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Thousands of ‘lost Karens’ have applied for dual citizenship – is Canada ready?

Thousands of ‘lost Karens’ have applied for dual citizenship – is Canada ready?

As the youngest of five children, Joe Boucher learned a lot from his older brothers and sister – how to ride a bike, how to navigate the miles of forest behind their house and how to skate and play hockey. But one thing he didn’t really pick up from them is how to speak French.

Although both of Boucher’s parents were of French-Canadian descent and spoke French with each other, it was once illegal to teach French in school in the US state of Maine, where the Bouchers lived. And so his siblings, amongst themselves, defaulted to English.

“Shame was heaped upon French speakers as being second-class citizens,” he recalls.

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What Took Us So Long to Learn About World War Eleven?

What Took Us So Long to Learn About World War Eleven?

One of the jokes in high rotation in the late M. Stanton Evans’s repertoire involved a teleprompter miscue, a la Ron Burgundy in Anchorman, in which the newsreader discussed events concerning World War Eleven. Other listeners of the joke, I assume, also regarded it as of dubious origin, told to illustrate not a literal but a figurative truth, i.e., human evolution took a U-turn on intelligence several decades back.

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‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

As the province prepares to close the Luugat single-room occupancy (SRO) building on Vancouver’s Granville Street by the end of June, it appears BC Housing doesn’t want the public to see inside the former hotel that taxpayers paid millions of dollars to convert to supportive housing during COVID.

“I’m happy to get out of there,” Luugat resident Stewart Holcombe said with a chuckle Friday.


How was this allowed to happen?

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Denmark to procure state-of-the-art Canadian assault rifle before Canada does

Denmark to procure state-of-the-art Canadian assault rifle before Canada does

Despite the Department of Defence touting its new “fast-tracked” procurement strategy, a new Canadian-made assault rifle is already equipping Danish soldiers months before a Canadian will ever see one.

The C8 Modular Rail Rifle, first unveiled at an Ottawa military trade show in 2024, is lighter, more accurate and stealthier than the C7 assault rifle currently in Canadian Armed Forces service.

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Immigration minister says she’s accountable after former IRGC official was granted permit for FIFA event

Immigration minister says she’s accountable after former IRGC official was granted permit for FIFA event

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she’s accountable after a senior Iranian soccer official with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a listed terrorist group in Canada — was granted documents to travel to the country ahead of a pre-FIFA World Cup gathering in Vancouver, before ultimately getting turned around.

But Diab, who spent an hour fielding pointed questions about the case during a parliamentary committee Thursday afternoon, said she was not made aware of the decision to issue Iranian Football Federation president Mehdi Taj documents to enter the country.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Canadian Catholic priest says he was offered euthanasia twice in hospital

Canadian Catholic priest says he was offered euthanasia twice in hospital

A Canadian Catholic priest says that he was twice offered euthanasia while recovering in hospital from a hip fracture, noting that he was “very shocked” that he was asked about the procedure, which has become rampant in Canada.

Seventy-nine-year-old Father Larry Holland, from the Archdiocese of Vancouver, recalled in a recent interview posted by the diocese’s publication, the B.C. Catholic, that he was twice offered an option to, in essence, take his own life with the help of medical staff.

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Canada urged to open up new permanent resident program to all temporary workers

With so many temporary residents running out of legal status this year, Ottawa has been urged to immediately release details on an announced program that’s meant to grant permanent status to migrant workers in limbo — and make sure the process is fair and inclusive.

Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab has been in the hot seat, accused of failing to promptly and properly communicate about the highly anticipated program to transition temporary foreign workers with expiring permits to permanent residence.


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