The federal government is expected to announce Thursday that it is ending pre-arrival testing requirements for vaccinated travellers entering Canada by April 1, sources tell Global News.
The decision comes as nearly all remaining provincial mask mandates are set to be lifted across the country by Monday, with plans to eliminate all remaining restrictions by the end of April.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued his tour of Europe to “work closely with allies to strengthen NATO.” But even as Canada places 500 troops in Latvia and pledges CF-18s for Romania, there is an elephant in the room whenever Trudeau talks to NATO members about collective security: He happens to represent a country that has spent more than a generation phoning in its NATO commitments.
As Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine drives consumer prices higher globally, Canadian farmers are feeling the sticker shock, too, as they incur massive costs to continue running their operations and ensure grocery store shelves remain stocked.
Like Ukraine, the region is perceived by Vladimir Putin as an integral part of his country. Several modern Arctic warfare bases house, operate and are testing some of Russia’s most advanced weapons.
Canada asked the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to speed up its investigation into Russia for possible war crimes because of its invasion of Ukraine as the government moved to close its ports to Russian ships.
A majority of Canadians are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living, a new Angus Reid survey has found, with seven in 10 saying they worry about money regularly.
According to the Cost of Living Index, 53% of Canadians agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, “I can’t keep up with the cost of living.”
One of the bolder economic moves against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine was taken by the European Union and Canada when they banned all Russian aircraft from landing in their countries or even flying through their airspace. That decision was put to the test yesterday when an Aeroflot commercial jet flew through Canadian airspace on the way from Miami to Moscow. It was a brief incursion, but it still violated the new rules. Transport Canada and the Nav Canada air traffic control service are currently “reviewing” the incident, but it’s unclear what can be done about it or what will happen if they do it again today.
‘In these moments of an existential crisis, all prime ministers are obligated to bring the parties together, not to throw fuel on the fire, not to call protesters names, not to call them…extremists or racists.’
It is a shocking fall, with a witches brew of wedge politics, incompetence and identity politics to blame.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as is to be expected, is repeating himself like a trained parrot, saying nothing but out of touch slogans about vaccines and science and swastikas to avoid the questions.
However, there is a mutiny brewing within the Liberal Party, and things are not going Trudeau’s way. So far two Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs) have broken ranks and accused the Prime Minister of dividing Canadians, using COVID as an excuse to put a wedge between people for political gain. Both MPs say they represent a growing faction in Trudeau’s own party.
On Feb. 7, Canadians protesting the nation’s cross-border vaccine mandate and other pandemic-related restrictions began a blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, a vital crossing over the Detroit River between the Motor City and Windsor, Ontario. Constructed in 1929, the bridge is a vital trade artery between the two nations with $323 million worth of goods crossing over it each day—over a quarter of the trade between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north.
Trudeau is becoming the ultimate example. Truckers last month began protesting a January 22nd rule that required the production of vaccine passports before crossing the U.S.-Canadian border. Canadian truckers are reportedly 90% vaccinated, above the country’s 78% total, a key detail that’s been brazenly ignored by media in both countries determined to depict these more as “anti-vax” than “anti-mandate” protests (which seem to be about many things at once, but that’s another story). When an angry convoy descended upon the capital, Trudeau dismissed them in a soliloquy that can only be described as inspired political arson:
The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing, do not represent the views of Canadians…who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to ensure our rights, our freedoms, our values as a country.
So Trudeau comes out and condemns the massive freedom protests, saying that “individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop.”
Oh, honey. Bless your little authoritarian heart. You can’t be serious. You can’t be this dense.
HE is the one who has been blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives for TWO YEARS. HE is the one who has to be made to stop. Thus the freedom protests. To make him stop blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives.
