While the government has made available high-level aggregate spending statistics, or estimates of the net fiscal impact, for the more than 100 programs it has launched since the pandemic began, only a few departments have released details about which individuals, groups or companies have received government money.
A statement from MasterCard, which currently allows payments for the site’s offerings, said it is working with the company’s Montreal-based parent firm Mindgeek to understand the situation.
A few weeks ago, Anthony Furey predicted the lockdowns would be over by Christmas. Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Despite Canadians pushing back against the lockdowns and new data and evidence which suggests lockdowns simply don’t work – the government has doubled down.
While tent cities like this are new to Montreal, shelter workers and experts say it’s not necessarily a sign that significantly more people in Montreal are homeless.
Last week, Canadians witnessed the arrest of Adam Skelly – a restaurant owner in Toronto who dared to disobey John Tory’s draconian edicts. Dozens of Toronto police officers surrounded the restaurant and police put up barricades around the perimeter to prevent any customer from going in to get a BBQ sandwich.
The phrase itself is telling. They’re ‘the two Michaels’ now, a monument to China’s bad behaviour, and Canada’s powerlessness, and denial, in the face of it.
One of the things law-abiding Canadian firearms owners find most frustrating about the Liberal federal government attempting to take away their property is the non-gun owning publics’ naive approval of the whole situation.
This coming Thursday will mark two years since Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained, kidnapped really, by Chinese authorities.
Two years and still no closer to coming home even as the reason they were detained may soon be resolved.
No but Canada’s China class will be pleased at Meng’s release.
According to deals signed so far, Canada could have access to up to 414 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from seven different manufacturers.
The shipment and distribution of the vaccine — once approved — will, however, be a Herculean effort involving a lot of manpower, a web of logistical challenges and scientific constraints.
Williams acknowledged that “we can’t force someone to take a vaccine,” but when on to explain how people who didn’t take it would have their freedom of mobility severely restricted.
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, we looked at a recent popularity poll which ranked Brian Pallister on the bottom of a list of Canadian premiers.
Meng Wanzhou, the scion of the Huawei telecommunications company, who is mired in extradition proceedings in Canadian court, has spent the last two years living under partial house arrest in her Vancouver mansions, a colourful and relaxing life compared to the “grey, grinding monotony,” endured by the two Canadians in China who were seized in retaliation for Meng’s 2018 arrest in Vancouver.
If Alek Minassian could go back in time to before his deadly Toronto van attack, he would do it all over again but make sure he died at the end of it, he told a psychiatrist.
The shocking admission of the man on trial for 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, made during a psychiatric evaluation less than a year ago, was revealed in court Wednesday.
Amir Attaran is a professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Ottawa. On Wednesday evening he caught a lot of attention with a Twitter thread suggesting it would be wrong for the federal government to provide field hospitals if needed.
Canada is still more than half a million jobs short of the jobs lost in the initial China Virus lockdowns.
