Dimitri Lascaris’ apparent pro-Putin sympathies reveals tensions within Canada’s Greens.
Prominent Canadian “eco-socialist,” and former Green party leadership candidate, Dimitri Lascaris stirred up controversy this month by visiting Russia and seemingly endorsing pro-Kremlin propaganda. His visit illustrates potential divisions within Canada’s Green party, as well as the pitfalls of far-left politics.
“We will look carefully at next steps, at what the French government chooses to do, at what French tribunals choose to do,” Justin Trudeau says.
Canada is weighing its next steps after a Paris court convicted a Lebanese-Canadian in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
“We will look carefully at next steps, at what the French government chooses to do, at what French tribunals choose to do,” Trudeau told a news conference. “[But] we will always be there to stand up for Canadians and their rights.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his COVID-19 vaccination policy helped Canada get through the pandemic and criticized related “misinformation and disinformation,” but he also said some people experienced side effects from the shots.
“The challenge that we have now is that increasingly, misinformation and disinformation [are] carrying people to believe things that are untrue. Vaccinations [are] a perfect example of it,” Trudeau said on April 24 while having an armchair discussion with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the University of Ottawa.
Trudeau today says he did not force anyone to get vaccinated and adds he knows that some people deeply disagree with him.
"We have to figure out how to continue to protect those people."https://t.co/a0Sdu5P7S3 pic.twitter.com/bEZ1x1YTlO
— Noé Chartier (@NChartierET) April 24, 2023
Tesla has begun producing in Shanghai a version of the Model Y to be sold in Canada this year, the first time it will ship cars to North America from China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plan and a production memo seen by Reuters.
The move would connect Tesla’s biggest and most cost-efficient factory in the world to North America, its largest market. The Model Y is the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s best-selling model globally.
Manufacture in China will hurt Tesla’s brand.
Parole Board says measures needed to ‘protect society’ as Canadian terrorism convict is released
Citing Hersi’s “propensity for violence,” the Parole Board ordered the 37-year-old to undergo treatment “to address ingrained extremist ideologies” and “violent behaviour.”
He must also live at a halfway house upon his release, can own only one cell phone, and is not permitted to use a computer capable of accessing the internet, the Board wrote in its decision.
I ask myself the following question: how many foundations in the country have access to a room in the Prime Minister’s Building and also have access to five deputy ministers at the same time? There shouldn’t be many. Dimitri Soudas, political analyst and former close associate of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“I wish I had another example of a foundation that had such access. Seems like preferential treatment for a foundation that had the name of the father of the current prime minister,” he added.
What did Justin Trudeau know about this roundtable? Nothing, argues the Prime Minister’s Office. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Prime Minister’s staff attended this meeting. The Prime Minister was not aware of this meeting,” said Alison Murphy, spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau.
Note – Google translate.
University of Waterloo advises researchers they aren’t obligated to talk to CSIS agents
The University of Waterloo is advising its researchers that they are not required to talk to CSIS agents or give them access to faculty equipment if approached by the spy agency for information on joint research projects with scientists from foreign countries such as China.
In guidelines recently sent to faculty and researchers, the University of Waterloo warned them they could be approached by CSIS agents who “may be concerned that you could be a target of a foreign state or entity, or they may have questions about some of your activities.” The memo also advises them: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS agent.” It later adds. “You must not consent to a search of University of Waterloo property without authorization.”
A small handful of Canadian embassy staff have been evacuated from war-ravaged Khartoum as part of a dramatic airlift of international diplomats by helicopter, airplane and ship, but more than 1,590 Canadians remain trapped in the country as the heavy fighting persists.
“Our diplomats are safe – they have been extracted and are working from outside the country – and we are looking at every possible option to support our locally engaged staff,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet on Sunday.
We’ve seen this before.
Canadians of convenience who acquired passports the last time their beloved “homeland” imploded go right back when things have settled down and now demand rescue from their once again incendiary 3rd world shithole. They took on the risk of their own volition, we should not be held responsible for their decisions.
Canada’s “woeful” military readiness underscores the urgent need to boost defence spending and meet its commitments to NATO as the alliance confronts the most dangerous global security environment since the end of World War Two, former Canadian defence officials say.
Without doing so, they say Ottawa could risk pushing away its security allies.
MONTREAL — More than six months after his election as Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre has yet to meet Quebec Premier François Legault one on one.
That stands in stark contrast with his two immediate predecessors. Notwithstanding the pandemic, Erin O’Toole and Legault met face-to-face less than a month after the former became leader in August 2020.
Andrew Scheer showed up for a meeting with the premier two short weeks after the CAQ was first elected to government in 2018.
Or maybe Quebec just isn’t worth the effort.
It’s ironic that the fate of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government rests in the hands of organized labour.
Labour was rarely central to the government. The Liberals dealt with it when they had to do so. In the lead-up to the revision of NAFTA, for instance, the government found it convenient to make use of UNIFOR, the union that represents most autoworkers.
And it always treated union leaders with the greatest of respect.
The Chinese contribution to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation does not seem to me very worrisome in itself. A contribution of $200,000 from a wealthy Chinese businessman apparently closely affiliated with the governing Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, is not an especially consequential event for a foundation that was launched the year after Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s death and was endowed with $125 million from the government of Canada.
Canadians shouldn’t feel sorry for privileged federal bureaucrats.
They don’t worry about losing their jobs or missing a paycheque. They get pay raises and bonuses, even if they don’t meet their own performance targets. Now they want billions more from taxpayers who are struggling to pay for groceries and make their mortgage payments.
To be fair not all civil servants are predators: Only a third of 120,000 striking PSAC members cast vote on work stoppage
… The complaint, which was filed with the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, was filed by a public servant seeking to invalidate the strike.
His complaint was dismissed but the board did find voting irregularities of “significant concern.”
American authorities used a legal tool that doesn’t exist in Canada: a foreign agents registry
The United States has launched a crackdown on so-called Chinese police stations operating on its soil using a legal mechanism that doesn’t exist in Canada, at least not yet — a registry of foreign agents.
U.S. authorities this week announced they had shut down what they referred to as a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan.
The criminal charges they laid were against two American citizens who allegedly failed to register their work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
Trudeau plays identity politics with our security in order to protect the China grift.
Why is Justin Trudeau sowing confusion about a foreign influence registry?
Asked this week about the need for Ottawa to create a foreign influence registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the internment of Japanese-Canadians in the Second World War and warned against the dangers of creating “registries of foreigners in Canada.”
A recent article in the National Observer suggested that “real” populists would support the public workers currently on strike in Ottawa, which includes 159,000 federal employees in various departments, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to Veterans Affairs.
The article calls these public workers “working class” and attacks Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for not championing them. Poilievre sells himself as the politician who cares about the little guy, so why doesn’t he care about these guys? Is this not a populist movement?
Most of Blackie’s media have been pushing this insulting “public service union as working class” canard.
The public service is 74% unionized with wages and benefits the working class, (13% unionized,) can only dream of.
Did you get full pay to stay home during the pandemic? Did you get a bonus for just breathing during the pandemic?
Didn’t think so.
