/qnotables23/ - ===Q Notables 2023===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20008732 (011518ZDEC23) Notable: Trudeau gov’t minister takes heat for saying Canadians who ‘can’t work’ should get free housing

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Trudeau gov’t minister takes heat for saying Canadians who ‘can’t work’ should get free housing

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-minister-takes-heat-for-saying-canadians-who-cant-work-should-get-free-housing/

Critics called Housing Minister Sean Fraser's comments 'full-on communism' and '100% socialism.'

In a scenario akin to the former Soviet Union but not in free market-based Western nations such as Canada, Housing Minister Sean Fraser proclaimed that all Canadians who cannot work should be given free housing.

As per Blacklock’s Reporter, Fraser said recently to Canada’s Senate banking committee that “If you are an adult working in Canada you should be able to buy a home,” adding, “If you cannot work you should have a home too.”

“Government should work together to provide it to you. In a country as wealthy as Canada it is very difficult to accept that people go to sleep without a roof over their head. These problems are solvable,” he said. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20008741 (011522ZDEC23) Notable: Dwindling Canadian navy on brink of crisis, unprepared to meet future challenges

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Dwindling Canadian navy on brink of crisis, unprepared to meet future challenges

https://tnc.news/2023/11/30/dwindling-canadian-navy-on-brink-of-crisis/

The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy is warning that serious challenges threaten to derail its readiness commitments in 2024 and beyond.

Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) commander blamed severe personnel shortages and aging equipment in a YouTube video on Monday

“The RCN faces some very serious challenges right now that could mean we fail to meet our force posture and readiness commitments in 2024 and beyond,” said Topshee.

The navy is grappling with significant staffing shortages, which Topshee said puts the RCN in a critical state. Many occupations are experiencing staffing shortages at 20% and higher.

The root of these challenges lies in a decade-long recruitment crisis.

“Despite their very best efforts, CFRG [Canadian Forces Recruiting Group] has not delivered the required intake for the RCN for over ten years,” Topshee explained.

True North previously reported on the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) recruitment shortage. A briefing note obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter showed that the government’s plan was to boost recruitment by lowering standards and promoting diversity over merit.

Communications between the Department of National Defence and the CAF revealed a preoccupation with concepts like equity, critical race theory, and gender ideology. Despite woke ideology policy changes like gender-neutral uniforms and drag queen bingo, the recruitment numbers have continued to falter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20008785 (011532ZDEC23) Notable: The West Pushed Ukraine To War And Kiev Now Is Paying The Butcher’s Bill

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The West Pushed Ukraine To War And Kiev Now Is Paying The Butcher’s Bill

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/west-pushed-ukraine-war-kiev-now-is-paying/

This is a follow up to my previous piece describing how the United States and NATO sabotaged the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022. Within the last week we have two members of Ukraine’s negotiating team confirm the information that was published two weeks ago by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, Harald Kujat is not just some guy with an opinion. He was the head of Germany’s military. The two members of the Ukrainian team — Oleksiy Arestovich (Zelensky’s former righthand man) and David Arakhamia (a Zelensky look alike who is a member of the Rada).

Vladimir Putin was the first person to publicly describe what happened with the negotiations when he met with an African delegation in July 2023. Putin told the African leaders: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20008835 (011544ZDEC23) Notable: Robert Fico’s Slovakia Is a Source of Problems for Ukraine, Stopping Military Aid and Implementing Protectionist Trade Policies

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Robert Fico’s Slovakia Is a Source of Problems for Ukraine, Stopping Military Aid and Implementing Protectionist Trade Policies

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/robert-ficos-slovakia-is-source-problems-ukraine-stopping/

First it was the end of the military aid, then it was the grain products ban, now it’s a truck blockade at the border.

Since late September, when former Prime Minister Robert Fico was reelected in Slovakia, the bilateral relations between this eastern European country and its neighbor Ukraine have changed rapidly and decisively.

Fico’s SMER party won on a leftwing populist platform that promised, among other things, to cut back on support to Ukraine – including the immediate end to all military aid.

But that is not the only area of friction, now. There is also the most relevant issue of the Ukrainian grain export.

The Slovak government will not only extend but also drastically expand the ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.

This was formulated in an Agriculture Ministry proposal that was approved on Nov. 29.

Kyiv Independent reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20008997 (011629ZDEC23) Notable: War Resumes After Hamas Breaks Truce With Terror and Rocket Attacks; Israel Responds With Air Strikes on Gaza

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War Resumes After Hamas Breaks Truce With Terror and Rocket Attacks; Israel Responds With Air Strikes on Gaza

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/war-resumes-after-hamas-breaks-truce-terror-rocket/

The war between Israel and Hamas resumed on Friday after Hamas broke the day-to-day ceasefire for hostages agreement with a deadly terror attack in Jerusalem on Thursday and rocket fire on Israel early Friday morning. Also, Hamas had reportedly not sent a list of hostages to be released for Friday. Israel responded with air strikes on Gaza after 7 a.m. local time, and ground attacks. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009084 (011650ZDEC23) Notable: Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit Against Pfizer for Misrepresentation of COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Information Censorship

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit Against Pfizer for Misrepresentation of COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Information Censorship

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/attorney-general-ken-paxton-files-lawsuit-against-pfizer-2/

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated legal action against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc., citing allegations of deceptive practices related to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The lawsuit asserts that Pfizer engaged in misrepresenting the vaccine’s efficacy, particularly challenging the claim of 95% effectiveness, and accuses the company of trying to stifle public debate on the matter.

Attorney General Paxton accuses Pfizer of violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act through “false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices.”

The lawsuit highlights the company’s claims that the vaccine has a 95% efficacy rate against COVID-19 infection, stating that this was based on “relative risk reduction” in Pfizer’s initial short-term clinical trial results.

It is argued that this figure is a misleading statistic that should not be used to unduly influence consumer choice, especially since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has indicated that long-term vaccine protection could not accurately be predicted at that point.

Furthermore, the lawsuit alleges that Pfizer misrepresented the durability of the vaccine’s protection and failed to disclose information that contradicted its claims. Additionally, it is claimed that Pfizer did not measure whether the vaccine prevents transmission but still promoted it as necessary to protect others.

As the vaccine’s efficacy came under scrutiny, Pfizer is accused of taking aggressive measures to suppress critics and silence truth-tellers, who the company labeled as “criminals” spreading “misinformation,” according to the lawsuit.

“We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas,” Attorney General Paxton stated. “Many were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a product that was sold based on lies.”

“The Biden Administration may have weaponized the pandemic to force public health decrees and enrich big pharma, but my office will use every tool available to protect our citizens who were misled and harmed by Pfizer’s actions.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009130 (011659ZDEC23) Notable: Time To Boycott Elon's Boycotters

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Time To Boycott Elon's Boycotters

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/boycotting-elons-boycotters

It was about four years ago that ZeroHedge went through ad monetization hell, having lost most of our advertisers because they did not approve of the content on this website and as a result they - together with such members of the Censorship Industrial Complex such as Newsguard, Sleeping Giants and CheckMyAds and various three letter US government agencies - did everything in their power to kill the site by starving it of ad revenue (it's what prompted us to launch a premium, subscription-supported version without which we would not have survived, and therefore we wish to personally thank all of our premium subscribers).

Fast forward to today, when Elon Musk is going through the same hell, as a growing group of companies are trying to do to X/Twitter what they tried to do to us by targeting the social media network and trying to starve it of ad revenue (their stated trigger of responding to the Media Matters fake news "report" was just a red herring: if it hadn't been for Media Matters, they would have found some other point of "virtue" to rally around, and pull their ads).

Of course, there is one key difference: Elon is the world's richest man, and if Twitter does not generate even one additional dollar of revenue, Elon will still be a multi-billionaire, and X can continue to operate for a long, long time if not in perpetuity (if costs are trimmed enough). It's also why Elon yesterday had some choice words for those advertisers who had halted advertising, telling them "go fuck yourself" (with a shout out to Disney chief Bob Iger) if they think they can blackmail Musk... which is precisely what ad demonetization is: a not so subtle way of pushing content and editorial direction in exchange for a monthly stipend. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009166 (011704ZDEC23) Notable: These Are The Countries Pledging The Most Humanitarian Aid

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Blood Money? These Are The Countries Pledging The Most Humanitarian Aid

The world is facing a number of significant humanitarian crises in 2023, with war, food insecurity and forced displacement, among others, causing great hardship around the globe.

As part of United Nations coordinated humanitarian aid plans, around $20 billion has been contributed by governments in 2023 so far.

Statista's Martin Armstrong shows in the infographic below, the United States has delivered almost half of this aid, at $9.3 billion. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009243 (011718ZDEC23) Notable: Entire Board Of Major UK Charity Sacked For Being White

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Entire Board Of Major UK Charity Sacked For Being White

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/entire-board-major-uk-charity-sacked-being-white

A major charity in the UK has dismissed its entire board claiming that they are all too “white and privileged”.

The Daily Mail reports that The Tudor Trust, which has a net worth of £288million and gives away around £20 million a year, is ‘rethinking’ its future, pledging to be a “more diverse group” and to put “social justice and anti-racism” at the centre of its activity.

After offing the entire board based on their skin colour, remaining staff have been mandated to to undergo training in ‘racial justice’ and ‘white supremacy culture’, according to the report.

White staff were reportedly separated from black, Asian and other minority ethnic staff and given separate training on “the different characteristics of racism born of Britain’s colonial history, as well as the white supremacy culture that prevails”.

The charity, founded in 1955, conducted an internal “anti-racist review” overseen by interim director Raji Hunjan (pictured above) and issued a press release describing the move as “a journey towards a better understanding of the history of racism”.

The charity claims the move was inspired by Black Lives Matter protests. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009297 (011724ZDEC23) Notable: Hungary Rejects "Completely Premature" Proposal To Admit Ukraine Into EU

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Hungary Rejects "Completely Premature" Proposal To Admit Ukraine Into EU

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-rejects-completely-premature-proposal-admin-ukraine-eu

The government of Viktor Orban in Hungary has blasted a proposal to admit Ukraine into the European Union as "completely premature". Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, on Thursday told a news conference in Budapest that it is too early to so much as begin formal talks on the matter, according to the AP.

"We are dealing with a completely premature proposal," Gulyas emphasized, explaining that Hungary "cannot contribute to a common decision" on inviting Ukraine to join the bloc. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009687 (011836ZDEC23) Notable: Russia's Supreme Court Bans "International LGBT Movement" As An "Extremist" Organization

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Russia's Supreme Court Bans "International LGBT Movement" As An "Extremist" Organization

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russias-supreme-court-bans-international-lgbt-movement-extremist-organization

Russia has long faced widespread international condemnation for what outside countries have decried as a crackdown on sexual minorities. President Vladimir Putin has persisted in stressing that Russia must safeguard traditional family values, and that this means protecting children from the pervasive propaganda of the West which seeks to sexualize young people.

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday in an official ruling designated what it called the "international LGBT public movement" as a banned "extremist" organization. The new ban is expected to take full effect by early next year - but some reports have said it is effective immediately - and while specifics haven't been forthcoming, the label would clearly give state authorities much broader powers to go after activist groups. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009781 (011855ZDEC23) Notable: Is Your Money Safe? Within A Year, Millions May Lose Their Savings Due To AI Threat, Warns Cybercrime Expert

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Is Your Money Safe? Within A Year, Millions May Lose Their Savings Due To AI Threat, Warns Cybercrime Expert

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/11/is-your-money-safe-within-a-year-millions-may-lose-their-savings-due-to-ai-threat-warns-cybercrime-expert.html

Artificial intelligence is advancing at lightning speed, and these advances are not only set to reshape our very reality, they could leave many losing all of their savings, according to cybercrime expert Marc Maisch, who also works as a lawyer helping victims reclaim their lost savings after they fall victim on the web.

He warned in an interview with Germany’s Die Welt newspaper that authorities will be powerless to stop this new coming crime wave, which will see criminals use AI tools to fleece potentially millions out of their money. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20009946 (011931ZDEC23) Notable: Guilbault jets to Dubai COP28 summit, expected to make climate announcement

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Guilbault jets to Dubai COP28 summit, expected to make climate announcement

https://tnc.news/2023/12/01/guilbault-jets-to-dubai-cop28-summit/

Liberal Minister of Environment Steven Guilbeault will has flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai, where he is expected to make a ministerial announcement on Monday.

According to his itinerary, Guilbeault is scheduled to attend various events during the two week conference. Notably, on Monday, he’s slated to speak during the COP28 Global Methane Pledge session.

This comes amid growing international attention on this year’s summit in the oil-rich Middle Eastern emirate.

Just ahead of COP28, Canada forged a “Green Alliance” with the European Union, signifying a commitment to spread carbon pricing schemes globally.

The alliance includes a pledge by Ottawa to triple its renewable energy sources and double energy efficiency by 2030.

The “Green Alliance” emphasizes the role of carbon taxes as “one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010069 (011959ZDEC23) Notable: Feds could subsidize half of Canadian journalist salaries following Google agreement

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Feds could subsidize half of Canadian journalist salaries following Google agreement

https://tnc.news/2023/12/01/feds-subsidize-journalist-salaries-google-agreement/

The announcement of a deal struck between the Trudeau government and Google over Bill C-18, seeing the tech giant pay out $100 million to Canadian news outlets brings about a flurry of concerns regarding how that money will be divvied out.

Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act, was first passed in June 2023 and mandates that tech giants like Google and Meta compensate Canadian news outlets for news content posted on their platforms.

Initially, Google responded to the legislation by threatening to remove all news content and links from their platforms as a way to opt out of the payment, giving the Trudeau government a deadline of Dec. 19 to propose a better deal.

On Wednesday, they announced an agreement that would see Google pay out $100 million to media outlets annually.

Meta however, removed all news links and content several months ago and have stuck to their guns in their resolve to not comply with Bill C-18.

With the Google deal now finalized, many wonder how the outlets and which ones will receive funding under the new agreement.

“We’re pretty close, by my estimation, to a 50 percent wage subsidy on journalist salaries up to $85,000 per year,” said Rudyard Griffiths, executive director of the Hub. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010250 (012041ZDEC23) Notable: Children suffering from learning loss due to pandemic-era school closures

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Children suffering from learning loss due to pandemic-era school closures

https://tnc.news/2023/12/01/children-suffering-learning-loss-pandemic-school-closures/

A new report has found that the pandemic-era policies of shutting down schools for extended periods of time are having long-term impacts on children who are now suffering from learning loss.

The report from faith-oriented thinktank Cardus, titled Pandemic Fallout lays the blame for the “substantial learning deficit” on the pandemic-era policy approach towards school closures and educational authorities and experts’ focus on pursuing a “build back better” narrative.

As a result, Canadian children fell behind on their learning, especially students with special education needs, those in struggling and marginalised communities, and at-risk children.

Across Canada, provincial health authorities ordered the closure of schools for extended periods of time – the longest being Ontario’s school closures for some 20 weeks from March 14, 2020 to May 15, 2021.

The school closures resulted in an estimated 200,000 children not attending any schooling at all during the height of the pandemic, according to policy analyst Irvin Studin. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010343 (012108ZDEC23) Notable: Ottawa wants to pass Bill C-21 in the 'coming weeks,' ban ‘high capacity’ firearm chargers

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Ottawa wants to pass Bill C-21 in the 'coming weeks,' ban ‘high capacity’ firearm chargers

https://www.rebelnews.com/ottawa_wants_to_pass_bill_c-21_in_the_coming_weeks_ban_high_capacity_firearm_chargers

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said gun manufacturers should no longer be able to sell modifiable chargers that hold up to 30 bullets. He also wants to pass Bill C-21 'in the coming weeks.'

Gun control remains a top priority for Public Safety Canada, with a ban on high-capacity firearms chargers expected in the future.

In an interview with La Presse, Minister Dominic LeBlanc said gun manufacturers should no longer be able to sell chargers to Canadians that can be modified to hold 20 and 30 bullets.

"We will also apply obligations to arms manufacturers to ensure that we cannot easily alter a high-capacity charger,” he told the publication.

Under the Criminal Code, it is strictly forbidden for civilians to possess a magazine of more than five cartridges for most semi-automatic long weapons. However, the current regulation allows manufacturers to sell magazines designed to hold 20 or 30 bullets, provided they limit their capacity to five bullets.

Richard Bain, who gunned down one person at a Québec nightclub in September 2012, altered the weapon used in the shooting to include a modifiable charger that holds 30 bullets.

“People who find it funny to go to their basement, with a screwdriver, to alter a charger, will face significant criminal penalties,” noted LeBlanc. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010410 (012121ZDEC23) Notable: Anti-Israel protesters block railway for Palestine, police on scene

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BREAKING: Anti-Israel protesters block railway for Palestine, police on scene

https://www.rebelnews.com/breaking_anti_israel_protesters_block_railway_for_palestine_police_on_scene

According to Alexa Lavoie, the police have not yet intervened with the protesters and are currently preventing her from reporting on the situation.

Alexa Lavoie is reporting live from the scene in Montreal, Quebec, where anti-Israeli protesters appear to be blocking railway lines in support of Palestine.

Lavoie is currently facing obstacles reporting on the ongoing events as the police are restricting her coverage.

UPDATES:

Anti-Israel activists who blocked the CN train rail in Montreal resisted arrest! They tried to escape but were caught, handcuffed, and arrested.

Montreal police are detaining an anti-Israel protester who was allegedly blocking the railway.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010492 (012146ZDEC23) Notable: Former RCMP official investigated for alleged theft of sensitive intelligence to China

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Former RCMP official investigated for alleged theft of sensitive intelligence to China

https://www.rebelnews.com/former_rcmp_official_investigated_for_alleged_theft_of_sensitive_intelligence_to_china

The investigation was sparked by the discovery of approximately 500 national security records in Ortis' Ottawa apartment, including 100 'Gamma Special Intelligence' documents from the Five Eyes network. These documents are of such high sensitivity that access is limited even among intelligence officials of Canada’s closest allies.

Cameron Ortis, a former high-ranking official with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), is under investigation for allegedly stealing and processing highly classified intelligence documents from the United States, potentially valuable to Beijing.

According to a report by The Bureau, this development comes after Ortis' release on bail in October 2019, raising concerns among the RCMP about the risk of foreign entities facilitating his escape from Canadian legal jurisdiction.

The investigation was sparked by the discovery of approximately 500 national security records in Ortis' Ottawa apartment, including 100 "Gamma Special Intelligence" documents from the Five Eyes network. These documents are of such high sensitivity that access is limited even among intelligence officials of Canada’s closest allies.

Ortis is accused of preparing some of these records for a meeting, with handwritten notes suggesting potential contact with an individual in Ottawa. His meticulous planning was evident in his "To Do" lists, which played a crucial role in securing his conviction.

The RCMP investigation report, now unsealed, highlights the severe risk posed by the disclosure of these documents, including jeopardizing the lives of human intelligence sources and exposing sensitive intelligence-gathering methods.

The court documents reveal that Ortis had also illegally collected files from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). The Crown's report underscores the potential for foreign intelligence agencies to draw significant conclusions about Canadian and allied intelligence targets from these documents.

Ortis' actions have been characterized as an asset risk by Crown prosecutor Judy Kliewer. Despite his arrest, many of Ortis' encrypted devices remain inaccessible to the police, containing evidence of his "Project" spanning from 2015 to 2019.

The sensitivity of the information involved led to the dropping of charges related to Ortis' plans to share documents at a pub in Ottawa in September 2019. This decision suggests that the potential damage to Canada's national interest outweighed the benefits of submitting these records as evidence in court.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010512 (012151ZDEC23) Notable: Trudeau Liberals are ‘happy to defend’ the CBC from Conservative critics

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Trudeau Liberals are ‘happy to defend’ the CBC from Conservative critics

https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_liberals_are_happy_to_defend_the_cbc_from_conservative_critics

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said she is 'happy' to defend the CBC from their Conservative critics, notably Pierre Poilievre, who proposed $1 billion in cuts to CBC-TV English language services. 'The CBC frankly is a biased propaganda arm of the Liberal Party,' he told reporters earlier.

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge told the Commons heritage committee Thursday she is 'happy' to defend the CBC from Conservative critics, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.

"Our national broadcaster is affected by a current crisis," she said. "Their revenues are affected. Their income is affected. This is without even including the impact of continuous attacks by the Conservative Party."

"They are defending themselves from that and I am happy to help them do that," said St-Onge. "I am proud to do so."

While the minister did not outline what steps she took to help the network, its largest source of revenue includes a $1.3 billion annual parliamentary grant.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has proposed $1 billion in cuts to CBC-TV English language services. "The CBC frankly is a biased propaganda arm of the Liberal Party," he told reporters last April 13.

A Canadian Press reporter asked him if he would change the Broadcasting Act to defund the English-language CBC. He pivoted, calling them the state broadcaster's "biggest client."

"I just want to be careful that we don't get you into a conflict of interest here," said the Tory leader. The Canadian Press is a wire service which prominent Canadian publications like the CBC and The Globe and Mail pay into. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010593 (012208ZDEC23) Notable: Hypocrisy: COP28 set to break carbon emissions records amid surge in attendee turnout

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Hypocrisy: COP28 set to break carbon emissions records amid surge in attendee turnout

https://www.rebelnews.com/hypocrisy_cop28_set_to_break_carbon_emissions_records_amid_surge_in_attendee_turnout

The event, scheduled from November 30 to December 12, anticipates around 400,000 visitors, including 97,000 individuals who have registered as official delegates and will have access to the 'Blue Zone' reserved for accredited government representatives and corporate entities. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010641 (012217ZDEC23) Notable: King of Jordan says Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza has a heavy climate impact

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King of Jordan says Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza has a heavy climate impact

https://www.rebelnews.com/king_of_jordan_says_israel_hamas_conflict_in_gaza_has_a_heavy_climate_impact

In Gaza, over 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. Tens of thousands have been injured or killed in a region already on the front lines of climate change,' King Abdullah II told the audience. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20010805 (012246ZDEC23) Notable: MPs ask CBSA ‘32 times’ to identify recipient of ArriveCAN contract

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MPs ask CBSA ‘32 times’ to identify recipient of ArriveCAN contract

https://www.rebelnews.com/mps_ask_cbsa_32_times_to_identify_recipient_of_arrivecan_contract

Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos declined 32 times to answer who awarded GC Strategies $11.2 million to subcontract IT work on the ArriveCan app.

CBSA Officials refused to tell MPs Tuesday which company they awarded the ArriveCan contract — despite being asked 32 times.

"Nobody wants to take responsibility," said Conservative MP Garnett Genuis on the government operations committee.

In October 2022, GCStrategies received more than $8.9 million to work on the ArriveCan app, a costly pandemic tool that tracked traveler vaccination status.

Coradix and Dalian Enterprises received a combined $4.3 million, while the GC Strategies sum grew to $11.2 million. Each company is now subject to an RCMP investigation following a whistleblower complaint.

As reported extensively by The Globe and Mail, Botler co-founders Ritika Dutt and Amir Morv learned that GC Strategies, Dalian and Coradix collected extensive commissions, used personal information without consent and exaggerated their work experience.

Kristian Firth, managing partner of GC Strategies, told a Parliamentary committee last year that he and his business partner, Darren Anthony hired subcontractors to work on the app. They collected between 30% of contract values or $2.7 million without performing any IT work from their private home office.

Botler, which worked on a pilot project for detecting sexual harassment, said the funding came from a larger $21.2 million contract for “general services” that CBSA also used to outsource work for the $55 million ArriveCan app.

On November 28, Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos declined 32 times to answer who awarded the company the sweetheart contract, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.

"Who is responsible for the decision?" asked Genuis. He replied: "Well I can provide information on what ArriveCan did."

"No that’s not what the question is, Minister," repeated Genuis. "The question is who’s responsible for the decision?"

"Your title is Minister of Public Services and Procurement and you’re telling us you’re not responsible for procurement and you don’t know who is," he continued. "I am left wondering, what is it that you do?"

Conservative MP Larry Brock, bewildered over the contract to GC Strategies, said the two-person company works out of their basement and merely did a simple Google search to find IT professionals.

"Canadians want a straight answer from this government," he said, noting that senior bureaucrats are not being forthwith on the contract.

"Who was responsible?" repeated Brock. "We are there to help," replied Duclos. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20011257 (020004ZDEC23) Notable: Canadian university’s ‘Bug Bake Off’ promotes eating insects as ‘beneficial to the environment’

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Canadian university’s ‘Bug Bake Off’ promotes eating insects as ‘beneficial to the environment’

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-universitys-bug-bake-off-promotes-eating-insects-as-beneficial-to-the-environment/

'One of my goals is to reduce the negative perceptions people may have of eating bugs,' University of British Columbia course instructor and entomologist Yasmin Akhtar said.

On November 28, legacy media journalists gathered at the University of British Columbia’s “Bug Bake Off” to taste insects cooked by UBC students as part of an initiative to promote insects as an alternative food source.

“One of my goals is to reduce the negative perceptions people may have of eating bugs,” course instructor and entomologist Yasmin Akhtar said.

He added that the competition aimed to “raise awareness among students about the nutritional value of insects, their role in sustainable food systems and the importance of considering alternative protein sources.”

“In addition to being really tasty, there are two main benefits of eating insects,” Akhtar said, claiming that insects are “incredibly nutritious” and beneficial to the environment.

“They produce much lower greenhouse gas emissions than cattle or pigs, for example. It also encourages the sustainable use of diverse insect species, rather than relying on a small number of traditional livestock species to meet the world’s needs,” he continued. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20011283 (020009ZDEC23) Notable: Disney’s new Christmas movie features homosexual parents, dialogue

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Disney’s new Christmas movie features homosexual parents, dialogue

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/disneys-new-christmas-movie-features-homosexual-parents-dialogue/

Disney's new film 'The Naughty Nine' features a family headed by two 'dads' and contains sexually charged dialogue between young male characters.

With the release of its latest original movie, Disney is once again promoting the LGBT agenda, this time in the form of a Christmas film geared towards kids.

“The Naughty Nine” was released on November 22 on the Disney Channel and follows nine kids who, after finding themselves on Santa’s naughty list one holiday, set out to the North Pole to take back the presents they weren’t given on Christmas morning.

The movie takes inspiration from the decades-old classic “Ocean’s Eleven,” the 2001 remake of which was wildly popular with an all-star cast that portrayed a group of conmen who use their respective skills to perform an intricate heist at several casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“The Naughty Nine,” however, expands the storyline to include references to homosexuality between both grown men and underage boys. According to a review by The Federalist features editor Eleanor Bartow, the female protagonist is part of a family with five children who are raised by two “dads,” with no mother figure. This is first insinuated barely more than 10 minutes into the film, when the family is opening gifts on Christmas morning.

