The moment from the Korean War that sticks with retired lieutenant-colonel Brian Simons happened at the beginning of the Battle of Hill 355 — a now largely forgotten struggle in an often overlooked war.
A young signaller attached to the Royal Canadian Regiment, Simons — a newly minted lieutenant at the time — was up on the rocky hillside at a battalion outpost when Chinese artillery and mortars opened up with their first deafening barrage.
When Michael Dagg sued the national archives for access to RCMP files on an obscure 1990s investigation into federal contracting practices, he knew he might not live long enough to win the fight.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) told Mr. Dagg it would take 80 years to process his access-to-information request for the RCMP’s files on the investigation, code-named Project Anecdote. While federal information requests must be processed within 30 days, the Access to Information Act allows institutions to claim a one-time deadline extension.
These days, Eris Nyx is dressing up like she’s in the Vietnam War.
“I have a full tiger stripe war thing,” she says, referring to the camouflage patterns used during the conflict, “because it’s a war zone out there, and nobody is coming to help us.”
People continue to die around her — people she knows — of drug overdoses, as Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands.
The rising cost of living isn’t an act of God or nature. Politicians are making it worse every day. You can find politicians who are making life more affordable for taxpayers. But those politicians don’t live in Ottawa.
Ottawa is raising gas taxes, payroll taxes and even alcohol taxes. Meanwhile, 51 other national governments are providing relief, according to a Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) report. That includes more than half of the G7 and G20 countries. Two-thirds of the countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development are also cutting taxes.
Russia has launched a “new massive strike” targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
He said the attacks were on a “very wide” scale, hitting Ukraine’s regions in the west, centre, south and east.
Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said.
But Mr Zelensky said most of the Russian missiles and drones were being shot down, and such strikes would not stop a Ukrainian military advance.
Freeland and Junior need to be told in no uncertain terms that support for Ukraine is contingent on dropping their economy destroying green-scam measures. The rising costs of fuel, heat and food will quickly erase whatever goodwill the public holds for Ukraine.
No one is buying the lie Freeland has been peddling that the Ukraine crisis has created an inexorable demand to abandon relatively cheap and plentiful fossil fuels for unsustainable faux-green solutions.
No one will long tolerate the needless suffering caused them by the Liberal Government’s childish environmental policy a scam now cynically imposed in the name of assisting Ukraine.
Freeland’s act of tearfully draping herself in the Ukraine flag is wearing thin.
I bet Freeland & Junior are wondering if they can convince the public to eat unrecyclable solar panels.
Three years ago, 55 jumbo jets from China were touching down at Vancouver International Airport every week.
Now there are only eight flights a week from the world’s most-populous country.
There has been an almost similar plunge in the proportion of Chinese nationals applying for Canada’s 10-year visas. A related decline means fewer people from China are seeking student visas, and showing relatively modest interest in permanent-residence status.
‘Dr. Doom’ predicts NYC destroyed by nukes, storms in next 20 years
Nouriel Roubini is seriously reconsidering whether he wants to continue living in New York. Mostly because, well, he wants to survive.
“There’s a scenario in which, in the next twelve months, Russia uses tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine and then they attack NATO and we start a conventional war with Russia. The first nuclear weapon is gonna go to New York,” said the 64-year-old NYU economics professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates. “Being in New York City is not safe.”
Even if Manhattan manages to avoid nuclear annihilation, there’s still the possibility of a natural disaster, like Hurricane Sandy that flooded New York in 2012, but “much, much worse,” Roubini told The Post. ”In the next 20 years, most of downtown New York is gonna be underwater.”
Facebook says it is considering blocking Canadians’ access to news sites on its platform, in response to a proposed federal law that would force it to compensate media outlets for carrying links to their articles.
The tech giant upped the stakes in the battle over the online news bill, warning it may block Canadians from sharing or viewing news content out of frustration over the government’s “misguided” approach.
Liz Truss has resigned and the lettuce has won. It is a historic downfall and Truss was treated with all the tenderness reserved for an animal being led to the slaughterhouse during her last hours. A quick, cruel end, meted out ruthlessly and immediately by disgruntled and fed-up Conservative MPs.
An Alberta doctor is calling on the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) to look into the significant jump in doctors’ “sudden deaths” following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine mandates since December 2020.
“I am now providing you an update with information about 80 young Canadian doctors who died suddenly or unexpectedly since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines,” wrote Dr. William Makis, assistant clinical professor at the Department of Radiology at the University of Alberta, in a letter to CMA on Oct. 15.
The commander of one of Canada’s frontline fighter jet squadrons has been removed temporarily from his post, CBC News has learned.
It’s part of the fallout from a military police investigation into the decision to assign an allegedly derogatory, sexually explicit call sign — a military nickname — at an informal social gathering on June 23, 2022.
The police investigation resulted in administrative charges against three officers on Thursday, according to a statement from the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal.
It’s virtually neck-and-neck between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre as the preferred prime minister in the minds of Canadians.
New polling from Nanos Research has found that the Conservative Party leader is the preferred prime minister for 30 per cent of Canadians. But Trudeau isn’t far behind, sitting at 29.8 per cent.
It’s beyond me that anyone could possibly think Trudeau fit for office.
Convoy fiasco reveals cosy relations between right-wingers and authorities
“… It’s terrifying how lawless and violent the far-right has become in the U.S. — and Canada. Even more terrifying is the fact that some of our police and elected leaders have shown a willingness to tolerate these right-wing thugs — or even, in the case of the new Conservative leader, to embrace them.”
This from a woman smitten by Hugo Chavez and who has never heard of BLM or Antifa.
Portions of court documents unsealed today related to the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., in February show police were worried about the level of violence that could unfold.
Following the protest over COVID-19 public health measures that brought traffic to a standstill at the province’s primary U.S. border crossing, RCMP laid numerous charges. The most serious, conspiracy to commit murder, were laid against four Alberta men: Christopher Lysak, 48, of Lethbridge; Anthony Olienick, 39, of Claresholm; Chris Carbert, 44, of Lethbridge; and Jerry Morin, 40, of Olds.
Don’t worry, it will keep getting worse. The cost of gas will continue to rise — and with it, the price of just about everything else. Once this pandemic-induced inflationary period has passed, the Liberals’ enthusiasm for forcing Canadians to lower their standard of living will only grow.
Of course, they won’t phrase it that way. They will call it a “transition,” or “putting a price on pollution,” or Canadians “doing their part to fight climate change.” The government might even believe some of it.
It is criminal what the Trudeau government has done to Canada.
