When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs.
Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to talk to kids about violent extremism.
“We believe that young people and minors pose the same threat as adults,” said Isaya, who works in the RCMP’s national security team.
“This trend is certainly continuing and it doesn’t seem to want to disappear.”
The Conservatives have shared their latest plan to bring down the Liberal government next month.
A House of Commons committee will meet in the new year to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the government.
If all goes according to the Conservatives’ plan, MPs in the House of Commons could be voting on a motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government as early as Jan. 30.
An Indiana man convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 with his mother has reportedly applied for asylum in Canada — and is already living there, apparently — after failing to report to prison over the summer to serve his sentence.
Better off in North Korea.
Holiday dinners are sometimes about making the best of an awkward situation, forcing smiles and exchanging pleasantries with people you’d rather not be sitting next to for very long. That’s just what Justin Trudeau did at the end of November, when he flew to Florida to dine with the incoming president of the United States. There is no bromance between Mr. Trudeau and Donald Trump, but their neighbouring countries are still better off when they can find a way to fake it, at least long enough to get from the appetizer to dessert.
I want Justin Trudeau gone as much as the next sane Canadian, but I don’t want the Governor General messing about in the democratic process just to hasten the prime minister’s departure.
To be sure, Trudeau needs to go.
For one, our economy is in meltdown. Productivity is declining. Investment is weak.
Another year around the Sun is drawing to a close and keeping with what has become the Western Standard tradition, I am honored to write my year end synopsis for 2024 and my thoughts looking ahead to 2025.
My year end synopsis is Canadians must Axe the Tax, Ignore the Cap and utterly Nix Net Zero!
I encourage all Canadians and their Conservative constituency associations to simply prioritize getting back to the basics and demanding that our elected officials retreat from all global commitments and initiatives relating to CO2 emissions.
Two decades ago, I wrote: “Sometime, not too long ago, while no one was watching, Canada became the world’s most successful country.”
The culture of accommodation that we evolved more than a century and a half ago as a way for the French and English populations to co-exist had proved to be ideally suited, I believed, to bringing millions of people from all parts of the world to this country, where they lived, worked and played together in harmony.
A false defense of multicult with a dash of don’t make the Muslims mad.
In the past several weeks — and before he has been sworn in for his second term — President-elect Donald Trump has threatened trade wars with both of the United States’ closest neighbors, mused about taking over Greenland, blustered about bringing the Panama Canal back under American control and suggested making Canada the 51st state.
Less than a month before his inauguration, Trump — who vowed to end foreign wars and made “peace through strength” a rallying cry of his 2024 presidential campaign — is crafting an “America First” foreign policy defined by antagonism toward U.S. allies and adversaries alike, centered around dreams of territorial expansionism, and channeled through the president-elect’s braggadocio.
Donald Trump has done the unthinkable, he has made patriotism cool again among Canada’s ruling elite.
Yes, people like Justin Trudeau who have described Canada as a postnational, genocidal state with no core identity now want to boast about Canada.
The people of Canada have long wanted our nation’s leaders to stand up for this country. Average Canadians have remained patriotic, it’s our leaders who have lost their way.
Secession. Captain Canada. Fifty per cent plus one.
These phrases have rarely been on the lips of the country’s political class since Quebec’s previous independence referendum in 1995. But today – although further down the agenda than concerns about inflation and immigration – talk of national unity is again being murmured in the halls of power.
Does anyone care anymore?
David Fine has voted for the Liberal Party in every federal election of his entire adult life. He says he’ll break that pattern in next year’s election.
“This time, I don’t think I can do that.”
The Vancouver resident is not sure where he’ll land: “None of the above” is the most appealing choice at the moment.
… except Toronto which prides itself on voting stupid
“An extreme national security vulnerability” is how the incoming border tsar, Tom Homan, describes the American-Canadian border, foreshadowing what is sure to be a focal point of the incoming Trump administration.
Canada’s border with America — the longest in the world, spanning more than 5,500 miles — has recently seen an explosion of illegal crossings. The Border Patrol tracked nearly 24,000 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2024 — more than double the roughly 10,000 encounters in the previous year and more than ten times the number from two years ago.
A Canadian criminologist who once worked on inland immigration enforcement for the Canada Border Services Agency said Canada needs to better track foreign nationals who arrive in the country on student visas.
Kelly Sundberg, a professor at Mount Royal University, said he was not shocked to hear that Indian law enforcement agencies are investigating links between Canadian colleges and a scheme to ferry international students across the Canada-U. S. border.
“I’m not surprised that our ridiculous honour-based immigration program is being gamed by transnational criminals. That doesn’t surprise me at all,” Sundberg said.
Two of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top cabinet ministers met Friday with two of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks in an attempt to stave off the looming prospect of tariffs on Canadian exports.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc flew to Florida to brief the presidential transition team on the government’s plan for improving border security and to make the case that Trump’s threat of steep tariffs on all Canadian exports to the U.S. would damage both countries’ economies.
Canada’s national security faces such major challenges, that its state of “crisis” is alarming and enraging.
“In December 2024 we find ourselves in a far worse situation across all areas of national security than we did in 2015,” said emergency response expert and retired Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Lt.-Col. David Redman.
Could heightened external and internal threats result from not only Liberal government incompetence — but also by design?
