There has been no honeymoon for new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, an Angus Reid Institute poll suggests.
Poilievre is less popular than former top Tories Andrew Scheer, Erin O’Toole and Stephen Harper in the early days of their leadership.
… NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was viewed more positively than either Trudeau or Poilievre with 47% of those polled having a favourable or very favourable impression of his leadership.
A single trumpet plays the opening notes of The Last Post through the spacious funeral home, freezing the handful of people waiting. That includes the soldier clutching the urn.
The sombre song is a key part of military ceremonies, but there’s nothing traditional about this moment.
In June, Joseph Hildebrand, a 33-year-old Canadian veteran, left his Saskatchewan home to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion.
A Toronto man accused by Canada’s intelligence service of helping Iran dodge international sanctions has filed a court case against the government for not granting him citizenship.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has alleged Alireza Onghaei took part in “foreign influenced activities … that are detrimental to the interests of Canada and are clandestine or deceptive.”
Of course the LPC is infested …
Yesterday @StewGlobal and @scoopercooper broke a story about Alireza Onghaei, whose money exchange operation in Toronto is, according to CSIS, used by the Iranian regime to funnel money to Canada (for unknown purposes.)
And, lo and behold, here he is with Richmond Hill’s MP. https://t.co/vGY3PfyUfk
— Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز (@kshahrooz) November 25, 2020
Burn in hell everyone who foisted mass immigration on Canadians.
Foreign fugitives have high chances of dodging deportation from Canada each year, as records show that of thousands of foreigners ordered to leave the country over the past six years, just 48 percent were actually deported.
An Inquiry of Ministry, presented to the House of Commons by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), said of the 13,287 foreigners ordered out of the country since 2016, a total of 6,322 were deported, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Canadian climate minister’s 1st full year in office was one of cred and compromise
It’s not every day the prime minister asks a rebel to join his cabinet, but for Justin Trudeau, it’s been a well-received gamble.
As his first full year in office wraps, activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault is in the midst of hosting the world for the UN’s COP15 conference in Montreal, as Canada’s minister of environment and climate change. It’s the most significant biodiversity conference in over a decade.
COP15 comes on the heels of last month’s heavily attended COP27 — the UN conference for climate negotiations hosted by Egypt.
OTTAWA — Russia’s ambassador to Canada says Ottawa is at the vanguard of a social media effort he argues is meant to demoralize Russian soldiers.
In an interview with Russian state media, Oleg Stepanov chided Canada’s foreign affairs department for frequently posting unflattering information about the war in Ukraine, particularly recent tweets about Russian men fleeing a military draft.
… The latest release by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland shows that Quebec will receive the most in absolute terms at $14.04 billion, while Manitoba will get $3.51 billion. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (PEI) will be paid $2.8 billion, $2.63 billion, and $561 million, respectively.
Why is Quebec getting so much?
… Inflation in food prices is one of the main drivers pushing more people to steal, says Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Many of the thousands of demonstrators who lined Lions Gate Bridge last month to oppose Iran’s brutal regime expressed anxiety in the presence of photographers and videographers.
Some Iranian Canadians in Vancouver’s Human Life Chain, who were joining worldwide protests against the death of teenager Mahsa Amini after she was detained by Iran’s morality police, pointed fingers at strangers recording their public defiance.
Canada’s current climate policies, outlined in a number of federal plans that have been introduced over the past several years, could cause future energy insecurity while increasing oil and gas prices, says a new paper.
“Oil and gas are vital to our mutual security and our energy advantages should not be frittered away,” reads the paper “The Fallacies Undermining Energy Security” published by the Fraser Institute on Nov. 24.
“The wrong climate policy at the wrong time gave Russian President Vladimir Putin an undeserved financial bonus,” says the paper, which was penned by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff Derek Burney, who also served for some time as Canada’s ambassador to the United States.
Government documents released earlier this week confirm that the Privy Council Office, the nerve centre of the federal bureaucracy which supports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had signs of Beijing’s alleged attempts to interfere with the 2019 general election.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair acknowledged having seen the 2020 memo while he was public safety minister to reporters on Friday, adding that its determinations “certainly” played a role in shaping increased government focus on electoral interference.
Traditionally, Canada has presented itself to the world as well-meaning and sensible. Its foreign policy rarely challenges the status quo, but it is generally viewed as sound.
When Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland defined Canada as a champion of the rules-based, international economy, a good many Canadians quietly nodded their heads in agreement.
The word “quietly” is important here. By and large, Canada avoided pointless one-upmanship and concentrated instead on results.
Canada is not a serious country.
Even as demand spikes for food banks and other charitable supports, a new report finds that Canadians are now donating less to charity than at any other time on record.
Why?
Economic hard times? A less religious society? An expectation that it’s government’s responsibility?
Or is it due to Canada’s transformation into a low trust, balkanized society thanks to the elite’s destructive immigration policy?
An Ontario man is one of the four people charged in the U.S. for allegedly raising funds to support the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
Senator @YuenPauWoo claims anti-China witch hunt, demands feds counter “irresponsible speculation” by #cdnmedia over Communist interference in elections. https://t.co/nVTDcQ4uXS #cdnpoli @ScooperCooper pic.twitter.com/mH8D28FrwY
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) December 16, 2022
h/t OntarioJohn
