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Military Says Projected Regular Force Personnel Loss Is 9.5 Percent This Year

The military is facing high attrition rates and that number is projected to be 9.5 percent for the Regular Force this fiscal year, according to the Department of National Defence (DND).

The combined rate with the Reserve Force was not available, said DND spokesperson Derek Abma.

The Epoch Times obtained information from a military source that the combined attrition rate of the Regular Force and Primary Reserve so far in 2022 is 13 percent, with a total of 12,067 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members leaving the organization this year.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2022November 3, 2022•0•"Peak Woke", Canada

CBC shutting down its China news bureau

CBC News is shutting down its Beijing news bureau after a more-than-40-year presence in China, saying it was forced to take the step after officials have ignored repeated requests for a journalist work visa.

“There is no point keeping an empty bureau when we could easily set up elsewhere in a different country that welcomes journalists and respects journalistic scrutiny,” said CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon, announcing the move in a blog posted Wednesday.

Heartbreaking.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2022November 3, 2022•0•Canada, WTF?

Federal government moves to cut China out of Canadian critical mineral industry

After a national security review, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is ordering three Chinese resource companies to sell their interests in Canadian critical mineral firms.

Champagne’s order comes less than a week after he said Canada would be limiting the involvement of foreign state-owned companies in the industry.

… Chengze Lithium International Ltd. is required to divest its interests in Lithium Chile Inc., a company headquartered in Calgary with more than a dozen lithium projects underway in Chile.

And Zangge Mining Investment is ordered to sell its investment in Ultra Lithium Inc., a Vancouver-based resource development firm with lithium and gold projects in both Canada and Argentina.

How successful can they be against mining interests physically located in foreign countries?

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2022November 3, 2022•0•Canada

Alleged Chinese Police Stations in Canada: How Did They Get Here? And Why Aren’t They Shut Down Yet?

Of all the countries where China has purportedly set up unofficial police stations, only Ireland has so far ordered its local one to be closed. Authorities in other countries, including in Canada, have at most said they are “investigating” the issue.

This came after a Spanish NGO, Safeguard Defenders, published a report in September alerting countries like Canada to these stations on their soil. The station in Dublin, Ireland, displayed a public sign, “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station.” Other stations, such as the reported three in Toronto, are more subtle.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 2, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The barbarism of Canada’s euthanasia regime

When society denies the objective value of human life, no one is safe

“After a recent experience caring for a patient receiving medical assistance in dying, I felt distressed and uncomfortable. How should I manage these emotions?”

According to the website of the College of Nurses of Ontario, that’s a frequently asked question for healthcare professionals involved in euthanasia. Perhaps Canadian health science programs ought to have some mandatory classes on Shakespeare. He wrote quite a bit about coping with the pangs of conscience, particularly after having been an accessory to the unnatural death of another.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 2, 2022•0•Canada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Canada’s Ability to Detect Chinese, Russian Incursions in Arctic ‘Very Limited,’ Says CAF General

Canada’s ability to detect foreign incursions in its Arctic territories is “very limited” and in need of modernization, says a high-ranking Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) general.

“The North Warning System is very limited in its ability to actually detect the current threat presented by Russia right now and China in the future,” said Lt. Gen. Alain Pelletier, deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), while testifying before the House of Commons national defence committee on Nov. 1.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Russia

CSIS is ‘increasingly concerned’ about China’s interference in Canada

Canada’s spy agency is growing “increasingly concerned” about China’s attempts to influence Canadian politics, a senior official told members of Parliament on Tuesday.

That’s because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “involved and interested in promoting their own national interests” in Canada, Michelle Tessier, the deputy director of operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told the procedure and House affairs committee on Tuesday.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

OH BOY … HAITI BOUND

Canadian officials return from Haiti as Ottawa weighs military response to crisis

A team tasked with assessing the crisis in Haiti has returned home and is now briefing senior officials as the Canadian government weighs a potential military mission to assist the beleaguered Caribbean nation, according to Canada’s ambassador to Haiti.

Ambassador Sebastien Carriere said Monday that Canada will be expected to take a leading role in assisting the country, which has been plunged into chaos due to rampaging gangs and a worsening cholera outbreak.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 2, 2022•0•Canada, Haiti, WTF?

