Within the last month or so, 142 asylum seekers who entered Canada illegally via Roxham Road in Quebec have been transferred to British Columbia.
“IRCC [Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada] has asked several provinces, including B.C., to receive a transfer of claimants from Ontario who arrived through Roxham Road,” the BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs told True North.
“B.C. is assisting the federal government, and IRCC has leased 110 hotel rooms in the Metro Vancouver area to provide accommodation to these arrivals… IRCC intends to fill all 110 rooms.”
The 142 asylum seekers have been jetted into BC since mid-June 2023.
“Local settlement organizations, funded through the provincial BC Settlement and Integration Services (BCSIS) program, are supporting claimants with searching for housing, finding employment, and enrolling in provincial services,” said the BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
While BCSIS currently has a $6 million annual budget, the BC government is increasing that figure to nearly $26 million in April 2024.
For security and privacy reasons, the provincial government does not offer breakdowns of how many of the asylum seekers are men, women, or children.
The government is also not disclosing which cities and hotels they bring the migrants to.
A House of Commons inquiry by Lambton—Kent—Middlesex Conservative MP Lianne Rood revealed that Surrey is one of the cities where the federal government is renting hotel rooms for asylum seekers.
Since April 1, 2017, the feds have spent $127 million on hotel rooms for illegal border crossers.
All throughout 2022 and until March of this year, thousands of asylum seekers per month were illegally crossing into Quebec from New York via Roxham Road. Quebec, which was spending $20 million per month on asylum seekers’ social benefits, claimed the migrants were straining their resources, so the federal government bussed the new arrivals over to Ontario.
It wasn’t before long that various Ontario mayors were saying they couldn’t handle the influx and asked to transfer the migrants elsewhere.
The Roxham Road loophole closed at the end of March 2023, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a deal with President Joe Biden to accept 15,000 of his “Western Hemisphere” migrants who illegally entered the US from Latin America.
4,875 migrants crossed illegally into Quebec in January 2023, but as of June, that figure dropped to 30.
After a year-long investigation, the Senate ethics watchdog has found Conservative Senator Micheal MacDonald violated ethics rules by making a slew of candid comments about the Freedom Convoy and Ottawa bureaucrats, which were filmed by a live streamer.
The findings came after nine complaints from Liberal-appointed senators that MacDonald’s behaviour breached rules governing how senators must conduct themselves.
On February 16, 2022, nearly three weeks after the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, MacDonald was stopped by a pro-Freedom Convoy live streamer while walking home from dinner.
Despite being asked to not be filmed, the live streamer captured MacDonald expressing support for the Freedom Convoy, criticizing the residents of Ottawa for their supposed sense of entitlement, and even calling his wife and other Freedom Convoy critics “Karens.”
The Liberal-appointed senators took issue with MacDonald “mocking the residents of Ottawa,” “insinuating certain stereotypes about the Ottawa residents and their salaries,” “using profanity and foul language to describe Canada’s political leadership and democratic institutions,” and expressing support for the Freedom Convoy, which they deemed to be “illegal.”
They accused MacDonald of violating section 7.1 of the Senate ethics code, which compels senators to act with decency and refrain from acting in a manner that could negatively affect the Senate’s reputation. Some senators also accused MacDonald of violating section 7.2, which compels senators to carry out their parliamentary duties with dignity, honour, and integrity.
MacDonald apologized for his actions in the Senate chamber, on social media, on television, and a number of other times following the incident. He also apologized to the citizens of Ottawa and his wife, claiming his comments were made under the influence of alcohol.
Despite the apology, on April 12, 2022, Senate ethics officer Pierre Legault gave MacDonald ten days to make a more satisfactory apology that must be posted to social media and include a recognition that the Senate would be justified in censuring him.
The Senate ethics office granted MacDonald three extensions to its deadline until MacDonald posted an apology in June 2022, though he did not invite censure from his colleagues.
Macdonald argued that being forced to encourage his colleagues to censure him constituted compelled speech, noting he had not broken any laws or encouraged any violence.
“This is definitely not an ethical issue,” MacDonald said.
Moving forward with an inquiry into the matter, on June 29, 2022, ethics officer Legault sent MacDonald a number of questions pertaining to the investigation as part of a written interview, giving the senator until July 22, 2022.
The day before the deadline, MacDonald complained to Legault that the interview questions were too detailed and not relevant to the investigation at large, such as asking him who he was dining with before the encounter and other questions that he characterized as “highly controversial public policy matters” that were a matter of “partisan debate.”
