Senator @YuenPauWoo claims anti-China witch hunt, demands feds counter “irresponsible speculation” by #cdnmedia over Communist interference in elections. https://t.co/nVTDcQ4uXS #cdnpoli @ScooperCooper pic.twitter.com/mH8D28FrwY
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) December 16, 2022
h/t OntarioJohn
According to a new study, if you aren’t jabbed with the 15-minute-old COVID jab, you may actually be a risk to others on the road because you are a bad driver.
I know what you are thinking: You thought being unvaccinated only made you a racist science-denier …
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded today to questions about a 2020 briefing document from the Privy Council Office (PCO) that mentioned an “active foreign interference network,” which was linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during Canada’s 2019 federal election.
Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa that the federal government has been aware of foreign interference attempts in Canadian society “for a long time.”
“Foreign interference is a real thing, against our institutions, against communities, against Canadians,” he said on Dec. 14.
He would know, his handlers placed them there.
Canada’s electronic spy agency is watching out for security threats from the popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
Responding to questions from reporters in a pre-cabinet scrum on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency, is keeping an eye on TikTok as Republican lawmakers move to ban the app in the U.S.
OTTAWA – Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez accused Meta on Thursday of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its Facebook platform, following the adoption of Bill C-18 in the House of Commons.
“Canadians don’t like being intimidated,“ Rodriguez told reporters in Ottawa. ”Me, if I were Facebook, I would change my strategy. It won’t pass with Canadians.“
“Canadians don’t like being intimidated,“ – Says the scumbags who want to censor the internet.
Who gets their news from FB anyway?
The House of Commons ended the sitting year on a somewhat silly note, at the expense of an opposition party leader.
Singh: When I’m Prime Minister, I’ll—
House: lol
Speaker: (after 20 seconds) … order pic.twitter.com/znGH1IavCs— (@BryanPassifiume) December 15, 2022
h/t Everybody!
Back to the office? Here’s how often federal public servants will have to go in
Canadians working for the public service will have to spend at least two to three days per week in the office come April, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says.
The new “hybrid work model,” which Fortier announced in a press conference on Thursday, will see employees return to the office for between 40 and 60 per cent of their regular schedule.
Transactions related to the financing of international terrorist groups consisted mainly of funds transfers to countries of concern for such activity including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
… Within the analyzed disclosures, the most frequently identified international terrorist group was Daesh, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, followed by Hezbollah, the alert says.
“A large portion of the funds suspected of supporting Daesh were sent to Turkey, often to regions or towns close to the Turkey-Syria border, a particular high-risk region for terrorist activity financing.”
Funds suspected of bankrolling Hezbollah were frequently sent or received by people or organizations referring to the sale of cars or listed in the automotive industry.
In typical lets not offend the offensive style the agency does not breakdown its disclosures by terrorist type: “Using the information gleaned from Canadian businesses, the centre made 355 disclosures in 2021-22 to Canada’s law enforcement and national security agencies in support of investigations related to terrorist activity financing.”
Canada’s largest Muslim community organization has been rocked by meticulous forgeries of RCMP and Canada Revenue Agency records, which weave an elaborate fiction about federal investigators using paid informants to build a terrorist-funding case against the charity.
For more than a year, the Muslim Association of Canada has been receiving documents from an anonymous sender that suggest authorities are attempting to entrap the organization, sowing turmoil within the grassroots group. It operates 22 mosques and community centres and 30 schools in 13 cities.
While a trans teacher’s decision to wear large prosthetic breasts and blonde wig in front of high school students does not violate any rules, the same cannot be said for taking a photograph of this educator, according to the Halton District School Board.
The issue of foreign interference in elections was examined in a Commons committee on Dec. 13, with Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc addressing China’s role in Canadian society at large.
“The Chinese government regularly attempts to interfere in various aspects of Canadian society, elections would not be excluded from some of their efforts to interfere,” Leblanc told the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
With so much hot air and wind, Jagmeet Singh must be beloved by balloonists and sailors. But if the NDP leader wants to be taken seriously, it’s time he stopped the bluster.
Singh wants the Liberals to act on the dire state of our health-care system. If so he will need to do more than speak platitudes.
Next month, you’ll see a dip in your take-home income due to a tax hike — that is, unless your employer takes extra steps to prevent it.
“The upcoming 2023 increase in payroll taxes will mean every Canadian worker will see up to $305 less in take-home income on January 1, unless their employer is able to make up the difference,” the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) said in a press release.
h/t DM
A friendship society in Richmond, B.C., has become a focus in an RCMP investigation into allegations of secret Chinese “police” stations operating in Canada.
Officers visited the Canada Wenzhou Friendship Society on Saturday and conducted interviews with people who live nearby in the suburb south of Vancouver.
CBC spoke with neighbours who confirmed RCMP officers spoke with them, asking if they’d seen anything suspicious, and a marked cruiser was still parked outside the building on Tuesday.
Tories maintain lead over Liberals as gap slightly widens, new poll shows
A new poll suggests the Tories still have a small lead over the governing Liberals and have slightly widened the gap.
The poll conducted by Leger over the weekend says 33 per cent of respondents would vote for the Conservatives and 30 per cent would vote for the Liberals if a federal election was underway.
… Younger voters were most likely to support New Democrats. A full third of those aged 18 to 34 said they would vote for the party, while 28 per cent would vote Liberal and 22 per cent Conservative.
