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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

BONOKOSKI: Hells Angels’ control of BC ports

By
Mark Bonokoski
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Thousands of port workers, including scores of Hell Angels, their associates, gangsters, and other criminals across British Columbia, are set to resume strike activity after failing to ratify a tentative deal that was reached through federal mediation.

More than 7,400 workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) had walked off the job from July 1 until July 13 over issues like port automation, outside contracting and the increasing cost of living.

Depending on the tightness of their security passes, though, the majority of Hells Angels and other criminals are banned from parts of the port where sensitive and expensive cargo is being held.

The union and the B.C. Maritime Employers Association had agreed to a tentative four-year deal last Thursday morning to end the shutdown, and the workers were expected to be back on Friday.

The deal, however, ultimately fell through.

“The term of the collective agreement that was given with today’s uncertain times, is far too long,” reads the ILWU statement. “We must be able to readdress the uncertainty in the world’s financial markets for our members.”

The workers had been on strike since July 1 over wages, contracting and automation, halting shipments in and out of about 30 ports in B.C. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has said there are 63,000 shipping containers stuck on vessels waiting at B.C. ports to be unloaded.

The infiltration of biker gangsters and criminals into the port workforce is perpetuated, said a 2015 Vancouver Sun investigation, by a longtime employment practice that allows existing union members to nominate friends, relatives and associates when new jobs become available.

Police say organized crime maintains this foothold on the waterfront for strategic purposes — so drugs and other contraband can be smuggled in some of the more than 1.5 million containers that pass through the four container terminals at Port Metro Vancouver every year.

Only 3% of containers arriving are checked by the Canada Border Services Agency.

“It is a concern to us. We feel that a lot of the illegal drugs that come into this country come in through our ports,” said Det.-Staff. Sgt. Len Isnor, the country’s top law enforcement expert on the Hells Angels, told the Sun.

According to the National Post’s coverage of the story, Isnor, who works for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), has testified at several major B.C. cases involving the biker gang.

Isnor said the Hells Angels have maintained a foothold in Canada’s three largest ports — Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax — for the past 30 years.

“So, as far as the ports are concerned, it’s the whole success of the Hells Angels,” he said.

While airports have tightened security in the post-9/11 world, Metro Vancouver docks remain relatively porous, wrote the Sun, allowing people linked to organized crime, and even some convicted of international drug smuggling, to work on the waterfront.

The Sun identified at least six full-patch Hells Angels who are active members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Some have worked on the docks for years, like Al DeBruyn, a senior White Rock Hells Angel who started in 1981 — two years before the Hells Angels was set up in B.C.

At the time of the Sun’s investigation, it was learned that other Hells Angels had joined the longshoremen more recently. Rob Alvarez of the Elite Nomads chapter and Kelowna Angel Damiano Dipopolo started on May 24, 2012. West Point Hells Angel Ryan Sept, said the Sun, started just last year and was nominated by another full-patch member of his chapter.

The Railway Association of Canada estimates it could take three to five days for supply chains to recover for each single day the port was shuttered. Following a 13-day shutdown, that’s at least 6 weeks.

But now it’s going to take even longer. 

Following a 2020 strike at the Port of Montreal which lasted 10 days, there was a backlog that took three months to clear, Christina Santini, executive director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, told the CBC.

Businesses awaiting stock on the West Coast could expect to wait even longer before supply chains are clear, she said. 

New petition calls on SK gov to defund Planned Parenthood following ‘sex cards’ controversy

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Social conservative group RightNow has started a petition demanding that the Saskatchewan government defund Planned Parenthood after the organization made sexually explicit cards available to grade 9 students.

Planned Parenthood was suspended from presenting in schools over the cards, but continues to receive funding from Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health. It has received over one million dollars from the province in the past three years.

The “Sex from A-Z” cards developed by the AIDS Committee of Toronto with assistance from the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) featured explicit language about sex, sexual acts and certain fetishes.

The cards touched on urine fetishes, defecating on sexual partners, being “attracted to one’s television set,” the oral exchange of seminal fluid, “raw sex” and glory holes.

The sex cards also discussed porn, touching on “Money Shot” – “the cum shot in porn movies, when the oiled-up cowboy ejaculates.” One of the cards also claims that “there’s a lot of different kinds of porn – there’s something for everyone.”

In response to backlash from parents, the school division said that the cards were not part of the main presentation, and Planned Parenthood apologized for what had happened. 

However, the apology doesn’t cut it for RightNow.

In an interview with True North, RightNow co-founder and executive director Alissa Golob said, “I don’t think you ever have to have a specific belief system or religion to understand and acknowledge that that’s just disgusting.”

“Targeting children with sexually explicit material doesn’t belong in our society, let alone in our schools,” she added. 

