Nearly $300M in federal contracts went to companies later removed from Indigenous Business Directory

Over $285 million in federal government contracts for Indigenous businesses were awarded over a five-year period to companies that have since been removed from its Indigenous Business Directory, according to a response to a written question in the House of Commons.

The public directory was created to help Indigenous-owned businesses pursue opportunities, including federal contracts.

Companies must be at least 51 per cent owned and controlled by First Nations, Métis or Inuit to be eligible.

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Poll: Majority of Florida Republicans Will Not Watch Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show

Superbowl Half-Time Headliner Bad Bunny

A majority of Florida Republicans say they will not be watching woke rapper Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, according to a recent poll. Democrats, however, are planning to tune in.

The survey, published on Friday, found that 68 percent of Florida registered voters said they will watch the NFL’s Super Bowl LX on Sunday, according to a report by South Florida Sun Sentinel.

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STIRLING: Carbon tax shell game — how climate activists masquerading as ‘experts’ are bankrupting Canada

On February 3, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said in the House of Commons that “Canadians deserve to have a full stomach, a full fridge, and a full bank account, all at once.” He went on to offer his theory that Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7 due to the industrial carbon tax and fuel taxes. He asked Prime Minister Mark Carney for his theory. The Prime Minister responded that the Canadian Climate Institute “estimated the impact of the industrial carbon tax on food prices as approximately zero.”

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Toronto police officer called ‘genesis’ of corruption probe denied bail

The Toronto police constable called the “genesis” of a months-long corruption probe has been denied bail.

Const. Timothy Barnhardt, 56, was denied bail in a Toronto court on Friday afternoon, although defence asked that he receive protective custody, which was granted. He is scheduled to appear in court next on March 19.

Barnhardt is among seven police officers who were arrested this week, along with one retired officer, as part of a months-long corruption probe by York Regional Police that has resulted – so far – in numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit murder to drug trafficking.


Read this …

h/t Patti Jo

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The Truth About the ‘Racist’ Video Trump Posted That the Left Doesn’t Want You to Know

The uproar over the Trump video tells you more about the left’s narrative machine than it does about what actually happened. What they want you to see is “Trump posts racist monkey video about the Obamas.” What they do not want you to see is context, intent, or basic honesty about how the clip ended up on his Truth Social feed in the first place.


The media lied about Trump? I’m shocked.

More … Cue the Outrage! Lefties Blow a Gasket at Trump for ‘Racist’ Meme (Except There’s Just One Problem)

h/t Frances

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The Globalization of Canadian Rage

The defiance against America that has consumed Canadian life for over a year now has finally spread to the rest of the West. The message of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos last month — that of a “rupture in the world order” — was not new for Canadians. Just after his election in April, Mr. Carney declared that “our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over.” At Davos, the moment caught up with him, and with Canada.

Throughout last year, the consensus among many European policymakers in the face of Donald Trump’s bombast was to wait out the nonsense and appease when possible. Mr. Carney’s speech arrived at the exact point at which that position proved untenable: Mr. Trump’s intensifying threats to forcibly annex Greenland, not to mention his insults to NATO troops who fought and died alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. “They stayed a little back, little off the front lines” is a statement that will be remembered in Europe alongside “Ich bin ein Berliner” and “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” as a presidential remark that embodies the American spirit of its moment. Suddenly, Mr. Trump’s mindless drive toward territorial expansion and his desire to humiliate and degrade were impossible to ignore.


Media manipulated TDS he means.

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UN: 4.5 million girls at risk of genital mutilation in 2026

An estimated 4.5 million girls worldwide are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation this year, the United Nations warned on Friday.

Many of the girls at risk are under the age of five, the UN’s children’s agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a joint statement that was issued on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM.

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Ottawa says it won’t allow Chinese EVs to be used for spying on Canadians

The federal government will take steps to ensure that imported Chinese electrical vehicles cannot be used to spy on Canadians, a parliamentary committee heard Thursday.

Testifying before the procedures and House affairs committee, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Ottawa will put safeguards in place to make sure that Chinese EVs do not have “the capability to transmit information” back home.

He was responding to questions from Bloc Québécois MP Christine Normandin, who raised concerns that Chinese EVs could become “little spies on the road that could record our calls and take pictures of where we are going.”

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Mural of murdered Ukrainian refugee that’s loathed by local lefties vandalized in NYC: ‘It’s disgusting’

It’s art imitating strife.

A mural of a murdered Ukrainian refugee that’s loathed by local lefties for its “tough-on-crime” message and ties to Elon Musk was vandalized in Manhattan — irking neighbors who on Friday called the defacement a “disgusting” act of political “spite.”

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Finally … Serial Creep Mohamed Askar Mohamed-Razik Arrested in Criminal Harassment Investigation

Mohamed Askar Mohamed-Razik

Man Arrested in Criminal Harassment Investigation, City of Toronto, Image Released

Total creep

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How the Democrats turned on the Clintons

It took months of political pressure and the threat of a prison sentence, but Bill Clinton is being hauled before Congress over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The situation is virtually unprecedented. The last time a former president appeared on Capitol Hill, it was Gerald Ford in 1983. Even then, the man who pardoned Richard Nixon was only there to discuss celebrations marking the Constitution’s bicentennial.

For Mr Clinton, who was impeached in 1998 over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it is one more controversy in the career of the so-called “Comeback Kid”.

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Canada is uniquely unprepared for the dire national-security crisis we are now in

It is doubtful any country has ever been in quite the national security dilemma Canada now finds itself in: with so much land and so few people to defend it; wedged between two expansionist superpowers, one of which was until very recently our best defence against the other, but which has since become more or less aligned with it.

The dilemma is particularly acute in light of our charmed history. A country that had always considered itself invulnerable to attack – because of the oceans that surround us, because of the forbidding climate in our North, because of the Americans – wakes up to discover that it has suddenly become peculiarly vulnerable.

Coyne alert!

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