Canada has expelled an Indian diplomat after claiming the Indian government was involved in the murder of a Sikh activist.
Plus, a new report alleges the RCMP doubted the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s claims about the Freedom Convoy.
And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says progressives are having trouble connecting with people’s struggles.
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The Indian government has rejected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation that it was involved in the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
The rejection comes after the Trudeau government ejected a senior diplomat on Tuesday and said that an investigation was underway into the Indian government’s role in the June shooting of Nijjar outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C.
Nijjar was shot by two masked gunmen whose identities remain unknown.
India responded by expelling a senior Canadian diplomat Tuesday.
“Allegations of (the) Government of India’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated,” a statement from India’s foreign office said. “Similar allegations were made by the Canadian Prime Minister to our Prime Minister, and were completely rejected.”
“We are a democratic polity with a strong commitment to rule of law. Such unsubstantiated allegations seek to shift the focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists, who have been provided shelter in Canada and continue to threaten India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The inaction of the Canadian Government on this matter has been a long-standing and continuing concern,” the statement continued.
Nijjar’s family has spoken out since Trudeau made the allegations public, saying that they are relieved that their suspicions are being confirmed.
“It’s a sigh of relief for the family and the Sikh community here because from day one we kind of had this idea and knowledge that if anything would happen to him the Indian government would be involved,” said Nijjar’s son, Baraj Singh Nijjar.
“It was just a matter of time for when the truth would come out. It’s finally coming to the public eyes that the Indian government is involved in this. It’s a really serious foreign interference case.”
Tensions continue to rise between the two nations as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Trudeau had only a brief and tense exchange at the recent G20 summit in New Delhi, where Trudeau said he raised alleged election interference in Canada on the part of Modi’s government.
Canada has also announced that it would be canceling a trade mission trip to India that had been planned for the fall.
“Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” said Trudeau in the House of Commons on Monday.
“In the strongest possible terms, I continue to urge the government of India to cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter,” Trudeau continued. “Canada is a rule of law country. The protection of our citizens and defense of our sovereignty are fundamental.”
India has been demanding that Canada take action against the Sikh independence movement in Canada, which desires to have its own region separate from India rule and be called Khalistan.
“Such a charge against India by a G7 nation is unprecedented. The Canadian government has deliberately made a spectacle of it to please its domestic constituency amongst the Sikh diaspora,” said former diplomat K.C. Singh.
Singh said that without Trudeau presenting any hard evidence, he only “unnecessarily upped the ante” with his statements.
Protests against gender ideology in publicly funded schools will be taking place in communities across Canada Wednesday, as more parents grow frustrated with controversial sex-ed teachings.
The marches are being organized in part by Muslim parents, who have been increasingly disillusioned with school teachings on gender and sexuality.
The protests will take place across Canada at 9am local time, with organizers urging participants to pull their kids out of school for the day.
Organizers hope the wave of protests and absences will “unite people for a noble cause, to safeguard children from gender ideology teachings, sexual indoctrination, exposure to explicit sexual content, (and) ensuring that parental consent remains paramount.”
“We will protect our children from thought control and will ensure their religious freedoms are protected,” the Hands Off Our Kids website says. “We firmly believe that the government should respect the rights of parents, and schools should focus on subjects that prepare children for their future.”
Protests will be held in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, at Queen’s Park in Toronto, in front of the Quebec Premier’s Montreal office, at the Harry Hays government building in Calgary, in front of the Alberta Teachers Association building in Edmonton and in front of City Hall in Vancouver, among other cities.
A list of the locations and times for the over 25 planned protests can be found here.
Several organizations have played a part in organizing the protests, including
Hands Off Our Kids, run by Muslim activists Bahira Abdulsalam and Kamel El-Cheikh.
Hands Off Our Kids has partnered with other groups, including Windsor Parents United, Mumma Bears, Parents for Parents Rights, Veterans for Freedom, Durham Parents United, the Campaign Life Coalition and Don’t Delete Parents.
Union Backlash
In response to the planned marches, Ontario union activists held an emergency Zoom meeting to plan a counter strategy. A recording of the meeting was leaked on social media.
Among other things, union leaders claimed that the protest is far right, fascist, and “fundamentally” racist, queerphobic and transphobic. They also claimed the protesters were anti-Indigenous and anti-2SLGBTQIA+.
