A cold-hearted thug walked through a Toronto neighbourhood and opened fire at innocent civilians enjoying a warm summer evening. He murdered a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old young woman.
Toronto Police finally released their report on the July 22, 2018 Danforth shooting. Unfortunately the report leaves many questions unanswered.
True North’s Leo Knight explains.
Let no good deed go unpunished. The national Chinese restaurant Mandarin is once again offering its Canada Day promotion of a free buffet for all Canadian citizens, provided they show documentation.
But in 2019, this promotion is apparently no match for the social media hoardes, who have pounced on Mandarin, accusing it of not valuing non-citizen residents of Canadians.
True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in.
A vessel carrying the 1,500 tonnes of Canadian garbage from Manila, Philippines arrived in British Columbia on Saturday morning.
Over the long weekend, dock workers will be unloading the containers from the ship.
Originally the trash containers were expected to reach Canada on June 20, but the 69 containers of cargo had to be transferred onto a larger vessel.
The vessel Anna Maersk, which is carrying the waste, is estimated to arrive at the Delta Port Terminal just outside of Vancouver at 10:00 a.m. Saturday.
After arrival, the load will be taken to a Waste-to-Energy facility in Burnaby, nearly a 40 kilometre drive away, where it will be incinerated.
According to Metro Vancouver, the trash will be transported from the port to the incinerator by way of “intermodal” transport, meaning both rail and truck.
When asked about the mode of transportation, Vice President of Public Affairs for GCT Global Container Terminals Inc, Marko Dekovic said the containers will be leaving the port by truck.
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure sets weight limits for truck hauls at 24,000 kg, meaning it could require upwards of 60 loads to move the 1,500 tonnes of garbage.
Local dock workers also present at the site told True North that the 69 containers would have to be hauled individually with 69 trucks.
According to a report on emissions by the Conference Board of Canada, trucks produce three times as much CO2 emissions than transportation by rail.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has praised the decision to have the garbage burned.
“Anchors aweigh! The containers of garbage have departed the Philippines and will arrive in Canada in four weeks — where the waste will be turned into energy that’ll power homes in British Columbia,” McKenna tweeted.
The Trudeau government has an army of left-wing propagandists at its disposal that will be unleashed on social and legacy media come election time. It’s important Canadians know who these players are and who butters their bread.
Earlier this week intrepid news outlet Blacklock’s Reporter revealed that a former civil servant was using an anonymous Twitter account with over 12,000 followers to call politicians and public figures profane things like “urinal cake,” “syphilis,” “marzipan dildo,” etc. The (un)civil servant appears to have been tweeting attacks predominantly at Conservatives while getting paid by taxpayers and supposedly working for the public.
As the mainstream media follows the $7 million carrot of the Trudeau government to look into a supposed democratic existential crisis brought on by Russian bots and fake news, they’re out to lunch when it comes to the bureaucratic deep state that literally applauded and cried for joy when Trudeau got into office.
Although the extent of how much civil servants break their ethics code to remain nonpartisan at their jobs has not been scrutinized by the mainstream media in the least, a look at the Twitter account “Government of Canada Wikipedia edits” suggests a significant number of bureaucrats are busy beavers at playing politics at work.
Beyond partisan bureaucrats afraid of a pay freeze or cuts to their fat salaries and benefits or being laid off for being paper pushers by a fiscally conservative government, there are third-party groups — some receiving government grant money — doing work that looks awfully partisan.
For instance, The Walrus Foundation, a registered charity, has a magazine that has received generous grant money from the federal government to ostensibly do journalism. A close look at the organization’s so-called journalism shows much of it aligns with the Liberal ideology. An even closer look reveals many Liberal partisans are attached to the organization.
As True North has pointed out repeatedly, Trudeau’s $595 million bribe to the media this election ensures the press, that’s overwhelmingly left wing to begin with, will have all the more incentive to ensure Trudeau wins.
Another institution with the stench of partisanship is Elections Canada. Last week reports came out on how that organization in charge of protecting our democratic voting process in this country was going to blow $650,000 to hire Canadian social media influencers who are overwhelming left wing. The campaign was meant to encourage youth to go out and vote. Elections Canada backed out last minute but the fact they had already paid 13 of these influencers and thought it was a good idea in the first place reveals the distorted judgement a lot of the people within that hallowed organization have, and how they are rotting its integrity.
Speaking of the youth vote, who can forget the Instagram campaign CBC ran last election? The public broadcaster used its left-wing comedians and other personalities to encourage low information voters to go out and vote simply because it’s cool to put up a picture with a filter saying you voted. Meanwhile CBC refused to air one of the debates because it had lost the rights to host it.
CBC also partners with public opinion research company Vox Pop Labs to create the unscientific Vote Compass that’s supposed to tell voters which party they are most aligned with. One past election the Vote Compass allegedly tended to point towards the Liberals more often than not. Vox Pop Labs has also received lucrative federal contracts to create push surveys for the Trudeau government.
