A sex worker in Nova Scotia is pursuing a claim for non-payment of services in small claims court, in a case she and her advocates will help shift the conversation about sex work in Canada.
The woman at the centre of the case said she spent an evening with a client in January 2022. Afterwards, she realized she wasn’t going to be paid when the PIN for the bank card he’d given her to withdraw money didn’t work.
The disparity in experiences shared showcased how polarizing the protests have become. To supporters, the protesters were “the most peaceful Canadian citizens ever to gather downtown.” Meanwhile, residents haunted by the sound of horns or the smell of diesel in their neighbourhoods described them as “white nationalists” and said they felt terrorized.
OTTAWA – After being condemned by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the federal government’s decision to suspend sanctions against Russia to allow the export of a gas-pipeline component prompted an international Ukrainian group to take legal action on Tuesday.
The federal Liberal government relented to pressure from the German government to send a turbine, which had been undergoing maintenance in Montreal, back to Russia where it can be installed into Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline, which carries natural gas to Europe.
The Bank of Canada has increased its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point, taking a larger than expected hike to tame decades-high levels of inflation.
The central bank’s key interest rate now sits at 2.5 per cent, a drastic shift from the 0.25 per cent rate seen at the start of the year.
“What happened over the weekend would go beyond what we have seen or the type of assistance that could be offered,” said innovation, science and industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.
In a closed-door meeting Monday, Champagne gave the CEOs of Rogers, Bell, Telus, Shaw, Quebecor, SaskTel and Eastlink 60 days to come up with an agreement offering mutual assistance amid outages, emergency roaming, as well as the creation of better communication protocols.
To conclude that our prime minister is the grand inquisitor of political transformation is complete folly. He doesn’t have the mental aptitude. What he does have is a mind impressionable enough to believe he could transition from national leader to demi-god of globalism.
As such, Justin Trudeau was chosen as a figurehead– and talking head– for the great Canadian reformation.
“Bill C- 11 all internet content as subject to the same CRTC regulation as CBC. I can’t believe I read it correctly. The bill is couched in all this diversity, inclusivity and equity terminology.”
“It’s unconscionable in a western democracy. Government are clamping down more viciously than any other developed country. Canadians won’t even know what content is hidden from them.”
— Dr. Jordan Peterson
The Canadian government’s deal to allow the repair of Russian-owned turbines covers a period of up to two years from now and would allow the import and re-export of up to six units – a far more extensive arrangement than had previously been disclosed.
Two government officials told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday that Global Affairs Canada granted the German industrial giant Siemens Energy an exemption under Canada’s Russia sanctions for two years. This allows the company to send turbines from Nord Stream 1, a pipeline majority-owned by Russian state controlled Gazprom, to Siemens Canada’s facilities in Montreal for regular repair and maintenance.
One of the officials stressed that the arrangement with Siemens allows the Canadian government to revoke the sanctions-relief permits at any time. The Globe is not identifying the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
In Cold Lake, Alta., Canada’s fighter jets are ready 24-hour a day at the Canadian Forces Base. The oil sands operations of Imperial Oil run around the clock. But the hospital emergency room in the community three hours east of Edmonton doesn’t always have a doctor.
For Mayor Craig Copeland, attracting new physicians has been a challenge for all of his six terms in office. His community has 15,000 people, and rural areas outside town count for another 15,000, meaning 30,000 people rely on the Cold Lake Healthcare Centre.
Fertilizer Canada has released details of a report, compiled by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP), that aims to outline the significant impact a regulated reduction in nitrogen fertilizer use would have on farmers’ bottom lines.
The Government of Canada has announced an “aspirational” goal of 30 per cent absolute emissions reduction target for on-farm fertilizer use by the year 2030. While the government has not announced that the reduction will be achieved through regulatory restrictions on fertilizer use, MNP’s report explores what the potential outcome would be to the farm economy if it did.
The Rogers network outage on Friday showcased Canada’s reliance on the telecommunications industry, experts say, as over 10 million people nationwide were left without service, struggling to make purchases, and unable to use their phones and access Wi-Fi for nearly an entire day.
“When you’re so close to something, it’s hard to actually understand just how reliant you are,” Tyler Chamberlin, associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, told Global News.
Canada is a crony-capitalist shithole. Nothing will be done.
The Ukrainian government on Sunday expressed “deep disappointment” at Canada’s decision to release Russian-owned gas turbines that had been stranded in a Montreal repair facility because of sanctions against Moscow.
Kyiv warned the move would embolden Moscow to keep using its ability to choke off Europe’s fuel supplies as a weapon.
Russia last month cited the delayed return of the turbine equipment, which Germany’s Siemens Energy had been servicing in Canada, as the reason behind its decision to reduce the flow of natural gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. The pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany, was operating at 40-per-cent capacity.
This may be the 1st Virtue Signaling Conflict in History. Making empty performative gestures of support is Trudeau’s specialty.
A Trudeau government report is putting farmers next on the carbon emissions chopping block, using UN data that accuses Canadian grain growers of producing crops with the highest “emissions intensity” in the world.
A new “discussion document” released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada titled “Reducing emissions arising from the application of fertilizer in Canada’s agriculture sector” singles out wheat, barley and other cereal producers for emission reductions.
Given how the media bailout has turned the press into an extension of the government propaganda apparatus, why would the Liberals stop now?
