True North- Prosecution budget issues leading to fentanyl trafficking charges getting dropped
Serious criminal charges are getting thrown out because of budget cuts in the federal prosecution service, an Ontario police chief says.
Hamilton, Ont. police chief Frank Bergen voiced frustration and disappointment at a police services board meeting after learning that the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) dropped 19 drug trafficking charges laid by Hamilton officers earlier this month.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get something straight: The Bank of Canada just made a desperate move to keep the illusion of stability alive in a country that is already spiraling into economic disaster.
Tiff Macklem, the so-called head of our central bank, just announced the sixth consecutive rate cut, slashing the overnight rate to 3%. On the surface, that might sound like good news for some. Cheaper mortgages, maybe a little relief on your debt. But let’s be real—this isn’t economic strength. This is a blinking red warning light that our economy is in free fall.
And here’s what they’re not telling you: The Bank of Canada isn’t just cutting rates. They’re restarting asset purchases in March — which, in plain English, means they’re turning the money printers back on. This is what central banks do when they’re out of real solutions. When they can’t grow the economy naturally, they inflate their way out of the problem. The same reckless policy that triggered the inflation crisis in 2021 is coming back, and they’re hoping you’re too distracted to notice.
So why are they doing this? Because Canada’s economy is collapsing…
New: Trump signs new executive orders and speaks to reporters in the Oval Office. (28min)
Via CTVNews: Rona Ambrosegoes on a 3 minute schooling of Trudeau, the Liberals and the disaster they’ve created.
Meanwhile, Where’s Waldo?
Plus! Foreign Minister Joly is doing a great job making diplomatic inroads in the alternate-dimension United States where Tim Kaine holds any power.
I’m not saying it’s Soros Klaus, but it’s a leading hypothesis.
*Corrected. I guess all international super-villains look alike to me.
‘The concentration of power by Thomas Pitfield and others over the database of individual Canadians’ private information is profoundly troubling’: Elbert Paul, former LPC agency auditor
Firstly, a major benefit of a liberal democracy as a safeguard against autocracy includes government transparency and accountability. This means that liberal democracies hold elected officials and government institutions accountable to the people. This helps ensure that government policies are transparent and respond to the needs of the people, and that corruption and abuse of power are eliminated. The issue of lack of transparency in the Liberal Party of Canada was reported by CTV News in March 2017:
“One of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s closest friends is benefiting from an exclusive agreement between his data analytics company and the Liberal Party of Canada.”
In responding to an inquiry from CTV News, the LPC representative refused to disclose the value of the contract with Data Sciences Ltd., owned by Thomas Pitfield, husband of Anna Gainey, then President of the Liberal Party of Canada. Data Sciences Inc. performs baseline research, polling, gathering information on target audiences, making strategic campaign decisions and evaluating potential political success.It was reported that Ms. Gainey recused herself from the decision to award the contract. CTV stated that Canadians may never know the value of the 2016 contract entered into with Data Sciences Ltd. by the Liberal Party of Canada. […]
[W]hile government departments and private companies are governed by federal privacy laws (The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act) which dictate how they must handle the private information of Canadians, federal political parties are exempt from these rules. This has allowed political parties to build valuable databases with private information about Canadians and their political inclinations. Because they are exempt from the law, political parties have no obligation to tell Canadians what information their databases contain about them.
Bloomberg- Heinz Maker Slams Trudeau for Floating Ketchup as Trade Target
“Kraft Heinz Canada is deeply disappointed that Prime Minister Trudeau has made misleading statements that Heinz Ketchup is not made in Canada and that it may be a potential target for countervailing tariffs,” it said.
“With the exception of the five years from 2015 to 2020, we have made Heinz Ketchup in Canada for more than 100 years.”
🔥🔥BREAKING — DONALD TRUMP AT THE WEF:
"We dont need Canada's lumber. We dont need their oil and gas.
If they dont want tariffs, they can become a state" pic.twitter.com/rKEKdtUNvN
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 23, 2025
Alberta, Quebec and now Saskatchewan.
Trade war interruptus.
About cannabis legalization is how it brought the pot trade out of the underground and into the economy proper to be taxed and regulated.
After conspiring with a group of Canadian businessmen to manipulate the price of a marijuana company and then dump shares on unsuspecting U.S. investors, Dr. Avtar Singh Dhillon, a politically connected Sikh community leader, met an associate of the notorious West Vancouver lawyer Fred Sharp in a Vancouver restaurant to collect $30,000 cash, handed over in a paper bag.
The gritty exchange was just one of the covert methods Dr. Dhillon used to hide ill-gotten gains, including receiving payments to his daughter’s autism treatment provider, and stashing funds in an offshore account in Singapore.[…]
This testimony was offered during a September 2023 jury trial in Boston, in the case Securities and Exchange Commission v. Frederick L. Sharp, et al.
Dhillon, a British Columbia-educated physician turned cannabis entrepreneur, has since been convicted, mitigating his sentence as a key witness in the SEC’s fraud case against Sharp and his co-defendants.
We need a federal election. Like six months ago. Probably sooner than that.
Blacklock’s- Retaliate With Ketchup Tariff
“The example from last time was Heinz ketchup being replaced by French’s ketchup because French’s was still using Canadian tomatoes in its ketchup,” said Trudeau. “Having Canadian consumers have alternatives to having to spend tariffs on American inputs is part of how we make sure Canadians don’t bear undue costs around tariffs. At the same time there will be costs for Canadians if we move forward on tariffs to the United States.”
Calgary Herald- Bloc Quebecois sides with Alberta against using energy as bargaining chip in trade dispute with U.S.
The leader of the Bloc Quebecois says Canada is playing with fire by suggesting it could cut oil or electricity exports to the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose tariffs on Canadian goods.
Read the whole thing.
Ross McKitrick- Poof. Canada spent $50b + in subsidies to build unwanted products for a market that just vanished.
Everyone is focused on the US withdrawal from Paris and the tariff threat, but several other Executive Orders yesterday will have even more radical impacts and will require Canada to rethink all our energy and climate policies in response.
Globe and Mail, Jan 15 – Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as ‘no-shows’ by Canadian schools
Bloomberg, Jan 21 – India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back approximately 18,000 Indian citizens residing illegally in the United States
Gord Magill weighs in on the possibility of pardoning of Trudeau’s political prisoners.
From French CBC:
RCMP bought Chinese drones for the border from a company the Americans believe spies for the Chinese government https://t.co/j68ysX5X5Z— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) January 19, 2025
A good follow, btw.
THIS JUST IN
Today, the Federal Court granted the applicants' motion for an expedited hearing in the legal challenge to Prime Minister Trudeau's decision to prorogue Parliament.
Constitutional lawyer James Manson @JamesManson6263 reads excerpts from the decision and shares what… pic.twitter.com/1trajNEUja
— Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (@JCCFCanada) January 19, 2025
