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Canada announces new sanctions against Russian individuals
Canada announced a further round of sanctions against Russia on Monday following a meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his counterparts from Britain and the Netherlands.
Another 10 individuals have been added to the sanctions list. Their names were suggested by Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader and activist.
“These sanctions put increased pressure on Russia’s leadership, including Putin’s inner circle,” said Trudeau.
Posthaste: What $200 oil could do to Canada and the world economy — and it’s not pretty
“High oil prices really aren’t great for anybody,” Kevin Birn, vice-president at energy consultancy IHS Markit, told the Calgary Herald’s Chris Varcoe. “In energy-producing regions, there’s a lot of interest and excitement about prices when oil pushes past $80.
“But the longer-term consequences are also not good, even for the producers … People will try to reduce their use of energy because it’s eating into their disposable income too much and so you get demand destruction.”
Canada planning for global food emergency, as Ukraine attack risks wheat supply
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked major disruptions to a United Nations program that helps prevent hunger around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Monday during a trip to Europe aimed at working with allies to respond to the crisis.
“The challenge right now of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, is having ripple effects around the world, not just in energy prices for Canadians and for people in Europe, but for people in the global South as well,” Trudeau said Monday in London, adding that those include disruption to the UN World Food Program.
Vaccine Choice Canada calls to end Pfizer shot after report shows it caused over 1,200 different adverse reactions
A number of disclosures made last week support an immediate end to the Pfizer COVID vaccines. On Tuesday, March 1, the U.S. FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research permitted access to the 55,000 page set of documents which Pfizer submitted to the FDA from its clinical trials in support of a COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization.
Lying Punk Trudeau defends Canada’s military spending below NATO target
… “The Americans and the Brits have sent much more sophisticated pieces of anti-air or anti-armour equipment than we have,” he said. “You could do more damage, more accurately, to more sophisticated pieces of Russian gear if you’ve got the better weapons.”
Mr. Perry said Canada would also rank better among its NATO allies if it spent the money it has budgeted for defence, but the most recent numbers show the government underspending by about $3-billion. He said that’s in large part because of lengthy delays in buying new fighter jets and the slow progress in Canada’s ship-building program.
Canada’s underspending on defence is a “much bigger” issue now than it was before Russia invaded Ukraine, he said. “We’re seeing the impact of not meeting that” target.
“If you don’t actually spend money on this stuff, and buy things on schedule … then your options when you face a massive crisis, like the one we’re looking at right now in Ukraine, are drastically limited.”
According to NATO’s 2021 numbers, the Dutch spent slightly more on defence than Canada at 1.45 per cent of GDP. Mr. Rutte told reporters on Monday that his government in January decided to “ramp up defence spending by billions of euros” to bring the country close to the target.
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Alberta to pause collection of provincial fuel tax to help consumers shocked by high prices
The Alberta government will help hard-hit consumers by pausing the collection of its 13-cent per litre provincial fuel tax on April 1, Premier Jason Kenney said Monday.
“This massive tax relief is a response to skyrocketing costs at the pump and is going to provide Albertans with the relief that they need when the cost of everything is going up,” Kenney told a news conference.
“Albertans told us they needed relief from rising costs. We’ve heard them loud and clear.”
I bet Trudeau will go ahead with his thievery and increase the Carbon Tax.
Nolte: Back Domestic Drilling or Shut Up About Opposing Putin
Hey, I see you changed your profile photo to the Ukrainian flag. Yeah, that should do it.
Oh, my, yes… Be still my heart at the bravery it must have taken for you to pour out all your Russian vodka (that was made in the U.S.A.) and then directly fund Putin’s war crimes by filling your gas tank.
You know, I just don’t want to hear it from America’s Keyboard Generals, those with lives and heads so empty they’re sure they can win this war under a blanket holding an iPhone — and that includes Joe Biden.
Canada’s wild pigs risk ‘absolute destruction’ if left unchecked
The Canadian city of Edmonton may soon be hogtied with a problem that it won’t be able to barbecue its way out of.
Wild pigs have been spreading across central Alberta’s prairies and if left unchecked, could soon find themselves in the river valley of Edmonton. According to Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan professor studying the pigs, the creatures are an “ecological trainwreck” and would cause “absolute destruction” if they make their way to the river valley, which is abundant in water and forest cover.
‘Freedom Convoy’ leader Tamara Lich to be released from custody
An Ottawa judge has ruled that Tamara Lich, a high-profile organizer of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest, be released from custody following a bail review.
The judge found that the previous judge who denied Lich bail made several errors in law.
The Alberta resident is being released on $25,000 in bonds and must leave Ottawa within 24 hours and Ontario with 72 hours.
Former Squamish Five terrorist transforms from bombing to filmmaking – blames ex-boyfriend
Juliet Belmas contemplated the trajectory of her life — teenager-turned-terrorist, imprisonment, a career in the movie business, an opioid-crisis film-in-the-works, and now the invasion of Ukraine.
… Belmas once did many bad things, but that was another lifetime — although forever present.
Sentenced to 20 years for her role in the Squamish Five “urban guerrilla” group — she, Ann Hansen, Brent Taylor, Doug Stewart and Gerry Hannah waged a violent campaign in the early 1980s that included bombing an Ontario factory making U.S. missile parts.
“I met Brent Taylor when I was just turning 18,” she said, still incredulous at her naiveté.
Trudeau has irreparably damaged our country
Asked why he supported some protests but was determined to crush the trucker convoy, Justin Trudeau answered without hesitation: He supported – and even participated in – protests he agreed with, but he did not support – and vowed to crush – those with “unacceptable views,” that is, views he disagrees with.
We are now seeing how far his NDP-backed Liberal government is prepared to go to economically disenfranchise those who hold “unacceptable views.” A convoy organizer was jailed and led into court in shackles. Bank accounts were frozen, businesses were destroyed, and many working Canadians will find it impossible to earn a living in their own country.
Lack of pipelines costing us billions
Suggesting his brain is an irony-free zone, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told Bloomberg News last week that Canada can’t replace Russian oil and natural gas supplies to Europe because, “our export capacity is pretty much maxed out.”
Of course, the reason it’s maxed out is Canada’s lack of oil and natural gas pipelines, the same ones Guilbeault campaigned against in his previous life as a Greenpeace activist.
Authoritarian Trudeau Denounces Authoritarian Putin, Weeks After Canada Targeted Political Protestors for Arrest
Yesterday, in a speech to a Ukrainian delegation in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the nerve to talk about the “slipping of democracy” as a result of “greater authoritarianism”, only a few weeks after Trudeau invoked the emergency act and triggered financial targeting against protestors who assembled against his regime. Again, the media ignore the inherent hypocrisy.
They’re back! Protesters return to Ottawa, police ban anti-Trudeau signs/flags: ‘Same rule that Putin has’
Ottawa police, who have been described as the equivalent of the Keystone Cops, have reportedly banned signs that criticize far-left, vindictive Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who previously had authorizedthe crackdown on the peaceful protesters with the temporary invocation of the Emergencies Act.