Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he hopes to share a decision on whether to ban Huawei from Canada’s 5G network in the coming weeks.
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Corbella: If Trudeau allows Huawei into Canada’s 5G network all 38 million Canadians could be held hostage
If Canadians think China’s hostage diplomacy with the two Michaels was bad, they need to understand that the communist regime could hold all of Canada hostage if our country’s federal government allows Huawei Technologies to provide any part of our 5G wireless network.
Fifth-generation wireless technology will make driverless cars, remote surgeries and other marvels of technology possible — as well as simply faster entertainment downloads. But it could also unleash devastation at the hands of a hostile regime, as China has proven to be over the past few years.
Oh Canada! Ottawa Police most-wanted list. Prize if you can spot the trend.
Can you help detectives?
What single thing could Canada do to prevent its most serious crimes?
h/t Marvin.
Alberta pipelines are bad but foreign oil is fine?
In one of the great ironies of modern Canadian life, a country with among the world’s largest oil reserves, both offshore and on the prairies, has imported $488 billion in foreign oil since 1988.
Canada has ‘turned a blind eye’ to cracking down on offshore tax schemes
When the 2016 Panama Papers investigation revealed how the powerful and wealthy hid fortunes through shadowy offshore companies, public uproar spurred a global crackdown.
It was the leak that launched a hundred investigations, recouping more than $1 billion for public coffers, while removing prime ministers from office and sending tax evaders to jail.
CBC advocates for ‘online harm’ prevention, denies collaboration with ‘censorship czar’ Guilbeault
According to a network statement, the CBC and five subsidized press associations pledged to “advocate for initiatives to reduce if not prevent online harm,” according to a network statement. The advocacy comes ahead of internet censorship bills by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, including a proposal to block websites and appoint a chief censor called the Digital Safety Commissioner.
TCS Interviews Maxime Bernier on the future of the PPC
With the 2021 General Election over and the results finalized, Canada is ostensibly in the same position as before Trudeau called the widely undesired snap election.
However, one thing has changed: the People’s Party of Canada is more popular than ever.
Quebec premier says last week’s debates on racism lacked compassion for First Nations
Legault said today on Facebook that last week’s debates on racism did not strike the right tone, because they occurred on the first anniversary of the death of Joyce Echaquan and later, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Diane Francis: Why Britain wants to help shore up Canada’s Arctic defences
Canada’s ‘true north strong and free’ is neither strong nor free
Canada has failed to protect its national interests in the Arctic, in the face of increasingly aggressive Russian (and Chinese) expansionism, which has prompted the United States to pick up some of the slack. Now the British want to join forces, too.
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Canada formally requests negotiations with U.S. over Line 5 pipeline dispute
The federal government has invoked a 1977 pipeline treaty in an effort to settle the Line 5 pipeline dispute.
The Enbridge Inc. pipeline, which runs through Michigan from the Wisconsin city of Superior to Sarnia, Ont., crosses the Great Lakes beneath the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac, which links Lake Michigan to Lake Huron.
Canada should have prosecuted Muslim terrorist who was ‘voice of ISIS,’ lawyer says
A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday.
“If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria, they should be brought home and prosecuted,” Lawrence Greenspon told Global News.
“I don’t think we should be relying on the United States to repatriate Canadians in this way.”
In Canada he’d receive a slap on the wrist, in the US he may never see another day as a free man. He’s in the right place.
Terence Corcoran: Showdown at Fairy Creek
In the middle of a week dedicated to reconciliation and reflection on Canada’s colonial relationship with the country’s Indigenous communities, a Supreme Court judge in British Columbia on Tuesday ended an injunction that, at its heart, aimed to protect Indigenous rights to log an old-growth forest.
Far-right extremists in Ukraine brag they have received training from the Canadian Forces: report
Far-right extremists in Ukraine’s military have bragged they received training from the Canadian Forces and other NATO nations, a new study from an American university has uncovered.
The study from an institute at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., tracked social media accounts of the far-right group Centuria, documenting its Ukrainian military members giving Nazi salutes, promoting white nationalism and praising members of Nazi SS units.
Sooner Or Later, Personal Responsibility & Fiscal Discipline Will Return
No matter how much politicians or some of the public may want to avoid it, reality cannot be evaded indefinitely.