Will Russia’s savage invasion of Ukraine finally jolt Canadian politicians into taking down the world’s oligarchs and kleptocrats?
The shocked West may be realizing one of the few ways to combat rogue countries like Russia is by slapping financial sanctions on the billionaires who profit from their intimate links to corrupt strongmen like Vladimir Putin.
Much of our political class aspires to Oligarchy.
Like Ukraine, the region is perceived by Vladimir Putin as an integral part of his country. Several modern Arctic warfare bases house, operate and are testing some of Russia’s most advanced weapons.
With all news outlets being focused on Ukraine and Russia, other would-be dictators like Justin Trudeau fall off the radar. The fact is, Trudeau still lurks in the darkness and his latest Freudian slip reveals all.
Canada’s government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy Christa Freeland, is run by modern day fascists working in lockstep with Big Tech companies, corporate media, and the global banking industry to create a kind of Corporate Communism.
The success of the so-called Freedom Convoy caught Canada, and much of the world, by surprise. Yet the tactic of parking vehicles to block roadways is not new: similar events have occurred in Europe and South America in recent years. What made this protest unique was the impact generated by hundreds of thousands of online users who sought to participate in, facilitate or disrupt the movement. Trucks may have been the tool; but low-level actions taken over the internet were the lifeblood of the convoy movement.
The author is a Carleton prof to whom Trucks are fascist.
Many a warning has come in the form of a familiar phrase: “be careful to read the fine print.” We apply the theory to Immigration Minister Sean Fraser’s declaration regarding those currently fleeing war in Ukraine:
“Canada prepared to welcome an ‘unlimited number’ of Ukrainians fleeing war, minister says” reads the headline from CBC News. His wording fails to note a critical detail. The arrivals must leave Canada within a two year period:
The main propaganda mechanism for Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime is now being dropped from the lineup of Canada’s major cable companies but that doesn’t mean the disinformation will stop.
The recent Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa brought together a diverse range of people, along many dimensions of difference: geography, ethnicity, age, political ideology, and all the rest. What united them, however, was anger and disdain at the restrictions on their freedoms in the form of government mandates imposed by a technocratic, managerial elite who coped just fine under two years of pandemic living by working at home in the virtual world of Zoom and Peloton. Many shared a sense of alienation from that world that dictated how their lives could run, and found the protests therapeutic in being able to meet like-minded folks. By contrast, to those in the privileged digital world, the truckers and protesters largely belong to the brick and mortar physical economy which had been severely disrupted both by the pandemic and the restrictions imposed in response to it.
There are many things our country could have done to build resiliency. Instead, we went in the opposite direction.
The lawyer for an RCMP official accused of preparing to leak sensitive information is seeking to have at least part of the case against him stayed.
Cameron Ortis, who served as director general of the RCMP’s national intelligence co-ordination centre, is charged with violating the Security of Information Act. He was arrested in September 2019 and is accused of trying to share sensitive information with a foreign entity or terrorist organization. He’s also charged with sharing operational information in 2015.
We’re never going to know what happened here and no one aside from Ortis will lose their job.
Various groups across the country are organizing the formation of a human “Freedom Chain” stretching from coast to coast beginning March 5 to urge for the upholding of charter rights and freedoms in Canada.
The plan is for the Freedom Chain to reach across the entirety of the country along the Trans-Canada Highway, which spans 7,476 km, beginning in Victoria, British Columbia, and extending to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Dozens of private and public Facebook groups as well as several event notices have been created for local coordination.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Canadian Liberalism. To comprehend its transformation from what it used to be to what it is today, we point to a definitive example. The treatment of Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is a political and legal outrage.
The protests that rocked Canada are over, but they have undermined Canadians’ faith in their government and hurt the image of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, new polling shows.
It’s one thing to strongly disagree with a person for donating to a protest movement. It’s another thing to try to destroy their life.
The past couple of weeks we have seen a disturbing and frenzied response to the release of names of people who donated to the trucker convoy that recently entrenched itself in Ottawa.
