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Thursday, May 15, 2025

LEVY: Waterloo school board muzzles lone black trustee

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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After kicking the board’s only black trustee Mike Ramsay to the curb on June 6, the vindictive “woke” trustees at the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) let everyone know they really meant it Monday night.

The same six sanctimonious NDP trustees who found Ramsay guilty of a secret Code of Conduct complaint in what can only be described as a kangaroo court voted 6-3 to uphold their ruling. 

The trustees – chairman Scott Piatkowski, Karen Meissner, Jayne Herring, Kathleen Woodcock,  Carol Millar and Joanne Weston – also refused to back down on their decision to hand Ramsay the maximum number of sanctions available to them. 

That means Ramsay is banned from all board and committee meetings until the end of the current term.

Only Laurie Tremble did not vote as she was the trustee who complained about Ramsay.

To date, the board has refused to release the report of a pricey outside law firm or the board’s integrity commissioner who investigated Tremble’s complaints. 

In comparison, when a similar complaint was lodged against Toronto District School Board trustee Alexandra Lulka, the board released details of the complaint and the subsequent report prior to their meeting last December.

On Monday evening, Piatkowski rudely interrupted and shut down trustee Cindy Watson when she endeavoured to speak about her motion to revoke Ramsay’s punishment.

But the board chairman subsequently permitted Herring, a fellow NDPer and the board’s former director of corporate services to spell out how Ramsay apparently breached the Code of Conduct.

Herring claimed Ramsay did not respect the integrity and dignity of the office, refused to uphold the decisions of the board (suggesting he disagreed with them), that he accused fellow trustees of unlawful conduct and refused to be civil.

In a statement from Ramsay released prior to the board meeting he reiterated that everything has remained a secret: The identity of the trustee who complained, the complaint itself, the integrity commissioner’s report and even the rationale for the board’s secrecy.

Ramsay described the process as a “weaponization of the complaint process” to muzzle a trustee who doesn’t march to their woke drumbeat.

“The complaint is motivated by disagreement with my positions at board meetings and statements made to constituents,” he said in his statement.

The irony of all of this is that the same NDP cabal who voted to cancel Ramsay shamelessly and repeatedly stress the need for anti-racism education.

They are so intent on silencing opposition that they’re not ashamed to use their elitist “white privilege” – as they call it – to muzzle a man of colour.

The same goes for the black activist education director Jeewan Chanicka who started crying at last week’s board meeting over claims that a motion to provide more information on critical race theory and white privilege generated “so much hate, so much racism” that police had to be called several times.

Chanicka never indicated where police were called. Nor has he stood up for a fellow man of colour – likely because Ramsay does not share his radical points of view.

I guess when it comes to this woke cabal only certain men of colour are acceptable – in other words, men of colour who don’t challenge their power and control.

Still if they had nothing to hide or defend about their decision to reprimand Ramsay, they’d release the integrity commissioner reports.

Otherwise, their actions are nothing short of a lynching.

Singh says NDP could unseat Liberals but election “not an option” for him

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said in an interview on Monday that plunging Canada into an early election was “not an option” he’s considering despite claiming that his party could potentially unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Singh told Saltwire’s Thinking Out Loud with Sheldon MacLeod that he intends to continue his party’s coalition with the ruling Liberals. 

“We know that people need help right now so we’re going to spend the summer trying to get more help to people to deal with the inflation and we’re going to use our power to hold the government to account,” said Singh. 

“We can do all this important work more effectively right now rather than plunging the country in a month or two month long election while people suffer and don’t get any help. That’s not an option for me.”

In March, Trudeau and Singh announced a supply and confidence deal which would see the minority Liberals remain in power for the next three years in exchange for NDP policy promises. In exchange for Singh’s support, the Trudeau government announced a universal dental plan for Canadians which is expected to go into effect this year. 

Singh claimed that in the event of an election now, the NDP could gain seats due to the dwindling support for the Trudeau government. 

“The knee jerk reaction and maybe the self serving political opportunity that people would see here is call an election and we would win more seats. We probably would win more seats if we called an election right now at this point in time when people are losing trust in the Liberal government,” said Singh.

“(But) I feel its my job to use the power I have responsibly to benefit people and we can do that by using the existing tools that we have.” 

A recent poll by Abacus Data found that 49% of Canadians think that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Additionally, government approval has dwindles to 38% with 45% of Canadians saying they disapprove of the Liberals’ performance. 

The Conservatives are currently leading with regard to voting intention. 34% of Canadians said they would support a Conservative candidate if an election was held tomorrow while only 30% said the same to the Liberals. 

Support for the NDP has also declined to 18% down from 21% earlier this month. 

