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RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew ‘most interesting’ Canadian secrets: documents

OTTAWA – The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show.

Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6, during the Second World War, rising through the ranks to become a senior liaison officer in Washington from 1949 to 1951.

British intelligence eventually learned of Philby’s treachery and confronted him in Beirut in late 1962. Early the next year, Philby slipped aboard a freighter to the Soviet Union, where he was granted asylum and lived until his death in 1988.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Cold War, RCMP

Inside the sprawling online industry selling fake Canadian visas and human smuggling services

A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end.

Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a woman they’ve been communicating with over the previous days through texts and calls.

She has agreed to pay them $4,000 to be smuggled south across the border into the United States.

The two men believe the woman is waiting for them inside the bank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Get a life: U.S. outdoor group’s application to use B.C. land sparks debate amid 51st state talk

People who live on Vancouver Island and some smaller neighbouring islands have been hotly debating an application made by an American non-profit to use B.C. Crown land for campsites while on kayak trips.

National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), which runs outdoor expeditions around the world, is applying to renew — and expand — a licence the province says it has held since 2006.

The application is to permit NOLS to camp at 77 locations while leading an eight- to 10-person kayak trip from Washington to Alaska next summer. Most of the locations, which range from 0.3-4.6 hectares, are on and around Vancouver Island.

The Elbow People are the Covid Karen Mask People.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

PINSKY: The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk and the risk to Canada

Charlie Kirk, an American free speech activist and social media icon, was tragically assassinated on Wednesday while speaking on a university campus in Utah.

Kirk often argued that dialogue — even with those we profoundly disagree with — was the antidote to extremism. Agree or disagree with his politics, his call for courage and dialogue resonates with particular urgency now.

It’s been a very one sided war to date.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", Canada, USA

Liberals, Conservatives lay out fall priorities as parties gear up for House of Commons return

Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are laying out their parties’ priorities ahead of Parliament’s return on Monday for its fall session.

In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning, MacKinnon said the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney will be presenting a budget in October that will “chart an economic path for the country.”

He said there’s “no question” Ottawa needs to act on a number of fronts, including addressing the Canada-U.S. trade war that is damaging the Canadian economy and eliminating the GST on new homes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The true character of Mark Carney’s government is yet to be revealed

It was a cold day in March, when newly minted Liberal leader Mark Carney suggested he jumped into politics because the moment — Trump’s re-election and his threats to Canada’s economy — called for his skills. “I put my hand up because of the crisis,” he said, in Windsor.

It was an interesting revision of facts. The former governor of the Bank of Canada planned to run prior to Trump’s re-election and key planks of his approach to deal with the current tariff crisis — for example, spending less in order to invest more — were general prescriptions outlined in his 2021 book “Value(s).”

The Conservatives, at the time, warned that Carney seemed unafraid to exaggerate, or worse, to mislead Canadians when it served his purposes.

He’s as bad in some respects as Junior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Montrealer plans to sue major grocers over false ‘made in Canada’ labels

Ever bought a product thinking it was made in Canada only to find out later it wasn’t?

One Montrealer says it happened to them. And now, they’re taking on major grocery chains.

Provigo, Metro, Sobeys, Walmart, and Giant Tigre are all named in a new class action.

Joey Zukran is one of the lawyers leading the case.

“This is false advertising 101,” he says.

H/T DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Inside Xi’s Fifth Column: How Beijing Uses Gangsters to Wage Political Warfare in Taiwan — and the West

TAIPEI — At a banquet in Shenzhen more than two decades ago, Chang An-lo — the Bamboo Union boss known as “Big Brother Chang” or “White Wolf” — raised a glass to one of the Communist Party’s princelings. His guest, Hu Shiying, was the son of Mao Zedong’s propaganda chief. “Big Brother Chang,” Hu reportedly toasted him, an episode highlighted in a new report from the Jamestown Foundation.

Hu would later be described by Australian journalist John Garnaut as an “old associate of Xi Jinping.” That link — through Hu and other princelings Chang claimed to have met — placed the Bamboo Union leader within the orbit of Party elites. Garnaut also reported that the Ministry of State Security (MSS) had used the Bamboo Union to channel lucrative opportunities to Taiwanese politicians. According to Jamestown researcher Martin Purbrick, a former Royal Hong Kong Police intelligence officer, such episodes show how the CCP has systematically co-opted Taiwanese organized crime as part of its united front strategy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians in North see U.S. as Arctic threat on par with Russia: survey

ICE Station Trudeau

Between Russia’s military buildup in the North and China’s growing presence in the Bering Strait near Alaska, it’s no surprise Canadians in the three territories are increasingly concerned about Arctic security. But in a striking twist, a new survey found more Northerners named the United States as the most serious threat to the Canadian Arctic, on par with Russia.

Thirty-seven per cent of respondents identified the U.S. as the top threat, compared with 35 per cent who said Russia, and 17 per cent who chose China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conrad Black: Liberal intransigence threatens to pull Canada apart

After spending most of last weekend in Calgary and having the privilege of speaking with scores of well-informed Albertans including a number of prominent political figures, I came away with an uneasy feeling that it is not generally recognized in Canada how politically vulnerable this country is and how vivid and well-founded are the public policy grievances of Alberta. Alberta was a conventional farming and ranching economy until the discovery of oil there in 1947. Today, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for a quarter of Alberta’s GDP, and 70 per cent of exports, with ancillary benefits to the construction, manufacturing, transportation and other industries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

As the House of Commons returns, Carney and Poilievre are both chasing a lost political moment

One of the weirder aspects of the Justin Trudeau-Pierre Poilievre dynamic that dominated the previous Parliament is that a pair of adversaries who looked like opposites in every way were in fact mirror images.

Political lifers of a sort; charismatic; leaders of a movement version of their parties in a moment that sang out for it; susceptible to hubris and insularity that could feed bad political judgment; prone to dividing the world into people who agree with them and people who are wrong and bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Tories primed to attack ‘contradictions’ in Liberal policies when Parliament resumes

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is not Justin Trudeau.

He’s also not Pierre Poilievre.

But it’s the prime minister’s migration of Trudeau’s centre-left Liberal party to the political centre — and beyond — that delivers the Conservative leader his primary challenge as he enters a new parliamentary session, armed with a domestic agenda his party insists it was right to focus on all along.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Union demands Canada Post return to bargaining or it will ‘consider stronger actions’

The union representing Canada’s 55,000 postal workers says it wants Canada Post to return to the bargaining table and commit to a “fair, ratifiable” contract with its employees or the union will “consider stronger actions” to move labour negotiations along.

“We ask when will it end? When will Canada Post stop stalling, ignoring results of the votes and start bargaining?” Jan Simpson, Canada Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) national president, asked on Friday.

The Union is suicidal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Carney says there’s been a ‘rupture.’ What’s he going to do about it this fall?

Even while Mark Carney has been accused of lowering his elbows in regards to American tariffs, he continues to frame the larger challenge facing this country in stark terms.

“What’s going on is not a transition,” Carney said last week in Mississauga, Ont., while announcing an array of measures for industries impacted by the American administration’s actions. “It’s a rupture. And its effect will be profound.”

He saw the arrival of a “new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism” and described the current moment as an “age of adversity.” He invoked major nation-building infrastructure projects of the past and the national mobilization that took place in Canada during and after the Second World War.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign workers drove forklifts, did trade tasks at Windsor EV battery plant, say union, construction leaders

Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.

They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.

“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?