Kelly: Quebec’s music and language was MIA at the Junos

The Juno Awards ceremony on Sunday completely ignored Quebec, with the francophone album trophy handed out at an earlier gala, almost no Quebec artists performing (the only one was former Montrealer Allison Russell during the Joni Mitchell tribute), and the only person to utter a word in French was our prime minister.

The Junos are billed as “Canada’s Music Awards.” But based on Sunday night’s gala, that’s false advertising. These Junos apparently don’t include Quebec.

I don’t consider the Juno’s to be “Canadian”. The only talent required is to be a left wing crank.

h/t Mauser

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A policewoman targeted by a barrage of misogynistic insults

“Filthy whore,” “dirty female dog,” “you’re my slave”: a Montreal police officer was subjected to extremely violent language while intervening with a motorist last summer. However, she had no legal means to silence the aggressive man.

h/t Patti Jo and NeoCon

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Sadistic lesbian foster moms made boy, 12, wear soaking wetsuit and joked ‘Shiver, shiver dumb f**k’ before his horrific death, murder trial hears

Two lesbian foster moms tortured a 12-year-old boy by forcing him to wear a soaking wetsuit as they mocked him in gut-wrenching messages before he was tragically found dead, prosecutors claim.

The disturbing claims about the death of the Canadian child, identified only as LL, have come to light during the murder trial of Becky Hamber, 44, and 46-year-old Brandy Cooney.

LL, who died on December 21, 2022, was found soaking wet, unresponsive, and emaciated in the basement of the couple’s Toronto-area home before being pronounced dead at the hospital, the court was told.

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Millions of Americans are now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’

When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, New York State resident Ellen Robillard briefly looked into getting Canadian citizenship. Her mother, after all, was born in Nova Scotia.

As a Democrat, Robillard was despondent at the election results, but she abandoned the idea after realizing that her young son wouldn’t be eligible for citizenship under a law that barred Canadians born abroad from passing their citizenship to children if they were also born outside Canada.

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Internal RCMP report warns nitazenes could surpass fentanyl as ‘defining issue in Canada’s opioid crisis’

An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.

Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.

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‘Equity cards’ arguments take over NDP Leadership Convention: ‘CANADA IS COOKED’

As you already know, the New Democrat Party over the weekend elected a new leader in Avi Lewis.

But prior to him stepping into Jagmeet Singh’s Gucci loafers, there were some other events that took place during the NDP Leadership Convention in Winnipeg.

My suspicion is the Juno’s and the NDP Convention are the same event rebranded.

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Raymond J. de Souza: Canada’s long, sad history of non-policing police

The Toronto police have announced that henceforth, and forthwith, to better serve and protect, they will commence … policing!

Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters will no longer be permitted to parade through Jewish neighbourhoods hurling antisemitic invective at the residents. As this deliberately aggressive harassment has been going on for more than two years, the minimal comfort offered by the Toronto police comes rather late in the day, but it is something. Protesters will retain the right to air their grievances — against Israel, against Jews — on the main streets and intersections. No longer can they disturb the peace on residential streets.

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‘It’s ridiculous’: U.S. closing historic Border Road to Canadian traffic

COUTTS — Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada.

The shared road is on the Montana side, but Alberta maintains it.

North of the road lives Ross Ford.

On the south, it’s Roger Horgus.

Both are in their 60s but remember childhood days bounding back and forth across the invisible demarcation line to play.

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Chris Selley: Suddenly, Toronto police decide now that Jews shouldn’t be harassed in their homes?

An interesting development last week on the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — which to some truly awful people means a Jewish neighbourhood in North Toronto. Toronto police announced that henceforth, “due to the changing security landscape in Toronto in recent weeks, including increased volatility and heightened fear in our communities, demonstrations moving into residential neighbourhoods in the Bathurst (Street) and Sheppard (Avenue) area presents an unacceptable risk to public safety.”


I wonder what went on behind the scenes to trigger this sudden about face? Lawsuit?

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Douglas Todd: Unsolved murder of Chinese spiritual group worker justifies ‘passionate’ scrutiny, B.C. judge rules

The unsolved murder of an employee of a giant spiritual health organization — which a Mountie ranked as one of the most “strange” cases he’s ever seen — is back in the spotlight after a B.C. judge ruled the matter of significant public interest.

The killing of Bo Fan, an employee of Create Abundance, has drawn international media attention over the past six years, including from Canadian news outlets, Le Monde in France, the South China Morning Post in East Asia, Newsweek in the U.S., and The Sunday Guardian in India.

Very weird.

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Jesse Kline: Tell me again why Air Canada must be officially bilingual

The horrific crash at New York’s LaGuardia airport last weekend, in which an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck on the runway, has been described by Canadian politicians as a “crisis” that’s completely “unacceptable.” Only they weren’t talking about who may be to blame for an accident that killed two pilots and injured 40 others. Oh, no. This is Canada, where a crash landing sparks a discussion not about aviation safety, but about language “rights.”


It’s silly to eliminate non-speakers of French from jobs in their own government.

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GUNTER: Feds’ attack on notwithstanding clause an attack on Canadian federation

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial 2019 law, Bill 21. Also known as the secularism law, Bill 21 forbids the wearing of religious symbols at work by any public servant including teachers, nurses, police officers, even clerks.

It’s a Carney power grab.

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Islam in Canada or Why I’m proud to be an Islamophobe

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Jamie Sarkonak: The activists clamouring for us to be ruled by a woke juristocracy

Interest groups have been asking the Supreme Court to consider race, international law in notwithstanding clause case

The Supreme Court held hearings last week regarding Bill 21 — Quebec’s secularism law, which prohibits religious dress and symbols from the province’s public-sector workplaces. The ban flouts the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but Quebec, so far, has gotten around that by invoking Section 33, the constitutional override known as the notwithstanding clause.

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