I could go on and on (and I will later) with other supposedly non-partisan organizations that will be gunning on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada, but I think you get the point.
What is most concerning about this incestuous power nexus working to keep the “natural governing party” in power is that it gives one party in this country a huge advantage. When one party rules most of the time — with a corrupted justice system, media and bureaucracy in cahoots with them — it leads down a very ugly road like Greece or Venezuela. Canadians need to be aware of this growing power nexus and fight it everywhere they can.
Not too long ago the Democrats were to the right compared to the Liberals in Canada. After the latest Democrat debates, they look more left than the NDP.
What’s the future of the left? Do they go far left and embrace wacky progressive things like illegal immigration and climate alarmism or do they offer a moderate centrist approach?
True North’s Anthony Furey weighs in.
An Indian politician has accused the Canadian government of enabling and supporting Khalistani terrorists.
Amarinder Singh, First Minister of the Indian state of Punjab, believes that Canada’s complicity with the Khalistani cause is so severe that his country should sanction Canada.
India must “mount global pressure on Canada to put an end to the use of its soil to unleash terror against India, particularly the Sikh community being targeted by Khalistani terrorists,” Singh says.
“India had, for too long, been soft towards Canada and needed to crack its whip aggressively, even seek UN sanctions if needed, to end the growing threat once and for all.”
While most Sikhs in Canada are peaceful and patriotic citizens, a powerful faction advocate for an independent Sikh state to be carved out of India. Many in this faction call for violence and condone terrorism as a means to achieve their agenda.
Singh has also accused the Trudeau government of pandering to Khalistanis in an attempt to win votes in the Sikh community.
“It is obvious that Trudeau had played safe in view of the upcoming elections in Canada, giving in to pressure within his country,” said Singh. “The world cannot afford to fan extremism in any form, which is what the Trudeau government was effectively doing with such ill-thought moves.”
Trudeau infamously brought a Khalistani extremist, Jaspal Atwal, to a reception during his 2018 state trip to India.
In 1986, Atwal had been charged with attempting to assassinate an Indian official on Vancouver Island and was sentenced to 20 years.
Khalistani terrorists were responsible for the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, bombing Air India Flight 182 in 1985, killing 328 people, 268 of whom were Canadians.
Khalistani groups have remained active in Canada, with some even putting on public events and displays of support for the violent cause.
In December activists held an event in Brampton to honour a Pakistani general for allegedly aiding the Khalistani cause.
The Trudeau government also removed references to Khalistani extremism from the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada, a move which outraged many, including Amarinder Singh. Singh accused Trudeau of “vote pandering.”
Although the Canadian government recognizes two Khalistani groups as terrorist organizations, the ignorance towards the threat of Khalistani extremism by the Trudeau government may continue to enrage the Indian government and endanger people in both countries.
On June 22, 2019, the Prime Minister’s itinerary showed him taking a personal day. I guess he was tired after flying to Toronto to attend the Eid dinner hosted by Canadian-Muslim Vote and back to Ottawa again the day before.
He flew back to Toronto again the following day to walk in the Toronto Pride Parade.
In between, the body of Bombardier Patrick Labrie, who was killed on a training exercise with NATO in Bulgaria, was returned to Ottawa airport. In a solemn service, Labrie’s colleagues lifted Labrie’s flag-draped coffin from the plane into the hangar with full military honours.
Labrie served with the 2nd Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery stationed in Petawawa. He was killed in a low altitude parachuting exercise.
Why the PM couldn’t be bothered to show up to pay respects for the fallen soldier and his family who attended the ramp ceremony isn’t known. He was taking a personal day.
Frankly, it’s outrageous.
Apparently attending an Eid dinner and walking in the Pride parade are important virtue signalling events, but showing respect for those who served and died in the line of duty is not.
It’s about priorities.
Earlier in the week, the PM gave a much-ballyhooed speech effectively claiming they were going to ban single-use plastics in things like plastic straws and water bottles. It was part of their fight against the “Climate Emergency” as they have taken to calling it.
He claimed that Canadians dispose of over 57 million plastic straws a day. A day. Turned out that information came from an American website created by a nine-year-old.
Just a few days later, a photo op picture was uncovered on social media showing Trudeau at a picnic table holding a soda can with two plastic straws in it, several plastic water bottles on the table and some plastic utensils. Not to be outdone, another photo op picture showing the PM sitting with a bunch of folks around a meeting table containing boxes of pizza and a spray of plastic utensils was also released.
Some emergency. Meanwhile, the government approved the dumping of billions of litres of raw sewage (again) into the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
It’s about priorities.
In the same week, Bombardier Inc. announced they were selling their regional aerospace division to Mitsubishi for $550 million. There was no mention whether any of the low-interest loans, grants or subsidies given to them will be repaid or returned. According to the Canadian Taxpayers Foundation, the amount given to this Liberal-supporting, Quebec company has been in the area of $4 billion since 1966.
