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Liberal minister’s reelection received donations from Clinton donors

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Donors to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign are among a group of New York lawyers who donated to the reelection of Liberal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller.

According to Elections Canada filings obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, a total of five American lawyers donated $3,730 to Miller during the 2019 federal election, two of which are known to have also donated to Clinton. 

Miller attended a private fundraiser in New York City in October, 2019 to collect fundraise for his election campaign. He received contributions from a total of 27 people.

The event was not public and the location was kept a secret. Miller has refused to name any of the attendees. 

According to the Canada Elections Act It is illegal for candidates to accept donations from non-citizens during an election.The United States Federal Election Commission prohibits non-Americans from donating to presidential campaigns, so anyone who donated to both Miller and Clinton must either have been a dual citizen, or in contravention of one of the country’s election laws.

True North founder Candice Malcolm previously reported that one of the event’s organizers was Justin Cooper, a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton who helped set up her infamous illegal email server.

In June 2020 Elections Canada cleared Miller off any wrongdoing, saying there was no evidence any of the donors weren’t Canadian citizens.

“We found no information to suggest the individuals who made contributions to Mr. Miller’s campaign through the association were not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada,” the agency said. 

When contacted by Blacklock’s Reporter, Miller refused to comment.

High school students advocate for a return to classes after Ontario closes schools

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True North Wire
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s declaration of a state of emergency has extended the return to school date to February 10 and a student group is speaking out.

Elie Cantin-Nantel, a student from Redeemer Christian High School in Ottawa, has been working with a group of fellow students to petition the government to end remote learning and allow for a return to physical classrooms.

“We are hoping to bring a lot of attention to the issue, like the gyms and restaurants did. They were successful for a while and the government did change their ways,” said Cantin-Nantel.

“Ontario is the only province where schools are closed. Other provinces who are worse off have their schools open, because closing them seems to do more harm than good.”

A recent study revealed that the harms caused by government lockdown measures are at least five to ten times greater than the benefits. Student mental health in particular is at an all-time low. 

Over the last week, Cantin-Nantel has asked friends, family and peers for small donations to raise money for a website. It is his goal to garner a few thousand signatures during the closure by targeting young people with a social media ad campaign.

Ontario schools were only slated to be closed for two weeks, but will now open no earlier than February 10. 

“They said one week originally. That became three weeks,” said Cantin-Nantel.

”This is a quick campaign to try and raise as much awareness as possible. We want to put pressure on the government.”  

In an open letter to parents, Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce wrote, “While leading medical experts have been clear that schools are not a source of rising community transmission, we can and will be an important part of the solution to save lives from COVID-19.”

As of January 13 the province has been placed under state of emergency and has issued a 28 day stay-at-home order.

Alberta councillor resigns after standing up for small business defiant of lockdown

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True North Wire
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An Innisfail, Alberta town councillor resigned from his elected position on Tuesday after he faced opposition for speaking out in support of a small business that opened its doors contrary to lockdown orders. 

Glen Carritt announced he would be stepping down following a meeting with his fellow legislators. The subject of the meeting was Carritt’s public support for the local business, Bladez 2 Fadez Barbershop.

“I feel it’s more important to have a voice for small business — I wish council would have stood behind that instead of thinking it’s a breach of code of conduct,” Caritt said in a Facebook video, shot outside of the business’ premises. 

“If we can’t speak up for the people, then why are we in government?”

According to the business’ owners, their barbershop would not survive if it followed the lockdown order.

“My uncle would be appalled to see these kinds of actions . . . like vultures,” said business owner Natalie Klein, who is related to former Alberta premier Ralph Klein. 

“I’m going to fight for my livelihood.”

The store has since been threatened with a $5,000 fine per day they choose to remain open. 

“I do believe Mr. Carritt’s heart is in the right place but we can’t be going off on tangents against council . . . I wish we could have found something else,” said Innisfail Mayor Jim Romane. 

“It got council into a bit of a pickle when he got involved with a business proposing to break the rules and the law and it’s not the direction of council.”

FUREY: Public officials aren’t considering the harms of the lockdowns

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True North Wire
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Canadians are feeling the effects of the lockdowns – eating disorders amongst children and teens have spiked, suicide attempts have increased and the mental health of Canadians is deteriorating.

Why aren’t public officials considering the consequences of the lockdowns in their decisions?

