‘I do really want people to come away from today with an understanding that we have done a really good job as a country of managing what was a devastating crisis.’
Canada
New Muslim-Liberal Party Caucus Speaks To The Future Of Canadian Society
According to a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision, political institutions from across the country must remain neutral with respect to religion.
“Federal and provincial governments are under an equal duty to maintain neutrality with respect to religion,” said Carissima Mathen, a law professor and constitutional expert at the University of Ottawa.
Fascinating it is to discover how this flies in the face of a recent development endorsed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Case Closed: Quebec Premier François Legault says school board wrong to hire teacher who wore hijab
Premier François Legault says a school board in western Quebec should not have hired a teacher who wore a hijab.
Legault told reporters today in Quebec City the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, has been in place since June 2019 and the Western Quebec School Board should have respected it when hiring.
Case closed. There is no place for the death cult’s sharia law in schools.
11,581 died preventable deaths after being put on healthcare waiting lists in 2020-2021
According to government data, an unsettling 11,581 patients died while waiting to receive potentially life-saving healthcare including surgeries, diagnostic visits and specialist appointments.
We’ll all be paying a lot more for food next year, says Canada’s Food Price Report
Sky-high food prices were one of many negative impacts that Canadians felt during the pandemic-plagued year of 2021. And a new report suggests that problem is only going to get worse next year.
Power-Hungry Politicians & A Submissive Populace Have Turned Our Rights Into Easily-Revoked Privileges
Time and time again, we’ve watched as a ‘return to normal’ is dangled in front of the populace, then pulled away the moment it’s about to take place.
I’ve written repeatedly about how those in power continuously move the goalposts, and clearly don’t actually want to give up their heightened level of control.
Whenever a new opportunity to spread fear comes up, politicians seize it immediately, ramp up the fear as much as they can, and then attempt to keep their expanded power in place regardless of the underlying reality.
Critical Race Theory is not a conspiracy. It’s real and it’s here in Canada.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) teaches children to view everything through the lens of race and power. It teaches children that race is more important in their lives and to their future accomplishments than their own hard work, dedication, intelligence or character.
h/t Marvin
Ex-Canada Space Agency engineer charged for allegedly working with ChiCom firm
The RCMP has charged a former member of the Canada Space Agency (CSA) for allegedly working on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
Former CSA engineer Wanping Zheng, 61, was charged with breach of trust by a public officer on Tuesday after an RCMP investigation, the CSA said in a statement Wednesday. He is a resident of Brossard, Que., a suburb of Montreal.
Loss of secret data puts navy’s handling of storage devices under investigation — again
Two of Canada’s frontline frigates lost electronic storage devices containing classified and top secret data — including electronic warfare material — according to security inventories conducted over the last two years, CBC News has learned.
The devices — USBs, DVDs and a backup hard drive — went missing despite an apparent tightening of security in the wake of a spy scandal almost a decade ago, and a separate internal 2013 board of inquiry which recommended measures to clean up the navy’s handling of classified data.
In shadow of U.S. protectionism, Canada in heated battle for EV battery manufacturing
Canada is racing to close deals for new plants to produce electric-vehicle batteries amid an increasingly heated North America-wide competition for investment in EV manufacturing.
Government negotiations with at least three companies looking to make major battery-building investments have reached a critical stage, sources familiar with the talks confirmed on Wednesday.
… As auto makers shift from gasoline-fueled cars and light-duty trucks to electric vehicles, Ottawa has promised to capitalize on Canada’s combination of natural resources and manufacturing infrastructure and expertise to be a major EV player. But its efforts are being challenged by U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to introduce EV purchase rebates of up to $12,500, with a large chunk of that contingent on the vehicles being made in the United States.
Seems a real possibility that Canada’s auto industry will be decimated. Justin’s BFF Biden has repeatedly slapped Canada in the face since taking office. Personally I suspect Biden’s handlers just don’t give a damn about Justin or Canada and Junior knows it.
Trudeau is a petulant little China Fan Boy so I wonder if he’ll attempt a pivot to Beijing in retaliation for US protectionism. Don’t put it past Junior, he really is that ignorant and Canada’s China class will be pulling his strings. There has to be some reason the Liberals have been so reluctant to ban Huawei. Is a Huawei reprieve Justin’s way back into Xi’s good graces? (go incognito)
Conservatives reject Liberals’ compromise deal on Winnipeg virus lab documents over firing of ChiCom scientists
OTTAWA — The Conservatives are rejecting a proposed deal over access to documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology lab, arguing the Liberals’ efforts are too little too late.
Liberal House Leader Mark Holland offered the compromise last week. It called for striking an all-party committee to review the confidential documents, with a panel of judges enlisted to settle any disputes over whether the documents should be made public or kept secret.
Elected officials silent on New Brunswick barring unvaxxed from grocery stores
Four days after the New Brunswick government announced that grocery stores are allowed to ban unvaccinated Canadians, elected leaders have remained mute.
Trudeau Approved Pathogen Shipment To Wuhan Despite CSIS Warning: Erin O’Toole
A video report hosted by Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole delivers damaging accusations against the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
According to the report, Chinese scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu had shipped 30 vials of 15 strains of deadly virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Bank of Canada drops “temporary” reference on inflation
The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, but is no longer calling the forces pushing up inflation temporary.
It continues to expect inflation to remain elevated in the first half of 2022 and ease towards 2 per cent in the second half of the year.
Old enough to choose: The case for letting younger Canadians vote
A new legal challenge filed in Ontario against Canada’s federal voting age — coupled with the reintroduction of Sen. Marilou McPhedran’s bill to lower the age limit — has revived the question of whether Canadians under the age of 18 should be allowed to vote.