David Coletto – Building off my long read on Serbia, students, and generational politics, I recently joined Max Fawcett from Canada’s National Observer on Power Lines for a wide-ranging conversation about some of the forces reshaping politics in Canada and around the world.
A Canadian Generational Political Revolt will be a foreign orchestrated ultra-left pantomime.
Every year on the 11th of November, Canadians remember those who fought and died in war so that we might live in peace. But in our times, remembrance is tinged with a sense of loss.
Friends are becoming adversaries, truths are upended, peace is at risk, freedom fades.
The Western alliance, forged and preserved for eight decades by the United States, is weakened, perhaps fatally.
An increase in military spending by deadbeat NATO members like Canada means less money Carney and his WEF pals can pocket.
OTTAWA — Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder accused of running a billion-dollar cocaine network for the Sinaloa Cartel, used currency exchanges in the Vancouver and Toronto areas to launder billions of dollars in drug proceeds, the United States Treasury Department alleged Friday, as it sanctioned eight Canadian money services businesses accused of moving money for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
WASHINGTON—Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight money services businesses based in Canada that enable the Iranian regime, sanctioned entities associated with the regime, and other illicit actors that move assets into and out of Iran. These companies facilitate the exchange of Iranian rials and other currencies for digital assets to enable international transactions involving Iran. Many of these businesses have facilitated transactions with sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchanges, as well as with digital asset addresses associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Canada cannot be a safe haven for illicit financial facilitators that provide sanctions evasion services to the Iranian regime and its proxies,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “Treasury will pursue and disrupt the Iranian regime’s financial channels anywhere in the world.”
Carney wants Canada balkanized by mass immigration so a united front cannot be mounted against his pals China, Iran, India and the drug cartels.
Ontario’s top court has drawn the line on when the immigration consequences of a sentence veer into unfit punishment in the case of a woman who struck a stranger in the head with a tossed table and two glass bottles.
It dismissed the Mississauga, Ont., woman’s claim that the judge, who sentenced her to a year in jail for the “gratuitous” attack that left her female victim with permanent and disfiguring injuries, failed to properly consider adverse immigration consequences.
The Oilers lost to the Detroit Red Wings on 26 October, but Edmonton captain Connor McDavid got an assist anyway. He’s been doing that a lot lately. Just 16 games into the year, McDavid has 31 assists. It’s the fastest anyone has ever hit that milestone in any NHL season. But on that night in late October, many fans in Edmonton were unable to see McDavid’s feats – including patrons of a local bar – because it was one of nine Oilers games this season that are only available via a subscription to a premium streaming service.
Quebec has perfected such a vast variety of profanity that it’s been called “the Amazon rainforest of swear words”. But uttering these blasphemous terms could have once landed you in prison.
Thursday nights at Quebec City jazz joint Bar Sainte-Angèle are known for a buzzy open mic where veterans swap improvisational riffs with students from the nearby music conservatory. But as I elbowed towards the bar on a recent evening, I overheard a patron practicing a different local art with equal parts precision and heart.
“Sacrement d’ostie de tabarnak”, he said, cursing as his eyebrows climbed towards the bar’s heavy-timbered ceiling. Taken literally, it translates to “sacrament of the communion host of the tabernacle”. But the real meaning is anything but churchly.
The poppy may not be extinct in Toronto, but it is safe to say it has become a rare species to be found among the masses.
Very rare, in fact.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A federal grand jury has indicted two Canadian men for allegedly hacking into computers at U.S. universities, including a college in Western New York, to steal login information and mine cryptocurrency.
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced Tuesday that Ryan James Roach, 35, of Saskatchewan, and Mathiew James Stubbings, 41, of Ontario, were charged with conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and to cause damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a protected computer, and intentional damage to a protected computer.
A thumping, a shellacking, maybe even a disaster: there’s no shortage of strong words you could choose to describe the midterm defeat that American voters just handed to U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
The Democrats will take control of both the House and the Senate, according to projections by the major U.S. TV networks.
But that outcome doesn’t come close to describing the full extent of the blue wave that rolled over states that have been ruby red throughout the Trump era and in some cases, far longer than that.
He still has the veto and executive orders.
Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar, who had originally been charged with eight offences under the National Defence Act, will be tried on three counts beginning Dec. 9, the office of the chief military judge said in a statement on Wednesday.
He was accused of communicating “special operational information” to a foreign entity, which was not identified at the time of his arrest almost a year ago.
A CBC News investigation at the time of his arrest reported that he was accused of passing sensitive information to Ukraine.
Freeland was unavailable for comment.
It may be that Toronto police did everything they could when they encountered Daijohn Richards in a hospital in the early hours of Oct. 29.
Mr. Richards has since been identified as a suspect in the home invasion that night in Toronto’s Bridle Path, which left four family members injured – three with gunshot wounds. But at 4:15 a.m., which is when he walked himself into St. Joseph’s Health Centre, he was just a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
He is one of Scotland’s most famous inventors having revolutionised the world with his creation of the telephone.
However, Alexander Graham Bell’s descendants are up in arms after the Canadian government rewrote his legacy amid claims over his views on deaf people and selective breeding.
The eminent scientist’s designation as a National Historic Person in his adopted homeland of Canada has been reviewed and edited while a commemorative plaque at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia will have its wording changed.
A lot of the swings we’ve seen lately by provincial electorates, including Alberta, British Columbia (BC), and Quebec, are acting akin to a chemical equilibrium. When things get too out of whack, and too much instability is introduced into one side of the political equation, voters across Canada try to re-establish the balance.
To some extent, that means voting for an ideal, an ideal that is different for different provinces.
