Despite Justin Trudeau’s many proclamations about the importance of press freedom, his actions show it’s not a liberty he cares about in practice.
After True North’s Andrew Lawton did a year-end interview with Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, the Liberals sent out a fundraising email maligning True North as “far-right” and “anti-immigration.”
This isn’t just an attack on True North, but on all those who view and support True North’s content, Lawton says.
While Quebec continues to shatter its COVID-19 daily case records, police around the province are warning the public that they will be out in full force making sure people are abiding by the social distancing measures.
“There will be additional staff that will be deployed in the field in order to respond to calls,” said David Pelletier, a spokesperson for the Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ).
Authorities say officers who will see violations will have a “low tolerance” for people’s holiday gatherings, Pelletier added.
Chinese state-owned enterprises were found to be recipients of Canada’s COVID-19 wage subsidy benefit.
In an effort to push for transparency, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) launched a search registry on Monday to help Canadians track employers who have been receiving the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the recipients, Chinese state-owned companies and non-profit organizations with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were found to be receiving the Canadian wage subsidy. Some of them include the Canadian arm of PetroChina, Bank of China (BOC), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Mobile, and Canada China Business Council (CCBC).
Pakistani political activist Karima Baloch, who campaigned extensively against disappearances and human rights violations in the troubled Balochistan province, was found dead in Toronto on Tuesday. Reacting to it, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi questioned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the protection of lives and liberty of people in the country. Taking to Twitter, she asked, “Is it asking for a lot from Justin Trudeau to protect freedom of life and liberty of victimised people seeking democratic values?”
I thought Justin was great friends with Pakistan’s Khan!
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau topped the Canadian Taxpayers Federation 2020 Naughty List.
“Lying to Canadians and hiking the cost of heating our homes is a sure-fire way to land you on the Naughty List and the prime minister has achieved that in spectacular fashion,” said Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director of the CTF.
After promising not to increase taxes, Trudeau is more than tripling the carbon tax to $170 per tonne by 2030 and he’s also announced a second carbon tax.
Alberta’s United Conservative Party took the second top spot for taking the federal wage subsidy, a payment meant for struggling businesses.
Provinces across the country are imposing stricter lockdown measures as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. For many Canadians this has meant that their only major shopping choices are ‘big-box’ stores or online.
This has had a crippling effect on the economy and put many small companies out of business, but what has it done to the free market as we understand it?
Sam Eskenasi says that the free market in Canada has not only been substantially harmed, but that rationale for doing so simply isn’t borne out by the data.
OTTAWA — Representatives of the Chinese government say Canada was “wrong” to reject the proposed takeover of an Arctic gold mine by a state-owned company, the latest jab in an already-fraught relationship between the two countries.
Canada on Tuesday rejected the proposed takeover of Toronto-based TMAC Resources Inc. by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd., citing national security concerns. Under the deal, Shandong would have paid $230 million not including debt to acquire the Canadian firm, which is developing a gold mine in Hope Bay, Nunavut.
“Providing food for Members in the lobbies is a longstanding practice which was first introduced in 1991 further to consensus amongst all parties, food is provided in the lobbies to help support Members,” mentioned Heather Bradley, spokesperson for the Office of the Speaker of Parliament.
In the face of crowds of people flying south, even as COVID-19 cases surge, Quebec Premier François Legault is urging the federal government to explain how it will try to stem the tide.
And he warned Tuesday that he may also take more severe measures in what’s required upon travelers’ return home.
During a joint press conference with the three leaders of the province’s opposition parties, Legault said he was on the same wavelength as Ontario Premier Doug Ford — he, too, denounced the federal government’s slowness in intervening, since airports and borders are federal, not provincial.
Maybe, and just hear me out on this, maybe they’re not following the science and instead they’re just making it up as they go along.
Do the various governments still maintain the consent of the governed?
It’s an interesting question given the Ontario government recently plunged the province back into another lockdown.
Activist friends and family of Karima Mehrab claim her death was no accident.
Lateef Johar Baloch said the last time he spoke with the 37-year-old Pakistani human rights activist was on Friday about her courses at University of Toronto, where she was studying political science and economics. She went missing on Sunday and Balcoh said her body was pulled from Lake Ontario, near Centre Island, on Monday.
Germany’s UN envoy, during his last scheduled UN Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China’s deputy UN envoy to respond: “Out of the bottom of my heart: Good riddance.”
Germany finishes a two-year term on the 15-member council at the end of this month and Ambassador Christoph Heusgen plans to retire after more than 40 years as a diplomat.
“Let me end my tenure on the Security Council by appealing to my Chinese colleagues to ask Beijing for the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Christmas is the right moment for such a gesture,” Mr. Heusgen told the council session, whose official agenda topic was Iran.
After much public outcry, the Government of Canada rejected a bid by a Chinese state-owned company to acquire a gold mine in the Canadian arctic on Monday afternoon.
Dozens of passengers on Canadian airlines have been slapped with fines or warning letters by Transport Canada in recent months for refusing to wear a mask on board a flight, with more incidents involving Alberta airports than any other province.
Anyone can see Albertans are practicing to be ‘Muricans. We’re going to trade Cali, Washington, and Oregon for the province.
