Employment lawyer to probe appointment of human rights chief accused of anti-Israel record
The federal government has hired outside legal counsel to lead an independent review into the appointment of Canada’s new human rights chief, who Jewish advocacy groups say is unfit for the role.
We can all take comfort in the knowledge that the Liberal government will exonerate itself of any wrong doing.
Liberal MP Steven MacKinnon has been sworn in as the federal Liberal’s new Minister for Labour and Seniors. In his first foray before the microphones as minister, he insisted that his caucus is firmly behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He reluctantly admitted that his party had challenges communicating its message to Canadians.
OTTAWA — While developments in U.S. presidential politics unfold with lighting speed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is enjoying quiet walks on the beach as he vacations in British Columbia, seemingly untroubled by any pressure to step aside for his party, as President Joe Biden recently did.
Whenever a Canadian politician travels abroad, it’s always useful to see how the foreign press reports on their trip. It helps one gain insight into how the host country really sees Canada, and whether we are accomplishing anything, or just shooting ourselves in the foot. Case in point: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ill-fated jaunt to India in 2018, which was panned by the Indian media for his Bollywood cosplay and photo ops with Sikh extremists. Not exactly a shining moment on the world stage.
This is Justin performing for Canada’s China class. No doubt he has visions of large donations to his foundation post politics.
Since coming to office in 2015, the Trudeau government has made foreign study in Canada a parallel immigration system, effectively doubling the number of newcomers it admits every year by giving the process another title.
Hundreds of thousands of students gain easy admission to loosely designated “career colleges,” at which they take nine to 12 months of business training. During their time as students, they are able to work up to 40 hours a week (to be cut back to 24 hours a week by Ottawa as of Sept. 1).
One begins to long for the decisiveness and efficiency of the American political system. One day the president, behind in the polls and given no chance of recovering, decides not to seek re-election. The next day his replacement as the party’s standard-bearer has been proposed, seconded and confirmed.
Compare the state of play in Canada. The Liberals, under Justin Trudeau, are as much as 20 points behind in the polls, and have been for more than a year. There isn’t any doubt as to the cause: It is the policies and persona of the leader. Neither is there much doubt about the solution. Either the policies must change, or the leader, if not both.
On Sunday afternoon, Justin Trudeau praised Joe Biden as an American patriot.
“He’s a great man,” the prime minister wrote on social media, “and everything he does is guided by his love for his country.”
That sentence could be read broadly as expressing admiration for Biden’s career of public service. It also could be read as praise specifically for the decision Biden took this weekend to relinquish the Democratic party’s nomination for president — that was the message Barack Obama offered in his own statement, released about an hour earlier.
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to Beijing last week was built around an understanding of China that’s at least a decade out of date.
The minister and more than a few media analysts lauded the opportunity (the first by a Canadian foreign minister in almost seven years) for “dialogue” with China’s leadership. But dialogue involves a conversation, a shared approach to illuminate or resolve an issue. It’s what happens when senior officials from normal countries meet. But China hasn’t been a normal country since Xi Jinping ascended to paramount leadership in 2013. Xi’s China doesn’t do dialogue.
Justin’s backers are in love with Xi’s dollars.
Nearly half of Canadians are teetering on the brink of insolvency, a new survey suggests.
Forty-six percent of Canadians say they are $200 or less away from failing to meet all their financial obligations, according to the MNP Consumer Debt Index survey conducted by Ipsos and released July 22.
Court documents show federal immigration officials warned that the government risked undermining the temporary immigration system with the design of the emergency visa program for war-displaced Ukrainians.
Immigration Department staff raised the concern in a memo to Sean Fraser, immigration minister at the time, shortly after the program was announced.
The documents were disclosed as part of a lawsuit against the federal government by two Afghan Canadians, who allege Canada discriminated against Afghan refugees by treating them differently than it did Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
Sounds like another open the floodgates gambit.
A decision by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to prevent Liberal Party members from choosing their own candidate in a byelection in the riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun by parachuting in his own choice is not going over well with those who had sought to win the nomination locally.
Canada’s premiers have sent a letter to the prime minister demanding a thorough review of the bail system after the homicide of a Surrey, B.C., woman.
Tori Dunn, 30, was killed in her home on June 16. Her death prompted an outpouring of grief in the Metro Vancouver suburb.
The man who has been arrested in the killing, Adam Troy Mann, was released from jail just days before the fatal assault despite a lengthy criminal history and current criminal charges for an unrelated robbery.
OTTAWA—Inconsistencies in how Meta is implementing its Canadian news ban, and gaps in the Liberal law that spurred it, are creating loopholes that are hurting news businesses, some media executives say.
Chuck Lapointe, the CEO of the Narcity Media Group, says his team has spent the past several months collecting hundreds of posts from entertainment accounts on Facebook and Instagram that repackage news content from more legitimate sources — which can’t reap the benefits of posting that content themselves because of Meta’s ban.
One of the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest ships is sitting in a U.S. port awaiting repairs because of flooding and mechanical problems.
HMCS Max Bernays, one of the new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS), is now in Pearl Harbor as specialists try to figure out how long it will take to be repaired, sailors have told this newspaper.
The ship was delivered in 2022 to the navy by Irving Shipbuilding.
We’ve already admitted more foreign students into Canada than we did in the same time period last year.
In the middle of a housing crisis.
At a time when health systems across the country struggle to hire enough doctors and nurses to care for the population that is already here.