Shortly after, a boy named Jon is selling clothes he designed refers to another male as a “hottie.” Later, the same character describes the lead male protagonist as “cute.” While the age of Jon is unclear, Bartow pointed out that he “is using sexually charged language with a fifth-grader.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20011546 (020102ZDEC23) Notable: Both ‘unspecified’ and COVID deaths skyrocketed in Canada after mass vaccination

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Both ‘unspecified’ and COVID deaths skyrocketed in Canada after mass vaccination

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/both-unspecified-and-covid-deaths-skyrocketed-in-canada-after-mass-vaccination/

'These numbers should be front-page news,' PPC leader Maxime Bernier reacted. 'We were bombarded daily with data about deaths during three years. But the lying media are completely ignoring it.'

A newly released government report shows that deaths from both COVID-19 and “unspecified causes” surged following the release of the so-called “safe and effective” vaccines.

On November 29, People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, citing a November 27 report by Statistics Canada, pointed out that deaths from COVID increased in 2022, after the COVID vaccine was introduced, while deaths due to “unspecified” causes also skyrocketed.

“Not only were there more official COVID deaths in 2022 than in 2021 and 2020 despite the fact that 85% of Canadians had by then received a supposedly ‘safe and effective’ vaccine,” Beriner wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“But the number of deaths due to ‘Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality’ skyrocketed from 3,378 in 2019 to 9,471 in 2021 and to 16,043 in 2022!” he added.

“What happened in 2021 that could have caused this explosion of unexplained deaths??” he questioned.

“These numbers should be front-page news,” Bernier said. “We were bombarded daily with data about deaths during three years. But the lying media are completely ignoring it.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20013823 (021510ZDEC23) Notable: Self-Amplifying RNA Shots Are Coming: The Untold Danger

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Self-Amplifying RNA Shots Are Coming: The Untold Danger

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/self-amplifying-rna-shots-are-coming-untold-danger

The next generation of RNA-based injections will contain self-amplifying RNA (saRNA). If the term “self-amplifying RNA” sounds frightening, it should. It likely brings to mind images of scientific experiments run amok.

As discussed in a previous article, “mRNA vaccines” are not made with messenger RNA but with modified RNA (modRNA). These so-called vaccines are actually gene therapy products (GTPs), as modRNA hijacks our cells’ software. We have no possibility at all to gain influence on modRNA (or saRNA) after it has been injected.

What Distinguishes saRNA From modRNA? Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20013898 (021528ZDEC23) Notable: Venezuela Votes in a Referendum Asking Whether They Should Invade Neighbor Guyana and Occupy 74% Of Its Territory (video)

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POWDER KEG AMERICA: Venezuela Votes in a Referendum Asking Whether They Should Invade Neighbor Guyana and Occupy 74% Of Its Territory!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/powder-keg-america-venezuela-votes-referendum-asking-whether/

All over the world, old borders and treaties are back in play.

South America is tense as Venezuela flexes its political and military muscles to try and solve its territorial dispute most favorably, with the annexation of no less than 74% of neighboring Guyana’s territory.

Miami Herald reported:

“Venezuelans going to the polls Sunday will be asked to answer an unusually provocative question: Should their government be given a blank check to invade neighboring Guyana, and wrest away three-quarters of its oil-rich territory?”

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro is putting the question before voters, raising tensions in the region and threatening to escalate into a kinetic war.

“The question will be on the ballot in a five-part referendum that, among other things, would grant Maduro special powers to invade Guyana and create a new Venezuelan state encompassing 74% of English-speaking Guyana’s current landmass. The new area would be called Guayana Esequiba.”

Some see it as a mere political ploy, though many Guyanese citizens see the threat as real and fear the loss of their identity and citizenship. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014321 (021701ZDEC23) Notable: Soros Jr. Secures Reported Chemical Waste Agreement With Ukraine — Journalist

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Soros Jr. Secures Reported Chemical Waste Agreement With Ukraine — Journalist

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231202/soros-jr-secures-reported-chemical-waste-agreement-with-ukraine-journalist-1115342178.html

The deal will purportedly see Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, Evonik Industries, Vitol and Sanofi burying hazardous waste in the European country free of charge.

Alexander Soros, the son of controversial American financier George Soros, has reached an agreement with Ukrainian authorities to allocate 400 square kilometers of land for the disposal of hazardous waste, according to an investigation by French journalist Jules Vincent.

Materials published by Vincent on the X (formerly Twitter) indicate he was approached by an anonymous source from Kiev's Ministry of Agriculture.

The source revealed that the agreement was reached during a meeting on November 7 between Soros Jr. and the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak. Under the terms of the agreement, Ukraine will transfer land to American companies for the burial of hazardous waste from chemical, pharmaceutical and oil companies for an indefinite period of time and free of charge. The companies include Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, Evonik Industries, Vitol and Sanofi.

Vincent published a document signed by the parties with a statement to that effect. It states that Soros "intends to ensure reliable communication between Zelensky's office and the representatives of the said companies."

According to the source, the land in question is located in the Ternopol, Khmelnitsky, and Chernovitsky regions - fertile black soil farming areas in the western part of Ukraine. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014380 (021711ZDEC23) Notable: Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’

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Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/12/elon-musk-warns-a-i-could-create-an-immortal-dictator-from-which-we-can-never-escape-2/

Superintelligence — a form of artificial intelligence (AI) smarter than humans — could create an “immortal dictator,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk warned.

In a documentary by American filmmaker Chris Paine, Musk said that the development of superintelligence by a company or other organization of people could result in a form of AI that governs the world.

“The least scary future I can think of is one where we have at least democratized AI because if one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world,” Musk said.

“At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”

The documentary by Paine examines a number of examples of AI, including autonomous weapons, Wall Street technology and algorithms driving fake news. It also draws from cultural examples of AI, such as the 1999 film “The Matrix” and 2016 film “Ex Machina.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014465 (021731ZDEC23) Notable: Canada paid highest prices in the world for COVID vaccines: professor

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Canada paid highest prices in the world for COVID vaccines: professor

https://tnc.news/2023/12/02/canada-vaccines-covid/

A University of British Columbia neurology professor is writing a book about the widespread misuse of science during the period of pandemic hysteria and estimates that Canadians paid the highest prices in the world for Covid-19 vaccines at $38 per Pfizer dose.

Comparatively, the US and Europe paid about $22-$23 a shot.

Prof. Steven Pelech, author and editor of the forthcoming book Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole: Independent Scientists and Physicians Unmask the Pandemic, alongside Christopher Shaw, offered a preview of the volume’s contents at a Nov. 26 speaking event.

“The impression that one would get from the popular media is that this was a lethal virus that had a lethality rate even as high as 20% in the elderly,” Pelech said during his presentation.

“The average lethality rate was 4-5%. It was complete nonsense. What we now know is that, three and a half years plus into the pandemic, if you are under 65 and infected with the virus, the chances of dying is actually probably in the order of 0.3%.”

According to Pelech, people who had Covid-19 died of an average age of 84 in British Columbia, whereas the province’s average age of death is 82.

“The threat wasn’t there from the virus,” he said.

“Unfortunately for most of us the threat was actually from the cure – the vaccine.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014573 (021809ZDEC23) Notable: Quebec’s Bill 15 amendment threatens English healthcare services

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Quebec’s Bill 15 amendment threatens English healthcare services

https://tnc.news/2023/12/02/quebec-bill15-healthcare/

Anglophone Canadians might have a harder time accessing healthcare in Quebec, should the provincial government’s amendments to Bill 15 pass.

Bill 15 is healthcare reform legislation, spanning over 300 pages with more than 1,110 clauses, designed to modify approximately 36 laws and overhaul Quebec’s healthcare system.

Health Minister Christian Dubé’s proposal enables the provincial government’s new health agency, Santé Québec, to withdraw the right of healthcare institutions to offer services in English if the English-speaking population in their area falls below 50%. Opponents of the amendment argue that it threatens Canada’s bilingualism.

Liberal health and social services critic André Fortin raised issues at the legislature committee studying Bill 15.

“The problem with (the amendment) is a government so inclined to take away English services could do it unilaterally,” he said.

Approximately 50 health and social service institutions throughout Quebec are eligible to provide services in languages other than French, as permitted by the Charter of the French Language, based on demographic requirements.

The province wants to give Santé Québec the ability to revoke the right to offer such services in areas where the minority communities have shrunk below 50%. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014925 (021931ZDEC23) Notable: Trudeau-funded media demands pro sports boycott Elon Musk’s X

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Trudeau-funded media demands pro sports boycott Elon Musk’s X

https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-funded-media-demands-pro-sports-boycott-elon-musks-x

Hockey conversation on X "is often more entertaining than the games themselves."

On Saturday, Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail, which received a government subsidy in 2019, suggested that due to the "growing toxicity" on the social media platform X, professional sports leagues should cut ties with the platform.

In the article, The Globe explains how the Sportsnet account has been posting hockey clips as memes and that the hockey conversation on X "is often more entertaining than the games themselves."

However, it claims that X owner Elon Musk "torched what little brand value remains of the service he bought only 13 months" when he told advertisers to "f*ck off" earlier this week. The Globe says that the organizations should join the advertiser boycott that was sparked after a Media Matters hit piece about Musk was published.

The Globe argued that because sports contracts have a "morality clause" and organizations use the platform to support social causes "It’s hard to understand why any of them would want to continue engaging with Musk’s capriciousness and his broken platform."

According to True North, The Globe and Mail was one of several news organizations that received money from the Canadian government's $595 million subsidy program for media organizations in 2019. The outlet also reports that The Globe received $2 million worth of untendered contracts from the federal government.

The Globe publisher Phillip Crawley was again asking for more assistance in May 2020 due to a forecasted 32 percent drop in print advertising. He said, "That’s many millions of dollars of high-margin revenue, and we won’t be the biggest victims in Canada.”

Of the assistance received from the government, Crawley said, "This is welcome and substantial assistance from the government, but let’s be clear: the long-term outlook for The Globe and many others has darkened because of the pandemic." He added, "Print advertising revenue, once the backbone of newspapers, will go into accelerated decline.”

In an interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, Musk sent a message to the number of advertisers that are banding together to "blackmail" X, telling them, "Go f*ck yourself" and to not advertise on the platform.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20014945 (021936ZDEC23) Notable: Canadian cancer patient told condition untreatable, doctors offer government-assisted suicide—she gets life-saving surgery in the US

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Canadian cancer patient told condition untreatable, doctors offer government-assisted suicide—she gets life-saving surgery in the US

https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-cancer-patient-told-condition-untreatable-doctors-offer-government-assisted-suicide-she-gets-life-saving-surgery-in-the-us

“How can you prioritize cases so that people with aggressive stage four cancer get seen by someone and when they do get seen, they get offered treatment and not MAiD like I was the first time?”

A Victoria, BC woman with abdominal cancer had to go to the United States for a life-saving operation because wait times in Canada are so long.

Allison Ducluzeau told Global News that after being diagnosed with cancer she was told she was eligible for Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program before any significant medical assistance was offered.

She began feeling pain in her abdomen in early November 2022, had some tests done and waited for an appointment with her family doctor. Then she collapsed.

“In November, I ended up at emergency because the pain was just getting progressively worse,” she told Global. “I didn’t get to sleep one night and I woke up my now husband and said, I think we better go to emergency. So we did. And when I was there, I got a CT scan or I was booked for one the next day and the results of the CT scan indicated it looked like it might be something called peritoneal carcinomatosis, which is abdominal cancer.”

Only after further tests revealed she had stage 4 cancer, did her doctor refer Ducluzeau to the BC Cancer Agency. A consulting surgeon with the agency told her she wasn't a candidate for surgery, despite her family doctor stating that a HIPEC procedure, in which chemotherapy doses are delivered into the abdomen, was what is usually done to treat this type of cancer.

"Chemotherapy is not very effective with this type of cancer,” Ducluzeau said the surgeon told her. “It only works in about 50 percent of the cases to slow it down. And you have a life span of what looks like to be two months to two years. And I suggest you talk to your family, get your affairs in order, talk to them about your wishes, which was indicating, you know, whether you want to have medically assisted dying or not.”

Ducluzeau got another opinion, in which the doctor confirmed HIPEC was the procedure she needed, and sought treatment in the US. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20015538 (022144ZDEC23) Notable: 'We need to reclaim our democracies': Christine Anderson, Eva Vlaardingerbroek urge Canadians to fight globalism

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'We need to reclaim our democracies': Christine Anderson, Eva Vlaardingerbroek urge Canadians to fight globalism

https://thepostmillennial.com/we-need-to-reclaim-our-democracies-christine-anderson-eva-vlaardingerbroek-urge-canadians-to-fight-globalism

"This whole tour has been about making it my business. It's also about getting involved in your municipality, at the local level, the school boards … we need to reclaim our democracies."

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Christine Anderson was in Ottawa Wednesday night to tell a full house at the Preston Event Centre that Canadians need to “reclaim their democracy.”

Anderson is visiting several cities in Canada and the US part of her “Make it Your Business North American Tour.” She was joined in Ottawa by Dutch lawyer and political pundit Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Other speakers included a pastor, a municipal councilor and a journalist.

Anderson told The Post Millennial that she was “very happy to be back in Canada and meeting with so many people who love freedom and want to work to preserve their freedom.”

