A few years on, vaccine mandates have proved to be one of the enduring legacies of the pandemic. In British Columbia, they remain in place for health-care workers. The persistence of mandates is a reminder of the inertia of regulation: new powers, once wielded, tend not to be voluntarily retracted.
The CRA confirms that tenants are responsible for withholding 25% of their foreign landlords’ rent and paying it to the CRA — something almost no one was aware of a month ago.
“The Government of Canada continuously reviews the tax system to ensure it is both fair and efficient.”
Clown country:One tenant said his landlord and the CRA both refused to tell him if his landlord was a non-resident
The sale of new petrol-fuelled motorcycles is set to be banned from 2040, under plans due to be announced by ministers as part of its net zero crackdown. The move would affect all vehicles classed as “L3” and upwards, including scooters and light, medium and higher-powered motorcycles. There are around 1.3m motorcycles registered in the UK.
Access To Information records uncovered by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen (Peace River-Westlock, Alta.) show cabinet waited until after it invoked emergency powers against the Freedom Convoy to seek advice from Crown prosecutors. MPs for years have sought proof of cabinet’s claim it was told by lawyers beforehand that the action was lawful.
Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn (29:57) – like somebody in Canada went ‘what if we try East Germany again with way better tech’ and they came up with this thing
“The focus is on retrofitting existing vehicles to be more environmentally friendly,” said the notice Environmental Impact Of Canada’s Vehicle Fleets. “The study will analyze data from a government program that encourages such retrofits. The goal is to create a comprehensive report helping Canada meeting its emission reduction targets.”
Take a good hard look around right now, and you tell me that the Liberals haven’t found a way to turn this disgusting policy of race baiting, and race wars into a solid strategy.
Think about it – the unity and solidarity of the Freedom Convoy is being systematically stripped away with every single new policy decision by the Liberal-NDP federal coalition. When I read JWR’s first book, I realized that race baiting and tokenization of minorities was the #1 policy weapon of choice. Why? Because it works. Most of us are too naive to understand that we are being played.
What brought it home for me? It was actually a thread by @ronmortgageguy on Halal mortgages that solidified this feeling in the back of my head. Our Gov does not actually believe diversity is our strength, or that any minority in Canada is in need of support. It is a tactic. During Covid, it was Gov official attendance at BLM and LGBTQ rallies that set people off. But religious gatherings of Christians were attacked.
Any legal challenge by religious groups against the mandates, and tickets in general was suppressed. We know that the shadow of partisan appointments exists within the judiciary – it becomes more and more apparent every day. Look at the cases taken up… and which ones are denied outright.
Watch:Minister for Small Business Rechie Valdez (@rechievaldez) was asked by David Cochrane last week if family doctors might leave due to their capital gains legislation. She seems to have given up on them and pivots directly to foreign credential recognition for immigrant MDs
Note : for those new to this Substack and whom are unfamiliar with these cases, a list of links to previous articles + podcasts will be provided at the bottom.
For those of my readers who are here for commentary on the trucking industry – I didn’t intend for this Substack to become a blog reporting on the vindictive war against the working class perpetrated by the worst rulers in the history of humanity, but here we are. I’ll get back to trucking eventually.
Earlier this week, a jury in Lethbridge, Alberta, found Marco Van Huigenbos, George Janzen, and Alex Van Herk, guilty of ‘Mischief’. If you went online and witnessed the near universal conflation of their case with that of Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick, still held in ‘remand’ as the two remaining of the Coutts Four, one might come away feeling that the parties guilty of mischief are the government and the media, whose campaigns of disinformation, omission, and silence, have lead to the rampant confusion.
The prosecution of Mr Van Huigenbos, Mr Van Herk, and Mr Janzen, is illustrative of the very deep shit that Canada finds itself in today, as the case against them, much like the cases of so many others across the country, is purely and 100% political, at both the federal and provincial levels. While Hamas Enthusiasts continue to employ violent rhetoric at demonstrations on Parliament Hill and across the country, and criminals walk free due to the the catastrophic mismanagement of our ‘justice system’, the government somehow has the resources to prosecute the the longest mischief trial in Canadian History and while doing so are diverting homicide detectives from solving drive-by shootings in Ottawa. The priorities of the ‘justice’ system are on full display, and that priority is not the safety and security of your communities – especially when principled men like Tony and Chris sit rotting in remand for over two years, while violent thugs who pulled off one of Canada’s most brazen robberies are walking free on bail.
Related:By contrast, what does the Dear Leader do to a foreigner in Canada who has been arrested at least 10 times for road and rail blockades, and convicted of mischief charges? Why he vetoes his deportation.
