The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday said the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States is constitutional.
The Supreme Court in its decision noted that the agreement does not violate Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom – the Right to life, liberty and security of a person.
A little good news.
The top Chinese diplomat based in Montreal was a keynote speaker at a recent event in that city opposing the establishment of a foreign agent registration act. Senators Yuen Pau Woo and Victor Oh, who also oppose a registry, attended the event as well and voiced opposition to such legislation.
Dai Yuming, the Chinese consul general in Montreal, delivered a speech at the event titled “Reflection Forum of the 100th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada,” organized by the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre on May 28.
The foreign interference threats coming from China differ significantly from those from Russia or other countries, says the boss of Canada’s spy agency.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault testified before the Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 13 and answered questions from MPs about the nature of the China threat.
Two weeks after the City of Toronto said it would begin referring refugee claimants seeking beds in its at-capacity shelter system to federal programs, asylum seekers who recently arrived in Canada are struggling to find places to sleep.
Birck Teklau arrived in Toronto from Ethiopia on June 3 hoping to claim asylum because, he says, of political persecution in his home country.
The 34-year-old says he’s been sleeping on the streets ever since — after being turned away from the city’s shelter system day after day.
“I tried many times…. They say that we don’t have [a] place,” Teklau said in an interview. “I never expected this from Canada.”
Perfect Manufactured Storm … Annual rate of housing starts in Canada fell 23% in May
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May dropped 23 per cent compared with April as starts of apartments, condos and other types of multi-unit housing projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal fell.
The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 202,494 units in May, down from 261,357 units in April.
After several months of the Trudeau government’s stonewalling and a series of transparently brazen attempts to draw the curtains down on the clandestine operations Beijing put in motion to the Liberals’ advantage during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, some good news. It came Tuesday during RCMP commissioner Michael Duheme’s testimony before the House of Commons committee on procedure and house affairs.
A family business owned by Canadians, MHD Nazier Houranieh & Sons Co. calls itself a pioneer in the global metals trade.
European governments describe it more ominously: a supplier for Syria’s chemical weapons program.
Working from Damascus and Beirut, the company is accused of importing materials used to produce “chemical weapons delivery systems.”
I’m surprised Justin isn’t touting this family as an immigrant success story.
Canadians of all ages and walks of life are fed up with the status quo on how their governments are responding to spiking rates of crime and addiction, according to a wide-ranging new Leger poll commissioned by Postmedia.
On everything from bail to involuntary addiction treatment to the decriminalization of drugs, Canadian public opinion was found to be almost entirely at odds with the priorities being championed by provincial and federal governments.
How Canada might go about replacing its aging submarine fleet is an ongoing exercise, but the nuclear-powered option looks to be off-the-table. This much is not new; however, Canada was also just reminded of its exclusion from the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact between its close allies the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
It may be a very long time before Canada makes a commitment for replacement submarines given that defence experts aren’t envisioning it being part of a new national defence policy to replace 2017’s Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE).
In a shocking and embarrassing development, DND said the RCAF was unable to participate because ‘many of our aircraft and personnel are currently committed to modernization activities’
NATO is currently engaged in its largest-ever air exercise in Germany, an operation aimed at sending a message to the Russians that the alliance is determined to defend every inch of its members’ territory.
Willful neglect. Canadians voted for this.
Canada is not that big a deal on the world stage.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a proud, loyal Canadian and love my country. It is just that we don’t really matter that much on the global scene. Our economy is the 10th largest in the world, which isn’t bad but could be better. When it comes to population we rank 39th. Defence? We come in at 20th out of NATO’s 31 members. Meh.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over his handling of convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s controversial prison transfer.
CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino’s office knew for months that one of Canada’s most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to a medium-security institution.
Since David Johnston resigned last week as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur, a lot of outlets have been wondering what comes next on the Chinese-meddling investigation.
But not me. I’ve been wondering what comes next for someone with the brilliant investigative skills of our former governor general.
CSIS director David Vigneault said the spy agency deliberately sent a May, 2021, note warning about China’s targeting of a Conservative MP and his relatives to then-public safety minister Bill Blair’s office and intended for this information to reach the minister because it was considered of high importance.
The testimony from the head of CSIS appeared to be an effort to defend the spy agency as a Commons committee probes why Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong wasn’t warned of the 2021 intelligence collected by CSIS for two years.
A Liberal Cabinet Minister lying! Unheard of.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s surprise visit to Kyiv was hosted in part by Andriy Melnyk, a controversial Ukrainian figure recently recalled from Germany after he defended Stepan Bandera, a Second World War Ukrainian nationalist whose forces participated in the Holocaust.
OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are pulling further ahead of the governing Liberal party in national voting intentions amid a widespread desire for change across the country, a new poll suggests.
The online survey from Abacus Data found the federal Conservatives have climbed to a seven-percentage-point lead over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, up from three points one month ago. The poll comes near the end of a raucous session of Parliament this spring that saw weeks of outrage over alleged Chinese political interference and the government’s response to it, as well as concerns over how best to help people deal with rising costs and debt.
