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Trudeau, Freeland met with Ukrainian neo-Nazi party cofounder

By
Candice Malcolm
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland met with the co-founder of a far-right fascist party in Ukraine, which was styled off of Hilter’s Nazi Party, True North has learned.

Andriy Parubiy served as the equivalent of the legislative speaker of Ukrainian Parliament from 2016 to 2019, and during that time he personally met with Trudeau and Freeland several times.

Freeland met with Parubiy in May 2019 for the second time, and posted about it on her official Facebook page. 

Earlier in his career, Parubiy was an influential member of Ukraine’s far-right neo-Nazi movement. In 1991, he co-founded the Nazi-styled Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) – a party focused on “racial nationalism” that even adopted the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol as its logo. 

In 2004, it was renamed to the Svoboda Party and efforts were made to remove Nazi imagery and expel extreme fascist members from the party. Within the Ukrainian political context, the party is still described as  “ultranationalist” and part of Ukraine’s “far-right.”

According to a report from the Jerusalem Post, as recently as 2016 Parubiy made antisemitic comments. He accused Jews of sending convicts to settle Eastern Ukraine and trying to destroy the genetic memory of the Holodomor. 

Parubiy first rubbed shoulders with Trudeau in 2016 while a part of a visiting delegation to Ottawa. The Ukrainian Embassy to Canada detailed the meeting, which also included the then-Minister of Defence Harjit Sajjan. 

Parubiy first rubbed shoulders with Trudeau in 2016 while a part of a visiting delegation to Ottawa, which also included the then-Minister of Defence Harjit Sajjan. 

“During his visit to the capital of Canada, Mr. Parubiy held a number of fruitful meetings with Canadian government officials and politicians,” wrote the Embassy of Ukraine to Canada on Feb. 26, 2016. “First Deputy Speaker had a brief meeting with Canadian Prime Minister the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau and Minister of Defence the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan.”

Trudeau met with Parubiy again in July of that year while visiting Kiev, according to the embassy. Freeland was also present during this junket and is photographed signing an official agreement. 

Freeland met with Parubiy again in May 2019, and posted about it on her official Facebook page. 

“Met with Andriy Parubiy, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, and discussed the role that Canadian election monitors played in Ukraine’s presidential elections and will play again parliamentary elections later this year,” noted the message from Freeland.

“Canada stands with Ukraine and its vibrant democracy!” she exclaimed. 

Conservative MP James Bezan and former interim leader Rona Ambrose also met with Parubiy in 2016, as did former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

The party Andriy Parubiy founded, the SNPU and its offspring Svoboda, have been described by numerous legacy media sources as a “fascist” and even “neo-Nazi” party. 

Trudeau met with Parubiy again in July 2016 while visiting Kiev, according to the embassy. Freeland was also present during this junket and is photographed signing an official agreement. 

According to the left-leaning magazine The Nation, the longest running weekly news magazine in the U.S., Parubiy also cofounded the far-right group Patriot of Ukraine “whose members would eventually form the core of Azov,” Ukraine’s officially sanctioned neo-Nazi battalion.

The Nation questions whether Parubiy has adequately renounced his neo-Nazi past. 

“Although Parubiy left the far right in the early 2000’s, he hasn’t rejected his past,” writes author Lev Golinkin. 

“When asked about it in a 2016 interview, Parubiy replied that his ‘values’ haven’t changed. Parubiy, whose autobiography shows him marching with the neo-Nazi wolfsangel symbol used by Aryan Nations, regularly meets with Washington think tanks and politicians; his neo-Nazi background is ignored or outright denied.”

There are several photos of Parubiy marching in a Nazi-styled uniform as a young man, and one such photo was even featured on the front cover of a book alleged to be about white nationalism in Eastern Europe. 

There are several photos of Parubiy marching in a Nazi-styled uniform as a young man.

According to the mainstream U.K. outlet Channel 4 News, Parubiy’s party was a “fascist party styled on Hitler’s Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians.” 

Parubiy has not been shy about his affiliations with and adoration for the far-right. In 2017, he sang the praises of Nazi collaborator and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) leader Roman Shukhevych.

“On June 30, 2017 there was a 110th anniversary of the Legend’s birth – that was the date when a legendary warrior, a true military leader of the fighting Ukraine at times of World War II, a general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Roman Shukhevych had been born 110 years ago,” Andriy Parubiy was quoted as saying by the Verkhova Rada of Ukraine. 

In 2011, Parubiy also said that he was “disenchanted with” a decision by the Ukrainian courts to not give Nazi collaborators like UAP founder Stepan Bandera “hero status.” 

