A veteran Toronto police officer has admitted to leaking the address of a London homicide victim to his son, who is charged in the 2020 killing that made international headlines.
Canada
Ottawa’s Proposed Bills to Curtail Online Harms ‘Oblivious’ to Reality: Former CRTC Chairs
Any attempts to regulate the internet should steer clear of trying to manage what people have to say, for at best it leads to a quagmire of legal wrangling, while at worst it leads to suppression of free speech by the government, say former chairs of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
“Early efforts in Canada to create federal regulatory frameworks for the Internet, such as Bill C-10 and the ‘online harms’ proposals, were oblivious to this reality and widely panned as a result,” said Konrad von Finckenstein and Peter Menzies, former CRTC chair and vice-chair respectively, in a recent paper on how to address online harms while still protecting free speech.
Government execs want more money and less work during COVID
A record number of public sector executives making six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries have complained they are not being paid enough for having worked through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since the pandemic began, the number of executives working for the government has grown by over 21%. Today, there are a record 7,900 executives employed in the public sector.
Prohibiting demonstrations will stamp out social justice activism
It’s one of the oldest plays in the book — a crisis is followed by new laws that are intentionally broad enough to be applied to just about anybody considered inconvenient.
That’s what we’re seeing with the Ontario government’s Bill 100, Keeping Ontario Open for Business Act, a piece of legislation that could do little more than stamp out and criminalize many labour actions, like strikes and picket lines, and critically important demonstrations on issues including racial justice and meaningful climate action.
Conservatives blast Liberal budget as NDP strives to balance criticism with support
Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen said Thursday that Canada’s most pressing problems aren’t addressed in the new federal budget — which she claimed had been heavily influenced by NDP ideology.
“We were looking for controlled spending, which would in turn control inflation,” Bergen told reporters outside the House of Commons after the budget was tabled.
“It is an irresponsible budget. It is a typical, classic, NDP spend-and-tax budget.”
Canada is failing to teach its military history
The teaching of Canadian history in the nation’s universities is in trouble. Course enrolments have been and are continuing to fall dramatically and the numbers of history majors have collapsed. This, it is said, is true in all areas of historical study, not least in the history of Canada.
Why? First, there are few jobs for history graduates. A sensible student will opt for business or IT or law where they might even be able to make a living from their studies.
But there are likely many additional reasons and one surely is that historians have been working for decades to turn their discipline away from narrative and towards theory. Narrative tells a factual story while theory posits an abstruse rationale for what did or did not occur. The theorists prevail. Another reason is that the woke Canadian historians, now apparently the majority in the profession, have turned away from national history. The York University history calendar ungrammatically says it all: “Our courses focus on the thematic areas of indigeneity, culture, gender, social, political, environmental and sexuality.”
Trudeau’s Ethnic Community Preferences Define Legacy Of Social Division
For six-plus years media has been covering up a definitive aspect within the leadership style of Justin Trudeau. Throughout the time period, a social standard has quietly been maintained: government and media refuse to make reference Canada’s Anglophone communities.
Let us contrast this with treatment of 3rd World communities. Day after day, references to Sikh, Chinese and Muslim communities colour the flavour of media presentation. Quebecois culture, identity and heritage are a coveted commodity. But never an explicit reference Anglo-Canadians. For unspoken political reasons, this remains taboo.
Freedo’s Budget
A budget for an uncertain world – Geopolitical risks puts economy at risk
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday presented a much more prudent budget than anticipated because of “uncertainty” in then world.
The Liberals cut back on some of their many campaign promises last fall and will not meet NATO’s defence targets in order to provide a declining debt-to-GDP ratio.
The federal deficit is now at $52.8 billion for 2022-2023, slightly less than expected in last fall’s economic update at $58.4 billion. Even though the government benefited from an additional $14.3 billion dollars thanks to inflation and high prices generating revenue in taxes, Freeland chose to stay nimble and not spend all of the extra money in the government’s coffers.
Rex Murphy: Trudeau-Singh marriage will have grave consequences for the country
It came upon us rather suddenly, but all things considered, it was surely no surprise. I refer to the joyous political nuptials of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who are still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship.
Biden: We need more oil from Canada, but not through a pipeline
People seem to be realizing that Joe Biden’s plan to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve down to less than half of its maximum capacity isn’t going to do anything to cut gas prices by more than a dime or so. Biden and his advisers have apparently reached the same conclusion themselves. As this realization dawns, the White House appears to have finally figured out that if you want gas prices to drop you either have to reduce demand or increase the supply. (Funny how that works, eh?) Telling people to stop driving is a nonstarter, so they’re going to have to find some more gas. And to make more gas you need more oil.
GOLDSTEIN: Keystone killer Joe Biden now wants more of Canada’s oil
U.S. President Joe Biden’s brain must be an irony-free zone.
Having killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021, he’s now looking for ways to increase shipments of Canadian oil to the U.S.
Guilbealt says “climate change is killing people,” opposes cuts to fuel prices
Guilbeault made the comments on Tuesday during an interview on CPAC’s Prime Time Politics, saying the recent move by Alberta and Ontario was counterproductive to the government’s climate goals.