Front-line security and intelligence workers including Mounties won’t be able to access the government’s penalty‑free early retirement incentive as federal public safety agencies focus on getting more people in the door — not out.
The early retirement incentive (ERI) is part of the government’s larger goal to trim the federal public service, and allows eligible federal employees to leave early without being penalized for cashing out their pension.
I mean, if anyone’s in a big rush to get out of the States because of the BAD ORANGE MAN, but finds themselves in a straitened circumstance. You know, the kind where you can’t exactly afford the spread in the Cotswolds that Ellen and Portia bought, nor that ticket to Costa Rica so you can hide on cheap jungle hideaway time, like Tarzan or Jane, but with air-conditioning and a flush toilet.
A 17-year-old has been found guilty of conspiring to murder Jews in Ottawa, among other domestic terrorism charges, after an unusual one-day trial that preserves his rights to appeal.
The teen — inspired by ISIS and an unknown person who went by “Klm” and “Gh D” online — was planning to commit an attack sometime around Christmas 2023 using three pressure-cooker bombs, according to a 50-page agreed statement of facts filed in Superior Court by federal Crown prosecutors Wednesday.
He planned to pack the bombs with thousands of 6.35 mm steel ball bearings “to maximize the death and injury caused by each,” and to strap one of the bombs to himself to detonate at the end of his attack, the statement of facts reads.
Unusual cuz it resulted in conviction?
On Sunday, a community centre in Montreal hosted a Palestinian prisoners speaking event that celebrated convicted terrorists involved in stabbings, murders and a failed suicide bombing. The event was organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a group with documented ties to terrorist entities.
Three days prior, two government departments and the centre’s administration were contacted by a lawyer warning them that the event posed a serious risk of promoting hatred and glorifying terrorism, to which none of the parties responded.
An ISIS recruiter who is being released from prison remains radicalized and poses a danger to the public, according to a Parole Board of Canada decision.
The ruling obtained by Global News said that while Ashton Larmond was now eligible for statutory release, special conditions were needed to protect public safety.
Larmond was arrested during a 2015 RCMP counterterrorism operation. He has now served two-thirds of his sentence and therefore must be released from custody.
A man found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he “continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.”
Ayanle Hassan Ali, who is Muslim, plans to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father and meet a potential bride his dad found for him in Somalia.
The mispronunciation of Regina — as in, the capital of Saskatchewan — was a clue. Then there was the reference to B.C. MLA Dallas Brodie, a woman, as a “he.”
These slip-ups helped lead researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) in Montreal to what they say is a network of affiliated YouTube accounts that appear to belong to concerned Canadians, sympathize with some Albertans’ grievances and push the idea of American annexation.
“The video narrators performed ‘Albertan,’ but there were these moments where you’re like, ‘OK, so this person is not from here,’ ” said Chris Ross, the senior analyst at the Observatory, who led his team’s recent probe into thousands of suspicious YouTube videos.
Who is behind this? Who stands to gain? Russia? China? Liberal Party members? Likely the latter.
AI makes it easy to create a click-bait video the creator(s) may have simply found a rich vein to mine for cash.
A senior citizen who went to Vancouver General Hospital for diagnosis and treatment after experiencing sudden pain was offered euthanasia by a doctor – before she had even been asked what was wrong with her.
Must of gone something like this.
Any Hospital
Anywhere In Canada
With the very notable exception of promising to learn French, then failing to do so, Mary Simon has not been a terrible Governor General. She spent money rather freely, of course, but they all do, and Parliament makes the budget, after all. You didn’t hear much from or about her, which is Job One for a governor general. That is, except in the francophone media, where she is a constant thorn in nationalists’ side because of her linguistic shortcomings.
Currently, there is growing support for independence from Canada in two provinces, Alberta and Quebec. In Alberta, for the first time in history, an independence referendum will be held in October. In Quebec, the Parti Québécois, a sovereigntist party, is leading in the polls.
Two provinces at each end of the country — East and West — have significant numbers of citizens wanting out of Canada. Yet, Alberta and Quebec are very different in almost every way — language, culture, history, and economy.
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The idea keeps coming back. A French politician mused about it in Berlin last month. A Finnish leader visiting Ottawa this April didn’t dismiss it out of hand.
Fresh polls show a majority of Canadians would support it.
And in an era when the United States has turned on its closest allies, the question has acquired a new urgency: Could Canada join the European Union?
As non-traditional relationships become more visible across Canada, a growing number of people are entering into polyamorous relationships. The legal system is struggling to keep up.
While polyamory itself is legal, experts say gaps in Canada’s legal framework leave multi-partner families navigating uncertain terrain when it comes to property, parenting and financial protections.
At the centre of the issue is Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which criminalizes polygamy — but not polyamory.
Muslim polygamy is practiced in Canada without any punishment that I am aware of.
Just what you’d expect of an unassimilable parallel society and a weak host nation.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) employees who came forward as part of an external study investigating mental health at the spy agency described a sometimes isolating and bleak environment “laden with stigma.”
One participant told researchers the “service has a fear of mental illness.”
Those comments are included in a first-of-its-kind research project commissioned by CSIS and published earlier this month in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Researchers spoke to employees who were willing to come forward, with their identities protected, to talk about the unique working environment at the spy agency.
Too many Canadian retirees spend far too much wealth outside our borders. The richest generation in Canadian history, who also happens to be the most heavily subsidized generation, has long enjoyed the luxury of snowbirding in the U.S. and regular trips abroad. But in an era of unprecedented economic uncertainty and risk, we can’t afford to be sending billions to other countries each year on luxury whims.
I don’t think the rot can be fixed, we live in a state poisoned from the 5th columnists within.
Toronto police have released images of a suspect who allegedly assaulted a woman wearing a hijab on a Durham Region Transit bus in Scarborough on Monday.
Police are investigating it as a suspected hate-motivated assault. The incident was captured on video and was posted on social media by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).
“We are outraged by a recent incident of Islamophobia that occurred on the Durham Transit,” the NCCM said.
