The pressure has been building for months. What did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau know about intelligence reports on foreign interference in Canada’s elections, and when did he know it? Why is CSIS leaking like a sieve? Why won’t the PM call a public inquiry? And so on, and so on. Then, 24 hours before...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has never been known to excel at foreign affairs. But he had better brush up, because on Thursday, United States President Joe Biden comes to town. This will be Biden’s second official visit to Canada and his first as president; he was last in Ottawa in 2016 as President Barack...
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It’s been three years since the World Health Organization declared Covid19 a public health emergency. Three years that feel like thirty, leaving innumerable scars across the globe. Death, illness, economic, political and social disruption became the new normal. And Canada was no exception. On the health front, our country suffered fifty thousand deaths, an...
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Is this the beginning of the end for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? The knives are out, and the cuts are coming fast and furious. Not a day goes by without another accusation of political interference by the Chinese communist regime, in not just federal but now also provincial politics. Interference also goes beyond politics...
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Imagine that a community of nearly two million Canadians was being targeted by a foreign government — that these Canadians were being gaslighted, harassed, threatened and silenced. Shouldn’t the Canadian government help this community and protect it from intimidation? Shouldn’t it do more than simply court it for votes at election time? The answer...
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A pox on both their houses. That phrase comes to mind after a week that left the Liberals flailing, the Conservatives backpedalling, and voters despairing: are ethics and common sense completely absent in Ottawa? First, it was the Liberals’ turn in purgatory. After last week’s bombshell revelations that the Chinese Communist Party meddled in...
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The proof is out, and the jig is up: China’s government interfered in two Canadian federal elections. It did so aggressively and with tangible results. According to CSIS documents obtained by the Globe and Mail, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives orchestrated cash donations to political campaigns, had business owners hire “volunteers” for specific election...
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What on earth is happening at Roxham Road? The “irregular border crossing” in Quebec first hit the headlines in 2017, when 18,836 people crossed there into Canada from the United States and claimed refugee status. After dropping to three to four thousand people a year during the pandemic, the number of border crossers surged...
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Crime is up in Canada. In 2021, there were over two million police-reported Criminal Code incidents (excluding traffic), 25,500 more than in 2020. The violent crime rate increased five per cent, while the property crime rate decreased one per cent. Nationally, there were 788 homicides, 29 more than in 2020, an increase of three...
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Canadian constitutional disputes are like zombies. Just when you think they are buried, they rise from the dead, looking to claim their next victim. Politicians often exhume them to boost their standing and win an election. But they had better beware: like most monsters, the undead have no loyalty, and will happily turn on...
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