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Gen. Jonathan Vance charged with obstruction of justice after military investigation

Former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance has been charged under Section 139 of the Criminal Code with one count of obstruction of justice following a probe by military police into allegations of inappropriate behaviour that were first reported by Global News in February.

Vance has been at the centre of a military reckoning over sexual misconduct allegations levelled against multiple senior leaders in the Canadian Forces since Global News first reported on the allegations against him on Feb. 2, 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2021July 15, 2021•0•Canada

Canadians don’t want to move to Alberta

The biggest factor, said ATB Deputy Chief Economist Robert Roach, is employment.

“A big driver, especially in Alberta is economic conditions: are people going to find a job?” said Roach. “They come here looking for jobs, and if they can’t find one, or the opposite happens, and unemployment starts to rise, they tend to leave. So that’s exactly what’s happened.”

And who caused that?

by Sarcasticat•July 15, 2021July 14, 2021•0•Alberta, Canada, Employment, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

More young Canadians died from ‘unintentional side effects’ of the pandemic, not COVID

The latest data from Statistics Canada, released Monday, is titled “Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 to April 2021,” and found there were 5,535 deaths in those younger than 65 years of age.

There were 1,380 COVID-related deaths for that same age group, according to StatCan.

That’s more than four times the amount of deaths.

by Sarcasticat•July 15, 2021July 14, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Experts", Canada, vaccine controversy

US media shamefully justified a string of Canadian church burnings

One day this month in Canada, 10 Catholic churches were vandalized in a single city, Calgary. In the last month, arsonists and vandals have attacked dozens of Canadian churches, burning some entirely to the ground.

America has 70.5 million Catholics; Canada, with just over a 10th of the population, has close to 13 million. So this is a big story. Yet the US media aren’t interested in reporting our northern neighbor’s plague of church burnings — except to suggest it’s understandable.

by Sarcasticat•July 15, 2021July 14, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Catholic Church, Indigenous

Majority of COVID-19 victims were very old and had serious health problems: StatsCan

Most of the people who died from COVID-19 in Canada were over the age of 85 and had dementia, Alzheimer’s, chronic heart disease and other pre-existing “cardiovascular and respiratory conditions,” according to a shocking new report from the federal government.

by Sarcasticat•July 15, 2021July 14, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Health care

US Authorities charge 4 in Iranian plot to kidnap U.S.-based journalist Masih Alinejad and Unnamed US & Canadian based individuals

An Iranian intelligence officer and three alleged members of an Iranian intelligence network have been charged in Manhattan with plotting to lure a U.S.-based journalist and human rights activist from New York to Iran, authorities said Tuesday.

An indictment in Manhattan federal court alleges that the plot was part of a wider plan to lure three individuals in Canada and a fifth person in the United Kingdom to Iran. Victims were also targeted in the United Arab Emirates, authorities said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment. State media in Tehran did not immediately acknowledge the alleged plot, though Iran has become more aggressive in recent years about seizing opposition journalists and dissidents abroad amid tensions over its tattered nuclear deal.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2021July 14, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Trudeau refuses to condemn communist Cuban regime’s suppression of protesters

Reports from Cuba indicate that more than 100 people have been arrested or are reported missing after the communist government cracked down on the largest protests in decades. Journalists are also being arrested, including ABC’s Camila Acosta.

by Sarcasticat•July 14, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Canada, Communism, Cuba, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Formal complaint submitted to Auditor General over Trudeau India trip

by Sarcasticat•July 14, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Trudeau says he’ll leave domestic vaccine passports up to the provinces

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will work with provinces to ensure there is an “internationally accepted proof of vaccination” for international travel, but will leave domestic options up to the provincial governments.

by Sarcasticat•July 14, 2021July 13, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, vaccine controversy

Liberals block bid to force campaign strategist to testify about MPs’ budgets

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals successfully blocked an opposition bid Monday to force one of the party’s chief campaign strategists to testify about IT contracts paid for out of the taxpayer-funded budgets of Liberal MPs.

by Sarcasticat•July 14, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Liberal Party Of Canada

Anti-Christian Hysteria Has Grown Into Church-Burning Terror, And People Might Be Next

Overall more than two dozen churches in Canada have been targeted over the past few weeks — and people are cheering it on. Not just anonymous people, either: On June 30, Harsha Walia, the executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, responded to a story of another church arson, saying “Burn it all down.”

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Anti-Christian, Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Catholic Church, Terrorism - Domestic

Taliban fighters scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they execute 22 Afghan commandos … and … Canada to continue wasting money on Afghanistan after U.S. troop withdrawal

Taliban fighters scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they execute 22 Afghan commandos

Video has emerged that purports to show the moment 22 Afghan commandos were massacred by the Taliban moments after they surrendered.

The footage appears to have been taken in Dawlat Abad, in northern Faryab province, on June 16 following a major battle between the Taliban and Afghan forces.

The government had sent an elite team of US-trained commandos – including the son of a retired general – into the town to recapture it, but they quickly became surrounded with air support and reinforcements failing to materialise.

Canada to continue wasting money on Afghanistan after U.S. troop withdrawal

Ottawa will continue sending humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan after the United States completes its troop withdrawal from the country next month, International Development Minister Karina Gould says.

U.S. President Joe Biden said last week the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan will end Aug. 31, nearly 20 years after the United States and its allies took down the Taliban government in Kabul.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

FLASHBACK: Canadian politicians who have praised the Cuban communist regime

Thousands of Cubans filled the streets of Havana over the weekend in the largest anti-government protest on the communist island in decades.

Chanting “freedom” and “Diaz-Canel step down,” protesters voiced their disdain of the government in light of the worst economic crisis Cuba has faced since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The Cuban regime’s lacklustre handling of the pandemic has resulted in a shortage of basic goods and a curbing of civil liberties and freedoms.