Carpay: ‘Grave Threat to Privacy’: Resistance to Lawful Access Bill Mounts

Carpay: ‘Grave Threat to Privacy’: Resistance to Lawful Access Bill Mounts

Why do Canadians cherish privacy in the first place? If a person has nothing to hide, why should they care if the authorities can read their emails, texts, or AI conversations? Why does Section 8 of the Charter expressly protect Canadians against unreasonable search and seizure?

Even completely innocent people who have nothing to hide rightfully cherish their ability to think, speak, explore ideas, and meet with others, without the state silently observing their every move. If we are not comfortable with a nosy neighbour (or even a close friend!) knowing everything about us, why should we accept the state knowing all kinds of things about our personal lives?

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What comes next as Alberta plans vote on separation

What comes next as Alberta plans vote on separation

The western Canadian province of Alberta will ask its citizens this October whether they want to remain part of Canada or kick-start the process of holding a binding referendum on separation, marking a major test of the country’s unity, the first in decades.

Alberta’s leader, Premier Danielle Smith, announced the coming vote on 21 May in a televised address.

She said she herself supports a unified Canada.

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Foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes can delay deportation process under new tribunal policy

Foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes can delay deportation process under new tribunal policy

Foreign nationals convicted of serious criminality may be permitted to delay a formal hearing determining whether they must leave Canada if they have appealed their convictions, under fresh policy guidelines drawn up by the head of the immigration tribunal that makes such decisions.

Guidelines issued by Immigration and Refugee Board chairperson Manon Brassard, coming into force on June 1, broaden the criteria for considering whether convicted foreign criminals can delay formal proceedings on “admissibility” to Canada, which would precede deportation.

The Conservatives have seized on the revised policy guidelines, arguing they would make it easier for foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes to remain in Canada and delay their removal.


“The Conservatives have seized”

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Canada-Israel relations are the worst they have ever been, ambassador says

Canada-Israel relations are the worst they have ever been, ambassador says

Israel’s ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed says the government-to-government relationship between the two countries is the worst it’s ever been, summing up what he describes as a “long impasse” in ties strained during his country’s war with Hamas.

The flashpoint has been Gaza, which is in the grip of a severe humanitarian crisis after more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Israel was attacked by Hamas militants in an October, 2023, assault that left around 1,200 people dead and about 250 taken hostage.

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‘Disgust’: Head of RCMP union seeking answers for how CBC-related prank was greenlit

‘Disgust’: Head of RCMP union seeking answers for how CBC-related prank was greenlit

OTTAWA — The head of the union representing RCMP members is seeking answers for how a CBC-related production was approved that targeted retired Mounties under the pretence of being celebrated for their service, but which ultimately turned out to be a prank.

Brian Sauve, president of the National Police Federation, which represents roughly 20,000 current and former RCMP members, says he was recently contacted by a retired member who recounted having been approached by the program, saying he knows of others who were as well.


This was a calculated political smear job to promote extreme-left agendas.

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Alberta essential to plans to build a better Canada, Carney says in wake of Danielle Smith’s referendum gambit

Alberta essential to plans to build a better Canada, Carney says in wake of Danielle Smith’s referendum gambit

OTTAWA—In a measured and conciliatory message to Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that he is working to make Canada “better” after the province’s premier revealed she will stage a vote that could trigger a historic separation referendum and set off a potential threat to national unity unseen in a generation.

Appearing in the 19th-century parliamentary library during a tour of ongoing renovations to the Centre Block, Carney cited former prime ministers Joe Clark, Stephen Harper, and other Alberta politicians who made “huge contributions” in Canada’s Parliament and other areas of national life.

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Whistleblowers say organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport

Whistleblowers say organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport

Whistleblowers tell CTV News’ investigative unit W5 that organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport, as they call for sweeping reforms.

It took the horror of Sept. 11 to force airports around the world into a massive security overhaul to guard against terrorism.

Passengers became the focus of intense scrutiny: shoes off, liquids ditched, carry-on luggage scanned, bodies searched.