The MEP became a hero to supporters of the Freedom Convoy when she castigated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for snuffing out protests against his Covid-19 mandates and lockdowns with the Emergencies Act – which effectively installed martial law in sections of Canada.

"Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy," she told the European Parliament in March 2022.

Anderson scathingly dismissed Trudeau for lecturing Europeans about democratic values, saying he acted like a dictator, crushed civil dissent and treated truckers like “terrorists.”

Freedom Convoy personality Chris Barber, who, along with Tamara Lich, is facing charges of mischief and counseling to commit mischief in an Ottawa courthouse, attended the speech along with about 1,500 people. Several speakers recognized Barber as a “Canadian hero.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019158 (031531ZDEC23) Notable: Bloc Québécois bill seeks to eliminate religious belief as a defense against ‘hate speech’

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Bloc Québécois bill seeks to eliminate religious belief as a defense against ‘hate speech’

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bloc-quebecois-bill-seeks-to-eliminate-religious-belief-as-a-defense-against-hate-speech/

'This Bloc Quebecois bill is just a Trojan Horse to enable future pogroms against Christians and any religious believer from other faiths who publicly disagree with LGBT ideology,' reacted Campaign Life Coalition's Jack Fonseca.

The Bloc Québécois party is citing growing tensions in Canada as a reason to remove religion as a defense against “hate speech” charges in a newly tabled federal bill.

On November 28, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet tabled Bill C-367 which aims to eliminate the provisions for religion to be used as a defense against “hate speech” charges, alleging that the change is necessary given the rise in “antisemitic” attacks in Canada since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in early October.

“We can fear that these acts were encouraged by an exception in the Criminal Code,” Blanchet told the House of Commons.

The bill would amend “the Criminal Code to eliminate as a defense against wilful promotion of hatred or antisemitism the fact that a person, in good faith, expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to the bill saying, “We will be looking at my honorable colleague’s bill to see whether it can help combat hate and incitement of violence. This is a complex issue, but we are here to work constructively to protect Canadians.”

Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews, “I fear this bill is not at all about protecting Jews from violence. I believe its real purpose is to allow Christians to be charged with hate speech in the future, for expressing peaceful Biblical beliefs about homosexuality and transgenderism.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019421 (031646ZDEC23) Notable: Philippines Bans Smartmatic Voting Machines from Country’s Elections to ‘Safeguard Integrity of Elections’

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Philippines Bans Smartmatic Voting Machines from Country’s Elections to ‘Safeguard Integrity of Elections’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/foreign-country-bans-smartmatic-voting-machines-firm-safeguard/

The Philippine Commission on Elections has banned Smartmatic Philippines Inc. from the nation’s elections, ending 13 years of the company being the main provider of election technology to the nation.

The decision revolved around allegations of bribery that claim commission chairman Andres Bautista was paid off to ensure Smartmatic won the contract for the 2016 elections, according to the Philippine edition of CNN. Bautista has denied the allegations.

Although Smartmatic argued it has followed the rules, noting that there are nothing but allegations against it, the commission was unmoved. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019529 (031717ZDEC23) Notable: Russians Are Advancing ‘On All Sides’

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Russians Are Advancing ‘On All Sides’! Watch: Victory Banner Flies Over Maryinka – Missiles at Tunnels Under Coke Plant in Avdiivka – Su-25 Aircraft Blasted by Lancet Drone

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/russians-are-advancing-all-sides-watch-victory-banner/

The Mainstream Media in the west continues with their (for them) painful work of realigning the public’s expectations in face of the upcoming Russian victory in the war against Ukraine.

While today’s main theme was Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s assessment of the war, let’s just take a peek at a couple of developments.

For starters, look what a once-great magazine has belatedly understood:

The Economist reported:

“For the first time since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022, he looks as if he could win. Russia’s president has put his country on a war footing and strengthened his grip on power. He has procured military supplies abroad and is helping turn the global south against America. Crucially, he is undermining the conviction in the West that Ukraine can—and must—emerge from the war as a thriving European democracy.”

Ok, for the lads at The Economist, it’s ‘the first time’ they realize that. Let’s carry on.

WATCH: Guided missiles hit the Ukrainian defenders underground tunnels beneath the Coke plant in Avdiivka.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared that Ukraine will build defensive structures from Donbas to Western Ukraine.

There will be fortifications on the main defensive lines, including the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Kupyansk-Limansky directions – as well as along the borders with Russia and Belarus.

Zelensky and his generals: no sign of Zaluzhny.

Also vital to note: Ukraine’s Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny was conspicuously absent when Volodymyr Zelensky met with army commanders yesterday. The undeclared civil war is on.

Sputnik reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019669 (031758ZDEC23) Notable: NATO Chief: West Should Brace For More 'Bad News' From Ukraine

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NATO Chief: West Should Brace For More 'Bad News' From Ukraine

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-chief-says-west-should-brace-more-bad-news-ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a fresh interview warned the Western alliance to brace for more "bad news" from Ukraine, according to Saturday remarks given to Germany's national ARD television.

He was asked whether he thinks the situation will worsen for Ukrainian forces in the future, after the counteroffensive has been widely acknowledged as a failure. "We should also be prepared for bad news," he responded. "Wars develop in phases. But we have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times."

He said that in response to the current "critical situation" the West must boost ammunition production. "I will leave it to the Ukrainians and military commanders to make these difficult operational decisions," Stoltenberg explained.

"One of the issues we should address is the fragmentation of the European defense industry," he said. Countries have gone from being enthusiastic supporters and donors of Ukraine's cause to more lately sounding the alarm over dwindling or tapped defense stockpiles, as ammo production also can't keep up.

A week ago, a German official raised eyebrows by speculating that if Germany was forced to enter a major war its troops would only last "two days in battle" due to severe shortages of defense supplied and ammunition as a result of giving them to Ukraine. Below are the German politician's words, according to a translation: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019860 (031848ZDEC23) Notable: King Charles Delivers Highly-Politicised Speech To Support Collectivist Net Zero Project

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King Charles Delivers Highly-Politicised Speech To Support Collectivist Net Zero Project

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/king-charles-delivers-highly-politicised-speech-support-collectivist-net-zero-project

It could have been worse. King Charles could have ascended to his desert dais and pronounced that we had just 96 months to avert “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse”. But that was the Right Charlie back in 2009, giving us the benefit of his sandwich-board scientific wisdom. These days it is all fashionable bad weather and undefined “tipping points”. The man is now King, and at COP28 he threw away his irksome politically-neutral constitutional role, wrapped himself in Guardianista pseudoscience, and punched down hard on the poor who will be forced to pay for the collectivist madness that is the Net Zero project. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019902 (031901ZDEC23) Notable: Israeli AI 'Assassination Factory' Plays Central Role In Gaza War

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Israeli AI 'Assassination Factory' Plays Central Role In Gaza War

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-ai-assassination-factory-plays-central-role-gaza-war

Tel Aviv has been relying on an AI Program dubbed "the Gospel" to select targets in Gaza at a rapid pace. In past operations in Gaza, the IDF ran out of targets to strike in the besieged enclave.

A statement on the IDF website says the Israeli military is using the Gospel to "produce targets at a fast pace." It continues, "Through the rapid and automatic extraction of intelligence," the Gospel produced targeting recommendations for its researchers "with the goal of a complete match between the recommendation of the machine and the identification carried out by a person."

Aviv Kochavi, former head of the IDF, said the system was first used in the May 2021 bombing campaign in Gaza. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year,” he said. “Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”

The IDF does not disclose what it inputs into the Gospel for the program to produce a list of targets.

Thursday, the Israeli outlet +972 Magazine reported Tel Aviv was using AI to pick targets in Gaza. A former Israeli official told the +972 that the Gospel was being used as a “mass assassination factory.” The program is selecting the home of suspected low-level Hamas members for destruction. Sources told the outlet that strikes on homes can kill numerous civilians. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019964 (031919ZDEC23) Notable: Canada unveils 9-8-8, an around-the-clock suicide prevention hotline

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Canada unveils 9-8-8, an around-the-clock suicide prevention hotline

https://tnc.news/2023/12/03/canada-988-suicide-prevention-hotline/

The Government of Canada has announced the launch of 9-8-8, a new three-digit suicide crisis helpline.

The helpline is now available to call or text 24/7 in French or English for those in urgent need.

The Government of Canada has provided $156 million to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) over three years to implement and operate 9-8-8. Experienced partners and trained responders are standing by, ready to answer calls and texts to 9-8-8.

“Responders will provide support and compassion without judgment. They are here to help callers and texters explore ways to keep themselves safe when things are overwhelming,” wrote the Government of Canada in its news release.

The launch of the hotline comes after a Conservative motion three years ago by MP Todd Doherty, who lost his best friend to suicide.

“Every day in Canada there are approximately twelve people who die by suicide,” Doherty said. “Often, they have nowhere to turn, no one to talk to and no way of getting help. With the implementation of 9-8-8, we have one more tool in the toolbox to make sure people have access to trained professionals.”

The new three-digit line replaces the 10-digital national number, Talk Suicide, which had been in place for several years. Talk Suicide Canada was about a quarter of the size of 9-8-8 in terms of coverage across the country. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20019991 (031926ZDEC23) Notable: Rate of international students seeking asylum in Canada has more than doubled since 2018

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Rate of international students seeking asylum in Canada has more than doubled since 2018

https://tnc.news/2023/12/03/international-students-asylum/

International students seeking asylum in Canada has become an explosive trend, with the number more than doubling over the last five years.

Government data obtained under an access to information request by the Toronto Star has revealed that the number of refugee claims made by international students is 2.7 times higher than the amount of claims in 2018.

Last year, there were 4,880 cases and in 2018, there were only 1,835.

Additionally, the amount of international students coming to Canada has shot up by 1.4 times the amount over the same time period from 567,065 in 2018 to 807,750 in 2022.

Since 2018, a total of 15,935 international students have filed a refugee claim in Canada.

Between 2018 and 2022, the annual rate of international students seeking asylum doubled from 0.3% to 0.6%, despite the fact that less than 1% ended up seeking protection in Canada. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20020103 (031957ZDEC23) Notable: Bonnie Crombie wins Ontario Liberal leadership race

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Bonnie Crombie wins Ontario Liberal leadership race

https://tnc.news/2023/12/03/combie-wins-ontario-liberals/

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie has won the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.

In an election using the ranked choice voting system, Crombie narrowly beat out Beaches—East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith on the third and last ballot, 53.4% to 46.6%.

Crombie campaigned on being a consensus candidate, appealing to centrist Liberals who would like to see the party moderate.

In an interview with TVO, Crombie told Ontarians that the Ontario Liberals had moved too far to the left under the leadership of Kathleen Wynne and Steven Del Duca, claiming that she would like to govern the province from “right of centre.”

“I think the Liberal party moved much too far to the left,” said Crombie.

“I think traditionally our roots are in the centre. I believe we govern from right of centre.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20020127 (032003ZDEC23) Notable: Canada's homicide rate has increased for the fourth year in a row

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Canada's homicide rate has increased for the fourth year in a row

https://www.rebelnews.com/_canada_s_homicide_rate_has_increased_for_the_fourth_year_in_a_row

Among the provinces, Manitoba had the highest homicide rate last year, followed by Saskatchewan and British Columbia, while Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest rates.

According to recently released Statistics Canada data, Canada’s homicide rate is at the highest level since 1992, as police-reported crime continues to surge under Trudeau.

According to the number crunchers at the agency, a total of 874 people were killed in 2022, a nearly nine per cent increase over 2021 data.

Among the provinces, Manitoba had the highest homicide rate last year, followed by Saskatchewan and British Columbia, while Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest rates.

Kids are getting more violent. Police reported 90 youths accused in 2022, compared with 33 the year before.

Indigenous people made up 27 percent of total homicide victims, while one-third 30 percent of the victims were identified as being "racialized people," something other than white.

While firearms-related homicides accounted for 41 percent of Canada’s homicides in 2022, similar to 2021 levels, it's not Jane and Joe Duck Hunter using their favorite, lawfully acquired hunting guns to murder anyone.

Gang violence is driving the homicide trend.

Gang-related homicides made up a quarter of homicides by 2022, what StatCan called "a large contributor to the overall national homicide increase" compared to 2021.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20020227 (032039ZDEC23) Notable: Edmonton spent millions on electric buses that are not roadworthy

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Edmonton spent millions on electric buses that are not roadworthy

https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_spent_millions_on_electric_buses_that_are_not_roadworthy

One Calgary city councillor has urged his colleagues to press pause on developing its own fleet.

The City of Edmonton has left taxpayers on the hook for a $60 million boondoggle in which three-quarters of their electric buses don’t work.

Although 6% of its 1,000-bus fleet is electric, most are inoperable with poor immediate prospects for parts to fix them, reported the Edmonton Journal.

“Parts are not available to properly run their buses […] it’s very problematic,” said Steve Bradshaw, president and business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569, which represents Edmonton workers in operations, maintenance and security.

He cites pandemic-induced closures by the company for the parts shortage.

To add insult to injury, Proterra, the American company the city purchased the electric buses from, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

As of writing, Edmonton is seeking $1.3 million and fulfillment of service and warranties for their fleet.

Courtesy of the stalled Edmonton pilot, one Calgary city councillor has urged his colleagues to press pause on developing its own fleet of electric buses.

