Prime minister should be required to divest assets, says committee

Prime minister should be required to divest assets, says committee

Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Canadian prime ministers should be required to divest their investment portfolios when they assume office, not just put them in a blind trust, the House of Commons ethics committee recommends in a new report.

In its report made public Thursday morning, the committee said putting assets in a blind trust isn’t good enough, recommending instead “that the Government of Canada amend the Conflict of Interest Act that, for the application of subsection 27(1) the prime minister, as a reporting public office holder, is fully divested from their controlled assets through sale, since placement in a blind trust does not constitute true divestment.”

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German Schools Block Students From AfD Work Placements

German Schools Block Students From AfD Work Placements

Schools in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt have barred pupils from undertaking work placements with the regional parliamentary group of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering a row over political neutrality in education.

The restrictions apply to the annual “Girls’ and Boys’ Day” (also known as Zukunftstag), a nationwide initiative that allows students to gain short-term work experience in businesses, public institutions, and political offices.

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MACLEOD: Carney’s anti-American fantasy will cost Alberta

MACLEOD: Carney’s anti-American fantasy will cost Alberta

Mark Carney’s YouTube video is being praised in the usual circles as sober, statesmanlike realism. It is nothing of the sort. It is the same old Ottawa delusion in a better suit.

Carney says Canada’s close economic ties to the United States (US) have become a weakness that must be corrected. That may sound sophisticated in Toronto and Liberal campaign war rooms, but from Alberta, it sounds ridiculous. Alberta’s relationship with the US is not a policy mistake. It is the basis of our prosperity.


Sad cuz it’s true.

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Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

Canadians have long looked away from their often gruesome southern neighbor, tempted instead to embrace a chicer European identity. They could point to a more civil public culture, greater bilingualism and a more generous welfare state, compared to the dog-eat-dog reality of the United States. Prime Minister Mark Carney has called Canada “the most European of non-European countries,” and some policy wonks now advocate joining the EU.

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Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

TORONTO — Days after a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst testified in Parliament about a sitting Canadian senator’s group’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party, that group, led by Liberal-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo and former Conservative senator Victor Oh, reached out to elected officials in the Toronto area and invited them to a fundraising gala.

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The Last Word on the Russia Hoax?

The Last Word on the Russia Hoax?

It all began on September 11. Not September 11, 2001, although a word about that day would not be out of place in this connection. Only days after the attack on New York and Washington, a fool of a president told the American people that Islam is a religion of peace – a perverse formulation that no one on earth had ever encountered before. And this whitewash was reinforced by his successor in the Oval Office, a man who, not foolish but wily, had been fathered by a Kenyan Muslim and grown up in Islamic Indonesia, and hence believed, as Drew Thomas Allen writes in Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump-Russia Delusion – a spectacular account based on “newly declassified intelligence, memos, and testimonies” – that Islam is “a peaceful religion to be revered.”

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Jamie Sarkonak: I read ‘The Camp of the Saints.’ Here’s why it’s relevant

Jamie Sarkonak: I read ‘The Camp of the Saints.’ Here’s why it’s relevant

Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. That’s because it’s a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many. While The Handmaid’s Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Four have become regular headliners of “banned book” campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspail’s magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging into the hundreds. Until just last year, that is.

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Small boat gang rapist is a murderer who fled Egypt to get handouts in UK before committing horrific sex attack on unconscious woman on Brighton beach

Small boat gang rapist is a murderer who fled Egypt to get handouts in UK before committing horrific sex attack on unconscious woman on Brighton beach

A small boat migrant today found guilty of gang raping a vulnerable woman on a beach had already been convicted of murder, it can now be reported.

Violent thug Karin Al-Danasurt should never have been allowed into the UK to lodge an asylum claim after crossing the Channel in 2024.

It is believed the Egyptian national duped immigration officials by giving a false name.

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Good News, Frustrated Progs – Turning Canadian Just Became So Much Easier

Good News, Frustrated Progs – Turning Canadian Just Became So Much Easier

I mean, if anyone’s in a big rush to get out of the States because of the BAD ORANGE MAN, but finds themselves in a straitened circumstance. You know, the kind where you can’t exactly afford the spread in the Cotswolds that Ellen and Portia bought, nor that ticket to Costa Rica so you can hide on cheap jungle hideaway time, like Tarzan or Jane, but with air-conditioning and a flush toilet.

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Spanish Woman Attacked by Immigrant after She Says She’s a Christian

Spanish Woman Attacked by Immigrant after She Says She’s a Christian

A Spanish woman was assaulted in central Barcelona by an African immigrant in the early hours of the morning after telling a man she was a Christian, according to reports.

The attack involved a 19-year-old man of North African origin who was later arrested by police. The assault took place around 2 a.m. near La Rambla, one of the city’s busiest areas. Emergency services were called and paramedics treated the woman at the scene for her injuries.

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