Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to say Sunday whether Ottawa granted asylum to a former operative of Canada‘s spy service after he was freed from a Turkish prison last month for trafficking three underaged British schoolgirls to Islamic State militants.
Mr. Trudeau suggested, however, that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service would not have been allowed to run a double agent who engaged in the smuggling of minors under new rules brought in by his government in 2017.
This moment feels like a turning point for the Conservative Party of Canada, a true instance of hope and opportunity and the chance to break through in many places across the country where people regretfully vote Liberal.
“Decency and duty” were how Pierre Poilievre summarized the values embodied by the late Queen Elizabeth II in his victory speech, and how he promised the Conservative Party would serve Canadians. People have become so aware of the political tricks and fiscal irresponsibility of this government that serving in opposition with dignity, like our late Queen did, will be enough for the Conservatives to win Canada back.
OTTAWA — In a troubled world, Canadian democracy endures. But some sitting members of Parliament are worried — for various reasons — that it is getting weaker.
Ryan Turnbull is one of them. The Liberal MP for Whitby was first elected in 2019, and sees the problem through the lens of his education in philosophy: the ideal of democracy allows for public debate on a common ground of fact and reality, but Turnbull believes persistent misinformation and its self-serving weaponization by some politicians is threatening this shared basis for a functioning public discourse.
Mostly this is LPC, NDP and Elizabeth May griping about the scary convoy and such. The Star’s is gonna need a bigger fainting couch.
Life comes at you fast when it comes to global energy issues.
It comes so fast that Canada has already missed the boat on adding billions of dollars of economic growth to our economy every year, increasing global energy security and lowering global greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.
The Liberals have done great harm to Canadians on so many fronts it’s difficult to single out one as the worst.
The grievances of conspiracy theorists and “Freedom Convoy” supporters have cast a long shadow across Canadian politics in 2022 — one that hangs over the capital as Parliament returns from its summer recess.
OTTAWA — Anger, delusion and distrust: ingredients for a troubled democracy — and you can find all three in a darkened shed behind the deconsecrated church of St. Brigid’s.
One morning in late August, Brian Derksen strode into that shed with his little dog, Eli. Derksen wore a leather jacket, and the sunglasses pushed into his grey hair had bright orange flames on the armbands.
By now, the 59-year-old with the gruff voice is recognizable as a proud holdout of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests that clogged the streets around Parliament Hill last winter. Having dubbed himself “the trucker that never left,” Derksen is a fixture of the movement’s remnants in the capital, a small but chippy group that has settled into a contested tenancy of a historic former Catholic church in Ottawa’s Lowertown.
The Star is working hard today to make sure you know the Convoy=Poilievre=Hitler but worse!
“It’s going to be more expensive to buy stuff and your dollar isn’t going to go as far,” Lydia Miljan, a professor of political science at the University of Windsor, told CTV National News.
“The cost of borrowing is higher and so obviously that is going to put in some recessionary pressures.”
A weak dollar has traditionally served as a “subsidy” for exporting manufacturers etc allowing them to forego productivity investment.
There’s always a silver lining for somebody just never us.
The ugly attack on the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Toronto has once again exposed Canada as a hotspot for pro-Khalistani elements sponsored by the Pakistani deep state as opposed to the image of a multicultural Canada that its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau loves to flaunt internationally. The temple was defiled on Tuesday with anti-India slogans scribbled on the walls of the premises.
As we sit and watch the Bank of Canada do its thing, the loudest conversations I seem to be hearing surround the impact this is having on the housing market.
If you’re a buyer who threw every penny the bank would give you at the prospect of homeownership over the past two-and-a-half years, you’re probably consumed by such chatter yourself; after all, as rates go up, prices come down. We know this.
Alberta’s former Human Rights Commission chief will be taking legal action for what his lawyer says was an “unjust” termination.
On Thursday, the province rescinded the appointment of Collin May as head of the commission through a cabinet order after pressure from the Muslim community over a book review he published that’s been called Islamophobic.
… May reviewed Israeli-British historian Efraim Karsh’s book “Islamic Imperialism: A History,” where he claimed Islam was “one of the most militaristic religions known to man.”
I can do better! Islam is a militaristic murder cult of goat shaggers.
So you want Canada to abolish the monarchy? Here’s why that’s basically impossible
So you want to get rid of the monarchy in Canada?
Legal and constitutional experts agree: It’s practically impossible.
In the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II — whose 70-year reign was the longest in Canadian history — Canadians are again questioning whether it makes sense for the country’s head of state to be a hereditary monarch who lives in the United Kingdom. The Queen’s eldest son, King Charles III, automatically became Canada’s head of state upon his mother’s death.
Mohammed al-Rashed, arrested in Turkey in 2015 and jailed for terrorism and smuggling offences, may be granted political asylum in Canada
The double agent responsible for smuggling Shamima Begum into Syria has been released from jail in Turkey, it emerged on Friday, and may be granted political asylum in Canada.
Mohammed al-Rashed, a Turkish-based double agent working for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) as well as smuggling recruits into Syria for Isil, was freed on August 5, according to sources in Canada.
Syrian Al-Rashed’s role in helping Ms Begum and her two friends into Syria emerged after he was arrested by the Turkish authorities in 2015 and subsequently jailed for terrorism and smuggling offences. It was only then that CSIS told Scotland Yard about its double agent.
New charges have been laid against protesters involved in the Coutts border blockade earlier this year, including Marco Van Huigenbos, a Fort Macleod town councillor.
Van Huigenbos, 32, who was a protest organizer, as well as Alex Van Herk, 53, and George Janzen, 43, each face a count of mischief over $5,000.
In a written release, RCMP called the three men “key participants of the Coutts border blockade,” which took place between Jan. 29 and Feb. 15.
An Ottawa police officer has been charged with misconduct for allegedly donating money to the Freedom Convoy occupation last February.
Const. Kristina Neilson made her first disciplinary appearance on Thursday morning to face a single count of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act.
Professional standards investigators — detectives who investigate officer misconduct internally — allege Neilson discredited the service’s reputation “by donating money to the ‘Freedom Convoy Fund’ on a website called GiveSendGo.”
At 76 years old, Gwyn Morgan is not one to sit still.
The former oil executive, recipient of the Order of Canada and self-described “outdoors guy” remains a long-distance runner and led Global News on a jog through side streets and forest paths of Vancouver Island during an interview about his career — itself something of a marathon.
Canadians who donated to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.
A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.
The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.
OMG! Convoy supporters donated! And many were 1st time donors! That must be against the law!
