Canadian Michael Spavor has been found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Chinese court in a verdict that will further test the strained relationship between the Canadian and Chinese governments.
He was convicted of spying and illegally providing state secrets to other countries.
The verdict and sentencing mark a significant new development in Spavor’s journey through the Chinese legal system, which Ottawa and other observers have decried for a perceived lack of transparency.
‘Up to 1 million’ bitcoin processors could be relocated to Alberta from China under energy firm’s proposal
Three natural gas-producing sites in southern Alberta could host “up to one million” bitcoin mining machines relocated from China under a deal proposed by Nevada-based Black Rock Petroleum Company amid Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency production and trading.
… It’s unclear what the project could mean for Alberta’s tax base. Black Rock said the site would be staffed by Chinese and English speaking technicians and other employees, but it’s unclear how many jobs the project would entail.
…Under the terms of the Quirk Creek agreement, Black Rock’s press release said, Black Rock would work in partnership with China-based Optimum Mining Host Ltd. (OMH), which would cover many of the costs anticipated to arise out of the arrangement.
Courtesy of the China Broadcasting Corporation
A Chinese court upheld on Tuesday the death sentence of Canadian prisoner Robert Schellenberg for drug smuggling — a day before another court is due to rule on the case of another Canadian accused of spying.
The court proceedings for the two Canadians come as lawyers in Canada representing Meng Wanzhou, the detained chief financial officer of telecoms giant Huawei, make a final push to convince a B.C. Supreme Court not to extradite her to the United States, where she faces charges linked to violating sanctions.
Schellenberg was arrested for drug smuggling in 2014 and jailed for 15 years in late 2018.
Well that sucks.
In a survey that included many right-leaning Canadians, a full 89% of respondents opposed O’Toole’s carbon tax.
“Let’s be clear: The Canadian government, by behaving in this manner, is routinely criminalizing those with Covid antibodies that are not derived from a manufactured experimental vaccine.”
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns had a devastating impact on Canadians – one thing that is often forgotten is our culture. Sporting events, art galleries and street festivals were all put on pause because of COVID.
As Canada begins to reopen and various facets of the culture sector begin to operate again, let’s not understate how important culture is to Canadians.
The language and tone here is extremely concerning.
Mark my words this is going to get much worse before it gets better. https://t.co/VJtWurWjQi
— Winston Smith 🇨🇦 (@GovGone) August 7, 2021
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says about 2 million dehumidifiers made by New Widetech are being recalled in the U.S. because they can overheat and catch fire, posing fire and burn hazards.
The recall also includes about 380,000 dehumidifiers in Canada and about 25,000 in Mexico.
New Widetech is aware of 107 incidents of the recalled dehumidifiers overheating and/or catching fire, resulting in about US$17 million in property damage.
Cultural Action Party are so often the bearer of bad news. Proclamations of doom and gloom infuse our media output when witnessing what we see as a systemic morphing of Canada into a covert dictatorship.
One theme out of many has been expressed ad nauseum– the relationship of our ruling Liberal government and mainstream media. As a synopsis, our view is that coordination between the two indicates replication of life within communist societies.
The most pertinent example is the nation of China. Through the will of government, media must espouse state-approved ideology. Punitive damages wait in the wings for those who breach these conditions.
In other words, the government own the media in China. Bringing us to our ruling government’s relationship with CBC Corporation. In 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provided the CBC with a cool $600 million of additional cash infusions. On an annual basis, our government deliver some $1.2 billion dollars to this hyper-leftist crown corporation.
Carlos Larmond, the Ottawa terror twin jailed in 2015 for trying to leave the country to fight for ISIS, has been released from a Calgary halfway house and is starting over as a newly-married man with his sights on entrepreneurship.
The former Vanier crack dealer’s rapid descent into radicalization was at the urging of his dominant twin brother. He was arrested while boarding a plane for Frankfurt with the hopes of making it to Syria to fight for ISIS. His brother started recruiting the would-be jihadi and others after his own plans to join ISIS were scuttled when his passport was revoked.
So far in Canada, “there has been a total of 206 reports of Bell’s Palsy following a Pfizer vaccination,” the health agency told Global News in an email Friday.
One of the country’s leading voices on cyber security is shifting focus to take on a new role developing the COVID-19 vaccine passport that Canadians will be able to use for travelling abroad.
A proposed settlement agreement worth nearly $8 billion has been reached in two national class action lawsuits launched against the federal government by First Nations living under drinking water advisories.
The settlement, which is awaiting court approval, would offer $1.5 billion in compensation to individuals deprived of clean drinking water and modernize Canada’s First Nations drinking water legislation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pre-election bailout of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Muskrat Follies hydroelectric mega-boondoggle was announced last week with preposterous “build-back-better” claims about creating “a healthier and more prosperous future” that will help achieve a clean and decarbonized energy system for the province and the country.
