World-renowned Cree playwright Tomson Highway testified to having had good experiences at one such school.
Probably going to get a social media ban for this.
Canada
The Quiet Case of Canada’s Own Virologic Scandal With the Wuhan Institute of Virology
As the world’s eyes are focused on Anthony Fauci and the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s less-than-comfortable investments into coronavirus Gain of Function research with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) only biosecurity level 4 virology lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), America’s neighbors to the North are quietly trying to keep the lid on a dangerous virologic scandal of their own between Canada’s BSL4 lab and the WIV that first emerged in July of 2019.
“Canadian” woman released from ISIS detainee camp in Syria, lawyer says
A Canadian woman was released from a camp for ISIS detainees in northeast Syria on the weekend, a lawyer representing her family said on Monday.
The woman, believed to have left Alberta for Syria in 2014, has been taken to northern Iraq, setting the stage for her return to Canada.
She is the first Canadian adult to leave the makeshift camps and prisons for suspected ISIS members captured in Syria during the conflict.
Back in time to vote for Justin.
Jailed Canadian Pastor Alleges Double Standard For Muslims Regarding Lockdown Enforcement
A Polish-Canadian pastor who was arrested and jailed for holding church services in defiance of Alberta’s Public Health Act alleged that provincial health officials and law enforcement apply a different standard to Muslims who violate lockdown orders.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who made international headlines when he was arrested in the middle of a busy highway on his way home from church, told The Christian Post (CP) that authorities pick on Christians because they know they will not fight back.
Hundreds show up to Protest at Remand Centre Demanding Freedom for Pastor Tim Stephens
Several now well known religious and political leaders came out on Saturday to speak at a protest at the Remand Centre for Tim Stephens, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, who is currently in prison for holding an outdoors Sunday service because the RCMP had seized Fairview Church’s property.
‘I’ve never felt so ashamed to be Canadian’ — returning traveler to Pearson hellscape
A Canadian coming home through Pearson this week describes a hellscape of crowding and bureaucratic chaos at the airport.
Her story suggests that the mandatory hotel stay and other so-called health protocols are discriminatory, coercive and entirely unrelated to science.
Buried truths about aboriginal culture
It’s not exactly reassuring that the powerful display on Pacific Northwest aboriginal culture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., is something you would probably never see in a British Columbian museum.
Trudeau Sues His Own MP To Suppress Chinese Scientist Firing Details
Liberal MP Anthony Rota “intends to ask the federal court to strike down the Trudeau government’s attempt to have a judge block parliamentarians from receiving documents regarding the firing of two scientists at Canada’s top laboratory.”
Conrad Black: Celebrate Canada, but not its political leaders or its propensity for self-flagellation
In my expression of gratitude to COVID vaccinators last week, I did not mention that the federal government took an unconscionable risk in gambling on the effect of a 10-week gap between vaccinations, nor the disgraceful record Canada has in getting the population fully vaccinated, nor the intolerable delay in reopening the country. It is disappointing to see how quiescently Canadians have endured all this official ineptitude.
Catherine McKenna retiring from politics, creates opening for Mark Carney
Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna has decided not to run for re-election.
Her decision opens up some prime political real estate — Ottawa Centre — which could become a launching pad for former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney should he decide to run for the Liberals in the next election.
O’Toole speculates he’s the ‘only’ leader who is proud of Canada amid calls to cancel Canada Day
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole speculated that he could be the only person running to be prime minister who is proud of Canada – though he says he still wants the country to do “better.”
His comment comes amid multiple communities cancelling their Canada Day celebrations in the wake of an estimated 751 unmarked graves being found at a former Saskatchewan residential school site.
Cyber Attacks on Huawei Devices in Canada Spiked After CFO Arrest: Report
According to The Tyee, a 2019 government report found that there was a documented spike in sophisticated cyber attacks originating from Huawei devices on Canadian soil following the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.
The report in question was commissioned by Public Safety Canada from Clairvoyance Cyber Corp, and was recently acquired by the Institute of Investigative Journalism at Concordia via a freedom of information request.
Peterborough police won’t ticket cast & crew of CBC show for handshakes, laughter
We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an anti-lockdown protest staged at Confederation Square.