Legault reprimanded MacDonald for his initial comments, and also for what he argued was a failure to cooperate with the ethics investigation.
Legault is unable to levy a penalty but has recommended to the Senate impose a sanction of some kind.
In a comment to True North, MacDonald said that he has not had the opportunity to read through the report as he is presently attending to parliamentary duties in the United States, but he welcomes the discuss the matter with the Senate’s ethics committee.
Encampments full of drug-addicted residents have returned to one problem Toronto park, which was the subject of two eviction attempts during the Covid pandemic, one of which resulted in violence and several arrests.
Lamport Stadium Park, which is in Toronto’s trendy Distillery District, is now home to at least 30 tents and an equal number of seemingly drug-addicted and abusive residents.
While @oliviachow trips over herself to take care of the illegal refugees, the parks are starting to fill up with homeless addicts. Lamport Stadium. July 18/23 pic.twitter.com/wQOLU5rbE0
The tents are mostly scattered on the same street – Fraser Ave. – as one of the city’s respite shelters, one that has been marred with controversy ever since it opened in the heart of Liberty Village in 2018.
Lawlessness and violence ensued and during the pandemic, a sizable Tent City cropped up in the park.
In late September of 2020, the Lamport Square encampment of about 15 tents was removed, only to return a few months later with more tents and more aggressive residents.
In late July of 2021, the police and city of Toronto staff were needed to remove 30-odd structures along with knives, an axe, a hatchet and propane tanks. Police were called when homeless industry activists tried to barricade the park. A total of 26 protesters were arrested, some for criminal offences.
When I ventured down there Tuesday, some of the latest crop of residents screamed obscenities at me for taking pictures of their tents (not them) – as is increasingly the habit nowadays.
They shouted that they deserved privacy as if it was their right to squat in a public park.
Ditto for Allan Gardens, which I visited in May, and which has now become a Shantytown full of tents, a large teepee and several sacred fire sites (the latter sanctioned by City Hall).
It has become a no-go zone for the public.
When I visited there, two burly homeless men tried to chase after me for taking pictures of the chaos, their aggressiveness and obscenities likely fueled by the “treatment” they received at a nearby safe injection site.
In beautiful St. James Park, the three tents that have taken up residence – near a playground and in the midst of a dog walking area – have become the subject of a heated debate on a St. Lawrence Neighbourhood online Facebook group,
It is interesting to note that a selection of progressives in that group has endeavoured to bully those who’ve expressed dismay at the collection of garbage from the squatters and the tents.
The residents were far quieter than those at Lamport Stadium Park when I visited there Tuesday.
That notwithstanding, the city’s parks bylaw states in Section 608-13 that “no person shall dwell, camp or lodge in a park.”
Section 608-14 says no person shall “place, install, attach or erect a temporary or permanent tent, structure or shelter at, in or to a park.”
There are also rules against lighting, building, use or stoking an “open fire.” But I guess city officials, in an attempt to pander to the Indigenous, have decreed that sacred fires are safe.
Not that they are.
My point is, the rule of law clearly does not apply in the city of Toronto when it comes to allowing the homeless and addicted to squat, drink and take drugs in public parks – and intimidate those lawful citizens who just want to enjoy the outdoors.
In years gone by, the pandemic was blamed for the Tent Cities. Now city officials and activists claim there are not enough shelter spaces with the number of asylum seekers flooding into Toronto.
There is a solution besides clearing the parks of illegal campers. Our politicians can say a “hard no” when it comes to accepting more asylum seekers. Other cities and towns should be required to absorb their share.
But the leftists won’t and new Mayor Olivia Chow certainly won’t.
The influx of migrants represents yet another opportunity to expand the homeless industry.
In fact, there was no shortage of back-patting Wednesday as Chow’s proposal to expand shelter beds by 250 got unanimous council consent.
I’m willing to bet that even with the number of new spaces, the encampments will continue to grow and flourish.
What better way for Chow and her NDP activists to grandstand for more money than to have their homeless props occupying our parks?
Parents who showed up to protest outside of the autism centre where convicted child sex offender Lauriston Charles Maloney lives are contradicting recent statements made by him to the media that he has “no interaction” with the kids.
Beating the Odds child care is owned by his spouse Amber Maloney. The couple recently told the media that she and her staff were the only ones interacting with the children at the centre.