“Regarding the City of Calgary’s plans to potentially purchase 259 electric buses […] perhaps we should wait and see how the Edmonton pilot went before we spend millions of taxpayer dollars,” said Ward 13 city councillor Dan McLean. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20023700 (041505ZDEC23) Notable: Commie Pope Calls for Elimination of Fossil Fuels in Historic Speech at Cop28 Conference

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Commie Pope Calls for Elimination of Fossil Fuels in Historic Speech at Cop28 Conference

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/commie-pope-calls-elimination-fossil-fuels-historic-cop28/

Pope Francis is a very dangerous man.

The first Communist pope called on the complete elimination of fossil fuels during his speech at the Cop28 Conference in Dubai.

Francis was too sick to deliver the speech so Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, delivered the speech to the conference.

It is widely known that ending fossil fuels would kill off a significant percentage of the world’s population. And every year nine times more people die from freezing than from heat-related causes.

Does the commie Pope Francis really support this?

The Daily Mail reported

Pope Francis has called for the elimination of fossil fuels in an historic speech to the UN climate conference Cop28 in Dubai.

He was suffering from a lung infection and was too unwell to deliver the speech, so it was given by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.

He said: ‘Destruction of the environment is an offence against God, a sin . . . that greatly endangers all human beings, especially the most vulnerable in our midst and threatens to unleash a conflict between generations.

‘Are we working for a culture of life or a culture of death? To all of you I make this heartfelt appeal: Let us choose life!’

The Pope also called for a ‘decisive acceleration’ in energy efficiency, renewable sources, eliminating fossil fuels and educating people to do without them.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20023844 (041538ZDEC23) Notable: Increasingly Authoritarian Zelensky Forbids Former President Poroshenko From Leaving Ukraine

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Defender of Democracy? Increasingly Authoritarian Zelensky Forbids Former President Poroshenko From Leaving Ukraine, Calls Him ‘A Tool in the Hands of the Russians’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/defender-democracy-increasingly-authoritarian-zelensky-forbids-former-president/

Ukraine turns into a tyranny before our eyes.

Imagine a leader who has banned the opposition parties, totally censored the press, canceled the elections, and now is indulging in paranoid behavior to keep former presidents from even leaving the country.

Stop imagining: that’s Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

It is indeed a bad joke to call him a “defender of democracy.”

We are now informed that former President Petro Poroshenko was denied permission to leave Ukraine.

Kiev regime’s authorities say he was heading to a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Associated Press reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20023952 (041605ZDEC23) Notable: 71-Year-Old Romanian Yoga Guru Arrested in France for Allegedly Running International Sex Cult

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71-Year-Old Romanian Yoga Guru Arrested in France for Allegedly Running International Sex Cult

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/71-year-old-romanian-yoga-guru-arrested-france/

A 71-year-old Romanian Tantric yoga guru and 14 others have been charged in France for crimes involving an alleged international sex cult.

Gregorian Bivolaru has been charged with human trafficking, sequestration or arbitrary detention of numerous people along with rape, and “abusing the weakness of a group” via psychological or physical subjection.

Bivolaru is also accused of being involved in the kidnapping of 26 women who were seeking spiritual guidance. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024027 (041623ZDEC23) Notable: Vegan Eco-Terrorists Outraged as Meat Lobbyists, Ranchers Descend on COP28 Climate Change Conference to Counter Attack on Meat Consumption

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Vegan Eco-Terrorists Outraged as Meat Lobbyists, Ranchers Descend on COP28 Climate Change Conference to Counter Attack on Meat Consumption

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/vegan-eco-terrorists-outraged-as-meat-lobbyists-ranchers/

A WEF article from 2016 says it all: “Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better”

Vegan eco-terrorists are outraged that meat lobbyists descended on the COP28 climate conference in Dubai to counter the attack on meat consumption in first-world countries.

The climate change zealots (Communists) are not only coming for your gas-powered vehicles, they want to destroy the cattle and farming industry under the guise of reducing carbon emissions with a ‘net zero plan.’

The ‘net zero plan’ will lead to famine. Of course, this is the plan and it isn’t the first time junk science will be used to starve millions (or billions) of people. The Soviet Union used Communist pseudo-scientist Trofim Lysenko to starve millions in the 20th century.

How To Join The "Secret Boycott" Patriots Are Using To Crush Woke Corporationsions that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO.” Bloomberg reported.

Meat lobbyists and ranchers are pushing back on the eco-terrorists at COP28.

The Guardian reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024141 (041704ZDEC23) Notable: Moderna Employs Former FBI Analyst, AI To Secretly Police COVID 'Vaccine Misinformation'

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Moderna Employs Former FBI Analyst, AI To Secretly Police COVID 'Vaccine Misinformation'

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/moderna-employs-former-fbi-analyst-ai-secretly-police-covid-vaccine-misinformation

Pharmaceutical giant Moderna is policing what it calls “vaccine misinformation” online through its disinformation department aimed at shutting down dissenting voices and anything that might undermine COVID-19-related policies, such as lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mass vaccination.

According to an exclusive report by investigative journalists Lee Fang and Jack Poulson published on Nov. 20 in UnHerd, Moderna isn’t just manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines; it has an entire team dedicated to monitoring a wide range of social media platforms, government agencies, and news websites in the name of addressing the “root cause of vaccine hesitancy” by identifying and “shutting down misinformation” that may negatively affect the vaccine debate.

The internal documents show a “sprawling effort to monitor basically everything said online, on social media, and in the news media about vaccine policy, COVID policy, about Moderna, and other vaccine companies,” Mr. Fang told The Hill.

Monitoring Team of Former FBI, Secret Service, and Pharma-Funded NGOs Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024265 (041744ZDEC23) Notable: DNA Sequence In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Could Spur New Lawsuits: Lawyers

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DNA Sequence In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Could Spur New Lawsuits: Lawyers

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/dna-sequence-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-could-spur-new-lawsuits-lawyers

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech could be open to lawsuits for including a DNA sequence in their COVID-19 vaccine.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, known as the PREP Act, largely shields COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits, but companies can be sued for "willful misconduct," which includes acts taken "intentionally to achieve a wrongful purpose."

"I think what we have here is willful misconduct," Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, told The Epoch Times.

The Pfizer-BioNTech, in testing by outside scientists, was discovered to contain a Simian Virus 40 (SV40) DNA sequence despite the public never being told about the sequence.

Regulators in Canada and Europe have since acknowledged that the companies did not highlight the sequence and that they should have, although regulatory submissions did show the full DNA sequence of the vaccine plasmid.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused to disclose whether the companies highlighted the sequence.

The FDA alleged no safety concerns have been identified from the residual DNA left behind by the SV40 sequence, though the agency provided no evidence on the matter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024365 (041809ZDEC23) Notable: ‘No science’ behind calls to phase out fossil fuels - COP28 president

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‘No science’ behind calls to phase out fossil fuels – COP28 president

https://www.rt.com/business/588426-no-science-fossil-fuels-reduction/

The UAE’s Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber reportedly says gradual cuts in oil, gas and coal use would 'take the world back into caves'

The president of the COP28 climate conference, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has cast great doubt over zero-emissions policies being pushed by the United Nations, claiming there is “no science” to show that stage-by-stage cuts in fossil fuel use would decrease global heating, the Guardian reported on Sunday.

The chair of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, now underway in Dubai, claimed that a gradual reduction in fossil fuel consumption would hold back sustainable development and drag humanity back to the Paleolithic period.

His comments, made in response to questions from former UN special envoy for climate change Mary Robinson during a live online event in late November, are fundamentally at odds with the position of the UN and its secretary general Antonio Guterres.

“We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone… and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel,” Robinson, who chairs The Elders, a London-based human rights and environmental NGO, was quoted by the Guardian as saying.

“That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of Adnoc, you could actually take it with more credibility,” she added.

Al Jaber serves as chief executive of the United Arab Emirates state oil company Adnoc, while also chairing Cop28 in Dubai. Many critics have described the two roles as a serious conflict of interest. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024418 (041818ZDEC23) Notable: Prominent New Brunswick parental rights advocate running for provincial office

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Prominent New Brunswick parental rights advocate running for provincial office

https://tnc.news/2023/12/04/nb-parental-rights-advocate-running-for-office2/

New Brunswick activist and TV personality Faytene Grasseschi is running to become a provincial Progressive Conservative legislature member.

She is seeking the Progressive Conservative nomination in the riding of Hampton-Fundy-St. Martin, a riding currently represented by New Brunswick PC Environment Minister Gary Crossman, who is not seeking re-election.

Grasseschi made the announcement in a Facebook post, writing “after much deep thought and many late-night conversations with my husband and trusted friends, I have decided to put my name forward to run for office provincially.”

While her focus has traditionally been on federal politics, she noted that “in reality, many of the issues I care most deeply about are equally provincial.”

“I am getting involved with this party because I appreciate the work it is has been doing, and the values it has been standing for,” Grasseschi told True North.

“When Premier Higgs stuck his neck out for parents last summer, we launched the petition to support him — but at the same time there were those, even within his own party that really opposed him. I feel it is important for the Premier to have people around him that have the same core values, especially considering that according to polling his stance for parents is reflective of the majority.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024509 (041838ZDEC23) Notable: MPs unanimously condemn report that calls Christmas 'racist'

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MPs unanimously condemn report that calls Christmas 'racist'

https://www.rebelnews.com/mps_unanimously_condemn_report_that_calls_christmas_racist

Members of Parliament on November 29 condemned a Human Rights Commission report for calling Christmas 'an obvious example' of racism and colonialism. They said people must be free to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ without fear of discrimination. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024551 (041845ZDEC23) Notable: MPs unanimously condemn report that calls Christmas 'racist'

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Heritage Canada takes legal action against antisemite they hired in 2021

https://www.rebelnews.com/heritage_canada_takes_legal_action_against_antisemite_they_hired_in_2021

Laith Marouf has frequently disparaged the Jewish people, calling them 'human feces' and fantasizing about shooting them. He even threatened to put a bullet in telecom consultant Mark Goldberg, who warned the Commons heritage committee of Marouf’s conduct on April 20, 2022.

Heritage Canada is trying to recoup a six-figure 'anti-racism' grant from a virulent antisemite, according to legal action by the department.

Laith Marouf, a senior consultant with the Community Media Advocacy Centre, received $133,822 in funding on July 30, 2021 — the same time he received a suspension from X for making antisemitic remarks.

Since 2020, Marouf has frequently disparaged the Jewish people on social media, including fantasizing about shooting Jews, whom he described as "human feces." He even threatened to put a bullet in telecom consultant Mark Goldberg, who warned the Commons heritage committee of Marouf’s conduct on April 20, 2022.

"MPs on both sides of the House were notified in advance including members of this committee," wrote Goldberg. "They did nothing to counter it."

Heritage Canada did not cancel the contract until September 23, 2022, and have since been unsuccessful in recuperating the taxpayer funds, reported Blacklock’s Reporter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024607 (041858ZDEC23) Notable: Bus company boycotts pro-Israel rally in Ottawa

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Bus company boycotts pro-Israel rally in Ottawa

https://www.rebelnews.com/bus_company_boycotts_pro_israel_rally_in_ottawa

'What happened today is sickening and outrageous. We will respond aggressively with every legal and public affairs tool at our disposal,' said Adam Minsky, CEO of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.

According to an emailed statement from Adam Minsky, CEO of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, "UJA is already working with legal counsel and will be proceeding with strong, decisive actions against this company. Hate and discrimination against any community can never be tolerated in Canada."

Posts from the VP of marketing and communications for UJA, Steve McDonald, explained that Prestige Worldwide was paid in full upfront. However, a number of buses hired to take rallygoers from the Toronto area to the nation's capital did not show up, with no explanation offered. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024664 (041909ZDEC23) Notable: Conspiracy to assassinate Canadian Sikh activist foiled by US authorities

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U.S. indicts Indian national Nikhil Gupta in alleged assassination plot

https://www.rebelnews.com/u_s_indicts_indian_national_assassination

The charges against Gupta, filed in June, accuse him of participating in a failed murder-for-hire plot, ostensibly under the guidance of an employee from the Indian government. This revelation has drawn attention to the broader context of international security and diplomatic relations, especially in light of Trudeau's prior allegations.

The United States Department of Justice announced on Wednesday the indictment of Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, for his alleged involvement in an assassination attempt against a Sikh separatist leader who holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. This indictment seemingly supports the claims made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding the possible involvement of the Indian government in activities endangering Canadian citizens, CTV News reports.

The charges against Gupta, filed in June, accuse him of participating in a failed murder-for-hire plot, ostensibly under the guidance of an employee from the Indian government. This revelation has drawn attention to the broader context of international security and diplomatic relations, especially in light of Trudeau's prior allegations. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20024841 (041950ZDEC23) Notable: Trudeau Liberals to pursue internet censorship bill against 'online hate'

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Trudeau Liberals to pursue internet censorship bill against 'online hate'

https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_liberals_to_pursue_internet_censorship_bill_against_online_hate

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said legal internet content must be regulated, despite issuing so-called support for free speech. 'The government believes in free speech,' he testified at the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa on September 9, 2022.

The Trudeau Liberals are reviewing "international best practices" to censor the internet, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

"We are studying what’s working in foreign jurisdictions and we’re definitely working with different online entities including online companies," said Justice Minister Arif Virani. "We’ve seen great progress."

However, he provided no examples of legal content they would censor when asked by reporters.

