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.
Canada
POLL: Manitoba’s Christmas Grinch is Really Unpopular
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.
If Meng is released to China, she’ll return to hero’s welcome and likely continue her work at Huawei
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.
Toronto van attack killer says he’d do it all over again, but would make sure he died
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.
Tweetstorm erupts after Ottawa prof says Alberta should not get federal assistance
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.
Economy Creates 62,000 Jobs As Recovery Slows
Canada is still more than half a million jobs short of the jobs lost in the initial China Virus lockdowns.
India formally protests to Canada over Trudeau remarks on farm protests
…The Indian foreign ministry said in a statement that comments on “issues relating to Indian farmers constitute an unacceptable interference in our internal affairs.”
India and Canada have warm ties, but in recent years there has been concern in India that some Sikh leaders in Canada have ties to separatist groups hostile to India.
Canada is home to an influential Sikh community and Indian leaders say there are some fringe groups there that are still sympathetic to the cause of an independent Sikh state called Khalistan, carved out of India.
U.S. in talks with Huawei CFO Meng on resolving criminal charges: source
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are discussing a deal with lawyers for Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou to resolve criminal charges against her, a person familiar with the matter said, signaling a potential end to a case that has strained ties between the United States, China and Canada.
Negotiations between Meng’s attorneys and the U.S. Justice Department picked up after the U.S. presidential election a month ago, the person said, but it is still unclear what kind of deal could be struck.
Happy Day. Trudeau and the CHINA Class will not be denied their place at Xi’s trough.
CSIS accuses Russia, China and Iran of spreading COVID-19 disinformation
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service named the trio of countries in a declassified report titled COVID-19: Global Effects and Canadian National Security Interests.
Trudeau’s Ratings On Crisis Management Dropping Among Canadians
In the last few weeks, there has been a large increase in the number of Canadians saying the federal government has done a “bad job” handling the China Virus crisis.
JCCF: Gov’t data shows lockdowns ‘more deadly’ than the virus
In the report, titled Flying Blind, the JCCF breaks down deaths from overdoses, suicides, and delayed medical treatment and diagnoses, comparing them against the reported COVID-19 deaths.
Government gives $13 million to failing company in Kenya
According to records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, the federal government gave M-Kopa Solar an investment of $12.8 million in 2018. M-Kopa is a direct sales company that sells cell-phones and solar appliances door-to-door in rural Africa.
Just two days after the government made the deal public, M-Kopa laid off 150 staff. In the two years since the deal was finalized, M-Kopa has reported a net loss of $51 million.
Diane Francis: The spy who burned us
This country’s membership in the Five Eyes military-intelligence alliance — which consists of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand — has been damaged by a lingering espionage and law-enforcement scandal in Ottawa that’s been shrouded in secrecy.
In September 2019, the RCMP’s highest-level intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, was arrested and remains in jail. No trial date has been set and court documents have been sealed.
Liberals table bill to implement UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Liberal government introduced long-awaited legislation Thursday to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Justice Minister David Lametti described as a significant step forward on the path to reconciliation.
Leaked Document From Chinese Company Corroborates CSIS Security Concerns
A leaked document from a major Chinese company with Canadian operations offers evidence that corroborates with security concerns Canada’s intelligence agency has raised over foreign state-owned enterprises.
The document, recently obtained by The Epoch Times, is a directive by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). It was issued in August to its overseas offices in more than 10 countries, including Canada. As previously reported by Epoch, the directive asks the offices to “urgently destroy or transfer sensitive documents” relating to “overseas [Chinese Communist] Party-building activities.”