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Conservative MPs furious after e-mails show federal officials worked on ways not to answer their questions

Federal public servants worked on ways not to answer directly opposition MPs’ parliamentary questions, admitting that doing so raised a communication risk, internal government documents obtained under access to information show.

Civil servants in the Natural Resources Department recommended the use of “limitation language” to answer the written Commons questions from Conservative and NDP MPs, internal e-mails show.

The good news is most civil service positions can be replaced by a small chip upgrade to toaster ovens.

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The source behind the leaks that exposed Trudeau’s Liberal Party as a ChiCom asset ‘will be found’ and punished, PM’s security adviser says

The source behind foreign interference leaks ‘will be found’ and punished, PM’s security adviser says

The prime minister’s top national security adviser says she expects the security official who leaked sensitive information to the media about attempted Chinese interference in Canadian politics — prompting months of controversy over foreign interference in Canadian elections — will be caught and punished.

“The law has been broken. Sources, techniques have been put at risk. Our credibility with Five Eyes allies has been put at risk,” Jody Thomas told host Catherine Cullen in an exclusive interview with CBC’s The House that will air Saturday.

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Canada getting no ‘tangible benefit’ from membership in Asian infrastructure bank: former executive

A Canadian former executive at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is criticizing Canada’s membership in the institution, saying it’s inconsistent with Canadian values.

“I didn’t find a single, tangible benefit to communicate back home here to Canada of what this bank does that is consistent with our values in a way that would benefit Canadians,” Bob Pickard, who resigned from the AIIB last week, told Power & Politics host David Cochrane in an interview Monday.

Smells like another China Class Grift.

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Journalist Defends Reporting on Election Interference

A journalist whose reporting helped raise concerns about possible Chinese meddling in Canadian democracy told a committee of MPs on June 20 that he stands by his work.

Sam Cooper, who recently left Global News to start his own online news site, told MPs that other countries, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, have faced similar disclosures about Chinese attempts to influence elections, and have followed up with laws designed to counter foreign interference.

But in Canada, said Cooper, that has not happened.

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‘Russian soldier’ in Ukraine was deep fake agitator in China

Suspect used AI to mock up videos, including one claiming he had seized Zelensky’s car

“Hello, Chinese friends,” the soldier in Ukraine tells his admirers many thousands of miles away. “I’m from Chechnya, Russia. Behind me is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. We just conquered this place and caught some big fish. One of them was a US consultant.”

The bearded man, who just happened to speak Mandarin, soon became a social media sensation on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, popping up across Ukraine to issue regular updates from the battlefield. “Salute. The red flag stands tall, Huzzah,” he says in another video from the front line, in front of a car. “The extended Lincoln behind me is Zelensky’s car that we’ve seized.”

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‘Don’t become a target’ of Chinese intelligence, CSIS warns Canadians

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) issued a rare public warning Tuesday detailing how it says China’s intelligence service is targeting and recruiting Canadian citizens to supply information to Beijing.

The allegation comes as Canada continues to reckon with Chinese interference in the country, which has ranged from allegations of meddling in elections to using so-called “police stations” to monitor and threaten Chinese nationals or those with family in China.

3 Are Convicted of Harassing Family on Behalf of China’s Government

The defendants, including a private detective who said he did not realize he was working for an intelligence operation, pursued people living in New Jersey.

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TikTok video, explosive-making instructions at centre of Calgarian’s terrorism charges: court docs

A 20-year-old Calgary man facing terrorism charges is accused of posting a video to TikTok that facilitated and contributed to ISIS and al-Qaeda activities, court documents reveal.

Zakarya Hussein is also accused of creating and possessing instructions on how to make explosives.

Hussein was charged Friday with four offences: two counts each of facilitating a terrorist activity and participating in or contributing to a terrorist group activity.

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Ottawa allowed in half of foreign nationals red-flagged as security risks, audit finds

Of the 7,141 cases where security screeners sent IRCC a ‘non-favourable’ recommendation during the years covered by the audit, 3,314 were allowed into Canada

OTTAWA – Nearly half of foreign nationals flagged by security agencies to the Immigration Department for ties to serious offences including war crimes, espionage and terrorism were allowed to take up residency in Canada between 2014 and 2019.

An internal audit of the Immigration National Security Screening Program found that immigration officials ultimately approved temporary or permanent residency, or refugee applications for 46 per cent of the more than 7,000 cases where the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recommended against applicants being allowed into the country.

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Sikh leader killed outside Surrey, B.C., temple warned by CSIS he was in danger

The president of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., who had been warned by Canada’s spy agency that he was in danger, was shot and killed on the gurdwara grounds on Sunday, prompting a new flare-up of old tensions that have simmered since the Air India bombing 38 years ago.

At a news conference Monday, RCMP confirmed Hardeep Singh Nijjar was found in a truck outside the Guru Nanak Gurdwara suffering gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.

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5th Columnists: Canadian politicians linking abandoned Chinese exclusion law to a foreign agent registry

It’s without question one of the darkest episodes in Canada’s modern history.

For 24 years starting in 1923, the Canada Immigration Act barred almost any Chinese person from migrating to this country, an ugly extension of the earlier “White Canada” policy and a response to widespread fear of what some called the “yellow peril.”

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Canada’s Housing Crisis: Inevitable Crash and Economic Turmoil Predicted

Bank of Montreal economists Doug Porter and Robert Kavcic, in an article titled “Catch-’23: Canada’s Affordability Conundrum,” go into detail about a difficult issue which has been a concern for years, especially in urban and suburban areas.

There seems to be no easy way out of this situation despite the assurances of politicians. Single-family housing in Canada is simply too expensive relative to the income of the majority of residents. Recent interest rate increases have further exacerbated this problem to the point of an economic and social crisis. Porter and Kavcic point out the naiveté of the mainstream explanation that this is just a supply problem.

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Justin Trudeau will be remembered for his ‘leadership’ — not ‘the trash and the rumours,’ says sketchy Ex-Pm who took cash in envelopes from sketchy German

Justin Trudeau will be remembered for his ‘leadership’ — not ‘the trash and the rumours,’ Brian Mulroney says

OTTAWA — It wasn’t the flattering words, but the bitter context, that made Brian Mulroney’s introduction of Justin Trudeau on Monday night an extraordinary political moment.

Far from Parliament Hill, in Nova Scotia the former Progressive Conservative prime minister hailed Trudeau for his “leadership” of Canada through repeated crises, saying that’s what history will remember, not “trivia and the trash and the rumours that make the rounds” in Ottawa.

Mulroney: nothing wrong accepting envelopes of $1,000 bills

OTTAWA – Former prime minister Brian Mulroney cited the brazen public nature of his cash transactions with Karlheinz Schreiber as evidence today that there was nothing untoward in their business arrangement.

Mulroney told a public inquiry that he accepted an envelope stuffed with 75 one-thousand-dollar bills from Schreiber at a hotel at Montreal’s Mirabel Airport and then climbed into a car with his RCMP escort with the envelope in full view.

Grifters or what?

h/t Mauser

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Liberals, Conservatives take 2 seats apiece in 4 federal byelections

Voters in four federal ridings are sticking with the status quo, returning two Liberals and two Conservatives to Parliament after byelections in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

CBC News projects Liberals Ben Carr in Winnipeg South Centre and Anna Gainey in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount and Conservatives Arpan Khanna in Oxford and Branden Leslie in Portage-Lisgar will win their respective races.

That means the party standings in the House of Commons are unchanged after Monday’s vote.

All were safe seats for the LibCons, Bernier and the PPC will just have to soldier on.

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