How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement

Coming this fall to CBC: Undercover Constable!

The Mounties called it the “Native extremism program.” Today, it sounds like a spy novel.

Intelligence dossiers stuffed with documents. Wiretaps. Paid informants. Covert operatives with code numbers like “A-828.” A Red Power dissident photo album. Surreptitious surveillance at homes, offices, airports and bars.

But it wasn’t fiction.

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Kneecap’s breathtaking Cuban hypocrisy

White rappers are a stupid idea. Irish White rappers up the stupidity level beyond measurement.

While most Cold War cultural battlegrounds have long been paved over or turned into a theme park, Cuba has retained a place in the hearts and minds of the West’s luxury leftists.

Beautiful weather, sandy beaches, famous cigars and, of course, a long-standing enmity with the USA have all ensured the country remains perhaps the last stubborn redoubt of revolutionary, western hipsterism. So it made perfect sense that leading the charge in last weekend’s much trumpeted ‘aid flotilla’ to the island nation was the Irish language-speaking novelty rap act, Kneecap.


I thought Greta was supposed to be there too!

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Are Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ a threat to Canadians? Here’s what CBC intelligence experts say

The U.S.-Israel war with Iran has stoked fears that Tehran could activate dormant agents abroad to execute terror plots.

“I believe there’s sleeper cells all over the world,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said at a press conference on March 10. “As we know, they’re in the U.S. They’re in Canada.”

According to U.S. media reports, American officials have intercepted encrypted communication believed to have come from Iran that could act as an “operational trigger” to activate “sleeper assets.”


Everything is fine infidels!

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LILLEY: Why are Liberals expanding temporary foreign worker program?

On the same day that Statistics Canada revealed a higher unemployment rate of 6.7% and a youth unemployment rate of 14.1%, the Carney government made it easier for some employers to hire temporary foreign workers. On March 13, the latest Labour Force Survey showed that Canada had lost 108,000 full-time jobs and that over the past year had added more than 30,000 people to the unemployment line.

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China Is About to Lose Its Cuban Military Bases

Cuban society, due to a U.S. naval embargo, is close to collapse.

Friends of Havana blame the U.S., but the Trump administration had to act before China turned the island into a military bastion.

America took control of Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA, after the January 3 raid that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Then the U.S. stopped the flow of Venezuelan oil to the Cuban regime.

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RCMP failed to recruit enough officers to meet operational needs: auditor general

The RCMP has not recruited enough new officers or effectively assigned its members to meet its operational needs, according to a new report from the auditor general — raising concerns about public safety across the country.

“As a result of chronic shortages of front-line police officers, the RCMP faces a higher risk of police officer absences and burnout, which could make it more challenging for the force to prevent and investigate crime, maintain peace and order and contribute to national security,” Auditor General Karen Hogan wrote in a report tabled Monday.

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US FCC orders a ban on the import of all new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all ​new foreign-made consumer routers, the latest crackdown on Chinese-made electronic gear over ‌security concerns.

China is estimated to control at least 60% of the U.S. market for home routers, boxes that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet.

h/t Mauser

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Burlington couple made ‘disgusting’ choices, but malnourished boy’s death not a murder, defence argues at close of trial

Becky Hamber, Brandy Cooney Killer Moms

A Burlington couple did not intend to kill the severely malnourished 12‑year‑old boy they were trying to adopt; instead, he likely died from “refeeding syndrome” as they tried to nurse him back to health, defence lawyers argued Monday on the first day of closing arguments at a disturbing Ontario murder trial.

That defense deserves a slap in the face.

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Myths and Deliberate Lies About the Homeless that Make the Problem Worse

On any given night in America, rain or shine, warm or cold, more than 700,000 people, mostly in urban areas, are without shelter. It’s a problem that defies all attempts to alleviate it. It’s a problem that is only getting worse.

The problem of homelessness is partly mythological, partly a government flim-flam, and partly a human tragedy that government stupidity and political machinations make worse.

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A milestone recession is stealing young Canadians’ future

For most of Canada’s history there was an understood bargain at the heart of our social contract. If you worked hard, got an education, stayed out of trouble, and did your part, you would get a happy life in return. You could move out, find decent work, buy a home, raise a family if you wanted one, and feel that your life was progressing roughly according to plan. The promise was never that everything would be easy, or even equal. It was that effort would compound into stability, and stability into a future.

For many young Canadians today, that sequence of success has become delayed, distorted, and broken. The country still asks for all the same things it once did: discipline, education, thrift, patience, flexibility, and resilience. But now the rewards arrive later, at a higher price, and with far less certainty.


The Liberal Party gave it away to Time Horton’s

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