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Friday, May 2, 2025

Canada’s airlines call on Trudeau government for further action to fix airport delays

By
Noah Jarvis
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The Trudeau government’s decision to end the vaccine mandate for domestic travel is “not enough to resolve the situation at Canada’s airports,” according to the National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC).

Following the government’s announcement that it would no longer require Canadians to disclose their vaccine status in order to board a plane or train in Canada, the NACC released a statement calling on the government to take further action. 

“The government’s decision to suspend the national vaccine mandate for air travel and transportation employees is a positive step… However – today’s changes are not enough to resolve the situation at Canada’s airports and the complexity travellers face,” said NACC CEO Suzanne Acton-Gervais.

Specifically, the NACC calls on the government to end the vaccine requirement for international travellers arriving in Canada, bringing Canada’s travel requirements in line with more than 100 other countries. 

The NACC calls on the Trudeau government to extend the pause on arriving travellers mandated to take a Covid-19 test, simplify the ArriveCan health checks and provide stability for travellers and airline employees. 

Canada’s airports have been in a state of disarray since air travel started to regain its popularity as more and more Canadians are becoming comfortable with travelling in spite of Covid concerns.

While the Trudeau government has eased some of the Covid-era travel restrictions, the vaccine mandate for travellers entering Canada and mandatory masking on planes remains.

In light of the government’s initial imposition of the travel restrictions in late October 2021, multiple legal challenges arose, including suits from People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford and businessman Shawn Rickard.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is representing both Bernier and Peckford – arguing that the Trudeau government’s mandate violates their mobility rights protected under section 6 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Rickard’s case is based on his inability to see his family in the United Kingdom and the fact that the government’s mandates aren’t sufficiently based on science. 

All cases challenging the travel mandate are expected to be heard by the courts in September. 

True North’s Elie Cantin-Nantel says Bernier and Peckford will continue to pursue their cases against the government. 

Pressure has been mounting for the Trudeau government to drop its vaccine mandates, as MPs in the Liberal caucus have reported that a “massive majority” of the caucus wanted the mandates to be dropped. 

LEVY: Woke Ontario teachers’ hatred of conservatives on full display

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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Ontario’s woke teachers – clearly upset that Premier Doug Ford won a landslide majority earlier this month – took to Twitter non-stop over the past two weeks to express their hatred of conservatives.

Before they leave the classroom for their two month vacation, they also vowed they’d continue to indoctrinate young minds.

Of course they didn’t use the word “indoctrinate.” These radical leftists would prefer to call it “teaching young minds respect, kindness and equity” – code for dividing students into identity groups and ramming Marxist ideologies down their throats.

It’s puzzling that they’re so upset considering the Ford government did nothing to clear out the radical equity bureaucrats brought to the education ministry by Kathleen Wynne or to address the crazy woke policies adopted by various school boards.

There’s never been a time I can remember that Ontario’s more radical teachers — with the help of their leftist unions — didn’t protest, or whine about being hard done by. That was mostly with signs, days of action and glossy union-published pamphlets.

Several took their activism into the classroom.

But in recent years, they’ve also discovered that social media is a very powerful tool to perpetuate indoctrination – a tool that seemed to ramp up in conjunction with COVID and online learning.

Many workplaces have introduced social media policies to prevent tweets that might paint their organization in an unfortunate light. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) implemented their social media policy in February of this year.

It prohibits excess social media use during regular working hours and encourages engagement that is “respectful.”

It serves as window dressing only. It seems that hateful attacks on the Ford government and anyone who identifies as conservative are not only ignored but often encouraged by school administrators.

Recently I became the object of obsessive online bullying by a Twitter mob of teachers after commenting that a tweet from a kindergarten teacher with the TDSB was inappropriate. 

The author, TDSB teacher Usha Shanmugathasan — who had the hashtag #VoteFordOut2022 – has since protected her tweets.

But the original is contained in one posted by a critic of woke teachers:

The response to my suggestion was swift, even from some TDSB administrators who defended her as a great teacher.

This tutor and volunteer with the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) criticized me for “hating teachers” and writing about trustee Mike Ramsay.

Not that I hate teachers.

Ramsay was recently found to have violated the Code of Conduct for allegedly posting news articles of conservative writers including me. 

This teacher really shouldn’t still be in the classroom:

This TDSB teacher tweeted several comments after I suggested that Canadian parents need to start Moms for Liberty chapters to bring transparency to school boards like the WRDSB:

This Grade 1 teacher who operates under the Twitter handle @velvetpage and the name Laggan Vaxxed Still Masked tweeted responses to me for days until she finally blocked me.

Labelling herself as a “Cis Lesbian,” she tweets incessantly, perhaps even during the school day.

