Canada
Rural Town Left out of Money, Hope After Keystone XL Shutdown
PHILIP, S.D.—Entire towns and communities along the route of the Keystone XL pipeline—once lively and prosperous due to the economic opportunity it brought—have been left out of money and out of hope after the project was scrapped by President Joe Biden on his first day in office.
One such town in rural South Dakota had invested heavily in their businesses in order to provide for an influx of workers the project had brought. Some businesses had even secured contracts with various companies working on the pipeline, but now have been left in deep debt and face a bleak future.
Canada will not be pressured to release Meng Wanzhou, Trudeau says
Trudeau’s remarks were according to a transcript of a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd and Meet the Press, which was provided to Global News. The interview is set to air on Sunday.
Australian media knows EXACTLY what Trudeau is…
Australian media knows EXACTLY what Trudeau is…
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GOLDSTEIN: Helpless: Caledonia’s agony is a national disgrace
What has happened to Caledonia over the last 15 years to the day since, on Feb. 28, 2006, its citizens became the innocent and unwitting victims of an Indigenous land claim protest that later turned violent, should be a national disgrace.
It isn’t, because few people know about it.
Probe of professor’s blog a form of cancel culture, free-speech group says
Mount Allison University’s decision to launch an internal review following complaints about the personal blog of one of its professors is an “egregious” violation of academic freedom, a group dedicated to the protection of free speech and scholarship says.
Justin Trudeau looks forward to working with President Biden: ‘It’s great to see America re-engage’
When asked by “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd about global policy initiatives Trudeau expects the Biden administration to push forward, Trudeau said Canada and the United States will have to “work together” on several issues, including climate change and solidifying the middle class.
String of Zoom hackings across Canadian universities appear to be racially motivated
Zoom hackings have occurred throughout Canadian post-secondary institutions since the start of the pandemic. Though the platform has implemented measures(link is external) to prevent such attacks, it claims it’s extremely difficult to do so, especially in cases where a perpetrator comes from within an organization.
Canada Child Benefit program sees hiccups around outdated info, ‘female presumption’: AG
The Canada Child Benefit is running smoothly, says federal auditor general Karen Hogan, aside from a few administrative deficiencies that impact eligibility for the support.
The auditor general also took note of a provision in the program that automatically awards the female provider in a household allocated payments.
Blair Says China a Main Source of Fentanyl Fuelling Opioid Crisis Killing Canadians … Doesn’t say he’s gonna do anything about it
China is one of the main manufacturers of fentanyl and plays a key role in the current overdose crisis in Canada, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told a parliamentary committee on Feb. 25.
“It’s no secret that China is one of the main source countries of fentanyl, as well as the precursor chemicals used to make this highly potent and deadly synthetic opioids,” Blair said.
“Illegal fentanyl and fentanyl-like drugs are being mixed in with and contaminating other drugs. This continues to be a major driving factor in the overdose crisis that has tragically cut so many lives short in Canada.”
Trudeau government backpedals on investigating human rights complaints against mining companies
In 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced it would create a new watchdog that would have powers to investigate the overseas activities of Canadian companies, including the ability to force them to respond to questions and turn over evidence.
But it later scaled back those plans following an “onslaught of mining industry lobbying that got them to change their minds,” said Emily Dwyer, the coordinator of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (the CNCA), which represents a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), churches, trade unions and other civil society organizations.
Small businesses took on $135 billion in new debt since pandemic began
Small businesses in Canada had to take on extreme levels of debt in order to sustain themselves since the beginning of the pandemic.
Ford government warns of potential counterfeit N95 masks in provincial stockpile
“The Ministry of Health is urgently reviewing all inventory in its warehouses to identify any affected product. We have also alerted our federal partners at Health Canada of the situation by 3M and have been working with them to address the issue,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The CBC is Pushing Third Wave Fears to Justify Ongoing Restrictions
In a recent article from the CBC written by Adam Miller, it seems that Canada’s publicly funded media is slowly starting to push the idea that Canadians must stay in some form of a lockdown or the third wave of COVID-19, and new coronavirus variants will sweep through the country.
Trudeau’s hired security allegedly sexually assaulted woman, more assaults in COVID hotel
Startling reports of multiple sexual assault allegations within Justin Trudeau’s travel quarantine system surfaced on Wednesday. Two women reported sexual assaults, both in the prime minister’s COVID jail system and in mandatory home isolation. One assault was allegedly at the hands of a hired security officer doing isolation-at-home checkups, and another was within a COVID hotel.