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Cyber Attacks on Huawei Devices in Canada Spiked After CFO Arrest: Report
According to The Tyee, a 2019 government report found that there was a documented spike in sophisticated cyber attacks originating from Huawei devices on Canadian soil following the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.
The report in question was commissioned by Public Safety Canada from Clairvoyance Cyber Corp, and was recently acquired by the Institute of Investigative Journalism at Concordia via a freedom of information request.
Peterborough police won’t ticket cast & crew of CBC show for handshakes, laughter
We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an anti-lockdown protest staged at Confederation Square.
Response To Bill C-36 Could Make Or Break The Conservative Party
They have an opportunity to reconsolidate some of the lost conservative vote, and focus the attention of the nation on a true debate over freedom of expression and the limits of government power.
Rex Murphy: Trudeau Liberals taking House speaker to court another arrogant attack on Parliament
A prime minister does not take the Speaker of the House of Commons to Court!
Those words ought to be yelled from any and all rooftops.
Diane Francis: Canadian Forces have right to know if they got COVID at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan
This week, lawmakers in the United States called for an investigation into whether the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China was a COVID-19 super-spreader event and whether officials should have known something was amiss, given that the city seemed unusually empty and was described by some participants as a “ghost town.”
Canada’s citizenship study guide for newcomers is getting an ‘unvarnished’ makeover.
Canada’s citizenship study guide for newcomers is getting an ‘unvarnished’ makeover. Here’s how it’s evolved — from 1947 to today
For more than seven decades, the federal government has published a citizenship study guide for wannabe Canadians — a booklet that touches on Canada’s history and geography, its political structure and key tenets of what it means to be a good citizen.
The current version, however, hasn’t been updated in more than a decade, drawing criticism for using outdated terminology and leaving out or sanitizing darker moments of Canada’s past, including attempts to forcibly assimilate Indigneous Peoples.
Catholic Oblates Pledge to Publish Residential School Records in BC and Sask
The Catholic religious order that operated residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, where hundreds of nameless graves have been found, says it will reveal all the historical documents in its possession.
The Missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate operated 48 schools, including the Marieval Indian Residential School at Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan and the Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC.
“We deeply regret our involvement in residential schools and the damage they have caused to indigenous peoples and communities,” said a statement.
China lectures Canada on human rights following residential school gravesite claims
China repeatedly lectured Canada on human rights this week following a Saskatchewan band’s claim to have discovered hundreds of unmarked graves near a former residential school.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused Canada of continuing to carry out “racial discrimination” against Indigenous people.
Canada’s COVID-19 situation looking up, but Delta variant threatens fall and winter
Hospitalizations and COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the country, but the highly contagious Delta variant stands a chance of unravelling some of the progress Canada has made, according to new national data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Rupa Subramanya: Why are the Liberals doubling our refugee intake when so many of them end up on the streets?
Sure, being poor in Canada is probably better than being poor in Syria. But is this any basis for a rational refugee policy?
China Cybercrime “Controlling Political Discourse In Canada” Says Official Report
According to a recent report from Clairvoyance Cyber Corp., tech companies such as Huawei and China Telecom are now targeting Canada in a “multifaceted type of warfare.”
As reported by Global News of Canada, Clairvoyance Cyber Corp. provides consulting services for CSIS and the RCMP. The report was completed in 2019 for Public Safety Canada, and warns that “state-sponsored cybercrime could be costing Canada an estimated $100 billion per year.”
With Bill C-36, Trudeau Government Launches Dangerous New Assault On Your Freedom Of Expression
The trend in all of this legislation is clear: More government control, less freedom. And C-36 takes that to a terrible new level.
Liberals take House Speaker to court to block release of unredacted records about fired scientists
The Liberal government is taking the House of Commons Speaker to court, in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of uncensored documents to members of Parliament that offer insight into the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory.
Whistleblower Doctor Cancelled by Canadian Health Authority After Going Public Over Vaccine Neurological Reactions
After Dr. Charles Hoffe went public with his experiences in early April of multiple First Nations patients in his village of Lytton who suffered from severe and unique Bell’s Palsy and other neurological adverse effects after receiving the Moderna vaccine, Hoffe was disciplined by BC’s Interior Health Authority only a few weeks later.