Is it any wonder that so many Canadians have walked away from politics?
It’s never a good idea to confuse a country with whichever government happens to be mismanaging it at the moment.
So when some people say “Canada is broken,” they surely do not mean the country itself, and most certainly not its citizens.
In 2018, Jasmin Zine, a sociology and Muslim studies professor at Wilfrid Laurier University was awarded a federal grant of $24,900 for a research project resulting in a report titled “The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North.” Its driving theme is the need to expose a matrix of people and groups who “demonize and marginalize Islam and Muslims in Canada.” Zine rightly identifies certain white-supremacy groups that have been called out for their racism many times. But Zine’s principal “watch list” targets individuals (including me) and organizations with views regarding radical Islam and Israel that Zine personally disagrees with.
Four human skulls were discovered inside a package at a Mexican airport that was due to be sent by courier to the United States, local authorities say.
The skulls were found wrapped in aluminium foil inside a cardboard box at Queretaro intercontinental airport in central Mexico, the national guard said on Friday.
From “unidentified” objects to a “strange light,” Canadian aviation officials received at least 15 unusual reports in 2022, including 10 from pilots flying for Air Canada, WestJet, Virgin Atlantic, United and more.
While they rarely feature more than a line or two of detail, the reports describe incidents from coast to coast, as well as one from near New York City’s LaGuardia airport, when a Sept. 17 Air Canada flight from Toronto “reported passing an unidentified object approximately 10 feet above the Captain’s window” while making a left-hand bank at 1,300 feet, about an hour before sunset.
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In 13th-century Germany, spontaneous dancing broke out and entire city populations danced until exhausted. But perhaps the best-known mass hysteria was the Salem Witch Trials, where people, seized by visions, accused others of bewitching them. Many were executed.
The winter travel debacle that began last week, and continues to unfold, exposes the federal Liberals’ toothless governance one last time before the calendar turns.
While last week’s winter storm, which hit most of the country, can’t be blamed on the government, the absurd levels of systemic collapse that followed in its wake absolutely can and should be.
For a country that has taken such pains to emphasize the Canadianness of its homegrown artists, a new poll has some surprising findings
The idea of having a favourite Canadian artist is becoming a quaint anachronism, according to the head of the Association for Canadian Studies.
Even when pressed to name their favourite Canadian musical artist, about half say they do not have one, and those who do are all over the place. Bryan Adams tops the list at five per cent, followed by Drake, Shania Twain and Michael Bublé at three per cent, then Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, the Tragically Hip and Gordon Lightfoot at two per cent.
CanCon serves only to subsidize the sort of nagging left-wing mediocrities who make immediately ignored CBC Top Ten Lists.
That’s to be expected when government gatekeeping for the arts consists of one group of toxic leftists handing out our money to their equally toxic friends.
But perhaps the single greatest factor contributing to our cultural disconnect is that Canada is no longer a nation held together by common bonds.
Face it we are balkanized to the point of failed state status because the rot of multiculturalism and destructive immigration policy has hollowed out the culture.
I do not hear a stricken nation crying out for more government subsidized DEI pap.
I can’t help but laugh when I think back on the public vigils held for the late Gord Downie. They were far more “white” than any Rob Ford event, far more white than the Trucker protest in fact. Media failed to pick up on that for some reason.
I wonder if anyone attending a Downie vigil had their bank account frozen?
The federal government suspended its vaccine requirement to work in the public service in June 2022 but is nonetheless facing legal action over the measure at home and also abroad, with a former employee of the Canadian embassy in Poland seeking compensation over how she was treated.
“The vaccine mandate was truly unfortunate for Canadians but of no relevance whatsoever for Polish staff of the Embassy,” Karolina Janiak told The Epoch Times in an interview.
OTTAWA – The war in Ukraine has identified critical gaps in the Canadian Army’s ability to fight and survive on the battlefield, leading to an unanticipated rush to buy new military equipment.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Joe Paul said that includes anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles as well as systems to protect against drones.
The Army is also hoping to purchase the types of long-range, precision missile systems that have given Ukrainian forces a distinct advantage over their Russian foes, and state-of-the-art command-and-control technology.
On Tuesday, a nobody named Randall McKenzie became somebody in the chilling fashion that seems bountiful in the third decade of the century.
The 25-year-old, of Hamilton, Kingston, Six Nations and points in between, stands charged with first-degree murder in connection with the “ambush” slaying of OPP Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, 28.
Justice…
Compare this killer: Tamara Lich and Pastor Art Palowski were kept behind bars. NO previous offences, no violence, except ‘offending the powers that be with their words and beliefs’. This killer: a laundry list of offences, a repeat offender, out on bail. A Travesty of Justice!! https://t.co/oZV5mlLIzA
— Lynette Bloedow (@christianrootsc) December 29, 2022
Soon after repressive regimes seized power in countries like China and Iran, language began to appear across state communications that reflects those regimes’ ideology and propaganda. Some observers say they are seeing similar trends today in Canada, with ideological terms increasingly becoming standardized throughout government communications.
In China and other communist countries, terms reflecting Marxism’s class struggle are entrenched in all aspects of society, with keywords like “people’s” and “revolutionary” added to wording used by many government bodies and entities. The same is seen in leftist theocracies like that of Iran, which, besides religious terms, espouse the notion of “protecting the disadvantaged” and “preserving the revolution.”
Nobody embodied positive conservative values better and more efficaciously than US President Ronald Reagan. In 1980, he asked voters if they were better off after four years of then-President Jimmy Carter and he described America as that shining city on a hill with its commitment to the economic freedom of capitalism.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre needs to ask Canadians that question if there’s an election in 2023.
Canada ‘monitoring’ as other countries implement COVID-19 testing policies for travellers from China
Following a surge of infections, the U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements for all travellers entering from China – but Canada has not said whether it will be imposing a similar policy.
“Travellers continue to be advised to maintain enhanced health precautions and follow public health measures at their ports of entry,” said a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in an email to CTVNews.ca Wednesday. “Any other updates will be communicated to travellers through a travel health notice.”
Canada’s China Class must have some real sick pornos of Justin.
Latest officer death heartbreaking, but expert says recent police deaths not a trend
OTTAWA — When Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot while responding to a call Tuesday afternoon he became the sixth Canadian police officer to die since September, but an expert is warning the numbers do not represent a trend.
Michael Arntfield, a criminologist and professor at Western University, said the recent deaths are concerning and are an indication of how dangerous policing has become, given the growing responsibilities police are taking on.
Great timing by the CBC for this article…
Experts call for change as number of police shootings in Canada increases annually
James Hanna was kind to animals and children. He was big on hugs and loved to travel.
His family says he was excited about his future, but that was stolen by a stray bullet fired from an Edmonton police officer’s gun. The 59-year-old was in his basement suite watching television when he was killed in February.
Police have said officers were chasing a robbery suspect on foot when they fired. That man, a 36-year-old with a fake gun, was also killed.
Julie Laurin pays $161 per month for her home internet service.
She lives in Bonshaw, P.E.I., a rural community just 30 minutes outside of Charlottetown.
To have high-speed internet at her home, Laurin relies on the only company she found that provides reliable service in her area: Starlink, a United States-based satellite internet provider operated by SpaceX.