Unions, along with trans activists and other left wing groups, plan to hold counter protests.
Rally by Billboard Chris and Josh Alexander
In addition to Wednesday’s nationwide “Million Person” marches, prominent parental rights advocate Chris Elston (commonly known as Billboard Chris) and Catholic student activist Josh Alexander will be holding an anti-gender ideology rally in Toronto on Friday.
The “Education Over Indoctrination” rally, which will be similar to the one the pair held in Ottawa last June, will take place at the intersections of Wallingford Road and Cassandra Boulevard on Sept. 22 at 11am.
True North will be on the ground at the Million Person March in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver to bring you objective independent coverage.
A federal government policy briefing on generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT warned that giving the public access to such technology could further hatred for Canada’s political leadership and threaten plans for a green transition of the economy.
Policy Horizons Canada, the Canadian government’s official think tank, delivered a briefing titled The Future of Generative AI: What could we see give years following the launch of ChatGPT? in May. Last week the document was published to the Government of Canada Publications website.
The document delves into implications generative AI technology would have for Canada at large in areas such as infrastructure, the economy and government.
“Generative AI could unleash scientific innovation, raise productivity, and change the way people find information. These technologies are also likely to create disruptions and challenges for multiple policy areas,” wrote report authors.
One of the key warnings related to content production and processing issued by Policy Horizons Canada was that such technology would allow for the “democratization of high-quality content production” which could “undermine social cohesion.”
“(Generative AI) also brought concerns over filter bubbles, misinformation, extremism, and election interference. With generative AI, individuals will soon be able to create low-cost, professional-quality entertainment content,” warned the briefing.
“This could give rise to a flood of new amateur content unbounded by the norms set by established media production outlets. For example, this could lead to viral high-quality feature length films expressing misinformation, grievances, and hatred against political leaders, immigrants, or women.”
Policy Horizons Canada also fretted about the impact wide-scale generative AI use would have on Canada’s IT infrastructure and how it could potentially compete with plans for a green transition.
Competition would be a result of more critical minerals used for green tech being instead devoted towards the expansion of AI technology.
“Many areas of Canada could still attract data centre investors in the short term, but the need to access strategic resources may compete with the green transition,” read the report.
“Economic pressure to expand data centres may also compete with a transition to green energy. This is because data centre hardware uses many of the same strategic minerals found in solar panels, electric batteries, and other green tech.”
The citizen-led inquiry into Canada’s Covid response is blasting the federal government over flaws in its handling of the pandemic and vaccine authorizations.
The interim report from the National Citizen’s Inquiry interim report comes days after Health Canada’s Sept. 12 announcement authorizing use of the updated Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for all Canadians over the age of six months.
A major recommendation by the NCI includes a call to halt use of Covid-19 vaccines authorized under a pandemic-era Interim Order.
During a press conference on Monday, the NCI’s four commissioners presented their findings and recommendations. The interim report, available in both English and French, along with an open letter directed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, were published to the group’s website.
The NCI was established as a public and transparent inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response, initially headed by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning. There has yet to be any official pandemic inquiry called at the federal level in Canada.
The report references expert witness testimonies from Shawn Buckley and Deanna McLeod, which contributed to the its conclusions.
The NCI’s report exposes critical concerns regarding the Covid vaccine authorization process in Canada and highlights a discrepancy between Health Canada’s public messaging on vaccine approval and the actual criteria utilized for authorization.
Contrary to what health officials told Canadians, the regulator has not made a determination that the products are safe, the report says. The absence of a safety and effectiveness determination is plain on the face of the statutory instruments of approval, and not subject to reasonable dispute,” NCI administrator Ches Crosbie wrote in a letter to Trudeau.
“Worse, Health Canada’s website continues to make the positive misrepresentation to Canadians that the products are ‘proven safe and effective and of high quality,’ although Health Canada made no such determination of proof.”
Under the Interim Authorization process employed by Health Canada, there was no mandatory requirement to prove safety, efficacy, or the superiority of vaccines over potential risks.
The report also highlights that, despite the innovative nature of mRNA vaccines, pharmaceutical companies were not compelled to objectively demonstrate their safety and efficacy during the authorization process.
While companies had the option to seek approval through the regular test, which demanded objective evidence concerning safety, efficacy, and cost-benefit analysis, they opted for the Interim Order test, and regulators did not insist on objective proof, warned the NCI.
