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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Maxime Bernier says PPC “welcomes a debate on abortion”

By
Harrison Faulkner
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People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier says his party is unafraid to bring the abortion debate front and centre in Canadian politics.

In an email to supporters, Bernier points out that Canada has no legal restriction on abortion and said members of parliament shouldn’t shy away from addressing this.

Bernier blasts “the leftist media and the pro-abortion activists” for maintaining the status quo.

MPs “should debate when and in what circumstances to start applying restrictions after the first trimester,” Bernier said, noting that elected officials should be able to freely vote on the issue.

In his email, Bernier outlines his opposition to sex-selective abortions and late-term abortions. The former Beauce MP cites a La Presse article from 2019 which revealed that taxpayers paid for 20 Quebec women to travel to clinics in the US to undergo late term abortions. 

“If more than 20 late-term abortions with both the mother and child in good health are practiced in Quebec every year, there must be more than that in all of Canada,” Bernier writes.

“I find this abhorrent. It’s akin to allowing infanticide. Whether there are few or many is irrelevant anyway. A murder is a murder and it should be outlawed.”

Bernier also compared Canada’s lack of abortion laws to other countries.

“All other civilized countries—including all the ‘progressive’ countries of Europe—have laws determining when a fetus should be protected as a person, and when and in what circumstances abortion should therefore be restricted,” says Bernier.

“it’s time to join the civilized world. It’s time to stop listening to hysterical feminists who’ve hijacked this issue for too long. It’s time to break the taboo.”

Bernier’s email takes aim at the Conservative Party of Canada, claiming that it refuses to raise the issue of abortion because it is “too afraid” of the legacy media and pro-abortion activists. 

After the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US, a number of Canadian politicians have publicly voiced their opposition to the decision. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to defend “abortion rights” in Canada and around the world, claiming that the overturn of Roe v Wade “is an attack on everyone’s freedoms and rights.” 

Conservative Interim Leader Candice Bergen accused Trudeau of politicizing the abortion issue and said the Conservatives “will not introduce legislation or reopen the abortion debate.”

Haldimand–Norfolk MP Leslyn Lewis is the only avowed pro-life candidate seeking the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Conservatives call on privacy watchdog to investigate convoy account freezing

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Source: True North

The Conservatives are demanding that the federal privacy watchdog investigate the Liberal government’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protestors. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative MP Adam Chambers wrote a letter to Privacy Commissioner Philipe Dufresne after a damning testimony by bank officials which indicated that the order might have violated the Privacy Act.

“Institutions received no instruction on how to properly store, keep or use the data received from the RCMP,” explained Chambers.

“There were no limits placed or instructions provided regarding how receiving institutions may use or rely on data received even after the Act’s use had expired.”

Chambers went on to say that the Feb. 14 invocation of the Emergencies Act was essentially limitless with regard to what information could be obtained about Canadians. 

“There appear to have been no instruction or restriction on whom or how many individuals within a receiving institution may have access to the data,” wrote Chambers. 

“What was the information shared with receiving institutions: name, address, date of birth, Social Insurance Number, other identifying information, information about alleged offences? How many individuals had private personal details and alleged activities shared?”

In response to the Freedom Convoy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the never-before-used Act to authorize law enforcement to request that banks freeze the assets of participants without a court order. 

At the time, the Liberals claimed that the movement was foreign funded and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland cited anti-terrorism and money laundering financing laws to justify quashing protestors. 

“We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use. These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies,” said Freeland when announcing the Emergencies Act. 

Later testimony by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) and others poked holes in the government’s narrative after it was revealed that a majority of the donations came from Canadians and had nothing to do with illegal activities. 

“It was their own money. It wasn’t cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering,” said FINTRAC’s deputy director of intelligence Barry MacKillop in February.

“These were people who supported the cause before it was declared illegal. There were people around the world who were fed up with Covid and were upset and saw the demonstrations. I believe they just wanted to support the cause.”

Rogers CEO to meet with industry minister after nationwide network outage

By
Harrison Faulkner
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Canada’s industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will meet with the head of Rogers Communications after a massive network outage that left millions of Canadians without cell service and internet on Friday.

Several Rogers customers continue to be without internet service, despite endless troubleshooting calls with Rogers’ customer service. 

According to a statement from Champagne’s office, the minister will meet with Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri and other telecom leaders to discuss improving “the reliability of networks across Canada.”

Champagne said Rogers’ nationwide service disruption is “unacceptable.” The Minister says he has shared his views with the Rogers CEO. 

“These services are vitally important for Canadians in their day-to-day life and we expect our telecom industry to meet the highest standards that Canadians rightly deserve,” the statement read.

On Saturday, Staffieri released a statement attributing the nationwide outage to a network system failure after a maintenance update.