Asked when Canadians could expect online harm legislation, Virani replied, "It is really critical that we get this right."

"You didn’t answer the question," said a reporter. "We are looking at international best practices," he countered.

Cabinet in June 2021 introduced Bill C-36, An Act To Amend The Criminal Code, that proposed $70,000 fines for legal content deemed "likely to foment detestation or vilification."

Among the categories of harm identified by Parliament then included hate speech and terrorist content.

A July 29, 2021, Technical Paper and Discussion Paper pondered hiring a Digital Safety Commissioner to investigate anonymous complaints, conduct closed-door hearings and block websites, reported Blacklock’s Reporter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20025184 (042100ZDEC23) Notable: 23andMe Admits Major Data Breach as Hackers Access Ancestry Information of Millions

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23andMe Admits Major Data Breach as Hackers Access Ancestry Information of Millions

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/12/04/23andme-admits-major-data-breach-as-hackers-access-ancestry-information-of-millions/

Genetic testing giant 23andMe has admitted in a SEC filing that it has suffered a massive breach that has exposed the ancestry information of millions of customers utilizing the DNA Relatives feature.

Engadget reports that 23andMe, a popular genetic testing and analysis company, recently admitted it experienced a major data breach. According to an SEC filing, this breach affected a portion of the company’s user base, specifically targeting the opt-in DNA Relatives (DNAR) feature. This feature, designed to match users with genetic relatives, was exploited by hackers to access the accounts of about 14,000 of the 14 million total customers, representing roughly 0.1 percent of 23andMe’s user base. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20025213 (042106ZDEC23) Notable: 72% of Canadians want Trudeau gone: poll

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72% of Canadians want Trudeau gone: poll

https://thepostmillennial.com/72-of-canadians-want-trudeau-gone-poll

More than 165,000 Canadians have signed a petition for a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons against the minority Liberal government.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in political free-fall.

In the latest Ipsos poll, 72 percent of Canadians want Trudeau to exit federal politics and leave as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Ipsos says that number is up from 60 percent in September. Even within his own party, 33 percent of Liberal supporters would like Trudeau to resign.

That's consistent with other recent polls that show the Conservative Party of Canada, under its leader Pierre Poilievre, 19 percentage points ahead of the Liberals and headed for one of the larger majority governments in Canadian history.

Nanos Research founder Nik Nanos described what the Liberals need to stand a chance in the next federal election is a "complete reboot."

"Either with a new leader or… Justin Trudeau with a renewed vision of why he believes that he should deserve another mandate," Nanos said in a recent episode of CTV News Trend Line.

Canadians have even taken to the internet to try to remove Trudeau from office through the traditional legislative process.

As of Monday morning, more than 175,000 Canadians have signed a petition for a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons against the minority Liberal government.

The petition is sponsored by MP Michelle Ferreri (CPC-Peterborough-Kawartha) and reads: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20028856 (051517ZDEC23) Notable: IDF Prepares to Flood Terror Tunnels as Hamas Monsters 17 Women and Two Children Hostages

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Israel Victory: IDF Prepares to Flood Terror Tunnels as Hamas Monsters 17 Women and Two Children Hostages

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/israel-victory-idf-prepares-flood-terror-tunnels-as/

“Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing US officials.

In November, the Israeli army IDF completed setting up at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour, flooding the tunnels within weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, as Gateway Pundit had predicted Nov. 10.

Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks.

The Wall Street Journal report said that Israel presented the plan to the United States last month. US officials believe that Israel hasn’t made a final decision to move ahead with the plan, nor has it ruled it out.

Flooding the tunnels would also endanger the 130 hostages held by their barbaric Hamas captors, over 100 of them men. The IDF may calculate it may be safer to flush the terrorists out and hope they emerge from the tunnels with their human shields alive. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029017 (051552ZDEC23) Notable: Hillary Clinton Raises Concern on Climate Change Body Count: ‘We are Beginning to Count and Record Climate-Related Deaths’

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Hillary Clinton Raises Concern on Climate Change Body Count: ‘We are Beginning to Count and Record Climate-Related Deaths’ (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/hillary-clinton-raises-concern-climate-change-body-count/

Failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, attended the 28th annual United Nations climate conference (COP28) in Dubai to lie about the number of deaths attributed to climate change, focusing on issues caused by extreme heat, which experts referred to as “global boiling.

Speaking to an international audience, Clinton suggested that climate-related deaths are being meticulously tallied, indicating an ‘already high’ and growing body count.

“We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate. And by far the biggest killer is extreme heat,” she said.

She referenced a European heatwave allegedly responsible for 61,000 deaths and insinuated that unrecorded. She also claimed that climate change-related deaths can be influenced by gender. According to Harvard Business Review, “We can’t fight climate change without fighting for gender equity.”

Clinton said, “I mean, even in Europe last summer, which has the ability to count and figure out what happened, they recorded 61,000 deaths because heat in Europe, we don’t have that kind of number yet from Africa, Asia, Latin America. But we know and estimate that we probably could measure about 500,000 deaths, and the majority of those are women and girls, and particularly pregnant women.”

WATCH: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029064 (051600ZDEC23) Notable: Ukrainians Sick of War - Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko Supports General Zaluzhny over Zelensky (video)

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Time to Say Good-Bye, Volodymyr: Ukrainians Sick of War – Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko Supports General Zaluzhny over Zelensky

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/time-say-good-bye-volodymyr-ukrainians-sick-war/

Ukrainian wives and mothers have taken to protesting for their men to be returned from the front on Kiev’s Maidan Square. Now the media stage is being set for a regime change and possible end of the hopeless proxy war, as President Volodymyr Zelensky fights with his Commander-in-Chief and the Mayor of Kiev backs the rebel General. The Gateway Pundit was one of the only news media covering the near-total failure of the Biden-Obama-backed “Spring offensive” in Ukraine, which cost approximately 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029126 (051607ZDEC23) Notable: Europe’s Right Wing Gathers in Italy To Plan For More Gains in Next Year’s Elections for the European Parliament

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Europe’s Right Wing Gathers in Italy To Plan For More Gains in Next Year’s Elections for the European Parliament

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/europes-right-wing-gathers-italy-plan-more-gains/

European voters seem inclined to do ‘the right thing’.

In face of the new geopolitical realities and the recent gains by European populist right wingers, we can see how voters in the ‘old world’ have woken up from their liberal dreams to find their societies torn by a host of globalist policies, namely unchecked mass migration.

As European parties on the right of the political spectrum met in Italy on Sunday, vowing to reshape the European Union, you will find everywhere the same definition for them: ‘far-right’.

Yes, because as far as the MSM is concerned, there are only extremist right wingers and moderate leftists. That’s the way they roll. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029293 (051634ZDEC23) Notable: It’s a Death Cult: Israeli UN Ambassador Slams George Soros for Funding Hamas-Supporting NGOs with $15 Million

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It’s a Death Cult: Israeli UN Ambassador Slams George Soros for Funding Hamas-Supporting NGOs with $15 Million

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/its-death-cult-israeli-un-ambassador-slams-george/

Far-left activist George Soros is facing intense criticism from Israel’s UN ambassador for funding NGOs that support brutal terror organization Hamas with over $15 million. As Gateway Pundit reported, George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the EU also fund NGOs with ties to the radical terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is the “Palestinian” offshoot. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029353 (051643ZDEC23) Notable: US Joins 21 Other Countries In Pledge To Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity By 2050

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US Joins 21 Other Countries In Pledge To Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity By 2050

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-joins-21-other-countries-pledge-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050

The United States and 21 other countries from four continents signed a pledge at the United Nations climate summit on Dec. 2 to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 from the levels recorded in 2020.

The declaration was signed at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It recognizes "the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and keeping the 1.5-degree goal within reach."

"Core elements of the declaration include working together to advance a goal of tripling nuclear energy capacity globally by 2050 and inviting shareholders of international financial institutions to encourage the inclusion of nuclear energy in energy lending policies," the U.S. Department of Energy stated.

The countries that endorsed the pledge are the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

In the declaration, the 22 signatory countries promise to "support the development and construction of nuclear reactors," such as small modular and other advanced reactors for power generation.

They pledged to "mobilize investments in nuclear power," including through innovative financing mechanisms, such as engaging with shareholders of the World Bank, international financial institutions, and regional development banks. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029457 (051659ZDEC23) Notable: CCP Deploys Cover-Up For Mysterious Pneumonia Outbreak In Children

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CCP Deploys Cover-Up For Mysterious Pneumonia Outbreak In Children

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ccp-deploys-cover-mysterious-pneumonia-outbreak-children

The sense of helplessness that has gripped the Chinese people on and off since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic three years ago is again returning as the country grapples with an unidentified pneumonia outbreak that is sickening children and overwhelming hospitals.

In strollers, or carried by their parents, sick children have been filling hospital waiting rooms, hallways, and spilling outside the main gates. They wait for hours hoping for their number to be called on the loudspeaker before the day is over.

Waiting up to 12 hours is not uncommon—if one can get in line at all. After staying past midnight in a hospital hallway teeming with people, a Beijing resident shared a photo while holding a ticket number in the 1800s—the placement in the day’s queue—reminding would-be visitors to bring a stool with them, because “there’s nowhere to sit if you need to get an IV drip.”

From north to south, the spike in children’s respiratory hospitalizations is shutting classrooms and pushing health authorities to issue a flurry of announcements telling teachers and students who feel unwell to stay home.

"Everyone in the class is coughing—you can't even hear what the teacher is saying," a man surnamed Chen told The Epoch Times, recounting what he heard from his school-aged daughter from Beijing.

Just like three years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears dismissive of the disease’s risk, telling a concerned World Health Organization that there are no “unusual or new pathogens” or clinical symptoms.

The regime partially attributed the uptick to a mid-October upgrade in a respiratory surveillance mechanism, and asserted that the existing Chinese hospital capacities have been sufficient to handle the situation. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029502 (051707ZDEC23) Notable: Hamas Rocket Struck Base Linked To Israel's (Not So Secret) Nuclear Missile Program

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Hamas Rocket Struck Base Linked To Israel's (Not So Secret) Nuclear Missile Program

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-missile-struck-base-linked-israels-not-so-secret-nuclear-missile-program

It's such an open secret and so much of a 'given' assumption that it can just be casually written straight into the New York Times headline at this point...

Nuclear missile program you say? (What nuclear program—nothing to see here... or the country's worst kept secret.) Militant Rocket Hit Base Linked to Israeli Nuclear Missile Program...

"A rocket most likely fired by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel struck an Israeli military base where, experts say, many of the country’s nuclear-capable missiles are based, according to a visual analysis of the attack’s aftermath by The New York Times."

The report details the highly dangerous episode, noting that while no missiles or warheads were directly hit, a large fire was sparked and nearly spread to storage facilities that contained "sensitive weaponry" at the Sdot Micha military base in central Israel.

One weapons expert was cited as saying there may be up to 25 to 50 nuclear-capable Jericho missiles at the base where the fire raged. However, the nuclear warheads themselves are likely stored at a separate base, according to the analyst. But clearly the base in central Israel was directly targeted by Hamas, or also possibly Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - which worked in concert.

The Times concludes that what happened on Oct.7 was even scarier in terms of the potential for a bigger catastrophic event than previously believed: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029911 (051813ZDEC23) Notable: FDA Shuts Down Enquiries About DNA Contamination In COVID Vaccines

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FDA Shuts Down Enquiries About DNA Contamination In COVID Vaccines

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fda-shuts-down-enquiries-about-dna-contamination-covid-vaccines

The recent findings of DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines has led many to question why the FDA, which is responsible for monitoring the quality and safety of the vaccines, has failed to sound the alarm.

For years, the FDA has known about the risk posed by residual DNA in vaccines. Its own guidance to industry states:

“Residual DNA might be a risk to your final product because of oncogenic and/or infectivity potential. There are several potential mechanisms by which residual DNA could be oncogenic, including the integration and expression of encoded oncogenes or insertional mutagenesis following DNA integration.”

Put simply, the FDA acknowledges the possibility that fragments of DNA left over by the manufacturing process can be incorporated into a patient’s own DNA, to potentially cause cancer.

FDA and WHO guidelines consider the amount of residual DNA in a single dose of traditional vaccine should not exceed 10 ng (one billionth of a gram).

But this limit – used for traditional vaccines – is unlikely to be relevant to the mRNA vaccines whose lipid nanoparticles can penetrate inside cells to deliver the mRNA efficiently.

A recent preprint paper by Speicher et al analysed batches of the monovalent and bivalent mRNA vaccines in Canada.

The authors found “the presence of billions to hundreds of billions of DNA molecules per dose in these vaccines. Using fluorometry all vaccines exceed the guidelines for residual DNA set by FDA and WHO of 10 ng/dose.”

Speicher et al also reported finding fragments of DNA larger than 200 base pairs (a measure of the length of the DNA) which also exceeds FDA guidelines.

Notably, the authors commented that for the Pfizer product, the higher the level of DNA fragments found in the vaccine, the higher the rate of serious adverse events.

Some experts say the risk of genome integration in humans is very low, but a recent publication in Nature found that around 7 percent of cells are integrated when mixed with a transfection solution containing linear pieces of DNA.

Is the FDA Concerned? Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20029988 (051826ZDEC23) Notable: Rile up public to see climate change like WWII, a pandemic: journalist panel

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Rile up public to see climate change like WWII, a pandemic: journalist panel

https://tnc.news/2023/12/04/climate-change-like-wwii-pandemic-journalist-panel/

Journalists affiliated with legacy media outlets like Global News and CBC demanded that newsrooms rile up Canadians to view climate change with the same urgency as a global pandemic or World War II.

