanation as to why their 18-year marriage had come to an end.
OTTAWA—Newly-released secret documents show the country’s top intelligence agency was concerned there are “no consequences” for foreign interference in Canadian democracy, as a parliamentary committee calls on the federal government to strengthen criminal laws to crack down on the threat that is the focus of an upcoming public inquiry.
U.S. government auditors have raised concerns about a shortage of parts and reliability issues for the very aircraft that Canada hopes to purchase in an $8-billion deal.
The Liberal government is involved in discussions for the proposed acquisition from the U.S. and Boeing of a fleet of P-8 surveillance aircraft to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force’s CP-140 Aurora planes.
Every Friday, people line up around the block to pick up dinner from a tiny church off College Street in downtown Toronto. Volunteers working for the food program inside serve a hot casserole, some rice, and maybe fruit and yogurt if supplies come through.
Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig, who helps run the program out of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields church, said it regularly serves 130 people for dinner on Fridays — compared to the two dozen they saw a few years ago.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, the lineup for breakfast is even longer — with hundreds of parents, seniors, students, working adults and those who are unemployed.
The Federal Court has approved a $23 billion settlement agreement — the largest in Canadian history — for First Nations children and families who experienced racial discrimination through Ottawa’s chronic underfunding of the on-reserve foster care system and other family services.
The settlement agreement follows a 2019 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) ruling that ordered Ottawa to pay the maximum human rights penalty for discrimination: $40,000 for each affected First Nations child and family member.
The head of Canada’s spy agency says previous attempts by the Chinese regime to purchase locations in the country for collecting intelligence have been blocked by the government.
“We have seen in the past, acquisition of land, acquisition of different companies … when you start to dig a little bit further, you realize that … there is another intent,” said Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault in an interview with U.S. network CBS.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and dozens of MPs have been targeted by a “Spamouflage” campaign connected to China, which saw a bot network leave thousands of comments on their social media accounts in recent weeks.
According to a new statement from Global Affairs Canada, the federal government’s “Rapid Response Mechanism” detected the campaign, which it says traces back to the People’s Republic of China.
OTTAWA – The Crown has stayed a criminal charge against “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich that alleged she violated her bail conditions last summer.
Lich was released on bail in early 2022 after spending more than two weeks in jail following her arrest in the final days of the protest.
We have Islamists celebrating mass murder & calling for a genocide of Jews in our streets but Trudeau serves up a show trial of radical horn honking revolutionaries.
The Chinese communist regime employs a “mass collection” approach to subvert its target countries, sending numerous operatives abroad to gradually infiltrate different facets of society, says a former senior manager with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
In an interview with The Epoch Times “American Thought Leaders” program, Michel Juneau-Katsuya spoke on the interference tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that he has observed over the past several decades. They involve collaborating with gang members and tycoons who have immigrated to Canada and made investments there, he said.
The leader of the Conservative Party in Canada and Justin Trudeau’s main opponent in the upcoming elections, Pierre Poilievre, has criticised the Canadian prime minister’s handling of the diplomatic row with Delhi once again and said he has reduced himself to a “laughing stock” in India.
“Justin Trudeau is considered a laughing stock in India – the world’s biggest democracy,” Mr Poilievre said in an interview with Nepal’s Namaste Radio Toronto.