The Fraser Institute pegs the number at $1.1 billion from Industry Canada alone.
There was no word from the government what efforts would be made to recover tax dollars from the Montreal-based company given their windfall from Mitsubishi.
It’s about priorities.
Trudeau is jetting off to the G20 meetings in Osaka, Japan. From the airport in Ottawa, embarking on what is, by my count, his 105th flight this year on the RCAF V.I.P transports, he tweeted:
“Wheels up for Osaka, Japan with a busy few days ahead at the #G20 Leaders’ Summit. We’ll focus on fighting climate change, advancing gender equality, and creating more opportunities for the middle class.”
There are tens of thousands of unemployed energy sector workers in Alberta. They used to have good middle-class jobs in that province. Now, if they are working at all, they are working in Texas, North Dakota or Oman.
The government’s actions have killed investment in the energy sector in Alberta. The carbon tax has been an unmitigated disaster. Multiple provincial governments have filed lawsuits to fight the federal tax.
The winds of western separation, many decades still, are blowing again. Trudeau has a national crisis on his hands.
China has stopped all importing of canola, primarily produced in Alberta and Saskatchewan. With the burgeoning trade war, they have now halted the importation of Canadian beef, again, primarily Alberta produced.
Two Chinese fighters buzzed the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina in the Taiwan Strait and the Chinese are holding two Canadian citizens prisoner, and the President of China won’t take the Prime Minister’s call.
But Trudeau is going to the G20, where China’s President Xi will be also attending and he wants to talk about “fighting climate change, advancing gender equality, and creating more opportunities for the middle class.”
It’s about priorities.
The two parents of “Jihadi Jack” are currently facing charges for funding terrorism after it was discovered that they sent him money while he was still with the terrorist cell.
Jack Letts, who is also known as “Jihadi Jack”, is a 24-year old ISIS fighter who is being held overseas for being involved with the terror group.
Sally Lane and John Letts, who is himself a Canadian citizen, sent their son £1,723 or $2,870.17 CAD between September 2015 and January 2016. It is alleged that Letts left the United Kingdom in 2014 to go fight for ISIS, shortly after he converted to Islam.
Letts currently has a Canadian citizenship through his father, although it is unclear if Jack Letts has actually stepped foot in Canada.
The lawyers of Letts’ parents claim that the two were given permission to send their son money by anti-terrorism police despite being in Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold.
According to a British MP, the Canadian government was in the process of bringing Jihadi Jack to Canada until the U.K. Home Department interfered in the transfer.
Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle claims that Letts was being moved out of his Kurdish jail with the help of Canadian officials.
Recent documents have shown that the Liberal government is looking at ways to bring other Canadians who have fought for ISIS overseas back to Canada.
According to the files, members of the Privy Council Office discussed options for “managed returns” of ISIS fighters holding Canadian citizenships.
In another instance, an anonymous Turkish official claimed that the country would be open to helping Canada repatriate their overseas ISIS fighters.
The 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada by Public Safety Canada claims that there are approximately 190 Canadian Extremist Travellers involved in some form of terrorism abroad and that 60 have returned to the country.
The federal government talks about combatting “hate speech”, “misinformation” and “electoral interference”, but they never actually defined what these terms mean.
The government has opted to use a definition of “Islamophobia” in their new anti-racism strategy so broad that you can drive an 18-wheeler through it.
True North’s Anthony Furey explains.
Elections Canada will be closely following provincial governments and politicians this fall.
Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said in an iPolitics interview his agency will be actively monitoring how provincial activity may affect October’s federal election.
“On the one hand there’s the concern over the level playing field, on the other hand, there’s the concern over the natural course of federalism and how far a federal law can regulate provincial governments,” he said.
Currently, elections put no constraints on provinces’ abilities to voice their opinions during federal elections, a policy which has caused no major problems in previous years.
Though as Elections Canada restricts third-party advertising, it appears the agency has also created an apparent concern with provincial intervention in elections.
Ontario’s NDP has complained that the Doug Ford government’s campaign against the federally imposed carbon tax violates federal election laws.
For many years, provincial politicians have campaigned for (or against) federal parties, one of the more famous examples being former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams and his “ABC” (anything but Conservative) campaign.
In the 2015 election, former Alberta premier Rachel Notley campaigned with then-federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair.
Even Doug Ford’s predecessor, Kathleen Wynne, publicly campaigned for Justin Trudeau in that same election.
Perrault has not ruled out muzzling provinces and provincial leaders but says if they were to try it would be difficult to do.
“This is not a simple issue,” Perrault said.
“The level playing field is an important principle, but this is a federal system that we have in which the federal-provincial dynamics are part of the electoral dynamic of pretty much every federal election. So we need to balance a lot of things if we are going to look into this to regulate provincial activities.”
As it stands now, seven out of the ten provinces have right-of-centre governments, compared to just two in 2015 when the issue was not even being talked about.
