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Ken Coates: Canada is a country without a centre, without a purpose

… But our greatest challenge is at home. One of the world’s most over-governed nations, Canada is on the verge of earning new stripes for ineffective governance. Many Canadians found a safe financial haven with CERB and other support payments during the early years of the pandemic. But the federal government workforce’s almost unchecked expansion has not been matched by higher quality services or improved attention to citizen’s needs.

Government application and reporting systems have turned into expensive slogs, while reporting on outcomes has declined dramatically. Approval processes for mines and major infrastructure projects deter all but the most determined companies. The country is an outlier on oil and gas production; African nations are urging major investments, while Canada does its best to keep this energy in the ground, at great cost to its treasuries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Compassionate Exemptions Cast Aside by Ottawa’s Desire for ‘Strong’ Travel Vaccine Mandate: Court Documents

The federal government made a conscious and well-thought-out decision to impose a strict travel vaccination mandate that wouldn’t allow compassionate exemptions, court documents reveal.

The documents obtained recently by The Epoch Times relate to four lawsuits challenging the mandate that have shed some light on the thinking that led to a policy that aimed to have a “strong” and “world-leading” mandate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

The legacy media defends Trudeau’s “well-deserved” vacation

After a month of criss-crossing the country for photo opportunities while simultaneously increasing his carbon footprint, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he is taking a two-week vacation in Costa Rica. This is of course a legitimate news story, but according to some in the legacy media, we should just leave Trudeau alone and let him deserve his “well-deserved” break.

Plus, the legacy media continues to ignore a bombshell story by True North’s Rupa Subramanya, which revealed that the Trudeau government’s travel mandates were based on politics, not science.

There’s never a Great White around when you need one.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, MSM bias to the left, MSM Blackout, MSM Lies, MSM Shitweasels

In protests and politics, Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ reverberates

COUTTS, Alberta/TORONTO (Reuters) – In late January five friends, just a few years out of high school, piled into a rented camper van and drove 37 hours in the Canadian winter from southern Alberta to Ottawa to join anti-government protests led by a convoy of truckers.

“We were worried about vaccine mandates and our freedom, and it all just going to hell,” said Ursula Allred, 22, from her small, rural hometown of Magrath.

Another member of the group, Justin Martin, excitedly phoned home to say the protest — which occupied Ottawa with tractor-trailers, hot tubs, bouncy castles and scattered symbols of hate for weeks until it was broken up by police — was “the best experience, ever,” said his mother, Lynette Atwood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Jesse Kline: Does Freeland actually mean it when she says she wants LNG projects?

It’s hard to worry about keeping warm when it’s 37 C out, but that’s exactly what the Germans are being forced to do as Russia continues to cut gas supplies to Europe, creating the prospect of severe shortages this winter. In Berlin, the lights illuminating 200 monuments and government buildings, including the presidential palace, are being switched off to save electricity. People in Hanover will no longer be able to take hot showers at gyms and pools. Residents and businesses are facing huge increases in their energy bills.

I think Freedoughgolin is staking out her leadership strategy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Status of Canadian deal to buy artillery shells for Ukraine is uncertain

Canada is in discussions with arms companies to obtain further equipment for Ukraine but it’s unclear whether a critical deal to purchase 100,000 rounds of artillery ammunition for that country will proceed.

Canadian officials have been talking with their counterparts in South Korea to acquire the 155-millimetre artillery ammunition, this newspaper reported in late May. Canada would then provide those 100,000 rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, which has been warning for the last month that it is running out of artillery shells.

They’ll find a way. They need this war to further the Green-scam, look how quickly principles were set aside and the turbines released to prevent Germany dropping out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Canada’s troublesome travel app now under investigation over privacy concerns

The Canadian federal government’s much-maligned ArriveCAN app is being investigated by a federal privacy commissioner due to a protest.

According to an email from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the office has “received and is currently investigating a complaint that raises concerns with respect to the collection of personal information through ArriveCAN and subsequent use of that information.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Privacy Concerns

Montreal Gunman Abdulla Shaikh deemed a “significant risk to public safety” but allowed to walk free

The gunman at the centre of a seemingly random killing spree that claimed the lives of three people in Montreal and Laval over a 24-hour period was allowed to continue living outside a mental health facility, even though a psychiatrist deemed he was a “significant risk to public safety” last spring.

The shooter, 26-year-old Abdulla Shaikh, was shot dead by Montreal police Thursday morning in a motel parking lot during an operation linked to the three killings.

Court records show Shaikh had a criminal record for charges including assault and mischief.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Crime

Hockey Canada: A sex assault scandal disgraces country’s pastime

Canada, the birthplace of ice hockey, is confronting a sexual misconduct crisis within its largest and most prominent sport. The fallout has many asking: is ice hockey facing a widespread reckoning?

Hockey Canada, which manages programmes and teams in the country from entry-level all the way to world championships and the Olympic Games, has been rocked by public allegations of sexual assault against its players since earlier this year.

The sports body – largely seen as Canada’s voice for ice hockey on the international stage – is now facing consequences not seen in its storied 108-year-old history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t know Kyiv embassy staff faced threat from Russia

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she and her department were unaware of intelligence reports delivered weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which diplomats in Kyiv were told Ukrainians who worked for the Canadian embassy there were likely on lists of people Moscow intended to detain or kill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?