Golob said she finds the incident involving Planned Parenthood to be “not surprising given that the founder, Margaret Sanger, has a very terrible history with regards to eugenics.”

“I don’t think that Planned Parenthood could ever truly be seen as a socially moral organization, whether it comes to abortion or just sexual topics in general,” said Golob. “If they’re bad enough or if they’re egregious enough to suspend their behaviour in the schools, then (the province) shouldn’t be funding their activity with taxpayer dollars either. 

Planned Parenthood had shared its disappointment with the Saskatchewan government suspending them from schools, as they believe that “people of all ages have a right to that information about their sexual health.”

“It’s a little disconcerting that this decision was made so quickly and without consultation with us to establish that this resource was not part of what we were teaching,” said Executive Director Julian Wotherspoon to the Canadian Press. “We’re hoping they will follow up with us at some point.”

Golob does not believe that Planned Parenthood should be allowed back into schools.

“Regardless of what they say, this is a regular attitude that they have towards sexuality,” she claimed. “It’s just the fact that they got caught this time.” 

“They shouldn’t be allowed near kids, period. Anyone who wants to target children should stay away from kids and stay out of the schools.”

Golob says many people have been supportive of RightNow’s anti-planned parenthood campaign. 

“We’re getting really good feedback, and we have hundreds of petition signatures. I think we’re close to a thousand and the overwhelming majority, like 80%, are from Saskatchewan.” 

RightNow has traditionally focused its efforts on opposing abortion. However, they have also recently taken on initiatives to support parental rights. 

The group also has a petition on their website in support of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, amid him facing backlash from woke individuals over changes to education policy 713 – which make parental consent a requirement for children under the age of 16 to officially change their name or gender at school.

Golob explained that “when issues are in the news, such as what Planned Parenthood did in Regina, or what Blaine Higgs is doing in New Brunswick, we’re always going to seize those opportunities to find more like-minded people to build the database and help get more socially conservative candidates elected in those areas and elsewhere.”

It should be noted that, unlike Planned Parenthood in the United States, Planned Parenthood Regina does not perform abortions. They do, however, support abortion and help out pregnant women who wish to end the life of their fetus.

Neither Planned Parenthood nor Saskatchewan’s Minister of Health returned True North’s request for comment in time for publication.

OPP warn that child sex offender lives at daycare for kids with autism

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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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. 

According to the OPP press release, 42-year-old Lauriston Charles 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.

According to OPP Sgt. Jason Folz, Maloney has 16 criminal charges related to trafficking minors for sex. 

“It’s a total of 16 criminal charges related to human trafficking and trafficking of minor age children, which has put him on the sex offender registry,” Folz told Global News. 

Despite the past convictions, Maloney has no court orders which prevent him from accessing children. Maloney is married to the owner of the daycare centre.

“Members of the public are reminded that, although Maloney does present a safety risk, his rights are guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” wrote the OPP. 

“As such, the Nottawasaga OPP will act to protect these rights if they are infringed.”

According to authorities, a decision was made to release a community warning following a “careful review of the offender as it relates to issues of public safety.”

“The Police Services Act permits the commissioner of the OPP, the local chief of police, or his/her designate, to make public notification regarding high-risk offenders in the community if the community’s safety will be enhanced by the release of the offender’s personal information,” wrote the OPP.

True North reached out to Beating the Odds for comment regarding Maloney but did not receive a response by the deadline. 

Amber Maloney, the owner of Beating the Odds, said her husband is not connected to her business.

“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,” she wrote in a statement to CTV News.

The OPP says investigators regularly monitor sex offenders.

“The ‘camp’ is run out of a residence. Maloney lives at the residence,” Folz told True North in a written statement.

“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.”

In an interview with CTV, Maloney called the police advisory “ridiculous.”

“For every child, there is a supervisor who watches that child individually. It’s one-to-one therapy. So, no, I have no interaction with the children,” the sex offender said.

“It’s just ridiculous that this is how they are trying to proceed to make me look like a bad guy or make me look like some sort of predator.”

Maloney claims he was convicted because he ran an escort agency from 2002 to 2004.

“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.”

He claims one of the girls was a minor.

“It was in evidence that this girl provided false identification, but you’re still held liable as a company if somebody even provides false ID.”

CTV requested court documents to confirm Maloney’s convictions but they were not provided.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to include comments from the OPP and an interview Maloney gave to CTV News.

The Andrew Lawton Show | Trudeau blames “far-right” for Muslims supporting parental rights

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Andrew Lawton
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Justin Trudeau has sided with gender ideology over Muslims in Canada’s latest cultural battle. While Muslim families across the country have expressed concern about what kids are being taught in schools, Trudeau says they’re actually being coopted by the “far right” and “American right wing.” True North’s Andrew Lawton talks about parental rights with RightNow co-founded Alissa Golob.

