If Netflix is looking for its next hit show, it should consider a new chapter of its wildly popular crime thriller “Narcos” — this time set in the Great White North. While Canada once evoked images of serene mountainsides and dim-witted cartoon Mounties, we’ve become something much more exciting — and sinister.
…Atwin said she stands by her pro-Palestinian position, and was hurt by the accusation made that she was anti-Semitic. She said she’s been told there is a difference of opinion among Liberals and believes there will be an opportunity within her new caucus to have a more “healthy discussion and debate” than was possible with her former team.
“I know I’m going to a place where I’m not alone in how I feel about this issue, and that I’ll have that collaboration to work through it and come to an understanding, and that’s what I’m very much looking forward to,” she said, without naming names.
The Conservatives have sought to attack the Liberals over the move, framing it as welcoming in “another anti-Israeli MP,” suggesting she will be “in good company.”
The whole tenor of public discourse in this country has become so absurd that Canadians should consider if we are, as a nationality, taking complete leave of our senses. Canada’s entire COVID lockdown policy, combined with our negligent failure to obtain adequate supplies of vaccine, has been a disaster, yet the Trudeau government is still preening itself about it, and the opposition isn’t scoring.
OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee issued a scathing report Thursday on the Trudeau government’s now-cancelled deal with WE Charity that includes calls for stronger measures to protect against inappropriate lobbying and conflicts of interest.
The report from the House of Commons ethics committees followed months of contentious hearings and the release of thousands of pages of documents since last spring, when the government first inked the agreement with WE.
China says its scientific co-operation with Canada should not be politicized, responding to questions about two scientists fired from Canada’s only Level 4 lab — a case that has led to an RCMP investigation, demands for details in Parliament and concerns about Chinese espionage.
Very few people know why Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were marched out of the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab (NML) two years ago and stripped of their security clearance. They were officially fired last January.
However, two national security experts believe the case of the scientists raise the possibility of Chinese espionage.
The WE Charity is in hot water again, this time with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which has levied penalties against it for improperly issuing donation receipts of $1.8 million. The charity has filed an appeal with the tax court and a trial date must now be scheduled.
Not since 2000 – 21 years ago – when the Chretien Liberals were forcing through amendments to the Canada Elections Act, has a government used “time allocation” to end debate on a bill at the committee stage.
But Monday, with the backing of the Bloc Quebecois, the Trudeau Liberals told the House of Commons Heritage Committee to stop picking apart Bill C-10, the government’s Internet censorship legislation, and send it back to the Commons to be passed before summer – and a likely election.
Canada is now a shitty little country thanks to our political class.
It’s official. Canadian politicians are world leaders; not in economic policy, COVID response, or providing clean water to their own people, but in below-the-ankle fashion statements. No other nations’ top officials have grabbed so many headlines with tales of colourful socks and, now, photos of bare feet at G7 meetings.
If a politician can decide on their whim whether someone can cross a border, and makes that decision based on how famous or popular somebody is, how can we keep pretending we have rights?
h/t Marvin
The U.S. Labor Department announced Friday that the American economy added 559,000 jobs in May.
Our neighbours’ unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, too, the lowest since the pandemic began 15 months ago.
Anybody with even the slightest appetite for the history of the Second World War is aware of the Enigma machine, a fiendishly complicated mechanism the Germans devised for their top-secret communications. The hero of the story was Alan Turing, a polymathic genius of the highest order. Turing received substantial help from three Polish mathematicians who had broken a version of the code in the early 1930s. The code-breaking project, at the famous Bletchley Park, went under the beautiful name — for a spy story — Ultra.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s acceptance of an inquiry’s finding that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous people could have tremendous legal impact if a court ever weighs Ottawa’s responsibility for crimes against humanity, experts say.
Amid growing outrage and grief over an unmarked burial site at a residential school in British Columbia, Trudeau reiterated this week that he accepts the conclusion of the 2019 inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women that “what happened amounts to genocide.”
Huh? The women were killed by fellow natives.
If there’s one thing that’s booming in Canada, it’s government revenues. According to the latest IMF statistics, our federal, provincial, and local governments will raise close to $1 trillion in taxes, user fees and other revenues this year. This tidy sum accounts for 41.8 per cent of Canada’s economic output. Just six years ago, in 2015, governments collected a fifth less – about $800 billion – or 40 per cent of GDP.
The whereabouts of two scientists at the centre of a parliamentary showdown over alleged national-security breaches at a high-security laboratory remain unknown, as Ottawa’s explanation for their firing has shifted.
Xiangguo Qiu, a former head of a key program at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, and her husband, Keding Cheng, have not publicly commented on why they were fired. Nor have they responded to questions from The Globe and Mail about whether their dismissal was related to the transfer of highly infectious viruses to China’s Wuhan Virology Institute.
The Globe has found that the scientists are no longer living in Winnipeg, and it is unclear if they are still in Canada. The RCMP would not say if they know where the couple are located.
(Go incognito)
Liberals, Tories take clashing views of China criticism as anti-Asian racism surges
OTTAWA — Liberals and Conservatives have stumbled into a thorny debate over fears that criticism of China can bleed into bigotry, as wariness of the global superpower rises alongside incidents of anti-Asian racism in Canada.
Tory MPs asked Justin Trudeau last week to respond to reports that scientists at a Winnipeg infectious-diseases laboratory had been collaborating with Chinese military researchers.
The LPC is a CCP lackey.