“As a matter of common sense, the objective falsity of the “proven safe” claim, brings into question the basis for informed consent to the administration of the injections, creating potentially enormous liabilities,” Crosbie wrote.
Among the key recommendations made by the NCI are for the government to implement revision to the Food and Drug Regulations authorizations on Covid-19 so that they can be tested under regular Safety and Efficacy requirements.
Additionally, it calls on the government to halt the use of Covid-19 vaccines authorized under the Interim Order.
In the past week, Ontario’s labour unions – teachers unions and otherwise – have virtually lost their collective minds over Wednesday’s planned 1 Million March 4 Children.
The peaceful march, which is slated to occur across the country on Wednesday, is intended to send a strong message about parental concerns over the indoctrination by school boards, queer activists and the pronoun set related to gender ideology and the push to embrace harmful irreversible medical procedures to transition young kids.
Marchers feel, quite rightly, that gender ideology does not belong in schools.
The unions have held secret meetings on Zoom and prepared splashy posters announcing counter-protests to “stop the hate” and “protect trans rights.”
Canadian labour groups claim they have a role in countering hate and protecting LGBTQ rights.
A one-hour secret meeting – the video of which was leaked to the general public – included inflammatory war language and some outrageous comments from Emily Quaile, a Carleton University researcher and perennial activist, to her “comrades.”
She called the parents who plan to rally “fascists, fundamentally racist, fundamentally anti-union and fundamentally transphobic.”
Frankly I think she’s fundamentally nuts.
Using the catchphrase “No Space for Hate,” the unions have organized counter-protests “to advocate for gender-affirming care and march against transphobia” as the poster from Toronto claims.
Note that they call parents who are genuinely concerned “ultra-right conservatives” – no doubt trying to equate any parent concerned about gender indoctrination to neo-Nazis.
A poster from Guelph claims the “hate group” is meeting at 9 a.m. and that those who want to show there is “no space for hate” in this “progressive” city should wear masks and bring signs with positive messaging and lots of flags.
Even the woke school boards have gotten into the act. The radical leftist education director of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, Sheryl Robinson Petrazzini, sent out her own message.
We must remember that Robinson Petrazzini was the same educrat who posted a disparaging message about Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal Richard Bilkzsto and his alleged discomfort with anti-black racism. She never apologized and left the post public until his lawyers got in the act.
“Billboard Chris” Elston, who’s been traveling all over Canada and the U.S. to expose the dangers of puberty blockers for young kids and the indoctrination of queer activists, said people in Ottawa have been warned that he is coming, as if he’s some kind of terrorist.
But no one has lost his collective mind more than Fred Hahn, the openly queer president of CUPE. He is so apoplectic that parents are finally pushing back that his social media posts over the past few days –many of them threatening – have been loaded with spelling errors.
This one accuses those involved with the protest as “sewing” (rather than sowing) the seeds of division.
This one, with two spelling errors, is absolutely choice:
Let’s be frank here.
This has zero, zip, zilch to do with protecting children’s rights because if unions really cared they wouldn’t be in support of ramming gender affirming surgery and pronouns down the throats of kids as young as five.
Unions have lost their way, in particular the teachers unions who I’d venture to say have become radical social justice warriors. They no longer represent the vast majority of teachers in Ontario and other provinces.
If Hahn’s poor grasp of grammar and spelling is any indication, it’s little wonder kids are graduating illiterate in English and math.
No, this has everything to do with the fact that parents are finally waking up to the destructive impact of the woke policies of unions, queer activists and many school boards and are pushing back.
Finally, I say.
This is entirely about a power struggle.
The great irony is that this obnoxious and outrageous behaviour by the radical unionists – along with the ridiculous attempts to paint parents as “ultra-right hate mongers” – completely reinforces the exact message the 1 Million March 4 Children contingent is trying to convey.
That is, the unions are out of control, hateful when they don’t get their way, disconnected from parental concerns and truly believe that their rights trump parental rights because, after all, they are arbiters of what’s right.
As an openly gay woman, I and others like me, did not give these queer activists the right to speak for me.
I am quite frankly embarrassed by their childish antics.
I sincerely hope that parents don’t have to deal with their bullying and intimidation tactics at their rally this week.
The unions have made a mockery of it all.
