The decision by a federal Crown corporation to allow a new, 1,000-passenger ferry to be built largely in China is galling to any Canadian who supports justice, freedom and human rights.
As the Globe and Mail reported this week, Marine Atlantic Inc. awarded a $100-million, five-year contract to Sweden’s Stena North Sea Limited, which subcontracted construction of the vessel to a state-owned Chinese company.
Justin is working hard to appease Canada’s China class.
Justin Trudeau being greeted by Canadians today in Cambridge Ontario pic.twitter.com/EcFTl2iRRV
— Yanky (@Yanky_Pollak) August 29, 2021
An FBI agent who helped ‘foil’ a plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer may have used his knowledge of the case to lend credibility to his private cyber intelligence company, newly filed court documents allege.
Attorneys for five defendants charged with attempting to kidnap the Democratic governor are seeking information about special agent Jayson Chambers, after a BuzzFeed report claimed that the FBI agent may have published tweets about the undercover operation before it was made public. The foiled kidnapping plot – allegedly hatched in retaliation against Whitmer’s Covid-19 measures – was initially used as evidence of the domestic threat posed by right-wing extremism. But the narrative began to fall apart after it was revealed that at least 12 undercover informants played major roles in the scheme, leading to allegations of entrapment.
When Justin Trudeau called a risky snap election earlier this month, he said Canadians faced their most consequential choice since 1945 — progress with him at the helm, or a step backwards under the Conservatives.
Amid a fourth wave of the pandemic and a chaotic Afghanistan evacuation, Canadians responded with a collective shrug. Within a week, the prime minister’s five-point poll lead disappeared. Now he is six points behind — his political future in doubt.
Once again, the golden boy of western politics looks chastened, just two years after Canadians re-elected him without a majority. If he loses, it will mark a dismal end for Trudeau, whose ambitious agenda and promises of “sunny ways” saw him catapult the third-placed Liberal Party to a handsome majority in 2015, but who has since been tarnished by ethics scandals, unkept promises and blackface images.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida rapidly grew in strength early Sunday, becoming a dangerous Category 4 hurricane just hours before hitting the Louisiana coast while emergency officials in the region grappled with opening shelters for displaced evacuees despite the risks of spreading the coronavirus.
As Ida moved through some of the warmest ocean water in the world in the northern Gulf of Mexico, its top winds grew by 45 mph (72 kph) to 150 mph (230 kph) in five hours. The system was expected to make landfall Sunday afternoon, set to arrive on the exact date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.
O’Toole says Conservatives who took part in anti-Trudeau protests aren’t welcome in his campaign
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says Conservatives who were part of the aggressive protests that forced the cancellation of a Liberal campaign event on Friday are not welcome on his team.
“If they were, they will no longer be involved with our campaign full stop,” Mr. O’Toole said at a campaign stop in Fredericton on Saturday.
Anti-vaccine and anti-mask protesters have attended almost all of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s events since he launched the federal election campaign on Aug. 15. Those protests reached a tipping point Friday night when safety concerns forced the Liberals to cancel their rally in Bolton, Ont.
No word on a name change for CPC
Always more! – Conservative candidate banishes campaign volunteers who were at Trudeau rally
Trudeau is still on track for a minority government.
Ontario reports more than 700 new COVID-19 infections, 2 more deaths
Ontario is reporting more than 700 new COVID-19 cases today and two more virus-related deaths.
Provincial health officials confirmed 740 new COVID-19 infections today, down from 835 new cases on Saturday but up from 722 last Sunday.
Why Canadians need to keep their guard up in the 4th wave — even if they’re fully vaccinated
Canadians are entering one of the most confusing chapters of the pandemic — and many may be left wondering why we’re not where we’d hoped to be after becoming one of the most vaccinated countries in the world.
Reports of waning immunity from COVID-19 vaccines, the potential need for booster shots and the possibility of breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated may be leading many of us to second guess what we can and can’t do safely in the fourth wave.
Can’t help but notice the rapid decline in Covid coverage by the media that mysteriously coincided with the election call.
The squared away young man in this picture is Max Soviak. I didn’t know Max but I know a young man very like him. I have a son who graduated high school the same year as Max. My son has a picture exactly like this one. All Navy Corpsmen do. It’s the picture they send home to their parents when they graduate from basic training.
The self-proclaimed president of Afghanistan and one of two men leading the anti-Taliban resistance has made a direct appeal to Canadians — and by extension the West — not to give up on his country or its people.
Amrullah Saleh, a Tajik leader and vice-president in the democratically-elected government of President Ashraf Ghani, delivered a recorded speech to an Ottawa-based think-tank, the MacDonald-Laurier Institute.
The audio remarks and transcript were released early Friday.
He was part of the kleptocracy and boy is he missing the grift.
PS. Some much needed work is keeping me away from the blog. Please thank the gang for keeping the home fires burning. BCF
The big problem with vaccines and viruses is that viruses tend to mutate into strains that are resistant to the vaccine. It’s called ADE, “Antibody Dependent Enhancement,” and it is why no effective coronavirus vaccine had ever been developed prior to the current pandemic.
On the seventh anniversary of Islamic State’s genocide of the Yazidi people, about 2,800 women and girls enslaved by the terror group are still missing.
It is thought that many of those who survived may be trapped in the increasingly dangerous Al-Hawl detention camp in northeast Syria, imprisoned with their captors.
Rights groups say that, without international efforts to identify and free them, these women and girls, originally from the Sinjar area in Iraq, are at risk of being smuggled outside the Kurdish-run camp and sent to Islamic State – or Isis – cells in Syria and third countries like Turkey – after which, it may become impossible to find them.
The federal government has become so desperate to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 that it plans to hold Medicare and Medicaid payments hostage.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden, the virtual president, announced that nursing homes will receive federal money for Medicare and Medicaid expenses only if their employees are vaccinated.
The “Delta variant”, it appears, justified the step.
Really? If that last claim were true, then how did the Afghan military manage to kill al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu Muhsin al-Masri, in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last October?
Erik Prince may get his privatized war in Afghanistan after all – the tail end of it, at least. The mercenary is reportedly charging $6,500 per head to fly people out of the Taliban-controlled country as the evac deadline looms.
With August 31 as the final deadline for Americans to leave Afghanistan, public and private security forces alike are tripping over themselves trying to get their men (and women) out of the country – and some less scrupulous figures are taking cash to expedite the process, according to a Tuesday report from the Wall Street Journal.