Canada: ‘Expert’ on ‘radicalization and extremism’ says ISIS brides and their kids should be repatriated ‘quickly’

Cécile Rousseau, who is described as “a pediatric psychiatrist at McGill University and an expert on violent radicalization and extremism,” advises that women and children who are being detained in Islamic State (ISIS) camps should be brought back to Canada “quickly.” She “does not believe that a handful of women returning with young children, who will be monitored and given support, will represent a danger to Canadian society,” yet she is touted as an “expert” in “radicalization and extremism.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Special committee of MPs will see secret documents on firing of two Winnipeg infectious disease scientists

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

The federal government and the three main opposition parties have agreed to set up a special committee of MPs that will have unfettered access to all national security documents related to the firing of two infectious disease scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

Government House Leader Mark Holland said Tuesday that his Conservative, Bloc Québécois and NDP counterparts have signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow MPs on an ad hoc committee to learn why Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were dismissed in January, 2021. The committee will also see all secret documents involving the transfer of Ebola and Henipah viruses, overseen by Dr. Qiu, to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in March, 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•November 1, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Kansas woman who led all-female IS battalion sentenced to 20 years

A US woman who admitted leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group (IS) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old from Kansas, committed terrorist acts in Iraq, Syria and Libya over an eight-year period.

She also admitted to giving military training to more than 100 women and girls, including some as young as 10.

She pleaded guilty to the charges in June.

by Blazingcatfur•November 1, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trudeau seeks to flood country with new goal of 500K immigrants per year … for your own good of course

The federal government is planning a massive increase in the number of immigrants entering Canada, with a goal of seeing 500,000 people arrive each year by 2025.

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser revealed the new targets Tuesday, saying the move is necessary to ensure Canada’s economic prosperity.

Canadian industries are facing a significant labour shortage, with about one million job vacancies across the country.

Who benefits?

Corporate Canada gets the depressed wages it wants.

Bank of Canada gets to fight inflation on the backs of the working class.

The rich will get richer off the contrived shortages citizens will face in everything from food to shelter.

Trudeau gets to play divide and conquer and hope a few votes come his way.

Be clear about this. Your country is being sold to corporate interests by the Trudeau government.

by Blazingcatfur•November 1, 2022November 1, 2022•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Canadian Military Attrition at Highest Rate in 15 Years: Leaked Documents

The Canadian military’s attrition rate has reached its highest level in 15 years amounting to a “workforce crisis,” warned defence chief, Gen. Wayne Eyre, in a leaked briefing note prepared for the Armed Forces Council.

“Although attrition was forecast to be higher than average for two years post-pandemic, we are realizing likely 1000 higher than forecast, the highest in 15 years,” Eyre said in the note, which was obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.

The Department of National Defence told The Epoch Times in an email that the 2021-2022 combined attrition rate for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) regular forces and primary reserve forces was 9.3 percent.

There must be thousands of gender fluid individuals just itchin to serve their country.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"Peak Woke", Canada, Militaria

Joel Kotkin: Biden, Trudeau choose green war on oil and gas over working class

Canadians, outside of dual citizens, can’t vote in America’s midterms, but the results may well shape the country’s trajectory in the years to come.

The current crisis around inflation, a probable recession, rising heating costs and electricity prices, with increases in Canada of upwards of 50 percent or more, as well soaring food prices are clearly shaped by global forces. But the economic crisis also has roots in the well-financed green movement’s war on fossil fuels. These turn out to be critical to such industries as manufacturing and logistics while the drive to ban natural gas based fertilizers constitutes a gun at the head at the farms that feed the world.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•Canada, Green-Scam, USA

Pierre Poilievre urges Chrystia Freeland to make good on her internal missive that new programs be funded by budget cuts

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is challenging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ahead of Thursday’s fall economic statement to make good on the instructions she gave cabinet ministers to fund new government programs with budget cuts.

In a note to Freeland Sunday citing Canada’s high inflation rate, interest rate hikes and the steep cost of living, Poilievre warned “the bubble is finally bursting and the bill is finally coming due.”

“For years my warnings that out-of-control spending would balloon inflation, and then interest rates, were ignored,” he wrote. “Now in a leaked letter the government seems to now agree with me.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Canada