The Canadian Supreme Court is hearing an unusual case this month. A group of immigration activists are asking the court to rule that the United States can not be considered a “safe third country” for the purposes of the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) enacted between the two countries nearly two decades ago. In essence, the plaintiffs are asking the court to strike down the STCA.
There’s an adage that “inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.”
If there are too many consumers and not enough goods or services to go around, prices go up. And up.
Mi’kmaw astonomer says we should acknowledge we live under Indigenous skies
As we mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we can consider how science as an institution has the same duty to participate in reconciliation as the rest of society does.
For science, reconciliation can mean, among others things, acknowledging the history of racism and exploitation of Indigenous people and their lands that science perpetuated. But another important part is understanding and incorporating Indigenous perspectives in research.
h/t DM
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled late September that the criminal records of Indigenous persons can be excluded from their trials to preserve fairness. Trial fairness, to Ontario’s top court, means creating race-based procedural rules to supposedly make up for the effects of systemic racism. In other words, these rules aren’t fair at all.
Andrea Skinner, interim board chair of Hockey Canada, has submitted her resignation, CBC News has confirmed, days after a controversial parliamentary committee meeting where she defended Hockey Canada’s handling of group sexual assault allegations involving past junior players.
The hockey organization has been under intense public scrutiny since May, when it settled a $3.5-million lawsuit by a woman who alleged that eight hockey players — including members of the 2018 world junior team — sexually assaulted her at a hotel in London, Ont., while she was heavily intoxicated.
I’m not kidding about that New Board Chair: If, as seems increasingly likely, Hockey Canada is replaced by a new organization, Professor Ross said that it would be important to rethink that organization’s structure and not simply replace the current outfit. Any new governing body, he said, would have to be led by a board with women as at least half of its members and would have to include Indigenous people, people of color and para-athletes and draw from the entire country.
Former business partner of fake heiress who infiltrated Mar-A-Lago, was shot outside a Québec hotel
Valeriy Tarasenko, 44, was shot outside of the upscale Estérel Resort hotel, in Estérel, Quebec, around 1pm on Friday. He was not a guest of the hotel, which is near the lake and offers various glamorous guest packages starting as high as $305 US dollars.
Tarasenko, a businessman, was romantically involved with Inna Yashchyshyn, 33, who reportedly posed as a fake heiress to the Rothschild fortune to infiltrate Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Perhaps the leadership of Hockey Canada thought Canadians loved their hockey more than people, like executives of the sport’s national governing body are accused of doing, by deed if not intent.
Over six months of scandal and investigation, the organization that calls itself the “custodians of the game” has faced withering criticism without easing concerns of sponsors, politicians, citizens or other hockey groups.
My headline is more accurate than the CBC’s – “Stung by criticism, Trudeau government changes course on Iran”
This week saw a turnaround in the Trudeau government’s approach to Iran as an unprecedented revolt against clerical rule that began three weeks ago showed no sign of slowing down.
The change began in Dartmouth, N.S., on Tuesday, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would be taking stronger actions against members of the Iranian regime, “including ensuring that we go after them for any assets or homes that they have in Canada.”
Back in Ottawa, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra attended a rally marking a thousand days since the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down Flight PS752, killing 55 Canadians and another 30 permanent residents.
After 25 years in federal and provincial conservative politics, outgoing Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he concerned about certain elements that appear to be taking over along the right of the political spectrum.
Pointing to the works of traditional conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, Kenney said an important tenet of conservative politics is recognizing the “prosperous and free society” handed down by past generations and being a custodian for future generations.
What has Hockey Canada learned? This week’s hearings gave us a disappointing, if not predictable, answer. Not a damn thing.
Instead of grovelling for forgiveness, announcing sweeping changes or bothering to feign contrition, Hockey Canada returned to parliament refuelled with a gargantuan dose of hubris, denial and disregard for the damage they’ve inflicted.
“A Nova Scotia court ruled it cannot intervene in the child protection case of a teenage Syrian refugee whose father allegedly beat her, breaking her nose, when he learned she had been texting a boy.”
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) initiative to test the use of digital ID in travel with the collaboration of Canada has been delayed due to the pandemic, says Transport Canada.
Details about the WEF’s project called the Known Traveler Digital Identity (KTDI) were revealed through an Inquiry of Ministry filed by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis in June.
“The gov’t finally admitted that they have a $105.3 million contract with the World Economic Forum for the Known Traveler Digital ID. Take a look at this order paper. It’s no longer a conspiracy theory – it’s a contractual fact!” tweeted Lewis on Oct. 5, providing a link to the Inquiry.
OTTAWA – Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says more interest rate hikes are necessary to bring inflation down, despite some early signs of a slowing economy.
Speaking to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Macklem said high inflation increasingly reflects domestic pressures on prices.
The governor said while global events such as the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have fed into higher prices, demand is outpacing supply more broadly in the Canadian economy.
The federal sport minister is ramping up her criticism of those leading Hockey Canada — an organization accused of mishandling allegations of gang rapes — by urging them to vacate their positions before the sports body is damaged beyond repair.
“I hope they understand the message and leave before they burn it to the ground,” Pascale St-Onge said Thursday after a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill.
Her comments are just the latest salvo aimed at the national ice hockey body.
I can’t wait for Canada’s National Transgender Hockey team.
An investigation into allegations that communist China is operating unofficial overseas police stations in Canada is underway, officials say.
Testifying before the parliamentary Canada-China committee on Sept. 4, Weldon Epp, director general for Global Affairs Canada’s North Asia and Oceania Bureau, said should the allegations be proven true, the activity would “fall outside of any legitimate police-to-police liaison role” between the two countries, and that Ottawa would make “serious representations” to Beijing.
