Canada needs a public inquiry into allegations of Chinese election interference, Canada former spymaster says.
Speaking in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he “can’t see any compelling reason not to” hold a public inquiry.
At its core, the dispute over the Coastal GasLink pipeline project is really about non-indigenous environmentalists telling First Nations what to do with their own lands.
They can’t handle that the community’s only duly elected governing body — along with a majority of residents through a referendum — support Coastal GasLink, along with the dozens of other First Nations along the pipeline route. As the pipeline nears completion, they will use all the money at their disposal to co-opt a carefully selected group of Wet’suwet’en ‘hereditary’ chiefs to do their dirty work and try to make the project untenable
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.
Another ‘conspiracy theory” bites the dust.
One year on, the defiance of the country’s soldiers and their families is palpable — but Kyiv is reluctant to reveal the true toll of resisting Putin
The Rage Brigade is the name emblazoned across the poster showing a fierce, gun-wielding soldier at the recruiting centre in western Kyiv. It urges Ukrainians: “Take your fury and turn it into a weapon.”
Inside the building Kateryna, 35, is hoping to do just that. “I want to help my country, which I love,” she says. “We’re all taking a risk every day living here in Kyiv. I would prefer to take that risk on the front lines where I could be useful and fight.”
While two in five Canadians overall subscribe to the idea of socialism—with that number even higher for younger Canadians—few are willing to pay for the tax increases required to finance such a system, says a study by the Fraser Institute.
Among 1,006 Canadians aged 18–34 surveyed, 46 percent of respondents picked socialism when asked “What is the ideal economic system.” The number drops to 43 percent among respondents aged 35–54, and to 38 percent among those over 55.
Newspapers are dropping the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after creator Scott Adams launched into a racist tirade advising his followers to ‘get the f**k’ away from black people.
Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US, said it would stop publishing the comic immediately following the remarks made by its creator on his online show ‘Real Coffee with Scott Adams.’
It comes after Dilbert was already canned by 77 newspapers in September due to its increasingly controversial plotlines including one about a black character who identifies as white.
This is the absolute truth what @ScottAdamsSays is saying here. He had to have known that all the coward newspapers would drop his Dilbert comic strip. I admire Scott Adams for doing it anyway. pic.twitter.com/sy0vhHutV2
— Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) February 25, 2023
The Halton school board’s new professionalism policy mentions “expectations” about staff dress and decorum and how students should learn “free from distractions” — but contains no new rules or any specifics about appropriate attire or behaviour despite calls from parents frustrated with the ongoing turmoil over a teacher who wears large, prosthetic breasts.
Global Warming strikes again, first snow in Saudi Arabia in 100 years. pic.twitter.com/q89w03fPej
— @amuse (@amuse) February 26, 2023
H/T XC
Four Wakefield pupils suspended after Quran damaged at school
Four pupils have been suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after a copy of the Quran was damaged by students.
Wednesday’s incident at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School happened when a copy of the Islamic text was brought in by a Year 10 pupil.
Head teacher Tudor Griffiths said the book remained intact and there was “no malicious intent” from those involved.
He held a meeting with concerned community leaders on Friday.
Canadians are paying more and getting less from the Trudeau government, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
In a series of recent reports, testimony before parliamentary committees and media interviews, Yves Giroux — an independent, non-partisan financial watchdog of government spending — paints a grim picture of increasing expenditures borne by taxpayers and deteriorating public services.
The civil service is core to the UNIPARTY’s hold on power along with the media and corporate class.
A mother was so terrified of catching Covid that she locked herself and her son in their two-bed flat for three years.
Munmun Majhi, 33, and her son, aged 10, were rescued by police on Wednesday February 22 after they spent three years locked inside their home in the city of Gurugram, in Haryana State, India.
The 33-year-old mother was so petrified that they would contract the virus if they stepped outside, that she did not let her husband, Sujan Majhi, enter his own home just one day after the first lockdown.
A small road straddling the Canada-U.S. border has become a political hot potato again in recent weeks as politicians call on Ottawa to close it to migrants claiming asylum.
Quebec Premier François Legault recently wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to close Roxham Road to asylum-seekers. Thousands of them have crossed into Canada from the United States at Roxham in recent years.
Legault claimed that the influx of people waiting to have their claims heard has put heavy pressure on the province’s public services. In a similar letter published Tuesday in the Globe and Mail, Legault asked other provinces to help.
Through documents tabled in the House of Commons on Jan. 30, federal departments revealed how the World Economic Forum spends the over $17.4 million in Canadian taxpayer money it has received in recent years.
The Canadian investments in World Economic Forum (WEF) projects were in the fields of facilitating global trade, reducing plastic waste, producing a report on the environment, and supporting research on water ecosystems.
Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the Departments of Fisheries and Oceans responded to questions posed by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis in an order paper filed last December.
A year ago on Friday, President Vladimir Putin unleashed blitzkrieg on Ukraine. It was an unprovoked assault that has so far led to more than 200,000 people being killed or wounded, but has failed in its intention of establishing Russian hegemony over its democratic neighbour. The West and much of the rest of the civilised world were shocked by the invasion, as well as being horrified and disgusted by the brutality of the Russian armed forces.
Contrary to the bleatings of deluded Left-wingers, her age is no excuse
Of all the excuses that hand-wringing progressives have made on behalf of Shamima Begum, there can be no doubt which is the most feeble. It’s the argument that she was “only 15”.
Well, I was 15 once, too. And, like everyone else at that age, I did and said many foolish things. There was one mistake, however, that I successfully managed to avoid making.
At no point did I flee the country to join the world’s most notorious terrorist group.
