From mandatory masks no matter what to some strict business practices, there are some Canadians who will have a very difficult time readjusting to normal life.
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Canada to tax tech giants as planned despite framework G7 tax deal, says Freeland
Canada is proceeding with its plan to tax technology giants next year even as the world’s wealthiest democracies proposed a new global tax framework that includes plans to impose a levee on the firms, federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday.
Canada-U.S. border exemption granted for Stanley Cup-bound NHL teams
“The National Hockey League is very appreciative of the decision by the Canadian government and the Federal health officials to allow the Canadian team that advances to the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals and, potentially, the Final, to host games in their own rinks,” read a statement released by deputy NHL Commissioner Bill Daly.
BONOKOSKI: One man rips off Canadian taxpayers for a half-billion
There is a network of bandits running the U.S.-Canada border with tonnes of contraband cut-rag tobacco destined for illicit cigarette manufacturers on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford and Quebec’s Kahnawake near Montreal.
CBC defends Pride’s call for censorship of local library over book on gender dysphoria
Halifax Pride severed its ties with the Halifax Public Library because the library would not bend to demands to remove a book from their shelves. The book is Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier, and a petition was circulated to have it removed from the library. The library refused.
Alberta Health Services physically closes Calgary church after repeated COVID-19 violations
According to a news release on Saturday morning, the action was taken against the southeast Calgary church after its lead pastor Tim Stephens “continued to disregard public health measures required by law under order of the chief medical officer of health.”
Notley announces plans to move Alberta’s electricity grid to net-zero by 2035 if elected
Ahead of the NDP’s weekend convention, Alberta’s Opposition leader has committed to transforming the province’s energy sector and moving the province’s electricity grid to net-zero by 2035 should an orange crush wash over Alberta in the next election.
Talk Of ‘Border Exemptions’ For Top Athletes Again Shows We Don’t Actually Have ‘Rights,’ But Rather Privileges Doled Out By Politicians
If a politician can decide on their whim whether someone can cross a border, and makes that decision based on how famous or popular somebody is, how can we keep pretending we have rights?
h/t Marvin
Florida And Alaska Join Keystone XL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Biden
Two more state attorneys general are joining the ongoing lawsuit initially filed by 21 other states against the Biden White House for its cancelation of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Ontario legislature moves Egerton Ryerson painting and bust after NDP request
Horwath’s office says the request was made in light of the discovery in Kamloops, B.C., of what are believed to be the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school.
Ryerson was one of the architects of Canada’s residential school system, which sought to convert and assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian culture and saw them suffer widespread physical and sexual abuse.
Communist Chinese media see a propaganda opportunity in 215 children’s graves, say Canada shouldn’t criticize others
For many Canadians, the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at a former B.C. residential school was a shocking reminder of a system designed to forcibly assimilate First Nations children.
For China’s English-language media, it appears to have also been a prime propaganda opportunity.
Liberal Party triggers ‘electoral urgency’ clause to speed up nominating candidates
The Liberal Party’s national campaign co-chairs have declared a “state of electoral urgency,” a procedural move that will allow the party to speed up the nomination processes for local candidates ahead of the next federal election.
It’s the latest sign that the federal parties are preparing for a possible fall election. The Conservative Party is prepared to invoke a similar measure if an election is called to get many more would-be MPs nominated on a faster timeline.
Where did all of Canada’s Conservatives Go?
Right now, like Republicans in the United States, Canadian Conservative politicians should be seizing onto this political opportunity created by the overbearing government response to COVID-19 to promote the upholding of Canadian rights and freedoms.
First National Conference Of Communist Workers
This Conference is being held after months of struggle against revisionism, more specifically against liquidationism, in Canada. The Conference is being held under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism–Gonzalo Thought, principally Gonzalo Thought, as the Guiding Thought of the World Proletarian Revolution which must be creatively applied to Canada.