Anthony Furey says it is a total failure of the government to not consider if the harms outweigh the benefits of their decisions.

130 academics and historians sign letter defending John A Macdonald’s legacy

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As Sir John A Macdonald’s name is stripped from public edifices and statues of him are taken down or vandalized, a group of Canadian academics is defending the honour of Canada’s first prime minister.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute ran a full-page ad commemorating Macdonald’s life and legacy in the National Post Monday, coinciding with Macdonald’s birthday.

The ad accompanied a letter signed by 130 historians, academics and other thought leaders calling for a more fulsome view of Macdonald.

“All Canadians deserve to hear the full story about Macdonald, the founding of Canada and Canadian history generally. Only then can we form reasoned views about that historical record,” the letter says.

Professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University Patrice Dutil was one of the experts behind the project.

“2020 was a terrible year for John A Macdonald’s reputation. The defacing of statues across Ontario and the decapitation of the statue in Montréal, these things really jarred a group of us,” said Dutil.

“We are afraid this narrative is catching on.”

The letter was penned by a small group of concerned citizens who call themselves “the friends of John A Macdonald,” Dutil says.

“We are upset about how John A Macdonald is being portrayed to our school kids. He’s being portrayed as nothing more than a colonialist and a man who was instrumental in doing nothing more than suppressing the rights of indigenous Canadians,” said Dutil.

“There is a better story than this, and it’s a truer story. John A Macdonald was the chief architect of a country that we cherish and is the envy of the world. We want that story to be told.”

Despite Macdonald’s role in founding Canada and leading it through its formative years, his legacy has also become subject to attacks from numerous activists who argue his record on Indigenous issues is a source of national shame.

Statues of Macdonald being defaced or torn down by protesters, and in some cases by governments. Similarly, schools bearing his name have been renamed, and his portrait was removed from Canada’s ten-dollar bank note.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute letter does not shy away from acknowledging historic shortcomings and acknowledges the frustration felt by the descendants of those affected by his mistakes.

Rather, the statement insists history needs to be looked at with a dispassionate eye to have a clearer vision of the future.

The letter was written with the intention of raising awareness and showing Canadians that there are people who oppose the current narrative. Dulti says if the movement gains traction and is supported they would like to begin lobbying the ministries of education to require schools teach Canadian history. 

“He was our prime minister for twenty years, who accomplished so much and he only gets a couple mentions about indigenous issues and Louis Riel. Those are important parts of the story, but it’s not the whole story,” said Dutil. 

Top doctor fired for Caribbean trip to receive $1 million in severance

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The former executive of Niagara Health and St. Joseph’s Health System who was fired after vacationing in the Caribbean is due to receive over $1 million in severance pay. 

Dr. Tom Stewart was canned by both organizations after media reports revealed that he took a holiday vacation while public health advice was urging Canadians to remain at home. 

According to CityNews, Stewart is still eligible to receive severance because the trip was allegedly approved by the hospital’s board. 

Stewart was among a spat of public officials who were ousted for going abroad for the holidays. 

“I regret this non-essential travel and I’m sorry. Everyone should be avoiding non-essential travel now, including me,” said Stewart upon leaving his position. 

“As a health system leader, my actions in no way reflect the tireless dedication and commitment of the staff at St. Joseph’s Health System, who continue to live the legacy of our organization every day.”

Stewart wasn’t the only senior public health professional to lose his job in recent weeks for travelling abroad. 

The CEO of London Health Sciences Centre, Paul Woods, was dismissed from his post after travelling five times to the United States in the midst of the pandemic. 

According to his employment contract, Woods can receive a 12 months salary after termination. Records from the year prior show that Woods earned a salary of $605,000. 

“While the Board was aware of Dr. Woods’ personal circumstances, it had no advance notice of and did not approve his travel outside Canada. There is no process for the Board of a public hospital to approve a chief executive officer’s personal travel,” said the Centres board.

Ontario declares second state of emergency, announces new restrictions

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True North Wire
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a new spat of coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday afternoon. 

Ford announced that he would be reimplementing the province’s State of Emergency, giving his government further powers to impose restrictions.

A stay-at-home order will also be in effect beginning at midnight on Thursday. 

“Under this order everyone must stay home and only go out for essential trips for groceries or medical appointments,” said Ford. 

