In its April budget, the Trudeau government boasted it has dramatically increased annual funding on Indigenous issues by 115% since coming into office, from $11.4 billion in 2015 to a projected $24.5 billion this year.
That COVID-19 tracking app you were urged to download? It didn’t deliver — ‘far from it’
The federal government spent $20 million on a smartphone application designed to alert users to possible COVID-19 exposures, and new data obtained by The Canadian Press shows the results didn’t live up to expectations.
Ottawa’s COVID Alert app, introduced late last year in several provinces, uses Bluetooth to detect proximity to others who have installed the app on their mobile devices, and it notifies users when they’ve been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19.
No one trusted this app, and rightly so.
Twitter loses liability protection for user-created posts in India after failing to delete content
Twitter will no longer be exempt from liability arising from posts by users in India, after the platform failed to delete posts deemed illegal within a timeframe set by the country’s new IT laws.
In a ruling filed on Monday, the US microblogging site lost the immunity that prevents it from being held liable for content posted by its users. The decision was made on the premise that Twitter is not respecting India’s “law of the land.”
Majority of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of border, poll shows
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that a majority of Americans disapprove of the job President Joe Biden is doing on immigration — as illegal border crossings smash records month over month creating an unprecedented crisis.
The June 30th survey shows 51% of respondents are not satisfied with the president’s handling of the border crisis while 33% give him a thumbs up.
The privilege of pandemic private jets. How wealthy Canadians travelled during COVID-19
For the past 15 months, Canadians have been advised to avoid non-essential travel outside of Canada, but the definition of “essential” travel is open to interpretation and personal judgment.
While it has not been against the rules to fly abroad, COVID-19 testing and quarantine measures, along with the reduced capacity of commercial airlines, have made travel difficult or even prohibitive.
Friends of Justin no doubt, we really are a Banana republic.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau’s border closure is a sham designed to only allow the rich to travel. Time to put an end to it
Twitter Restricts Account of China Scholar Who Mocked Xi Jinping
A globally renowned China scholar said Twitter temporarily restricted her account after she mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping. The New Zealand academic added Facebook, LinkedIn, Zoom and other major social media players appeared just as eager to silence critics of the Communist Party dictatorship.
Dutch court upholds Geert Wilders conviction for insulting Moroccans
The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld far-right politician Geert Wilders’ conviction for collectively insulting Moroccans at a campaign rally in 2014.
Wilders had been convicted in 2016, and demanded a retrial, arguing the case had been politically motivated and that the finding restricted his freedom of speech.
The court ruled Tuesday that the rally speech was not covered by freedom of expression.
BONOKOSKI: Michael Chong lays bare a shattered pathetic government
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is so determined to not cough up documents related to the firings of two scientists at the top-secret laboratory in Winnipeg, he is suing his own government to keep them forever sealed.
If you’re going to San Francisco…
San Francisco thieves flee with designer handbags during brazen robbery at luxury store Neiman Marcus
Exclusive: Video of Neiman Marcus getting robbed by 10 ppl this evening in San Francisco! San Francisco is lawlessness personified! Thank you Chesa Boudin and mayor and our supervisors who all love and support these dumb and dangerous policies implemented by the DA! pic.twitter.com/mMznzYqDua
— Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) July 6, 2021
What is China Buying in the Biden Administration?
What is China buying in the Biden Administration? A look to the recent past may provide some answers.
If you go back to 2009-10 and look at the “shovel-ready” stimulus package that President Barack Obama pushed through, as most people now know, there were huge amounts of money in the form of direct grants and loan guarantees that went to Solyndra and other “green energy” companies that failed. Yet, the question remained: Where did all that taxpayer money go for green energy?
If you trace it, you will find that 80 percent of that money went to green energy companies that were owned by individuals who sat on Barack Obama’s Finance Committee for his 2008 campaign.
Mom wonders why Canada won’t bring her darling ISIS Terrorist home
Mother of Canadian woman detained in Syrian camp wants answers after another woman freed
The mother of a Canadian woman held in a detention camp for family members of ISIS militants in northeast Syria for four years wants to know why her daughter remains there, after another Canadian woman was released with the help of a former U.S. diplomat just over a week ago.
“You know, I’m happy for her,” the mother told CBC News by telephone in a rare interview. “I’m happy for her family. But why has this woman been rescued and my daughter and her two little children are still in that terrible place?”
Sara — CBC is not using her real name in order to protect the identity of her family — says her daughter knows she made a terrible mistake when she left home to travel to ISIS-held territory in 2014.
Let them rot.
Today’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle
Liberals announce plans for new ‘high frequency’ rail lines from Toronto to Quebec City
The federal government is signalling plans to build all-new, high frequency rail lines connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
“…Anything that makes the service more frequent and faster is going to attract passengers,” Prentice said. “We’ve got to get more cars off the road and we’ve got to stop using so many airplanes.”
Trois-Rivières is one of the proposed stations on the new line connecting Montreal to Quebec City.
The city is expected to be a battleground riding in the next federal election, since Bloc Québécois MP Louise Charbonneau announced she will not seek re-election. Trois-Rivières has not had a Liberal MP since 1984.
A Green-scam and election campaigning all rolled into one and at your expense.
Canadian rights activist says he received death threat for support of Hong Kongers
A Hong Kong-born Canadian who has worked behind the scenes to help dissidents flee the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the former British colony says a threat has been made against his life.
Paul Cheng, who is in his 60s, is a retired computer programmer in Calgary and one of the founders of the New Hong Kong Cultural Club, a Canadian group dedicated to supporting pro-democracy efforts in the Asian territory.
Go incognito
Trudeau gun grab will be ineffective and very expensive
Here we go again. Ottawa’s budget watchdog is on the trail of another big taxpayer boondoggle in the making with the federal government’s latest gun policy.
Union fears big job losses from going green, after Ottawa pledges $420 million to Algoma’s electric retrofit
The announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday seemed like undiluted good news.
Ottawa would provide $420 million in aid to Algoma Steel so it could convert its coal-fired furnaces to “electric-arc” technology. Technology that could cut the greenhouse gasses spewed from the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., plant dramatically — by the equivalent of 900,000 gas-guzzling cars.
Can you make steel by burning politicians?