‘They don’t matter’: Advocates frustrated Ottawa not including anti-Palestinian racism in upcoming update of anti-racism strategy
… The current strategy only defines certain forms of harm, like colonialism, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
OTTAWA — Border agents still have not prevented a single shipment from entering Canada on suspicion it was linked to forced labour, new data shows, almost four years after the country adopted new rules under the renegotiated North American trade pact.
That’s a stark contrast to enforcement in the United States, where authorities report they have denied thousands of shipments of goods within the past two years over concerns they were made or sourced using forced labour.
It’s 2024, and Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has tabled the foreign-interference bill that would have been so useful in 2019.
A new offence for foreign interference, with serious jail time as the penalty, would have been in effect before the last election. A foreign registry would not just be on the drawing board, but in place and working years before the 2025 election. Now it will almost certainly come after the vote.
On Oct. 7, a cowardly, medieval, murder cult (campus heroes) Hamas took the lives of over 1,200 Jews.
Without warning, at a music festival; chased, toyed with; beating every Jew they could find; hunted them down, tormented them, raped them, shot them. A great insensate orgiastic jubilation over a massacre of innocent Jews of an intensity and enormity not seen since the demonic practices of Jew-hating, Jew-destroying Nazism. The greatest puncture in that useless lying balloon of “never again” since the failed slogan was first muttered. Jews massacred in their homeland. Jews killed again.
Meanwhile at U Of T. Can Keffiyeh Doug stop the encampment?
Jewish student ASSAULTED by Lynch Mob of masked anti-Israel activists at the University of Toronto.
Activists jumped the student and grabbed his Israeli flag whilst assaulting him and grabbing onto him, refusing to let him go.
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When all hell broke loose in the House last week, those of us who have experience as parliamentarians simply couldn’t believe our eyes. Speaker Greg Fergus(opens in a new tab) had tossed out the Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, on the flimsiest of pretenses.
Fergus is highly partisan. We all knew that when Trudeau backed him in the election to replace Anthony Rota(opens in a new tab), who’d been forced to step down after introducing a former Nazi soldier in Parliament.
India forced meeting about Sikh activists by keeping Trudeau’s plane in air during 2018 trip
India refused to let Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane land during a visit in 2018 unless he and his defence minister agreed to meet with a government official to air grievances about Sikh separatists in Canada, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a source with direct knowledge.
During the meeting, India’s minister for the Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, handed Mr. Trudeau and then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan a dossier containing the names of about 10 Sikh activists whose activities the Indian government wanted curtailed, the source said.
Fines mounting for violations in Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs
The federal government penalized nearly 200 companies last year for violating the rules of its temporary foreign worker programs, resulting in record fines for infractions such as wage theft and abuse in the workplace.
Ottawa reached 194 decisions against non-compliant employers in 2023 and handed out $2.7-million in penalties, an average of $13,800 per decision, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of figures published by the government. Some employers have also been suspended from hiring temporary labour from outside the country.
But how else will they depress wages?
The 11-year-old boy slated to die alongside his gangster father.
A high-profile Sikh activist rubbed out in the Lower Mainland.
A family destroyed by a wrong-way driver racing from a liquor store robbery on Hwy. 401.
OTTAWA — The federal government tabled a bill on Monday to implement a package of reforms to better combat foreign interference, including the much-awaited foreign agent registry and changes to legislation surrounding Canada’s spy agency.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced An Act Respecting Countering Foreign Interference. The bill was put on the House of Commons’ notice paper in the hours following Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s interim report on foreign interference.
OTTAWA — When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered her budget speech last month, she gave a nod to the workers on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a $34-billion, government-owned project more than a decade in the making that, after multiple cost overruns and delays, will this month finally begin carrying Alberta oil to the West Coast.
Freeland used the opportunity to take a shot at those who, she said, think government only stands in the way of development.
With the Liberals 21 points behind in the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will need to “supercharge his front bench” and give his government “a new sense of energy” if he really wants to lead his party and be competitive in the next election, say Liberal MPs, pollsters and party insiders.
“Assuming that he wants to lead the party in the next election, the budget impact has been flat,” said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research. “It means that if he wants to be competitive, he has to do something different. He has to perhaps talk about what does Justin Trudeau version 2.0 mean.”
Canadians are feeling gloomy about their personal finances — and Generation Z is the gloomiest of all.
The Nanos Pocketbook Index, a measure of how people perceive their personal finances and job security, fell to 50 last week, matching its April 2020 low. It’s one component of the broader Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, which also gauges the public’s expectations about the economy.
Someone will eventually succeed Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader. Here’s what Canadians told a pollster about some of the potential contenders
OTTAWA — Of a slate of potential Liberal leadership contenders largely unknown to the public, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is the most prominent in a hypothetical race with no obvious front-runner, a new poll suggests.
The recent survey by Abacus Data asked 1,500 respondents about their impressions of seven “possible Liberal leadership candidates” to one day succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The respondents were asked who they would prefer to see replace Trudeau as Liberal leader if he announced he was not going to run again.
OTTAWA – India’s Foreign Affairs Minister accused Canada of welcoming criminals from his country in response to the RCMP’s recent arrests in a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also called Ottawa the No. 1 driver of what he described as a violent movement of Sikhs trying to carve their own country out of India.
“It’s not so much a problem in the U.S.; our biggest problem right now is in Canada,” Jaishankar said Saturday during remarks at a forum for intellectuals in India.
A mayor in British Columbia has had his travel budget removed and been banned from committees after allegedly distributing a book on residential schools that is critical of media response to alleged unmarked graves linked to residential schools in Kamloops and elsewhere.
Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull was accused of attempting to hand out copies of the book “Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)” by Thomas Flanagan and C.P. Champion. The book, which contains a series of essays, examines the media’s response to the May 2021 announcement of the alleged grave site discovery.
