CHARLEBOIS: Have you eaten halal meat without knowing it?

CHARLEBOIS: Have you eaten halal meat without knowing it?

Halal meat is no longer a niche product in Canada. It is sold by major grocers, restaurant chains, independent butchers and institutional food-service providers. Canada’s halal meat market is estimated to be worth roughly $2 billion annually, supported by a Muslim population that numbered nearly 1.8 million in the 2021 census and has continued to grow.


More … Halal slaughter: Outcry after undercover film exposes brutality of industry

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Cringe-inducing moment Canadian politician gets AI to write his speech to Parliament… but forgets to edit out the machine’s preamble

Cringe-inducing moment Canadian politician gets AI to write his speech to Parliament… but forgets to edit out the machine’s preamble

A Canadian politician has been caught reading an AI-generated speech in his province’s parliament.

Addressing the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Progressive Conservative member Bill Oliver made the major gaffe in front of his peers.

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Canada can learn lessons from asymmetric warfare

Canada can learn lessons from asymmetric warfare

The similarity is often noted between the Ukraine and Iran wars: Mad billionaire autocrat with dreams of empire attempts to subjugate another country by force of arms; though seemingly in possession of overwhelming military advantage, is repelled by defenders armed with desperation, cunning and modern technology; now finds himself caught in a trap of his own making, unable either to advance or retreat.


Coyne is hitting the pipe again.

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Canada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status

Canada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status

Montreal refugee advocates say they are hearing from a growing number of Haitians in the United States who are considering coming to Canada after the Trump administration moved to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people.

“They’re real stressed. They don’t go out. They stay in their apartment,” said Thierry Jean-Baptiste of the Bureau de la communauté haïtienne de Montréal (BCHM).

“They order groceries. They are in fear of ICE.”

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Michael Higgins: Of course young people are losing faith in democracy

Michael Higgins: Of course young people are losing faith in democracy

A vast number of young people brought up in the last decade and more of Liberal rule are now so disillusioned, dispirited and despondent that they would prefer a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

The Liberals can take a fair amount of responsibility for leaving 18-to-29-year-olds so jaundiced, but educational leaders must also accept their role in failing to teach youngsters the importance of history.


Unfortunately the lunatics run the Canadian asylum.

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Joel Kotkin: Immigration alone won’t solve Canada’s population decline

Joel Kotkin: Immigration alone won’t solve Canada’s population decline

This year, Canada’s population decreased, the first time since Confederation 160 years ago.

The reasons vary, but include a reduction in mass immigration, a very low birthrate and a stagnant economy sending ambitious Canadians to — horror of horrors! — the brutal nation just to the south.


That decrease is smoke and mirrors. The Liberals continue to import replacement migrants.

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Gordie Howe bridge means smoother transport, but not lower consumer prices: truckers

Gordie Howe bridge means smoother transport, but not lower consumer prices: truckers

The opening of the Gordie Howe bridge promises more efficient transport between Canada and the United States — though not necessarily lower prices for consumers — trucking firms say.

The new span between Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ont., will make for better traffic flow, smoother security procedures and competitive toll rates that could save large trucking companies up to $100,000 a month, says Canadian Trucking Alliance CEO Stephen Laskowski, whose association represents more 4,500 carriers and suppliers.


Who will be the 1st illegal driver to crash or be caught smuggling drugs?

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Canadians returning from ISIS ‘highly likely’ to pose threat, intelligence report says

Canadians returning from ISIS ‘highly likely’ to pose threat, intelligence report says

A group of Canadians detained overseas for allegedly being part of ISIS will “highly likely” pose a threat when they return home, warns an intelligence document obtained by Global News.

The Integrated Threat Assessment Centre report was written in June, after Iraq said it had taken custody of an unspecified number of ISIS members from Canada.

The suspects are liable to contribute to extremism once they returned to Canada, “either directly through an act of violence or indirectly by radicalizing others,” the intelligence report said.


Bet they’re considered cultural assets by the LPC.

h/t Hermes

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Ottawa vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of spying allegations against Canadian NATO intern says foreigner put in charge of stealing your guns by Globalist cabal.

Ottawa vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of spying allegations against Canadian NATO intern says foreigner put in charge of stealing your guns by Globalist cabal.

Spy charges against Canadian intern at NATO triggers ‘cascade of issues’ for multiple agencies

OTTAWA — A Canadian intern accused of spying at NATO’s strategic headquarters will make her first appearance in a Belgium court Tuesday to seek bail, and while the hearing will be held behind closed doors, the outcome will be released to the public.

The female suspect is accused of working on “behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization,” according to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office, adding that the chamber will decide if “pre-trial detention should be maintained.”

… As per protocol, the intern was vetted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the RCMP before being hired at NATO.


More … Ottawa vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of spying allegations against Canadian NATO intern says foreigner in charge of stealing your guns.

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Canada ‘not an option’ for thousands of Haitians and Syrians who could lose immigration status in U.S.: lawyer

Canada ‘not an option’ for thousands of Haitians and Syrians who could lose immigration status in U.S.: lawyer

With more than 350,000 Haitians and Syrians set to lose their protected immigration status in the U.S. today, will Canada see another influx of asylum seekers at the border?

“In the past, a lot of people came to Canada when they were losing their status in the United States and Canada saw a pretty significant surge at the border, and especially at irregular border crossings,” Toronto-based immigration lawyer Joel Sandaluk told CTV’s Your Morning on Monday.

“That can’t happen anymore.”


I’ll believe it when I see it.

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What Trump’s tinkering around with water at the Canadian border could be about

What Trump’s tinkering around with water at the Canadian border could be about

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Canadians have been focused on Donald Trump’s hounding them about becoming the “51st state” and squeezing their cross-border trade, the U.S. president has been quietly fiddling around with the rules for waters along the Canada-U.S. border.

In late April, the president signed House Joint Resolution 140 into law, rolling back a Biden-era mining moratorium on more than 200,000 acres of U.S. federal lands near the Boundary Waters watershed in Minnesota that drains into Canadian waters.

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Canada refuses to reveal cost of Gordie Howe bridge toll deal as Trump demands more revenue

Canada refuses to reveal cost of Gordie Howe bridge toll deal as Trump demands more revenue

Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson is refusing to disclose how much Canadian taxpayers could lose under a new toll-sharing arrangement for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for an even larger share of the bridge’s future revenues.

The issue overshadowed Friday’s ceremonial opening of the Windsor-Detroit crossing after Trump publicly declared that the original bridge agreement “no longer stands” and suggested the United States deserves more than the recently negotiated revenue-sharing deal.

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FBI Bioweapons Unit Seized Vials of Coronavirus the Chinese Army Shipped Toward a Minnesota Lab in 2018 — the Same Wuhan Network Tied to the Winnipeg Lab

FBI Bioweapons Unit Seized Vials of Coronavirus the Chinese Army Shipped Toward a Minnesota Lab in 2018 — the Same Wuhan Network Tied to the Winnipeg Lab

WASHINGTON — More than a year before the pandemic, in the autumn of 2018, coronavirus material was carried covertly out of a People’s Liberation Army medical academy toward the Minnesota laboratory of a federally funded virologist, a man named Fang Li, who was permitted to work on “bat coronavirus DNA.”

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s internal-trade charade

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s internal-trade charade

Canada’s premiers raised a glass to internal trade last week. Nine provinces signed an agreement allowing licensed Canadian wineries, breweries and distilleries to sell directly to consumers across participating jurisdictions. Quebec and Yukon, which helped develop the framework, have not yet joined but say they are working toward implementation. British Columbia, meanwhile, will not have its full system operating until February 2027.

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