The Chair of the National News Media Council is refusing to investigate claims that a left-wing journalist misrepresented her arrest by RCMP officers during an anti-pipeline protest in subsequent reporting.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Chair John Fraser claimed that the matter was outside of the organization’s mandate – despite that mandate involving investigating breaches of journalistic standards among members.
There was a time when vote-buying was done with a modest degree of nuance. The government of the day might pledge a tax cut or a baby bonus or a subsidy you could get if you filled in the right form. No longer: now they just stick a cheque in the mail and fire it off to the population at large. Vote for us and you get money! No questions asked.
After 40 years, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become a firm fixture of Canada’s constitutional architecture. More importantly, it has been embraced by Canadians across the political spectrum and has become one of the most popular emblems of our polity. Due to the prestige and importance of an instrument that has increasingly come to represent our national identity, it is not surprising that is has become a battleground, contested by those who hold fast to the idea that a constitution serves to limit the powers of government, and those who see it as a means of empowering the government to achieve their vision of a just society. Before the charter turns 50, Canada will have chosen between these two incompatible visions of our constitutional order.
Racelle Luo and her family are confined to their apartment in Shanghai round the clock — except when it comes to essentials like picking up deliveries and dumping trash.
The 35-year-old, who is originally from the Toronto area, her husband and their three children, as well as millions of others in China’s most populous city, are in another lockdown as the government tries to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Premier Doug Ford’s government has quietly revised its plan to meet Ontario’s 2030 targets for cutting carbon emissions.
The new forecast for the province’s greenhouse gas emissions posted to a government website shows some significant departures from the reductions earmarked in the “Made in Ontario Plan for the Environment” in 2018.
The new plan does not include any reductions from greater uptake of electric vehicles, which accounted for nearly 15 per cent of the projected cuts to CO2 emissions in the government’s 2018 plan.
New analysis shows that a majority of Canadians are seeing diminishing incomes due to inflation levels that are higher than their wage gains.
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), wages rose by only 2.7% over the past two years, while inflation grew by 3.4% annually.
For as long as there have been elites, those elites have worried about the potentially disruptive influence of populism.
The first Neanderthal clan leader probably warned his mate about the rumblings he been hearing from the cave dwellers further down the mountain. “Their demand that we all have a say in where we hunt sabretooths is a threat to our social order!”
Justin Trudeau’s government snagged the headlines it wanted last week when it was widely reported the budget would impose a temporary ban on foreign investors snapping up more of Canada’s over-priced real-estate.
The headlines made the federal Liberals look aggressive, and even a bit patriotic, in their apparent determination to combat offshore speculation in Canadian housing.
But the government’s legislative moves were as vacuous as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s trendy-sounding rhetoric this week, when she said the inability of young Canadians to afford a home today is an “intergenerational injustice.” That’s before she reverted to industry platitudes about building more supply.
I am awaiting the tempest of outrage and rebuttal from every newspaper, television and radio station, the Canadian Association of Journalists, Journalists for Free Expression, every journalism school and journalism professor about this gross assault on the free press.
I am waiting for them to take a concerted stand in support of their journalistic colleagues at Rebel News, under the long understood principle that an attack on any member of the press is an attack on all. In particular, I await the unanimous support of the Ottawa press gallery, the most prestigious guardian of press independence.
It’s not ‘undermining confidence’ to point out when institutions like the Bank of Canada make serious errors, it’s an essential part of the accountability that must exist in a democracy.
Pierre Poilievre has built an enormous lead in the Conservative leadership race in only two months. His campaign also has the potential to turn into something much more significant: a viable political movement that could lead the Conservatives to victory in the next federal election.
I like him, probably won’t vote for him as CPC policy is LPC policy for the most part.
Can he win in Eastern Urban LPC strongholds? That’s a big hurdle. The MSM and public service unions will fight him relentlessly to protect their place at the LPC trough.
News of the transfer of money to the Canadian group has raised further questions about transparency and accountability within Black Lives Matter – coming days after auditors said an inquiry into the handling of BLM’s $60 million war chest was necessary, and less than a year after Cullors was forced to stand down amid questions about her own property empire.
Alberta is calling on Ottawa to cancel the ban on more than 1,500 models of guns and instead fund the tracking and prosecution of those who commit crimes with firearms.
The slow and silent creep of Woke ideology is permeating all government-funded institutions. Agendas of inverted racism such as Critical Race Theory and “racial equity” are worming their way toward social standards. While ominous in conception, further observations deepen concern.