Also, a new essay in C2C Journal by researcher Gleb Lisikh reveals the two critical tools the government used in bolstering pandemic fears – overreliance on PCR tests and overreporting Covid deaths. Lisikh joins The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss the piece, which you can read here.

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BC police chief debunks drug decriminalization policy in open letter

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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British Columbia’s drug decriminalization policy, which came into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, has been met with criticism from Delta Police Chief Neil Dubord.

In a scathing open letter, Chief Dubord shut down claims by its proponents, which include the federal government. 

Dubord argued that the policy, which aims to reduce the harms of drug use and addiction by treating them as public health issues rather than criminal ones, has not led to a significant decrease in the number of drug poisoning deaths in the province.

“The number of overdose deaths in BC, reaching 791 from the time decriminalization was enacted until May 2023, closely mirrors the figures from the same period in 2022,” wrote Dubord. 

Dubord suggested that B.C. should learn from the experience of Portugal, which decriminalized all drugs in 2001 while also requiring addicts to undergo treatment. 

Dubord emphasized that decriminalization alone is not enough to address the complex and multifaceted problem of drug use and addiction.

“Portugal’s policy courageously shifted the focus from punishment to health – a much-needed change. However, it underscores the necessity for a comprehensive, sustainable, and flexible whole-system funding model that focuses on a continuum of care,” said Dubord. 

“The pilot project involving decriminalization and safe supply of small quantities of drugs in British Columbia (BC) is similarly only a piece in a very complex puzzle that requires an understanding and application of a whole-system approach, addressing the various historical and ongoing silos within our public health and social care systems.”

The B.C. government has since defended its decriminalization policy as one of many approaches it employed. 

Other jurisdictions, including Toronto have called for the federal government to allow them to decriminalize hard drugs like fentanyl. 

Recently, Ontario Premier Doug Ford pledged to fight calls from the province’s biggest city to follow in the footsteps of British Columbia. 

“I will do everything I can to fight this,” said Ford. 

“This goes up to the federal government. They cannot be following up with the request. It would be an absolute disaster for our city.”

“Dictatorship of ideas,” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham blasts Trudeau’s gender ideology comments

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham took a jab at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for lecturing Muslim parents that an “American right-wing” influence was to blame for their opposition to gender ideology.

Parents across Canada have taken to the streets in recent months to protest overtly sexual materials and LGBTQ content being pushed in schools.

Ingraham criticized the prime minister for claiming that Muslims were “brainwashed” and also for his government’s various scandals. 

“We’re not about to take moralistic lectures from people who allow China to directly influence their elections or to push more people to kill themselves or turn truckers into public enemies,” said Ingraham. 

“Trudeau is a rather silly, fatuous man who touts multiculturalism but really wants a dictatorship of ideas. Anyone who challenges his sacred cows may be cancelled, punished or even in some cases, jailed.” 

A video clip circulating on social media shows Trudeau lecturing a concerned member of the Calgary Muslim community and claiming that he was the victim of “misinformation and disinformation” about gender ideology. 

“People on social media, particularly fuelled by the American right wing, are spreading a lot of untruths about what’s actually in the provincial curriculum,” said the prime minister. 

“These are people in the far right who have consistently stood against Muslim rights and the Muslim community, but they’re weaponizing the issue of LGBT, which is something that, yes, Islam has strong opinions on, the same way that the religious right in Canada, the Christian right, has strong opinions against as well.”

Trudeau’s comments have prompted criticism from many, including Twitter CEO Elon Musk. 

Gov-funded program finalists include edible insect, human composting businesses

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Among the top 10 start-up businesses selected for a pitch contest by the government-funded organization Innovation Factory are Canadian businesses that specialize in “human composting” burial practices and edible insect meat alternatives. 

According to a press release by Innovation Factory, whose funding partners include both the governments of Ontario and Canada, the start-ups chosen are Bug Mars and AWAKE. 

“Our LiONS LAIR Pitch Competition and Founders Fast Track program embody our mission at Innovation Factory: to foster and drive innovation within the Hamilton area and beyond. These 10 finalists are a testament to the growth potential our region holds. We’re extremely proud of what they’ve achieved through the program and look forward to their success at LiONS LAIR and in the future,” wrote Innovation Factory Marketing Lead. 

According to Bug Mars’ website the company specializes in “sustainable alternative proteins” for human consumption and animal feed. 

The company’s co-founder Natalie Duncan has said that “starvation is a pretty motivating factor” in adopting consumption of edible insects due to climate change. 

“Starvation is a pretty motivating factor. And one that affects us all. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN warns that hunger may significantly increase in urban areas if drastic measures are not taken to ensure vulnerable people in these areas have access to food,” said Duncan in an interview. 

