Two Chinese community organizations are suing the RCMP for defamation after the national police force alleged they were operating as “police stations” for the Chinese government.
The Chinese Family Services of Greater Montreal and Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive Sud, as well as the two centres’ executive director, Xixi Li, are seeking more than $4.9 million in damages, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court.
Who calls the shots in Canada, Ottawa or Beijing? It’s becoming harder to tell, especially after this week’s shameful performance by the House of Commons Ethics Committee.
On Monday the Liberal-dominated committee shut down an emergency request by Conservative MP Michael Chong to investigate the firing of two Chinese scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, at the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory in 2021. Chong made the request after the government released 600 pages of documents revealing that Qiu and Cheng had basically been spying for the People’s Republic of China (PRC), developing “deep, cooperative relationships” with institutions there and transferring Canadian scientific knowledge and materials to the Chinese government.
A Chinese couple working at Canada’s highest biosecurity lab were secretly sending information to Beijing and mailed live Ebola to China, a bombshell investigation has found.
In a 600-page report released this week by the Canadian intelligence service, the pair were also accused of allowing visitors into the lab who tried to leave carrying plastic bags of vials containing an unknown substance.
Dr Xiangguo Qiu and Dr Keding Cheng were found to have left visitors with ties to the Chinese government and military unsupervised at the facility.
h/t Canucklehead
Trudeau confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters while snowboarding in Thunder Bay
h/t UCSPanther and SDMatt
I guess his security team just looks the other way now.
An arbitrator has ruled that nine Ontario nurses, who were fired because they didn’t get 2 COVID-19 vaccinations, should be reinstated, because their termination was “unreasonable.”
“Nurses intent on remaining unvaccinated are a small minority everywhere but their employee rights may not be ignored” wrote James Hayes, in his decision published March 1.
Built with a $53-million low-interest loan from the province to underwrite the below-market sale of family homes, Victoria’s Vivid condominium development was supposed to be a new model for affordable housing in B.C.
Then housing minister — and now premier — David Eby hailed the 2021 completion of construction on the 135-unit building in the provincial capital’s downtown as “great news” for middle-income British Columbians hoping to achieve the dream of home ownership.
But court documents obtained by CBC allege that as many as a dozen of those condos were sold to people who already owned property — in some cases multiple homes worth millions.
More than 100 Iranian-Canadians sent a letter to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday calling for an investigation of the party’s handling of allegations of Iranian regime interference in an Ontario riding nomination race.
Those who signed the letter include academics, physicians and people who lost loved ones on Flight PS752 when it was shot down by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2020.
Kaveh Shahrooz, an outspoken critic of Iran’s regime, announced on social media last month that he was withdrawing from the Conservative nomination contest in the federal riding of Richmond Hill. He said he faced “unprecedented” foreign interference and intimidation during his campaign.
On Jan. 29, 2022, a trucker convoy headed down to the Coutts, Alta., border crossing with the U.S. to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandates the Trudeau government had put in place. The protest turned into a full-scale blockade that lasted 17 days. Two of the protest leaders, Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and mischief, accusations that were hard to credit given the context of the event. They remained in custody for 723 days, during 74 of which Morin was in solitary confinement. Finally, after their lawyer filed a Charter of Rights application to examine the case, the Crown suddenly accepted a plea deal on minor firearms charges. They were released early last month.
Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani, a commentator and activist, scored a sizable victory in a federal byelection Monday — a lopsided result the Tories are spinning as an ominous sign for the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area.
Jivani claimed about 57 per cent of the vote compared to 22.5 per cent for his closest competitor — Liberal candidate and local ward councillor Robert Rock — in this suburban-rural riding east of Oshawa, Ont., on the outskirts of the province’s Golden Horseshoe region.
I hope they keep the momentum. I will likely vote PPC however as they are the only party willing to fix the mass immigration mess.
Rebel News and one of its media personalities, David Menzies, are taking the RCMP to court, accusing the federal police force of engaging “in a pattern of intimidation and exclusion.”
The lawsuit, which is also directed at the York Regional Police and the Attorney General of Canada, stems from Menzies’s high-profile arrest in January.
‘By allowing these tribunals to offer cost awards, they’re effectively going to be incentivizing complaints,’ says Aaron Wudrick, of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Aaron Wudrick, the director of the domestic policy program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the government’s new online harms bill.
The bill will attempt to force social-media, user-uploaded adult content and live-streaming services to reduce exposure to online content deemed harmful. That means strengthening the reporting of child pornography and better addressing hate propaganda and providing recourse to victims of hate online.
Hard to believe that something could be worse than Section 13 but here it is.
This is about control not “harm.”
I am certain the worst will come to pass.
Three new public opinion surveys suggest Canadians are growing more concerned about the state of the country’s military — and about Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s threats to abandon allies who don’t invest in defence.
The Angus Reid Institute released new data Tuesday showing a larger share of Canadians — 29 per cent — are choosing military preparedness and the country’s place on the world stage as their top political priority. Almost a decade ago, that figure was just 12 per cent.
“Slightly more than half (53 per cent) say Canada should increase its spending level to two per cent or beyond,” the survey analysis said — a reference to NATO’s spending benchmark, which calls on member countries to spend the equivalent of two per cent of their gross domestic product on the military.
Safe seat but still a solid win for an unknown.
Federal – Durham Byelection Results (9:45PM ET):
Jivani (CPC): 53.2%
Rock (LPC): 24%
Borgia (NDP): 11.7%
Conlin (PPC): 5.2%
MacKenzie (GPC): 2.4%
Quershi (CNT): 1.4%– 45/225 Polls Reporting –
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) March 5, 2024
The Libs lost Bigly!
The amount of money and promotion the Liberals put into the Durham by-election just to get absolutely steamrolled by @jamiljivani is quite embarrassing.
They could have skipped this one but Justin Trudeau was arrogant enough to think he could have a good showing here. pic.twitter.com/ZtbUZUYD83
— Wyatt Claypool (@wyatt_claypool) March 5, 2024
Conservative Jamil Jivani wins federal byelection in Ontario riding of Durham
A lawyer and political commentator running for the Conservatives won the federal byelection in the Ontario riding of Durham on Monday night, CBC News projects.
Jamil Jivani will take over the seat left vacant by former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole.
338Canada Federal Projection – CPC 206/ LPC 67/ BQ 38/ NDP 25/ GPC 2/ PPC 0 – March 3, 2024
338Canada federal update | March 3, 2024
Details → https://t.co/fzDjpHtTMa pic.twitter.com/AV7UTItFjs
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) March 4, 2024
h/t Mauser & DS
OTTAWA— A group of Canadian human rights lawyers and Palestinian Canadians who have lost family and friends in Gaza plans to sue Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to block exports of military goods and technology to Israel, arguing the Trudeau government is in breach of Canada’s domestic and international legal obligations.
The lawsuit is to be filed Tuesday in the Federal Court of Canada by Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLIHR), joined by a Palestinian non-governmental organization called the Al-Haq-Law in the Service of Man, and a number of Palestinians living in Canada, including one who is seeking asylum status here.
h/t Mauser
A former Ontario nuclear power plant worker charged with leaking secret information to a foreign entity or terrorist group (opens in a new tab)has been denied bail.
The decision was handed down at an Oshawa, Ont. courtroom on Monday following two lengthy bail hearings totalling five-and-a-half hours in length.
James Mousaly, 36, is charged with one count of communicating safeguarded information under the Security of Information Act, the RCMP confirmed last week.
Mousaly indicates an origin in Iraq.
