Pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try to spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the U.S. and Canada, cybersecurity researchers said in a new report.
The fake Twitter and Facebook accounts were created to give China, the largest producer of rare earth minerals, a competitive advantage, cybersecurity research company Mandiant disclosed on Tuesday.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
TAMARA LICH A POLITICAL PRISONER ONCE AGAIN
In the aftermath of Tamara Lich’s arrest on a Canada-wide warrant for allegedly breaching bail conditions, Tamara’s mother, Bonnie McBurney, still has no idea what Tamara is alleged to have done to land her back in the Trudeau hoosegow. Meanwhile, Trudeau continues to yuk it up over whose “plane” is bigger with Boris Johnson and whose “pecs” are peckier while drinking champagne and eating caviar and canapes with his fellow WEF/G7 potentates at a “fairy tale castle” in Bavaria.
If the rumours are true and Tamara is being jailed and hauled across the country in leg irons because she had the nerve to pose for a photo with Tom Marrazzo at an event the court specifically allowed her to attend, it is unlikely the cruel and degrading arrest of Ms. Lich over the weekend will result in the revocation of her bail let alone sustaining the additional charge of breach of recognizance.
Posing for a picture at an event attended by Lich with the court’s blessing, with many of your lawyers present, is not a violation of the law or “likely to lead to a violation of the law” even if the person in the photo with you is on Justin Trudeau’s “Really, Really, Really Naughty" list
If the rumours are true and Tamara is being jailed and hauled across the country in leg irons because she had the nerve to pose for a photo with Tom Marrazzo at an event the court specifically allowed her to attend, it is unlikely the cruel and degrading arrest of Ms. Lich over the weekend will result in the revocation of her bail let alone sustaining the additional charge of breach of recognizance.
Posing for a picture at an event attended by Lich with the court’s blessing, with many of your lawyers present, is not a violation of the law or “likely to lead to a violation of the law” even if the person in the photo with you is on Justin Trudeau’s “Really, Really, Really Naughty" list
AIRPORT CHAOS TO CONTINUE
OTTAWA — On the same day a report surfaced suggesting more than half the flights at Canada’s overcrowded major airports are either delayed or cancelled, the government announced that it plans to maintain the current border measures for passengers entering the country until Sept. 30, including the ArriveCAN app that unions claim contributes to a 400 per cent increase in traveler processing times.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
MAXWELL SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS
NEW YORK - Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
The sentence was a victory for a group of women who spent years fighting for justice after an earlier generation of prosecutors failed to pursue the predatory power couple.
Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as young as 14. Prosecutors said he couldn't have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion.
The sentence was a victory for a group of women who spent years fighting for justice after an earlier generation of prosecutors failed to pursue the predatory power couple.
Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as young as 14. Prosecutors said he couldn't have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion.
LUCKI REFERRED TO DIRECT PRESSURE FROM MINISTER BLAIR
A scathing letter from an RCMP communications manager released Tuesday says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki referred to direct pressure from the federal public safety minister to release firearm details in the days after the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
It’s the second such claim by an RCMP official who was on an April 28, 2020, conference call in which Lucki criticized Halifax staff, nine days after the rampage that resulted in 22 deaths.
The letter from Lia Scanlan dated April 14, 2021, claims the RCMP’s leader focused on the Liberal government’s agenda of passing firearms legislation during the hastily arranged meeting.
As the dressing down unfolded, Scanlan said Lucki “informed us of the pressures and conversation with (Public Safety) Minister (Bill) Blair, which we clearly understood was related to the upcoming passing of the gun legislation.”
“I remember a feeling of disgust as I realized this was the catalyst for the conversation and perhaps a justification for what you were saying about us.”
It’s the second such claim by an RCMP official who was on an April 28, 2020, conference call in which Lucki criticized Halifax staff, nine days after the rampage that resulted in 22 deaths.
The letter from Lia Scanlan dated April 14, 2021, claims the RCMP’s leader focused on the Liberal government’s agenda of passing firearms legislation during the hastily arranged meeting.
As the dressing down unfolded, Scanlan said Lucki “informed us of the pressures and conversation with (Public Safety) Minister (Bill) Blair, which we clearly understood was related to the upcoming passing of the gun legislation.”
“I remember a feeling of disgust as I realized this was the catalyst for the conversation and perhaps a justification for what you were saying about us.”
$22BILLION PER YEAR IN UNPAID TAXES TO FEDERAL GOV'T
The federal government is losing an average of $22 billion a year in unpaid taxes, according to a new report from the Canada Revenue Agency that analyzed tax collection from 2014 to 2018.
In its first report on Canada's "overall tax gap" released Tuesday, the CRA estimates the net tax gap for those five years, or the amount of the money owed to the government that it did not actually collect, totalled as much as $111.2 billion.
Although the amount of uncollected tax trended upwards over that time, with estimates ranging up to $23.4 billion in 2018 and $23.5 billion in 2017, the ratio stayed steady each year at nine per cent of federal tax revenue overall.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
LOCKDOWNS HARMS IMPOSSIBLE TO COVERUP
According to a recent study by the World Bank, published in the journal Nature, lockdowns and the response to Covid-19 have pushed an additional 75 million people into extreme poverty, living on less than US $1.90 a day.
In the typical Walter Duranty style that’s become a kind of twisted journalistic norm since March 2020, the World Bank and Nature of course blame this on “the pandemic” rather than lockdowns. I remain baffled as to how seemingly well-meaning people are able to sleep at night repeating such nonsense—are they somehow blind to the role of their own sycophancy in perpetuating these policies?
Nonetheless, there are signs that the political mainstream is starting to realize lockdowns were a disaster. Today, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent piece titled The Revenge of the Locked-Down Voters, noting the growing political backlash against lockdown politicians from voters at the lower end of the income scale.
In the typical Walter Duranty style that’s become a kind of twisted journalistic norm since March 2020, the World Bank and Nature of course blame this on “the pandemic” rather than lockdowns. I remain baffled as to how seemingly well-meaning people are able to sleep at night repeating such nonsense—are they somehow blind to the role of their own sycophancy in perpetuating these policies?
Nonetheless, there are signs that the political mainstream is starting to realize lockdowns were a disaster. Today, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent piece titled The Revenge of the Locked-Down Voters, noting the growing political backlash against lockdown politicians from voters at the lower end of the income scale.
FIRST NET-ZERO LAWSUIT IN QUEBEC
In what is shaping up as the first major legal confrontation over government plans to shut down fossil fuel industries in Canada, Montreal-based Utica Resources this week filed a 114-page suit against the Quebec government demanding $18-billion in compensation.
Utica is one of several companies that invested tens of millions of dollars exploring for gas in the province. The discovery of massive shale gas resources offered industry and the province an opportunity to place Quebec among the top natural gas producers in the world.
That promising future was quashed last year, however, when Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s nationalist government pushed through legislation — Bill 21 — described as an act “to end petroleum exploration and production.” The act, the most brazen net-zero carbon prohibition in the world, was approved by the provincial legislature in April, much to the delight of green activists.
But now the fossil fuel companies who discovered the gas reserves are striking back. Utica is the first to put a dollar value on the compensation it is seeking: $18-billion. Other companies will also be filing suits for billions more, potentially setting the province up for massive cash liabilities as a result of its carbon-neutrality policies.
LAMENT FOR A MISGOVERNED NATION
Joe Oliver: As they prepare to celebrate their country’s 155th birthday, Canadians are suffering at the hands of a divisive, incompetent government that has undermined prosperity, freedom, parliamentary responsibility, the independence of institutions, national unity and our country’s global standing. Unless the unsavoury confidence-and-supply agreement with the NDP unravels or the Liberal caucus rebels against an increasingly autocratic yet disengaged prime minister, we may be condemned to another three years before a despondent electorate can finally say: enough!
The evidence against the government is overwhelming.
The public’s overarching concern is rampaging inflation — at 7.7 per cent year-on- year, the highest in 40 years — which is devastating fixed-income pensioners, entry-level home buyers and lower-income Canadians, and eroding the living standards of the middle class. Yet Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland’s solution is more fiscal stimulus, more debt, more regulation and more taxes, while giving short shrift to productivity, competitiveness, private-sector investment, resource development and longer-term growth. Her April budget projected a $52.8-billion deficit for 2022-23 that falls only to $8.4 billion in 2025-26. To put that in perspective, total program spending was $473 billion last year, $140 billion above the pre-pandemic level.
The evidence against the government is overwhelming.
The public’s overarching concern is rampaging inflation — at 7.7 per cent year-on- year, the highest in 40 years — which is devastating fixed-income pensioners, entry-level home buyers and lower-income Canadians, and eroding the living standards of the middle class. Yet Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland’s solution is more fiscal stimulus, more debt, more regulation and more taxes, while giving short shrift to productivity, competitiveness, private-sector investment, resource development and longer-term growth. Her April budget projected a $52.8-billion deficit for 2022-23 that falls only to $8.4 billion in 2025-26. To put that in perspective, total program spending was $473 billion last year, $140 billion above the pre-pandemic level.
THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT DESERTS TRUDEAU
John Ivison: The leaders of the free world were gathered around a conference table in the Bavarian Alps when one of them decided to make a horse’s ass of himself.
No prizes for guessing it was Boris Johnson who mused whether the G7 leaders should take their clothes off. “We’re all here to show we’re tougher than (Vladimir) Putin,” he told the assembled media.
This is the British prime minister’s modus vivendi. Like a child, he always tries to amuse his audience. His only redeeming feature is that he can be entertaining. “My chances of being prime minister are about as great as the chance of finding Elvis on Mars or my being reincarnated as an olive,” he once said, famously.
But Justin Trudeau is not funny, as his closest advisers have told him time and again.
Instead, Trudeau volunteered that the august gathering should “get the bare-chested horseback riding display going,” mocking Putin’s fondness for shirtless pictures.
No prizes for guessing it was Boris Johnson who mused whether the G7 leaders should take their clothes off. “We’re all here to show we’re tougher than (Vladimir) Putin,” he told the assembled media.
This is the British prime minister’s modus vivendi. Like a child, he always tries to amuse his audience. His only redeeming feature is that he can be entertaining. “My chances of being prime minister are about as great as the chance of finding Elvis on Mars or my being reincarnated as an olive,” he once said, famously.
But Justin Trudeau is not funny, as his closest advisers have told him time and again.
Instead, Trudeau volunteered that the august gathering should “get the bare-chested horseback riding display going,” mocking Putin’s fondness for shirtless pictures.
MINIMAL CONSULTATION & HURRIED PASSAGE OF BILL
A bill designed to create a standard of criminal negligence around willful extreme intoxication has passed Parliament with little debate or scrutiny from either the House of Commons or the Senate, as each rushed to pass it before the summer recess.
Kerri Froc, a law professor at the University of New Brunswick and chair of the National Association of Women and the Law's National Steering Committee, is disappointed that the federal government engaged in minimal consultation on the bill.
"There's a certain irony to the government indicating that the extreme intoxication defence is very rare, but Parliament can spare no time to properly consult women's organizations, listen to their concerns, and ensure that the bill is a workable solution and Charter compliant," Froc says. "The amended 33.1 will likely not be effective, and will be mere window dressing rather than actually holding men accountable for their intoxicated violence against women."
Monday, June 27, 2022
FEDERAL WEATHER APP COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION
Another application launched by the Trudeau government tracked the location of nearly one million Canadians.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Environment admitted in a recent Inquiry of Ministry that the WeatherCAN application collected personal information of Canadians – including locations and email addresses of users.
Collected information was stored by the Department of Environment for the “purpose of identifying the mobile device geo-location.”
Other data collected included the model of phone, app version, email address and any other information inputted into the program.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Environment admitted in a recent Inquiry of Ministry that the WeatherCAN application collected personal information of Canadians – including locations and email addresses of users.
Collected information was stored by the Department of Environment for the “purpose of identifying the mobile device geo-location.”
Other data collected included the model of phone, app version, email address and any other information inputted into the program.
LEGACY MEDIA RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR TRUDEAU
In any other country, it would take a government down. In Canada, it isn’t even making the top headlines with legacy media outlets.
There is some pretty solid evidence the prime minister’s office may have directly pressured RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to interfere with an active investigation into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history to score political points.
Some columnists have taken up the cause and are writing on the scandal.
Many others are trying to direct rage towards the faux-scandal of Conservative MPs who offered parliamentary tours to some activists.
There is some pretty solid evidence the prime minister’s office may have directly pressured RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to interfere with an active investigation into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history to score political points.
Some columnists have taken up the cause and are writing on the scandal.
Many others are trying to direct rage towards the faux-scandal of Conservative MPs who offered parliamentary tours to some activists.
TRUDEAU LIBERALS FAILING IN THE BASICS
Anthony Furey: Ask yourself this: What does the federal government actually do? What are its key duties? And when are the times you or your family have actually engaged with a federal government service?
That last question is an interesting one, because we don’t interact with the feds all that much on a daily basis. The bulk of the government services on which Canadians rely comes to them from the municipal and provincial level.
But the federal services that we do rely on, the ones that Trudeau and his cabinet are responsible for managing, are now failing in real time for all to see.
That last question is an interesting one, because we don’t interact with the feds all that much on a daily basis. The bulk of the government services on which Canadians rely comes to them from the municipal and provincial level.
But the federal services that we do rely on, the ones that Trudeau and his cabinet are responsible for managing, are now failing in real time for all to see.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
SCANDALS WITHIN SCANDALS AT NS MASS SHOOTING INQUIRY
Chris Selley: When it comes to police and public institutions in Canada — and especially at the nexus of the two — secrecy is assumed. Transparency is so rare as to be almost disquieting. And as usual, my cynicism was vindicated: The Mass Casualty Commission revealed on Thursday that the original package of Campbell’s handwritten notes it received was 132 pages long, not 136. You’ll never guess which four pages were missing.
It’s worth taking a look at those notes, which the commission has published online, and imagining the proverbial light bulb turning on over someone’s head: The way the pages break, it was remarkably easy simply to carve out those four pages and hope no one would notice — which it seems nobody did until the 136-page version later landed, inexplicably, in the commission’s mailbox.
On Friday, the commission quite rightly demanded an explanation from the Justice Department and the RCMP. But the explanation seems pretty obvious, no? Far more interesting is what led to the release of the other four pages. Did someone have a momentary unauthorized attack of conscience, and if so, can they blink twice to say they’re OK? Has some rogue patriot infiltrated the police-political nexus? Is it just garden-variety backstabbing, with Lucki’s being the back du jour?
It’s worth taking a look at those notes, which the commission has published online, and imagining the proverbial light bulb turning on over someone’s head: The way the pages break, it was remarkably easy simply to carve out those four pages and hope no one would notice — which it seems nobody did until the 136-page version later landed, inexplicably, in the commission’s mailbox.
On Friday, the commission quite rightly demanded an explanation from the Justice Department and the RCMP. But the explanation seems pretty obvious, no? Far more interesting is what led to the release of the other four pages. Did someone have a momentary unauthorized attack of conscience, and if so, can they blink twice to say they’re OK? Has some rogue patriot infiltrated the police-political nexus? Is it just garden-variety backstabbing, with Lucki’s being the back du jour?
"VIVE LA DIFFERENCE " A THING OF THE PAST
France, the land of romance and the birthplace of the phrase “vive la différence,” which celebrates as something wonderful the differences between men and women, the so-called transgender activists are making headway, just as they are in the rest of the West. The latest institution to collapse is the Miss France pageant which was forced to admit Andrea Furet, a man, into the competition.
Laure Mattioli, who’s the president of the Miss Île De France committee, assured the world that there really was no difference in having a man compete in a traditionally female sphere: “For us, Andrea is a candidate like the others. This new rule does not change the treatment of candidates. She is female on her marital status. That’s all that matters. I do not enter the privacy of girls.”
Laure Mattioli, who’s the president of the Miss Île De France committee, assured the world that there really was no difference in having a man compete in a traditionally female sphere: “For us, Andrea is a candidate like the others. This new rule does not change the treatment of candidates. She is female on her marital status. That’s all that matters. I do not enter the privacy of girls.”
TAXPAYERS BILLED $3.1M FOR STUDY ON HOW TO PLANT TREES
The Trudeau government billed taxpayers $3.1 million in federal salaries to plan Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commitment to plant two billion trees by 2030.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons shows that no trees were planted despite the hefty consultation fees.
Trudeau made the pledge to plant two billion trees in his 2019 election platform but nearly two years later, only 0.4% of the target goal or 8.5 million trees have been planted.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons shows that no trees were planted despite the hefty consultation fees.
Trudeau made the pledge to plant two billion trees in his 2019 election platform but nearly two years later, only 0.4% of the target goal or 8.5 million trees have been planted.
The Liberals earmarked a whopping $3.16 billion over ten years to get the job done.
WHY CANADIANS DO NOT TRUST THE LEGACY MEDIA
It’s Fake News Friday on the Candice Malcolm Show!
This week, Candice and Harrison Faulkner discuss why Canadians no longer have trust in our national institutions and why the blame should be put on the institutions and the legacy media – despite their best attempts to convince you otherwise. The legacy media and other government institutions have failed to hold government to account and failed to serve the interests of Canadians.
Also on the show this week, some MPs are too afraid to walk outside because of mean tweets – so much so that they are now requesting “panic buttons” to be able to alert local authorities to come to their aid if they feel they are in danger. Why didn’t MPs need “panic buttons” after a terrorist stormed parliament? Why have our politicians become so meek and mild?
This week, Candice and Harrison Faulkner discuss why Canadians no longer have trust in our national institutions and why the blame should be put on the institutions and the legacy media – despite their best attempts to convince you otherwise. The legacy media and other government institutions have failed to hold government to account and failed to serve the interests of Canadians.
Also on the show this week, some MPs are too afraid to walk outside because of mean tweets – so much so that they are now requesting “panic buttons” to be able to alert local authorities to come to their aid if they feel they are in danger. Why didn’t MPs need “panic buttons” after a terrorist stormed parliament? Why have our politicians become so meek and mild?