To enforce the order, the Ford government has given all law enforcement officers the ability to issue tickets to those found not to comply. 

Ford also indicated that his government hopes to crackdown on big box retailers and will begin by ordering a series of inspections for these businesses. 

Retail stores in the province are also required to close their doors and stop offering service by 8 p.m. and to only reopen at 7 a.m. The new rule applies to liquor stores, hardware stores and other retailers, meanwhile restaurants, food retailers, pharmacies and other locations are allowed to remain open beyond this time frame. 

Gathering limits for outdoor public areas have also been reduced to a limit of five people from the previous limit of ten. 

The Government of Ontario is also recommending people to wear masks while outdoors if they can’t follow appropriate physical distancing. 

Non-essential construction has also been restricted under the new lockdown regime. 

As for schools, those in Toronto, Peel, York, Hamilton and Windsor-Essex are being told not to re-open for in-person learning until February 10, 2020. 

According to new public health modelling data, the rate of mortality for the virus is expected to double by the end of February. Should the rate of infections also increase by 3%, public health officials are warning that it could overwhelm the province’s healthcare system. 

“We are at a dangerous point. The number of cases in Ontario is growing between 3% and 5% almost every day. There are already more than 400 COVID-19 patients in our intensive care units and mortality in our long-term care homes is now on a pace to exceed the tragedy of the first wave,” said Ontario Epidemiologist Dr. Adalsteinn Brown. 

Communist China dissatisfied by negative press coverage in Canada

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The Chinese government believes that Canadian media portrayed the communist country unfairly when discussing the coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Canada said China took an “open, transparent and responsible” approach to dealing with Canada during the pandemic, and Canadian media is wrong to state otherwise.

“Some Canadian media have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to smear and attack China’s political system, style of diplomacy and anti-pandemic response. The Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,” they wrote.

“Smearing and pointing fingers will not help fight against the pandemic. We urge relevant media to respect the fact and stop irresponsible reports and attacking and smearing China.”

Before the outbreak was declared a pandemic, China downplayed the threat of the virus and allowed the virus to spread. Further, the World Health Organization peddled the false Chinese Communist Party claim that they did not detect any human-to-human transmission with the virus. 

Despite mounting evidence that the coronavirus pandemic began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Embassy reiterated the Chinese government’s claim that coronavirus started in multiple countries simultaneously.

“China’s diplomacy is rooted in the 5,000-year Chinese civilization and follows the proud tradition of independence and self-perfection fostered since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. China’s diplomacy has acquired a distinct Chinese feature, style and vision” they wrote.

“We uphold equity, justice and other shared values of humanity.”

In September, Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu accused some Canadian media outlets of lying about China to turn public opinion against the communist regime. Cong did not specify which outlets he was blaming.

Earlier last year, Cong accused Canadian media of spreading “fake news” by covering China’s mass internment of minorities.

Curfews are unconstitutional

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Andrew Lawton
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Quebec has imposed a curfew on its residents and is actively charging those who dare to leave their homes after 8pm. While the Ontario government is not putting one in place this week, the province is nonetheless considering it down the road.

Toronto lawyer Ryan O’Connor co-wrote an op-ed in the Toronto Sun calling out curfews as both unconstitutional and ineffective. He joined The Andrew Lawton Show to explain why.

Canada Revenue Agency begins mailing tax slips to CERB recipients

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True North Wire
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has started sending out tax slips to Canadians who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and other pandemic-related handouts.

The benefits will have to be reported as taxable income.

Some pandemic benefits, such as CERB, were not taxed before Canadians received them, while others were. Many Canadians are left wondering if they will be forced to repay the money because of unclear requirements.

Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough admitted that the upcoming tax season will be particularly rough for the government and Canadians alike.

“It’s going to be difficult for people and it’s going to be complex or complicated for the system,” Qualtrough said.

“As people file their taxes, [we] are going to have to figure out… what they owe taxes on, what has already been taken taxes off for them. If you claimed both the CERB and CRB [Canada Recovery Benefit], we took taxes off the CRB but we didn’t for CERB — it’s incredibly complicated.” 

In late 2020, around 441,000 Canadians received letters from the CRA stating that they may not have been eligible for the benefits they received, and it is recommended that they pay back the CRA before the end of the year.

Anyone who received money through pandemic benefits will enter the total amount on line 13000 of their 2020 income tax return.

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