China is warning of “consequences” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government unless it stops spreading “lies and false information” about alleged interference in Canadian affairs.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa issued a stern statement on Friday, a day after Canada announced a public inquiry into meddling by China, Russia and other state and non-state actors in Canadian national elections in 2019 and 2021.
Let them eat at food banks!
But not the people elected to run the country, province or city. Their meals are not served in a bag after a two-hour wait in a queue. In fact, while people line up in the elements and on sidewalks for basic food, the politicians who represent them party. There is no bread line or food rationing for them.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he will “willingly” testify before the public inquiry into foreign election interference if he’s asked.
“Willingly and with very much enthusiasm,” Trudeau told reporters at a news conference in Singapore.
“I think it’s important for Canadians to know exactly everything this government has been doing in regards to foreign interference and to talk frankly about the challenges that we continue to face in our democracies around the world.”
Just don’t ask him about China.
The former head of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) department responsible for engaging with foreign political parties met with multiple federal cabinet ministers and the national security adviser to the prime minister during a 2018 visit to Canada. This CCP department was recently designated an “intelligence service” by a German federal intelligence agency.
The International Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, also known as the International Liaison Department (ILD), operates “de facto as an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China and is therefore part of the Chinese intelligence apparatus,” says a “Safety Notice for Politics and Administration” in German.
Over 6,100 people from 76 different countries were caught illegally crossing into the United States along its northeastern border over the last 11 months alone — more than were apprehended there in the last 10 years combined, US border officials announced.
“Swanton Sector Agents are resolute and determined to hold the line,” said Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia in a series of social media posts Tuesday.
Garcia’s sector stretches nearly 300 miles across the US-Canadian border in New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Justice Marie-Josée Hogue of the Quebec Court of Appeal will chair a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced Thursday.
Hogue’s first report is due Feb. 29 and her mandate will focus on alleged acts of interference by China and other states, including Russia, he said.
Former governor general David Johnston was tasked with looking into allegations that China tried to meddle in the past two federal elections. He resigned from the position in June, saying his role had become too muddled in political controversy for him to continue.
I have zero faith in this farce, it’s like asking Al Capone to investigate bootlegging.
If only Gen Z and Millennials voted today, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals would fall to third-party status, a new Abacus Data survey found.
Canadian millennials are nearly twice as likely to vote for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s governing Liberals, according to new polling from Abacus Data.
The new survey of more than 2,000 adults, published last Thursday, also suggests the Liberals would fall to third-party status if an election was held today among Canada’s two youngest generation of voters.
The Tories are polling at 40 per cent among Canadian millennials, ahead of the NDP at 24 per cent and the Liberals at 21 per cent. Among the younger Gen Z cohort, the Conservatives also hold a strong lead at 32 per cent, six percentage points up over the NDP and eight percentage points ahead of the Liberals.
“Apartheid” is the most popular choice for how Canadians say that they view Israel, according to a new survey of Canadian public opinion conducted by EKOS Research Associates and sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME).
Similarly, the survey found that only a small minority of Canadians view Israel as a “vibrant democracy.”
This should make the crocodile promised to eat me last crowd happy.
A senior Ottawa police officer who helped oversee operational plans in the early days of what became known as the “Freedom Convoy” says the number of people and vehicles in the downtown core “exceeded expectations.”
Insp. Russell Lucas, the incident commander managing the convoy’s impacts, made those remarks while testifying on the second day of the criminal trial for two of the main convoy organizers.
The charges against Tamara Lich and Chris Barber include mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police.
OTTAWA – Retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve and his wife, retired Maj. Barbara Maisonneuve, are once again hoping for a standing ovation when they take the stage during the Conservative party convention in Quebec City on Thursday night.
In an interview, the military couple, lifelong Conservatives and supporters of leader Pierre Poilievre, said they were already expecting to attend the convention as delegates when the party asked them to deliver the opening speech together as a “tag team.”
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady at five per cent today, citing recent evidence that suggests the economy is weakening.
The central bank says it decided not to raise its key rate given demand in the economy is slowing and previous rate hikes need more time to take effect.
Recent data from Statistics Canada show that, despite higher fuel taxes and billions of dollars of subsidies, government attempts to shift commuters from personal vehicles to mass transit have largely failed. Yet planners stubbornly continue to act on projections this shift is occurring, pouring more public funds into mass transit while closing traffic lanes and erecting barriers explicitly designed to strangle traffic flows. Endless traffic jams encourage drivers and businesses to leave city cores and commute longer distances in the suburbs, the very opposite of what planners say they want. Governments need to respond to how Canadians actually commute, or risk further alienating themselves from taxpayers and commuters.
Can’t understand why people aren’t buying in. Rolling to work in a homeless shelter sounds swell.
Former Canadian fighter pilots face RCMP probe over training work in China
The RCMP are investigating three former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilots who are training military and civilian pilots in China, even though their employer, a South African flying academy, insists no sensitive information is being passed on to Chinese authorities.
The work the three pilots are doing in China has also come under scrutiny from Canadian security officials, who reached out to the former top guns in late August. The Department of National Defence says it referred the matter to the RCMP.
Snizhana Bora was forced from her home in Kharkiv by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She left her father, a brother and husband behind to bring her mother and four-year-old daughter to safety in Canada — only to spend the last three months in a desperate search for somewhere to live.
“It was terrible. I really cried every day,” she told CBC News.
Let’s start off with a little pop quiz. Please read this headline from CTV News and tell me the year the story was published: “Ontario will not require masks in schools this fall despite uptick in COVID cases.”
I’d like to think that it is from 2021, and that while people were still relatively concerned about the virus, the government determined that it should be up to parents whether or not their kids wore masks in class.
Alas, this is not true. Ontario still mandated masks at that time.
