The RCMP has charged a former member of the Canada Space Agency (CSA) for allegedly working on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
Former CSA engineer Wanping Zheng, 61, was charged with breach of trust by a public officer on Tuesday after an RCMP investigation, the CSA said in a statement Wednesday. He is a resident of Brossard, Que., a suburb of Montreal.
Liberal billionaire megadonor George Soros supplied $3million last year alone to a ‘dark-money’ group supporting left-wing organizations such as BLM that are dedicated to defunding the police, it has emerged.
The Foundation to Promote Open Society, which is one of two major grantmaking foundations funded by Soros’ network, Open Society Foundations, funneled a total of $3million in 2020 to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability (CRH), according to a search of the charity’s grant database.
Soros’ foundation bankrolls CRH through New Venture Fund, the largest of four funds managed by Arabella Advisors that pulled in a combined $1.6 billion in secret donations last year, tax forms show.
Alec Baldwin asked for sympathy for himself and his colleagues on the set of Rust in a lengthy open letter, after Halyna Hutchins’ death.
The actor discharged a gun on set and accidentally shot the cinematographer during a rehearsal, and also injured director Joel Souza.
He later spoke of the incident in an emotional sit-down interview on ABC, vowing he doesn’t feel ‘guilt’ for what happened.
Addressing Hutchins’ shooting on Instagram, the 30 Rock star insisted that the descriptions of the working conditions as ‘chaotic and dangerous’ are false.
This seems a convenient effort to exonerate the producers of which Alec was one no?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said this week the U.S. would take a more direct role in diplomacy to address Vladimir Putin’s concerns over Ukraine and Europe, part of a broader effort to dissuade the Russian leader from a destabilizing invasion of Ukraine.
But any negotiations to peacefully resolve Europe’s tangled East-West rivalries will present minefields for the U.S. president.
Administration officials have suggested that the U.S. will press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014. An undefined “special status” for those areas was laid out in an ambiguous, European-brokered peace deal in 2015, but it has never taken hold.
A senior Black Lives Matter leader has strongly defended Jussie Smollett as he awaits the verdict in his trial on allegations of faking a hate crime, insisting that Smollett should be acquitted because ‘we can never believe police’.
Smollett, 39, is currently on trial in Chicago, accused of having orchestrated a fake attack on himself in January 2019, then lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist hate crime.
Jurors are expected to resume deliberations on Thursday, having deliberated for about two hours on Wednesday following a roughly one-week trial.
Shocka! – 74% think Smollett staged fake hate crime: poll
Two of Canada’s frontline frigates lost electronic storage devices containing classified and top secret data — including electronic warfare material — according to security inventories conducted over the last two years, CBC News has learned.
The devices — USBs, DVDs and a backup hard drive — went missing despite an apparent tightening of security in the wake of a spy scandal almost a decade ago, and a separate internal 2013 board of inquiry which recommended measures to clean up the navy’s handling of classified data.
Canada is racing to close deals for new plants to produce electric-vehicle batteries amid an increasingly heated North America-wide competition for investment in EV manufacturing.
Government negotiations with at least three companies looking to make major battery-building investments have reached a critical stage, sources familiar with the talks confirmed on Wednesday.
… As auto makers shift from gasoline-fueled cars and light-duty trucks to electric vehicles, Ottawa has promised to capitalize on Canada’s combination of natural resources and manufacturing infrastructure and expertise to be a major EV player. But its efforts are being challenged by U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to introduce EV purchase rebates of up to $12,500, with a large chunk of that contingent on the vehicles being made in the United States.
Seems a real possibility that Canada’s auto industry will be decimated. Justin’s BFF Biden has repeatedly slapped Canada in the face since taking office. Personally I suspect Biden’s handlers just don’t give a damn about Justin or Canada and Junior knows it.
Trudeau is a petulant little China Fan Boy so I wonder if he’ll attempt a pivot to Beijing in retaliation for US protectionism. Don’t put it past Junior, he really is that ignorant and Canada’s China class will be pulling his strings. There has to be some reason the Liberals have been so reluctant to ban Huawei. Is a Huawei reprieve Justin’s way back into Xi’s good graces? (go incognito)
Canadians should brace for the biggest surge in food prices in more than decade
… Climate change, extreme weather like the B.C. flooding, labour shortages, food transportation challenges and last but certainly not least — inflation.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, out this morning, warns that Canadians can expect to pay even more for food next year.
It forecasts that food prices will surge between 5% and 7% in 2022, the highest predicted increase since the report started 12 years ago. (For perspective, the report’s 2021 forecast was a 3% to 5% increase, which it says proved accurate.)
Twitter has banned the popular Maxwell Trial Tracker account from its platform. The account, affiliated with The Free Press Report from the PatriotOne Substack, posted updates about the claims raised in the criminal trial against Maxwell, who is accused of trafficking teenage girls for deceased billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Given that we were banned from Twitter yesterday we have moved to alternative platforms where we will be writing short form content on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and other corporate and political corruption. Any other account is not us.
This now banned Twitter account was our source for following the Maxwell trial through the menu button at the top of the page. We now have a button that links to the same account on Gab, where it will not be censored. Thanks!
OTTAWA — The Conservatives are rejecting a proposed deal over access to documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology lab, arguing the Liberals’ efforts are too little too late.
Liberal House Leader Mark Holland offered the compromise last week. It called for striking an all-party committee to review the confidential documents, with a panel of judges enlisted to settle any disputes over whether the documents should be made public or kept secret.
Ont. reports nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily total in more than 6 months
Ontario is reporting nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases today, the highest single-day tally in the province in more than six months.
Provincial health officials logged 1,290 new infections today, up from 1,009 on Wednesday and 959 one week ago.
Over half a million fewer surgeries have been performed since start of COVID-19: report
Over half a million fewer surgeries were performed across Canada during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, a new report suggests.
The report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) drives home the profound strain the pandemic has had on every province and territory’s health-care system, which will continue to be challenged even after COVID-19’s impact fades.
Bad report cards could soon be a thing of the past in California as some of the state’s largest school districts are dropping “D” and “F” grades.
Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified and other California districts have decided to limit the use of “Ds” and phased out “Fs” in grading. High schoolers who fail a test or homework assignment can get a do-over or more time to complete the work.
Four days after the New Brunswick government announced that grocery stores are allowed to ban unvaccinated Canadians, elected leaders have remained mute.
The key offender here is something called “relative risk.” If there’s a one in a million chance of something happening, that’s a minuscule absolute risk. If it goes up to two in a million, it’s still a minuscule absolute risk that you really won’t get bothered about. But that same difference can be presented as a 100% increase in risk or a doubling, which sounds really awful.
When it comes to COVID, the overall rate of death is in the tenths of a percent in the most vulnerable population. Headlines about Republicans killing off their voter base are simply scaremongering in the decimal points using relative instead of absolute risk. The real rate of death under age 50 for COVID is “indistinguishable from zero” according to the weekly British monitoring service.
A video report hosted by Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole delivers damaging accusations against the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
According to the report, Chinese scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu had shipped 30 vials of 15 strains of deadly virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
