Tucker Carlson, the Fox News television host and provocateur, has a new documentary coming out, and its central question is whether the United States should liberate Canada from tyranny, as it attempted to do in Libya and Iraq.
Canada
Federal public servants to strike Wednesday if no deal reached, union says
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) leadership says all workers in a legal strike position will strike Wednesday if they don’t reach an agreement by 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.
Its bargaining groups — one of about 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers, the other of about 120,000 staff spread across more than 20 departments and agencies — each moved into legal strike positions last week after strike votes.
Behold the kleptocracy.
U.S. charges two with setting up Chinese ‘secret police station’ in New York
NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said in a statement on Monday.
Liu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said. They are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn federal court later on Monday.
Trudeau upset his government funded propaganda outlet CBC is labelled ‘government funded media’ by Twitter
Trudeau says Poilievre ‘has to run to American billionaires’ to attack CBC
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Monday for urging Twitter to label CBC as “government-funded media,” the morning after the social media platform added the tag to CBC’s account.
Military cemeteries need more funding to keep them from falling into disrepair
An internal report by Veterans Affairs Canada is raising red flags over the country’s military graves and cemeteries, warning that more permanent funding is needed to keep them from falling into disrepair.
The report is the result of an internal audit following up on a similar review six years ago. At that time, nearly 45,000 out of the estimated 207,000 graves of Canada’s veterans were in a state of disrepair because of a lack of resources.
In Vancouver, some residents resort to dumpster diving to combat high food prices
On offer at the D-Mart recently, there were packets of biscuits, bags of rice and dried beans, prosciutto, and fruits and vegetables. Paddy Sullivan, who runs the pop-up mini-mart out of the back of his truck in a Vancouver-area parking lot, promotes his wares as “outstanding food products at unbeatable prices.”
Meet the Chinese billionaire who donated to the Trudeau Foundation
Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman, finds himself in the middle of a controversial 2016 donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation that The Globe and Mail has reported was linked to the Chinese government, allegedly part of Beijing’s meddling in Canadian democratic processes.
A Chinese citizen with a home in Quebec, Mr. Zhang is president of the China Cultural Industry Association, a government-backed body that promotes Chinese soft power around the world. He is also a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body, and, according to a now-deleted profile of him on the industry association website, a member of the ruling Communist Party.
More like “Meet the Chinese billionaire who bought Justin Trudeau.”
Grappling with foreign interference allegations at home, MPs look to Taiwan for ideas
As a multi-party delegation of Canadian politicians returns home from Taiwan, MPs say Canada can learn lessons from the island when it comes to dealing with the threat of foreign interference from China.
Speaking to CBC’s The House from Taiwan as they prepared to depart, Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and Liberal MP John McKay — who chairs the parliamentary committee on national defence — said they had been impressed by the Taiwanese approach to resisting disinformation campaigns.
“I think there’s a lot of lessons that Canada can learn about foreign interference and how society and government should respond to harden Canadian society against this meddling that we’re experiencing from Beijing,” Chong told host Catherine Cullen.
Report Finds ‘Growing Mismatch’ Between Demand and Supply in Type of Housing in Canada
Canada’s housing market is not only facing the challenges of rising prices and supply shortages, but there is also a “growing mismatch” between the housing types being built and those preferred by many Canadians, according to a new report.
The report, published by the Fraser Institute on April 13, found that real estate markets Canada-wide experienced significant price increases since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with home prices being 28 percent higher in February 2023 than in March 2020.
What is the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and what does it do?
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has been mired in a political controversy that pushed the organization’s president and board to resign last week.
At the centre of the controversy is a 2016 donation from two donors with links to the Chinese government. The donors pledged $200,000 to the foundation at the time.
While the donation spurred an initial controversy in 2016, interest in the story revived in the wake of recent media reports stating Beijing interfered in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. The foundation said it would reimburse the funds but apparently ran into administrative roadblocks. (Radio-Canada has confirmed the donation has since been returned.)
‘Canadians are buckling up for the worst’: Jobs, economy concerns catching up to health care in Nanos tracking
Concern over jobs and the economy is closing in on health care as the top issue on Canadians’ minds, according to weekly national tracking by Nanos Research.
Health care began trending steadily up as the number one issue for Canadians beginning in the fall of 2022, before rising dramatically as winter arrived and hospital rooms were buckling under the strain of flu, RSV and COVID-19 cases. In late November, it hit a two-year high on Nanos’ weekly issues tracking.
Bill C-11 will create ‘surge’ in Crap Canadian TV shows no one watches, say internal government memos
Bill C-11 will create ‘surge’ in Canadian TV shows, say internal government memos
The online streaming bill will lead to an $86-million annual “surge” in new Canadian TV production, and may lead to more TV and film being classified as official Canadian content, internal Heritage Department documents predict.
The papers, obtained by University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist under access-to-information laws, also reveal that YouTube is the only social-media platform likely to come within the scope of bill C-11, which will modernize broadcasting laws to cover streaming platforms.
No one watches CanCon now, are they suggesting they’ll force us to because everything else will be blacked out?
Increased scrutiny of Canada’s intelligence culture is overdue
Increased scrutiny of Canada’s intelligence culture is overdue
Security intelligence is meant to ascertain the identity, capabilities and intentions of adversarial actors. The whistle-blower on election interference who has been leaking intelligence assessments to The Globe and Mail is putting everything on the line: the person risks jail time, the revelations could well bring down the government (which would be a form of interference in itself, if the intent were partisan), and the actions could be injurious to the country’s reputation.
Yet, the government’s sympathizers have been quick to the draw: it is a single anonymous source; the person is disgruntled; it’s a handful of documents with a narrow range of topics; the accounts are parochial; this is racist stereotyping of Chinese-Canadians; it had no impact on the election outcome; etc.
Michael Higgins: Katie Telford and the Liberal doctrine of secret government
There was no sunlight, Canadians are still left in the dark
Thanks to the prime minister’s chief of staff we now know that Justin Trudeau reads everything that is put in front of him. What is put in front of him and when, who wrote it, what it contains, and what did he do with the information remains a mystery.
Don Martin: Too much smoke not to have a fire somewhere inside the PMO or Liberal Party
After Liberal MPs wasted days to save her from a Commons committee appearance, Justin Trudeau’s office brain finally showed up Friday for a much-anticipated inquisition over foreign interference in Canadian elections.
It was a spectacular fizzle in terms of fresh revelations, which is precisely how Trudeau chief of staff Katie Telford wanted it as she set out to smother her testimony with a national security blanket.
This is big, La Presse report is saying PMO's claims of wall between PMJT and the Trudeau Foundation, are unraveling. So if it is now confirmed this is a CCP donation, lots of implications. https://t.co/D4ewDPzGoY pic.twitter.com/SvbhThXJcM
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) April 14, 2023