A trio of U.S. lawmakers are blasting Canada’s “complicit approval” that allowed the sale of a Toronto-listed lithium mining company to a Chinese state-owned firm, and are urging Biden administration officials to investigate the acquisition.
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Ontario Liberals ask LCBO to ban sale of Russian vodka
Ontario’s Liberal Party is calling on the LCBO to ban the sale of Russian vodka as a form of retribution for the Ukrainian invasion.
Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca wrote a letter to LCBO President George Soleas asking him to pull several brands of Russian vodka from store shelves to show support for Ukraine.
h/t Mauser
Canadian intelligence agency calls for ramped-up cyber defences after Russia invades Ukraine
Canada’s cyber spy agency is warning organizations, including power companies and banks, to shore up their defences against Russia-based cyber threat activity as the Western world responds to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a statement Thursday, the Communications Security Establishment said that “in light of Russia’s ongoing, unjustified military offensive in Ukraine,” it “strongly encourages all Canadian organizations to take immediate action and bolster their online cyber defences.”
Trudeau hammered over why he invoked Emergencies Act in first place
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revoking the Emergencies Act two days after he insisted on keeping it, some politicians are asking what exactly was going on in his head and behind the scenes.
Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen said the decision proves that Trudeau knew all along that it was wrong to implement the never-before-used legislation.
“Trudeau introduced it in the first place for his personal political gain,” said Bergen in a statement on Wednesday. “He revoked it now for the very same reason.”
Paging Jagmeet Singh …
Indo-Canadian journo assaulted for criticising pro-Khalistan elements
Hindu Forum Canada condemns gun attack on Canadian Radio host #DeepakPunj – we urge @PeelPolice to take severe actions against culprits. Canadian authorities and politicians shouldn’t tolerate a culture of intolerance and anti-press attitude https://t.co/OLne29kYGU pic.twitter.com/Asn6YVWUiH
— HinduForumCanada #HFC (@canada_hindu) February 24, 2022
h/t GD
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau and Ford aren’t enemies — they’re two peas in a pod
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford publicly supported each other last week when they invoked their respective federal and provincial emergency laws to end the vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa.
It was another example of the dramatic transformation of Ford from billing himself as Trudeau’s worst nightmare — which is how he campaigned in the 2018 Ontario election that brought him to power — to being one of Trudeau’s closest allies among the premiers.
Ken Coates: At least the Freedom Convoy stood up to be counted
Canada is hurting. The pandemic was bad enough, but Canada’s exit from the crisis is looking just as disappointing. The government has run up several decades’ worth of debt. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s support appears to be collapsing. The official Opposition and the other national parties are lost in the political weeds. The Freedom Convoy exposed huge fault lines in the country and demonstrated the unwillingness of the provinces and the federal government to enforce the rule of law.
BOOM, Trudeau Reversal Motive Surfaces – Canadian Banking Association Was Approved by World Economic Forum To Lead the Digital ID Creation
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. A promotional video from the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) helps to neatly connect all the dots about why the Canadian government made such a quick reversal in their bank asset seizures in the last 24 hours. And yes, as we suspected, it was almost certainly contact from the World Economic Forum to Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland that triggered the change in position.
h/t Mauser 98
Reality Honks Back
The Canadian trucker convoy suggests a new class divide originating in our experience of reality itself.
The world is watching what’s happening in Canada with a mixture of fascination and horror. The weeks-long saga of the “Freedom Convoy” protest against pandemic restrictions, spearheaded by Canadian truckers, has taken an authoritarian turn. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to crush the peaceful protest, suspending civil liberties protections, arresting hundreds, and taking the unprecedented step of ordering dissident citizens entirely frozen out of the financial system. What brought Canada’s normally placid politics to this point?
Freedom Will Win the War Against Fascism
The bitter and unbalanced assaults on the truckers by the Canadian government and its “intelligentsia” are slammed by writer Elizabeth Nickson in her Substack article, “The Reason for the Police Violence is not What You Think.” She describes the contempt these elites have toward those they regard as their underlings. She looks at the self-serving machinations of the ruling class and to what ends they will go in order to protect their gravy train: “The brutality in Ottawa is not a warning. It is a promise, a statement of the future. The working class will end their lives in moldering houses they can’t afford to fix, with minimal health care.”
Federal government facing lawsuits over Emergencies Act
The federal government will have to defend its use of the Emergencies Act in court after two civil-liberties groups asserted in legal challenges that invoking the act against anti-mandate protesters was unlawful. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced on Wednesday that his government will file its own court challenge.
In separate court actions, the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) are asking for a hearing in Federal Court. Both say they will continue their challenges despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Wednesday that the government is ending its declaration of an emergency.
Foreign Affairs minister Joly calls Russia envoy on carpet!!!
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has summoned Russia’s ambassador to Canada for a dressing down after his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ambassador Oleg V. Stepanov met Joly at the headquarters of Global Affairs Canada on Thursday, where she condemned “in the strongest possible terms Russia’s egregious attack on Ukraine,” the minister’s office told The Canadian Press.
Oil tops $100 and shares sink as Russia invades Ukraine
Oil prices have surged past $100 (£74) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine.
Global shares fell and the price of gold rose as investors worried about the possible impact of the conflict.
Russia is the second biggest exporter of crude oil, and is also the world’s largest natural gas exporter.
The price of oil topped $105 a barrel, and UK motoring groups said petrol prices had hit another record high.
Taiwan warns Chinese aircraft in its air defence zone https://t.co/DjkyclVfYg pic.twitter.com/pPabP4H87x
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 24, 2022
‘The Situation Is Far Worse’: Jordan Peterson Shared Frightening Warning He Received From Military Source
Jordan Peterson is a serious person. He’s not someone who goes chasing after conspiracy theories. If he says something, you know he’s taken an extended amount of time to think about it. Even debated against himself, probably. If anyone else said a trusted military source told them to take their money out of the banks, I would tell them to log off of Reddit and get some fresh air. That was before Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government gave people reason to believe they should be concerned for their financial future.