Last week, an 85-page investigative report was published by journalists Caryma Sa’d and Elisa Hategan, which looked into the Trudeau government’s reliance on the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s (CAHN) use of open-source intelligence to target a fictitious, meme group known as Diagolon. This report revealed that despite the legacy media citing CAHN “experts” that label Diagolon as a dangerous, far-right militia, senior Canadian intelligence never shared the same concern.
When then Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told reporters in February of 2022 that a far right organization had leaders on the ground in Ottawa, it was uncovered that the government relied on CAHN sources to back up Mendicino’s assertion.
They’re calling this scandal HateGate.
When you realize that the Trudeau government has partnered with the CAHN, given them public grants, and even appointed CAHN board members to government roles, the HateGate scandal becomes that much more concerning.
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Canada has expelled a senior Indian diplomat hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of being involved in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and prominent figure in Canada’s Sikh community was shot dead outside of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18. His murder raised tensions between Indian communities in Canada and between Canada and India.
“Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” said Trudeau in the House of Commons on Monday.
“In the strongest possible terms, I continue to urge the government of India to cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter,” Trudeau continued. “Canada is a rule of law country. The protection of our citizens and defense of our sovereignty are fundamental.”
Trudeau said he raised the issue with Indian officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his trip to the G20 summit in New Delhi last week.
“Canada declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and security officials of the Indian government last week at the G20, I brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Modi,” said Trudeau.
Shortly after Trudeau’s remarks, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Canada had expelled a senior Indian diplomat.
“We will not tolerate any form of foreign interference,” Joly said. “Since this was brought to our attention, we’ve been guided by three principles. The first one is that we will seek the truth. The second one, is that we will protect Canadians at all times. Thirdly, we will protect Canada’s sovereignty. I’ve conveyed these principles to my Indian counterpart and I’ve also told him that we expect India’s full collaboration to make sure that we get to the bottom of this.”
Joly said the expulsion was a direct “consequence” of India’s conduct.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded to the allegation from Trudeau by offering condolences to Singh Nijjar’s family, calling it an “outrageous murder.”
“If these allegations are true they represent an outrageous affront to Canada’s sovereignty,” Poilievre said. “Our citizens must be safe from extrajudicial killings of all kinds, most of all from foreign governments. Canadians deserve to be protected on Canadian soil.”
Poilievre echoed the call for transparency and cooperation from India.
“We must know who performed the assassination and who was behind the assassination,” he said. “Conservatives will continue to work to get these answers. All Canadians now stand with diaspora communities of Indian origin. It is now in this time that the official opposition makes an appeal for calm. We are all Canadians. This is our country. We must be united for our home and for each other.”
A new report challenges the narrative perpetuated by the legacy media and federal politicians concerning the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to clamp down on Freedom Convoy protesters last year.
The report, authored by lawyer Caryma Sa’d and independent journalist Elisa Hategan cites nearly 1,000 pages of internal RCMP files. The files suggest the federal government and law enforcement relied on spurious claims made by the left-wing activist Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) to justify a crackdown.
Much of the report concerns convoy participant and veteran Jeremy MacKenzie and Diagolon – a controversial online community he founded.
Diagolon and its alleged presence at the Coutts border blockade was frequently mentioned by prominent Liberal government figures leading up to the decision to invoke emergency powers.
On Nov. 3, 2022, Liberal MP Arif Virani called Diagolon “an ideologically motivated extremist violence group” based on findings by the Ontario Provincial Police’s Project Hendon situation report on the Freedom Convoy which regularly cited the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s comments in the media to substantiate its claims.
That same month, then-public safety minister Marco Mendicino also hinted at the presence of “a far-right extremist organization” at the Coutts blockade which led to the arrest of several men who were allegedly discovered with a cache of weapons.
“It could have been deadly for citizens, protesters, and officers. We need to be clear-eyed about the seriousness of these incidents and indeed several of the individuals at Coutts have strong ties to a far-right extreme organization with leaders who are in Ottawa,” said Mendicino at the time.
But according to RCMP files, there was little agreement in the federal police force when it came to some of the claims about Diagolon made by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which were further perpetuated by the legacy media.
One RCMP document concluded that Diagolon “does not pose a criminal or national security threat.”
The RCMP’s “Diagolon Profile” from 2022 also expressed doubt about the accuracy of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s claims about the movement.