Saturday, June 25, 2022
DAMNING REPORT ON GOV'T COVID MANDATES
In this podcast episode Constitutional Lawyer and Frontier Senior Fellow Leighton Grey and Kenneth Drysdale have a conversation about his experience as an engineer and inventor in the arctic, how curiosity drove him to compile a damming report on the government’s actions related to the COVID pandemic, and what the public can do to better understand the situation we’re now facing post pandemic.
Ken & Leighton take a deep dive into the misrepresentation of the early data released by Statistics Canada, how he came to find himself deep in the thick of the cancel culture phenomenon form simply sharing the damning report, and how he hopes the general public will use the report to hold the government accountable in the coming years.
THE TRUE COST OF THE GREEN CRUSADE APPEARING
Rex Murphy: What and who gave Vladimir Putin the power he has today?
Since 2015 our sweet, misgoverned country has put (and how vacant this phrase is, almost as vacant as the objective it sets) “reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions” as its policy holy of holies.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his former adviser Gerald Butts, former environment minister and climate-warrior Catherine McKenna, and her even more fervid replacement, Steven Guilbeault (“you may remember me from such roles as The Greenpeace Spider-Man”) — these four made that goal more than just policy: it is now far more dogma and doctrine, a conviction of such intensity that it is genuinely parallel to the deep convictions of seriously religious people.
AN ERROR OR A COVER-UP BY JUSTICE CANADA?
Justice Canada says it should have consulted the inquiry looking into Canada’s worst mass shooting in history instead of withholding critical information from them for nearly four months.
This admission of fault came on Friday after the Mass Casualty Commission confirmed that it did not receive the entirety of RCMP superintendent Darren Campbell’s handwritten notes, including the pages that describe allegations of political interference in order to advance the Liberals’ gun-control agenda.
The federal Conservatives are now requesting that Justice Minister David Lametti appear to testify in front of members of the Public Safety committee during the summer to explain why these four pages were held back for months by his department.
“I don’t see how this isn’t some sort of cover-up. It is too coincidental that those very political pages were withheld,” said the party’s Public Safety critic Raquel Dancho in an interview.
This admission of fault came on Friday after the Mass Casualty Commission confirmed that it did not receive the entirety of RCMP superintendent Darren Campbell’s handwritten notes, including the pages that describe allegations of political interference in order to advance the Liberals’ gun-control agenda.
The federal Conservatives are now requesting that Justice Minister David Lametti appear to testify in front of members of the Public Safety committee during the summer to explain why these four pages were held back for months by his department.
“I don’t see how this isn’t some sort of cover-up. It is too coincidental that those very political pages were withheld,” said the party’s Public Safety critic Raquel Dancho in an interview.
COMPILED DATA ON COVID JAB INJURIES
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA:
I recently posted a deeply referenced compilation of evidence detailing the historic humanitarian catastrophe that has slowly unfolded within most advanced health economies across the world. Caused by a global mass vaccination campaign led by the Pharma masters of BMGF/WHO/CDC that illogically (but profitably) targeted a rapidly mutating coronavirus. They did it with what turned out to be the most toxic protein used therapeutically in the history of medicine. In vials mixed with lipid nano-particles, polyethylene glycol and who knows what else.
I cited studies and reports showing massive increases in cardiovascular deaths and neurologic (and other) disabilities amongst working age adults, beginning in 2021 only. A disturbing signal screaming from the original clinical trials data , VAERS data, life insurance data, disability data, reports of cardiac arrests of professional athletes, rises in ambulance calls for cardiac arrests in pre-heart attack age young people, and the massive increases in illnesses and data manipulations in Department of Defense databases.
I recently posted a deeply referenced compilation of evidence detailing the historic humanitarian catastrophe that has slowly unfolded within most advanced health economies across the world. Caused by a global mass vaccination campaign led by the Pharma masters of BMGF/WHO/CDC that illogically (but profitably) targeted a rapidly mutating coronavirus. They did it with what turned out to be the most toxic protein used therapeutically in the history of medicine. In vials mixed with lipid nano-particles, polyethylene glycol and who knows what else.
I cited studies and reports showing massive increases in cardiovascular deaths and neurologic (and other) disabilities amongst working age adults, beginning in 2021 only. A disturbing signal screaming from the original clinical trials data , VAERS data, life insurance data, disability data, reports of cardiac arrests of professional athletes, rises in ambulance calls for cardiac arrests in pre-heart attack age young people, and the massive increases in illnesses and data manipulations in Department of Defense databases.
Friday, June 24, 2022
A PAY RAISE FOR DR. TAM
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, who was thrust into the spotlight when COVID hit, and who has faced criticism for her response to the pandemic, has been reappointed to another three-year term that also comes with a pay raise.
According to an order-in-council as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, Tam’s maximum pay has increased to $324,000 a year, up from $265,000 for her previous salary.
The revised remuneration brings Tam in line with other chief medical officers of heath in Canada, “with arguably less complex portfolios than she has,” said Josh Greenberg, a Carleton University professor who studies crisis communication.
A LIST OF MPs WHO ACTUALLY LISTENED TO CONVOY TRUCKERS' MESSAGE
Four months after the last truck left downtown Ottawa, top Freedom Convoy figures returned to Parliament Hill and met with nearly 20 per cent of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus, according to video reviewed by CTV News.
On Wednesday, 23 Conservative members attended meetings with convoy spokesperson Tom Marazzo, convoy director of security Daniel Bulford, advisor to former U.S. president Donald Trump Paul Alexander, and Canadian soldier James Topp, who is currently on a march across Canada protesting vaccine mandates.
On Wednesday, 23 Conservative members attended meetings with convoy spokesperson Tom Marazzo, convoy director of security Daniel Bulford, advisor to former U.S. president Donald Trump Paul Alexander, and Canadian soldier James Topp, who is currently on a march across Canada protesting vaccine mandates.
The organizers held two presentations Wednesday afternoon in a building located in the parliamentary precinct. Alexander said in his presentation that Conservative MP Dean Allison helped the group gain access to the Valour Building. Groups planning to hold presentations on Parliament Hill require a parliamentarian to sponsor them in order to be given permission to access buildings on Parliament Hill and book a room.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
COALITION MAKING AN INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT INEPT
Much has been written in recent days about the prospect the Liberals are heading for defeat at the next election.
The oracle of Delphi couldn’t come to any firm conclusion on a vote that might be three years away, possibly between politicians not currently leading their parties.
But the Trudeau government’s performance in recent months has been as listless as it has been inept. When things are going well, governments find their mistakes are often glossed over. Conversely, when they are in trouble, they are magnified. Right now, lack of preparation is meeting reality.
INFLATION SPIKES TO HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 1983
While the overall inflation rate is 7.7%, food inflation is still higher. According to Statistics Canada, the overall cost of groceries is up 9.7% compared to one year ago, but the cost of specific items is even higher.
Cooking oils rose 30%, the highest on record. Fresh vegetables were up 10.3% in May after an 8.2% increase in April. Fresh and frozen fish saw price increases of 11.7%, and meat only increased by 9% compared to the 10.1% increase the month earlier.
Once again, gas is even higher with Canadians paying a national average of $2.03 per litre compared to $1.33 a year ago.
LIBERALS' HISTORY OF INTERFERING IN CRIMINAL MATTERS
A report from a public inquiry shows that the Trudeau government interfered in a criminal investigation. The government denies they did this, but Trudeau has lied about interfering in a criminal investigation in the past and likely is now.
In 2019, Trudeau responded to a story that he had tried to interfere with the ongoing criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin by saying that “the allegations in the Globe story are false.” Trudeau repeated that lie multiple times that February day and many times after, but the truth eventually came out.
That’s the important thing to remember when you hear the denials from the Trudeau government on their political interference in the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting. They are denying they did anything political — that they pressured the RCMP to release information on the guns used to further their gun control legislation.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
CANCELLED TEACHER LAUNCHES SECOND LAWSUIT
Carolyn Burjoski has asked the Superior Court to undertake a judicial review of the WRDSB’s decision to end her presentation prematurely and expel her from a January 17, 2022 board meeting amid allegations that what she said was contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Her most recent claim says the board and board chairman Scott Piatkowski failed to provide sufficient reasons why her presentation may have violated the Human Rights Code and why she was removed from the meeting.
On Jan. 17 of this year, Burjoski was a mere four minutes into her deputation to the board questioning the age-appropriateness of a series of highly sexualized books contained in elementary school libraries and K-6 classrooms when Piatkowski shut her down and expelled her from the meeting.
Her most recent claim says the board and board chairman Scott Piatkowski failed to provide sufficient reasons why her presentation may have violated the Human Rights Code and why she was removed from the meeting.
On Jan. 17 of this year, Burjoski was a mere four minutes into her deputation to the board questioning the age-appropriateness of a series of highly sexualized books contained in elementary school libraries and K-6 classrooms when Piatkowski shut her down and expelled her from the meeting.