“We know how much our customers rely on our networks and I sincerely apologize,” Staffieri said in the statement.

The massive network outage did not only affect Canadians’ ability to access the internet. Emergency services, travel and financial networks were also affected.

In addition, the Trudeau government’s mandatory pre-arrival platform for travellers, ArriveCAN, was also down due to the nationwide outage.  

Half of Canadians believe country is on “wrong track” to unity: survey

By
Harrison Faulkner
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When it comes to uniting the country, half of Canadians believe Canada is on the wrong track, according to a new survey from Nanos Research commissioned by CTV News.

The survey asked Canadians whether the country is on the right track to building a united country.

Half of respondents believe Canada is on the wrong path, while 22% believe it is on the right one. 28% were unsure.

Those surveyed in the Prairies were the most pessimistic about the country’s direction, with 60% believing Canada is on the wrong path. 53.1% of Ontarians responded negatively, followed by Quebec (48%), BC (42%) and Atlantic Canada (40.2%).

According to the Nanos survey, men (55.4%) were more likely to believe Canada is on the wrong track compared to women (45%).

Further, younger Canadians had a more pessimistic view of the country compared to older generations. 58.2% of respondents between the ages of 18-34 say Canada is on the wrong track to achieve unity compared to ages 35-54 (53.2%) and 55 and older (41.7%).

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, governments in Canada have villainized individuals who chose not to receive the Covid-19 vaccine or disclose their vaccine status. Vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions have resulted in individuals losing their livelihoods and the loss of rights and freedoms, including the ability to travel and purchase groceries. 

In Sept. 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau even went as far as accusing unvaccinated Canadians of being “extremists, misogynists and racists.” 

“Yes, we will get out of this pandemic by vaccination. We all know people who are a little bit hesitant. We will continue to try and convince them, but there are also people who are fiercely against vaccination,” said Trudeau. 

“They are extremists who don’t believe in science, they’re often misogynists, also often racists. It’s a small group that muscles in, and we have to make a choice in terms of leaders, in terms of the country. Do we tolerate these people? Or do we say, hey, most of the Quebecois people – 80% – are vaccinated. We want to come back to things we like doing. It’s not those people who are blocking us.”

A poll in January 2022 revealed that more than a quarter of Canadians believe unvaccinated individuals should be imprisoned.

Bergen takes aim at the legacy media during Calgary Stampede

By
Rachel Parker
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Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) interim leader Candice Bergen criticized the legacy media while speaking about uniting Conservatives at the party’s Calgary Stampede barbecue event. 

In recent weeks, legacy media journalists and pundits have questioned how the party will stay united after a heated leadership campaign. 

“According to many in the media, when Liberals disagree, they are progressive and open-minded. But when (Conservatives) disagree, we’re divided and angry.” Bergen said.

“I’ve been reading those articles since 2004.”

Bergen appealed to the audience to stop using identity politics to divide the party with labels such as red Tories, blue Tories, social conservatives and libertarians. 

The CPC hosted the stampede event after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dozens of current and former provincial politicians were in attendance, including candidates for the CPC and United Conservative Party leadership contests. 

In her remarks, Bergen acknowledged that over 675,000 party members will be eligible to vote in the upcoming CPC leadership contest. 

The Manitoba MP says the legacy media will likely ignore the fact that no other political party in Canada has ever held so many members 

The membership sales raised $11.5 million in revenue for the party, one-third of which will flow to the party’s 338 electoral associations. 

Last week, the leadership race saw a significant turn of events as Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown was disqualified by the  Leadership Election Organization Committee (LEOC). On Thursday, Brown’s former regional organizer Debbie Jodoin came forward with allegations that the Brampton Mayor was illegally paying her through a corporation – a violation of the Canada Elections Act.

Bergen did not specially address the Brown controversy, but, she thanked the members of the LEOC and said they have undoubtedly worked in the interest of the party. 

Leadership is not “for the faint of heart,” Bergen said while urging the next Conservative leader to treat their caucus with trust and respect. 

Bergen acknowledged that her stampede speech will likely one of her last as leader of the party, while describing the role as “the honour of a lifetime.”

Cancelled Saskatchewan professor taking university and health authority to court

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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A University of Saskatchewan professor who was cancelled for voicing controversial views on Covid-19 vaccination is taking his former employer and provincial health authorities to court.

Dr. Francis Christian was suspended from his job as a professor of surgery after he called Covid shots “experimental injections” and said vaccinations of children against Covid-19 should be halted.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has filed a claim on behalf of Christian challenging his suspension and termination from his teaching post.

“The Saskatchewan Health Authority and the college have violated Dr. Christian’s Charter-protected freedoms of expression and conscience. The college’s conduct is a gross violation of the principles of academic freedom and scientific inquiry,” JCCF lawyer Andre Memauri wrote in court documents.

