According to a network statement, the CBC and five subsidized press associations pledged to “advocate for initiatives to reduce if not prevent online harm,” according to a network statement. The advocacy comes ahead of internet censorship bills by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, including a proposal to block websites and appoint a chief censor called the Digital Safety Commissioner.
Justin Trudeau’s ill-considered trip to Tofino on the very first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation does more than remind us, yet again, of his sense of entitlement and his chronically poor judgment. It tells us that he may not be Prime Minister that much longer.
A futile election, a lack of fresh initiatives and a disjointed economy all point to Mr. Trudeau’s departure before the next election. The latest family vacation embarrassment might hasten the move.
Wishful thinking.
No matter how much politicians or some of the public may want to avoid it, reality cannot be evaded indefinitely.
Senator accused of being China’s ‘mouthpiece’ worries about rise of anti-Asian racism
OTTAWA – Last June, 33 Canadian senators voted to defeat a motion decrying China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims as a genocide.
While they all faced criticism from some quarters, only one — Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, leader of the Independent Senators Group — seems to have been singled out as an alleged stooge of China’s communist regime, told to resign and “go home.”
Last week, Woo got a similar reaction when he tweeted about the release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Canadians arbitrarily detained by China for nearly three years in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the United States.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated that all federal civil servants will have be to vaccinated. He declared it one of his top priorities.
But missing from Trudeau’s announcement were an “Or else?” and a “When?”
The use of a military jet for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s two-week family vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island pumped about as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the average emitted per capita in Canada each year.
Trudeau’s use of the Challenger to fly his family and a nanny from Ottawa to Nassau, Bahamas over the New Year holiday and back consumed about 9,100 litres of jet fuel, according to the Department of National Defence.
Apparently, the calls began early Monday morning, well before normal office hours.
The Sun’s exclusive on the massive expansion being contemplated by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) for who gets into Canada as a refugee appeared online late last Sunday. Before the print edition had hit some doorsteps the next morning, senior staff at the IRB were already on a fishing expedition for the leaker.
Aside from COVID-19, the digital world will be a major focus of Parliament once it resumes this fall, with several significant pieces of legislation expected to be introduced — or reintroduced — by the government.
The Liberals have promised to table several major bills within the government’s first 100 days, with the clock beginning to tick following the new cabinet’s swearing-in, expected to be in October.
Among the bills is legislation to establish a regulatory system for social media platforms to combat harmful online content, and making digital giants pay news outlets for their work.
“Immigrants who arrived within the past five years commended Canada’s “fair treatment” of all groups by a wide margin, 78%.”
So says Blacklock’s Reporter-– no doubt an organization our Liberal government and media could live without. Talk about defying a publicly accepted social standard.
SAINT-SAUVEUR, QUEBEC — In the waning days of the campaign, Trudeau went all out to convince voters in the Greater Toronto Area that he was a “progressive,” a term that he hardly ever used to describe himself before.
It was a word intentionally chosen to hive off as many NDP votes as possible especially in Canada’s largest cities. It worked. Trudeau ran the table in the GTA.
Now, it’s put up or shut up time in several key files that help define progressive politics in Canada: women’s rights, climate, justice and minority rights.
The conservatives can hope that Trudeau veers so far left they can attract less crazy Liberals assuming such an animal exists.
During the election, Prime Minister Trudeau ran as a bold leader in the fight against climate change. Yet even if we agree that the voters have given Trudeau’s Liberals a mandate to enact policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, these policies should still make sense. Unfortunately, several features of Trudeau’s climate agenda do not accord with standard economics.
… A decision on Huawei’s participation is part of a broader national security review of next-generation wireless technology. The new technology is as much as 100 times faster than existing 4G technology.
But the decision had seemingly been stalled as Canada’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China spiralled during the saga of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and Canada’s “two Michaels.”
One pollster said those events would make it hard for the Canadian government to now allow Huawei access to the 5G network.
Failing to block Huawei’s involvement would result in swift backlash from Canadians, in fact, predicted Mario Canseco, president of Vancouver-based polling firm Research Co.
There is no reason to delay Huawei’s exclusion. But Trudeau is the figure-head of Canada’s China class and he will protect their interests above all others.
It’s a common trope that foreign policy is never a ballot question. As riled up as Canadians got about Afghanistan in our recent election, research showed it had little impact on the choices they ultimately made. Bread and butter issues like childcare or concerns about climate change mattered more than how well the prime minister performed — or did not perform — on the world stage.
Oh yea, Justin will be right on this, as soon as the China class gives him the go-ahead.
A former Tory MP with significant military experience once told me that former Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance, who is the subject of sexual harassment and obstruction of justice allegations, was “a very good soldier, but a very bad boy.”
In an interview released this month, the last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms expressed outrage at the state of democracy in Canada.
