"I want to be clear; we don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky"
President Biden reassures Americans many UFOs present no threat, but if they do, they will be "taken down"https://t.co/xL11XFY3IV
📺 Sky 501, YouTube pic.twitter.com/Nw6avAz10s
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 16, 2023
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government is working “very closely with American partners” and the Iranian diaspora in Canada to target people with ties to Iran’s regime.
The PM was responding to a CBC News report about three businessmen active in Canada who are facing felony charges in the U.S. They’re accused of conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.
A U.S. indictment in April 2021 accused Salim Henareh, Khalil Henareh and Saeed Torab Abtahi of playing a role in a scheme with at least seven other people to conceal more than $750 million US worth of transactions on Iran’s behalf to slip past American sanctions.
Two Canadian authors have expanded their book challenging the legitimacy of political and medical COVID-19 narratives and responses.
Marco Navarro-Genie, founder of the Haultain Research Institute, and University of Calgary political scientist Barry Cooper released their expanded edition of “Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic.”
During their online book launch, Cooper said “concern for the truth” motivated him to write.
A former U.S. Navy SEAL turned podcaster has received a cease and desist letter from Canadian special operations forces over an interview he released with a former sniper from Canada’s top counterterrorism unit, citing the unauthorized sharing of classified information.
“I’m sure many of you are aware that I pulled the JTF2 [Joint Task Force-2] Sniper / Dallas Alexander SRS [Shawn Ryan Show] Episode due to a cease and desist from the Canadian Gov,” Shawn Ryan wrote on Twitter on Feb. 14.
Authorities in northeast Syria who are holding Canadians suspected of being part of the Islamic State in prisons say they want Canada’s help setting up a special tribunal and trying men in the region, as debate takes hold in Canada on whether the government should bring the Canadian suspects home.
The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) prefers to try all suspected male fighters, as well as women who are alleged to have committed crimes, in northeast Syria because that’s where the alleged offences occurred and they have enough evidence to try them, said Abdulkarim Omar, AANES representative to Europe.
Shoot them.
The federal government has banned all research funding with Chinese military and state security institutions and urged the provinces and universities to adopt similar guidelines.
Innovation Minister François-Phillipe Champagne announced late Tuesday the government has instructed the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Canada’s federal research granting councils, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, as well as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to screen funding requests from China and other hostile states.
Two-year-old Canadian local news startup had heady plans when founded, but now trims jobs while execs snipe at workers on Twitter
Nearly two years ago, a journalism startup made bold promises to reshape community news in Canada, announcing plans to hire more than 200 journalists and open 50 new publications across the country.
But this month, as they culled nearly half the staff from their most successful publication, executives from the Overstory media group admitted that – despite the cascade of recent failures across the industry – they had thought turning a profit in local journalism would be “a lot simpler”. The job cuts have raised larger questions over the company’s future, and about that of alternative models of experimental journalism.
Anyone ever hear of this company?
A new report from the non-profit Cochrane Library in the United Kingdom, a clearinghouse of health-care information, confirms that most of what the government insisted people do during the pandemic were useless in preventing COVID infection or reducing COVID severity.
OTTAWA—Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General is reporting a rise in “violent threats” amid what her office described as increasingly racist, misogynist and abusive interactions online.
A statement posted on Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s Twitter account says her office will no longer allow the public to comment on her social media channels, including Facebook and Twitter. This will “ensure that all those who consult our information can do so in an environment that is respectful to all,” the statement says.
Two and a half years of COVID, and now this.
Earth is being invaded by an alien species that has mastered the great challenge of interstellar space travel by balloon.
The large Chinese surveillance device that flew across Alaska and the continental United States may have been diverted on an errant path caused by unusual weather conditions
By the time a Chinese spy balloon crossed into American airspace late last month, U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been tracking it for nearly a week, watching as it lifted off from its home base near China’s south coast, an earlier sighting of the balloon than has been previously known.
As for the rest of them… OOPS!
White House Says Mystery Objects Likely Private Craft Not Tied to Spying
“The intelligence community’s considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, told multiple news outlets on Tuesday. Kirby further asserted that unidentified objects that were downed in Alaska, the Yukon, and over Lake Huron were not tied to spying efforts, unlike the high-altitude balloon that was shot down earlier this month over the Atlantic Ocean.
What if the Balloon people came in peace? With a cure for cancer?
It’s based on a false distinction that the Canadian government can’t even keep straight
Two cheers for a brief hiatus in the Canadian stampede towards suicide for all. Earlier this month, David Lametti, Justin Trudeau’s justice minister, announced that legalization of euthanasia for the mentally ill will be delayed by one year. This, he said, will give the health system and regulatory bodies more time to prepare. Mentally ill adults will now become eligible for euthanasia in March 2024.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tagline “everything feels broken” elicits indignant eyerolls and denials from Liberals, but scathing new testimony from Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux adds credibility to the claim.
On Tuesday, Giroux spoke to the Senate Finance Committee, delivering a series of what Politico called “sick burns” to paint a picture of a Liberal government and public service mired in dysfunction and old-fashioned laziness.
OTTAWA – Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa claims Canada is unsafe for his compatriots to visit.
“Canada today is a very dangerous country for Russian citizens,” Oleg Stepanov said in a Russian-language interview last Friday.
“I would not recommend it for tourism, education or business.”
Now if he said Canada was a stupid country citing Trudeau as proof I would have no choice but to agree with him.
The Canadian Heritage Ministry will change its contractor vetting process, it said at an inquiry Monday, after it had to cancel a contract with an organization accused of antisemitism. The contract was under the purview of the ministry’s anti-racism initiatives.
The inquiry found that other government departments had awarded multiple contracts to the same organization and that the heritage ministry has had to call in a third-party collection agency to try to get back funds already paid out for the contract.
