Ottawa’s quota for Chinese-built electric vehicles has passed a milestone nobody in Ottawa was aiming for. Global Affairs Canada’s utilization report now shows 9,235 vehicles cleared into the country under the 24,500-unit first window that runs March 1 to August 31 — about 37.7% of the allocation, with 15,265 permits still on the table and roughly six weeks left on the clock.
Two months ago the number was 2,910. The acceleration is real. What’s more interesting is what’s inside it.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is calling on Parliament to reverse what it describes as Canada’s growing “surveillance state,” releasing a new report that recommends eight legislative reforms aimed at restoring privacy protections for Canadians.
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Readers will be aware of the shenanigans after the World Cup football match when England lost to Argentina. A group of Argentine footballers held up a banner claiming the Malvinas are Argentinian. It would seem that our Argentine friends are still rather keen to snaffle the Falkland Islands from us. They tried this in 1982 and were pushed out. But much has changed since then and it seems that politically, diplomatically and, above all, militarily those changes have been in the Argentinians’ favour.
t is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is “for the kids,” history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms.
The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage. Because leftists’ true intentions—total state control and the systematic dismantling of individual liberty—are entirely unpalatable to the average citizen, they must cloak their radical agendas in the warm blanket of public safety.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge risks becoming a financial sinkhole for Canadian taxpayers.
Although the current uproar over Canada’s side deal with the United States is renewing public focus on the bridge’s finances, the fiscal hazards of the 2.5-kilometre span connecting Windsor and Detroit involve more than just that pact.
One important point I remind everyone of is that the BLM protests and eventually riots were concentrated around election years.
And we’re in an election year now.
Don’t speculate. Don’t jump to conclusions. And whatever you do, don’t get angry. Sure, a woman is dead and others are horribly injured, after being rammed with a van and stabbed in Berlin last night. But we now have more details about the suspect. His name is Abdul. He’s reportedly an Islamist. And you know what that means. You must tame your fury and strangle your angst. Don’t be Islamophobic – shut your mouth.
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) recently met for their annual shindig in Ottawa, and the outcome was predictable. They offered nothing but anger, indignation, and demands. It’s an organization overrun with a sense of entitlement and suffers from a chronic oppositional disorder. It’s time that taxpayers stopped paying for it. Taxpayers funding a lobby group whose primary output is demands for more funding creates a self-reinforcing loop detached from broader Canadian fiscal reality or voter consent.
Doug Buettner’s grandfather once saw a flying saucer hovering on his farm in Portland, Ore., in 1947, or so the story goes.
The cows were acting up in the field and he went to check on them. Buettner never heard the story first-hand — his grandfather died before he was born — but his mother, who said she also saw two UFOs as a teenager in a separate incident, passed the story down.
Buettner, now deputy chief scientist at a university affiliated research centre for the Pentagon, is researching UFOs intensely.
Pancake loving aliens?
Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.
Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.
Lamenting the spread of Soviet communism across eastern Europe following the allied victory in the second world war, Churchill – by then no longer British prime minister – warned his audience on 5 March 1946 that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent”.
Communism not a menace? Who knew!
Homesteading. You know it as the way that Canada and the U.S. effectively crowdsourced the development of their Western frontiers.
You take a big chunk of prairie, divide it up into squares, run a rail line through it, and then offer this deal to potential settlers: If you can turn your square into a viable farm, you can keep it.
The first time that “NoMark” tried to knock out a Flock camera feed, he waited an hour for the perfect moment – pacing in and out of bushes that towered over him, a few feet behind a pole holding up the device.
“I was just so nervous,” he said.
NoMark, as he’s known on Instagram, had already gained an online following of hundreds of thousands for posting videos of himself wearing a black mask and taking on small-time vigilante missions: breaking up fights outside a bar and breaking into a refinery he believed was “polluting the city real bad”. The Minnesota Star Tribune dubbed him “Minneapolis’ Batman”. He spoke to the Guardian under condition of anonymity to discuss potentially illegal acts.
For Joyal Jose’s working-class parents in India, his tuition in Canada was a retirement investment — and a huge gamble.
His father, a farmer, and mother, a nurse, had to mortgage their family’s land to scrape together the money for his two-year social service worker diploma program at Seneca College. His graduation was delayed for one extra term because he had suffered severe depression when he first arrived in Toronto in early 2021.