“Broader acceptance of alternative proteins has already been accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers are becoming more aware of the connections between our food, health and environment.”

The World Economic Forum has also advocated for replacing meat with insect-based alternatives. 

Bug Mars was the recent recipient of a City of Toronto Women4Climate Mentorship Program. 

Another finalist, AWAKE, is developing a “sustainable alternative cemetery” in Simcoe County, Ontario. 

“Our protected memorial forest will offer ash scattering and planting plots with options for dedicated family memorial trees, open meadow scattering sites, and custom memorial plaques,” the company explains. 

Additionally, it is pushing for “human composting” to be allowed in Canada so that the deceased can be turned into organic compost after death. 

“Known as ‘natural organic reduction’ or ‘terramation,’ human composting speeds up the process of turning our bodies to organic matter after death,” reads the AWAKE website. 

“This practice is not currently permitted in Canada. Our team is partnering on new developments in the UK and US, and will be ready to launch when Canadian legislation opens.”

The Daily Brief | Elon Musk mocks Justin Trudeau

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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Source: Flickr

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets a rude welcome from attendees at the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax.

Plus, billionaire Elon Musk mocks Trudeau over his comments on gender ideology when lecturing members of Calgary’s Muslim community.

And Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Toronto’s plan to decriminalize hard drugs is the “craziest thing” he’s ever heard.

Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Andrew Lawton!

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Ratio’d | Trudeau’s Canada: Migrant tent cities take over Toronto

By
Harrison Faulkner
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A large group of asylum seekers have been camping out on the sidewalk in downtown Toronto for weeks as shelter space has reached capacity. One third of shelter occupants in Toronto are migrants. Despite this clear sign that Toronto does not have the capacity to welcome more migrants, nothing seems to be changing.

Is this the life they envisioned when Justin Trudeau told them that Canada welcomes them?

The unforuntate situation that these migrants are in – most of whom are from Africa – is compounded by politicians using their plight as political leverage to secure more funding for the city or to offload a federal responsibility to the province and the city.

Throughout all of this, Canadians are struggling like never before. Millions of Canadians are earning less than minimum wage and need a government check to pay for food. Many Canadians can’t afford to live in the cities they grew up in.

On this episode of Ratio’d, Harrison Faulkner went down to this migrant encampment in Toronto and spoke directly to them to figure out what is going on.

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Federal emission targets “unachievable” without “drastic reduction” in fertilizer use: report

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Contrary to claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the Liberal government is not asking farmers to decrease their fertilizer use, a new report concluded that it would be impossible to achieve the 30% fertilizer emission reduction target without drastic cuts to fertilizer use. 

The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy report titled Planning to Fail: A Case Study of Canada’s Fertilizer Based Emission Target said that while the target was laudable, the voluntary targets failed to take into account regional conditions and could not be achieved unless Canadian farmers are willing to jeopardize their economic viability. 

“The proposed target (is) unachievable without drastic reductions in nitrogen fertilizer use,” wrote the report’s authors. 

“Given the variation in climate and production across the country, a one size fits all approach is unlikely to be effective. Provincial governments and organizations should be encouraged to develop regional solutions to meet national objectives, with the (federal government) providing coordination and support.”

Report co-author Dr. Guillaume Lhermie said that the federal policy first devised by Trudeau in his 2020 climate plan has reduction of use written into it and it could jeopardize Canada’s place as an economic breadbasket. 

“It is putting a lot of pressure on producers to decrease their emissions and their fertilizer use,” said Lhermie. 

“Canada could be able to justify that they were able to reduce their emissions. However, that doesn’t mean other countries will do the same. This could open the door to less sustainable practices in other countries, because we still need to feed people.”

Earlier this year, Trudeau told farmers that they were under the spell of “disinformation and misinformation” due to social media.

“I want to be clear, we are consulting with farmers in the industry about a voluntary, not mandatory reduction in emissions from fertilizer not in use of fertilizers,” said Trudeau. 

However, exclusive reporting by True North shows that the federal government was aware that adopting such targets would result in decreased crop yield for farmers in Western Canada and even floated the idea of a carbon tax-like regulatory backstop to enforce fertilizer emission reduction targets. 

In the paper, researchers argued for a province-led strategy to deal with emissions in agriculture and not the current federal approach. 

“For example, a made-in-Alberta strategy will likely focus on large-scale grain and oil seed production for dryland and irrigated production systems. Recommended (best practices), current levels of adoption, and barriers to increasing adoption will likely differ from those developed for Quebec or PEI,” the paper argued. 

“Provincial targets may also receive greater buy-in as regional differences and producer concerns are more likely to be reflected in regional targets than at the national level.”

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