In February 2022, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused MP Melissa Lantsman – who is Jewish and the descendent of Holocaust survivors – of “standing with those who wave swastikas.” 

This was in reference to the Conservative Party’s defence of the Trucker Convoy’s right to peaceful protest. On Day One of the rally, a still-unidentified provocateur walked near the rally with a Nazi flag. 

Neither Lanstman, nor any Conservative MP stood with or posed for photos with the Nazi flag guy. Trudeau, Freeland and Sajjan did with Parubiy.

Doug Ford tells Ontario school boards to drop masks as ordered

By
Jonathan Bradley
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The Ontario government has advised school boards to follow the province’s plan to end mask mandates in schools on March 21, despite pushback from some of them. 

Ontario chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore released the province’s plan to live with COVID-19 on Wednesday, which included dropping the mask mandate for schools after March break. 

“Of all the provinces to release plans to lift masking requirements in schools, Ontario has one of the most cautious timelines,” said the Ontario Ministry of Education in a statement emailed to True North on Friday. “School boards in this province are expected to implement this cautious plan, coupled with the ongoing improvement of air ventilation within Ontario classrooms.”

While Ontario is among the last provinces in Canada to lift mask mandates, Moore’s statement said that they would be deploying 49,000 air ventilators to schools and child care centres. Ontario will also be giving schools 7 million rapid tests every month as well as additional funding for cleaning and staffing to manage COVID-19. 

“Because of these many layers of protection, the increase in investments and Ontario’s overall improved situation, all schools in the province are open,” it said. 

Some school boards have expressed concern about repealing the mask mandate, with some of them promising to keep it in place longer. 

Trustees at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) voted against ending the mandatory mask policy for staff and students on March 21. 

HWDSB trustee Alex Johnstone said the decision to remove masks felt “rushed.” 

“I wouldn’t feel comfortable just lifting it, and I’m feeling like I’m being forced to vote this way,” said Johnstone. “And that’s not right.”

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) wrote a letter to the Ministry of Education asking for more time to remove COVID-19 measures in schools. 

TDSB spokesperson Ryan Bird said that the board’s trustees want to create their own timeline for lifting restrictions. 

“I think it’s a little too much too soon,” said Bird. “And that seemed to be the consensus for most (trustees).” 

Ontario premier Doug Ford said that the school boards are not medical experts. 

“Follow the direction of the chief medical officer, plain and simple,” said Ford at a press conference. “That’s what we expect and hopefully they’ll do that.” 

Ford said that Moore has done his due diligence and consulted with other medical officers before making his decision. 

B.C. premier John Horgan all insults toward Victoria protests

By
Harley Sims
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A major convoy protest planned for Victoria failed to materialize on Monday, but not without NDP Premier John Horgan letting British Columbians know what he thought of people protesting his government’s ongoing COVID restrictions.

“If people want to drive around and honk their horns, then fill your boots,” said Horgan on Friday. “And at $2.00 a litre (for gas) that’s not only bad judgment, that’s stupidity.”

“Turn on your television and look at what’s happening in Ukraine right now, go on the internet and do some research on the profound impacts of inequality in our societies around the world and then maybe you have something to get excited about.”

Last week, B.C. became the last province to announce it would relax pandemic restrictions, including dropping masks on Friday and vaccine passports by April 8, the latter going ahead “assuming conditions continue to improve.” Before this, the provisional deadline for the passports had been June 30.

Even so, Dr. Bonnie Henry hinted restrictions were likely to return in the fall.

B.C. also continues to terminate government workers who were forced onto unpaid leave last fall after refusing to comply with vaccine mandates, even as other provinces including Alberta and Nova Scotia are welcoming unvaccinated workers back.

The lawn of B.C.’s legislature has hosted protests against pandemic restrictions for weekends on end, including one on Jan. 29 that saw former Newfoundland premier and Charter of Rights signatory Brian Peckford speak out against vaccine mandates and travel bans.

Word began to circulate two weeks ago that another large-scale convoy protest – dubbed Bearhug B.C. – was headed for Victoria after Canada Unity organizer James Bauder posted a video calling on the freedom convoy’s western fleet to converge on B.C.’s capital.

“Canada, we really do have to support B.C. right now,” Bauder had said on Mar. 3. “It’s one of the hardest-hit provinces.”

Bauder had called on western truckers and other protesters to return from Ontario, passing through a number of cities before arriving in Victoria on Mar. 14. Envisioning several hundred trucks performing multiple “rolling convoys” over two to three months, Bauder nonetheless insisted that “everything that we’re going to do is going to be 100% legal.”