RENEGADE PASTOR NOT ALLOWED IN MARCH FOR JESUS
Pastor Artur Pawlowski says police warned him about attending the annual March for Jesus.
The renegade pastor told a crowd in Calgary on Saturday that he was informed by a detective from the Calgary Police service that his participation in the Christian march could potentially constitute a breach of his current release conditions.
Artur is currently released on conditions for contempt of a court order that allowed Alberta Health inspectors and police to enter his Street Church to check for COVID-19 compliance. He is also on bail after serving over 50 days in jail after he became the first person charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, a law meant to prosecute pipeline saboteurs and eco-radicals, for giving a sermon to truckers who were blocking the border with Montana at Coutts, AB.
The renegade pastor told a crowd in Calgary on Saturday that he was informed by a detective from the Calgary Police service that his participation in the Christian march could potentially constitute a breach of his current release conditions.
Artur is currently released on conditions for contempt of a court order that allowed Alberta Health inspectors and police to enter his Street Church to check for COVID-19 compliance. He is also on bail after serving over 50 days in jail after he became the first person charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, a law meant to prosecute pipeline saboteurs and eco-radicals, for giving a sermon to truckers who were blocking the border with Montana at Coutts, AB.
STILL WAITING FOR $875M IN MENTAL HEALTH SPENDING
It was a marquee promise of the Trudeau Liberals’ last election platform: $4.5 billion over five years for a new mental health transfer to the provinces and territories.
While on the hustings in August 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this brand new transfer was needed “because mental health should be a priority.”
But despite the sense of urgency in Trudeau’s remarks last year, no money has yet materialized for this new Canada mental health transfer, including an initial $875 million that was supposed to have been spent or budgeted by now, according to the Liberal party’s 2021 election platform.
Pandemic lockdowns and anxieties have only exacerbated a system already in crisis, Kennell said. For example, CMHA centres across the country have been seeing an increase in parents seeking help for their children and teens who have been out of school for prolonged durations now experiencing eating disorders, increased anxiety and social disconnection, she said.
While on the hustings in August 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this brand new transfer was needed “because mental health should be a priority.”
But despite the sense of urgency in Trudeau’s remarks last year, no money has yet materialized for this new Canada mental health transfer, including an initial $875 million that was supposed to have been spent or budgeted by now, according to the Liberal party’s 2021 election platform.
Pandemic lockdowns and anxieties have only exacerbated a system already in crisis, Kennell said. For example, CMHA centres across the country have been seeing an increase in parents seeking help for their children and teens who have been out of school for prolonged durations now experiencing eating disorders, increased anxiety and social disconnection, she said.
LIBERALS REFUSE GAS TAX BREAK
The federal government has no immediate plans to cut prices at the pump by offering Canadians a temporary reprieve from the federal gas tax, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.
Conservatives have called on the Liberals for months to cut gas taxes, including lifting the GST from gasoline, temporarily suspending the carbon price, or lifting the 10 cents per litre federal excise tax.
At the moment, Wilkinson said gas tax changes are not in the cards.
THE PRIORITIES OF RCMP COMMISSIONER LUCKI
The head of the RCMP is denying a claim by a fellow Mountie that she tried to direct the information investigators released as part of their probe into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
That allegation was contained in handwritten notes from Nova Scotia RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell which were released Tuesday as part of the Mass Casualty Commission probe.
The commission is investigating the April 18-19, 2020, rampage that claimed the lives of 22 people — including a pregnant woman — and left several people injured and several homes destroyed. The commission released a report Tuesday on the way the RCMP and government communicated with the public about the incident.
In those notes, Campbell wrote that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was upset that the RCMP in Nova Scotia was not revealing more information about the weapons used because she had promised the federal government — which was considering gun control legislation at the time — that they would raise it.
That allegation was contained in handwritten notes from Nova Scotia RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell which were released Tuesday as part of the Mass Casualty Commission probe.
The commission is investigating the April 18-19, 2020, rampage that claimed the lives of 22 people — including a pregnant woman — and left several people injured and several homes destroyed. The commission released a report Tuesday on the way the RCMP and government communicated with the public about the incident.
In those notes, Campbell wrote that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was upset that the RCMP in Nova Scotia was not revealing more information about the weapons used because she had promised the federal government — which was considering gun control legislation at the time — that they would raise it.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
MOUNTIE CRITICAL OF MASS SHOOTING RESPONSE
Dorrington, who spent 17 years in the army before joining the RCMP in 2015, was stationed in Colchester County and was one of the officers who responded to the mass shooting overnight on April 18 and into April 19. That weekend he was on call after working a day shift.
During Monday's testimony, he was critical of one of his RCMP supervisor's role in the response and said he didn't agree with the decision to only send one team into the section of Portapique where people were killed. He also felt he should have been deployed to chase down the gunman the following morning.
During Monday's testimony, he was critical of one of his RCMP supervisor's role in the response and said he didn't agree with the decision to only send one team into the section of Portapique where people were killed. He also felt he should have been deployed to chase down the gunman the following morning.
CRA INVESTIGATION OF KPMG BURIED IN SECRECY
A criminal investigation by the Canada Revenue Agency of KPMG's use of an offshore tax haven ended more than a year ago without any public announcements, sources have told Radio-Canada.
The status of the case is uncertain. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) declined to comment on the file, as did federal prosecutors with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, which has been following the file closely over the years.
In 2017, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier promised to get to the bottom of the matter and to eventually make the findings of the investigation public.
The status of the case is uncertain. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) declined to comment on the file, as did federal prosecutors with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, which has been following the file closely over the years.
In 2017, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier promised to get to the bottom of the matter and to eventually make the findings of the investigation public.
VIDEOS OF SHOOTING OF NS MASS KILLER RELEASED
Five security camera videos showing RCMP officers shooting and killing Gabriel Wortman at the Enfield Big Stop on the morning of April 19, 2020 have been released to the public, the mass casualty commission announced Monday.
The commission is the independent public inquiry examining the April 2020 mass shootings in Nova Scotia that killed 22 people.
The videos offer five viewpoints of the altercation after two Mounties stopped and recognized Wortman at the gas station at about 11:24 a.m. that morning.
The commission is the independent public inquiry examining the April 2020 mass shootings in Nova Scotia that killed 22 people.
The videos offer five viewpoints of the altercation after two Mounties stopped and recognized Wortman at the gas station at about 11:24 a.m. that morning.
REFUSING TO ADMIT OUT-OF-CONTROL GOVERNMENT SPENDING
The only people now denying that the Trudeau government’s out-of-control spending isn’t part of Canada’s inflation problem are either in the government or among their die-hard supporters.
A report from Scotiabank says if the government doesn’t cut spending, interest rates, and therefore mortgage rates, will need to keep going up.
“I think we’ve done that already,” Freeland said Monday when asked about the report.
TRUDEAU LIBERALS ARE A SHIP RUN AGROUND
Imagery may not be everything in politics, but it’s an awful lot, especially for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s optics-obsessed government. And the image that comes to mind of the Trudeau government is that of the Ever Given, the giant container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal and was stuck there for days.
It couldn’t go forward or backward. It couldn’t dislodge itself from the sand. Try as they might, tug boats couldn’t get it to move. The best they could do was push it to one side so it would stop blocking other ships with better navigators. It blamed the situation on conditions beyond its control (i.e., the weather.) The costs of its immobility were enormous.
If the Liberals aren’t stuck in sand, they must be stuck in something else. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra are in a heated competition for the “hapless minister of the year” award. Over several days and several attempts, Mendicino couldn’t manage to give a coherent explanation for invoking the Emergencies Act to stop truckers from blowing horns and splashing in hot tubs in the vicinity of Parliament.
It couldn’t go forward or backward. It couldn’t dislodge itself from the sand. Try as they might, tug boats couldn’t get it to move. The best they could do was push it to one side so it would stop blocking other ships with better navigators. It blamed the situation on conditions beyond its control (i.e., the weather.) The costs of its immobility were enormous.
If the Liberals aren’t stuck in sand, they must be stuck in something else. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra are in a heated competition for the “hapless minister of the year” award. Over several days and several attempts, Mendicino couldn’t manage to give a coherent explanation for invoking the Emergencies Act to stop truckers from blowing horns and splashing in hot tubs in the vicinity of Parliament.
Monday, June 20, 2022
CANADA'S HOUSE PRICING CORRECTION HAS STARTED
The long-expected correction in Canada’s housing market is underway, but what is surprising observers is how quickly it’s happening.
Data from the Canadian Real Estate Association yesterday showed that seasonally adjusted existing home sales fell 8.6% in May from the month before, down 21.7% from a year ago.
For the first time since the pandemic rally began home resales on a national level dropped below levels recorded in February 2020, said RBC assistant chief economist Robert Hogue.
HYPOCRITE: A GREEN FORMULA ONE DRIVER
German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel – who races in an Aston Martin and is sponsored by a large Saudi oil producer – has been accused of climate hypocrisy after publicly opposing Alberta’s oilsands at the Montreal Grand Prix.
