Canada
Alberta referendum on equalization puts federal leaders in difficult position
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Erin O’Toole are refusing to be drawn on Alberta’s upcoming referendum on equalization, making it unclear if anyone will be listening when Albertans speak this fall.
For Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, the referendum is a way of highlighting the unfairness of equalization, but for federal leaders it poses a major political headache about how to respond to the vote.
I think the Republic of Ottawa should secede.
Virtue signallers doom North American pipelines
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has launched the latest political hit job on a Canadian pipeline. Whitmer is targeting Enbridge’s Line 5, which runs from Alberta through the Great Lakes region to refineries and chemical plants in Sarnia, Ont.
The Sarnia terminus sells to companies that make products that fuel cars, trucks, vans, ships and airplanes throughout Ontario, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Canada’s vaccine donations to COVAX to come only from its COVAX supply: Gould
Canada has contracts to buy more than 251 million doses of seven different vaccines from vaccine makers, more than three times what it needs to fully immunize every Canadian.
But the doses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday will be donated to COVAX are only those Canada was buying from the global vaccine sharing alliance itself.
Indigenous communities grapple with what to do with old residential school buildings
The national spotlight on residential schools is also highlighting a difficult question facing some communities over what to do with the buildings that have been left behind.
British Columbia’s Okanagan Indian Band penned a letter last week to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking the federal government to remove three former day schools for Indigenous children that the chief called “symbols of trauma.”
Time running out for Guilbeault’s censorship bill
Bill C-10 is the first in Canada to regulate legal internet content. The bill would see the CRTC monitor as public broadcasts all YouTube videos intended for private viewing.
Trudeau Liberals push for easier mail-in voting, 5 MILLION mail-in ballots ready to be printed
“Canadians deserve to have full confidence in their ability to exercise their democratic rights safely in these unprecedented times,” a statement from Minister Dominic LeBlanc reads.
5 million? Why not 50 million?
h/t Marvin
Holes in the RCMP’s Nova Scotia narrative are a bigger story than leaked 911 calls
This was a killing spree that unfolded over 13 hours at multiple locations in Nova Scotia. One of the complicating factors in stopping Gabriel Wortman’s rampage was the fact that he was dressed in police attire and driving a replica RCMP vehicle. The question of when police became aware of that information — and when they finally informed the public of that information — is crucial.
MALCOLM: Celebrate Canada’s history — don’t appease the woke mob
Canada is a great country, it’s a country worth celebrating.
A statement like that used to be banal and universal. Not too long ago, there was a general consensus not just among the political parties, but prevalent throughout Canadian society, that we lived in a pretty special place.
Canadians need to step up to tackle online hate — even with ‘crazy uncles’, says expert
“I think Canadians need to step up in a way that’s real,” said Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson.
Unvaccinated Canadians are a ‘tinderbox’
This one very well could be their biggest & most dangerous lie of all time.
And they will push this over & over again on repeat until the bitter end. #Brainwashing #TheBigLie https://t.co/VQGTOUbQY8
— Mayday (@MaydayMatrix) June 13, 2021
Canada’s Trudeau says he discussed border with Biden, but no deal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday he has spoken with U.S. President Joe Biden about how to lift pandemic-related border restrictions between the two countries but made clear no breakthrough has been achieved.
U.S. and Canadian business leaders have voiced increasing concern about the ban on non-essential travel in light of COVID-19 that was first imposed in March 2020 and renewed on a monthly basis since then. The border measures do not affect trade flows.
Who could possibly take Trudeau seriously?
CAF, Sajjan look at ‘next steps’ after reports senior military leaders golfed with Vance amid misconduct probe
TORONTO — The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is determining “next steps” after being made aware that senior military leaders went golfing with former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance who is currently under military police investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.
In a statement to CTV News, the CAF said it has been made aware that Vice-Chief of Defence Staff Michael Rouleau and Vice-Admiral Craig Baines, head of the Royal Canadian Navy, went golfing with Vance earlier this month at a private club in Ottawa.
Conrad Black: On COVID, and much else, Canada has taken leave of its senses
The whole tenor of public discourse in this country has become so absurd that Canadians should consider if we are, as a nationality, taking complete leave of our senses. Canada’s entire COVID lockdown policy, combined with our negligent failure to obtain adequate supplies of vaccine, has been a disaster, yet the Trudeau government is still preening itself about it, and the opposition isn’t scoring.
‘When Is London Going to Wake Up?’ Muslims Describe the Terror of Living in Canadian City Where Family Was Killed
In the wake of the killing of the Afzaal-Salman family in London, Ontario, Muslim Canadians told VICE World News Islamophobia is palpable in their daily lives, but not enough people care.