She overshared about her women problems and at one point, said her trans kid (they) comes to her class to meet her students and if they do their work, they get to make them drawings:

“Yep. They gently field questions about whether they’re my daughter of my son, they explain theatre concepts before out trip to see a play and everyone is fascinated by the bright pink hair. They’re going to be an awesome teacher.”

There are far too many other such examples.

I believe most teachers just want to do their jobs, and do them well.

Unfortunately, this fringe woke NDP-leaning, Ford-hating element are not doing their students, or colleagues, any service.

And many school boards appear to be in lockstep with this nonsense.

Senate committee votes down Mendicino’s controversial Bill S-7

By
Andrew Kozak
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Source: Parlvu

A Senate bill that would have allowed Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) agents to examine the contents of traveller’s smartphones, laptops and other devices under the threshold of “reasonable general concern” has been voted down by the national security and defence committee.

Bill S-7 would have amended the Customs Act, lowering the circumstances under which CBSA officials could search personal digital devices. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, senators on the committee passed an amendment proposed by Senator Mobina Jaffer to replace the proposed new standard with “reasonable grounds to suspect,” which would still make it easier to search travellers’ devices than it is now. Though, not as permissive as the standard proposed by the Public Safety Minister. 

“We did not have one witness except the minister and the officials say that the new standard was a good idea,” said Jaffer Monday. 

Senator Marc Gold, who represented the government in the Senate, opposed the amendment as well. Gold told the National Post that the bill doesn’t lower the standard, but is actually “creating a legal standard where one never existed before.”

Previously, the committee heard from law experts who said that the new “reasonable general concern” threshold was unknown in Canadian law. Lex Gill, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, told senators that the new standard would amount to a “fishing expedition.”

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has said that the new threshold would have been “very low, and legally novel” and would not adequately protect travellers’ privacy from border agents.

While the committee has finished its study, the bill will head back to the Senate to decide whether to accept the committee’s recommendations that the new standard of “reasonable general concern” is too lenient. After that, the bill will go to the House of Commons.

Liberals and NDP shut down debate on internet censorship bill

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The Liberals along with the NDP voted to shut down debate on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s internet censorship law, Bill C-11. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, a vote by Liberal MP Sean Casey on a motion for the House of Commons heritage committee to immediately pass the bill cited “the procedural games, the obstructionist tactics, the filibusters and the like.” It was passed by 174 votes for and 146 against. 

“They are censoring the censorship of their own censorship bill. That is what is happening,” said Conservative MP Blaine Calkins. 

Critics have argued that C-11, which seeks to update the Broadcasting Act so that the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has jurisdiction over regulating online content, is an encroachment on Canadians’ right to freedom of expression. 

Although Liberal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has claimed that the bill does not extend CRTC regulatory powers to include everyday content generated by Canadians online, the head of the CRTC testified that the law does expand to user-generated material. 

“[Section] 4.2 allows the CRTC to prescribe by regulation user uploaded content subject to very explicit criteria. That is also in the Act,” said CRTC Chair Ian Scott. 

Scott, who was appointed by Trudeau in 2021, claims the commission would not use those powers. 

“Users of online and social media services expect freedom of expression, and they will continue to enjoy this under the new Broadcasting Act,” said Scott. 

“Put another way, the CRTC issues about 250 broadcasting decisions annually. Not a single one has ever been successfully challenged on the basis that it somehow infringed Canadians’ freedom of expression.”

During the House debate on the motion, Green Party MP Elizabeth May blasted the Liberals over a double standard when it comes to quashing opposition. 

“Ask how this place would react to a motion like this had it been brought forward in the period of time when there was a Harper majority government,” said May. 

“I cannot think of a time that a motion this egregious was put forward in that era.” 

Trudeau government drops vaccine mandates for domestic travel

By
Andrew Kozak
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The Trudeau government announced on Tuesday an end to Covid vaccine mandates for domestic travel on planes and trains, outbound international trips and federally-regulated workers. 

According to a government release, the vaccine mandates for travel will end as of June 20 2022.

However, the vaccine mandate for inbound international flights is still in effect. Foreign nationals coming to Canada will still be required to be vaccinated. Unvaccinated Canadians returning to Canada will still need to quarantine and provide a valid pre-entry test result. 

All travellers entering Canada are still required to input their information into the ArriveCAN app within 72 hours before their arrival in Canada.

Other public health measures, such as wearing a mask, continue to apply and will be enforced throughout a traveller’s journey on a plane or train. Vaccination against Covid is still required for passengers and crew on cruise ships. 

