Canada joined the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union today in placing sanctions on Chinese officials suspected of involvement in a years-long campaign of persecution against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang province.
In a statement announcing the sanctions, Global Affairs Canada accused the four high-ranking officials of participating in “gross and systematic human rights violations” in Xinjiang.
That’ll show them commies!
Locked Down: Canada’s Failed COVID-19 Response features Dr. Shawn Whatley (Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute), John Carpay (President, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms), Anthony Furey (Editor and Columnist, Toronto Sun) and Candice Malcolm (Founder, True North.)
Watch video as columnist Lorrie Goldstein examines the Trudeau government’s plan to increase the carbon tax by 33% on April 1, 2021.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned Beijing that the arbitrary detention of two Canadians and the lack of transparency over their trial threatens China’s relations with Western nations. “Their arbitrary detention is completely unacceptable, as is the lack of transparency around these court proceedings,” he said at a daily media briefing on Friday.
An interim review of why Ottawa’s early pandemic warning system failed to issue a formal alert on COVID-19 has described a lack of detailed knowledge of the system by senior managers.
The audit dated Feb. 26, and released on Saturday, was ordered by federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu after reports the Global Public Health Intelligence Network didn’t operate as intended at the onset of the pandemic.
It is shocking and dangerous that the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, published in 2015, has been so widely accepted as a full accounting of Native grievances and the basis for policy changes and reparations to accommodate those grievances. Almost the only serious critical analysis that has been given to this massive report is the excellent and very readable book, “From Truth Comes Reconciliation,” which was edited by Rodney Clifton and Mark Dewolf, and published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Every Canadian concerned with Canada’s relationship with its Aboriginal peoples, which forms the basis for the rampant but fraudulent truism that this country is rotten with ”systemic racism,” should read this book. There is general agreement, as there should be, that Aboriginal people have legitimate grievances, that the country’s policy in regard to them has been unsuccessful and that this is a serious policy challenge where we simply have to do better. Justice Murray Sinclair, who chaired the commission, promised to “provide Canadians with a permanent record that weaves all experiences, all perspectives into the fabric of truth.” He and his fellow commissioners, Chief Wilton Littlechild and Marie Wilson, fell grievously short of delivering on that promise.
The letter to Trudeau says the buyback must be mandatory to ensure the measure cannot be easily overturned by the Conservatives, should they form government, given the party’s opposition to the firearms ban.
According to recently disclosed cabinet records, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau had in 1981 prepared a bill, complete with a three-year publicity campaign, but it never materialized because of cabinet infighting. Trudeau Sr., according to Blacklock’s Reporter, also committed to purging criminal records of those who had been convicted for possessing cannabis.
Conservative Party delegates at the party’s national convention have voted to make a key change to its leadership race rules that could substantially scale back Quebec’s disproportionate influence on the result.
Flights from India continue to be Canada’s top source of international passengers testing positive for COVID-19.
And data provided by Health Canada reveals nearly all of the twice-daily flights between Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport carried passengers infected with COVID-19.
The agency has not determined which northern states would receive the migrants. Two Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed that the action was under consideration.
Dr. Eileen De Villa, Toronto’s chief public health officer, rarely if ever errs on the side of incaution. So it was interesting this week to see her suggest lightening up a bit. She said the city should remain in “lockdown,” as the province calls the package of restrictions currently in effect in Toronto and several other Ontario jurisdictions. But she recommended some tweaks to the “lockdown” rules. Outdoor activities such as patio dining and group exercise might be fine, she averred.
While O’Toole delivered the speech effectively, there is very little underlying contrast of vision between what he is offering and what Canadians are currently getting. Mostly, he is promising to do what is being done now, with some tweaks and more competence.
Penny Wise became president of 3M Canada on Feb. 18, 2020, just as the COVID-19 virus was beginning to take hold in Canada. 3M had tackled health crises before, but like most Canadians, Wise had no idea how much the world was about to change.
Scientists in Europe have reportedly found a link between the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine and extremely rare but potentially fatal blood clots, but Canadian public health officials have so far provided no update on guidance for the shot.