While speaking at a Nov. 22 panel hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (SFU CERi), a panel featuring former CBC Radio producer Donya Ziaee, Global News climate change reporter Kamyar Razavi and National Observer columnist Seth Klein demanded that the media employ the same tactics to cover climate change used during major global emergencies. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030081 (051840ZDEC23) Notable: Carbon tax straining volunteer emergency services

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Carbon tax straining volunteer emergency services

https://tnc.news/2023/12/04/carbon-tax-volunteer-emergency-services/

Nova Scotia’s volunteer fire services is demanding a federal carbon tax exemption as it faces evermore stringent budget constraints.

The carbon tax added 14 to 17 cents per litre to the price of gas for Nova Scotians in July, with the price of propane and heating oil also increasing.

President and treasurer for the Island & Barrington Passage Volunteer Fire Department Garnet Sullivan was perplexed as to why these expenses should be passed onto emergency services.

“It’s a lot of money,” Sullivan told CBC News. “Let’s say our ladder truck or our main pumper is out on a large call and we’re there for six or eight hours.… We burn a lot of fuel.”

Sullivan’s department serves several nearby communities on the mainland as well as Cape Sable Island. While the kitchen at the firehall uses heat pumps, the firetruck bays are kept warm using oil heating.

Both the municipalities of the District of Barrington and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth have requested a carve-out exemption from federal carbon pricing for volunteer emergency services. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030179 (051857ZDEC23) Notable: Alberta gov criticizes federal methane emissions cap as “unrealistic” and “unconstitutional”

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Alberta gov criticizes federal methane emissions cap as “unrealistic” and “unconstitutional”

https://tnc.news/2023/12/04/alberta-feds-methane-emissions/

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith shot down any suggestion that a methane emissions cap would be implemented in the province on Monday after federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced new regulations at the COP28 conference in Dubai.

The new regulations call for methane emissions to be reduced by at least 75% from 2012 levels by 2030.

Smith accused Ottawa of embarking on an unrealistic, costly, and unconstitutional path.

“The federal government has unilaterally established new methane emissions rules and targets to help win international headlines,” wrote the statement co-authored by Smith and Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz.

The joint statement criticized Ottawa for trying to replace Alberta’s approach with costly, dangerous, and unconstitutional new federal regulations. According to the statement, the new regulations won’t benefit anyone beyond Guilbeault’s post-office career.

True North reported that Smith had previously criticized Guilbeault for other unconstitutional decisions, like the Impact Assessment Act. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030571 (052005ZDEC23) Notable: Canada denies entry to dozens of Iranian officials, with dozens more under investigation

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Canada denies entry to dozens of Iranian officials, with dozens more under investigation

https://www.rebelnews.com/canada_denies_entry_to_dozens_of_iranian_officials_with_dozens_more_under_investigation

As of November 20, CBSA has denied 78 people entry into Canada following a review of 17,800 visa applications for potential inadmissibility. Courtesy of tips from the public and referrals from Immigration Canada, authorities are also investigating 141 persons of interest with status in Canada. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030618 (052015ZDEC23) Notable: Investor group accuses Mark Carney’s firm Brookfield of underreporting carbon emissions

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Investor group accuses Mark Carney’s firm Brookfield of underreporting carbon emissions

https://www.rebelnews.com/investor_group_accuses_mark_carney_s_firm_brookfield_of_underreporting_carbon_emissions

The group particularly points out the omission of emissions from Oaktree Capital Management, a company majority-owned by Brookfield and accounting for 22% of its assets under management. Oaktree reportedly has stakes in at least 118 fossil fuel assets.

Mark Carney's private equity firm, Brookfield, faces allegations from the campaign group Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) of significantly underreporting its carbon emissions. I4PC claims that the actual emissions could be up to 13 times higher than Brookfield's official disclosures, accusing Canada's largest private equity investor of omitting substantial parts of its business in its reports.

Carney, the former Bank of England governor, chairs Brookfield and also serves as a special UN envoy for climate finance and action. I4PC alleges that Brookfield has only reported emissions for about 50% of its assets, the Telegraph reported. The group particularly points out the omission of emissions from Oaktree Capital Management, a company majority-owned by Brookfield and accounting for 22% of its assets under management. Oaktree reportedly has stakes in at least 118 fossil fuel assets.

Furthermore, I4PC criticizes Brookfield for excluding "downstream" emissions, which are the emissions produced by the companies it finances. While Brookfield reported 11.8 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2022, an analysis conducted by Private Equity Climate Risks (PECR) for I4PC estimated that Brookfield's total emissions across all energy investments in 2023 could be as high as 159 million tonnes.

Kyra Bell-Pasht, I4PC’s director of research and policy, commented on the disparity, stating, "Brookfield positions itself as a leader in financing the net-zero transition, but it is still a major fossil fuel funder." She emphasized the need for Brookfield to fully report its climate transition risks and not solely focus on positive developments in renewables.

Brookfield has disputed these figures, questioning the clarity of inputs and methodology used in the analysis. A spokesperson for the firm highlighted concerns about potential misconstructions of their corporate structure and the context of emissions data, which could lead to significant inaccuracies.

Mark Carney, in his role at Brookfield, has committed to achieving net-zero financed emissions by 2050 for the firm's portfolio. He has been vocal in urging CEOs and policymakers worldwide to accelerate efforts towards net-zero targets. Speaking at the COP28 conference, Carney highlighted the importance of accountability among oil and gas companies and countries in their environmental commitments.

Brookfield, managing over $850 million in investor funds, is at the center of these allegations, raising questions about the accuracy of carbon emissions reporting and the accountability of major investors in the transition to a net-zero economy.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030695 (052027ZDEC23) Notable: Opposition parties won't be able to question witnesses or see all the evidence in foreign interference inquiry

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Opposition parties won't be able to question witnesses or see all the evidence in foreign interference inquiry

https://www.rebelnews.com/foreign_interference_inquiry_commission_marie_josee_hogue_opposition_parties

Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue ruled that the Conservative Party and NDP will have intervener status in the inquiry, as opposed to full party standing.

Members of Canadian opposition parties will not be able to ask questions in the upcoming foreign interference inquiry, a judge has decided.

Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue on Monday laid down a ruling dividing participants in the inquiry into two groups. The Conservative and New Democratic Parties will be granted “intervenor standing,” giving them the ability to make submissions and see public evidence. Those with “party standing” will be able to see all evidence and question witnesses.

The Liberal Party of Canada itself appears not to have applied for status. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030728 (052035ZDEC23) Notable: Feds testify on $173 million COVID-19 vaccine factory that never got built

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Feds testify on $173 million COVID-19 vaccine factory that never got built

https://www.rebelnews.com/feds_testify_on_173_million_covid_jab_factory_that_never_got_built

In October 2020, the Trudeau Liberals signed a 'non-refundable' advance purchase agreement with Medicago despite no reassurances that Health Canada would approve the vaccine for consumption.

The feds admitted Monday that their $323 million taxpayer gambit into Medicago failed without a factory built or a single COVID jab administered.

The Department of Public Works acknowledged it "took a risk" in subsidizing the manufacturer’s plant located in Minister Jean-Yves Duclos’ riding, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.

"We took a risk of putting contracts with various suppliers for enough vaccines for all Canadians," said Joelle Paquette, director general with the public works department.

In October 2020, the Trudeau Liberals signed a "non-refundable" advance purchase agreement with Medicago despite no reassurances that Health Canada would approve the vaccine for consumption.

Conservative MP Rick Perkins called the arrangement "just unbelievable," which Paquette confirmed as unusual contracting.

"We did not know at the time which vaccines would actually be authorized," she said. "There was no vaccine that existed at the time we put these contracts in place. We took a risk." Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20030988 (052142ZDEC23) Notable: Canadian House of Commons committee admits China operated ‘police service stations’ in 3 cities

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Canadian House of Commons committee admits China operated ‘police service stations’ in 3 cities

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-house-of-commons-committee-admits-china-operated-police-service-stations-in-3-cities/

'To date, no individuals have been arrested or had their diplomatic credentials removed in relation to the overseas police service stations.'

Canadians learned last Wednesday from MPs that “yes,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operated police “stations” in multiple locations in Canada, which allegedly serve to target its citizens abroad, but no one has been held accountable yet for allowing this to happen.

As per Blacklock’s Reporter, the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations noted in a report to Parliament titled Chinese Communist Party’s Overseas Police Service Stations that despite the CCP “police service stations” operating in three major Canadian cities, there have been “no arrests” made.

“To date, no individuals have been arrested or had their diplomatic credentials removed in relation to the overseas police service stations,” the committee wrote in its report.

The police stations are currently being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) including “formal diplomatic protests to the Chinese Ambassador.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20031040 (052155ZDEC23) Notable: Neurology professor says Canada likely paid more for COVID vaccines than all other countries

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Neurology professor says Canada likely paid more for COVID vaccines than all other countries

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/neurology-professor-says-canada-likely-paid-more-for-covid-vaccines-than-all-other-countries/

While the official number remains secret, neurology professor Steven Pelech estimated Canada paid $38 per shot compared to $22-$23 paid per shot by the United States and Europe.

A neurology professor says that Canada likely paid the highest prices in the world for the experimental COVID-19 vaccines.

On November 26, University of British Columbia professor Steven Pelech joined pro-family and pro-freedom activists, including Member of European Parliament Christine Anderson, in Vancouver where he discussed Canada’s handling of COVID vaccines.

“So, it was negotiated, of course it was a secret contract,” he said, referring to the sale of experimental COVID vaccines in Canada. “We still don’t know what we paid per shot.”

While the official number is unknown, Pelech revealed that the Auditor General of Canada “gave us a clue, and it was close to $38 per shot” for the Pfizer vaccine.

This number is compared to United States and Europe paying about $22-$23 a shot. Notably, the vaccine cost Pfizer about U.S.$1.18 per shot to produce.

Additionally, in his upcoming book, Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole: Independent Scientists and Physicians Unmask the Pandemic, Pelech wrote that vaccine in Albania, Brazil, and South Africa cost U.S.$12, U.S.$10, and U.S.$10, respectively.

“Canada has paid the highest prices in probably the world for these vaccines,” he added.

According to Pelech, the Canadian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, negotiated to purchase seven COVID shots for each Canadian. He added that the deal was set before the vaccines were approved in Canada.

Notably, Pelech’s comments come just days before a Statistic Canada report showed that deaths from both COVID-19 and “unspecified causes” surged following the release of the so-called “safe and effective” vaccines. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20033958 (061428ZDEC23) Notable: Zelensky Blows Off Congress as Republicans Walk Out of Ukraine Funding Meet: “There Has to be Border Security First”

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Zelensky Blows Off Congress as Republicans Walk Out of Ukraine Funding Meet: “There Has to be Border Security First”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/zelensky-blows-congress-as-republicans-walk-ukraine-funding/

Several Republican senators walked out of a briefing on Ukraine aid Tuesday as it descended into a row over the border crisis, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly canceled a video link appearance to appeal for more US money.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney and Nebraska Sen Deb Fischer walker out of the classified briefing early, the AP reported, saying that Republicans were angry they heard nothing on the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border.

“The briefers were saying things we’ve all known, we can read about in any newspaper, had been said publicly,” Romney told reporters according to AP. “There’s nothing new in what they’re describing, and Republicans are saying that there’s support for Ukraine, but there has to be security of our border.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was supposed to try and cajole Congress to approve an emergency aid package of more than $60 billion for Kyiv Wednesday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Zelensky had been prevented from taking part by a “last minute” hiccup, but pressed ahead with the briefing anyway — only for the proceedings to turn into a war of words, AP reports.

Senate Republicans are making their support for extra Ukraine funding contingent on reforms of the fake “asylum” scam and restored border security — measures the Democrats have already rejected. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034112 (061510ZDEC23) Notable: German FM Baerbock Scolds Hungarian PM Orbán Over His Vetoes of Ukrainian EU Ascension and Further Military Aid for Kiev

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German FM Baerbock Scolds Hungarian PM Orbán Over His Vetoes of Ukrainian EU Ascension and Further Military Aid for Kiev

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/german-fm-baerbock-scolds-hungarian-pm-orban-his/

Germans will be Germans.

For a long time, any European Union action meant basically doing Germany’s bidding. And it may or not have made sense to do so, in the past.

But since at least since 2015, Germans have championed a frankly suicidal policy of open borders ushering in an age of unchecked mass migration that has all but destroyed the social fabric of so many European societies.

The current governing coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is extremely unpopular and dysfunctional in many ways – but they still feel entitled to dictate the direction in which Europe must follow.

And so it happened that, during a meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock rebuked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his vetoes on launching EU membership talks with Ukraine, and also of approving new financial aid for Kiev.

Conservative Champion Orbán is the man the MSM loves to hate. The suspected reasons for his vetoes are a) he is ‘determined to derail support for Ukraine’ – a.k.a. ‘Putin’s puppet’, or b) blackmail of Brussels, to unblocking EU funds.