Federally-regulated workers will no longer be required to disclose their vaccination status. Despite the government reporting 98.5% of public servants are fully vaccinated, several public sector unions have come out against the government in recent weeks. Employers in federally regulated air, rail, and marine sectors will no longer be required to have mandatory vaccination policies in place for employees.

The government says they may reinstate the vaccine requirement if there’s a new variant of Covid.

The travel mandate barring unvaccinated Canadians from travelling domestically or internationally has been in effect since October 30, 2021.

As other countries around the world loosen their Covid restrictions and delays at Canada’s busiest airports continue to worsen, the Trudeau government has been under immense pressure to drop its vaccine mandates from a wide range of voices. 

Travel and tourism organizations such as the Canadian Airports Council called on the government to end the mandates. In addition, WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech and former Air Canada COO Duncan Dee also questioned the government’s rules. 

Opposition politicians have also demanded the government to stop enforcing its vaccine mandates. In May, Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman proposed an opposition motion to relieve processing times by ending federal travel mandates – the motion was defeated in the House of Commons 202-117.

Canada’s perpetual state of crisis (Ft. Dr. Sumon Chakrabarthi)

By
Rupa Subramanya
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While countries around the world and provinces in Canada lift its Covid restrictions and mandates, the Trudeau government refuses to budge. Federal vaccine mandates continue to be enforced and Canada’s public health officials continue to stoke fear by warning Canadians about a “seventh wave.”

When the government is challenged or pressured to change its approach, the government and the prime minister claims they’re “following the best science,” but how accurate is this claim?

On today’s episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa is joined by Dr. Sumon Chakrabarthi, an Infectious Disease Physician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga. Rupa and Dr. Chakrabarthi discuss the usefulness of vaccine mandates, Canada’s endless booster approach to Covid and the Trudeau government’s pandemic response compared to the rest of the world.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This podcast was filmed prior to media reports indicating the Trudeau government would drop its existing vaccine mandates.

“Pierreinflation” Jean Charest doubts Poilievre’s high membership sales

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Jean Charest has cast doubts on rival Pierre Poilievre’s high membership sales, calling the numbers “Pierreinflation.”

The former Quebec Liberal premier made the comments on CTV’s Question Period, after he was asked about his own membership sales numbers.

“At the rate it’s going, we call it ‘Pierreinflation’ in terms of recruiting members,” said Charest. “I think he’s recruited members in the state of Maine and New Hampshire if you’re to follow his logic… He keeps inflating the numbers, no one believes the numbers.” 

Poilievre campaign advisor Jenni Byrne had previously announced that their campaign had sold 311,958 memberships.

According to Charest, the number of memberships does not matter because “you can have 10,000 members in a riding, it’s worth 100 points… If you have 100 members in another riding, it’s worth 100 points. It’s 100 points per riding.”

“We’ve based our campaign on having a broad-base of support across the country in all ridings because that’s the way the race was designed so that whoever would win would have the broadest base of support across the country.”

Charest says he has sold “tens of thousands” of memberships in key areas like Atlantic Canada, Vancouver, Calgary, rural New Brunswick, urban Ontario as well as Quebec, giving him “the points needed to win.”

The Charest campaign has however not revealed the number of memberships that they have sold. Patrick Brown’s campaign announced they have sold over 150,000 memberships. 

“The sales discussion is nothing more than a PR game. We won’t be playing it,” said Charest’s director of communication Michelle Coates Mather when asked by True North if they would share the number of memberships they sold.

Mather added that “total membership sales do not decide the winner of the race.”

As for the basis of Charest’s claim that Poilievre’s numbers are false, Mather said that “the fact is no campaign knows for sure how many memberships they sold and won’t until the party completes the processing which won’t be done until July.”

According to the Conservative Party’s executive director Wayne Benson, the party now has “well over” 600,000 members, which is far greater than the previous record of 269,469 members the party had in its 2020 leadership race.

The party also said that the high number of membership sales has resulted in them being “a few weeks behind in terms of processing”, however party President Robert Batherson said they are still planning to have their new leader announced on Sept. 10.

Anti-Trudeau children’s book tops Amazon bestseller list

By
Noah Jarvis
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The anti-Trudeau children’s satire How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom is the top-selling book on Amazon Canada.

The book, a political spin on Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, satirizes Justin Trudeau’s clampdown on free speech through Covid-19 measures and the invocation of the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy protest.

The story is about the main character, an unnamed ‘prime minister’ bearing a striking resemblance to Justin Trudeau, who hates freedoms, believes Canadians exist to serve him and imposes mandates and rules while ignoring rights and the people’s requests. 

Paralleling the Grinch, the prime minister is depicted as vindictive and sneering while also being foolish. The book describes him as having a brain “three sizes too small.”

