Canada

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre reveal their hidden hopes in tributes to Brian Mulroney

Tributes to fallen comrades tend to bring out the best in politicians — and provide one of the increasingly rare times it isn’t awful to watch the proceedings in the House of Commons. This week’s speeches to the legacy of former prime minister Brian Mulroney provided a shining example.

But it wasn’t a total pause in the tumultuous politics of our time. When Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre and other leaders stood up to speak in Parliament in Mulroney’s honour on Monday, they also opened up a window into their own political souls at this juncture in Canadian politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

A divide is growing between the Conservatives, Liberals on issue of Israeli and Palestinian rights

Canada’s decades-old bipartisan consensus in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian question is falling apart.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government voted Monday night for a heavily diluted version of a non-binding NDP motion that advances supports for Palestinians in the conflict in Gaza.

The amended version arrived at almost literally the last minute, after Parliamentarians had spent the day debating the original and much firmer NDP motion. Clearly, the two parties had been in talks that went down to the wire, before reaching wording both could live with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Shocka! An Ontario gun trafficker released on bail 3 times is nowhere to be found

A reward of up to $50,000 is being offered for information leading to the capture of a convicted firearms trafficker after he was released on bail for a third time and skipped his sentencing, Toronto police say.

Kamar Cunningham of Toronto was arrested as part of Project Patton in June 2018 for his involvement in an organization that trafficked guns over the U.S. border, Toronto police said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, WTF?

Infectious-disease scientist fired from Winnipeg laboratory surfaces in China

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

One of two fired scientists at the centre of an RCMP investigation into a massive security breach at Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory in Winnipeg is working in China and collaborating with researchers from the People’s Liberation Army.

The Globe and Mail has learned that Xiangguo Qiu has been conducting research with Chinese military scientists and other virology researchers, including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, on antibodies for coronavirus and the deadly Ebola and Nipah viruses.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Michael Higgins: Liberals worried we’ll see just how many of them back Hamas terrorists

If there was any need for evidence of the shambolic nature of what the Liberals laughingly call their Middle East policy it was on full display Monday night in the House of Commons.

The Commons had spent a good part of the day debating an NDP motion that called for Canada to recognize “a State of Palestine.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Toronto TikToker who bashed Tories paid thousands for Canada Day promo: Report

Mr. Toronto

The Department of Canadian Heritage paid thousands of dollars to a Toronto TikTok personality who has disparaged Conservatives in a number of profane posts, access-to-information records showed.

… On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Horner wrote, “It is always the bitches who look like they would tear up at a Sears’ clearance rack who have their nose in the business of trans youth, always.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Jewish groups denounce passage of watered-down NDP Palestinian motion

OTTAWA — Despite an 11th-hour amendment that defanged the NDP’s contentious Palestinian motion in the House of Commons on Monday evening, Canadian Jewish groups reacted to the motion’s passage with alarm.

Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA,) reacted to the non-binding motion’s passage with both disappointment and anger.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Telecom execs insist wireless prices going down as MPs voice concern over costs

The chief executives of Canada’s three largest telecom companies stressed that phone and internet prices are coming down during an appearance before MPs on Monday, noting that increased data usage and high spectrum costs may be some reasons Canadians feel otherwise.

The three CEOs — Rogers Communications Inc.’s Tony Staffieri, BCE Inc.’s Mirko Bibic and Telus Corp.’s Darren Entwistle — appeared virtually at the House of Commons’ industry committee meeting.

Committee members voted unanimously last month to summon the trio to testify after a previous invitation to the chief executives resulted in other corporate representatives showing up instead.

Can’t say I’ve seen evidence of this.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

NDP motion on Palestinian statehood passes after tense negotiations with Liberals yield major amendments

OTTAWA—A majority of federal MPs voted Monday to support an NDP resolution calling on Canada to work “towards the establishment of the state of Palestine” after sweeping changes demanded by the Liberal government were made to allay fears it would be seen as an anti-Israel move.

The Liberals and NDP agreed late Monday to amend the motion to drop more controversial language recognizing the “state of Palestine” immediately. It is not binding on the government.

In the end, the motion passed in a 204-117 vote, with most Liberals, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, siding with the NDP, the Bloc Québécois, and the Greens supporting it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Now It Can Be Told: The Covid School-Closers Were Wrong, and They Harmed Kids

This won’t be news to anybody who has paid attention to American education or science since 2021, but the New York Times has published a lengthy piece by Sarah Mervosh, Claire Cain Miller, and Francesca Paris summarizing studies of Covid school closures that show that “the more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind.” Not only that: “And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.” You won’t see an apology here to red-state governors who were relentlessly smeared for battling to keep their schools open, or any consequences visited upon public health “experts,” teachers’ unions, or voices in journalism who did the smearing. But the studies’ verdict is about as close as you’re going to get.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, USA

More families will be allowed to apply to come to Canada from Gaza, Immigration Minister says

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada will allow more people trapped in Gaza who have extended family members in Canada to apply for temporary refuge – but he admits the move is “cold comfort.”

The government launched a family reunification program in January that offers temporary refuge to parents, grandparents, siblings and grandchildren of Canadian citizens and permanent residents.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada initially said it would only consider 1,000 applications for the program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

John Ivison: Liberals dodge a Palestinian bullet, but the NDP’s bill is yet to come

The vote on the NDP motion to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state gave every indication that the House of Commons is now governed by its nursery.

Except the motion was watered down to nothing.

Sore losers!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

Canadian Banks Directed to Prepare for Mortgage Default Risks and ‘Credit Losses’

The chief bank inspector has directed financial institutions to start assessing mortgages that could be at risk for default.

Superintendent of Financial Institutions Peter Routledge made the comments in a regulatory notice on March 11, saying bankers should focus on risky products, like variable rate mortgages with fixed payments, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

The notice says that mortgage holders are already facing higher payments, and others will soon face “payment shock” when they renew this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada