Canada may face Charter test in attempt to seize millions from Russian oligarch: expert
Canada’s attempt to seize and forfeit a Russian oligarch’s holdings could be a major test of how Ottawa balances sanctions and Charter rights.
This week, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said she plans to use a new law to confiscate and divert assets held by people who have been sanctioned.
It’s difficult because the Liberals don’t want to offend their Oligarch friends.
The video lasts less than 30 seconds, time enough for a pair of disembodied hands to deftly slice an entire English cucumber into wafer-thin discs.
As entertainment it was certainly minimalist, but the world was impressed. The clip by Canadian culinary star Wallace Wong — aka The Six Pack Chef — garnered 144 million views on TikTok this year.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s “naughty list” of wasteful political spending this year is topped by the Trudeau government renting a $6,000-a-night hotel room for five nights as part of an almost $400,000 tab for accommodating the Canadian delegation during the Queen’s funeral.
The RCMP say they will not launch an investigation into forged government records that falsely suggest the federal police force and the Canada Revenue Agency are paying informants within the Muslim Association of Canada to build a terrorist-funding case against the charity.
Instead, the Mounties say, MAC should take its concerns to other authorities, even though the records include faked RCMP search warrants and phony records of payments to informants. The CRA was sufficiently concerned about the forgeries that it referred the matter to the RCMP to investigate.
Who’s Zoomin who?
OTTAWA – An RCMP intelligence official accused of violating Canada’s secrecy law has been granted bail.
The reasons for Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger’s decision Wednesday in the case of Cameron Jay Ortis are covered by a publication ban.
Ortis was taken into custody in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019.
I bet they bought him a plane ticket too
Just as Ottawa publicly acknowledges that its assisted suicide regime might have gone too far, critics have highlighted the existence of a little-known medical assistance in dying children’s activity book that was funded by the Canadian government.
Charges laid against pastor Artur Pawlowski for failing to comply with an order under the Public Health Act were stayed by the Crown on Dec. 16.
Pawlowski, of Calgary’s Street Church, was charged for attending an outdoor Walk for Freedom protest in Calgary on Dec. 13, and for feeding the homeless with his church on the same day, allegedly in breach of then-Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s orders that “private social gatherings” were prohibited.
An unredacted 2020 national security document alleges that Beijing used an extensive network of community groups to conceal the flow of funds between Chinese officials and Canadian members of an election interference network, all in an effort to advance its own political agenda in the 2019 federal contest.
I’m getting awfully sick of all the diversity Justin has unleashed upon us.
OTTAWA – Canada’s annual inflation rate edged down slightly to 6.8 per cent in November.
In its latest consumer price index report released Wednesday, Statistics Canada said slower price growth for gasoline and furniture last month was offset by rapidly rising shelter costs and stubbornly high grocery prices.
Grocery prices climbed at a faster annual rate in November. The federal agency said prices rose 11.4 per cent annually, up from 11 per cent in October.
h/t DM
Arrests made after upwards of 30 men brawl with weapons in Brampton
Peel Regional Police say several people are in custody after as many as 30 males started brawling with weapons in Brampton.
Authorities were notified of a dangerous weapons call in the Dewside Drive and Bramalea Road area just after noon on Monday.
Police said there were reports of as many as 30 men fighting “with multiple weapons.”
30 pakoras brawl in Brampton over green chutney pic.twitter.com/4hFynQCZx0
— ツ (@mecklr) December 20, 2022
h/t MP
The Department of National Defence recently received quiet approval to spend $7 billion on 16 F-35 fighter jets and related gear.
Two defence sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters not yet made public, said a funding request sent to the Treasury Board got the green light earlier this month.
The Canadian Press also viewed a document summarizing this request to Treasury Board, which is the department that controls the federal purse strings, and independently verified its accuracy.
Eight teenage girls, some as young as 13 years old, have been charged in connection with a “swarming” attack in downtown Toronto that left a man dead on Sunday.
Toronto police said it happened in the area of York Street and University Avenue at around 12:17 a.m.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Det. Sgt. Terry Browne from the homicide unit said paramedics were flagged down by a group of individuals in the area and notified them about a man that had been assaulted.
Tulsi Gabbard is an Army Reserve officer who served in Congress from 2013 to 2021. She was the first Hindu member of Congress and also the first Samoan American voting member of Congress. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, before becoming an independent.
Gabbard said “we have the autocratic leader in Canada who’s resorted to genuinely authoritarian and tyrannical means to suppress a peaceful mass protest against the power elite there.
The federal government has spent $4.8 billion so far on the new warships it hopes will be built starting in two years.
But National Defence has now acknowledged it doesn’t fully know the cost of maintaining and supporting the ships that will replace the navy’s Halifax-class frigates.
For the past five and a half years, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been using communications equipment and technology from the controversial Chinese firm Hytera Communications — a company the United States government has blacklisted as a national security threat.
In response to CBC’s questions about CBSA’s use of Hytera equipment and technology, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said he’s asked all departments across his portfolio to review any procurement contracts linked to Hytera or its subsidiaries in the wake of a controversy over a similar RCMP contract with one of Hytera’s subsidiaries.
“I have instructed my department to do a portfolio-wide scan and review of any other potential similar contracts which may have been awarded, so that we can take whatever steps are necessary to mitigate any against any risks that may exist,” Mendicino said Monday.
Has anyone looked into the possibility of connections between these suppliers and the Liberal Party? That should include individual and corporate donations.
