Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government often talk about fighting ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’.
When they do so they aren’t talking about persuasion or respectful disagreement.
Rather, they’re talking about using the power of the government to define what is and isn’t ‘truth’.
The federal government’s broad push to regulate the internet has the support of a majority of Canadians, according to a new survey, even though the details of Ottawa’s plans are generating strong pushback from policy experts.
The federal government’s broad push to regulate the internet has the support of a majority of Canadians, according to a new survey, even though the details of Ottawa’s plans are generating strong pushback from policy experts.
The House of Commons is currently studying two separate pieces of legislation proposing the regulation of online news remuneration and streaming services. It is also in the process of drafting a third bill that will aim to combat various online abuses, including hate speech, terrorist content and child pornography.
A Nanos Research poll commissioned by The Globe and Mail found that 55 per cent of Canadians support or somewhat support greater government regulation of the internet, while 37 per cent oppose or somewhat oppose such regulation and 8 per cent said they are unsure.
I am not buying this poll. Go Incognito.
For Canadians, higher gas prices represent another hit to our finances.
By increasing transportation costs, surging gas prices mean people have less money available for anything else.
And of course, higher fuel prices push up the cost of food, clothing, and nearly everything else. Since companies must transport goods and find it more expensive to do so, they are left with no choice but to pass on that cost to consumers.
This pushes people into a binary choice:
Continue to drive and cut back on other expenses, or cut back on driving.
Both ‘choices’ represent a narrowing of financial freedom and personal freedom.
Many Canadians acquiesced to soft totalitarianism when they accepted vaccine passports from September 2021 to early 2022 with little outcry or protest. A government with the power to exclude you from society over your refusal to get injected with a new substance which lacks long-term safety data can also make you a second-class citizen based on other private and personal decisions that the government deems to be unacceptable.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 in an effort to quash blockades that had taken over the streets of the capital and major border crossings in protest against COVID-19 restrictions and the Liberal government.
The Conservatives are alleging “contempt of the House” after a Liberal MP appeared to be participating in House of Commons proceedings virtually from a washroom stall on Friday.
Rising on a question of privilege on Monday morning, Conservative House Leader John Brassard said it didn’t bring him any pleasure to do so, but he felt the need to raise the “occurrence of misconduct,” as House administration indicated the incident had occurred, but there had been no follow up.
The alleged incident took place on Friday afternoon in the House of Commons. During a debate on a private members’ bill, Conservative MP Laila Goodridge rose on a point of order, flagging to Assistant Deputy Speaker Alexandra Mendes that it appeared the Liberal MP for Brampton Centre MP Shafqat Ali was participating from “a washroom.”
As a columnist for 30 years, I’ve always tried to remember Bertrand Russell’s maxim not to expect people to take as much interest in me as I do myself.
In any case, I appear to have entered my anecdotage — not much happens in my tiny world worth relaying to the rest of the universe.
An exception was the response to one recent tweet on Canada’s promised low-cost, high-quality child-care system, which did spur some interest beyond my immediate family.
“Some people are just born that way” is a well-known description of a troubled person’s behaviour. After witnessing six-years of Justin Trudeau as prime minister, it is difficult to find a more appropriate summation.
Canada’s big oil companies are making record profits this year and should be using some of that extra cash to invest in things that curb their greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Thursday.
Freeland has a long history with Soros. In 2012, she wrote a print interview with the billionaire, which in many ways was a fluff piece that analyzed how Soros is able to predict winners and losers of global conflicts, notably China.
This article was published on ForeignPolicy.com which lists Freeland as “editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, working on a biography of George Soros and is author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.”
While the offers from Trudeau’s government and providers are sincere, the reality is that access in Canada is complicated and “wait lists are through the roof.”
OTTAWA, Ont. — The Trudeau government wants it known that Canada is open to any Americans who may need to travel north to access an abortion.
Senior Cabinet ministers have been making the point in the wake of a draft opinion obtained by POLITICO that suggests the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and federal abortion rights in America.
Leftist Throws Tantrum After Failing to Shut Down Pro-Lifers Outside U.S. Supreme Court pic.twitter.com/sNuKSx1BRo
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 6, 2022
Some advocacy groups and individuals who submitted feedback to the federal government about its proposed online harms legislation say they were surprised the government didn’t make their consultation documents public, which would have ensured concerns about a “disturbing” and “extremely problematic” plan were heard widely.
The spread of disinformation and polarization via social media is one of the biggest threats to social cohesion in Canada and the federal government needs to do more to fight it, says the head of Canada’s spy agency.
