OTTAWA — Veteran broadcaster and political commentator Charles Adler has been appointed to the Senate.
The newly-appointed representative for Manitoba was announced Saturday, along with Tracy Muggli, a registered social worker and former Liberal party candidate, who will represent Saskatchewan. Both will sit as independent senators, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said in a statement.
This is a new low.
In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that systemic discrimination is embedded “in all [of Canada’s] institutions,” following two RCMP officers using force to arrest a First Nations Chief. Four years later, the narrative persists that Canada is a systemically racist country.
An economics professor with Sudbury’s Laurentian University says a grocery store chain’s choice to lock up certain cheeses and instructing customers to ask a cashier for assistance is an indication of a broader problem.
Louis-Philippe Rochon says the issue points to a much bigger societal issue than simply trying to deter theft.
The signage, spotted at a Vancouver No Frills store, owned by Loblaw, shows the locked up 250g wedges of President’s Choice Splendido Parmigiano Reggiano and President’s Choice Splendido Grana Padano, priced at $9.99 each.
Canadian markets naturally lend themselves to government abetted oligarchy.
Academics who study social media say a suspected bot campaign associated with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent speaking event in northern Ontario likely was the work of an amateur.
A rapid analysis conducted by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Social Media Lab (SML) concluded the bot campaign does not have the fingerprints of a sophisticated actor, but didn’t say who might have been behind it.
In July, the social media platform X was inundated with posts following Poilievre’s tour of Northern Ontario.
Trudeau mulls name-and-shame policy to curb foreign worker abuse
(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is mulling a change to help crack down on abuses of temporary foreign workers — publicly naming individual business managers or owners who violate Canada’s labor rules.
The measure would be part of a broader set of reforms to clean up the country’s migrant labor system, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition they not be identified.
The government is facing heavy criticism for a policy that has made it much easier for companies to bring in temporary foreign workers, or TFWs, and for lax enforcement of rules intended to protect them. Trudeau’s administration, responding to concerns about labor shortages, increased the limits on low-wage TFWs in 2022, allowing firms to hire up to 20% of their staff through that program — with a 30% limit in certain sectors, such as construction.
So Trudeau will let them continue to flood the nation with wage depressing foreigners but promises a stern finger wagging.
Nova Scotia has the highest rate of shoplifting in Canada, according to a National Post analysis of Statistics Canada crime data. British Columbia has the second-highest rate.
In late July, StatCan released its Canadian crime data for 2023. In recent years, as the cost of living has soared, retailers and business organizations have complained about increasingly brazen and damaging bouts of shoplifting.
Pranjal Singh was looking forward to a summer in Canada to hang out with his older sister, whom he had not seen since she left India to study in Toronto in April 2021.
The last thing the 18-year-old from Delhi had anticipated was being made to file a refugee claim in Canada when he landed in Montreal en route to Toronto on June 23.
“My brother comes from a wealthy family in India. He faces no danger in India,” said his sister Priyanshu Singh, 22, adding that their father owns several shoe factories and multiple properties in India.
Say what? h/t DS
The Canadian government is still calling for an investigation into Israel’s destruction nearly a month ago of a large water facility in an area of the Gaza Strip where Ottawa is known for supporting Palestinians.
The office of the International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says the incident adds to a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation.
“Canada has contacted the Israeli government for more information on this incident and we call for an investigation,” said spokeswoman Olivia Batten.
As the Canadian Future Party officially introduced its candidate for the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection on Thursday — a day after the party’s formal launch — questions lingered about voters’ appetite for a new option on the ballot.
Mark Khoury will run for the party in the Montreal riding, while Zbig Strycharzy was added to the ballot Thursday for the Elmwood-Transcona byelection.
Neither of the candidates’ biographies on the Canadian Future Party website mention them having run in any previous election or having any prior political affiliations.
Is it that a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian or is it sometimes that a Canadian is a terrorist who should have citizenship revoked? That’s the question many are asking after the Trudeau government began musing about stripping Ahmed Eldidi of his citizenship.
Ontario’s top court has upheld the sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the former frontman for the band Hedley.
Hoggard was found guilty in June 2022 of sexual assault causing bodily harm against an Ottawa woman and later sentenced to five years behind bars.
He was released on bail hours later, pending his appeal.
A 26-year-old Toronto man accused of plotting a deadly ISIS-inspired rampage previously lived in Egypt and once studied at a U.S. university, CBC News has learned.
Mostafa Eldidi and his father, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, were arrested last month and charged with terrorism offences over what police described as a plan to carry out “a serious, violent attack in Toronto.”
On Thursday, Mostafa Eldidi’s lawyer, Nate Jackson, appeared in court on his behalf for the first time. He told the court he would be meeting with his new client in person in jail on Friday.
Toronto and Vancouver have the largest Chinese and Hong Kong diaspora populations in Canada, yet it was in Quebec that the RCMP launched a special program to encourage the community to report cases of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harassment.
The program was launched in early July and features social media videos in Chinese, French, and English, with the Quebec RCMP announcing that it is actively engaged in investigating Chinese interference in the province. It also features uniformed officers going into the Chinese community and encouraging people to report cases of harassment by the Beijing regime.
In late 2018, after an otherwise-normal Christmas holiday, Laurie Beatty started acting strange. An 81-year-old retired contractor, he grew unnaturally quiet and began poring over old accounting logs from a construction business he sold decades earlier, convinced that he had been bilked in the deal.
Over the course of several days, Beatty slipped further into unreality. He told his wife the year was 1992 and wondered aloud why his hair had turned white. Then he started having seizures. His arms began to move in uncontrollable jerks and twitches. By the end of May, he was dead.
The Birju Dattani fiasco exposed how easy it can be for the wrong people to slide past detection into obscenely well-paying government jobs, that arm them with tremendous power over Canadians.
This happens too often in the Liberal government to be an “honest mistake” or a failure of process.