During an Ontario election event in Brampton, Singh fled a group of Sikh protesters who attempted to question the NDP leader over his support of the Liberals. 

Videos posted to social media show Singh entering a black SUV and driving away as demonstrators shout “don’t sell out.” 

BONOKOSKI: Another scandal, another case of collusion

By
Mark Bonokoski
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It is a sad day when your prime minister, so accomplished at setting up mournful moods and with a voice so smooth that it can easily bring on profound drowsiness, is again up to his neck in another scandal. 

The man needs to get a grip on the truth.

The fact that Justin Trudeau resorts to dishonest rhetoric when caught dead in his tracks was first witnessed in full blossom during the SNC-Lavalin scandal when he refused early on to acknowledge the truth as published in the Globe and Mail – he was interfering in a Crown prosecution of the Montreal company.

Actually, he left most of it up to then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to uncomfortably deliver the false denials so many times that Blair’s suit was likely in dire need of dry cleaning to rid it of the sweat stains.

It was collusion from the get-go.

Well, we all know how that ended. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned, and everyone knew Trudeau was caught with his pants down.

Flash forward now to the RCMP investigation of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia where one gunman left 22 dead and Trudeau is (again) being accused of not telling the truth about the massacre being used for political purposes.

And dragged into the mess as co-conspirators with Trudeau are RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and once again, Bill Blair – now the Minister of Emergency Preparedness.

One report that included testimony from Supt. Darren Campbell, who was the public face of the RCMP in Nova Scotia, and Lia Scanlan, the director of communications for the Mounties in the region, was particularly damning in linking the guns used to upcoming anti-gun legislation.

“The commissioner said she had promised the Minister of Public Safety and the Prime Minister’s Office that the RCMP (we) would release this information,” read the handwritten notes Campbell took at the time.

“I tried to explain there was no intent to disrespect anyone; however, we could not release this information at this time, the commissioner then said that we didn’t understand that this was tied to pending gun control legislation that would make officers and the public safer.”

Again, collusion from the get-go.

Scanlan told the inquiry that Trudeau and Blair were interfering, “weighing in on what we could and couldn’t say.”

She spoke of Lucki giving interviews to several media outlets shortly after the shootings, in which the commissioner provided an ever-increasing number of victims at a time when local RCMP officers were still trying to determine the total number of victims.

 “That is 100% Minister Blair and the Prime Minister. And we have a commissioner that does not push back,” Scanlan said in her February 2022 interview.

That makes two local RCMP staffers testifying against their boss, but, in the end, it didn’t matter.

“Absolutely not. We did not put any undue influence or pressure. It is extremely important to highlight that is only the RCMP that determine what and when to release information,” Trudeau told reporters in Rwanda, where he was partaking in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

“The commissioner’s statement, the minister’s statement were very clear on that, and yes I still very much have confidence in Commissioner Lucki.”

Just three days later, however, after Campbell said that Lucki made it clear she had promised certain information be released ahead of legislation being introduced, the Trudeau government acted — announcing that they were issuing an order in council effectively banning the AR-15 rifle and 1,500 other models from use in Canada.

As it anti-climactically turned out, however, the gunman’s weapons were all smuggled in from the United States. 

Notes alleging political interference by RCMP commissioner hidden by justice department

By
Noah Jarvis
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The federal department of justice held back notes of RCMP superintendent Darren Campbell documenting commissioner Brenda Lucki’s demand to release information at the behest of the Trudeau government.

According to the Mass Casualty Commission, an independent commission tasked with investigating the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, the four pages documenting Campbell’s meeting with Lucki were missing when the federal government first sent Campbell’s handwritten notes in Feb 2022.

The CBC reports that the commission had to wait months until the federal government handed them the complete package of Campbell’s notes where he detailed the RCMP commissioner’s demands. 

Notes taken from a meeting between commissioner Lucki and other high-ranking RCMP officers show that Lucki had demanded the RCMP release the specifications of the shooter’s gun at the behest of then-public safety minister Bill Blair and Liberal’s gun restriction regime.

In a statement provided to CBC, the Department of Justice claimed that the four pages were withheld to review them before releasing them – information that DOJ did not initially give the commission. 

“Department of Justice counsel should have done so and will work with the Commission to establish a process for review.”

Prime minister Justin Trudeau refuted the claim that the Liberals had pressured the RCMP commissioner. 

“We did not put any undue influence or pressure. It is extremely important to highlight that it is only the RCMP, it is only police that determine what and when to release information,” Trudeau said.

During Question Period, Bill Blair echoed a similar message to the prime minister’s — that the Liberals had not interfered and the Lucki is not at fault.

