The Biden administration has been asking Ottawa to consider reimposing visa requirements for Mexican nationals visiting Canada, CBC News has learned.
At issue is the sharp increase in illegal crossings from Canada into the United States: Mexicans don’t need a visa to travel to Canada, while the U.S. requires a visa for Mexicans to enter. American border officials say some Mexican nationals are using Canada’s visa-free rule to fly into the country and then cross south illegally into America.
Pierre Poilievre will never have a career as a singer — which is fine, because he is currently auditioning for another job.
The Conservative leader acknowledged his lack of vocal prowess in the Commons this week after attempting to sing a few bars of “New York, New York.”
“I cannot sing very well, but at least I pay for my hotel rooms,” Poilievre said, asking whether Justin Trudeau would be footing the bill for his own foray to New York City this week.
Former Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation president Pascale Fournier told MPs Friday she believes the non-profit organization’s earlier leadership misled the country by characterizing a donation from wealthy Chinese benefactors as a Canadian donation.
Ms. Fournier, who resigned her post in March, testified before the Commons ethics committee Friday on the crisis at the publicly financed foundation that arose after The Globe and Mail reported that the Chinese government had orchestrated $1-million in donations to the foundation and the University of Montreal law school in hopes of influencing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Provinces and territories across Canada are secretly changing their COVID-19 death tolls, the National Citizens Inquiry heard.
According to retired Lt. Col. David Redman, offices across the country have been changing their tolls to a reduced figure.
As of April 25, the Government of Canada’s website listed 51,921 deaths from COVID-19.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – The former CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says she resigned because some members of its board of directors refused to recuse themselves from involvement in an independent forensic audit into a 2016 donation that she says was linked to China.
Pascale Fournier and eight other board members of the foundation resigned on April 11.
Fournier was a witness at the House of Commons ethics committee this morning as part of its study on foreign interference in Canada.
The Parole Board of Canada has imposed strict conditions on the statutory release of Mohamed Hersi, the first person in Canada to be tried for attempting to leave the country to join a terrorist activity abroad, citing the need to “protect society.”
Hersi, 37, is being released after serving more than 9 years and 7 months in prison, after he was convicted of participating in the activities of a terrorist group and counselling another person to do the same. He was arrested at a Toronto airport in 2011 as he was about to travel to Egypt and later join the Al-Shabaab, a jihadist militant group in Somalia.
Vast majority of non-essential workers took part in strike action, government figures say
More than 90 per cent of non-essential workers in the largest group of striking Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) workers took strike action during the first week of the labour stoppage, according to new government figures.
An average of 71,000 employees from the core public administration group of 120,000 workers were off the job, according to figures released by the Treasury Board.
Canadian renters have a tough few years in store, according to a new forecast from the CMHC, as those boxed out of an unaffordable housing market compete for a limited supply of rental homes.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s new housing outlook released Thursday warns that rental market conditions in Canada are “expected to further tighten,” raising rents in major markets such as Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
LaPresse columnist Isabelle Hachey noted Friday that your perception of Lebanese-Canadian sociologist Hassan Diab will depend largely on what news source you read. In the French and European press, Diab, who was tried in absentia, is a convicted terrorist. In the English-Canadian press, he is a persecuted innocent. Hachey is right. It’s like we’re reading about Diab and Mirror Diab.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brother says he is prepared to appear in front of a parliamentary committee to tell MPs everything he knows about the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in an effort to protect its reputation.
“I want to testify in front of the committee that is taking care of this. I’m prepared to say everything I know about the foundation. It’s urgent!” Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau said in a rare interview with Quebec-based newspaper Le Devoir.
Canadians are wary of Ottawa deciding what information on the internet is true or false, according to in-house federal research, which also found that few are likely to rely on federal government websites for information.
“Many participants expressed reservations about the Government of Canada telling Canadians what is true or false,” said a report by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
In the face of repeated threats to defund the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the network’s president requested a meeting with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to “discuss the implications” of the vow to cut funding.
That’s according to a letter, dated Nov. 29, 2022, and obtained by the Ottawa online outlet Blacklock’s Reporter.
… In a testy exchange, Cooper pressed Mendicino to explain why Canada hasn’t arrested any officials or expelled any diplomats tied to the handful of police stations China is believed to have operated in Canada.
Human rights groups have accused the Chinese government of using the stations to threaten and monitor members of the diaspora abroad.
“Not a single Beijing diplomat expelled. Why not, minister?” asked Cooper. “You’ve taken no meaningful action.”
They are on to us.
The only shocking thing about that bombshell Washington Post report, that Justin Trudeau privately told NATO officials Canada would “never” meet the NATO target for defence spending of 2 per cent of GDP, is how entirely unshocking it was – to anyone, least of all our NATO allies.
Statements like this from Junior combined with his role in the China grift make me more convinced he is being pushed out by forces beyond CSIS.
A controversial government bill to overhaul Canadian broadcasting laws to regulate streaming services has passed the final hurdle in the Senate and received royal assent Thursday evening.
After years of debate, the Senate gave its final approval Thursday to Bill C-11, also known as the Online Streaming Act. It received royal assent shortly after.
The bill makes changes to Canada’s Broadcasting Act. The legislation requires streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify, to pay to support Canadian media content like music and TV shows.
It also requires the platforms to promote Canadian content. Specifically, the bill says “online undertakings shall clearly promote and recommend Canadian programming, in both official languages as well as in Indigenous languages.”
If the usual crap is left available on a given streaming service then the addition of CanCon crap won’t be a game changer.
I think Prime already offers a dedicated CanCon section, I just skip over it.
I am not going to watch any more CanCon than I do now, which is almost zero.
If the crap we like is supplanted by the Inuit Muslim Lesbian Beadwork Hour then the use of VPN’s or other means to get around the blockade will skyrocket.
h/t RE
