Toronto banker tied to Trudeau fundraiser slaps Globe and Mail with $250-million libel suit

A Toronto businessman that reportedly attended a private fundraiser with Prime Minister Trudeau in May 2016 before winning approval to launch a bank catering to Chinese-Canadians has slapped the Globe and Mail and myriad government defendants including CSIS director David Vigneault with an extraordinary $250-million libel suit seeking to expunge a series of articles that suggest Ottawa is concerned Beijing is clandestinely pursuing a range of geopolitical and economic strategies “that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”

The lawsuit, filed May 9 in Toronto Superior Court, alleges Canada’s leading newspaper has defamed the plaintiff and his bank.

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John Ivison: New Canadian submarines are ‘inevitable,’ says Blair. Acquiring them will be anything but

Bill Blair, the federal defence minister, made a rare admission of Liberal fallibility in Washington on Monday when he said he regrets using the word “explore” when talking about renewing Canada’s submarine fleet.

Ottawa’s recent defence policy update said the government will “explore options for renewing and expanding the submarine fleet,” a form of words that was criticized for lacking urgency.

“It’s certainly not my intention to be wishy-washy. What I’ve tried to articulate very, very clearly and strongly in the document is, we know we have to replace our submarine fleet, and we’re going to do that,” Blair said .

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India, gangs … or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?

Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack.

“Make no mistake: this is a political assassination,” Singh told the agitated crowd in June 2023. “And it’s been carried out by India.”

Reaction from Delhi, more than 11,000 kilometres away, was starkly different. The government had long considered Nijjar a “terrorist” and Indian media wrote off the killing as a “fratricidal gang-world slaughter”.

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Jesse Kline: Trudeau’s bloated public service monster turns on him

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a “summer of discontent” — not only because the electorate is fed up with his disastrous economic policies, woke sermonizing and lack of moral leadership, but because his own public-sector employees are fuming over his government’s decision to make them go into the office three days a week.

Listening to the rhetoric being espoused by union leaders, one might get the impression that public servants are being forced to work in sweatshops that aren’t up to fire code, and that the future of democratic governance is at stake.


All in the game. Trudeau is vulnerable and the public service unions are a formidable vote bloc.

Trudeau will rob us to fatten their wallets in the expectation of securing union loyalty.

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John Ivison: Another warning about Trudeau from yet another former Liberal insider

Old age and death are the only guaranteed routes to forgiveness for politicians.

As English playwright Alan Bennett once said: “If you can eat a boiled egg at 90, they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.”

Perhaps it’s too much to expect a dispassionate appraisal of a sitting prime minister.

But has anyone been as roundly abused as Justin Trudeau by people who were formerly some of his closest associates and colleagues?

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Feds blame Ontario as some daycare centres pull out of national child care program

Families Minister Jenna Sudds said Monday some Ontario daycare centres have pulled out of the federal government’s national early learning and child care program because the province hasn’t stepped up with enough cash.

Asked about some daycares either rejecting or bailing out of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, Sudds said it’s a “consequence, unfortunately, of a delay with respect to the province of Ontario coming forward with a sustainable and long-term funding formula for providers.”

It was scammy from the get go.

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More than our seniors get … Some illegal border crossers receive $224 in food and accommodation per day while awaiting processing

As the number of Canada’s refugee claimants hits new highs, a Conservative MP has revealed that Ottawa budgets about $224 per day to feed and house some foreigners who claim asylum after illegally entering the country.

Last week, Conservative MP Lianne Rood uploaded documents to social media showing the government’s answer to her question about what “goods and services” are provided to foreigners who have claimed asylum in Canada — but have not yet had their applications reviewed by immigration authorities.

That fucking prick Trudeau.

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Financial Confidence Among Canadians at All-Time Low: Survey Report

Canadians’ confidence in their personal finances has hit a record low, newly released research suggests.

Confidence levels are now lower than they were during the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report from Nanos Research. More than 50 percent of Canadians surveyed by Nanos said their personal finances were worse off during the first week of May than they were last year, while 37 percent experienced no change in their financial fortunes.

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Three firms tied to ArriveCan app got $1-billion in federal contracts, Ottawa reveals

Three government contractors involved in developing the ArriveCan app have received hundreds of federal contracts worth more than $1-billion over the past 13 years.

Until now, the federal government has not been able to provide a clear breakdown of how much contract work the three companies have been awarded. The new numbers were provided to MPs on the public accounts committee and a copy was obtained by The Globe and Mail.

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Rahim Mohamed: Mélanie Joly pretending a Palestinian state exists won’t make it so

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly joined the chorus of elite voices calling for an independent Palestinian state on Friday. On the heels of Canada’s abstention from a vote earlier in the day on Palestinian membership in the United Nations, she tweeted, “Canada is prepared to recognize the State of Palestine at the time most favorable to a lasting peace, not at the last step along the path.”

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Convoy leader Pat King heads to trial

One of the most polarizing figures to gain notoriety during what became known as the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa more than two years ago will stand trial Monday, signalling the tail end of criminal proceedings that have dogged hundreds of individuals who participated in the historic protest.

Pat King, from Red Deer, Alta., is facing charges of mischief, intimidation, obstructing police, disobeying a court order and other offences for his role in the protest that gridlocked downtown for nearly a month in early 2022.

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MORGAN: Trudeau has his eyes on your home equity

As national support for the Trudeau Liberals continues to plummet, Trudeau has become more unprincipled than ever while desperation sets in. The term ‘unhinged’ has often been applied to his behaviour and actions lately. Trudeau is hinting at going after the assets of older Canadians in a wealth redistribution scheme that could tear the nation to shreds. It’s becoming undeniable, his eye is turning toward the capital tied up in individual home ownership and he wants a piece of it.

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Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill

On February 21st, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a press conference in Edmonton, announcing his government’s decision to introduce the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63. It was described in Canadian media as a “bill to protect kids” that would stop the “exploitation of children,” and Trudeau’s curt speech focused solely on minors. The scarf-clad PM angrily dismissed criticisms the bill might have a broader focus.

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Former Liberal ministers urge Trudeau to drop rare good idea

Former Liberal ministers urge Trudeau to drop plans to house migrants in federal prisons

Two former Liberal cabinet ministers are urging the Trudeau government to cancel its plans to start using federal prisons to hold immigration detainees, citing a recent inquest recommendation to end the practice of detaining migrants in jails.

Lloyd Axworthy, a former foreign affairs minister, and Allan Rock, who was a justice minister, have joined a chorus of 85 Canadian and international organizations opposing the spring budget’s proposal to use federal prisons to detain “high-risk” migrants after all 10 provinces said they were ending their agreements to hold them in their facilities.

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‘Our NATO allies are despairing’: Retired general says Trudeau government failing on defence

Lt.-Gen. (ret’d) Andrew Leslie is keen to talk about the embarrassing state of Canadian military preparedness.

“The current prime minister of Canada is not serious about defence. Full stop. A large number of his cabinet members are not serious about defence. Full stop,” the former Liberal MP tells me.

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