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Canadians warming to prisoner swap with China, split on balancing budget: Nanos survey
TORONTO — New polling data from Nanos Research, commissioned by CTV News, reveals Canadians’ thoughts on the upcoming federal budget, carbon pricing and the idea of returning Meng Wanzhou to China in exchange for the freedom of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
On the latter point, Nanos found that far more Canadians are in favour of the prisoner swap than they were when that idea was floated last June.
Police Arrest Protesters As Canadians Take To Streets Demanding End To Unscientific Lockdowns
Police in Quebec City, Québec, Canada are arresting protesters as thousands take to the street to oppose unscientific lockdowns and fines against those who violate the government’s mandates.
This river in Canada is now a ‘legal person’
The designation – a first in Canada – aims to give the Indigenous community an added tool to defend the river, known as Muteshekau Shipu in the Innu language, from potential environmental harms.
London’s health unit issues warning as 50% of new COVID-19 cases involve youth under 22
The Middlesex London Health Unit has issued an urgent notice to young adults telling them to “do their part,” stay home and get tested if they show symptoms of COVID-19.
‘Cases’ are not hospitalizations.
‘Cases’ are not fatalities.
‘Cases’ are not even necessarily serious.
‘Cases’ are the most effective way to develop natural immunity.
BONOKOSKI: We’re all guinea pigs now, thanks to Justin Trudeau
Canada’s Chief Science Adviser, Mona Nemer has said vaccine delays “amounts right now to a basically human-population experiment.”
Removing the colonial lens: The push to decolonize museums in Canada
It’s no secret that museum collections have benefitted from the colonization of countries occupied by imperial powers such as Britain and France.
But in recent years, spurred in part by the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), there is a global push to decolonize museums.
Fact or Fiction: Are news reporters straying from the ethics and standards of journalism?
A large demographic certainly might think so, given that 49 per cent of Canadians think that journalists are purposefully trying to mislead them.
Slowly but surely the government is gathering the media into its ghastly embrace
I don’t want to alarm you, but you might like to know that the federal government is about to take over the media.
Perhaps you will think I am exaggerating. But before the spring is out, based on its own announced timeline, there won’t be a patch of grass on the media landscape – broadcasting or newspapers, digital or analog, curated or user-generated – that the government does not either regulate or subsidize or both. If takeover is not the word, what is?
De-Alienating the West
The Andrew Lawton Show is taking an in-depth look at western alienation and the growing push for independence in Alberta. Andrew sits down with Alberta activist Danny Hozak, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier and Wildrose Independence Party interim leader Paul Hinman to talk about Alberta’s upcoming referendum, the state of the province, and what independence might look like.
‘We’re coming to get you’: China’s critics facing threats, retaliation for activism in Canada
In July 2019, Mehmet Tohti was just hours away from speaking publicly to politicians about the Chinese government’s horrific abuse of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang when he received a message on Twitter:
“Your f—ing mother is dead,” it read.
NDP to debate phasing out Canada’s Armed Forces at policy convention
The policy resolution titled “Elimination of the Canadian Armed Forces” was submitted by the party’s Spadina-Fort York Electoral District Association (EDA).
It claims that “in a world with a globalized economy traditional militaries are becoming increasingly unnecessary” and points to other countries like Costa Rica and Iceland which have allegedly “abolished their armies.”
Please tell me this article was an April Fool’s joke.
BAROOTES: Trudeau’s made-in-America obsession with guns does nothing to keep us safe
You know a federal election is in the air when a Liberal government starts to dream up a new suite of exotic and invasive gun laws.
In the past year alone, the Trudeau government has announced a federal buy-back program for a list of firearms they have now deemed to be illegal. They introduced new legislation that will allow municipalities to ban law-abiding Canadians from owning restricted firearms, which could also ban airsoft sports. And, most recently, they have introduced Bill C-22 to eliminate a number of mandatory minimum penalties for firearms offenses that keep communities safe.
For those keeping score at home, this means the Trudeau government is now treating people who obey the law like criminals, people who break the law like victims, and people who work for municipalities as if they work for the federal government instead.
Older Ontarians most involved in online spread of COVID-19 myths, study finds
A new study suggests Ontario residents between the ages of 55 and 64 are most involved in spreading misinformation about COVID-19 on social media.
FUREY: Schools are not superspreaders of COVID-19
Based on what the mainstream media is reporting and the government’s data, many Canadians believe kids are superspreaders of COVID-19 and schools are hotbeds for the virus. But this is simply not the case.