Lauriston Maloney and Amber Maloney were arrested on Wednesday morning. The couple was charged with multiple offences relating to recruiting, exercising control, exploitation, assault, forcible confinement, and financial benefit from committing a crime.
Despite Maloney’s arrest, many question why he was allowed to be near children, given his status as a registered sex offender.
In an interview with True North’s Harrison Faulkner, parent Laureli Barrett claimed that Maloney, who has been convicted of 16 charges related to trafficking minors, offered to drive her son home from the facility one day.
The mother of a child that attended "Beat the Odds" camp for over a year accuses convicted sex offender Lauriston Maloney of lying to the media. She says Maloney has interacted with the children at the camp and wanted to drive her son home.
Barrett made similar claims on her social media profile.
“(My son has) been here for a year and a half between therapy services, behavioral services and the camp,” said Barrett.
“I have text messages from that man from June 25th. He was with my son, wanting to drop my son off at home. His father picked him up and his father saw him in the kitchen. I see him there three days a week, at least with the kids, he’s a liar.”
Another emotional mother present at the scene named, Candice Williamson, claimed that the Maloneys attempted to invite her and another friend to their cottage.
“The past couple of weeks, I was getting messages from the owner Amber asking me to hang out with her and her husband and go up to their cottage. They have a hot tub. I deserve to relax. They know what I go through. I don’t know if that was trying to groom me,” said Williamson.
“I was supposed to go there yesterday, Tuesday and hang out with them until I found this out on Monday. Thank God.”
Another mother of an autistic child that attended “Beat the Odds” camp breaks down and says that her son has been acting differently over the past couple of weeks and having meltdowns before going to the camp where a convicted child trafficker resides.
According to Williamson, her 8-year-old autistic son was beginning to act differently in recent weeks and she suspects that the therapists at the centre were not qualified.
“My child has been acting very different. The past couple of week he was having super meltdowns before he would come here. He loved it in the beginning,” said Williamson.
“I don’t think any of these therapists are qualified.”
True North reached out to the Maloneys to offer them an opportunity to comment on the allegations but did not receive a response by the deadline given. True North also attempted to contact Lauriston Maloney via his business email and phone number but could not reach him. None of these allegations have been proven in a court of law.
“Yes, we share the same property address, but he does not work with these kids. He has his own job that brings him off-site and allows me to operate solely without him,” Amber Maloney claimed in a CTV News interview on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were prompted to issue a community warning about Maloney’s presence in the community. The Ontario solicitor general has also told parents to keep their children away from the centre.
According to the OPP press release, Maloney “has regular access to” Beating the Odds child care.
“Maloney is a convicted sex offender with several prior convictions, which include human trafficking of children,” wrote the OPP.
Despite the past convictions, Maloney has no court orders which prevent him from accessing children.
Two days after Ontario Provincial Police issued a rare public advisory, convicted sex offender Lauriston Maloney and his wife Amber Maloney have been arrested.
The couple was charged with multiple offences relating to recruiting, exercising control, exploitation, assault, forcible confinement, and financial benefit from committing a crime.
They were taken into police custody on Wednesday morning.
Due to a publication ban in place, limited details can be published.
The couple lived at a childcare centre for kids with autism.
On Monday, the OPP warned that 42-year-old Lauriston Charles Maloney had “regular access” to children. In subsequent media reports, Maloney denied the claim.
“The ‘camp’ is run out of a residence. Maloney lives at the residence,” OPP Sgt. Jason Folz told True North on Tuesday.
“The offender’s spouse runs that camp and is well aware of his background. The OPP investigators from the Nottawasaga Detachment regularly monitor and check in with those on the Ontario Sex Offender Registry.”
Maloney has a total of 16 criminal offences related to trafficking minors for sex work and is registered as a sex offender.
He had no conditions which prohibited him from being near children.
On Wednesday, the Ontario government told parents to stay away from a childcare facility for kids with autism after police issued a rare community warning about how a convicted child sex offender was living at the premises.
An official statement by the province’s solicitor general encouraged “all parents to keep away” from Beating the Odds in Essa Township.
The Ontario government is telling parents to stay away from a childcare facility for kids with autism after police issued a rare community warning about how a convicted child sex offender was living at the premises.
An official statement by the province’s solicitor general encouraged “all parents to keep away” from Beating the Odds in Essa Township.
