The Liberals are holding a wide lead over the Conservatives, who continue to struggle to make any headway in national support. The Liberals would almost certainly win the most seats if an election were held today and would have about a one-in-two chance of securing a majority government.
It’s déjà vu all over again at the highest levels of Canada’s military: A senior leader of the Canadian Armed Forces is being investigated, causing another officer to step up in an acting capacity for who knows how long, with a domino effect on the other positions at the highest levels. Did the government learn anything from how they handled the vice-admiral Mark Norman affair? I am not so sure. After Norman was suspended from his position, the upper echelons of the armed forces were put into an untenable position. The CAF ended up having seven vice chiefs of the defence staff in about five years, in part because the government did not move forward when it was clear that Norman would be unable to serve even if he was cleared of the charges.
A Superior Court of Justice judge has indefinitely extended the lockout of the Trinity Bible Chapel near Waterloo, Ont. True North’s Andrew Lawton takes aim at the indefinite nature of the extension, and the fact that a country with supposed religious freedom locked the doors of a church at a time when people need their faith most.
Sean Holman, an access to information expert and journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said uproar in British Columbia Friday over revelations the provincial government was only releasing a fraction of its COVID-19 data to the public is just one example of such secrecy.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Holman, who stressed B.C. is particularly notorious for withholding information. “But it really emphasizes the need for governments across Canada to provide more information to the general public about what’s going on during this public health disaster.”
Canadian attorney John Carpay describes how Canada has turned into a police state where citizens live in fear, and the heroic resistance provided by Pastor James Coates, who was jailed for 35 days because he held normal church services.
Unbelievable interview with @S_Guilbeault on Bill C-10. He now says users with large number of followers or views *will* be subject to CRTC regulation, calling them broadcasters too. Bill C-10 treats everyone’s content as a “program” subject to regulation. https://t.co/vFzMYpr4NQ
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 9, 2021
Found via ATIP, these documents say things like, “this place we now call Canada,” on page 4 and on page 58 of the PDF describe things like objectivity, a sense of urgency and perfectionism as characteristics of white supremacy.
“Maxime Bernier and his rhetoric are not welcome here and the Sask Party should do the same thing and tell him he is not welcome here,” NDP justice critic Nicole Sarauer said following Friday’s Question Period. “This is the last thing we need in this province.”
Tam also says young people, who often work in essential services and sit at the bottom of vaccination priority queues, now have the highest case rates and can transmit the virus despite showing no symptoms.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pledging a 20 per cent foreign home buyers’ tax and a $14-billion housing plan. The election campaign-style promise, which Singh says would foster 500,000 homes in four years, aims to drive down home and rental costs and create more supply amid a white-hot real estate market.
The Trudeau government’s obsession with regulating, censoring and ultimately controlling what Canadians can see on social media is part of a much larger agenda of instructing Canadians on what and how to think.
Erin O’Toole’s proposed carbon taxes would cost you more to heat your home, put food on the table and drive to work.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada broke his promise and announced that if elected prime minister, he’s going to impose his own carbon tax at $50 per tonne on gasoline, diesel and natural gas. He’s also planning a second carbon tax.
It was 87 years ago and under pressure of entering full bankruptcy that Newfoundland became the first of the British Empire’s “Dominions” to give up its autonomy and to abandon self-government. As a consequence, for 15 years the former country was administered by a commission, relieved of that embarrassment only by (narrowly) voting to join the Confederation of Canada in 1949.
The numbers are particularly troubling for Mr. O’Toole’s new leadership of the Conservative Party. His main strategic thrusts, to move the party to more moderate centre terrain, to admonish the Liberals for a disastrous vaccine procurement performance and to pursue the working class and union vote, have all been singularly ineffective to date.
Included in the report is a “stringency index” which evaluates the overall strictness of lockdowns and public health orders. The index takes into account over a dozen variables including mask policy, gathering limits, restaurant closures and much more.