“The defamatory statements made by some of the defendants against Dr. Christian add insult to injury, and Dr. Christian will pursue justice accordingly.”

When contacted by CTV News, representatives with the university stated that they plan on pursuing a “vigorous defence” against the allegations. 

“The university intends to advance a vigorous defence in these proceedings. Since the matter is before the courts, the university will not make further comment at this time,” wrote a spokesperson. 

The controversy largely centres on a June 2021 interview in which he “expressed concerns about the censorship of scientific facts and opinions during the pandemic.”

Soon after, Christian was in trouble with his employer who subsequently suspended him. An appeal of his suspension was unsuccessful and complaints about the university’s treatment went unresponded. 

Christian was terminated from his job despite the university finding in an internal investigation that that his “statements were made in a civil manner, in good faith, and that he did not engage in unprofessional conduct or act contrary to the safety of individuals and the public.”

The University of Saskatchewan professor is not the only health professional who has taken the government to task over suspensions during the pandemic. 

16 unvaccinated healthcare workers have filed a lawsuit against the Manitoba government and provincial health authority after they were terminated from their job for refusing to get the Covid-19 shot. 

GUEST OP-ED: The government’s latest totalitarian attempt to censor the internet

By
Gregory Tobin
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Greg Tobin is the Digital Strategy Director for the Canada Strong & Proud Network. 

Imagine a Canada where every single thing you say online was watched, checked, and possibly censored by the government. Your text messages, Facebook posts, and comments on YouTube videos — all of it monitored to ensure your speech is “safe.”

It sounds outrageous, right? Totalitarian and gross. Now, what if I told you that the government was just caught planning for it?

Federal Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodgriguez, fresh off spearheading two other censorship bills, C-11 and C-18, has been caught planning his greatest feat yet – to censor all electronic communications within Canada. Going all-in against freedom of speech has become a pattern for this government it seems.

Minister Rodgriguez recently appointed a 12-person “expert advisory group” and commissioned them to come up with a plan on how to tackle “misinformation” among other things.

The group came back with some outrageous suggestions that involve monitoring and regulating all communications in Canada, including text messages, for the purpose of combating “misleading political communications,” which we all know is a liberal dog-whistle for information, the government doesn’t like. 

Blacklock’s Reporter.

The proposal is sweeping and leaves nothing out. The advisory group suggested including all your private communications – your texts, phone calls, Facebook posts, AirBnB chats, reviews left on Amazon products, images posted to Instagram, TikTok videos – any and all of it could land you a fine, or be shut down online if the government doesn’t like it.

Imagine you’re making a phone call and you start talking about the latest government scandal – and then the call just drops.

Or if you’re trying to send a text to your friends about a meetup for a protest, and the texts just won’t send.

Or you’re trying to get a t-shirt made up as part of a campaign effort, and the manufacturer says he received a notice from the government that the designs you sent him constitute “harmful speech”.

It’s insane that the government and their advisory committee would suggest this kind of invasion into our lives. A “Justin-vasion” of your privacy if you will. It makes one think of the situation in Hong Kong, where the government there made open dissent against the Chinese Communist Party illegal.

Do you trust anyone in this government, much less a group of unelected bureaucrats to be able to fairly, justly, or wisely decide what counts as “misinformation”?

It also leaves us asking a hundred and one questions about how they will go about doing this, and what kind of measures they will take to ensure that all communications are accounted for.

VPNs, for example, allow Canadians to ensure their online activity is kept private from hackers and spying entities online. It also allows you to trick your Netflix into thinking you’re American so you can get access to an entirely different library of content. Will the government ban them?

What about encrypted social media apps, like Signal or WhatsApp? Both are popular among journalists to ensure their work is kept private from prying eyes. Will the government ban the use of them? Forcing you to do all your communicating over one kind of messaging app that you know is being watched?

Will they force Canadians to use only one kind of web browser they can easily manipulate?

Will they do something similar to what exists in China and create a “firewall” around the entire Canadian internet? Blocking access to certain parts of websites, or whole websites together like Wikipedia, Twitter or Facebook, if the content on those pages goes against government dogma?

If they are as serious as they seem in this report – everything is on the table.

And to top it all off – the government’s plan includes the appointment of a Chief Internet Censor. Who would have the power to levy fines and issue takedowns of the so-called “harmful content”

Selfie while you’re at the gym? – Harmful body standards: censored.

Argument with family over Facebook? – Cyberbullying: censored.

Teasing a friend about his solar panels on Twitter? – Climate Disinformation: censored.

Meme about the Prime Minister in your WhatsApp group chat? – Hate speech: censored.

The goal of course is to create a Canada where you have lost your ability to speak badly about this government, under the false guise of “safety”. The “safety” that the government refers to is for them to be safe and free from the criticisms of voters like you.

