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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, […]
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 […]
Court Battles Reveal ‘Fundamental Incoherence’ in Trudeau’s Climate Policies, Says Campaigner
Court Battles Reveal ‘Fundamental Incoherence’ in Trudeau’s Climate Policies, Says Campaigner Ottawa praises BC’s green leadership, while fighting provincial legal case on Trans Mountain expansion. The federal government’s treatment of British Columbia shows the Trudeau Liberals’ “incoherence” on climate change, says an environmental campaigner. On one hand, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is calling B.C. an […]
Trade War Deepens: China Bans Canadian Canola Shipments Amid Soaring Diplomatic Tensions
Trade War Deepens: China Bans Canadian Canola Shipments Amid Soaring Diplomatic Tensions Canada’s largest grain processor said Tuesday that Beijing has canceled its registration to ship canola seed to China, fueled by the arrest of a top executive for the Chinese tech giant Huawei, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move suggests that rising diplomatic tensions between China and […]
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene The National Art Gallery in Ottawa currently hosts a sensational exhibition called “Anthropocene.” Edward Burtynsky and his associates Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier have created a multi-media mind-boggling representation of the transformation of the earth by humans. Their work has the shock-effect similar to the famous […]
Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian
Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian One has to admire the Canadian government’s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom’s international crimes, the Liberals have managed to convince some gullible folks they are challenging Riyadh’s rights abuses. By downplaying Ottawa’s support for violence in Yemen while amplifying Saudi reaction to an innocuous […]
Ottawa sets up working group to monitor housing market
Ottawa sets up working group to monitor housing market Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he will work with cities and provinces to get more and better data Policymakers are looking at all the tools at their disposal to take care of the housing market. (David Donnelly/CBC) The federal government plans to work with British Columbia […]
Ottawa scientists prepare for disruptive solar weather
Ottawa scientists prepare for disruptive solar weather A tsunami of solar particles could wreak havoc on planet earth Solar flares on the surface of the sun. (Natural Resources Canada) If the threats of climate change, a pandemic or nuclear war haven’t given you enough to worry about, how about solar weather? Large-scale eruptions on the […]
Once Unstoppable, Tar Sands Now Battered from All Sides
Once Unstoppable, Tar Sands Now Battered from All Sides Canada’s tar sands industry is in crisis as oil prices plummet, pipeline projects are killed, and new governments in Alberta and Ottawa vow less reliance on this highly polluting energy source. Is this the beginning of the end for the tar sands juggernaut? In the summer of […]
‘Perfect Storm’ Engulfing Canada’s Economy Perfectly Predictable
‘Perfect Storm’ Engulfing Canada’s Economy Perfectly Predictable Years ago Andrew Nikiforuk, citing experts, warned where Stephen Harper’s priorities would lead us. Economists, an irrational tribe of short-sighted mathematicians, are now calling Canada’s declining economic fortunes “a perfect storm.” It seems to be the only weather that complex market economies generate these days, or maybe such […]
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva Ottawa anti-poverty charity in Geneva this week arguing before UN that political-activity audits are an abuse The head of a small Ottawa-based charity is in Geneva this week to complain to a United Nations committee about the Canada Revenue Agency’s program of political-activity […]
Biometric data collection evolves and expands in Canada
Biometric data collection evolves and expands in Canada Ottawa wants to collect data from visitors of 150 countries, up from the current 30 The federal government’s plan to increase its collection of biometric data from visitors to Canada has been met with concern, but the practice is already a large part of our day-to-day lives. Biometrics measure a person’s unique physiological characteristics — including face, iris, retinal […]
‘Corrections In Progress’ In Most Canadian Housing Markets: Teranet
‘Corrections In Progress’ In Most Canadian Housing Markets: Teranet House prices fell in February in eight of 11 major housing markets measured by the Teranet/National Bank House Price Index. “In some markets there have clearly been corrections in progress,” National Bank senior economist Marc Pinsonneault said in a statement. “The monthly retreat in Calgary was the […]
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan Ottawa was warned, before the Libya mission, that that country would descend into civil war It is sobering to reflect that before our current mission in Iraq, the last two military operations undertaken abroad by Canada have been followed by the violent rise of the […]
Canadian Government ‘Optimistic’ Trade War With U.S. Averted
Canadian Government ‘Optimistic’ Trade War With U.S. Averted WASHINGTON – The Canadian government is expressing optimism that a trade war might be averted with the United States in a long-standing dispute over agricultural products. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he likes what he heard this week during a trip to Washington, and senses a willingness […]