The book includes clever rhymes with hard-hitting commentary about the government’s Covid-19 response.

“Many people were fired or took daily swabs for refusing the vaccine over their jobs,” one passage reads.

The author, Derek Smith, is a video game streamer on Twitch whose authoring experience is limited to a superhero novel. He began writing political satire with the children’s book Let’s Go, Brandon.

Smith describes himself as politically neutral and having voted for multiple political parties with varying viewpoints during his time as an adult.

Smith was inspired by the Freedom Convoy protesters and devastated by the Trudeau government’s crackdown on the demonstrators, driving Smith to write the book and employ the help of Kaede Knipe to illustrate. 

The book does not mention Justin Trudeau by name, only referring to him as ‘prime minister’ for legal reasons alluded to in the introduction.

While the Freedom Convoy ended in January, books commemorating and celebrating the convoy are beginning to build momentum as this book has, as well as Andrew Lawton’s soon-to-be-released The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World.

Political satire in the form of a children’s book is starting to become a trend.

Before publishing How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom, Smith wrote a book called Let’s Go, Brandon about a boy who can’t get anything right – meant to mirror US President Joe Biden.

Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire released a children’s book called Johnny the Walrus, where he satirized transgender ideology.

Liberal MP apologizes after saying “f*** you” to Canadian woman criticizing vaccine mandates

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport Adam van Koeverden apologized after he said “f*** you” to an unvaccinated woman on social media after she criticized the government’s ongoing vaccine mandates

“I let my emotions get the better of me and I responded in an unacceptable way to a direct message, and I regret that,” said van Koeverden. “I want to apologize to the person I offended with the message, and anyone else I’ve let down.”

“I realize the past two years have been exceptionally difficult for everyone,” added the Milton MP.

Kate Faith, a Canadian teacher who currently lives in New Zealand, reached out to van Kouverden on Instagram to share her frustration with not being able to come to Canada to visit her family because of her vaccination status.

“You guys stand in parliament and act like these mandates actually serve a purpose?” wrote Faith. Adding, “I was a teacher who got fired for not taking a jab. Now I am a supply teacher, covering classes every single day because all the jabbed teachers have covid and can’t work” but “I can’t come home to visit my family.”

van Koeverden responded by saying, “you clearly have no idea how this all works.”

Faith then wrote back, “you guys all vote to support Mr. Trudeau. You won’t stand up and support a conservative motion even though it is the right thing to do… Are the mandates helping anyone’s health? Nope.”

After a continued exchange, Faith told van Koeverden that he was “a disgrace of a Canadian”, to which he responded “f*** you”

In response to his swear, Faith wrote back, “are you upset? I haven’t seen my family in 2.5 years. I had to watch my papa get buried on facetime. I can’t hug my parents or nana’s because of your Liberal mandates and you had the nerve to swear at me?”

van Koeverden then claimed that he was not upset, but he “made a mistake in responding to someone like you.” 

“Good luck,” he added.

Following the exchange, Faith said, “it was flabbergasting to see an MP speak like that, and then just block me because he wouldn’t or couldn’t answer any of the specific questions about data and studies.”

van Koeverden’s apology did not, however, stop him from receiving criticism for his actions. 

During Question Period on Monday, Conservative MP Michael Barrett asked van Koeverden if he would “give us a date on when he’ll end the mandates, or will he tell me to ‘F*** Off’ like he did to one of his constituents?”

Meanwhile, Conservative Party leadership candidate Roman Baber called on van Koeverden to resign.

van Koeverden was first elected as MP for the GTA riding of Milton in 2019. Before entering politics, he had been a four time Olympic athlete.

Pierre Poilievre vindicated as Bank of Canada admits his criticisms were legitimate

By
Candice Malcolm
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The legacy media hasn’t stopped criticizing Pierre Poilievre’s promise to fire the Governor of the Bank of Canada. Journalists have labeled Poilievre’s plans as “outrageous”, “irresponsible” and “reckless”. Even one of Poilievre’s own caucus colleagues, Ed Fast, jumped on the media bandwagon to criticize his comments.

But is Pierre Poilievre right about the Bank of Canada?

Turns out, even the Bank of Canada admits that their policies have led to inflation and economic instability — the heart of Poilievre’s critiques.

Without skipping a beat or acknowledging they were wrong about inflation, the media has pivoted its critiques to the broader Conservative Party. The media is now questioning the party’s membership numbers and criticizing the leadership candidates for even reporting their own numbers.

Dr. Ian Brodie, the chair of the Leadership Election Organizing Committee and former Chief of Staff to Stephen Harper, joins Candice on the show today. They discuss how the party will handle the record 600,000+ members and how the leadership election will be managed.

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