Canada

Most border agency criminal investigators lack basic training, audit says

Most criminal investigators tasked with hunting down crimes at Canada’s ports and borders in recent years have lacked basic training, says a newly released audit report from the Canada Border Services Agency.

The report, posted on the CBSA website late last week, lands just as border officials, politicians, police and industry representatives meet today in Ottawa to discuss plans to tackle the rising number of car thefts over the past two years. The border agency’s ability to catch stolen cars before they’re shipped overseas is expected to be one of the main topics of discussion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

As auto theft summit begins, tougher penalties are on the table: Trudeau

With the number of stolen cars in Canada skyrocketing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is considering stiffer penalties for auto theft.

It’s an idea Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also proposed this week to crack down on what’s become a national epidemic.

Trudeau raised the possibility of harsher punishments during his opening remarks at the national summit on combatting on auto theft, which began Thursday in Ottawa.

I bet the LPC consider the export of stolen vehicles to be good for the environment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Supreme Court slammed by “anti-zionist” Black activists working with Michaëlle Jean Foundation after being ‘disinvited’ from presentation over posts on Israeli-Hamas conflict

OTTAWA—A group of Black anti-racism activists were dropped from a meeting at the Supreme Court of Canada because of concerns over their online posts about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The researchers and advocates who were working with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation say they were “disinvited” from a Jan. 15 presentation about an anti-Black racism project after Chantal Carbonneau, the top court’s registrar, told the former governor general the court was concerned about pro-Palestinian “tweets, likes and comments” on their social media that had made law clerks feel “unsafe” and harmed their mental health.

My Fave Line – El Jones, a poet, activist and political science professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, and DeRico Symonds, director of justice strategy with the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, also objected to what Jones described as “a granular level of surveillance”  by the court of their social media accounts.

The idiots were posting on twitter but it’s racist oppression to read their tweets?

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

Liberals at risk of big losses in Vancouver, Toronto, Nanos projections shows

The federal Conservatives continue to hold a commanding lead over the Liberals, who are at risk of losing large swaths of Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area they won in the last federal election, according to latest ballot numbers and seat projection data from Nanos Research(opens in a new tab).

If the election was held today, the Conservatives would get 40 per cent of the ballot support marking a 15-point lead over the Liberals, who are at 24.7 per cent ballot support.

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Bell to cut 4.8K jobs, sell 45 radio stations in major shake-up

BCE Inc. is selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations as it cuts nine per cent of its workforce, including journalists and other workers at its Bell Media subsidiary.

The affected stations are in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

The company announced Thursday in an open letter signed by chief executive Mirko Bibic that 4,800 jobs “at all levels of the company” would be cut.

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Former RCMP Intelligence official Cameron Ortis sentenced to 14 years after leaking national secrets

A Ontario Superior Court judge has sentenced former RCMP intelligence officer Cameron Ortis to 14 years in jail.

Assistant crown attorney Judy Kleiwer said Ortis’s conduct was a “betrayal” of the RCMP and Canada’s Five Eyes partners that “jeopardized the safety of Canadians.”

He’s only going to serve 7, what a surprise.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage, RCMP

Rahim Mohamed: Selina Robinson’s ouster shows NDP has no place for Jews who don’t submit

Former British Columbia post-secondary education minister Selina Robinson could not have imagined that when she called what would become Israel in 1948 a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it” in a late January Zoom panel, she’d be setting off an ugly chain of events leading to her departure from Premier David Eby’s cabinet. Her comments were hardly a lie, if impolite, but Robison had made herself a target with the NDP simply for being a Jew who supports Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada, NDP

Poilievre slams Trudeau as a ‘big talker and little doer’ on Ukraine as Tories vote against trade deal

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks a big game on Ukraine but is not meeting the needs of a country at war, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says.

“Justin Trudeau is a big talker and a little doer when it comes to Ukraine,” Poilievre said during a press conference in Montreal, Que., on Tuesday. “He’s made all these announcements of hundreds of millions of dollars of different equipment that he’s never actually delivered.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

CRESCIA: Canada is more broken than ever

The Trudeau Liberals recently gathered for a cabinet retreat to hit the reset button after a disastrous 2023 that saw the country become more broken than ever before. No big announcements emerged but the Liberals spent time ruminating about the consequences of a Trump presidency: “Mr. Trump represents a certain amount of unpredictability, but we will make sure we’re pulling together and preparing for whatever eventualities,” said Trudeau.

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“Fake Chinese income” mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks

The whistleblower, a Canadian business school graduate, was staggered by the suspicious home loans he discovered in 2022 when he joined a mortgage approval team in a small HSBC branch on the outskirts of Toronto.

He knew of suspicions surrounding Chinese capital in British Columbia real estate, but had never witnessed shady lending while working at an HSBC branch in Campbell River, a bucolic town on the coast of Vancouver Island.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Liberals, NDP and “Other” Voters make up 57% of the 25% of citizens who think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine making Conservative voters Evil Trumpists who evily want to put Canada 1st Says CBC

 

“I don’t want to overemphasize it … but what is burgeoning, what is starting to sort of grow from out of the weeds into a fairly healthy seedling here, is this almost the Trump-esque, ‘Canada First’ mentality,” she said.

Growing number of Conservative voters think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine, poll suggests

A survey released Tuesday morning by the Angus Reid Institute says a quarter of Canadians believe Canada is offering “too much support” to Ukraine in its fight, up from 13 per cent who said the same thing in May 2022.

Conservative supporters are a driving force behind that result, according to the poll.

The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in the last election, and who now say Canada is doing too much to assist Ukraine, has more than doubled — from 19 per cent in May 2022 to 43 per cent now — according to the public opinion research group’s findings.

Whole lot of spin goin on. Funny how CBC missed the part about how Liberal and NDP voters must make up the remaining 57% of of the 25% of Canadians who think we give too much to Ukraine. Are we to assume that Liberal and NDP voters do not wish to put Canada 1st?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, WTF?

Foreign Interference Inquiry ‘Off to a Very Bad Start,’ Poilievre Says

BRAMPTON, Ont.—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference had gotten off to “a very bad start” as a human rights group withdrew its participation and the Tories were denied full standing.

The inquiry, focused on probing alleged election meddling, concluded its first set of public hearings last week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada

B.C. minister stepping down amid outcry from pro-Hamas groups over ‘crappy piece of land’ remark

The B.C. NDP’s minister of post-secondary education is stepping down from her cabinet position, days after sparking widespread outrage by describing the region where Israel was founded as a “crappy piece of land.”

Selina Robinson’s remark, which was made during an online B’nai Brith Canada panel last week, surfaced on social media on Friday, leading to mounting calls for her resignation by pro-Palestinian groups and others.

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