When Justin Trudeau was elected Liberal leader in 2013, the money was soon raining down on the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation — not to mention Trudeaumania 2.0 making him prime minister two years later.
Suddenly the foundation had a pied piper in spirit as the younger Trudeau stepped aside to avoid the bane of bad optics.
President-elect Joe Biden said he has ‘great confidence’ in his son Hunter and is not concerned about investigations into his tax affairs during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Last week it was revealed that Hunter was under federal investigation for his taxes and business dealings in the Ukraine in a probe kept secret before the election by Attorney General Bill Barr.
Biden defended his son to Colbert on Thursday night alongside wife Jill, saying: ‘I’m not concerned about any accusations made against him. It used to get to me.
Dominic Barton’s appointment as Canadian ambassador to China last year was inappropriate because he, and the firm he worked at for much of his life, McKinsey & Company, have been unabashed fanboys of the People’s Republic of China for years.
Pandering to the panda is why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy toward China has failed. Billions of dollars worth of contract breaches by China remain unaddressed, two innocent Canadian businessmen remain political hostages and the Chinese government’s rhetoric toward Canada has become toxic.
Three men who stripped and dragged an elderly Christian woman through an Egyptian village over rumours that her son was having an affair with a Muslim woman have been acquitted by a court.
Soad Thabet, now 74, was the victim of the sectarian attack in 2016 which saw her paraded naked by a mob of vigilantes in Al-Karm.
The attack was accompanied by the torching of Coptic Christian homes and villagers angrily calling for the religious minority to be expelled.
Northwestern University scrubbed its website of references to a former professor who penned a controversial op-ed against Jill Biden—but it continues to feature a professor who denies the Holocaust.
Joseph Epstein, a writer and former adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University, had argued in the Wall Street Journal that Jill Biden shouldn’t call herself a “Dr.” Following the op-ed, Northwestern issued a condemnation of Epstein and removed his profile from its website. Yet the school still has a page for Arthur Butz, a tenured engineering professor who calls the Holocaust a “hoax” and a “legend.”
Ontario is reporting nearly 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 ahead of an announcement from the Ford government that could see new restrictions introduced in some regions.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 2,290 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday as well as an additional 40 deaths. That is down from the record 2,432 infections reported one day prior but it still represents the second highest number that we have ever seen in a single day.
The rolling seven-day average also continues to rise and now stands at 2,089, which is up 11.6 per cent from this time last week and nearly 19 per cent from two weeks ago.
Doug Ford says ‘everything is on the table’ as pressure mounts for wider and stricter COVID-19 lockdowns
Premier Doug Ford is under mounting pressure to impose wider lockdowns and make them more strict as the daily number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise, hitting another record and risking a major surge over the holidays.
The Ontario Hospital Association called on Ford to put almost half of the province’s regional health units into a four-week lockdown along with Toronto, Peel Region, York Region and Windsor-Essex when he announces the weekly changes to public health measures Friday.
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?
Primary Defence Corp. Security company, of course.
Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the ‘right to offend’ in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on ‘woke’ intolerance.
Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: ‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’
They added that ‘free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another’. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.
After eight years, it’s gone.
Earlier this month, Historian Lynn Philip Hodgson was shocked to open an email concerning his exhibit on Special Training School No. 103 — popularly known as Camp X — which since 2012 has resided at Durham Region’s Whitby headquarters.
The so called offensive “Iron Cross” symbol is still in use by Germany’s Airforce and pre-dates the Nazi era.
Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous identity under scrutiny
An acclaimed film director lauded for two high-profile Indigenous productions this year says she’s sorry for not verifying her ties to an Algonquin community after facing questions over the validity of her identity.
Michelle Latimer, who recently directed the CBC television series Trickster and the documentary Inconvenient Indian, has risen to become one of Canada’s most prominent names in Indigenous filmmaking.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada wants deeper environmental ties with the United States and one result could be a North American ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks, a senior cabinet member said on Thursday.
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Ottawa and the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden both agreed zero emissions vehicles needed to be deployed faster.
Canada will discuss with the United States how to achieve this and also improve the overall performance of the transport sector, which accounts for 26% of Canadian emissions, he said in a phone interview.
Anti-police groups in Portland on Tuesday made their wishes — demands, rather — even more obvious by hoisting a guillotine to the top of the Portland Police Association building at 1868 N. Lombard St., north of downtown.
The task of the panel, which has an open-ended mandate, is to take a deep look within the department to uncover “systemic discrimination, unconscious bias, [and] white supremacy,” Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said today.
When in the Course of human events which impelled our Founding Fathers to form a new Nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created free and equal and endowed by their Creator with the inalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, they determined to declare the reasons which inspired them to such a noble cause.
Because we hold to these same self-evident truths, we seek to adhere to these same timeless principles and to conduct our lives in a way which shows ourselves worthy of the precious legacy which has been handed down to us by such brave and honorable men.
We The People of The United States (WTPTUS), wish to announce that we are tired of being betrayed by our Governors, Mayors, Legislators, Judges, Attorney Generals who refuse to honor their Oaths of Office to uphold the Constitution and Represent their Constituents as they swore to do when they took office.
