The House of Commons rose this week for its summer recess and a lot of people seem to think the Trudeau government accomplished very little in this parliamentary session.
I beg to differ. The Liberals and their NDP gofers accomplished quite a lot.
Canada
Hundreds Offered Money, Bus Ride to Join Parliament Hill Protest Against Foreign Agent Registry
Hundreds in Toronto’s Chinese community are being offered money and a free bus ride to Ottawa to join a protest on Parliament Hill “to protect our legal rights and interests.” While the event is advertised as marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, some organizers have talked about the issue as part of a larger movement to oppose measures such as the proposed foreign agent registry act.
According to one of the organizers, about 28 buses will be transporting protesters from the Toronto area to the nation’s capital on Saturday, June 24, in the morning, and organizers are offering each participant a $15 “lunch subsidy” in the form of a Walmart gift card, The Epoch Times has learned.
The don’t make the Mohammedan kids upset policy
Ontario school board’s anti-Islamophobia strategy questioned after Muslim student singled out
An Ontario father is questioning the legitimacy of a school board’s anti-Islamophobia strategy months after his son was singled out by a teacher during a lesson that featured racist cartoons.
During the January class, the high school teacher in Peel Region, which includes the Toronto-area cities of Mississauga and Brampton, showed two caricatures from the controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo to international baccalaureate students as part of a module on censorship.
Without addressing the stereotypical nature of the cartoons — which targeted Muslim, Jewish and Black communities — the teacher discussed the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in which the magazine’s offices were attacked by two Al-Qaeda-linked members who killed 12 people.
ChiCom Asset Sen. Victor Oh says Chinese Canadians need to fundraise to sue ‘messy reporters’
OTTAWA – A Canadian senator said he wants Chinese Canadians to set up a national foundation that would focus on raising money to fund lawsuits against “messy reporters” and politicians who “try to smear” the community.
A video of Conservative Sen. Victor Oh making the remarks was uploaded to the social media platform WeChat on June 5, showing him addressing a group at what was described as the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre.
Over 300 CAF Members Launch $500 Million Lawsuit Against Military for COVID Vaccine Mandates
Around 330 active or former members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) who say they were harmed by COVID-19 vaccine mandates have filed a class-action lawsuit against high-ranking members of the Canadian military, asking for some $500 million in damages.
“The CAF shirked its own purpose and rushed an untested product onto its members, mislabeled this experimental gene therapy a ‘vaccine,’ knowingly made false statements of safety and efficacy, and facilitated its mandate with no option to refuse except for mandatory permanent removal from service,” reads the statement of claim filed with the Federal Court on June 21.
Bruce Pardy: How Canada’s secular religion of cultural self-hate took hold
Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in human affairs produced the scientific method and later the Industrial Revolution. Add in the rule of law, individual liberty, private property and capitalism, and you have the basic recipe that has raised much of humanity out of poverty and oppression over two centuries.
Canada’s public service is stuck in ‘analog’ and the world ‘has moved on’: Former clerk
The public service is not keeping pace with Canadians’ needs in a digital world, says the woman who used to lead it.
“The public service is still working in what I would describe as kind of analog ways and the world has moved on,” former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette, told Rosemary Barton Live in an interview airing Sunday.
“You can make a dinner reservation, you can book a cruise, you can move money in and out of your bank account, transfer between the two of us — it’s remarkable the things you can do in a digital world and the public service, and our service delivery infrastructure has not kept up with that.”
Aspiring Toronto rapper Top5 who is just getting his life together releases music video from jail while awaiting murder trial
Ontario’s Solicitor General is trying to figure out how a man awaiting trail on a first-degree murder charge was able to record part of a music video inside his jail cell.
In a clip posted to Instagram this week, Toronto rapper Top5, appears in an orange jumpsuit in a cinderblock room.
“I was 18 when I bought a gun, 22 when I shot your son,” he says looking into the camera.
Politicians Should Have Listened to Fadden’s Warnings on Beijing Instead of Reprimanding Him
We humans are odd creatures sometimes. When faced with information that is negative we tend to want to avoid it. If someone says “I have good news and I have bad news,” many of us ask to hear the former first, dreading the latter.
At the end of the day, however, it is best to listen to whatever the bad news is eventually. Chances are it’s not going to disappear anyway, so ignoring it is the equivalent of kicking the information can down the road. Accept it, decide what it means, and what you need to do about it. Unfortunately, Canadian federal and provincial governments seems to want to avoid the inevitable.
Ontario moves to ban ‘ugly’ floating homes after controversy in cottage country
“We’ve tried hard through our official plan and our zoning bylaws and our bylaws, generally, to preserve the character of Muskoka,” Peter Kelley, mayor of Muskoka Lake Township, said.
Dougie did his fellow cottagers a solid.
Russia-Ukraine war ‘will be settled at the negotiation table’ eventually, but decades of support ahead: Joly
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says the war in Ukraine will eventually end through diplomacy, but that Canada’s support of the country will continue in the long term, to help prevent future conflict.
As the war approaches the 18-month mark, Joly told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday that the long-term support of Ukraine by Canada and other NATO allies is critical to deterring Russia, which Joly says will remain “a very dangerous neighbour” even after the war.
Decades of support? I can’t take this woman seriously.
NCC to vote on new Sir John A MacDonald Parkway name after selecting Algonquin recommendation
Algonquin communities consulted over what to rename Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway have reached a consensus and the new name Kichi Zībī Mīkan will be recommended to the National Capital Commission’s board of directors later this month, according to a letter circulated by one of the Indigenous groups involved.
A little odd given it’s a parkway designed for motor vehicles or did the Algonquin invent cars?
h/t Mauser
Canada has a weak excuse for missing NATO’s largest-ever training exercise
NATO is currently wrapping up its largest-ever air defence exercise, and Canada is notably absent.
The 11-day event, Air Defender 23, is taking place in the skies over Germany. Twenty-five nations are participating – 23 NATO members, one NATO hopeful (Sweden) and Japan. More than 250 aircraft and 10,000 troops are involved. Planning began four years ago, after Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals want to impose diversity requirements on streaming giants
The “modern approach” to broadcasting regulation, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), involves ordering broadcasters to budget and produce content with diversity quotas in mind, while mandating that various groups of people be consulted every two years.
CHARLEBOIS: Food fraud in Canada on the rise
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has recently released its annual report on food fraud in Canada, shedding light on a concerning trend.
While this report often goes unnoticed, it is crucial for the federal agency to assess the authenticity of the food available in our country. In its surveillance efforts, the CFIA focused on inspecting, sampling, and testing various food products, including fish, honey, meat, olive oil, other expensive oils, and spices.