Canada – Page 549 – Blazingcatfur

Bank of Canada to Consult Canadians on Digital Currency in 2023, Says Governor

Apocalypse of Angers tapestry: Dragons Vomiting Frogs

The Bank of Canada is moving out of its research phase into a central bank digital currency and going into the development phase, its governor said on Dec. 12, with consultations on the issue to take place with Canadians in 2023.

“I think over time, it is conceivable that in a more digital economy, it might make sense to give Canadians the ability to hold central bank money in digital format. So we’re making sure we’re getting ready,” Bank of Canada (BoC) Governor Tiff Macklem said in his year-end address hosted by the Business Council of British Columbia.

And just like that you were absorbed.

by Blazingcatfur•December 14, 2022December 14, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Canada, WTF?

Joly doesn’t have ‘any form of information’ on 11 Liberal MPs targeted in Chinese interference campaign

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly testified during a Monday afternoon committee meeting that she has no idea about the names of the 11 Liberal MPs allegedly targeted by an election interference attempt by the Chinese government during the 2019 election.

by Blazingcatfur•December 14, 2022December 13, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Canada is being naive about the risks of Chinese technology

Last week, Ottawa was united in shock over revelations that the RCMP entrusted its critical radio communications systems to Sinclair Technologies, a subsidiary of China’s Hytera Communications Corp. A Chinese state-backed firm, Hytera’s record includes everything from lying to U.S. regulators about its Chinese Communist Party ties to criminal corporate espionage charges. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the other party leaders all agreed: The decision was baffling.

But nobody should be surprised. This is not the first time that Canada has found itself with unwanted Chinese surveillance technology. Without a major status quo shift, it won’t be the last.

by Blazingcatfur•December 14, 2022December 13, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canadian medical grads trained abroad are increasingly giving up on their home country for work

With nearly 300 Canadian students enrolled in its programs, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland feels a lot like a medical school in Canada, just separated by 3,340 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean.

While this historic university in the heart of Dublin has been producing doctors since 1784, in recent decades, it’s become an important training ground for many young Canadians who go overseas to pursue their dreams of becoming a physician.

More than 40 per cent of the students in RCSI’s four-year medical program are from Canada – more than any other nationality.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2022December 13, 2022•0•Canada

Anthony Furey: The Real Problem With Canada’s RCMP-China Contract

It’s of course good news that the federal Liberal government has put the brakes on a contract that a firm partially owned by the Chinese government had scored to work on sensitive RCMP technology. But we also need to ask what mindset allowed it to happen in the first place.

Last year, Sinclair Technologies won a contract to provide radio frequency equipment for Canada’s federal police service. Sinclair’s parent company is Norsat International, which is in turn owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2022December 13, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Singh says he could abandon deal to support Liberals if PM doesn’t take action on health crisis

The New Democrats are ready to withdraw from the confidence-and-supply agreement they signed with the Liberals if there is no federal action to address the health-care crisis, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday.

The deal reached in March committed the NDP to supporting the minority government on key votes in the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election before 2025. In exchange, the Liberals have promised to make progress on a number of NDP priorities, including health care.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2022December 13, 2022•0•Canada, NDP

Mainers make considerably more than New Brunswickers

Earlier this fall, census data revealed that households in New Brunswick earned less than all other Canadian provinces in 2020. And now, findings from a recent study reveal some glaring disparities between New Brunswick and New England states including Maine.

New Brunswick and Maine share many similarities including geography, culture and demographics. The age of the population in both jurisdictions is quite similar, and prominent industries such as forestry, manufacturing and the government sector tend to represent similar shares of the economy (as measured by GDP).

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2022December 12, 2022•0•Canada, USA

Chinese ‘Police Stations’ in Canada Amounts to the Presence of a Hostile Foreign Power in Our Front Yard

According to popular wisdom, Sir Robert Peel created the first modern municipal police force in London in 1829. Yes, there were other law enforcement-type bodies well before that, but the idea of having an organized body of men (they were all men at first) to patrol the streets and investigate/prevent crime was new for the era.

The notion of the “bobby on the beat”—”bobby” is a take-off on Peel’s first name—is well established. For decades in the Western world the sight of a uniformed officer walking through a community, getting to know the inhabitants, and making a very visible sign of law and order (and hence deterrence) was commonplace. That seems to have changed of late, and I’m not so sure it’s for the better.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 12, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau urged to pick a side in imported tribal conflict

Trudeau urged to tell India to stop interfering in Canadian Sikhs’ drive for independent Punjab

A secessionist Sikh group is pressing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disavow calls from India’s envoy for Canada to crack down on funding of a movement to create a separate state in Punjab.

Sikhs for Justice, an organization headquartered in Washington, has written to Mr. Trudeau, disputing Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma’s recent comments to The Globe and Mail. Sikhs for Justice has been conducting referendums in Canadian cities on Punjab independence as part of a global campaign on the matter.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 12, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?

A Terrifying …

Trespassing?

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

RCMP offers $100,000 reward after 10 months with no leads on violent Coastal GasLink attack

After 10 months without any leads as to who led a violent, coordinated attack on a pipeline work camp last February, the RCMP is hoping that the promise of a $100,000 reward will loosen some local tongues.

“I do believe there are people out there who know something, and I do believe this reward will entice those people,” B.C. RCMP superintendent Jim Elliott said at a Monday press conference.

If this was the work of white supremacist truckers the RCMP would have arrested everyone and have commenced sorting out their undercover agents and informants from the guilty guy.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 12, 2022•0•Canada, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

Cause of Keystone oil pipeline leak still unknown, Calgary-based TC Energy says

Calgary-based TC Energy said on Sunday it has not yet determined the cause of the Keystone oil pipeline leak last week in the United States, while also not giving a timeline as to when the pipeline will resume operation.

TC shut the pipeline after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas on Wednesday, making it one of the largest U.S. crude spills in nearly a decade.

Sabotage?

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 11, 2022•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Canadian Disabled Man’s Euthanasia Request Due to Poverty Approved

Death is increasingly seen as the answer to a variety of woes in Canada, with its euthanasia libertinism running truly amuck. This includes veterans being offered euthanasia for PTSD and a nursing home patient lethally injected because she did not want to be isolated during a COVID lockdown. There are also cases in which people ask to die because they can’t access prompt medical care from Canada’s socialized healthcare system, and one in which death was offered to a disabled woman rather than a stairs chair lift.

The Trudeau legacy…

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 11, 2022•0•Canada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, WTF?

Medicare meltdown: Wait-weary Canadians ready to embrace private care

Canada’s health-care system is under siege. The country is still grappling with an acute crisis in our hospitals stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic while the slow-moving quagmire caused by the country’s aging population threatens to become a larger disaster. Can our system handle it? This is the final instalment of a joint five-part Medicare Meltdown series produced by the National Post and The Hub looking deep into the world of Canadian health care, not just to identify problems, but to offer solutions for the future.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 11, 2022•0•Canada

Cory Morgan: It’s Past Time Ottawa Began Taking Security Risks Posed by the CCP Seriously

It seems as if hardly a month goes by without another revelation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltrating or influencing companies and orders of government within Canada.

This month is no exception. It has been exposed that the RCMP had contracted an Ontario-based company with ties to the CCP to provide equipment related to police radio communications. The security and encryption of communications within a national police force should be rather important considerations. A company providing services related to anything so sensitive should be thoroughly vetted, yet somehow the ties between Sinclair Technologies and the CCP were overlooked when sourcing services.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 11, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government