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Five Year Investigation of Barry Sherman Murder Delivers Not A Single Suspect

As calendars reached 2022, mystery surrounding the deaths of Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman entered its fifth year without a single suspect being identified. Although devoid of potential suspects, additional information on the case was presented by Canadian media in early 2021.

Barry Sherman, founder of Canadian pharma giant Apotex, and his wife Honey Sherman, were found dead in the basement area of their home in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017. Their deaths were determined by investigators to be caused by ligature neck compressions, a type of strangulation.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Freeland, allies walk out of G20 meeting over Russian participation

Queen of Ukraine!

Canadian officials, including Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, joined allies in staging a walkout of a G20 meeting in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday in protest of Russia’s involvement.

At Wednesday’s G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting, Freeland said she and “a number of our democratic partners” got up and left the meeting when Russia sought to intervene.

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

Surging gas prices, Ukraine war pushed inflation to 6.7% in March

Statistics Canada says the annual rate of inflation hit 6.7 per cent in March, the fastest year-over-year increase in the consumer price index since January 1991.

The increase compared with gain of 5.7 per cent in February.

Fuelling much of the increase in March were higher prices at the pumps as gasoline prices rose 39.8 per cent compared with the same month one year earlier.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Municipal politicians continue their war to keep housing prices high

Canada’s municipal politicians have spent a generation blocking the construction of new homes, contributing to a catastrophic housing shortage that has rendered homeownership unaffordable for many Canadians. There has been growing political momentum to disempower municipal politicians so they can stop sabotaging younger Canadians’ futures — but these politicians are now fighting back, eager to protect the powers that they have so irresponsibly abused.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy

A new newsletter! And a $15 billion mystery

After all the dust settled from Chrystia Freeland’s latest federal budget, I still had questions about the Canada Growth Fund.

Described (on Page 60 of the budget document) as a means “to attract substantial private sector investment” to “help meet important national economic policy goals,” the Canada Growth Fund was announced as something that would be “initially capitalized at $15 billion over the next five years.”

Fifteen billion is big. The budget’s entire chapter on housing, for instance, allocates a total of $10.1 billion in new spending over five years. The military gets a total of $9.4 billion in new spending. Health care, $7.1 billion. But the Canada Growth Fund (let’s just call it the Fund) is bigger than all of those. And for each dollar of the $15 billion it will spend, it will “aim to attract at least three dollars of private capital.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Judge chides Quebec dad for taking son, 10, to ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

A Quebec judge has ordered a father to stop taking his 10-year-old son to anti-mandate protests after he brought him to the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa during one weekend in February.

The court also intervened in another parental dispute involving the same child — in that case, his vaccination status was at issue — and ruled that the boy can get the COVID-19 vaccine as requested by his mother, against his father’s wishes.

… “The remarks made by the participants are hardly laudatory against the government and… there is a serious risk that it can degenerate quickly,” wrote Superior Court Justice Nathalie Pelletier in her judgment.

Ottawa convoy organizer Pat King charged with perjury, obstruction of justice

Ottawa convoy protest organizer Pat King is now facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges as he tries to secure his release from jail.

King was arrested on Feb. 18 on charges related to his involvement in the three-week protest against COVID-19 restrictions that overran the streets of Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Rex Murphy: You could drive an 18-wheeler through our Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The year 2022 is not a good one for celebrating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We mark the 40th anniversary of that celebrated instrument this week. Over the years it has been held up as the very jewel of the Canadian Constitution. The one great bulwark for every single citizen’s civic integrity. The very banner of Canadian democracy. The text of our liberties. A great, invulnerable wall against the encroachments of government on the day-to-day lives of Canadians.

Canada’s Magna Carta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Global Affairs expert floats “Russia anti-vaxxer troll farm” scare story to justify Trudeau regime internet censorship – media dutifully laps it up

Russian troll farms aiming disinformation war at Canadian anti-vaxxers: Global Affairs expert

Russian-sponsored disinformation is trying to exploit one of Canada’s most divisive issues to shape opinions here about its invasion of Ukraine, says a top Global Affairs Canada expert on the topic.

Using troll farms that post on Facebook and other social media sites, the campaigns often target the minority of Canadians opposed to COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine mandates, and others deeply distrustful of government, said Philippe-André Rodriguez, deputy director of the department’s Centre for International Digital Policy.

Here’s the kicker… Rodriguez also said Russian disinformation is being amplified by social media sites’ algorithms, which may require some kind of government intervention to counter.

This is the same government that had its CBC propaganda mouthpiece lie about “foreign” donations to the Trucker Convoy to justify seizing their donated funds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Because Shut Up!", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Black Canadians twice as likely to trust the government — but less likely to trust police: survey

… For example, it found that 41 per cent of Black people surveyed said they trusted the government, compared to 22 per cent within the general population. The same proportion said they trusted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, compared with 33 per cent surveyed in the general population. The higher approval rating comes despite photos of Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface surfacing in 2019, something he has apologized for because of its racist history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Canada, WTF?

In Ukraine’s moment of desperation, Canada hesitates on heavy weapons

 

Canada has a stockpile of light armoured vehicles that could be deployed, says former Chief of the Defence Staff, Rick Hillier. ‘It would make a serious difference’.

Ukraine war: Russia bombards cities as eastern offensive begins

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.

Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video address Mr Zelensky said that the battle “for the Donbas has begun”.

Ukraine’s top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, said that Russia tried to break through Ukrainian front lines in the region.

The offensive has been long-expected after Russia failed to seize Kyiv.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, military, Russia, Ukraine, War