A retired editor from one of Canada’s leading Chinese-language newspapers has raised alarms about the dominance of Chinese Communist Party influence over local ethnic media.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Victor Ho, who served as the Vancouver editor of Sing Tao Daily for 13 years, testified before the Commission on Foreign Interference, warning that Chinese media in Canada, especially those targeting recent immigrants, have long been under the sway of Beijing’s agenda.
Canadians are divided over whether the Liberal government should target specific age groups for new spending in the fall economic update, with more than a quarter of respondents to a new poll saying there should be no new spending at all.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has said she and her team are working on a fall economic update but a date has not yet been released.
Justin Trudeau sat down recently for an interview with his fellow Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, and the hour-long conversation has generated a lot of attention since it was posted.
Little wonder — Erskine-Smith is a thoughtful MP who is not afraid to disagree with the prime minister, and Trudeau prefers interviewers who challenge him.
Cell phone number? Trudeau gave Blanchet’s wife a cushy job.
Interesting timing.. pic.twitter.com/FaK72EhtzD
— Cheryl – Democratic socialism is an oxymor (@cheryl1492) October 4, 2024
Basically all the chatter in Ottawa at the moment reflects some desire to can-opener the top of Justin Trudeau’s skull and peer into his brain: Will he step down? Does he know he’s toast? What does he think will happen next?
All of those answers live in the Prime Minister’s head and only in his head, and that often feels like a you-can’t-get-there-from-here problem. To be fair to Mr. Trudeau, the blunt questions the media bark at him don’t really invite introspective sharing. And to be fair to the question barkers, Mr. Trudeau’s communication style means his answers usually don’t offer much more enlightenment than a Magic 8 Ball.
Canada’s international student boom went from success to liability over just a few years. Policymakers that promoted the growth are now suddenly passing blame, presenting it as an overwhelming surprise. It turns out the growth was the intended outcome of a $148 million plan, including a new brand jointly owned and operated by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Governments. Policymakers are now presenting new limits as a response to public outcry, coincidentally in the same year the strategy ended. What timing!
OTTAWA — Two months after telling MPs that the RCMP had not found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing surrounding the so-called “green slush fund,” RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme now says there are “ongoing investigations” into the embattled fund.
Duheme made the comment to reporters Thursday after the National Post asked if the RCMP had concerns about receiving documents on the government fund, officially known as Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), through an order from the House of Commons.
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has urged Canadians to buy electric vehicles (EVs), emphasizing the need for greater uptake as part of the government’s climate goals.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Champagne made the remarks during a Commons industry committee meeting, where he acknowledged that more work is needed to boost adoption of EVs despite existing federal incentives.
After a months-long review of CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is expected to announce changes meant to modernize the public broadcaster sometime over the next four weeks.
A senior government official told CBC News the government is in the final stages of drafting what could be major legislative and regulatory changes to better position the company for the future as it grapples with seismic developments in the news and broadcasting space.
Canada ponders ‘top secret’ data cloud as allies push ahead with intelligence-sharing plans
Australia is joining the United States and the United Kingdom in developing top-secret cloud networks to exchange highly classified defence, national security and intelligence data with each other — a concept Canada has just begun to think about.
Experts say that, unless the gap is closed quickly, Canada’s lack of such digital infrastructure will have a profound impact on new military hardware the federal government has committed to purchasing, such as F-35 stealth fighters, MQ-9 Reaper drones and long-range P-8 surveillance planes.
I don’t think Canada is dithering so much as not being invited to participate.
I suspect we are considered both a piker and a genuine security risk.
Every time I drive on Road 232, a main artery through southern Israel, I see phantoms.
Since moving to a kibbutz in southern Israel in July, Road 232 has become my lifeline, as it is for all residents of a region that is dotted with small towns and villages. This beautiful, pastoral area is where much of Israel’s fresh produce is grown.
And who are the guilty parties.
Canada’s decline is due to the machinations of a corrupt elite.
They are the people who encouraged mass Islamist immigration and surrendered our institutions to the radical liberal-left.
They called us racists and Islamophobes while flooding the nation with incompatible cultures which they in turn championed as equal or better to our own.
The made us poor by depressing wages and profiting from the shortages created by their mass immigration scheme.
They made laws to silence dissent and co-opted the news media to further their agenda.
They hate us. Once you accept that it all makes sense.
We’ll be waiting for a while yet to hear why stands of dead trees outside the Jasper National Park townsite were allowed to sit and wait for a catastrophic fire.
Twin probes are underway in Ottawa to crack the issue — one in the House of Commons, another in the Senate, but between jabs at the Harper government and time-wasting lines of questioning better spent on Wikipedia searches, they seem to be getting nowhere.
“He didn’t even call me,” Trudeau said. “The relationship obviously wasn’t what I thought it was. I know that if I had chosen to end it, it would have started with a call to him. I would have said, ‘You know what, Jagmeet? It’s not going to work.’ You make those tough calls.”
He sounds like a schoolgirl.
Under the Trudeau government, the number of federal government employees has grown substantially and new polling shows many Canadians would prefer to see that number decline. This would be a step in the right direction, as the growing size of government imposes costs on Canadians with little to no evidence suggesting they’re better off because of it.
It’s a critical component of Trudeau’s base, he will do anything to keep them on side with our money.
As the anniversary of October 7 approaches, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have decided to escalate their anti-Israel messaging while also adopting the ludicrous position of overtly supporting terrorists.
It’s a strange way for Canada to treat an ally — but not surprising considering the facile and simplistic response of the Liberals to events in the Middle East.
Back in March, Immigration Minister Marc Miller laid out the beginnings of a plan to control Canada’s runaway population growth.
The share of temporary residents in the population, then 6.2 per cent, would be eased to 5 per cent over three years. The group – a mix of study and work permit holders, their family members and asylum claimants – would need to drop about 20 per cent from 2.5 million, he estimated.
How’s progress so far? Nonexistent.