“I have absolutely no doubt the superintendent is an exemplary officer, and I don’t question his integrity in any way. I would simply remind this House that the fact is, that there was no interference in this matter,” Blair said.

Leslyn Lewis slams Liberal MP over Clarence Thomas comments

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Conservative Party of Canada MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis slammed Quebec Liberal MP Anthony Housefather for suggesting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants to take America back to a pre-civil war era.

This comes amid mass outrage from the left across the United States and Canada over the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights case. The decision invalidated a previous constitutional right to abortion, giving American states the power to ban the practice

“The only bright side of the majority decision overruling Roe is that they seem to only want to bring the country back 50 years. Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion seems to want to bring the US back to pre Civil War times,” Housefather tweeted.

In response to Housefather’s comments, Lewis said that “when the left can’t manipulate and control black people like Justice Thomas, they adopt racist tropes and suggest that independent minded blacks want to go back to the days when slavery was legal.”

“It’s disappointing to see an MP like Anthony Housefather stoop to this level,” she added. 

In Thomas’ concurring opinion in the Dobbs case, which repealed Roe, Thomas wrote that “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” 

The Griswold ruling dealt with the issue of contraception, while the Lawrence and Obergefell cases addressed gay rights. 

Justice Thomas, who is currently the only black judge sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, has faced several attacks from the left for his originalist conservative views. 

Lewis is the only Pro-Life candidate in the Conservative leadership race. She’s promised to ban sex-selective abortions, criminalize coerced abortions, increase funding for pregnancy centres and stop the funding of abortions overseas.

Tamara Lich arrested in Medicine Hat

By
Andrew Lawton
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Freedom Convoy fundraiser Tamara Lich has been arrested in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Edmonton lawyer Keith Wilson, who led the Freedom Convoy legal team, confirmed the news Monday evening.

Lich is presently on bail after being charged with mischief, counselling mischief, and other charges related to the convoy protests in Ottawa in January and February of this year.

Wilson said he is still trying to ascertain the nature of the arrest, but believes it may be based on allegations of violating bail conditions.

Lich is currently under strict bail conditions which bar her from using social media, speaking out against vaccine mandates, or “verbally, in writing, financially, or by any other means, support anything related to the Freedom Convoy.”

According to Wilson, police have said they may hold her for up to six days while arranging a prisoner transport to Ottawa.

Convoy security lead and former RCMP officer Danny Bulford tweeted that the circumstances of Lich’s arrest make it seem as though she had a Canada-wide warrant, which he said are “normally reserved for serious offences like Murder, not breach allegations.”

Lich returned to Alberta last week after appearing in Toronto to accept the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ George Jonas Freedom Award. She delivered a speech about freedom which did not mention the convoy.

At a bail review hearing earlier this month, lawyers for the Crown tried to argue Lich was in violation of her bail conditions for planning to accept the award, though the judge rejected this.

This is a developing story which will be updated as more information becomes available.

Increasing number of products made with child labour imported into Canada: World Vision

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Canadians are largely unaware of the growing number of everyday imported products that are made with child labour, according to World Vision Canada (WVC). 

According to the non-governmental organization, Canada imports annually $43 billion worth of products that may have been made using child or forced labour.

“Girls and boys as young as five years old could be involved,” said WVC in a news release.

The International Labour Organization estimates that there are currently 79 million children who are subject to forced labour, a figure that increased for the first time in 20 years amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

“No child should be exploited to make the products Canadians buy. It is unethical and unjust, and we can do better,” said WVC President and CEO Michael Messenger.

“Canada’s child labour problem will continue to grow without bold action to address it. Canadians need to be able to make fully informed purchasing decisions,” added Messenger.

According to Maplecroft’s Child Labor Index, the top ten countries with the worst child labour rates are Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Liberia, India, Ethiopia, The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad and Bangladesh.

China, which is seen as the world’s manufacturing superpower, also uses child labour with over 7% of children aged 10-15 working despite the legal working age being 16.

Almost 160,000 Canadians have signed a WVC petition calling on the federal government to implement legislation that would require companies to “report and take action on human rights concerns in their supply chains.”

A prohibition of goods made with forced labour under the Customs Tariff has been in place since 2020, however a Bill introduced by Senator Julie Miville-Dechene would take further action on the matter.

Bill S-211 would make “an obligation on certain government institutions and private-sector entities to report on the measures taken to prevent and reduce the risk that forced labour or child labour is used by them or in their supply chains.”

Furthermore, the Bill would create an “inspection regime” and amend the Customs Tariff to allow for a ban on imports made with child labour.

