The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says it will be launching an independent review of the organization’s acceptance of a donation “with a potential connection to the Chinese government.”
The foundation’s board reached this unanimous decision prior to dissolution, according to board chair Edward Johnson.
“This review will be conducted by an accounting firm instructed by a law firm, neither of which were previously involved with the Foundation,” Johnson said in a statement to CTV News.
Throughout history, more powerful nations have preyed on smaller ones, as is now being demonstrated by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Yet for those outside Europe, China’s economic power makes it a far more formidable threat to democracy than neo-tsarist Russia; Russia’s GDP is smaller than that of Canada or Australia’s, and barely a 10th of China’s.
h/t DM
The taxpayer-backed Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was plunged into crisis in March, several weeks after the Globe and Mail reported that a major 2016 donation ultimately came from the Chinese state rather than a Beijing billionaire, according to an internal document obtained by La Presse.
Shortly after the Globe story broke, the foundation publicly announced it would return $140,000 to the Chinese benefactor.
Security guy is an essential hire… pic.twitter.com/s4diHLSXYP
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 12, 2023
OTTAWA – The Opposition Conservatives are asking Twitter to apply a “government-funded” label on accounts associated with the CBC, even as other public broadcasters decry the tag for not making clear their editorial independence.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tweeted a copy of a letter addressed to the company making that request on Tuesday.
NPR quitting Twitter over label on social media account
BBC journalist: “There’s been a rise in hateful content on Twitter.”
Elon Musk: “Give me an example.”
Journalist: “I can’t.”
Musk: “You just lied.” pic.twitter.com/LONdKdZJH8
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 12, 2023
Bud Light’s executives don’t primarily work for Bud Light. They work for woke causes.
The Bud Light boycott recalls a public service announcement played incessantly 35 years ago.
“Who taught you how to do this stuff?” asks a father after confronting his son with a discovered stash of drugs. The teen responds, “I learned it by watching you!”
Corporate wokesters, reeling from the consumer disgust over Bud Light enlisting the services of a transgender influencer they regard as a bad influence, now wonder how their customers learned to withhold dollars as political expression.
Anheuser-Busch Stock Drops Amid Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney Controversy
Andrew — who was forced out of royal duties after settling a sex-abuse case with Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022 — was second to the throne until Princess Diana gave birth to Charles’s eldest son, Prince William.
Now, the onetime “spare” is refusing to bow to demands to move out of his palatial $37 million home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, despite the demands of the new monarch.
During the Cold War, the East-West divide was commonly portrayed as pitting communism against capitalism. The Soviet Union, its satellites, and allies operated command economies in which centralized authorities directed the allocation of resources, agricultural production, and industrial manufacturing of the State. The United States and the Western Bloc championed liberal democratic norms and free markets. That division, of course, was always too simplistic. Not only did the US support third-world dictatorships when doing so would produce strategic advantages against the USSR, but also the demarcation between free and controlled markets was never so plainly cut-and-dried.
’30 Seconds…No Phones’: Middle School Teacher Allegedly Facilitated Student Fights In The Classroom
Women brought back to Canada from ISIS camps released on bail
Two Toronto-area women were ordered released from custody on Tuesday after returning to Canada from detention camps for ISIS suspects in northeast Syria.
Ammara Amjad and Dure Ahmed had been detained by the RCMP on terrorism allegations since landing in Montreal with their children last Thursday.
Other countries do the right thing and strip citizenship from these sick murdering Mohammedan cultists.
January through March of 2023 has seen a “significant increase in acts of hostility” against churches compared to the same time frame last year, according to an April report from the Family Research Council.
In a first of its kind announcement, the Inuk status of two sisters is being investigated after claims their Inuit heritage was falsified.
Amira and Nadya Gill are twin sisters who hold status as Inuk. How they got that status is now being investigated for potential fraud by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI), the organization that oversees Indigenous status under the Nunavut Agreement.
Can we kick these pigs and their whole family back to Buttfuckistan?
After the European Parliament, the UN is easy prey. Funding has allowed Islamic countries to form the most powerful bloc in UNESCO.
Testimonies collected by the New York Times within the International Labor Organization (the UN labor agency) speak of a payment of 25 million dollars by the Doha government into the agency’s coffers, which would have led to a softer attitude on workers’ rights in the emirate, in view of the football World Cup. The agency denied that.
In 2021, Saudi Arabia – another flagship country of workers’ rights – was elected to the executive committee of the International Labor Organization.
Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.
The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Sept. 27, 2021.
