Canada has done a detailed mapping of what it says are covert Chinese police operations within its borders and wants to explore a response with Group of Seven allies to a challenge faced by several nations.
The issue of Beijing allegedly setting up unofficial “police stations” in Western democracies — to monitor and intimidate members of the Chinese diaspora — has become a growing concern. Canada, the US, Italy, Germany and the UK have all grappled with the problem.
I’m used to seeing my friends pack up bags and move to the United States. Most of my graduating class of software engineering at the University of Waterloo decamped for the U.S. right after graduating in 2019. The few who stayed back, have strongly considered moving or have gradually made the jump since.
Recent data shows that this trend is accelerating and is no longer isolated to tech. According to data from the U.S. census, more than 126,000 people from Canada moved to the United States in 2022, a 70 per cent increase from 2021 and one of the highest numbers seen yet.
Concerns are growing about how a far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025 could influence a second Donald Trump presidency — as well as Canada’s relationship with the United States.
Democrats have been attempting to tie Trump to the controversial initiative and convince voters its extreme conservative policies would be representative of how Trump will govern if he wins the U.S. election in November.
At the heart of Project 2025 is a plan to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy to make the civil service much more aligned with the political interests of the White House. That would have major implications on the day-to-day business of managing Canada-U.S. relations in important areas like trade, analysts say.
No. 1 – Trump is on record stating Project 2025 is not on his radar making this one more example of MSM TDS.
No. 2 – Making the civil service much more aligned to his political interests is exactly what Justin Trudeau has done in Canada.
OTTAWA — A former aide to then prime minister Stephen Harper who oversaw major appointments is casting doubt on the Liberals’ explanation that the public service failed to properly vet Canada’s new human rights commissioner Birju Dattani.
Howard Anglin, who served as Harper’s deputy chief of staff, said that each appointment for the head of a major agency or board goes through layers of verifications from ministerial staff, the Privy Council Office (PCO) and the cabinet itself.
It’s amazing what a few years of open borders can do to a country.
After allowing millions of illegal aliens to freely invade America, the Gallup poll has bad news for Biden. And not just from Republicans.
The reaction to Pierre Poilievre visiting a number of Christian churches lately would make you think The Handmaid’s Tale was about to move from fiction to reality.
Seems to some so-called progressive Canadians, politicians can seek the votes of any religious or ethnic group, but Christians need to be avoided.
Who’s that guy? Pierre Poilievre may not be recognizable to some Canadians, but a lot of them still want to vote for him
OTTAWA — About a third of Canadians can’t put a name to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s face, a new poll suggests, even as his party commands at least a 17-point lead over Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in public support.
But Abacus Data CEO David Coletto says that’s not actually a problem for Poilievre, and instead signals one for Trudeau, whose floundering fortunes are driving big questions about how or if he can hang on to power — and who might replace him if he goes.
A mile wide and an inch deep is one way to describe Canada’s current foreign-policy strategy. Since 2015, Canada has been balancing a range of priorities and initiatives. It has been working to build trade relationships and deliver on security commitments while also advancing progressive politics around the world.
London doctor’s ‘death to Israel’ post triggers backlash
A London doctor has sparked outrage over a social media post calling for “death to Israel,” with some pro-Israel supporters calling for her medical licence to be revoked.
Dr. Nahla Al Sarraj, now in post-graduate psychiatry studies at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine, in a video post on X spoke about the months-long conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and called for “death to Israel and death to Zionism.”
Ron Sept is getting desperate.
He can’t afford a car, his prescription medications, eyeglasses or new clothes, he said. He’s stopped eating meat to save on groceries, which he can only buy with the money his son living overseas sometimes sends him. If you visit him in his one-bedroom apartment in Nanaimo, B.C., you’d have to sit on the floor, because he has one chair and no table.
OTTAWA – Three weeks after the federal Liberals promised to do a “formal, independent review” of the appointment of Canada’s new human-rights commissioner, the government hasn’t provided any details about what that review will entail.
Birju Dattani, former executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, was named as the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on June 14.
On Aug. 8, he is set to start a five-year term in the new job, as the first person of colour and the first Muslim man to hold the role.
Buried among the many tables in Statistics Canada’s June employment report are data on public sector employment: federal, provincial and local employees hired by departments, agencies, hospitals and schools, including universities and colleges. As of June, 4.412 million workers were public employees, representing 21.5 per cent of Canada’s workforce. That is an astonishing 972,000 more (28.3 per cent) than in 2014, when 3.439 million Canadians were working for governments. And the numbers don’t include contracted services.
“If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain.”
This oft-quoted saying, frequently misattributed to Winston Churchill, actually has a complex history with no definitive source. Its essence, however, has been expressed by various thinkers over the centuries, reflecting a common perception about political leanings across age groups.
Canada’s plan to buy 12 new submarines, announced during the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington, may have eased the pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid criticism from Canada’s closest allies that it has become a freeloader in the alliance.
Going into the summit, Canada was the only NATO member without a clear plan to meet its commitment to spend 2 per cent of its economic output on defence. While the Trudeau government has taken important, if belated, steps toward this goal, Canada is still years away from reaching the target – the goal is by 2032, Mr. Trudeau said on Thursday – unlike the 23 NATO members that will do so in 2024.
They had best postpone hostilities. Few will volunteer to fight under Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau is so schooled in the art of denial that he now tries to deflect inescapable truths.
In Washington Thursday, at the conclusion of the NATO summit there, the prime minister unveiled what his defence minister, Bill Blair, called a “credible, verifiable path to two per cent” spending of gross domestic product on defence by 2032.
Let’s leave aside the fact that the plan is neither credible nor verifiable. Trudeau was asked if he was worried that the political problems that have dogged him this week will now hang over this country for the next eight years.
