While 3D guns are the latest problem for law enforcement in some parts of the country, Toronto has so far been somewhat spared.
“While we haven’t seen a rise in 3D guns in particular in Toronto (since 2020 TPS has seized a total of 8, 3D printed gun or gun parts), TPS is increasingly seizing guns that are privately manufactured without serial numbers. These can include 3D printed firearms, converted pellet style guns and other homemade firearms,” Toronto police said in an email.
The Laith Marouf scandal, for that is emphatically what it is, of a fully public (it was all on Twitter, some on tape and film) antisemite receiving more than half a million taxpayers’ dollars from the government of Canada, caught even the laziest eye. I have observed it was a singular instance of “paying” the fox to raid the chicken house.
Terror suspects like Shamima Begum could be treated like victims if they exploit modern slavery laws, the terrorism watchdog warned last night.
Explosive claims in a new book that the so-called Jihadi Bride was smuggled into Syria by a spy working for Canada – before Justin Trudeau’s nation then conspired with the UK to cover up its role – emerged this week.
It sparked calls for an inquiry into claims the Met and the government knew the alleged people smuggler was responsible for helping Begum and her two fellow schoolgirls join ISIS while also working as a double agent.
Marouf espouses the very opinions that should be targeted by any anti-racism program worth its salt.
Marouf was hired because he is a racist. It is the culmination of a culture change in our civil service that has placed fellow traveler racists in positions of power. Marouf’s hate is acceptable hate and you’re kidding yourself if you believe there aren’t more just like him sucking on the public teat.
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his administration would be forgiving up to US$20,000 in student loans for low- and middle-income borrowers, reducing the debt load for more than 40 million Americans.
Some student groups, as well as the federal NDP, have called on the federal government to do the same here in Canada, but experts are divided over whether cancelling student debt is the best way to help young Canadians.
Not fair to anyone who has paid it back.
Environment Canada says online reports of ‘climate police’ are false
Environment and Climate Change Canada is responding to online reports it says are falsely accusing the ministry of recruiting officers to police climate change.
“We are aware of some misleading reports on social media suggesting that we are creating a new enforcement function,” the ministry wrote in a series of tweets on Thursday.
“This is false and the record needs to be set straight.”
OTTAWA – The trial of an RCMP employee accused of breaching Canada’s secrecy law has been delayed a year after a new defence lawyer took on his case.
An eight-week judge and jury trial for Cameron Jay Ortis had been slated to begin next week.
Ortis was taken into custody Sept. 12, 2019, for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
… Ortis, 50, had been represented by Ian Carter, but Carter was appointed as an Ontario Superior Court judge earlier this year.
I guess the cover up was taking longer than anticipated.
When a group of Canadian parliamentarians recently announced plans to visit Taiwan, Beijing‘s response was swift, with its Ottawa embassy vowing “resolute and forceful measures” against any country interfering in China’s territorial integrity.
Beijing’s Foreign Ministry had earlier summoned Canadian diplomat Jim Nickel over a G7 statement that called on China to peacefully resolve tensions surrounding U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, telling Nickel the statement was helping “a villain do evil.”
The Canadian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority deleted a tweet about its top diplomat’s meeting with Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub, describing him as a “friend of Canada,” following an uproar.
Rajoub served time in Israeli prisons for terrorism. As Yasser Arafat’s top security adviser, he used torture to stifle political dissent. In more recent years, he has been the head of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestinian Olympic Committee.
Still wondering why Laith Marouf was hired? It’s the Ottawa culture.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood behind the country’s top civilian intelligence agency on Wednesday in response to an allegation that one of its contractors helped traffic three British teenage girls to Islamic State extremists seven years ago.
A new book by U.K.-based writer Richard Kerbaj — The Secret History of the Five Eyes — is set to be published on Thursday. It claims that an informant for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) smuggled Shamima Begum, 15 at the time, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase — 16 and 15 at the time — into northern Syria, and that the informant told his Canadian handlers.
LYTTON, British Columbia — Nothing has been rebuilt since flames devoured the tiny village of Lytton last year, turning it into a national symbol of climate change. It was in Lytton, about 90 miles northeast of Vancouver, that temperatures set a national record of 49.6 degrees Celsius — 121.3 Fahrenheit in Canada! — before the deadly fire erupted.
Blue fencing on either side of Main Street blocks off access to the ruins of the village. Charred trees, flattened roofs, collapsed walls and piles of debris stretch over the full length of the village center, the silence broken only by helicopters dumping water to try to extinguish more recent fires in the nearby mountains.
Asked if CSIS went too far and if there would be an inquiry, Justin Trudeau said ‘rigorous oversight mechanisms’ monitor CSIS operations
Ottawa is accused of covering up its handling of a double agent who smuggled British teenagers into Islamic State territory to join the terror group while he was spying for Canada.
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, did not deny Ottawa’s work with an operative smuggling Western children to a dangerous battlefield, as outlined in a new book, saying that Canada’s spy agency must “be flexible and be creative” in the war against terrorists.
Peel Regional Police are looking for help to identify a number of men involved in a brawl where even a sword was in play.
Just a casual sword fight in Brampton, Ontario
Multiple injuries have been reported #Brampton #OnPoli pic.twitter.com/uwVrwuuDUM
— RealKrisKo🇨🇦 (@RealKrisKo) August 30, 2022
The question of whether Canadian cabinet ministers need bodyguards amid a worrying rise in harassment of public figures is a challenging one for a country that has long prided itself on a political culture where such measures were not necessary, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He faced questions from journalists outside of Rideau Hall on Wednesday shortly after a mini shuffle of his cabinet and almost one week after an incident in Alberta last Friday that saw a man hurl profanities at Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland while she was getting into an elevator.
She was heckled not burned at the stake.
Last winter, in the dead of an endless pandemic, Judy Martens says she was in a dark place.
She had lost her job as a “glorified litter box cleaner” at a veterinary clinic in her hometown of Kelowna, B.C., and moved in with her parents to help care for her dad after he suffered a third stroke.