“We will not be doing any blockades,” he said. “We will not be doing any occupying movements or anything like that.”

B.C. government, Victoria police and other officials had nonetheless prepared for major demonstrations on Monday, including reported discussions involving B.C. Ferries to potentially prevent demonstrators from crossing to Vancouver Island.  

Speaking to media before the weekend, Premier Horgan said that if people wanted to come to Victoria to protest health measures by honking their horns, “then I feel really sad for you.”

Horgan said that demonstrators got more attention than they deserved, adding that 94% of adults in B.C. were vaccinated (in Jan. 2021, Henry had announced that a target vaccination threshold for COVID-19 herd immunity was around 70%).

He confirmed he would continue to wear his own mask in public, being immunocompromised and having recently undergone the last of 35 radiation sessions following surgery for throat cancer.

Speaking to Global News on Monday about the anticipated Victoria convoy, NDP MP and former Victoria city councillor Laurel Collins said that demonstrations in Ottawa had been neither legal nor acceptable.

“You know, there was attempted arson,” she said. “Citizens in Ottawa were subjected to noise at all hours of the night. People were harassed on the streets. This was not a peaceful demonstration. It was an occupation. And, you know, the organizers, many who had connections to far right extremism, were very clear in the lead-up that they actually wanted to overthrow the government.”

Despite Collins’s claims, the “attempted arson” was blamed on the truckers without any evidence, while at least one resident reported “(t)here is no honking at night” (nor at all after the Feb. 8 injunction).

Collins maintained that the way to get out of the pandemic was to “continue to follow public health advice” adding that developing countries’ low access to vaccines was “why we continue to see variants arise.”

Victoria was relatively quiet on Monday afternoon, with Lower Mainland media reporting that Bearhug B.C. had possibly redirected its efforts in the wake of the province’s loosened restrictions.

Liberals want Canada to be a leader in “lab meat” production

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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During a Commons industry committee meeting, Liberal MPs lamented the fact that Canada was not a leader in producing alternative sources of protein like “lab meat” or insects.

On Mar. 4, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne was testifying before parliamentarians on his mandate letter when the discussion turned toward climate change and the purported threat to global temperatures caused by the agricultural sector.

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith referred to a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), asking whether the federal government would invest in the technology.

“Lab or ‘clean meat’ is one potential contributor to the human demand for protein in the future. That’s obviously a high-risk, high-reward initiative. It’s one that the U.S., Singapore and Israel are all pursuing. Canada is not, unfortunately, at the moment. Entrepreneurs are leaving the space in Canada, unfortunately. I wonder if you would turn your mind to high-risk, high-reward research via the net-zero accelerator?” said Erskine-Smith.

“Totally, and I appreciate the question. I’d like to be invited back to the committee to discuss that more. I’m seeing people nodding, so it may happen,” replied Champagne. “I agree with you. We should be a leader in forestry tech, biotech, clean tech, fin tech, and ag tech. I totally agree with you and your colleague that we need to do more.”

On Feb. 28, the IPCC released its sixth assessment report, titled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. One chapter of the report addresses “alternative sources of protein for food and feed.”

“Laboratory or “clean meat” is one potential contributor to the human demand for protein in the future,” wrote the IPCC. “Livestock feeds can make use of other protein sources: insects are generally rich in protein and can be a significant source of vitamins and minerals. Black soldier fly, yellow mealworm and the common housefly have been identified for potential use in feed products in the EU.”

Hardline environmentalists have been advocating to replace meat with alternatives such as artificial products, insects and algae for some time now as a way to reduce carbon emissions produced by the agricultural sector.

In 2013, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization released a report saying that the world should drop their prejudices and get ready to start consuming bugs.

“Common prejudice against eating insects is not justified from a nutritional point of view. Insects are not inferior to other protein sources such as fish, chicken and beef,” the report’s authors wrote.

This article’s headline and opening paragraph were corrected on Mar. 15. An earlier version suggested that “lab meat” was derived from insect-based protein. The two are separate products.

LEVY: With masking, it’s time to leave those kids alone

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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Even after two years of lockdowns, social distancing, masking, border closures, travel restrictions and other draconian measures, there are still some activist teachers, doctors and healthcare professionals who are not prepared to let COVID go. 

Nothing has been more absurd than their reaction to the lifting of the mask mandates as of March 21 in Ontario. For the activists, letting go of their mask appears to be akin to giving up the pacifier or security blanket many had as a child.

