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“Doesn’t Really Add Up”: Canadian MPs Grill Public Safety Minister On Use Of Emergencies Act
“Doesn’t Really Add Up”: Canadian MPs Grill Public Safety Minister On Use Of Emergencies Act MPs grilled Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on Feb. 25 at a House committee hearing to examine the public order emergency declared by the government, with some focusing on whether the threshold had been met to call a national emergency, […]
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression Rav Arora, a 20-year-old writer from Canada, offers his perspective on his government’s ongoing despotic response to the convoy protest. A protester walks in front of parked trucks as demonstrators continue to protest the vaccine mandates implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 8, […]
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn Berardo62/flickr Anxiety is running high in Newfoundland and Labrador as the province waits on a federal decision about a proposed offshore oil project about 500 kilometres east of St. John’s. Equinor’s Bay du Nord project would open a fifth oilfield for the […]
Bank Run? Canada’s Top Banks Mysteriously Go Offline
Bank Run? Canada’s Top Banks Mysteriously Go Offline Days after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would invoke emergency orders to crack down on demonstrators by freezing their bank accounts, five major Canadian banks went offline on Wednesday night, as customers reported their funds were unavailable, according to technology website Bleeping Computer. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), […]
Ottawa’s “Freedom Convoy” Protesters Dig In As Canadian Government Suffers ‘Alex Jones’ Moment
Ottawa’s “Freedom Convoy” Protesters Dig In As Canadian Government Suffers ‘Alex Jones’ Moment Facing nearly a dozen separate “Freedom Convoy”-inspired protests that seemed to be springing up faster than police and his government could disperse them, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked a national emergency to implement sweeping police powers late Monday. Yet, protesters and their […]
‘Bypassing the democratic process’
‘Bypassing the democratic process’ A Q&A on the Emergencies Act with Noa Mendelsohn Aviv of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association A truck outside parliament in Ottawa, February 14. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images It’s a moment unlike any I’ve experienced in my 20-year journalism career, or, indeed, my lifetime. In response to the ongoing trucker […]
Martial Law in Canada: It’s never been riskier to NOT own Bitcoin
Martial Law in Canada: It’s never been riskier to NOT own Bitcoin Welcome to the era of civil asset forfeiture for your bank accounts. Where governments are woke, broke, and the new f-bomb is Freedom. Christia Freeland’s edict tonight that the government can now seize bank accounts with no due process and no recourse could […]
We Are All Canadian Truckers Now!
We Are All Canadian Truckers Now! We all remember where we were when the Berlin Wall came down. While it may have seemed that communist rule would go on forever, when the people decided that they had enough suddenly the wall fell. Just like that. Thus it is after two years of Covid authoritarianism that […]
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years Taxpayers should understand the financial and climate risks of the big commitment, says an independent report. Governments’ financial support for pipelines is financially and environmentally risky, says a report. Photo from Trans Mountain. Canadian pipelines have received over $23 billion in support from federal and […]
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Ottawa has the power to impose a carbon price across the country as a “matter of national concern.” This is a major win for Trudeau and he can really make sure that the Canadian economy further declines to enable […]
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them. The BC government’s claimed commitment to adopting United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples didn’t stop it from ignoring the […]
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst Expect no Asian windfall for oilsands crude, says a new report by expert David Hughes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces cabinet’s approval to greenlight the TMX project on June 18, 2019. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian Press. Remember that 67-year-old pipeline and its controversial bitumen expansion […]
If Trudeau Suddenly Looks Green, Here’s Why
If Trudeau Suddenly Looks Green, Here’s Why Fossil fuels flagging, the economy demands reinvention. Expect a bold gamble of a throne speech. Prime Minister Trudeau has urged for Canada ‘an economic ecosystem where clean-tech companies can thrive. This is the next great economic frontier.’ Original photo before tinting: Government of Canada. Justin Trudeau’s imminent green gamble, […]
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the […]
Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate
Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is ‘climate change denial with a human face.’ The Trudeau government’s recent actions — declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days — aren’t just hypocritical: they’re morally equivalent to climate change denial. The […]