“The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) is cited as the main authority on the group by all mainstream media outlets; due to the fact that all information traces back to one source, triangulation and the verification of facts is almost impossible at the current time,” federal police wrote.
“Based on the information that is publicly available, it is difficult to understand how CAHN can confidently assert that Diagolon is an ‘accelerationist movement that believes a revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system’.”
The CAHN responded to a request for comment by saying that they stood by their work on the Freedom Convoy “one hundred percent.”
“That is a very large access to information package and our work is treated as credible throughout. In this single example, one RCMP officer is only saying that they wish there was another source besides the Canadian Anti-Hate Network such as to verify our information and support our analyses,” claimed the CAHN.
“In fact, that information is easily obtainable. We can’t speak to why that particular RCMP officer didn’t try to contact us, or the co-author, or why they didn’t take the time to review MacKenzie and other Diagolon social media posts and videos, which would have answered the questions they posed in their report.”
In a statement provided to True North, MacKenzie said that he felt vindicated by the internal findings but that there continues to be a refusal to acknowledge government errors.
“I’ve maintained this position from the beginning while enduring sleights and mockery from media and public figures. Though I am not at all surprised that my supporters and I have been vindicated, I continue to be disappointed by the lack of courage in Canadian media and leadership that refuse to acknowledge this scandal for what I think are petty, childish reasons,” said MacKenzie.
Despite the lack of consensus from federal authorities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022 giving the government and law enforcement extraordinary powers to crackdown on Freedom Convoy supporters, even going so far as to freeze their bank accounts without warrants.
The Act was invoked under the premise that there was a “public order emergency” that necessitated its use.
Other RCMP communications revealed by the report indicate that the force relied on “publicly available” information with one official linking to an article entirely based on allegations made by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and the organization’s apparent deputy director “Elizabeth Simons,” whose identity has not been verified, Sa’d’s and Hategan’s report notes.
Additionally, the freedom of information request also revealed that the RCMP compiled a key briefing on Diagolon in just 15 minutes, categorizing it as Ideologically-Motivated Violent Extremists (IMVE) along with other groups like Three Percenters and Canada First.
“Our national security is demonstrably disturbingly compromised, assisted through Liberal government funding no less. I would hope we could put our ideological and political differences aside to recognize this in the interest of national safety. How deep are the connections between antihate and CSIS? Why were the RCMP ignored?” said MacKenzie.
“The government pursued a narrative as a vehicle to escape the grip of the trucker convoy, and disregarded the facts of the situation. It’s baffling to me that there are not numerous calls for resignations or investigations into how this could happen.”
This isn’t the first time CAHN’s credibility has been doubted. CAHN executive director Evan Balgord was grilled by Conservative MP Dane Lloyd in April 2022 for CAHN’s role in spreading misinformation about the Freedom Convoy.
In particular, Lloyd cited a false claim made by CAHN chair Bernie Farber of an antisemitic flyer allegedly discovered in Ottawa that turned out to be from a different protest in Florida.
“Can you explain why the (chair) of your organization was claiming that this photo was being circulated at the protest when in fact it was a photo from a completely different country weeks before the protest?” asked Lloyd.
“What had occurred was that somebody had reached out to us in Ottawa who said that they saw that flyer there, and they provided the photo at that moment. Bernie was not aware that the photo itself was taken from an American source,” said Balgord.
According to MacKenzie, he has been long targeted by the CAHN for his views and he is considering his options with regard to legal avenues.
“This kind of malicious targeting of ordinary Canadian citizens because of their charter protected views is horrific and must not continue,” he told True North.
Artur Pawlowski, a firebrand Calgary pastor who came to notoriety during the Covid-19 pandemic for violating lockdown measures has been sentenced to time served for his involvement in last year’s Coutts, Alta. protest.
Pawlowski had been convicted of mischief and breaching a release order. An Alberta judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail, though as he’d already served 60 days behind bars, he was able to walk out of the courtroom without any additional incarceration.
The Crown sought a sentence of eight to 10 months, with the defense arguing time served would be adequate.
Pawlowski delivered an fiery sermon to the protesters who blocked the Canada-U.S. border near Coutts for just over two weeks. The judge found Pawlowski was unrepentant.
Approximately two hundred supporters of Pawlowski gathered outside the courthouse in Lethbridge, according to the Edmonton Journal, cheering as they learned he wouldn’t be going back to jail.
