Canada’s spy agency says that the Chinese police stations on Canadian soil are part of a network to track down high-level targets overseas and suppress dissent, according to recently released records.
The document, which was obtained by La Presse through the access to information regime and reported on Aug. 21, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) believes the stations are but one element the Chinese regime uses to conduct foreign interference.
Benefit top-up will help around 1,350 people find housing, City of Toronto says
A top-up to the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) will help around 1,350 people find housing and relieve pressure on Toronto’s shelter system, officials say.
The City of Toronto said in a news release Monday that new applications are being accepted following a one-time $13.4 million top-up to the COHB, funded by the City and the provincial government.
“These additional housing benefits will prioritize asylum seekers in addition to other people experiencing homelessness,” the City said.
Across North America, the pendulum on crime has swung decisively towards law and order, and politicians who are failing to adapt to this new reality are reaping the consequences.
Not too long ago, things were very different. In the late 2010s, progressive cities throughout North America were embracing policies that were designed to reduce the number of people held in prison.
The Mounties say a retired RCMP officer charged this summer with conducting foreign interference on behalf of China was targeting a wealthy Vancouver real estate entrepreneur named Kevin Sun as part of his alleged activities for Beijing.
Confidential law-enforcement information from the RCMP and FBI provided to The Globe and Mail lays out the reasons why William Majcher faces two charges for alleged offences under the Security of Information Act.
Recently, Canadians have taken to their social media feeds to post videos lamenting their inability to get ahead and even pay the bills. It’s heartbreaking stuff to watch. But we need to be aware of it because it reminds us of what really matters right now in our country.
“I don’t understand how I make $34 an hour and I can’t function,” says one woman, between tears. “I can’t pay my bills.”
Ottawa Police Service (OPS) leadership singled out a detective because she opposed Covid mandates and was critical of the vaccine, and even forbid her from discussing Covid at work, according to evidence and testimony provided during Detective Helen Grus’ discreditable conduct tribunal, which recessed Friday.
Worms that secrete a dangerous paralyzing toxin spreading in Montreal
MONTREAL — An invasive worm species from Asia that secretes a dangerous, paralyzing toxin has been spotted in the Montreal area.
Lisa Osterland, a retired teacher, found some twenty hammerhead flatworms earlier this week while removing slugs that were eating flowers in her garden in Westmount, Que., a municipality on Montreal Island.
Though Meta’s block of news availability on the social media giant’s platforms is already taking its toll on web traffic to news sites, local media outlets aren’t united on a path forward.
Just over two weeks ago, Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — began ending the availability of news on those sites in Canada in response to the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which takes effect by the end of this year.
Paul MacNeill of Island Press Limited, which publishes several weekly community papers in Prince Edward Island, and Jeff Elgie, whose company Village Media publishes around 21 community news websites in Ontario, both spoke on CBC’s The House, which aired Saturday.
Canada’s dairy farms are set to go whole hog on specially-bred cows whose burps would emit less methane—a world first.
By using a rigorous process of genetic selection, Semex, the company providing semen from ‘low-methane-emitting’ bulls, claims emissions by Canada’s dairy industry could drop 20-30% by 2050.
Researchers from the University of Guelph and the University of Alberta examined methane-emission data from the Holstein Friesian breed of cattle on 6,000 farms— about 60% of all Canada’s dairy farms.
Mrs. Doubtfire, a character immortalized by the late Robin Williams, once said, “There are all sorts of different families … But if there’s love, dear … those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.”
This sentiment, emanating from the 1993 film where a father dresses as a woman to remain connected to his children, deeply resonated. Since then, our societal perception of family has evolved.
Not sure but I think this article is testing the waters for Junior’s coming out.
Gun control groups excel at lying and deceit. Thanks to their collusion with the media, they’re also successful at spreading their lies far and wide. That’s how they manage to keep support for gun control alive in the public.
This week, Donald Trump and 18 others were indicted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, modeled on the U.S.’s federal RICO statute. That indictment is based on an alleged conspiracy “to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 presidential election.
For some Canadians, however, it has raised a more local question: why doesn’t Canada have such a law to tackle the international drug cartels and vast money-laundering operations that are also helping fuel the opioid crisis?
Why don’t we? Because Justin Trudeau’s commie friends have come rely on Laundering money through Canada.
Few buildings exemplify a town’s ups and downs as much the sprawling brown-brick factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario, that began life in the 1960s as the home of Hershey Canada.
Twice the town has risen with the fortunes of the building’s successive owners: Hershey, and then a prominent cannabis grower. And twice it has been let down by them. This week, the town received a third shot at economic redemption when Hershey, in a surprising move, said it was returning.
The building’s continuing drama has also meant that Smiths Falls has lured me out repeatedly for various reasons, personal and journalistic, over the years.
Being a parent prompted my first visit; few families in Eastern Ontario escaped at least one trip to the chocolate factory. Our now-adult sons had scant interest in what was its main attraction for me: the self-guided tour that allowed visitors to peer down from elevated windows at pristine white conveyor belts moving battalions of peanut butter cups and chocolate bars.
Maybe Hershey will make Pot infused chocolates!
When Vijay Jayaraj was growing up in India, power blackouts were frequent. He said the blackouts affected everything from schooling to employment—because when there was no power, it was difficult to get much done.
He pointed to the cotton industry of South India, a major employer.
“But all the industries were disrupted whenever there were phases … of continuous blackouts, eventually translating into thousands of lost jobs,” he told The Epoch Times