The government’s plan is totalitarian. It is deeply and truly unCanadian. 

The neutrality of our online world, free from the corruption of one political party or another, allows our democracy to thrive. This plan throws that neutrality out the window and could be used by any government going forward, of any political stripe, to clamp down on your right to free speech.

Let’s all join together, and tell Trudeau to keep his corrupt hands off our internet.

ArriveCAN down for some due to Rogers network outage

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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After telling Canadian travellers they could be fined for not using the federal ArriveCAN application, the federal government announced that its mandatory pre-arrival platform is down due to the nation-wide Rogers network outage. 

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) tweeted on Friday that people entering Canada “may not be able” to file their submissions and will have to fill out a form instead. 

“Due to the current Rogers network outage, travellers may not be able to complete their ArriveCAN submission,” tweeted the CBSA. 

“For the duration of the outage, impacted travellers are required to submit their information using the Traveller Contact Information Form, to be completed prior to arrival at the border if unable to submit via ArriveCAN.”

Travellers are now being asked to provide paper proof of vaccination and other mandatory government documents. 

“Travellers who are not affected by the current Rogers network outage are required to continue to submit their mandatory information via the ArriveCAN application,” wrote the CBSA.

Yesterday, the official Twitter account of Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada threatened travellers with fines and other consequences for not using the app prior to arrival. 

“Using ArriveCAN is the best way to speed up your airport experience. Failure to complete your ArriveCAN submission can impact your eligibility exemptions, may result in fines, and creates longer wait times for all arriving at the border,” wrote the department.

The Liberals have signaled that ArriveCAN is here to stay despite pushback from the opposition calling on the government to remove the remaining pandemic measures to alleviate pressures on airports. 

“Conservatives continue to call for a return to pre-pandemic travel rules and staffing levels to help alleviate the delays and disarray we continue to see at Canada’s airports, including ending the mandatory usage of the ArriveCan app,” said Conservative transport critic Melissa Lantsman.

Airports throughout Canada have already been plagued with continuous delays and long lines despite steps by Ottawa to hire extra staff and launch a task force to manage the problem.

The CBC steals another True North story

By
Harrison Faulkner
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The CBC wrote a story about the changing dress codes of Canada’s military last week as though it was timely news. Unfortunately for the journalists over at the CBC, True North broke the story two months ago. This isn’t the first time this happened and it isn’t even the first time that the CBC has done this to True North. On this week’s episode of Fake News Friday, True North’s Andrew Lawton and Harrison Faulkner discuss the CBC’s failure to live up to its mandate and to bring Canadians timely and factual news.

Also on the show, Patrick Brown’s disqualification from the Conservative leadership race motivated a former Liberal communications advisor to write a wild op-ed in the Toronto Sun, labeling the Conservative Party a “three-ring circus”.

To wrap up the show, Andrew and Harrison laugh about the latest debunked story to come out of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, as a Canadian social media troll was caught pretending to be a volunteer on the front lines of the war. It turns out that he was taking pictures of fake body armour and holding airsoft guns all from the comfort of his home in Ontario.

Tune into Fake News Friday.

Tamara Lich denied request for bail

By
Andrew Kozak
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Tamara Lich is returning to jail after being denied bail

At a brief court appearance Friday afternoon, Justice of the Peace Paul Harris remanded Lich into detention in Ottawa, claiming that releasing her would undermine public confidence in the administration of justice.

Lich is accused of violating her previous bail conditions, specifically one preventing her from communicating with other Freedom Convoy organizers including Benjamin Dichter, Chris Barber, and Tom Marzzo except in the presence of counsel.

The breach charge relies on a photo taken at a dinner hosted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) where Lich posed with Tom Marazzo. Lich’s defense relied on the fact that her lawyers were present at the event.

Harris leaned on new information regarding a text exchange in which Lich references a “plan” by convoy organizers to “gridlock” Ottawa as evidence to support Lich’s leadership role in the convoy. 

Harris says that lawyers being present was a “misguided excuse” and that Lich “flaunted” her release.

“Vulnerable victims of the convoy protest undoubtedly will continue to fear a continuation of the protest if persons such as Ms. Lich and Mr. Marazzo are allowed to continue to communicate and socialize.” said Harris.

Harris said the convoy placed Ottawa residents in a “continual state of fear,” and that Lich chose to accept an award honouring her role in the convoy.

He added that the continuation of freedom protests in Ottawa and elsewhere in the country means Tamara Lich, as a convoy organizer, poses a risk to the public.

“Lich’s detention is necessary to maintain the confidence in the administration of Justice.” Harris said

Tamara Lich will remain in custody until July 14 at 1:30PM where she will appear in court by video.

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