Jully Black’s subtle change to the Canadian anthem at NBA All-Star Game wins praise from fans
Basketball was invented by a white man isn’t that cultural appropriation?
Canada
CSIS reports outline how China targets Canadian politicians, business leaders
Canadian politicians, officials and business executives are the prime targets of Chinese government espionage that employs blackmail, bribery and sexual seduction, with the country even enlisting the Bank of China in its foreign-influence activities.
Secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail outline how China instructed its consulates and visa offices to alert Beijing to prominent and influential Canadians planning to visit China.
There is a very real danger to Canada from the ChiCom 5th Column that Junior and his treasonous ilk have nurtured.
Canada-China:
Chinese officials deny reports in the Globe and Mail that Beijing interfered in the 2021 Canadian federal election
The PM says the interference didn't change the outcome
Charles Burton @cburton001, with the @MLInstitute, says there's no way the PM can know that pic.twitter.com/yhG9QYDtGq
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) February 19, 2023
In Canada, complex fraud schemes are targeting homeowners
A Canadian couple recently learned that their home was sold by fraudsters without their consent while they were out of town. Experts say theft of this nature is rare, but there has been a notable rise of similar cases in the country’s most populous city.
Early this year, Toronto police said they wanted the public’s help in catching two people who were involved in a complex fraud scheme.
The individuals, police said, had used fake identities to pose as owners of a home in the city. They then successfully sold the home, handing over the keys to the unsuspecting new owners.
Grocery giants may have to sing for their supper
Canadian consumers outraged at food prices may have their voices heard yet.
The CEOs of Canada’s supermarkets may be on the hot seat if asked to testify before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.
Well …
MASSIVE march through the streets of Ottawa pic.twitter.com/ubLJVL9xEY
— The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) February 18, 2023
Lack of Government Action on Chinese Interference Seems to Be What Led to CSIS Leaks
I’ll never forget July 18, 1983.
It was my first day on the job at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. I was all of 22 years old, days out of an MA from Western University and ready to start my first full-time job as a translator at the Department of National Defence (at least that is what I had been told). Now I was getting my indoctrination into what I was really being asked to do: Read sensitive intercepted signals and extract intelligence to be forwarded to senior government officials to help keep Canada safe.
"Justin Trudeau knew about this interference and he covered it up because he benefitted from it,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tells reporters in Calgary when asked about a recent news report on alleged Chinese interference in the 2021 Canadian federal election.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/QLpjk5kErh
— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) February 17, 2023
B.C. MPs unseated with help of ChiCom influence on 2021 election, reporting alleges
Former Steveston Richmond-East MP Kenny Chiu wasn’t surprised by new reports that the 2021 election campaign that unseated him was subject to covert interference from the China’s former consul in Vancouver.
He remains concerned, however, that Canada’s lack of response to increasing evidence that Beijing seeks to influence its diaspora communities with social-media disinformation campaigns sends the message to authoritarian regimes, such as China, “that we are weak, that we will take no action to protect ourselves,” Chiu said Friday.
GOLDSTEIN: China’s assault on our democracy shouldn’t be state secret
What level of interference in Canada’s elections would China have to commit before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government tells us about it?
According to reporting by Robert Fife and Steven Chase on Friday, CSIS documents seen by the Globe and Mail outline a highly organized campaign of interference in Canada’s 2021 election, where Beijing’s dictators had two goals — a Liberal minority government and defeating Conservative candidates viewed as anti-China.
Canada sending two small, slow naval ships to Haiti: Here’s what they might do there
Haiti is definitely a country in need. Armed gangs have taken control of much of the nation. Murder and kidnapping is rampant. And the government seems incapable of asserting its authority over the widespread lawlessness.
What’s less clear is how two small, relatively slow and lightly armed Canadian naval ships just deployed to Haiti can help alleviate its troubles — troubles that for the most part exist on land, not at sea.
Poilievre Praises ‘Courageous Whistleblowers’ in Security Apparatus for Leaking Files on China’s Election Interference
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre praised the “courageous whistleblowers” in Canada’s security apparatus for leaking top-secret documents on China’s interference in the 2021 federal election, as he levelled criticism at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “covering up the interference of the authoritarian regime in Beijing.”
‘I wonder if we were too liberal’: Jihadi Jack Letts’ mother on her ISIS convert son
On the morning of September 2, 2014, Sally Lane received a phone call from her teenage son that would change the course of her life.
“Mum, I’m in Syria,” Jack Letts, an A-grade student from Oxford, told her over a crackling line.
“You’ll get killed, you’ll get beheaded,” she remembers screaming at him before the connection dropped. “You stupid, stupid boy.”
Ya think?
Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s democracy died a little Friday afternoon
Is Canada turning into an electoral autocracy?
I ask this question in all seriousness. We’ve just witnessed the final chapter to the Emergencies Act invoked almost a year ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Friday afternoon declared legitimate in the report by Commissioner Paul Rouleau who headed the Public Order Enquiry Commission.
Poilievre accuses Trudeau of ignoring election interference by China
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Justin Trudeau on Friday of ignoring Chinese interference in the most recent federal election because Beijing’s efforts were aimed at helping the Liberals — but Trudeau said his government is taking the threat seriously.
The Globe and Mail reported Friday that secret and top-secret documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said Beijing sought to ensure a Liberal minority government and the defeat of several Conservative candidates in the 2021 federal election. A former Chinese consul-general in Vancouver bragged about her efforts in helping to defeat two Conservative MPs, according to the reports detailed in the Globe story.
CSIS documents show China warned ‘Canadian friends’ of foreign-interference investigations
Chinese diplomats quietly issued warnings to “friendly” influential Canadians in early 2022, advising them to reduce their contact with federal politicians to avoid being caught up in foreign-interference investigations by Canada’s spy agency.
Secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail reveal how China sought to protect its network of “Canadian friends” – a community it relies on to build relations, influence and covertly gather information from MPs and senators.
Canadians cannot trust the Liberal Party. They are loyal only to power & corruption.
This explains a lot today. pic.twitter.com/Wf5PMdvvsv
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 17, 2023
Now the NORTHERN border is a mess, too
Last week, President Joe Biden took a victory lap following news that our southern border had “only” 156,274 illegal encounters in January. Not only does his spin ignore the fact that last month was the worst January on record in over 20 years for illegal encounters at our southern border; it ignores the worsening cost at our northern border.
My district in upstate New York includes six counties in the Swanton Sector, the most active sector of our northern border. In just the first three months of this fiscal year, Biden’s failure to secure the southern border has increased illegal encounters in the Swanton Sector by over 700%.