Randy Hillier, a former Ontario MPP and one of the loudest voices in the protest movement against pandemic lockdowns, argued a Charter challenge Thursday, claiming the province’s stay-at-home order and limits on outdoor gatherings unjustifiably violated his right to peaceful protest.
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China’s Many Spies in Canada
For China watchers, the arrest of a retired RCMP officer for allegedly helping China with its interference efforts in Canada is not surprising, given Beijing’s extensive network of spies and agents in Canada and its ambitions for global domination.
Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, says Canada is particularly infested with a proportionally higher number of CCP agents compared to other countries.
Vehicle theft, robberies driving uptick in crime across Canada: StatCan
Canada saw a surge in vehicle theft and robberies in 2022, as police-reported crime rose for the second successive year.
A new report released by Statistics Canada on Thursday showed that the incidence and severity of crime – as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI) – in the country increased by four per cent compared to the previous year.
Video shows victim being thrown from moving car during violent carjacking in Mississauga
h/t Mauser
14 Indian nationals caught fleeing Trudeaupia by US border patrol
A mysterious cellphone, cryptic instructions and an interrupted smuggling run of 14 Indian nationals
U.S. Border Patrol agents recently disrupted an attempted smuggling run moving 14 Indian nationals from Canada into the U.S. across the Quebec-New York State border, court records show.
This was one of the largest interceptions of Indian nationals by the U.S. Border Patrol in a single smuggling event over the past three years along this area of the Canada-U.S. border, according to U.S. federal court records.
Ottawa can’t wash its hands of Toronto’s refugee crisis
Here’s a short list of things that Ottawa spends money on but has no constitutional responsibility for: health care, child care, new fridges for big grocery companies, and Gen Y tech consultants for small businesses.
Not on that list, however, is full-fledged support to pay for the rapidly mounting costs of immigration – borders and immigration being, when last we checked, within the ambit of the federal government.
Stay-at-home mom fined $37K for organizing anti-restrictions protests
The COVID-19 public health crisis may be over, but a stay-at-home mom who organized two large anti-restriction protests in Aylmer in 2020 found out there’s still a hefty cost to thumbing her nose at pandemic emergency measures.
Tens of thousands of Canadian patients are harmed by hospital ‘errors’ every year
On a July afternoon in 2010, Anna Maria Fiocco, then 62, underwent surgery to fix a leaky heart valve. She woke up a paraplegic, the “unfortunate victim,” a judge would rule seven years later, “of a therapeutic accident.”
‘I hope the Canadians are watching’: U.S. senator tees off on Trudeau’s determined lack of military spending
A senior U.S. military figure has agreed to have tough conversations with Canada about defence spending when he takes over a binational military body.
Lt.-Gen. Gregory Guillot was speaking during a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday to confirm his nomination as the next head of North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
His comments came after a Republican senator chastised, at length, what he called Canada’s insufficient military spending and said he hoped there were Canadians watching the hearing.
Trudeau’s immigration scam creating ‘mirage’ of Canadian economic prosperity: economists
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fueled economic growth and plugged gaps in the labor market by ramping up immigration, but now new arrivals are straining public services and contributing to an overheating economy, economists say.
Since taking power in 2015, Trudeau has brought in an estimated 2.5 million new permanent residents, driving the population above 40 million.
Trudeau is deliberately changing the nations demographic. He hates Canada.
Toronto Star Gets Moist … Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle reveals his ruthless streak — and that he’s not afraid to bruise egos
Earlier this week, several leading members of Justin Trudeau’s team were asked which of the summer blockbusters they wanted to see first: “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer.”
The prime minister wasn’t one of the respondents to the Politico survey, hunkered down as he was working his own summer blockbuster of sorts — the major cabinet shuffle unveiled on Wednesday.
Foreign interference: CSIS told B.C. premier it can’t share intelligence, documents show
Canada’s intelligence service told B.C. Premier David Eby during a briefing on Chinese foreign interference in March that it could not share secret information, according to notes of the meeting obtained by Global News.
The hour-long March 28 meeting between the premier and the regional director general of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service followed a news report alleging China had meddled in Vancouver’s 2022 mayoral election.
Internet footprint of the Canadian arrested in the U.K. for Islamist terrorism
A Canadian arrested for terrorism after landing in the United Kingdom last week allegedly used social media to disseminate the ideological materials of a group banned by the British government.
Khaled Hussein, a 28-year-old Edmonton resident, has been charged with being a member of the outlawed Al-Muhajiroun, which British prosecutors said also went by the name Islamic Thinkers Society.
And … Mississauga, Ont., mosque attacker sentenced to 8 years in prison
Mohammad Moiz Omar “intended to perpetrate a mass casualty event” when he entered the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre during early morning prayer on March 19, 2022 and sprayed bear spray toward congregants while swinging a hatchet, according to an agreed statement of facts.
According to the statement, he was motivated by an intense hatred for and desire to intimidate Muslims, prompted by his belief that Islam is “an intolerant and violent religion.”
Intolerant and violent? Wonder where he got that crazy idea!
Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau receives international condemnation for his pandemic failures
A scathing new editorial and series of reports published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), one of the world’s most respected peer-reviewed publications, takes Canada to task for its many pandemic failings — going so far as to recommend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most abhorred three-word phrase: independent public inquiry.
Second ex-Mountie named as co-conspirator in Chinese interference case
A second former senior Mountie is allegedly caught up in an investigation into Chinese interference operations in Canada.
Kenneth Ingram Marsh, a B.C.-based private investigator and former commander of an RCMP international organized crime unit, has been named as a co-conspirator in the allegations along with former Mountie William “Bill” Majcher.
How an ex-Mountie accused of conspiracy became China’s ‘hired gun’ in a campaign Canada once tacitly supported
As an RCMP officer, William Majcher, 60, used fake identities to infiltrate organized crime groups to investigate money laundering. He even went undercover to help the FBI to build a case against a Colombian drug cartel, knowing that if he was outed, a bounty would be put on his head.
After leaving the national police force in 2007, Majcher moved to Hong Kong, where he helped create a firm called Evaluate Monitor Investigate Deter Recover (EMIDR) in 2016. The company’s raison d’etre was to help China and its corporations recover assets it alleged were stolen, Majcher said in previous interviews.