You’d think they would have had enough of being forced to wear a cloth face-diaper that has been shown to have minimal efficacy when it comes to protecting the wearer from COVID. One wonders if their curious obsession with masks is rooted in fear, or after two years, they’ve simply become addicted to being told what to do.

In the case of activist doctors, I suspect they see their power and control slipping away as we put COVID behind us. Now that the pandemic is essentially over, they might actually have to go back to ministering to the sick rather than telling us all how to live our lives.

The same goes for some Ontario school boards, who have openly vowed to keep masks in place despite the Ford government dropping them.

Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees – forever driven by their loyalty to teachers unions – spent six (yes, six!) hours debating the mask mandate last Thursday evening before determining that maskless faces would tentatively be accepted when children return to school after March break…unless, they added, the Chief Medical Officer of Health gives them additional time.

No doubt they put in that caveat in a desperate attempt to appease the activist teachers and lefty parents who flooded social media just before March break last week, all of whom clutched their pearls in horror over the impending end to the diapering of all faces.

Lefty TDSB teacher Peter Hasek – who appears on Twitter with purple hair and the pronouns he, they – is under review by the TDSB for actually threatening to segregate unmasked students.

Others fans of the mask mandate sounded petulant.

You have to wonder how many of these shrieking teachers have jetted off for March break to some sunny clime where masks are non-existent.

Meanwhile, the woke trustees at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board voted last week to defy the provincial edict and to keep the mask mandate in their schools until Apr. 15. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will hold a special meeting Monday night to discuss extending  their mask mandate as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens the first few days back at school in Ontario.

Make no mistake. It is anyone’s right to continue to wear masks after Mar. 21, just as it’s their right to shed those face diapers altogether. No one is making them take them off.

I fully recognize that the immunocompromised may still want protection, as will those in long-term care and retirement settings where so many COVID deaths occurred. But forcing young students to continue to wear masks after two long years is indicative of the political self-interest of activist teachers, teachers unions and other woke educators.

It should come as no surprise either that the activist teachers aren’t doing this for their students.

They only care about themselves.

Jean Charest says he can unite Conservatives and win a national majority

By
Andrew Lawton
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Former federal Progressive Conservative leader and Quebec Liberal premier Jean Charest is seeking the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. Charest says the Conservative party is where he belongs, touting a record of cutting taxes and defending federalism. In this interview with True North’s Andrew Lawton, Charest addresses his work with Huawei, carbon taxes, firearms ownership, and what a winning electoral strategy for the Conservatives looks like.

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Taxpayer group debuts new debt clock after old one runs out of digits

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has launched a nationwide tour of its new debt clock to raise awareness about Canada’s ballooning $1.1 trillion national debt.

The CTF’s debt clock has been making its way across Canada since the 1990s. Last year, however, the organization had to retire the original clock when it ran out of digits, which topped out at $999,999,999,999.99.

Beginning on Monday, a new truck will be travelling from coast to coast carrying a digitized clock that shows how quickly the trillion-dollar debt is rising in real time. 

“It’s hard for most of us to imagine a trillion-dollar debt, but we know what it’s like to watch a bill going up in real-time and that’s exactly what the Debt Clock shows Canadians,” said CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano. “Canada’s national debt is already more than $1 trillion in debt, and it’s going up by almost $400 million every day.”

According to Terrazzano, if a Canadian were to make a two-minute YouTube video, the national debt would have already gone up by nearly $500,000. 

The first stop was in Victoria, where CTF British Columbia Director Kris Sims blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government for burdening the country with ponderous amounts of new debt. 

“It’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to rein in his massive borrowing and give taxpayers a plan to balance the budget,” said Sims. “A balanced budget means less debt for Canadian kids and grandkids to pay back, less money wasted on interest charges and fewer tax hikes.”

In Jan. 2021, each Canadian’s share of the federal debt surpassed $24,000 for the first time ever. As of Monday, the CTF’s debt clock put “your share” of the debt at close to $31,000.

The federal Conservatives have blasted Trudeau for his handling of the Canadian economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

During an exclusive interview with True North fellow Andrew Lawton, Conservative MP and leadership contestant Pierre Poilievre stated that government overspending was behind the rising cost of living crisis.

“The cost of government is driving up the cost of living. When governments overspend then they have to overtax, and that drives up the cost of everything,” said Poilievre. 

According to data published by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the federal government isn’t projected to balance its budget until 2070. 

Even before the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020, federal spending under the Trudeau government was at an all-time high.