Vettel appeared at the Canadian Grand Prix wearing a t-shirt that read “Stop Mining Tar Sands. Canada’s Climate Crime.”
Vettel appeared at the Canadian Grand Prix wearing a t-shirt that read “Stop Mining Tar Sands. Canada’s Climate Crime.”
MACRON LOSES ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.
Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition, which wants to raise the retirement age and further deepen EU integration, was on course to end up with the most seats in Sunday’s election.
But they will be well short of the absolute majority needed to control parliament, near-final results showed.
EUROPE GETS WHAT IT DESERVES: VON DER LEYEN
Ursula von der Leyen won by eight votes. That was her margin of victory.
Angela Merkel wanted one of her own and her supposed heir apparent before she was dumped. So, Europe is now led by an inept, corrupt stooge who pretends to be a head of state. This, she decidedly is not.
The centrist Liberals, led by Emmanuel Macron’s own forces, also voted in lockstep, as expected. Poland’s government actually pushed the unappreciated candidate, who is scandal-ridden, over the finish line. She even plagiarized her doctoral thesis and got away with it! Not to mention her family pedigree: high-ranking Nazis.
Angela Merkel wanted one of her own and her supposed heir apparent before she was dumped. So, Europe is now led by an inept, corrupt stooge who pretends to be a head of state. This, she decidedly is not.
The centrist Liberals, led by Emmanuel Macron’s own forces, also voted in lockstep, as expected. Poland’s government actually pushed the unappreciated candidate, who is scandal-ridden, over the finish line. She even plagiarized her doctoral thesis and got away with it! Not to mention her family pedigree: high-ranking Nazis.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
LIBERALS' FRACTIONAL HOLD ON THE TRUTH
It’s too serious to be funny, but the committee set up to investigate why the Emergencies Act was used has acquired more than a touch of farce.
The options laid before the special parliamentary committee are twofold: Mendacious Marco or Misunderstood Minister Mendicino?
Either the minister of public safety lied — repeatedly, robustly, resolutely — to Parliament, to Canadians, to his barber, butcher, baker and candlestick maker, or he was singularly, spectacularly, stunningly unable to make himself understood. Neither option — mendacity or a massive incapacity to communicate — is a desideratum for a minister of the Crown.
The options laid before the special parliamentary committee are twofold: Mendacious Marco or Misunderstood Minister Mendicino?
Either the minister of public safety lied — repeatedly, robustly, resolutely — to Parliament, to Canadians, to his barber, butcher, baker and candlestick maker, or he was singularly, spectacularly, stunningly unable to make himself understood. Neither option — mendacity or a massive incapacity to communicate — is a desideratum for a minister of the Crown.
PUTIN'S IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
On June 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his imperial ambitions clear. During an event celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Russia’s Peter the Great, Putin compared himself to the late czar and suggested that the recent invasion of Ukraine was about “taking back” land — a statement that contradicts his previous assertions that Russia is simply executing a “special military operation” to “denazify,” but not conquer, Ukraine.
These kinds of statements are a sign of Putin’s increasing isolation on the world stage and should disillusion anyone who believes he will be satisfied with concessions and appeasement.
Putin’s politics are rooted in the past, in fighting ghosts and reclaiming lost glory. Last summer, he published a sprawling essay arguing that Ukraine had been unjustly stolen from Russia. Similarly, he has used ostentatious parades to stoke the memory of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
These kinds of statements are a sign of Putin’s increasing isolation on the world stage and should disillusion anyone who believes he will be satisfied with concessions and appeasement.
Putin’s politics are rooted in the past, in fighting ghosts and reclaiming lost glory. Last summer, he published a sprawling essay arguing that Ukraine had been unjustly stolen from Russia. Similarly, he has used ostentatious parades to stoke the memory of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
FAKE NEWS FRIDAY
It’s Fake News Friday on The Candice Malcolm Show! Guest host Andrew Lawton and True North producer Harrison Faulkner discuss this week’s most egregious examples of fake news in the legacy media.
By now, most Canadians know the Trudeau government relied on the CBC’s misleading reports to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to quash the Freedom Convoy. This week, during the committee on the Emergencies Act, Conservative MP Larry Brock grilled Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for relying on the CBC’s fake news but Freeland repeatedly refused to answer questions. This exchange went viral, but instead of apologizing for misleading Canadians – the CBC published an editorial and stood by its faulty journalism.
Plus, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez repeats the Trudeau government’s mantra – “Everyone who disagrees with me is pushing misinformation!” As the government rushes its online censorship bill through committee without debate, Rodriguez claims Conservatives are pushing misinformation about Bill C-11 – despite the fact that the CRTC confirmed the online censorship bill gives the government the power to regulate user-generated content.
By now, most Canadians know the Trudeau government relied on the CBC’s misleading reports to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to quash the Freedom Convoy. This week, during the committee on the Emergencies Act, Conservative MP Larry Brock grilled Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for relying on the CBC’s fake news but Freeland repeatedly refused to answer questions. This exchange went viral, but instead of apologizing for misleading Canadians – the CBC published an editorial and stood by its faulty journalism.
Plus, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez repeats the Trudeau government’s mantra – “Everyone who disagrees with me is pushing misinformation!” As the government rushes its online censorship bill through committee without debate, Rodriguez claims Conservatives are pushing misinformation about Bill C-11 – despite the fact that the CRTC confirmed the online censorship bill gives the government the power to regulate user-generated content.
NO EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CRISIS
Dr. Benny Peiser, Director of the U.K. based Global Warming Policy Foundation, responded:
“It’s extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis. Year after year our annual assessment of climate trends document just how little has been changing over the last 30 years. The habitual climate alarmism is mainly driven by scientists’ computer modelling, rather than observational evidence.”
In reality a Carbon Tax, a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, has never been justified either scientifically or economically. Climate Sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 is very small, so there is no real fossil-fuel-caused climate crisis. For decades, alarmists have ignored that reality, squandering trillions of dollars and millions of lives with their false climate crisis. In fact, the only measurable impact of more CO2 is hugely beneficial – improved crop yields to feed the world.
“It’s extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis. Year after year our annual assessment of climate trends document just how little has been changing over the last 30 years. The habitual climate alarmism is mainly driven by scientists’ computer modelling, rather than observational evidence.”
In reality a Carbon Tax, a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, has never been justified either scientifically or economically. Climate Sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 is very small, so there is no real fossil-fuel-caused climate crisis. For decades, alarmists have ignored that reality, squandering trillions of dollars and millions of lives with their false climate crisis. In fact, the only measurable impact of more CO2 is hugely beneficial – improved crop yields to feed the world.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
WE NEED CHEAP OIL TO TAME INFLATION
Rising interest rates will increase borrowing costs and slow the economy. But they won't address one of the biggest drivers of inflation: fossil fuel costs.
Inflation numbers in Canada released last month laid the facts out for all to see. Overall, the consumer price index was up by 6.8 per cent from the year before; 1.8 percentage points of this was due to energy overall, while 1.3 percentage points of it was due to gasoline alone.
Economists often say the cure for high prices is high prices. Sure, oil companies are making record profits with the cost per barrel hovering around $110 US. But they know they could produce more oil and make even more money — and that supply could bring prices down.
LIBERALS DETERMINED TO MONITOR & CONTROL THE ONLINE NARRATIVE
The federal Liberal government plans to shift gears on its controversial proposal to regulate “online harms” to an approach that puts the onus on digital platforms to deal with potentially harmful content. The move comes after critics warned the original plan would amount to censorship, and new documents released from a government-appointed advisory group show it supported a change in approach.
However, most “if not all” members of the advisory group appointed by Heritage Canada have suggested that the categories of harms targeted should be broadened to include, among other things, “misleading political communications,” “propaganda,” and online content that promotes an “unrealistic body image.” The government has not yet indicated whether it will accept all of the group’s recommendations.
A series of worksheets recently posted online by Heritage Canada signal that the government is moving away from it original plan for a “regime based on rigid moderating obligations,” in which Ottawa would have ordered platforms to remove content it deemed harmful within 24 hours or face penalties.
FN NATIONAL CHIEF SUSPENDED
The Assembly of First Nations says it has voted to suspend National Chief RoseAnne Archibald.
In a statement Thursday, Archibald said she was being "undermined, discredited and attacked" for trying to clean up corruption in the AFN.
In her statement, Archibald called for a forensic audit and independent inquiry into the conduct of the AFN over the last eight years.
But in a release Friday, she said she will not back down in her attempt to shine a light on what she calls "corruption and collusion within the AFN."
WHILE OTTAWA SLEEPS, CANADA LAUNDERS MONEY
The way most people look forward to summer blockbusters, Canada’s financial crime nerds have eagerly awaited the Cullen Commission’s final report. Three years in the making, the 1,832-page document provides an in-depth look at British Columbia’s massive money laundering problem and what can be done to fix it.
While the public inquiry focused on B.C. –– a province where criminals were all but free to habitually wash hockey bags full of dirty cash through their casinos and McMansions for unemployed students –– its findings and recommendations are relevant across the country. Money laundering is so prevalent in the Great White North, it’s internationally known as “snow washing.”