Pearson sounds worse.

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John Ivison: Canadian troops are steeling to fight Russia. Will Ottawa back them?

John Ivison: Canadian troops are steeling to fight Russia. Will Ottawa back them?

An extraordinary exchange with potentially dramatic consequences for Canada took place at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s potato-faced permanent representative at the UN, told the council that his country’s intelligence agency believes Latvia is deploying Ukrainian drones on its territory, with the intention of attacking Moscow.

“Membership of NATO will not protect you from just retaliation,” he told Latvia’s ambassador, Sanita-Pavluta Deslandes, who dismissed the allegations as “completely baseless” and “dangerous lies.”


Carney’s foreign policy means we will continue to fund Ukraine while siding with Russia and China in the coming war against the USA.

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Mark Carney’s rightward shift makes room for the battered New Democrats

Mark Carney’s rightward shift makes room for the battered New Democrats

B.C. Premier David Eby stood by Mark Carney in Vancouver on Wednesday and said he would be the one to speak hard truth to the prime minister.

A day earlier, without Carney present, Eby was pretty clear on what truth he wants to tell — that the federal government is putting Alberta’s interests above those of the other provinces because it poses a separatist threat.

“This country cannot work if separatists, separatist premiers, others get all of the attention of the federal government,” Eby said on Tuesday. Last Friday, he accused Carney of rewarding “bad behaviour.”


That Carney he’s a regular Hitler now.

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‘I’m sick to my stomach’: Retired RCMP officer details humiliating experience with CBC prank show

‘I’m sick to my stomach’: Retired RCMP officer details humiliating experience with CBC prank show

A retired RCMP officer who says he was tricked into appearing on a CBC prank show has provided a full account of his experience, describing how he was made to partake in a sort of humiliation ritual in which former police were subject to allegations of mistreatment of Indigenous peoples.

In an hour-long video posted to his personal channel, a YouTuber under the name Clinton Jaws, a nearly 40-year RCMP veteran, said he and other former officers were invited to attend a Vancouver event that was hosted by a production company funded by the broadcaster, which organizers reportedly said would be attended by Prince William.

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Canadian prime minster Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought

Canadian prime minster Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought

Casual international observers would be forgiven for assuming Canada is in the comforting hands of a climate champ. After all, while climate policy rollbacks reign supreme in Donald Trump’s America, Canada is now led by a man who, while serving as governor of the Bank of England, delivered a celebrated 2015 speech, “Breaking the tragedy of the horizon”, warning the global investment community of the financial risks of climate change; who went on to serve as UN special envoy for climate action and finance; and whose 2022 book Value(s) had much to say about the “existential threat” of climate change. A man who recently dazzled the world with his Davos speech on how middle powers can stand up to global bullies.

Look, we get it. Next to the US president, Carney seems so debonair, thoughtful and calm – a lifeline of stability in a volatile new world.

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Canadians want defence dollars spent on Canadian-owned firms, not U.S. companies or their subsidiaries

Canadians want defence dollars spent on Canadian-owned firms, not U.S. companies or their subsidiaries

Canadians strongly support investing in domestically owned defence companies and oppose relying on American companies to build equipment for the Canadian military, according to a new public opinion poll released May 21.

The research was done for the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies (ACDC), an industry-led trade association and lobbying group representing wholly Canadian-owned defence builders and suppliers. The alliance represents more than 200 Canadian-owned and Canadian-controlled defence companies across aerospace, maritime, land, cyber and other defence sectors.

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Dr. Strangelove diplomacy: How the Pentagon’s symbolic defence board freeze with Canada could backfire

Dr. Strangelove diplomacy: How the Pentagon’s symbolic defence board freeze with Canada could backfire

Although greeted with a mixture of angst, anger and genuine confusion in this country, it is undeniable that the Pentagon’s move this week to freeze one of the oldest pillars of continental defence co-operation — ostensibly to punish Canada — carried with it notes of dark comedy.

Following Elbridge Colby’s social media edict pausing the U.S.–Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD), one was hoping to see among the replies: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!”

There is still time.

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