The plight of the “Two Michaels” might seem a distant memory for most Canadians.
Yet barely two years after China released these two high-profile hostages from prison, Canadians have reason to fear a repetition of Beijing’s strong-arm tactics — through the heavy hand of Hong Kong.
Andrew Griffith says he used to drop by a citizenship ceremony whenever he felt depressed or frustrated at work.
The former director general at the federal immigration department says seeing new citizens walking the stage, being greeted by a uniformed RCMP officer and congratulated by a citizenship judge, reminded him of the importance of his work at the citizenship and multiculturalism branch.
The Liberal-left have cheapened Canadian citizenship, it means very little to anyone any more.
Legendary New York Police Detective and Medal of Honor recipient Frank Serpico has slammed the Ottawa Police Service for covering up an investigation into the potential connection between mRNA ‘vaccines’ and Sudden Infant Deaths.
Detective Serpico says this cover-up is proceeding even though it puts “innocent infant lives” at risk.
A United Nations official is calling on the Canadian government not to repatriate six children from a Syrian detention camp without their mother.
The Canadian woman and her children are among many foreign nationals in Kurdish-run camps for ISIS suspects and their family members in northeastern Syria.
Canada has agreed to repatriate the children, but recently decided not to repatriate the mother due to security concerns.
Imagine being the federal minister in charge of the energy file and skipping a major world conference on a lower carbon that was happening in your own backyard.
This isn’t an imaginary scenario, the minister who did this is Jonathan Wilkinson, Justin Trudeau’s minister of natural resources.
A pregnant Ontario nurse about to be fired for refusing the COVID vaccine is appealing to keep her job, amid a nursing shortage across the country.
This weekend, Sandra Hartman, 35, pleaded with London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) chief executive Jackie Scleifer Taylor at a public forum to allow her to keep her job as the eight-month pregnant nurse faces dismissal for refusing the COVID vaccine.
Canada’s slow economic growth crisis didn’t start with the Trudeau government and it won’t end as long as our politicians are more interested in redistributing our income than increasing it.
As Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada, reported in an essay for the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute last week — What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis? — Canada’s economic growth expressed as per person GDP, a common measure of prosperity, is at its lowest level since the Great Depression.
If the Uniparty told the truth they’d run on the slogan “A Smaller Piece Of The Pie For You!”
Despite high immigration, Canada’s standard of living is lagging: TD report
Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus faces an internal Police Act charge for conducting “unauthorized” investigations into the sudden deaths of nine infants where she sought to know the vaccine status of the mothers.
Federal public service employees put on leave without pay for refusing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination told a labour tribunal that infections in the workforce rose tenfold after the mandate was implemented, citing the government’s own data.
“Why did people become sick in such great numbers in the public service if they were immunized?” asked Bernard Desgagné, who represents two employees whose files are being adjudicated by the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board.
Canada is launching a new pathway to permanent residency for Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion to stay in Canada with their families.
The program will allow Ukrainian nationals with temporary resident status to apply for permanent residency at no cost starting on Oct. 23, 2023.
Despite the new program, advocates are still questioning federal aid, as only 20 per cent of applicants from the original program have actually arrived in Canada and there is no word yet on exactly how many refugees the new pathway will help.
“There’s an incredible disconnect between what the elected officials show up [in] press conference and say they’re going to do and what actually gets done,” Rahul Singh, executive director of humanitarian organization Global Media, told CTV News.
I have no issue with this program.
However the low rate of applicant take-up from the initial offer may say more about Canada’s sorry state of affairs than Trudeau would ever admit.
I get that Canada was a 2nd choice or fall back destination for most of the original cohort.
It makes sense that refugees would prefer to remain in Europe as close as possible to home.
But those that have relatives in Canada are likely well aware of how Trudeau has run this country into the ground and have wisely elected to seek greener pastures.
Most of the Liberal Party’s initiatives are really just empty promises and a photo-op.
h/t Mauser
Beijing and other tyrannical regimes exploit gaps in Canadian law to advance their transnational repression in Canada, and a prominent international human rights lawyer says this is a problem that calls for comprehensive legislation to combat their foreign interference.
Winnipeg-based lawyer David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said repressive states like China, Russia, and Iran have been exploiting organizations such as the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to harass and intimidate their own nationals even after they’ve fled abroad to escape persecution back home. He said malign state actors are also abusing conventional mechanisms for international cooperation on criminal matters.
As China increases its reach in diaspora communities, Chinese Canadian politicians in Vancouver are the focus of Chinese state interference in Canadian politics.
The polls predicted a re-election victory, maybe even a landslide.
But a couple of weeks before the vote, Kenny Chiu, a member of Canada’s Parliament and a critic of China’s human rights record, was panicking. Something had flipped among the ethnic Chinese voters in his British Columbia district.
“Initially, they were supportive,” he said. “And all of a sudden, they just vanished, vaporized, disappeared.”
On a mid-June summer evening in the busy parking lot of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in the city of Surrey, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in his truck by two masked gunmen.
A month later, the unsolved killing continues to reverberate, in Canada and across borders. Hundreds of Sikh separatists took to the streets in Toronto, along with a handful others in cities like London, Melbourne and San Francisco, just last weekend to protest the Indian government, which they believe is responsible for his death.
Regular readers will recall that from time to time I inveigh in this space against the uncompetitive economic performance of this country as we slip steadily down the list of the world’s most prosperous per capita incomes and we suffer every year from negative capital flows: more Canadian capital invested outside Canada than Canada attracts from foreigners. The present federal government seems to wish to discourage our primary industry sector, that is all natural resources, though particularly the oil and gas industries. What the world envies about and most needs from Canada is that it is a treasure house of almost all forms of energy, forest products, base and precious metals and non-tropical agriculture. Pierre Trudeau was periodically mesmerized by the anti-economic growth pieties of the Club of Rome, and astonishingly for a man of his high intelligence, did not grasp the importance and desirability of economic growth until its absence endangered his own political incumbency.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said his party is waiting on the Liberals to move ahead on a public inquiry on foreign interference, saying the government is to blame for any delays.
Poilievre held a media availability in Vancouver Friday, and said the ball is in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s court.