The Cullen report confirms an astronomical amount of illicit money travels through B.C. alone. In one case, a single money services business laundered more than $220 million per year. “While it is not possible to put a precise figure on the volume of illicit funds… the available evidence shows that the figure is very large (with estimates in the billions of dollars).
While the public inquiry focused on B.C. –– a province where criminals were all but free to habitually wash hockey bags full of dirty cash through their casinos and McMansions for unemployed students –– its findings and recommendations are relevant across the country. Money laundering is so prevalent in the Great White North, it’s internationally known as “snow washing.”
The Cullen report confirms an astronomical amount of illicit money travels through B.C. alone. In one case, a single money services business laundered more than $220 million per year. “While it is not possible to put a precise figure on the volume of illicit funds… the available evidence shows that the figure is very large (with estimates in the billions of dollars).
Friday, June 17, 2022
FREELAND'S MAGICAL SPENDING WILL NOT MAKE INFLATION DISAPPEAR
The finance minister said that, while inflation is a global problem from which no country can insulate itself, the Liberal government will help Canadians weather this newest storm.
She affirmed the government’s commitment to fiscal restraint, saying that the ability to spend is not infinite and the Liberals are withdrawing fiscal stimulus. She said the restraint in April’s budget was intentional: “At a time when inflation was elevated, we knew we needed to be careful not to increase aggregate demand.”
Yet, with the sleight of hand of a skilled magician pulling a white rabbit from a top hat, she announced an $8.9 billion “affordability plan” that, if it does nothing else, will increase aggregate demand. A government that says it doesn’t want to work at cross-purposes to the Bank of Canada is now doing exactly that.
CANADA'S MASSIVE SUPPLY OF UNUSED VENTILATORS
In the spring of 2020, Canada rushed to shore up supplies of medical and personal protective equipment as Covid-19 case numbers climbed. Dire headlines out of Italy and New York warned of an acute shortage of ventilators for those who were critically ill. A global surge in demand meant Canada could no longer rely on international supply chains.
In response to the crisis, the federal government quickly ordered just over 40,000 ventilators at a cost of C$1.1 billion, the vast majority from Canadian manufacturers that started building the life-saving machines from scratch.
At the time, it was billed as a success story for Canadian ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. By May 2021, more than 27,000 ventilators had been delivered. But the worst-case pandemic scenarios never came to pass, and most of the machines were never needed.
In response to the crisis, the federal government quickly ordered just over 40,000 ventilators at a cost of C$1.1 billion, the vast majority from Canadian manufacturers that started building the life-saving machines from scratch.
At the time, it was billed as a success story for Canadian ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. By May 2021, more than 27,000 ventilators had been delivered. But the worst-case pandemic scenarios never came to pass, and most of the machines were never needed.
MORE SMOKE FROM THE RCMP
The RCMP is updating its statement of "core values" for the first time in a quarter century by adding references to "reconciliation," "diversity," "honour" and "empathy."
But Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, calls the document update a "waste of time."
"There are much more serious issues within the RCMP organization than changing its statement of values," he said.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
HUNTER FIGHTS GUN SEIZURE AND WINS
Stephen Clouthier, a lifelong hunter from the Ottawa Valley, has always been a private man, but when the Ontario Provincial Police seized his firearms, he took a stand in public court, where he represented himself and won his long arms back.
In a recent decision, Ontario Court Justice J.R. Richardson ordered the police to return all of his firearms. The judge noted that Clouthier, 68, at no time behaved dangerously, recklessly, carelessly or irresponsibly with his firearms.
FREELAND'S WEASEL WORDS JUSTIFYING EMERGENCIES ACT
Conservative MP Larry Brock grilled Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday for relying on a fake CBC story that claimed a majority of the funding to the Freedom Convoy came from foreign sources.
During the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, Freeland repeatedly refused to answer questions regarding what information the Liberals relied on to justify using the extraordinary powers to quash demonstrations in Ottawa.
During the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, Freeland repeatedly refused to answer questions regarding what information the Liberals relied on to justify using the extraordinary powers to quash demonstrations in Ottawa.
LIBERALS THREATEN TO BRING BACK COVID JAB MANDATES
Brian Lilley: In case you missed it, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said they may change the definition of fully vaccinated to three doses instead of the current two if they bring back travel and work vaccine mandates in the fall.
That could leave a lot more people grounded or out of work because just 55% of the population aged 12 and over have three doses compared to 90% with two.
As with their decision to finally suspend the travel and work mandates, the government offered no evidence and no data to support this idea. They’ve been telling us as often as they can that they are listening to the best advice and best science, they just don’t want to share any of it with the public.
LIBERALS RAM THROUGH ONLINE CENSORSHIP BILL
It was shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning that the Trudeau Liberals hastily wrapped up the committee process on their controversial Bill C-11. Normally, such a bill would receive much more time to be debated but the federal government wanted no such thing. So just like that, while Canadians were sleeping, the government rammed through a bill that will see Canadians’ social media subject to government censorship.
Despite the over 150 amendments proposed and despite protestations from leading experts on the issue, the bill was passed through Committee to return to the House of Commons where it will almost definitely be approved by the Trudeau Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s New Lapdog Party.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
PARAMEDICS TESTIFY AT NS MASS SHOOTING INQUIRY
Nova Scotia paramedic Melanie Lowe struggled to maintain her composure Monday as she described the night two years ago when four children climbed into her ambulance and described how their parents had just been shot to death.
“They were very frank about what they saw,” Lowe told a public inquiry investigating a mass shooting in April 2020 that started in Portapique, N.S., and would claim 22 lives over two days in northern and central Nova Scotia.
“They were very frank about what they saw,” Lowe told a public inquiry investigating a mass shooting in April 2020 that started in Portapique, N.S., and would claim 22 lives over two days in northern and central Nova Scotia.
Lowe was among three paramedics and an ambulance dispatcher who spoke to the inquiry about their work on April 18-19, 2020. All four said they were told very little about what was going on as the RCMP searched for the killer. And they complained about how little support they received afterwards from their employer, Emergency Health Services.
BILL TO CURB LIVESTOCK FARM TRESPASSING
Ottawa—Conservative ag critic John Barlow is trying once again to gain Parliamentary approval for a bill to deter trespassing on livestock farms.
His bill in the last Parliament received third reading in the Commons with support from the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois but was not debated in the Senate before the 2021 election was called. The bill also had the support by many livestock groups.
The bill would make it an offence under the Health of Animals Act to enter, without lawful authority or excuse, a place in which animals are kept if doing so could result in the exposure of the animals to a disease or toxic substance.
EMERGENCIES ACT SAVED CANADA'S ECONOMIC REPUTATION!
The risk to Canada’s economic reputation was behind the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to deter the “Freedom Convoy” blockades across the country, the deputy prime minister and finance minister repeatedly told MPs Tuesday.
But Chrystia Freeland — the highest-ranking minister yet to appear before the special committee investigating the government’s unprecedented use of emergency powers — would not share specific data that would have been available at the time the Act was invoked, which would have shown the protests were damaging the national economy.
Experts predicted at the time of the blockades that the economic impacts could be felt for months afterwards, without giving specific figures.
Yet data showed the blockades at the Ambassador Bridge and Coutts, Alta., border crossings had little impact on cross-border trade, with truckers simply being rerouted to other nearby ports of entry.
But Chrystia Freeland — the highest-ranking minister yet to appear before the special committee investigating the government’s unprecedented use of emergency powers — would not share specific data that would have been available at the time the Act was invoked, which would have shown the protests were damaging the national economy.
Experts predicted at the time of the blockades that the economic impacts could be felt for months afterwards, without giving specific figures.
Yet data showed the blockades at the Ambassador Bridge and Coutts, Alta., border crossings had little impact on cross-border trade, with truckers simply being rerouted to other nearby ports of entry.
THE MADNESS OF TRUDEAU'S JAB POLICIES
By now, the Liberal playbook on untenable pandemic-related policies is clear: They defend each square inch of policy territory like Tony Montana at the top of the staircase until ordered to retreat, at which point they drop their weapons, flee into the night and claim science made them do it.
To wit: Last week, just hours after chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam defended random on-arrival testing of international passengers as necessary to detect new COVID-19 variants of concern, the government “suspended” the program for a minimum of 20 days pending reorganization.And now, days after stridently defending it at every opportunity, the feds on Tuesday “suspended” indefinitely the vaccine requirement to travel domestically, or outbound internationally, by plane or train.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST, AT TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE
An order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Michael Barrett shows Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and her 29 fellow passengers using $93,117.89 in catering services aboard an RCAF CC-150 Polaris during her March 16 to March 24 trip to Expo 2020 in Dubai.
As well, a March 31 flight from Ottawa to Toronto carrying the governor general, husband Whit Fraser and staff rang up nearly $400 in catering.
When Trudeau arrived in Latvia aboard a Polaris with an entourage of 59 staffers, advisers, his personal photographer, Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland and Parliamentary Press Gallery members, that trip generated $57,401.56 in catering, and $195,265.47 in fuel.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
DESPITE MAGIC MASKS AND COVID JABS
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time.