“Allowing him to roam freely around our communities and potentially put more children in danger is a failing of our justice system,” wrote the statement provided to Global News.
“This individual who was convicted of such reprehensible crimes should never be around vulnerable children again.”
On Monday, the Ontario Provincial Police warned that 42-year-old Lauriston Charles Maloney had “regular access” to children. In subsequent media reports, Maloney denied the claim.
“The ‘camp’ is run out of a residence. Maloney lives at the residence,” OPP Sgt. Jason Folz told True North on Tuesday.
“The offender’s spouse runs that camp and is well aware of his background. The OPP investigators from the Nottawasaga Detachment regularly monitor and check in with those on the Ontario Sex Offender Registry.”
The child care centre is owned and operated by his spouse.
“Yes, we share the same property address, but he does not work with these kids. He has his own job that brings him off-site and allows me to operate solely without him,” Amber Maloney said in a statement to CTV News.
Maloney has a total of 16 criminal offences related to trafficking minors for sex work and is registered as a sex offender.
He currently has no conditions which prohibit him from being near children.
Maloney has since claimed that the charges are related to an escort business he worked for in the past.
“I would be picking up women and bringing them to hotels with a company as well as collecting money and sometimes booking hotel rooms for the girls … Those charges were as a result of collecting money for the girls performing sex acts,” claimed Maloney.
A wonky constitutional debate has emerged online over who should get first crack at governing in the scenario in which the Conservatives win a minority — Pierre Poilievre as the victorious challenger or Justin Trudeau as the incumbent. While the debate technically hinges on constitutional convention, True North’s Andrew Lawton says the Laurentian “experts” are missing the most important part of democracy, which is legitimacy in the eyes of the people supposedly being represented.
Also, British Columbia is still clinging to its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers despite being in the receiving end of legal challenges. Lawyer Charlene Le Beau from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms joins to discuss.
An elementary school teacher in Windsor, Ontario was caught on tape berating Muslim students for skipping the school’s LGBTQ pride day, telling them their abstention was “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred” that made her not want to be their educator.
The Northwood Public School teacher’s long tirade came amid reports of a very high absence rate at the school on its pride day. According to Life Site News, approximately 600 out of the school’s 800 students stayed home – a 75% absentee rate.
True North exclusively obtained a recording of the incident, which took place in June.
This is not the first instance of a teacher lashing out at Muslim students for not participating in LGBTQ pride activities. An Edmonton teacher came under fire after being recorded making similar remarks.
EXCLUSIVE: An elementary teacher in Windsor, Ontario berated Muslim students for skipping LGBTQ pride day, telling them their abstention was “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred” that makes her not want to be their educator. Recording obtained by @TrueNorthCentre. pic.twitter.com/T7jhFfLHvN
“We as a staff here at Northwood were incredibly hurt by the statement you made yesterday,” the female teacher told her class. True North has decided not to name her in this story.
“You need to understand how hurt and disappointed we are in those actions, and take that home to your parents because they are the ones that made you stay home. It was an incredible show of hatred, and it is sad. It was hatred toward a community of people, and it was incredibly disgusting to have witnessed.”
“I do not want to be a part of this school, I am so disgusted by what happened yesterday.”
In the recording, we hear students gasp in shock at the teacher’s remarks. Several of them also challenged the teacher’s claims.
One student said, “ We weren’t trying to disrespect you.”
The teacher responded, “You might believe that, but what came across was an incredible amount of disrespect, ok? That may have not been your intention, but that’s what it was.”
Another student said, “We are respectful for your people, we don’t hate you at all.”
The teacher replied, “No, yesterday showed a huge lack of disrespect. Every teacher in the school will agree, we had a meeting after school yesterday and so many teachers were angry and upset and ashamed to be a part of this school.”
One student told the teacher she could not compare a religion to sexual preferences – to which she replied, “but you can.”
In the recording, we also hear the teacher condemn the Muslim students after they tell her they can’t change their religion to have it support LGBTQ lifestyles.
“You have all voiced to me that you cannot change your religion in order to support LGBTQ… and that is wrong,” said the teacher. “That to me is extremely sad, it’s so sad for you I’m sorry.”
The teacher also told the students an Imam who visits the school was “extremely disappointed in what has happened.” “He said ‘we teach kindness, we teach to be accepting and to be respectful.’”
She instructed the Muslim students to challenge their parents’ beliefs. “That’s when you as students, as kids, need to start teaching your parents.”
