Parole Board says measures needed to ‘protect society’ as Canadian terrorism convict is released
Citing Hersi’s “propensity for violence,” the Parole Board ordered the 37-year-old to undergo treatment “to address ingrained extremist ideologies” and “violent behaviour.”
He must also live at a halfway house upon his release, can own only one cell phone, and is not permitted to use a computer capable of accessing the internet, the Board wrote in its decision.
I ask myself the following question: how many foundations in the country have access to a room in the Prime Minister’s Building and also have access to five deputy ministers at the same time? There shouldn’t be many. Dimitri Soudas, political analyst and former close associate of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“I wish I had another example of a foundation that had such access. Seems like preferential treatment for a foundation that had the name of the father of the current prime minister,” he added.
What did Justin Trudeau know about this roundtable? Nothing, argues the Prime Minister’s Office. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Prime Minister’s staff attended this meeting. The Prime Minister was not aware of this meeting,” said Alison Murphy, spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau.
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University of Waterloo advises researchers they aren’t obligated to talk to CSIS agents
The University of Waterloo is advising its researchers that they are not required to talk to CSIS agents or give them access to faculty equipment if approached by the spy agency for information on joint research projects with scientists from foreign countries such as China.
In guidelines recently sent to faculty and researchers, the University of Waterloo warned them they could be approached by CSIS agents who “may be concerned that you could be a target of a foreign state or entity, or they may have questions about some of your activities.” The memo also advises them: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS agent.” It later adds. “You must not consent to a search of University of Waterloo property without authorization.”
A small handful of Canadian embassy staff have been evacuated from war-ravaged Khartoum as part of a dramatic airlift of international diplomats by helicopter, airplane and ship, but more than 1,590 Canadians remain trapped in the country as the heavy fighting persists.
“Our diplomats are safe – they have been extracted and are working from outside the country – and we are looking at every possible option to support our locally engaged staff,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet on Sunday.
We’ve seen this before.
Canadians of convenience who acquired passports the last time their beloved “homeland” imploded go right back when things have settled down and now demand rescue from their once again incendiary 3rd world shithole. They took on the risk of their own volition, we should not be held responsible for their decisions.
Canada’s “woeful” military readiness underscores the urgent need to boost defence spending and meet its commitments to NATO as the alliance confronts the most dangerous global security environment since the end of World War Two, former Canadian defence officials say.
Without doing so, they say Ottawa could risk pushing away its security allies.
MONTREAL — More than six months after his election as Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre has yet to meet Quebec Premier François Legault one on one.
That stands in stark contrast with his two immediate predecessors. Notwithstanding the pandemic, Erin O’Toole and Legault met face-to-face less than a month after the former became leader in August 2020.
Andrew Scheer showed up for a meeting with the premier two short weeks after the CAQ was first elected to government in 2018.
Or maybe Quebec just isn’t worth the effort.
It’s ironic that the fate of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government rests in the hands of organized labour.
Labour was rarely central to the government. The Liberals dealt with it when they had to do so. In the lead-up to the revision of NAFTA, for instance, the government found it convenient to make use of UNIFOR, the union that represents most autoworkers.
And it always treated union leaders with the greatest of respect.
The Chinese contribution to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation does not seem to me very worrisome in itself. A contribution of $200,000 from a wealthy Chinese businessman apparently closely affiliated with the governing Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, is not an especially consequential event for a foundation that was launched the year after Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s death and was endowed with $125 million from the government of Canada.
Canadians shouldn’t feel sorry for privileged federal bureaucrats.
They don’t worry about losing their jobs or missing a paycheque. They get pay raises and bonuses, even if they don’t meet their own performance targets. Now they want billions more from taxpayers who are struggling to pay for groceries and make their mortgage payments.
To be fair not all civil servants are predators: Only a third of 120,000 striking PSAC members cast vote on work stoppage
… The complaint, which was filed with the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, was filed by a public servant seeking to invalidate the strike.
His complaint was dismissed but the board did find voting irregularities of “significant concern.”
American authorities used a legal tool that doesn’t exist in Canada: a foreign agents registry
The United States has launched a crackdown on so-called Chinese police stations operating on its soil using a legal mechanism that doesn’t exist in Canada, at least not yet — a registry of foreign agents.
U.S. authorities this week announced they had shut down what they referred to as a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan.
The criminal charges they laid were against two American citizens who allegedly failed to register their work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
Trudeau plays identity politics with our security in order to protect the China grift.
Why is Justin Trudeau sowing confusion about a foreign influence registry?
Asked this week about the need for Ottawa to create a foreign influence registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the internment of Japanese-Canadians in the Second World War and warned against the dangers of creating “registries of foreigners in Canada.”
A recent article in the National Observer suggested that “real” populists would support the public workers currently on strike in Ottawa, which includes 159,000 federal employees in various departments, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to Veterans Affairs.
The article calls these public workers “working class” and attacks Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for not championing them. Poilievre sells himself as the politician who cares about the little guy, so why doesn’t he care about these guys? Is this not a populist movement?
Most of Blackie’s media have been pushing this insulting “public service union as working class” canard.
The public service is 74% unionized with wages and benefits the working class, (13% unionized,) can only dream of.
Did you get full pay to stay home during the pandemic? Did you get a bonus for just breathing during the pandemic?
Didn’t think so.
The two businessmen linked to the Chinese regime who donated to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016 met with federal ministers on several different occasions.
Zhang Bin, president of the regime-backed China Cultural Industry Association (CCIA), and his colleague Niu Gensheng, an adviser to the CCIA, had reached a deal in 2014 to donate $200,000 to the Trudeau Foundation and $800,000 to the Université de Montréal (UdeM), where former prime minister Pierre Trudeau used to study and teach.
Despite the strong relationship Canada maintains with Israel, Canadians have a mixed and uncertain opinion of the Jewish state, including on crucial, existential questions, a national opinion poll says.
… And while 36 per cent said the establishment of the State of Israel, which marks its 75th anniversary this month, was the right thing to do, 20 per cent said it wasn’t, but again, the largest response, at 44 per cent, was they didn’t know one way or another.
Those numbers suggest diversity is advancing …
Ontario’s Ministry of Health is investigating how Norfolk County Paramedic Services responded to a 2021 police raid that killed renowned gunsmith Rodger Kotanko.
Hannah Jensen, press secretary for the office of deputy premier and health minister Sylvia Jones, confirmed the investigation to CBC Hamilton on Thursday morning.
Jensen didn’t provide any details including when the investigation started and what spurred it.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to spend as much as $13 billion into a new battery plant for auto giant Volkswagen and set the willingness to subsidize green manufacturing as a major difference between his party and the Conservatives.
You know in your heart this will be the Mother of all Boondoggles.