Modern leftist feminism is making everyone miserable

By
Candice Malcolm
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Modern leftist feminism is one of the most perverse and harmful forces in our society. It tells men that they are “toxic” and need to be more like women, meanwhile, it tells women to be liberated and act more like men.

The result? Both men and women – but especially women – are self-reportedly more miserable and less fulfilled than at any previous time, according to comprehensive meta data studies.

On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals, retired professor Janice Fiamengo. They discuss the many, many problems with modern leftist feminism and discuss alternative advice and guidance for young people.

They also talk about the strange phenomenon of women’s college swimming superstar Lia Thomas, who has shattered pool records this year. Lia, as you may know, has the distinct advantages of being a biological male. Dr. Fiamengo clearly explains how we got to this bizarre place in our society.

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Taxpayers footing hotel bills for illegal Roxham Road crossers

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Canadians are now literally paying the price for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s open border policy, with taxpayers being forced to cover the hotel quarantine stays of unvaccinated border crossers who enter Canada illegally via Roxham Road.

According to Deputy Minister of Citizenship and immigration Catrina Tapley, migrants and asylum claimants who are unvaccinated and have no quarantine plan will be housed free of charge by the government in designated rooms.

Tapley revealed the Liberal government’s policy during a Commons immigration committee meeting on Mar. 3, 2022.

“First of all, those who are vaccinated or who have a clear plan for quarantine are processed and are on their way. For those who are not vaccinated and do not have a quarantine plan, we have rooms in hotels, where we place them until their quarantine period is complete and they are able to move into other social housing systems,” said Tapley. “No, we don’t charge people for the time in the hotel.”

“To clarify, because I’m also out of time, the Government of Canada is paying for hotel rooms for pending asylum claimants who are unvaccinated?” asked Conservative MP Garnett Genuis.

“You are correct,” responded Tapley.

The quarantine period for unvaccinated travellers authorized to enter Canada is currently 14 days.

As exclusively reported by True North in December, the Canadian Border Services Agency confirmed that unvaccinated illegal border crossers were being allowed through the unauthorized border crossing after Trudeau reopened Roxham Road on Nov. 22, 2021.

Although unvaccinated migrants can cross into Canada freely, Canadian citizens who are unvaccinated cannot board a plane or train to travel domestically or internationally.

In Dec. 2021, 2,800 illegal border crossers entered the country via the controversial border crossing. In comparison, Roxham Road only saw 96 people cross illegally in Oct. 2021, before Trudeau made the announcement that the border was open again.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has also blasted the Trudeau government for failing to lift visa requirements for Ukrainian refugees while allowing illegal border crossers to enter Canada without a visa.

“The government must recognize that Ukrainians seeking security do not have months to lose. It is urgent to take action,” Blanchet told the House of Commons on Feb. 28.

Canadian satellite company helping Ukraine fight Russia

By
Jonathan Bradley
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Canadian satellite builder MDA is providing Ukraine with near real-time satellite imagery to monitor Russian troop movements. 

“We can deliver intelligence reports and people can make determinations of what’s going on the ground, or on the sea, from our radar imagery,” MDA CEO Mike Greenley told Reuters on Tuesday. “It’s all about… doing the right thing and giving Ukraine the support that they need.”

Greenley said that in the SAR images, “you can see groups of vehicles, you can see changes to buildings, you can see changes to bridges, you can see ships at sea through all weather conditions day and night.”

The intelligence is communicated to Ukraine through western-based commercial agencies or governments, according to Greenley. He added that MDA received approval from the Canadian government to share these images with Ukraine on March 4. 

Asked whether he feared Russian retaliation, Greenley said that MDA had adopted a “slightly heightened security posture.”  

Ukraine digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov had made an appeal to the international community on Twitter two weeks ago, asking for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data. 

“We badly need the opportunity to watch the movement of Russian troops, especially at night when our technologies are blind,” said Fedorov in a tweet on March 1. 

Russia calls its actions in Ukraine “a special operation,” claiming it is not designed to occupy territory. 

The move by MDA is the latest in a series of actions taken by Canada and Canadian companies against Russia. These actions range from bans on Russian banking, closure of Canadian airspace to Russian aircraft and the removal of Russian alcohol from the shelves of government-run liquor stores.

Most notably, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban on crude oil imports from Russia on Feb. 28. 

“This industry accounts for more than a third of Russia’s federal budget revenues,” said Trudeau. “And while Canada has imported very little amounts in recent years, this measure sends a powerful message.”

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