The increasing power of transnational organized crime along the Canada-U.S. border means cross-border co-operation among law enforcement is more important than ever, B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Friday.
Farnworth attended a conference of policing agencies from both sides of the border in Esquimalt to discuss “the challenges that we’re both facing and how we’re dealing with them.”
The podcast interview that earned Conservative MP Arnold Viersen a newspaper across the nose this week was fascinating and confounding just like Cirque du Soleil: There’s so much interesting stuff here, but what is this?
To recap: Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has a podcast called Uncommons on which he chats with various experts, people in the news, partisan teammates and opponents.
His conversation with Mr. Viersen began with a long discussion of C-270, a bill they’ve worked on aimed at curbing non-consensual online porn. Then the talk branched out.
Of all the responses to the bombshell report of the Prime Minister’s national security advisory committee, in which it is alleged some MPs have been conspiring with foreign powers against the national interest, surely the most arresting was that of Professor Wesley Wark.
The revelations, he told the CBC, are “nausea-inducing.” The urge to vomit seemed particularly to overtake him at the story of a former MP who tried “to arrange a meeting in a foreign state with a senior intelligence official” and “proactively provided the intelligence officer with information provided in confidence.” Prof. Wark’s verdict: “textbook treason.”
The text from a Toronto police spokesperson came at 8:30 on a Friday morning. A synagogue in the city’s north end had been vandalized overnight. Our crew could meet detectives from the force’s Hate Crimes Unit on site.
We arrived at the Kehillat Shaarei Torah synagogue to find congregant Norman Mosselson quietly sweeping up broken glass. When we asked him how he felt, his voice broke and he stifled a sob.
“Well, shock. Total shock… This is my home,” he said. This was the second time the synagogue had been attacked in a month.
OTTAWA — A major public sector union has assembled a panel to address antisemitism that features a prominent anti-Zionist and critic of Israel, alarming several of the union’s Jewish members.
I think Avi is the bigger antisemite. Great Troll by PSAC though.
OTTAWA — MPs named by top-secret intelligence as aiding foreign interference in Canadian politics continue to go unidentified by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, despite opposition demands to say publicly who they are.
But at least one constitutional expert says it’s possible — and entirely in line with long-established rules — for certain MPs to simply disclose the names from the floor of the House of Commons.
MPs calling out hate while disparaging Israel criticism ‘duplicitous’: Muslim groups
OTTAWA — Muslim groups called on political parties to work harder to stamp out Islamophobia in Canada on Thursday, and to not paint criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
The concerns centred on condemnations of pro-Palestinian rallies and advocacy since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
“The response that the Muslim community in Canada, for months, has been receiving from our elected leaders has been duplicitous,” National Council of Canadian Muslims head Stephen Brown said Thursday.
A Calgary woman whose father has challenged her euthanasia request in court is starving herself to death and expects to die within weeks.
The 27-year-old autistic woman, who can only be identified as MV because of a court order, has asked judges to let her get a lethal injection — despite objections from her dad.
She’s now starving herself to death, and wants judges to greenlight her euthanasia request so she doesn’t perish in an ‘incredibly unpleasant’ manner.
The average asking rental price in Canada surpassed $2,200 to reach a record high in May, according to a new report.
Published Thursday by Rentals.ca and Urbanation(opens in a new tab), the report found that the average monthly asking price for all residential rentals increased by 9.3 per cent year-over-year to hit $2,202 in May.
He has Command Voice.
No pleading. No both sides. No apologies. https://t.co/xYAnn1wRts
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Milton Friedman’s first rule for government programs to alleviate poverty was: “If the objective is to alleviate poverty, we should have a program directed at helping the poor … There is every reason to help the poor man who happens to be a farmer, not because he is a farmer, but because he is poor.”
Treason in Canada?
That allegation leapt off the pages of a recent report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP). The worst example cited, with names and details redacted in the published report, concerned a former MP who engaged in communications with a senior official of a foreign intelligence service and tried to arrange a meeting overseas with this official. According to CSIS, confidential information was passed.
There is no other word for it. This is treason.
A man convicted of murdering a young teenage Burnaby girl has repeatedly told a pre-sentencing hearing that he didn’t kill her, after refusing to listen to his interpreter during an impact statement by the girl’s father.
A portion of the recorded statement was being played to test equipment ahead of Friday’s sentencing hearing for Ibrahim Ali, who faces a life term for the 2017 killing.
Justin Trudeau’s half-brother says the prime minister is a loveable person but should come clean, “repent” and apologize when he leaves office for things he’s done wrong.
In an interview with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, Kyle Kemper said the Liberal leader, with whom he shares a mother, Margaret, is also probably disinclined to run again due to Canada’s negative opinion of him. Trudeau has a net favourability rating of -38, according to a recent Angus Reid poll.
WATCH: Tucker Carlson interviews Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s brother; Kyle Kemper pic.twitter.com/ClDMgW6xLa
— Overton (@OvertonLive) May 12, 2024
Canada’s spy chief says that political leaders could take steps to make sure parliamentarians accused of cooperating with foreign governments face consequences, even if they don’t face criminal prosecution.
David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), suggested to a parliamentary committee Thursday that party leaders could disallow any of their MPs suspected of collusion from running for the party again, or expel them from caucus over the allegations they cooperated with foreign states like China and India.
God forbid they face real consequences for their treason.
OTTAWA — A Jewish group and an independent MP are pushing for the government to classify commonly used antisemitic chants as hate speech, with a petition signed by 13,000 Canadians tabled in the House of Commons.
The petition, tabled Wednesday by Spadina-Fort York MP Kevin Vuong, comes in response to the increased and overt use of chants such as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” in anti-Israel protests across Canada.
