Don’t fear separation.
Since the Bloc replaced the NDP as the Trudeau Liberals’ crutch, there has been a mild revival of the old, “OMG, we’re on the verge of losing our country!” hysteria.
I don’t fear separation for two reasons. First, the Bloc aren’t truly separatists. To the extent they ever were, they are no longer.
Testifying in late August about a terror plot thwarted in July, Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc commended the intelligence and law enforcement services for their efforts. “This is the way that the investigative and national security system should work,” LeBlanc said. But in the hearings, he faced questions about the immigration vetting process and how two alleged terrorists, both born abroad, were able to get into Canada, and one receive full Canadian citizenship, given their alleged ISIS connections.
Twenty-two years after the federal government first launched its bid to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat to his native Algeria as a terrorist, a court will once again convene to consider the case.
A Federal Court hearing in December will review the “minister’s opinion,” written by an unnamed senior official at Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada, that concluded Harkat posed a serious threat to Canada as a member of the al-Qaida network and should be deported despite holding refugee status in this country.
Government MPs presented a motion to study Palestinian statehood at committee, sources say
Liberal MPs presented a motion to study a path toward recognizing Palestinian statehood on Thursday, CBC News has learned.
The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
Despite millions in federal spending aimed at curbing gun and gang violence, Canadians report a significant rise in gang-related crime, with many personally affected by it, according to new research by the Department of Public Safety.
“One in five Canadians report they or someone close to them has been affected by gang-related violence,” stated the report Guns And Gangs Awareness Campaign. Additionally, 70% of respondents agreed that Canada has a growing gang violence problem.
Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics.
The revelation convulsed all of Canada.
Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families.
It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications of possible unmarked graves were discovered, and it produced a wave of sorrow and shock in a country that has long struggled with the legacy of its treatment of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered flags to fly at half-staff, as many Canadians wore orange T-shirts with the slogan “Every Child Matters.”
Three years later, though, no remains have been exhumed and identified.
What lies beneath is called Bullshit.
There’s a brief, delicious little vignette at the beginning of military historian Tim Cook’s latest book that neatly captures the essence of Canada’s decades-long national security and defence relationship with the United States.
Speaking in Kingston, Ont. with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his side, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that “the people of the United States would not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire.”
Seizing territory, having boots on the ground will never fall out of war’s fashion but how they are fought in the coming age of AI may determine the necessity of allies.
Joly says about 45,000 Canadians in Lebanon; she’s concerned about pager explosions
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says close to 45,000 Canadians are in Lebanon, months after warning there is no guarantee Ottawa can evacuate them if the situation deteriorates further.
She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.
I wonder how many of those so called “Canadians” are Hezbollah members?
The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y.
The outline echoes another age along these borderlands when runners moved contraband liquor from Canada south across this stretch of land between Quebec and New York state during prohibition.
Now a different type of traffic is moving through Oliver’s farm: people.
A $2.14-billion federal loan for an Ottawa-based satellite operator has Canadian politicians arguing about whether American billionaire Elon Musk poses a national security risk.
The fight involves internet connectivity in remote regions as Canada tries to live up to its promise to connect every Canadian household to high-speed internet by 2030.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported an unprecedented number of migrant encounters at the border between Canada and the United States from last October through July of this year.
There were 19,498 migrant encounters recorded between border posts along the northern border for the 10-month period between October 2023 and July 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested following an altercation at a Montreal-area mosque that left three people injured on Friday afternoon.
Police in Châteauguay, Que., say the man entered the Centre Culturel Musulman de Châteauguay, located on St-Jean Baptiste Boulevard, holding a knife when an altercation broke out with several individuals at around 1:40 p.m.
The police are keeping this tightly sealed.
B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby last week became the latest politician to distance himself from the carbon tax, while his federal counterpart Jagmeet Singh said he opposes the Liberals’ version of the scheme.
Before that, B.C. did a U-turn on its hard drugs decriminalization experiment, asking the feds to remove the Criminal Code exemption amid rising drug use. As well, in a province that once pioneered various harm reduction and safe injection site policies, amid backlash the government sought to bring in legislation to limit drug use in parks where children play, though it was challenged in the courts.
OTTAWA—A government review into how a father and son arrested in Toronto for allegedly planning a terror attack were allowed into Canada will be completed and made public in the next two weeks, federal immigration minister Marc Miller said Thursday.
Miller’s comments came as he appeared before the public safety committee, which is probing the Canadian government’s border screening processes in the backdrop of two recent alleged terror plots that were foiled in Canada but have raised concerns from opposition MPs about Canada’s security vetting.
A foreign student in Canada accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews living in New York entered this country last year without raising any red flags that triggered additional screening by federal security agencies, according to records tabled Thursday at a parliamentary inquiry.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national residing in the Toronto area for the past year, was arrested in Quebec earlier this month. He now faces extradition to the United States on charges that he was lending material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
