CBSA dismantles an alleged immigration fraud scheme

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) today announced the results of Project Husky, a five-year investigation into a large-scale alleged immigration fraud scheme.

The investigation began in 2015 based on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials’ identification of suspicious documents submitted as part of permanent residency applications.

 

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Supreme Court Sides with Religious Groups Against Andrew Cuomo, 5-4

Supreme Court Sides with Religious Groups Against Andrew Cuomo, 5-4

The U.S. Supreme Court granted an injunction Wednesday evening against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on religious services in a 5-4 decision that saw Justice Amy Coney Barrett with the conservative majority — and Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the liberal minority.

The Court was responding to a request for an emergency injunction by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and the Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish group, against restrictions limiting services to ten people in some areas and 25 people in others.

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Four more children are charged over French teacher’s beheading: Group includes daughter of man who launched campaign against Samuel Paty for showing Mohammed cartoons

Four more people – all of them teenage students – have been charged in connection with the brutal murder of teacher Samuel Paty in France last month.

Three of the four students have been charged with identifying Paty to 18-year-old Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov, who beheaded him before being shot dead by police.

The fourth is the daughter of Brahim Chnina, leader of a campaign against Paty, who claimed to have been in class when he showed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed but is now charged with lying after it emerged she did not attend his lessons.

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Ontario reports 1,478 new COVID-19 cases; 21 new deaths

Ontario reports 1,478 new COVID-19 cases; 21 new deaths

Ontario reported 1,478 new positive tests for COVID-19 on Thursday along with 21 new deaths, as the overall positivity rate declined and hospitalizations reached their highest point so far in the second wave.

“Locally, there are 572 new cases in Peel, 356 in Toronto and 111 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter.


Police change locks at Etobicoke BBQ restaurant after charges laid for defying lockdown rules

Police have returned to an Etobicoke BBQ restaurant for a third day in a row after the establishment was charged for opening its doors for indoor dining, failing to comply with provincial COVID-19 lockdown rules.

At around 6 a.m. on Thursday, officers were seen at the Queen Elizabeth Blvd. location of Adamson Barbecue, changing the locks at the restaurant under an overnight order made by Toronto Public Health.

For what it’s worth, Trudeau and vaccines, who is telling the truth?

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Sidney Powell Files Lawsuit in Georgia Alleging ‘Massive Election Fraud’

Sidney Powell Files Lawsuit in Georgia Alleging ‘Massive Election Fraud’

Attorney Sidney Powell filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday alleging “massive election fraud” and multiple violations of the Constitution and Georgia’s state laws in the 2020 general election, as well as issues pertaining to Dominion Voting Systems.

The civil action alleges that the purpose of the scheme was for “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.” A similar separate suit was filed in Michigan.

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As dictated by Katie Telford: ‘Playing with fire’: How politicians can perpetuate baseless conspiracy theories

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre took to social media this week with repeated messages to “#StopTheGreatReset.”

He says he’s simply criticizing comments Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made in a speech at the United Nations and an associated World Economic Forum document, but the terminology of a “Great Reset” has been co-opted by fringe groups who falsely claim a group of global elites are using the pandemic to benefit themselves and their friends.

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Islamophobia! OSCE report shows Jews and Christians victimized by hate crimes at higher rate than Mohammedans

Nearly 1/4 of hate crimes in Europe last year were anti-Semitic, new OSCE report shows

Out of 6,694 hate incidents recorded in Europe and Central Asia last year, 1,704 were anti-Semitic. This was the category with the second-largest number of incidents after 3,033 instances listed under the more general “racism and xenophobia” category.

The third-largest group was bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity (1,278 cases), followed by bias against Christians (577) and Muslims (511).

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GOLDSTEIN: Freeland’s ambivalent view of Israel is Trudeau’s policy

Her problem is she either meant what she said about Israel, or she didn’t listen to the question she was asked before responding.

This started in question period last Thursday.

Freeland was asked by Conservative MP Michael Chong to explain why Canada has, for the second year in a row, voted for an anti-Israel resolution regularly passed by the United Nations General Assembly.

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McCallum says he was never paid by Communist China

McCallum says he was never paid by Communist China

Former Ambassador to China Defends Comments on Meng Wanzhou Extradition Case

…When questioned if he had received gifts from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during his tenure as the ambassador, McCallum said he had “not received a penny” as “ambassador, as MP, or post-ambassador” from Beijing.

According to a 2018 Globe and Mail article, McCallum accepted over $73,000 in trips to China sponsored by the Chinese regime or pro-Beijing business groups between 2008 and 2015 during his time as a member of Parliament.

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The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Five: The Narrow Exclusion of User Generated Content Services

The Broadcasting Act Blunder series has focused for the past two days on inaccurate claims from Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault that the bill contains significant economic thresholds as a guardrail against over-regulation and excludes news from its ambit. As I noted, the bill does no such thing, though the CRTC will be able to establish regulatory exemptions once it conducts extensive hearings on implementing the legislation should it pass.

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