“I feel OK, but that’s because I got my shots,” Trudeau said Monday on Twitter.
“So, if you haven’t, get vaccinated — and if you can, get boosted. Let’s protect our health-care system, each other, and ourselves.”
Trudeau said he will be following public health guidelines and isolating.
TORONTO VAN ATTACKER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
The shocking magnitude of the Toronto van attack often consumed the individual heartbreaks from each of Alek Minassian’s victims and their families — their losses and damage in many manifestations.
An emotionally crushing court hearing to learn the impact of his attack on his victims, those who survived one of Canada’s most devastating mass murders and families of those who were killed, rebalanced that, so much so the individual rendering of personal stories through details large and small made the totality of the atrocity so much more unimaginable and excruciating.
“You’ve reached into my heart and touched me in a profound way,” Justice Anne Molloy told a Toronto courtroom filled with victims of the April 23, 2018, attack, before sentencing Minassian on Monday to the maximum allowable sentence for 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder: life without possibility of parole from prison for 25 years.
TRUDEAU'S MASK THEATRICS
While attending the Summits of the Americas in Los Angeles, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was slammed on social media over his double standards when it came to wearing a mask.
Photos from the prime minister’s trip show him wearing a mask in certain settings while being completely maskless in other similar settings.
Several prominent figures including Conservative leadership candidate and MP Pierre Poilievre accused Trudeau of engaging in political theatre and inconsistency while abroad.
Photos from the prime minister’s trip show him wearing a mask in certain settings while being completely maskless in other similar settings.
Several prominent figures including Conservative leadership candidate and MP Pierre Poilievre accused Trudeau of engaging in political theatre and inconsistency while abroad.
WHEN YOU CAN'T WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH FACTS
Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport Adam van Koeverden apologized after he said “f*** you” to an unvaccinated woman on social media after she criticized the government’s ongoing vaccine mandates.
“You guys stand in parliament and act like these mandates actually serve a purpose?” wrote Faith. Adding, “I was a teacher who got fired for not taking a jab. Now I am a supply teacher, covering classes every single day because all the jabbed teachers have covid and can’t work” but “I can’t come home to visit my family.”
van Koeverden responded by saying, “you clearly have no idea how this all works.”
“You guys stand in parliament and act like these mandates actually serve a purpose?” wrote Faith. Adding, “I was a teacher who got fired for not taking a jab. Now I am a supply teacher, covering classes every single day because all the jabbed teachers have covid and can’t work” but “I can’t come home to visit my family.”
van Koeverden responded by saying, “you clearly have no idea how this all works.”
HEALTH CANADA SAYS GROUND MEAT NEEDS WARNING LABEL
The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) has turned to social media to enlist public support for its campaign against warning labels on ground beef and pork that Health Canada has proposed.
CCA says Health Canada is being inconsistent by proposing a warning label on ground beef, which is a natural whole food offering vital nutrients, including fats. At the same time, some highly processed, sugary and high in saturated fat foods like soda, chips and cookies are exempt from Health Canada’s labels.
It also says no other country has required single-ingredient products like beef to have warning labels. If Health Canada succeeds with its label, Canada will be the only jurisdiction in the world to place a health-warning label on ground meat.
IRVING WANTS EXTRA $300M TO BUILD WARSHIPS
Taxpayers are being asked to give at least $300 million to an East Coast shipyard so it can modernize its facilities to build navy vessels despite an earlier stipulation that public funds would not be required for such upgrades.
Irving’s Halifax shipyard was selected in 2011 as the winner of a multi-billion dollar program to construct the country’s new fleets of warships. Among the requirements for winning the bid was that the yard had the capability to build the vessels and taxpayers wouldn’t need to contribute funding to outfit facilities for the task.
But Irving is now retreating on that agreement and the Liberal government has been presented with a request for money. Industry sources say the Liberals are considering providing at least $300 million to the shipyard owned by one of Canada’s richest families.
Monday, June 13, 2022
CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AT THE NS MASS SHOOTING INQUIRY
What information was revealed to the public in the days following Canada’s deadliest mass shooting wasn’t solely up to the RCMP, claims the director of strategic communications for the Nova Scotia RCMP.
In an interview this past February, Lia Scanlan told members of the Mass Casualty Commission the federal government was involved in what the police force told the public about a gunman's 13-hour rampage that killed 22 people.
“Minister (Bill) Blair. All these people, the prime minister, they were weighing in on what we could and couldn’t say,” Scanlan said.
In an interview this past February, Lia Scanlan told members of the Mass Casualty Commission the federal government was involved in what the police force told the public about a gunman's 13-hour rampage that killed 22 people.
“Minister (Bill) Blair. All these people, the prime minister, they were weighing in on what we could and couldn’t say,” Scanlan said.
NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT COVID-JAB MANDATES
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was unable to provide any evidence to support continuing Canada’s extreme federal vaccine mandates and other Covid-19 measures.
During a House of Commons health committee meeting on Wednesday, Conservative MP Michael Barrett questioned PHAC President Harpreet Kochhar to ask if the agency could provide statistics to justify maintaining mandates.
Most countries around the world have abandoned or limited vaccine mandates and other measures. Although Canada has some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, the Liberal government has refused to alter course.
During a House of Commons health committee meeting on Wednesday, Conservative MP Michael Barrett questioned PHAC President Harpreet Kochhar to ask if the agency could provide statistics to justify maintaining mandates.
Most countries around the world have abandoned or limited vaccine mandates and other measures. Although Canada has some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, the Liberal government has refused to alter course.
LIBERALS DETERMINED TO CONTROL INTERNET CONTENT
“Sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.” These famous words used to usher in viewers of “The Outer Limits,” but they could more aptly describe the designs of the CRTC, the broadcasting regulator that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government seems intent on putting in charge of anything that moves or makes a sound.
Like an episode of “The Outer Limits,” watching the current heritage committee hearings over Bill C-11 — which would bring streaming services along with virtually all other audio-visual material transmitted over the internet under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act — comes with a risk of a foreboding sense of déjà vu.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
DROPPING IN THEIR TRACES FROM NO KNOWN CAUSE
Dying from the covid jabs.
Are we stupid? Or are we just being treated as if we’re stupid? Which is it? asks Neil OliverTRUDEAU'S VIRTUE-SIGNALING PRIORITIES
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a career out of claiming to be fighting for the middle class, but as inflation reaches levels not seen in 30 years, his government has steadfastly refused to do away with government policies that are directly contributing to the affordability crisis in this country. Rather than sticking up for the little guy, the Liberals increasingly look like elitists who place a higher value on their ideological agenda than Canadians’ ability to put affordable food on the table.
MATCHES NEXT ON THE LIST
Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.
Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says the measure is meant to reach more people, including youth who often share cigarettes and don’t encounter the packaging.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
340 YEAR OLD SHIPWRECK UNVEILED
LONDON — A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was unveiled by researchers on Friday who kept the discovery secret for 15 years to protect the wreck from damage.
In 1682, King James II of England, who was the Duke of York at the time, managed to narrowly escape the sinking ship named “The Gloucester” which went down off the coast of eastern England after hitting a sandbank. He became king of England, and King James VII of Scotland three years later.
TAKING ON THE PROTESTERS WHO BLOCK ROADS
A group called Clear the Road is threatening to launch a class-action lawsuit against the protesters who are set to block roads to B.C. Ferries and other highways across B.C. on Monday, saying the protests are costing them money.
“People are being held hostage by the illegal blockades,” spokeswoman Tamara Meggitt said. “There needs to be consequences. We’re seeing a catch-and-release program.”
She said the blockades are frustrating working people and scaring parents with sick kids. Protesters are acting with impunity because there are no consequences for the illegal blockades, even for those who are arrested and charged: “They go to jail and they’re processed, and they get out and they go back out there (on the blockades).”
MARCO MENDICINO SHOULD RESIGN
Rex Murphy: Mendicino, the minister of public safety, testified many times that the police forces had requested him to bring in the Emergencies Act.
They did not.
By their own testimony.
Civil liberties and the Charter were nullified, the rights of citizens to protest suffocated, financial and personal privacy invaded, and the police (and possible spy) forces of the country were given unseen powers by the invocation of that act.
PATRICK BROWN, CHINA'S CHOSEN CANDIDATE
After their party lost another federal election last year, the Chinese Canadian Conservative Association (CCCA) made some striking comments about the Tory platform — and Canada’s relations with Beijing.
Spokesman Joe Li said the Conservative push for a tougher stance on China had alienated voters of Chinese descent and cost the party three ridings.
Li promoted a more dovish approach, saying Ottawa started the “war” that led to the arbitrary detention of two Canadians, that China should “peacefully” unite with Taiwan and criticism of Beijing’s human-rights record was counter-productive.
Friday, June 10, 2022
INCOMPETENCE & ARROGANCE OF RCMP ON DISPLAY
The more Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission hears about the events of April 18 and 19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman authored Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting, the worse it looks for the Nova Scotia RCMP. And that’s some feat, considering all the dreadful failures we already knew about.
