It’s easy to feel like free speech is on the decline in Canada. The number of reasonable opinions now considered cancellable offences is growing by the day.
But a recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is good news for defenders of free speech. A moment of optimism was granted from the Ottawa small claims court on Nov. 10 when the court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Richard Warman, a lawyer and board member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN).
According to a senior government source, Trudeau initiated a conversation with Xi following a morning meeting of world leaders in Bali, Indonesia. It last a few minutes, and the leaders discussed the election reports, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and North Korea.
They agreed to keep in touch, the source said; Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly also spoke with her Chinese counterpart on Tuesday.
At the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia this weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by Global News reporter Mackenzie Gray if he plans to bring up allegations of China’s interference in Canadian elections with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 summit.
In this instance “demurred” may be understood to mean “Trudeau didn’t wish to jeopardize a possible opportunity to lick Xi’s arse.”
A multi-partisan group of MPs on the procedure and House affairs committee agreed Monday to probe claims that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its agents have interfered in the Canadian political process.
Citing unnamed sources, Global News reported last week that China was behind “a vast campaign of foreign inference” in Canadian politics.
That campaign reportedly included “a clandestine network” of candidates in the 2019 election, a movement to place “agents into the offices of MPs in order to influence policy,” an attempt to “co-opt and corrupt former Canadian officials to gain leverage in Ottawa” and a campaign to “punish Canadian politicians whom the People’s Republic of China views as threats to its interests.”
“White nationalism” is an “active” threat to the Canadian Armed Forces, a new report says, but the Forces’ counter-intelligence unit is under-resourced and unable to “proactively” deal with the issue.
In a report released Monday, the independent National Security and Intelligence Review Committee (NSIRA) said the Department of National Defence has known for years their internal “counter-intelligence” branch has been underfunded and hindered by policy constraints.
But white males are no longer interested in joining the Woke CAF so it can’t be much of a problem
MOSCOW – Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that 100 Canadians have been added to the list of people banned from entering the country in response to sanctions against Russia by Canada.
A ministry statement said author Margaret Atwood, actor Jim Carrey and Amy Knight, a noted historian of the KGB, were on the banned list.
Lucky Buggers!
A Cuban-Canadian rights group is formally requesting that Ottawa slap sanctions on officials in Cuba for Havana’s repression of demonstrators at a July, 2021, protest.
Democratic Spaces, founded and directed by Michael Lima, a Cuban-Canadian, is filing a request with the Department of Global Affairs’ sanctions policy and operations co-ordination division on Monday morning. Mr. Lima is a human-rights activist and researcher.
“Levels of repression in Cuba today are the highest in two decades,” Mr. Lima said.
MONTREAL — A Jewish group is calling on a Montreal venue to cancel a performance by a French rapper whose music it describes as “openly antisemitic and hateful.”
B’nai Brith Canada sent a letter on Friday to the owners of L’Olympia theatre in Montreal, urging them to cancel a Dec. 4 show by musician Freeze Corleone.
“Mr. Corleone is openly antisemitic and hateful,” read the letter signed by Marvin Rotrand, the national director of B’nai Brith’s League of Human Rights.
From Ladepche – The musician is accused of “apologizing for Nazism and anti-Semitism” in the texts of his songs. The rapper praises Adolf Hitler and Mullah Omar, before attacking the Jewish community.
While the United States was hurtling toward the dramatic conclusion of another round of national elections last week, Canada was quietly embarking on its own, smaller (much, much smaller) version of the American midterms: a byelection in the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore.
Unlike the recently completed U.S. elections, the balance of power and the future of democracy are not at stake in Mississauga-Lakeshore. But because of where the riding is, how competitive the race could be and when it is happening, this single byelection has unusually high narrative value.
A touch melodramatic.
Don’t expect Justin Trudeau to ask Chinese President Xi Jinping about China’s interference in Canada’s last two elections. A report by Global News last week revealed that Trudeau was presented with a CSIS report last January detailing China’s interference in the 2019 federal election.
The United States military has been quietly soliciting applications for Canadian mining projects that want American public funding through a major national security initiative.
It’s part of an increasingly urgent priority of the U.S. government: lessening dependence on China for critical minerals that are vital in everything from civilian goods such as electronics, cars and batteries, to weapons.
It illustrates how Canadian mining is becoming the nexus of a colossal geopolitical struggle. Ottawa just pushed Chinese state-owned companies out of the sector, and the U.S. is now considering moving public funding in.
Just wait till Guilbeault hears about this. Mines in Canada? Mais non!
And American Military involvement? Bet on Canada’s China class to use that to their advantage with the eco-fascists.
Of course electric cars are talked up with no one seeming to bother asking where the power needed to charge them will come from.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a slew of funding announcements in Cambodia on Saturday aimed at deepening economic and academic ties with Southeast Asia, after decades of sporadic engagement with the region.
“This is a generational shift,” Trudeau told leaders gathered in Phnom Penh for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
“I am announcing concrete investments that are part of our commitment to this relationship,” he said, before listing $333 million in new funding.
What an awful state of affairs, we are held hostage by a despised man-child and his equally hated errand boy.
Eight years after Ayad Alhussein was abducted by the terror group ISIS, he has been reunited with his family in Winnipeg.
On Thursday at the Winnipeg Richardson International Airport, Amal and Leila Alhussein hugged their little brother Ayad for the first time in eight years.
“We’re just so excited to welcome him to our new home here in Winnipeg,” Amal said.
They were last together at their home in Iraq when in 2014, ISIS arrived in the Yazidi family’s community. Amid the carnage, the family of 20 was reduced to just four. Ayad, who was only six years old at the time, was abducted by the terror group.
I can’t help but wonder why this story has received so little media attention relative to the coverage given to the ISIS whores Canada allows back.
Two government sources say Ontario’s top doctor will recommend the public begin masking on Monday in an effort to help overwhelmed children’s hospitals.
The sources, who are speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the process publicly, says there will be no mask mandate.
For years now, central banks around the world have helped consumers and businesses weather economic storms. In crisis after crisis, they cut interest rates to help people get through. They printed money and bought bonds to prop up markets.
This time, those same banks are actively making life more difficult.
“I’m sure some of this does feel a bit counterintuitive,” said Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem.
I get the impression Tiff really enjoys his work.
