Following four days of hearings, including top-secret testimony on the final day of proceedings, a federal court judge will now decide if Canada has violated the rights of dozens of its citizens imprisoned in northeast Syria.
Proceedings have been public except for Friday’s hearing, where classified evidence was presented to Justice Henry Brown as he weighs whether to order the government to bring the Canadian detainees home within a set timeline.
They joined ISIS because they wanted to kill for Islam. They deserve no mercy beyond a single bullet to the head.
“The previous name caused harm and was a barrier to belonging for racialized girls”
Anti-racists are the most racist people around and can put a racist spin on anything.
The culture war, after claiming Confederate generals and Indian team mascots moved on to ban everything from the term ‘field work’ to the Brownies. At least in Canada.
It would all be irresistibly comic, if it were not so ruinous. More than 12 years have passed since the day in 2010 when the Conservative government announced it would buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, a replacement for the air force’s fleet of CF-18s that even then were universally described as “aging.”
The process by which the F-35 was chosen, a sole-source contract without competitive bids, was controversial, as was the price: $9-billion, plus – well, it was hard to get a straight answer out of the Tories when it came to the costs of maintenance and operations. At length an estimate emerged of the full “lifecycle” cost of the jets: $45-billion over 30 years. True, the plane was widely acknowledged to be state-of-the-art, the most advanced of its kind in the world. But critics wondered why Canada needed to have the very top of the line in fighter jets, especially at the price.
OTTAWA — In the press conference that wrapped up the North American leaders’ summit in Mexico, Justin Trudeau was asked about the future of the semiconductor industry.
Canada has a significant role to play in semiconductors, he said. “What exactly that role is, is still, somewhat, to be determined.”
The central bank promised low interest rates would last — then hiked them aggressively. A new report says the Bank’s messaging helped nudge borrowers toward variable-rates mortgages that many homeowners now regret.
“You can be confident that interest rates will be low for a long time.”
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem will forever wear those words, spoken in October 2020, according to a new report from TD’s chief economist.
Macklem’s message, delivered at a time when the central bank was trying to project calm and stimulate the economy with ultralow interest rates amid the disruption of the pandemic, was aimed at businesses considering new investments and “household(s) considering making a major purchase.”
So the Bank of Canada instructs the corporate class to deny workers wage increases in order to fight inflation.
The corporate class demands the immigration floodgates be opened because a huge pool of cheap labour is a sure fire way to depress wages.
The Bank of Canada raises interest rates injecting the fear of homelessness into a divided and fearful population.
The Liberal government destroys our energy base and raises its hated carbon tax to increase the cost of everything.
Everything suddenly seems to break all at once from air travel to health care to government services.
Public servants reveal that immigration policy is being set by the likes of Dominic Barton & McKinsey & Company.
Justice Minister David Lametti says Ottawa is building a foundation to allow Indigenous legal systems to flourish alongside the Canadian justice system.
Lametti made the comment Thursday at the new Indigenous Peoples Space on Parliament Hill, where he announced $1.5 million in federal funding over three years to help Métis Nation governments develop an Indigenous justice strategy.
“When justice is part of a spiritual tradition, when justice is part of a community tradition or a nation’s tradition, it will work better,” Lametti said at the first press conference ever held in the Indigenous Peoples Space.
Why are Canadians’ cellphone bills higher than other countries?
Despite government promises to lower the cost of mobile wireless plans and efforts to promote more competition in the market, many Canadians feel they’re paying too much with few options for getting better rates.
But the industry will tell a different story: that of a market with fierce or at least adequate competition, and companies providing Canadians with rates comparable to the rest of the world despite extraordinary challenges.
A Marketplace investigation into the cost of telecom services in Canada has found that many of the oft-quoted industry explanations for high wireless prices — costly operating margins and a sparse Canadian population, for example — are insufficient to explain lower prices found in other countries and even between some provinces.
A terminally ill woman is seeking a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for receiving an organ transplant, says the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
Sheila Annette Lewis, who is not vaccinated for COVID-19, filed a leave to appeal application this week against Alberta Health Services (AHS) and six doctors who reportedly removed her from an organ transplant list on which she had high-priority status.
Who runs the Trudeau government? Is it the politician we elect or the consultants that he then hires? It’s a valid question in light of the latest scandal to hit the government, massive contracts to a Liberal-friendly firm and complaints from bureaucrats that the consultants were really running the show.
B.C. group under RCMP scrutiny for Beijing ties has charitable status in Canada
RICHMOND, B.C.—Across the street from a strip mall lined with restaurants and hair salons, the shield of the Wenzhou Friendship Society hangs above a gated entry.
What has gone on behind those doors is part of a Canadian national security investigation into the aggressive foreign interference tactics of the Chinese government.
Five out of six Canadians believe the country is already in recession and more than half fear the economy will get worse this year, a new poll suggests.
Pollara Strategic Insights’ annual economic outlook is bleak — even though Canada is not technically in recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of the economy shrinking instead of growing.
When Allison Holthoff entered a crowded Nova Scotia hospital at the end of December, the intense pain in her abdomen worsened with each hour she spent waiting for treatment. With the emergency room under renovations, overwhelmed staff triaged a stream of incoming patients in a makeshift treatment area.
“‘I feel like I’m dying. They’re going to let me die here,’” Holthoff told her husband, Gunther.
OTTAWA — “We’re definitely going to reduce the cost of consultants.”
The leader of the Conservative party hasn’t committed himself to much but that’s a pretty definitive promise — a Pierre Poilievre government would reduce the spending on third-party consultants that Ottawa’s own estimates suggest rose to $17.7 billion in 2022.
Not buying what Ivinson is selling. Yes far too much is spent on consultants a scandal in itself but he refuses to entertain the possibility that consultants have shaped government policy to serve their own interests. Dominic Barton, McKinsey and the LPC have conspired to remake this country via mass immigration out of sheer greed.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a committee study of the government’s relationship with a consulting firm following reports it has been awarded 30 times more money in federal contracts under Justin Trudeau’s Liberals than Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
… “The questions it raises for us are not around the international firm,” he said, “but rather, why did the Government of Canada hand over its priorities, through contracts, to a private foreign company?”
Poilievre also questioned former McKinsey global managing director Dominic Barton’s later appointment to Canadian ambassador to China, a position he left in 2021.
“It’s time for Canadians to get answers,” Poilievre said. “We need to know what this money was for, what influence McKinsey has had in our government, and it is time for Canadian taxpayers to have answers to these questions.”
Trudeau sold control of Canada’s Immigration Policy to McKinsey to benefit the corporate class.
For Canadians, and millions the world over, the infamous black and white flag flown by ISIS is a symbol of terrorism, death and persecution.
When an image of that very flag was sent in an email to parents in October by the principal of a downtown Toronto elementary school, it left some like May Woo “shocked” and “in disbelief.”