WVC youth leader Katherine Dibbon praised Miville-Dechene’s Bill, telling CTV News the legislation “is looking at protecting the rights of children and giving the information to consumers in Canada.”

Bill S-211 has passed through the Senate, as well as first and second reading in the House of Commons and is currently being studied by the Foreign Affairs committee.

Netflix, YouTube preferred choice over CBC for Canadians

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Canadians are far more likely to rely on Netflix and YouTube to watch documentaries than the CBC, a government study reveals.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, a Canadian Heritage study titled Canadian’s Awareness and Perception of the NFB (National Film Board) found that only 2% of Canadians said they rely on the public broadcaster for their documentary watching. 

25% of those polled picked Netflix as their top destination to watch documentaries while 12% picked YouTube. Amazon Prime and Disney were each preferred to 4% of respondents.

The National Film Board itself, also scored poorly with only 2% of respondents saying they used their web or cell application to stream NFB content.

More Canadians were also likely to spontaneously mention Disney (37%), Pixar (17%) and National Geographic (11%) as their go-to animation and documentary film source than CBC (9%). 

When asked whether they were even aware of the NFB, 39% responded in the negative. Meanwhile, 47% said they were definitely aware of the public film and digital media producer while 15% said it sounded familiar. 

“Compared to the results from the previous edition of the study, fewer respondents have mentioned having heard of the NFB (61% compared to 70% in 2017), while more mentioned not having heard of it (36% compared to 30% in 2017),” wrote staff.

42% of those who viewed the NFB as unfavourable were dissatisfied with the productions while 9% had an issue that it was government-funded. 

“Among the negative comments mentioned, some respondents have brought up the fact that the productions only reflect certain aspects of Canadian life, that the NFB pushes its own agenda in their productions, that the productions are too niche, and that it is not necessarily a good way to spend public money,” the study read. 

The Liberal government is currently pushing through several pieces of legislation which seek to regulate the internet and promote Canadian content to users online. 

Bill C-11 recently arrived in the Senate as critics have called for the government to reverse course on the legislation, citing freedom of expression concerns. 

FUREY: How many Liberal ministers does it take to change a light bulb?

By
Anthony Furey
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10 apparently.

For weeks, Canadians attempting to obtain a passport have seen long delays – some people waiting in lines for hours to receive this basic government service.

After weeks of dismissing the problem at Canada’s passport offices, the Trudeau government has finally acknowledged that something needs to be done. What’s their solution?

Trudeau has put together a task force of Liberal cabinet ministers. Seriously.

Anthony Furey says this is only going to make things worse.

Crop inventory to reach “record low level” by end of year: Agriculture Canada

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Forecasts by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada predict that the end of year inventory level of crop stocks are going to be at a record low due to surmounting food supply issues caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other issues. 

In a report titled Canada: Outlook for Principal Field Crops, Agriculture Canada researchers found that the inventory of all principal field crops such as canola and wheat fell by 29.1% as of Mar. 31, 2022 when compared to the year prior. 

“The economic outlook, for the world and Canadian grain markets remains particularly uncertain, due in large part to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in the ongoing disruption of supplies from the region for the foreseeable future,” wrote staff.

“For 2021-2022 stocks of all principal field crops reported by (Statistics Canada) as of March 31, 2022 declined by 29.1% relative to March 31, 2022 due to drought-reduced production in 2021 and sustained strong global demand.” 

Individual crops which were impacted included canola stocks which fell by a whopping 49.3% while wheat stocks fell by five megatonnes. 

“As a result, carry-out stocks (ending-year inventories) for all principal field crops are forecast to end the year at a record low level,” wrote staff. 

Tight Canadian and global grain supplies as well as increasing international demand led Agriculture Canada to forecast strong crop prices while warning that price volatility will continue due to the unpredictable nature of the Ukraine conflict. 

“Crop prices, in general, are expected to remain relatively strong in 2022-23 but decrease from the record to near-record prices of 2021-22 as Canadian and world production is expected to increase,” the report read.

Farmers have warned that sky-high fertilizer prices are contributing to food supply chain issues. 

“We’re currently facing a fertilizer crisis as one of our big supply chain issues. Farmers need to find low-cost alternatives that are more environmentally friendly and that will still fit their needs,” president of the National Farmers Union Katie Ward told parliamentarians in February.

As exclusively reported by True North in April, the Western Canadian Wheat Growers blasted Agriculture Canada for singling out grain growers for allegedly having the highest “emissions intensity” in the world in a recent discussion document. 

“I would like to know where they got their facts from,” said president Gunter Jochum. “I believe those facts were entirely made up because in Canada we don’t even have a baseline as to what the true emissions are.”

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