For example: The force’s decision not to engage the provincial Alert Ready system, and instead to provide incomplete-to-useless information via social media, was a known debacle — the worst and least forgivable of the Mounties’ mistakes. But documents released by the commission this week provided more damning insight into that decision.
Among those documents was a transcript of an interview RCMP investigators conducted in February with Lia Scanlan, the Nova Scotia RCMP’s director (in name only) of (not very) strategic communications. Asked why an alert wasn’t beamed out to radios, televisions and phones, Scanlan answered them bluntly: “My gut? You would have more dead police officers, because this is rural policing.”
For example: The force’s decision not to engage the provincial Alert Ready system, and instead to provide incomplete-to-useless information via social media, was a known debacle — the worst and least forgivable of the Mounties’ mistakes. But documents released by the commission this week provided more damning insight into that decision.
Among those documents was a transcript of an interview RCMP investigators conducted in February with Lia Scanlan, the Nova Scotia RCMP’s director (in name only) of (not very) strategic communications. Asked why an alert wasn’t beamed out to radios, televisions and phones, Scanlan answered them bluntly: “My gut? You would have more dead police officers, because this is rural policing.”
PUTIN LOSES CONTROL IN UKRAINE
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S almighty Russian military has been humiliatingly exposed by experts who identify several key reasons for the demise of Moscow's powerhouse forces.
With the war in Ukraine now well in excess of 100 days old, Putin’s calculations that it would have been over in days have clearly backfired. The latest reports by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence have placed losses of Russian personnel in the tens of thousands, as well as over 1,000 tanks, 200 aircraft and a host of other obliterated military hardware. Three military experts have now examined why the Russian military is not the force both Putin and the world may have previously perceived it to be.
ENTRENCHED ATTITUDES AGAINST CHANGE IN THE MILITARY
A senior member of the Canadian Armed Forces is facing criticism for a post amid a grassroots social media campaign rallying support for Canada’s royal military colleges less than a week after a scathing independent review raised serious concerns about the institutions.
A number of the graduates explicitly identified that their reason for posting these photos was to support the military colleges and their alumni in the wake of strong condemnation of the culture within these colleges in Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour’s report, which was released last week.
A number of the graduates explicitly identified that their reason for posting these photos was to support the military colleges and their alumni in the wake of strong condemnation of the culture within these colleges in Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour’s report, which was released last week.
Arbour went so far as to say the “discriminatory culture” and outdated mindset within these institutions is so persistent, she questioned whether they should even continue to exist in their present form and warned that a lack of major reform could hold back the CAF from truly adopting a necessary culture of change.
BOC STATING THE OBVIOUS
With interest rates set to keep rising, the Bank of Canada is sounding the alarm on the risk record high house prices and an increasing number of households with high mortgage debt could have on the Canadian economy.
“In Canada, elevated levels of household debt and high house prices remain two key interconnected vulnerabilities,” the bank said in its annual Financial System Review.
Despite house prices increasing 53% nationally between April 2020 and April 2022, the bank is concerned that recent homebuyers lack the equity in their home to withstand a “significant price correction” and would “face more financial strain when they renew their mortgages at higher rates.”
“In Canada, elevated levels of household debt and high house prices remain two key interconnected vulnerabilities,” the bank said in its annual Financial System Review.
Despite house prices increasing 53% nationally between April 2020 and April 2022, the bank is concerned that recent homebuyers lack the equity in their home to withstand a “significant price correction” and would “face more financial strain when they renew their mortgages at higher rates.”
CHINA'S DENIALS
BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident may be to blame.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian also rejected accusations that China had not fully cooperated with investigators, saying it welcomed a science-based probe but rejected any political manipulation.
He also reiterated calls for an investigation into “highly suspicious laboratories such as Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina" in the United States where China has suggested, without evidence, that the U.S. was developing the coronavirus as a bioweapon.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian also rejected accusations that China had not fully cooperated with investigators, saying it welcomed a science-based probe but rejected any political manipulation.
He also reiterated calls for an investigation into “highly suspicious laboratories such as Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina" in the United States where China has suggested, without evidence, that the U.S. was developing the coronavirus as a bioweapon.
CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES STILL PARTERING WITH HUAWEI
Leading Canadian universities say they intend to continue research and development with Huawei Technologies Co. – which reaps intellectual property from the partnerships – after Ottawa’s decision to ban the Chinese telecommunications giant from 5G wireless networks over national-security concerns.
When the Trudeau government announced on May 19 that it would bar Huawei from selling 5G equipment to Canadian telecommunications companies, it did not take action against Huawei’s extensive dealings with Canadian universities. Huawei spends roughly $25-million annually on university R&D projects aimed at the development of advanced communications technologies including 5G and 6G wireless.
When the Trudeau government announced on May 19 that it would bar Huawei from selling 5G equipment to Canadian telecommunications companies, it did not take action against Huawei’s extensive dealings with Canadian universities. Huawei spends roughly $25-million annually on university R&D projects aimed at the development of advanced communications technologies including 5G and 6G wireless.
Thursday, June 9, 2022
JUST A BIT OF SLOPPY PHRASING
Rex Murphy: Well, this is fun.
The government of Canada invoked the Emergencies Act, the greatest of all overrides of Canadian civil liberties, over a misunderstanding. A miscommunication. A lapsus linguae, or as Maxwell Smart would put it, the old slip-of-the-tongue trick.
Nothing deliberate mind you. Just a bit of sloppy phrasing. Could happen to anybody. Even to a minister of public safety of the government of Canada.
FERTILIZER COST UP 50%, LIBERALS ADD HEFTY TARIFF
Ottawa—Tariffs on imported Russian fertilizer are punishing Canadian farmers because they are receiving no compensation for the added costs, says Conservative ag critic John Barlow.
The government’s action puts Canadian farmers at a competitive disadvantage and is contrary to other G7 countries that haven’t imposed a tariff on Russian fertilizer, Barlow said in the Commons. These countries are encouraging their farmers to produce as much wheat and other crops as possible to feed a hunger-challenged planet.
“Our G7 allies are doing everything they possibly can to ensure that their farmers can increase their yields in a time of global food insecurity. Here, the Liberals are beating our farmers down with increased taxes, red tape and, without any consultation with stakeholders, a mandate to reduce fertilizer use by 30 per cent.”
CANADIANS' LACK OF TRUST IN GOV'T & NEWS MEDIA
We recently completed nationwide surveying among 1500 Canadians. The focus was on the levels of trust people have in institutional sources of information, and belief in conspiracy theories.
Almost half of those interviewed found themselves agreeing with the statement “much of the information we receive from news organizations is false.”
While this means a majority of Canadians have some trust in news organizations, more than 13 million adults (extrapolating 44% to an adult population of 29.5 million) don’t.
Almost half of those interviewed found themselves agreeing with the statement “much of the information we receive from news organizations is false.”
While this means a majority of Canadians have some trust in news organizations, more than 13 million adults (extrapolating 44% to an adult population of 29.5 million) don’t.
LAWSUIT AGAINST TRUDEAU FOUNDATION DELAYED
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has twice sought a change of venue for a trial into allegations by a former foundation scholar who says she was sexually harassed by her assigned mentor, pressured to keep it quiet and left unsupported and unbelieved.
A year after Cherry Smiley’s lawsuit was first filed, the Trudeau Foundation has not yet filed a statement of defence but has twice filed motions that the suit be dismissed or denied jurisdiction so it can be heard before a judge in Quebec.
“It would be very prejudicial to my client to be heard in Quebec. She is not a fluent French speaker, and neither am I, and the only connection of the case to Quebec is the foundation is headquartered there, but it’s a national foundation and the parties all live in different parts of the country.”
She suggested the foundation might be trying to drain Smiley’s resources.
A year after Cherry Smiley’s lawsuit was first filed, the Trudeau Foundation has not yet filed a statement of defence but has twice filed motions that the suit be dismissed or denied jurisdiction so it can be heard before a judge in Quebec.
“It would be very prejudicial to my client to be heard in Quebec. She is not a fluent French speaker, and neither am I, and the only connection of the case to Quebec is the foundation is headquartered there, but it’s a national foundation and the parties all live in different parts of the country.”
She suggested the foundation might be trying to drain Smiley’s resources.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
NO DOUBT HE'S HAPPY ABOUT IT
While responding to questions regarding the seemingly unlawful seizure of property owned by Russians, Liberal Justice Minister David Lametti said that people don’t have an “absolute right to own private property” in Canada.
BC MAN RECEIVES COMPENSATION FOR COVID-JAB INJURY
Ross Wightman is one of the first people in Canada to be approved for compensation because of injuries sustained after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
The B.C. man was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which left him partially paralyzed, after a first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in April 2021.
He said his symptoms started with severe back pain 10 days after his shot. He went to the emergency room multiple times and was admitted on a Saturday when he reported facial tingling.
“By Tuesday, I had full facial paralysis. I could blink but I couldn’t smile or show my teeth at all, and had paralysis from the waist down as well,” Wightman told the National Post.
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