The teacher also told the class her colleagues opted to plaster LGBTQ rainbows all over the school in response to significant abstentions on pride day.
“All the rainbows you see around the school was because very few people came yesterday and the teachers are angry.”
“There was not one rainbow up except the few little things that have been up for months and months and months, not one rainbow was up yesterday. The staff at Northwood put all that up because they were so angry with the disrespect they were given yesterday.”
At the end of her rant, the teacher can be heard shouting at students and telling them she is having a hard time being nice to them.
The name of the teacher who made the comments was provided to True North. She is listed as staff on the school’s website, as well as on the Ontario Sunshine List as an employee of the Greater Essex County District School Board. The Ontario College of Teachers database also lists her as an active, licensed educator.
True North reached out multiple times to Northwood Public School for comment, but they did not respond in time for publication.
A source did however provide True North with a Jun. 20 apology letter sent to Northwood families by principal Dustin O’Neil. He said the teacher’s comments were inappropriate.
We reached out multiple times to the school for comment, but they did not respond in time for publication.
“I want to emphasize that the views expressed do not reflect the values of acceptance, inclusion and belonging that make Northwood such an incredible school and community,” wrote O’Neil. “We are deeply sorry for any harm that has occurred as a result of these comments.”
“We teach our students that words matter – they have the ability to bring us together but can also be used to divide us. We wish to assure the community that we are addressing the situation accordingly.”
“Our diversity and sense of belonging at Northwood enriches student learning and daily experiences. I’m proud to have the opportunity to lead in this rich environment and continue to support the work of ensuring that all students and families are represented positively.”
Elton Robinson, who co-founded the group Parents for Parents Rights in Windsor, told True North the teacher’s comments were “horrific.”
“A teacher shouldn’t be telling faith-based or non faith based people what they should believe or not believe,” he said. Robinson also commended the students for standing up to the teacher. “The kids did a really good job… trying to explain their side.”
In Edmonton, a teacher was also recorded berating Muslim students for not supporting LGBTQ pride. That teacher went as far as suggesting the students might not belong in Canada.
A teacher at Londonderry Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, tells Muslim pupils off for skipping school to avoid LGBTQ Pride events.pic.twitter.com/j1OID1sCGK
The teacher’s comments were condemned by the National Council of Canadian Muslims, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Edmonton Public Schools said it was taking action against the teacher.
In the last two months, Muslim communities across Canada have participated in and led protests against the teaching of gender ideology in schools.
Pornography platforms are not happy to be included in the scope of the Online Streaming Act, also known as Bill C-11, and are arguing that the federal government should exempt them from being considered Canadian content.
A recent submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Mindgeek, which owns the websites Brazzers, Pornhub and YouPorn, argued that the websites should be treated in the same way Bill C-11 exempts video games.
MindGeek representatives claimed that the content available on its websites were not “uniquely Canadian” as defined under the law’s measures.
“For perhaps obvious reasons, explicit adult entertainment websites do not fall into the category of a Canadian cultural product warranting protection under the Broadcasting Act,” the submission claims.
Mindgeek has received recent flack from the federal government and child protection groups for having hosted child pornography on its various video platforms.
“Although those in the adult entertainment industry are proud of the work they do, they would acknowledge that their content is not meant to contribute to the uniquely Canadian interests the Broadcasting Act is designed to protect,“ claimed Mindgeek.
“As elemental as explicit adult entertainment is to the human condition, it is not an expression of Canadian cultural identity that Canadians expect the federal government to protect.”
The company also argued that if the government decides that porn is subject under Bill C-11, it should be entitled to the same taxpayer funding other cultural endeavours are able to receive in Canada.
Senator Julie Miville-Dechene has said that she was “appalled” by the company’s submission and wants to impose an age verification on access to the company’s websites so that children cannot access porn.
“They are talking about the rights of sex workers, that are part of the issue, but in these two submissions there is not a word about the welfare of children,” said Dechene.
“There is no reason why Pornhub should be exempted from this law. It should be regulated and should be obligated to have age verifications for minors.”
The Ontario Provincial Police are warning residents in Essa Township that a man convicted of child sex crimes lives at a childcare centre for kids with autism.
Plus, Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for lecturing Muslim parents concerned with gender ideology in schools.
And businesses that specialize in “human composting” burial practices and edible insect meat alternatives are among the top 10 start-ups in a pitch contest run by an organization that receives government funding.
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