OTTAWA — In January, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest the world has been to a nuclear apocalypse in its view, since it was set up by former Manhattan Project scientists in 1945.
… But it also showed something else — how out of touch the Trudeau government has managed to get on the issue of how to deal with Tehran, at political risk to itself.
It was notable in Richmond Hill that the new Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, managed to make sure he was front and centre before the assembled thousands, denouncing both the Iranian regime and the government’s failure to put sanctions on Tehran’s notorious Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Justin’s handlers know that support for Iran’s regime is strong among the Shia Muslim community in Canada and particularly within the GTA, a key piece of the LPC’s strength.
Estimates are up to one quarter of Canada’s Muslims are Shia.
Justin will not be allowed to alienate a significant vote bloc.
OTTAWA — A new paper from scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada, co-authored by Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, estimates that with absolutely no public health measures and no vaccines, 800,000 people would have died from COVID-19 in Canada.
Why can’t Canada be as smart and successful as Australia?
Exhibit A: In recent weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the suggestion that Canada could be a major supplier of liquefied natural gas to Germany, questioning the “business case.” Germany is wealthy, needs to replace Russian energy, and Canada has the third biggest reserves of natural gas on the planet.
OTTAWA – The Department of National Defence says thousands of Canadian Armed Forces members and their families are waiting for military housing.
New figures provided to the Canadian Press show nearly 4,500 Armed Forces members and their families were on a Canadian Forces Housing Agency waitlist in July.
Always money for third world crapholes of course.
Several years after Hockey Canada began using player registration fees to build a large financial reserve known as the National Equity Fund to cover sexual assault claims and other lawsuits, it channelled a significant portion of that money into a second multimillion-dollar fund for similar purposes.
Known as the Participants Legacy Trust Fund, the reserve was created by the organization and its members with more than $7.1-million from the National Equity Fund. The money was earmarked “for matters including but not limited to sexual abuse,” according to Hockey Canada documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.
They needed a 2nd fund???
(Ottawa) Informed observers of the recent September 29, 2022 online video-hearing for Ottawa Police Constable Kristina Neilson were astonished to see that the officer appeared without a lawyer.
Neilson’s representative, police union Sergeant Patrick Laflamme, asked the Trials Officer to set a date for a 2-hour joint defense-prosecution submission on the facts of the case and an appropriate sentence. Constable Neilson will plead guilty to the charge of discreditable conduct for donating $50 to a Christian website to purchase food and gas for the ‘Freedom Convoy’.
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre says he’s worried about the Canadian Armed Forces’ readiness as it faces pressure both from the conflict in Ukraine and the need to respond to natural disasters at home.
In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live on Sunday, Eyre said the two issues represented “strong demands on both sides” and, given issues with equipment and personnel shortages, he was “concerned about our overall readiness.”
However much we strive to denounce and scoff at Americans, the simple fact is we need you.
Canadians have a lingering insecurity that most people outside the country aren’t aware of. Unlike the United States, which actively shrugged off its British overlords, Canadians gradually — and legally — evolved into an independent nation. Canada’s steady march towards self-government required constant wrangling, incrementally seeking to prove its worthiness, and therein lies our deepest fear.
… The latest example of Putin’s alleged deviousness has to do with leaks in an undersea Russian gas pipeline that traverses the Baltic.
The pro-Ukraine side blames Russia. Moscow, they say, is responsible for deliberately causing the leak.
Why would Russia sabotage its own pipeline? The pro-Ukraine side provides no coherent explanation beyond the belief, expressed as fact, that Putin is irrationally evil.
By definition, these people say, Russia is playing a dangerous double game. It cannot be treated as a normal country.
This is very odd coming from The Star
The federal government offers its employees a variety of Indigenous cultural awareness and sensitivity programs through the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS), but participation in the optional sessions is relatively low.
The CSPS offers 15 different training sessions on Indigenous issues known as the Indigenous Training Series, but fewer than a fifth of public servants have attended any one session, according to the numbers from CSPS, which were included in a response to an order paper question submitted by NDP MP Bonita Zarrillo.
The most-attended session, called Reflecting on Cultural Bias: Indigenous Perspectives, has seen 51,430 public servants participate as of June this year.
According to the Treasury Board of Canada, the federal government employed as many as 319,601 people in 2021, meaning the training session with the highest attendance had roughly 16 per cent of public servants take part.
The so-called “freedom convoy” that blocked Parliament Hill and several Canada-U.S. border crossings may have dispersed earlier this year, but it won’t be leaving our political conversation anytime soon. At least, not if opponents of the federal Conservative Party and their new leader, Pierre Poilievre, have anything to say about it.
The most recent polling Ipsos conducted for Global News shows why.
Lax merger laws in Canada underestimate the harm to competition caused by mergers and overestimate their benefits, a new report says.
Gaps in Canada’s merger laws have failed to prevent the kind of acquisitions that allow big firms to “extinguish competitive threats and entrench their dominance,” according to the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Canada is Crony Capitalism.
The Ottawa police officer facing dismissal for donating to the Freedom Convoy protest was recognized for exemplary service in the Canadian navy and commended for assisting in a dangerous rescue as a rookie cop.
As Const. Kristina Neilson awaits her fate in an Ottawa Police Service disciplinary hearing, new details are emerging about her years of public service in the military and policing.
Neilson, 41, joined the Ottawa Police Service in 2013 and previously used the last name Correa.
Winnipeg mayoral candidate Glen Murray was forced to leave his “dream job” as the head of a clean energy think-tank after one year, following complaints about his management, according to former staff and communications obtained by CBC News.
Murray’s lawyer denies this, claiming he resigned “for personal and family reasons.”
A CBC News investigation into the 370 days Murray spent in 2017-18 as the executive director of the Pembina Institute — a Calgary-based environmental organization — also revealed allegations Murray used sexual innuendo in the workplace, physically harassed a former employee at a company gathering and drank to excess at some organization functions.
A garbage human. I always felt his leaving Ontario was rushed.