Andrew Coyne:Then there was the testimony of the Prime Minister…
Mr. Trudeau testified that, while he was briefed by the party’s national campaign manager, Jeremy Broadhurst (now a senior adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office) on the Han Dong affair, he did not feel “there was sufficient or sufficiently credible information that would justify this very significant step as to remove a candidate in these circumstances.” Mr. Broadhurst, for his part, testified that he “recommended that no action should be taken,” because “I thought the bar for overturning that … that bar should be extremely high.”
Oh please. This “very significant step”? If only. Political parties drop candidates all the time, and with far less justification – because they posted something untoward on their Facebook page when they were 12, let alone because they are suspected of being the protégés of a hostile foreign power. This sudden respect for the sanctity of the local nomination process would be a lot easier to credit if there were any – if the races were not often rigged by party HQ to favour one candidate or another, when they are not pre-empted altogether.
Indeed, Mr. Trudeau at another point smirked at CSIS’s naiveté about the Canadian political process: nomination meetings, he said in a prehearing interview, are stacked with busloads of supporters for one candidate or another all the time. That may be true, but they are not usually under the direction of a foreign power – told, as the inquiry also heard, that their families back home would face “consequences” if they did not show up.
So the Liberals, and Mr. Trudeau in particular, are left with many more questions to answer after their testimony than before. Their insistence, in particular, that briefing notes prepared by CSIS for the Prime Minister’s Office, stating that Beijing had “clandestinely and deceptively interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 general elections,” that “state actors are able to conduct [foreign interference] successfully in Canada because there are no consequences, either legal or political,” and that “until [foreign interference] is viewed as an existential threat to Canadian democracy and governments forcefully and actively respond, these threats will persist,” was not reflected in what CSIS director David Vigneault personally briefed them, hangs by the slenderest of threads.
Tomorrow on CBC’s At Issue: “But at least he’s not Hitler”
An unsung hero of the ongoing Coutts Political Prisoners story is Nikki Thom, friend and business associate to Tony Olienick, one of the remaining Coutts “2” of the Coutts Four prisoners, arrested on February 13, 2022, and who remains in custody, having been denied bail and yet to face trial.
Nikki has been tirelessly advocating on all four men’s behalf since day one, taking on what amounts to another full time job, doing the work of endless paperwork, emails, meetings, court appearances, and untold hours of legwork in assisting their legal counsel.
Cabinet had to follow “due process” before firing suspected Chinese spies working at the National Microbiology Laboratory, says Health Minister Mark Holland. Scientists with links to the People’s Liberation Army came under surveillance in August 2018 but remained on the job until July 2019: “Do you think they were eminent scientists or eminent spies?”
Two confidential CSIS witnesses have testified that CSIS director David Vigneault took the rare step of changing a sensitive intelligence report on MP Han Dong for the second time in 2023, following a meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vigneault regarding media leaks about CSIS investigations into suspected Chinese interference in Dong’s 2019 nomination in Toronto.
Following a day of bombshell testimony regarding this and other meetings between Trudeau and Vigneault, Tuesday evening Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue ruled that Vigneault will be recalled Friday for re-examination on his private discussions with the Prime Minister and Trudeau’s top aides.
Follow Sam Cooper on X for today’s developments: Min Gould was briefed 7 times on PRC election interference, and yet she is apparently disputing the briefs related to China especially, and doesn’t agree PRC election interference occurred.
Sometimes I think people outside of Justin’s Canada are more worried about free speech in this country than Canadians. Trudeau’s dystopian online harms act.
Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission heard Wednesday that Conservative MP Michael Chong, who was threatened by Chinese intelligence operators in Toronto, fears foreign agents could infiltrate closed party leadership races and effectively appoint Canadian prime ministers and premiers.
Chong’s testimony reflected concerns from CSIS intelligence documents exclusively reported by The Bureau, which found Chinese proxy agents have allegedly infiltrated leadership contests for provincial and national parties recently. […]
The inquiry also heard for the first time that Chinese agents or proxies could have targeted Chong with threats back in 2019.
But when Chong raised the concern of a “spoofed” email to Liberal Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, she neglected to respond.
Earlier this week, a jury in Lethbridge, Alberta, found Marco Van Huigenbos, George Janzen, and Alex Van Herk, guilty of ‘Mischief’. If you went online and witnessed the near universal conflation of their case with that of Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick, still held in ‘remand’ as the two remaining of the Coutts Four, one might come away feeling that the parties guilty of mischief are the government and the media, whose campaigns of disinformation, omission, and silence, have lead to the rampant confusion.
