A 20-year-old Calgary man is facing four terrorism-related charges after a federal RCMP investigation.
He was arrested by the RCMP Federal Policing Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) and Calgary police on Thursday.
Manitoba RCMP say they have obtained video footage of the deadly crash between a semi-truck and bus on the Trans-Canada Highway on Thursday that killed 15 people and sent 10 people to hospital, saying the semi-truck had the right of way at the time of the crash.
Superintendent Rob Lasson with the RCMP’s Major Crimes section provided an update to the investigation on Friday, saying they obtained video footage from the semi-truck trailer of the crash, which occurred shortly around noon at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5.
OTTAWA – Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, says a new report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves.
Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to such a solution.
Kimberly Murray made the call in an interim report released Friday, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from residential schools.
Orwell would blanche.
Addressing an audience in Montreal, Senator Victor Oh said he is planning to rent buses to transport up to 3,000 people to Ottawa for an upcoming demonstration against proposed legislation to create a foreign agent registry aimed at combatting foreign influence.
“We need to rent buses to [transport people] from Toronto. I plan to rent 50 buses. … Each can accommodate around 55 to 60 people, so with 50 buses, that’s 3,000 people,” Oh told his audience in Chinese at an event held at the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre (MCCUC), according to a video posted June 13 on Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat. The video’s caption said Oh spoke “yesterday,” indicating the event was held on June 12.
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday said the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States is constitutional.
The Supreme Court in its decision noted that the agreement does not violate Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom – the Right to life, liberty and security of a person.
A little good news.
The top Chinese diplomat based in Montreal was a keynote speaker at a recent event in that city opposing the establishment of a foreign agent registration act. Senators Yuen Pau Woo and Victor Oh, who also oppose a registry, attended the event as well and voiced opposition to such legislation.
Dai Yuming, the Chinese consul general in Montreal, delivered a speech at the event titled “Reflection Forum of the 100th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada,” organized by the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre on May 28.
The foreign interference threats coming from China differ significantly from those from Russia or other countries, says the boss of Canada’s spy agency.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault testified before the Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 13 and answered questions from MPs about the nature of the China threat.
Two weeks after the City of Toronto said it would begin referring refugee claimants seeking beds in its at-capacity shelter system to federal programs, asylum seekers who recently arrived in Canada are struggling to find places to sleep.
Birck Teklau arrived in Toronto from Ethiopia on June 3 hoping to claim asylum because, he says, of political persecution in his home country.
The 34-year-old says he’s been sleeping on the streets ever since — after being turned away from the city’s shelter system day after day.
“I tried many times…. They say that we don’t have [a] place,” Teklau said in an interview. “I never expected this from Canada.”
Perfect Manufactured Storm … Annual rate of housing starts in Canada fell 23% in May
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May dropped 23 per cent compared with April as starts of apartments, condos and other types of multi-unit housing projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal fell.
The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 202,494 units in May, down from 261,357 units in April.
After several months of the Trudeau government’s stonewalling and a series of transparently brazen attempts to draw the curtains down on the clandestine operations Beijing put in motion to the Liberals’ advantage during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, some good news. It came Tuesday during RCMP commissioner Michael Duheme’s testimony before the House of Commons committee on procedure and house affairs.
A family business owned by Canadians, MHD Nazier Houranieh & Sons Co. calls itself a pioneer in the global metals trade.
European governments describe it more ominously: a supplier for Syria’s chemical weapons program.
Working from Damascus and Beirut, the company is accused of importing materials used to produce “chemical weapons delivery systems.”
I’m surprised Justin isn’t touting this family as an immigrant success story.
Canadians of all ages and walks of life are fed up with the status quo on how their governments are responding to spiking rates of crime and addiction, according to a wide-ranging new Leger poll commissioned by Postmedia.
On everything from bail to involuntary addiction treatment to the decriminalization of drugs, Canadian public opinion was found to be almost entirely at odds with the priorities being championed by provincial and federal governments.
How Canada might go about replacing its aging submarine fleet is an ongoing exercise, but the nuclear-powered option looks to be off-the-table. This much is not new; however, Canada was also just reminded of its exclusion from the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact between its close allies the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
It may be a very long time before Canada makes a commitment for replacement submarines given that defence experts aren’t envisioning it being part of a new national defence policy to replace 2017’s Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE).
In a shocking and embarrassing development, DND said the RCAF was unable to participate because ‘many of our aircraft and personnel are currently committed to modernization activities’
NATO is currently engaged in its largest-ever air exercise in Germany, an operation aimed at sending a message to the Russians that the alliance is determined to defend every inch of its members’ territory.
Willful neglect. Canadians voted for this.
Canada is not that big a deal on the world stage.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a proud, loyal Canadian and love my country. It is just that we don’t really matter that much on the global scene. Our economy is the 10th largest in the world, which isn’t bad but could be better. When it comes to population we rank 39th. Defence? We come in at 20th out of NATO’s 31 members. Meh.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over his handling of convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s controversial prison transfer.
CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino’s office knew for months that one of Canada’s most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to a medium-security institution.