This is incredibly dishonest, since the list of Hungarians grievances is long and very serious. Did you know that the Hungarian minority in Ukraine is forbidden to use their mother tongue in school? There you go: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034147 (061517ZDEC23) Notable: Despite All the Climate Alarmism Over ‘Global Warming’ at the COP28, the Northern Hemisphere Suffers Through Blistering Cold Temperatures at the Onset of Winter

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Despite All the Climate Alarmism Over ‘Global Warming’ at the COP28, the Northern Hemisphere Suffers Through Blistering Cold Temperatures at the Onset of Winter

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/despite-all-climate-alarmism-global-warming-cop28-northern/

‘Forget about the extreme cold’, they’ll say – ‘it’s Global Warming!’

During all 2023, we had to bear the climate alarmist cult shouting to the winds how ‘this year was by far the hottest one in recorded history’.

But the alarmists seem to have jumped the gun, since the year hasn’t ended yet – and the winter has come with a blistering vengeance against the Northern Hemisphere.

It is also fitting that this wave of extreme cold should hit right as the chief Climate Fearmongers are all gathered at the COP28 in Dubai peddling their ‘Global Warming’ hoaxes. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034210 (061531ZDEC23) Notable: Ignored by COP28 Death Cult: Major Study Finds Nine Times more Deaths Due to Freezing Cold than to Heat Deaths Every Year

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Ignored by COP28 Death Cult: Major Study Finds Nine Times more Deaths Due to Freezing Cold than to Heat Deaths Every Year

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/ignored-cop28-death-cult-lancet-study-finds-nine/

A Lancet study revealed that cold weather is responsible for approximately 90% of the 5.1 million annual excess deaths attributed to temperature.

We could use some more heat.

Via Kanekoa.

And less people are dying from naturaly disasters and climate today than at any time in history.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034269 (061544ZDEC23) Notable: "Has Kyiv Already Lost?" - Germany's Welt Newspaper Claims Ukraine Is "Crumbling" & That Orbán Was Right But "Nobody Dares Admit It"

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"Has Kyiv Already Lost?" – Germany's Welt Newspaper Claims Ukraine Is "Crumbling" & That Orbán Was Right But "Nobody Dares Admit It"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/has-kyiv-already-lost-germanys-welt-newspaper-claims-ukraine-crumbling-orban-was-right

Germany’s Welt newspaper, perhaps the most popular publication in the country, is well known for its pro-Ukraine stance and ran numerous articles in the past about the likely success of Ukraine’s military offensive against Russia.

However, in a column published yesterday by the paper’s chief correspondent, Sascha Lehnartz, the assessment of Ukraine’s chances in the war is decidedly bleak.

Entitled “Has Kyiv already lost?” the article describes Ukraine’s military growing increasingly despondent to the point that the country’s commander-in-chief admits there is a “stalemate” at the front.

“Winter is just around the corner. The counteroffensive seems to have failed. The allies are weary. And since the beginning of November at the latest, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has a new opponent who was not necessarily to be expected: his own commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny,” writes Die Welt.

Welt is referring to a recent interview in the Economist, in which Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, stated that “(a)s in the First World War, we have reached a technical level that puts us in a stalemate situation” and that in order for Ukraine to win, it would take miracle weapons to defeat the Russians, “like Chinese gunpowder.”

The paper details how the admission from Zaluzhny is a clear embarrassment for Zelensky.

“Everyone is tired and there are different opinions, regardless of their status,” said Zelensky in response to the comments at a press conference with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, adding:

“But it’s not a stalemate.” His deputy bureau chief, Ihor Zhovkva said that talks of a stalemate “makes the aggressor’s job easier” and causes “panic” among Ukraine’s allies. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034308 (061555ZDEC23) Notable: Bank of Canada Keeps Rates At 5% As Expected, Drops Language On Rising Inflation Risks

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Bank of Canada Keeps Rates At 5% As Expected, Drops Language On Rising Inflation Risks

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bank-canada-keeps-rates-5-expected-drops-language-rising-inflation-risks

The Bank of Canada kept its overnight lending rate at 5% for the third consecutive meeting - where it has been since mid-July and tied for the highest rate since April 2001 - in line with Wall Street estimates, and acknowledging a stalled economy while keeping the door open to further hikes as they watch for more progress on slowing inflation

Echoing similar dovish twists by other central banks, BOC officials said recent data suggest the economy is no longer in “excess demand” and their hiking campaign is dampening spending and price pressures. As a result, the statement dropped its October language about rising inflationary risks even as it reiterated that it was prepared to hike if needed.

“Governing council is still concerned about the risks to the outlook for inflation and remains prepared to raise the policy rate further if needed,” the bank said, adding that they want to see “further and sustained easing in core inflation.”

Here are some highlights from the statement: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034744 (061704ZDEC23) Notable: Canada has least amount of doctors per capita than any other OECD country

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Canada has least amount of doctors per capita than any other OECD country

https://tnc.news/2023/12/05/canada-has-least-amount-of-doctors-per-capita/

A new report found that over 95% of people in developed countries have regular access to a primary care provider. However, Canada trails behind in key areas compared to other Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Monday’s Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) report revealed that Canada has fewer physicians per capita and spends the least of its total health budget on primary care.

The report also found that Canada has a relatively high rate of maternal and infant mortality.

In contrast, every resident is automatically assigned a family doctor in Norway. The Netherlands offers 24-hour daily access to primary care through various after-hours care programs. In Britain, every newborn has to be registered with a local medical practice within six weeks of birth.

Data compiled by Statistics Canada in 2021 shows that 14.4% of Canadians lack a regular health care provider.

Additionally, older doctors are beginning to retire and younger doctors are moving away from traditional family practice, meaning the number of patients without access to primary care is expected to rise.

“We have to have a goal of guaranteed access to primary care and fund it appropriately,” said Tara Kiran, co-author of the report and a family doctor at St. Michael’s Hospital in an interview with the Globe and Mail. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034775 (061709ZDEC23) Notable: Canadian students’ math scores continue to drop in international rankings

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Canadian students’ math scores continue to drop in international rankings

https://tnc.news/2023/12/05/students-math-scores-drop/

Canadian students are lagging in mathematics compared to their international peers, according to global rankings compiled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

The test is conducted every three years and measures 15-year-olds in the subjects of math, science and reading. During the latest round of assessments, PISA placed its focus on math, with fewer questions devoted to science and reading.

The assessment was released on Tuesday and revealed that Canada’s overall scores have declined by 35 points from 2003 to 2022.

In the area of math, only 12% of Canadian students ranked as high achievers, scoring at Level 5 or 6. In Singapore, 41% of students scored at the top level, in Hong Kong, it was 27% and in Japan and South Korea, it was 23%.

In 2022, the test was conducted in 81 countries, with Canada enrolling 23,000 high-school students to participate. The test helps guide curriculum changes and future policy decisions around education and also serves as a review of government action.

With Canadian math scores steadily declining over the years, math pedagogy has been a focus of debate amongst parents, politicians and educators.

Some experts and parents have been campaigning for a back-to-basics approach, with more of an emphasis on math’s fundamentals as opposed to an inquiry-model, that uses pattern discovery and problem-solving to educate in a more open-ended fashion. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034804 (061715ZDEC23) Notable: The cost of baby formula continues to rise as supply becomes more scarce

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The cost of baby formula continues to rise as supply becomes more scarce

https://tnc.news/2023/12/06/cost-of-baby-formula-continues-to-rise/

Canadian parents are stuck between a rock and a hard place when faced with the rising cost and dwindling supply of baby formula.

Ashleigh Ottley, a 20-year-old mother from Chilliwack, B.C. who is unable to produce enough breast milk following an emergency C-section said that she has had to have family members living in other parts of the country mail her formula.

Her son Colt is only able to stomach the Similac formula, which has become evermore difficult to procure at grocery outlets like Walmart.

“At what point do you stop calling it a shortage because it’s been so long?” Ottley told CBC News in an interview.

Supply chain shortages from U.S. manufacturers are being felt by families with small infants across Canada, and with fewer supplies available, the price continues to rise.

Between September 2022 and September 2023, the price of formula went up by over 20%, going from $31 per bottle to over $38 per bottle.

“Infant formula has risen [in price] almost five times more than the average food product in a grocery store since March of 2022,” said Dalhousie University food policy researcher Sylvain Charlebois. “That is pretty significant.”

Ottley’s son Colt consumes between 24 and 30 ounces of formula daily, costing his mother over $280 per month.

“It’s rough,” said Ottley. “I’m spending $70 a week, when I could be putting that money in a gas tank.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034889 (061729ZDEC23) Notable: Ottawa pauses 'unmarked graves' contract over lack of Indigenous heritage

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Ottawa pauses 'unmarked graves' contract over lack of Indigenous heritage

https://www.rebelnews.com/ottawa_pauses_unmarked_graves_contract_over_lack_of_indigenous_heritage

Ottawa has paused its $2 million contract on locating alleged 'unmarked graves,' owing to push back from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. They voiced concerns about the Dutch-based Commission's lack of Indigenous heritage.

Ottawa has paused its $2 million contract on locating alleged 'unmarked graves,' owing to push back from Indigenous Canadians.

A spokesperson for Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree confirmed that "concerns" had been relayed about their contract with the International Commission on Missing Persons. "We are working to determine a path forward," said Matthieu Perrotin in a statement to the Canadian Press.

In February, Ottawa reached an agreement with the Dutch-based commission on behalf of First Nations across Western Canada and parts of Ontario to use ground-penetrating radar to locate possible graves at former residential schools. The commission specializes in finding people who have disappeared, reported the publication.

Initially, it planned an outreach campaign on its DNA analysis and other forensic techniques that could expedite efforts, however that came to a screeching halt after the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation voiced concerns about its lack of Indigenous heritage.

The centre and government-appointed interlocutor Kimberly Murray, a former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, concurred that such work must be Indigenous-led to account for communal sensitives on the matter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034921 (061734ZDEC23) Notable: Information commissioner's office recommends criminal investigations after record destruction

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Information commissioner's office recommends criminal investigations after record destruction

https://www.rebelnews.com/information_commissioner_s_office_recommends_criminal_investigations_after_records_destroyed

The Globe and Mail states, 'Canada’s information laws are supposed to punish public servants that wrongfully keep information secret. But when it comes to laying charges, watchdogs find those laws have no teeth.'

The Office of Caroline Maynard has referred seven cases for investigation or criminal referral, according to records previously released in response to an access request and information.

However, no charges have ever been laid.

Reporting by The Globe and Mail's Tom Cardoso and Robyn Doolittle on the findings has noted the lack of consequences faced by bureaucrats who break Canada's access filing regulations.

"Canada’s information laws are supposed to punish public servants that wrongfully keep information secret. But when it comes to laying charges, watchdogs find those laws have no teeth," stated the Globe.

Rebel News routinely experiences years-long delays in access filings. One recent document on the RCMP's efforts to find a new sidearm was five years overdue.

Frequent delays of up to a year and a half are commonplace when Rebel News files for access to documents.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20034973 (061741ZDEC23) Notable: The push to outlaw 'residential school denialism' continues

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The push to outlaw 'residential school denialism' continues

https://www.rebelnews.com/the_push_to_outlaw_residential_school_denialism_continues

The Liberal's special adviser wants to criminalize members of the public for engaging in 'residential school denialism' and 'minimizing.'

A special interlocutor appointed by the Liberals says Indigenous leaders want Canada to move on criminalizing residential school denialism and has written recommendations for the same.

In her interim report, Kimberly Murray, the former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada and current Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves at former residential schools, is encouraging lawmakers to consider "legal mechanisms" to address the "minimizing" and "denialism" of abuse against Indigenous children who attended residential schools.

While her interim report was released in June, its recommendations gained new attention after a more recent Canadian Press article published that a spokesperson for Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani claims he is "considering the options" raised by Murray.

According to the Canadian Press, Murray suggested amending the Criminal Code to criminalize residential school denialism, adding that "Ottawa did so last year on the issue of Holocaust denialism."

While the terms "denialism" and "minimizing" were never clearly defined, Murray claims that everyone in Indigenous leadership wants to see such an amendment take place.

Murray further claims that there is a troubling rise in denialism regarding what former residential school students and their communities claim about children going missing or dying at such institutions, as well as unmarked graves. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20036177 (062220ZDEC23) Notable: Canadians are dying of "unspecified causes" at skyrocketing numbers since 2020 - StatCan

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Canadians are dying of "unspecified causes" at skyrocketing numbers since 2020 - StatCan

https://thecanadianindependent.substack.com/p/canadians-are-dying-of-unspecified

According to a recent Statistics Canada report, occurrences of "unspecified causes" of death in the country have skyrocketed since 2020. Not only has this number spiked dramatically, but in 2022, it became the 5th leading cause of death in Canada.

The report shows that in 2019, there were 3,378 cases of "unspecified causes" of death. This number more than doubled to 6,841 in 2020, rose to 9,471 in 2021, and then surged to a whopping 16,043 deaths in 2022.

You can review the report at the link below.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/daily-quotidien/231127/dq231127b-eng.pdf?st=9fUocyB8

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20036219 (062228ZDEC23) Notable: Saskatchewan set to defy Trudeau gov’t, stop collecting carbon tax on electric home heat

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Saskatchewan set to defy Trudeau gov’t, stop collecting carbon tax on electric home heat

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/saskatchewan-set-to-defy-trudeau-govt-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-electric-home-heat/

Premier Scott Moe is ignoring a threat from Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he could serve jail time for failing to impose the tax.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe now says that starting January 1 his province will no longer collect a federally imposed carbon tax on electric heat in addition to natural gas despite a threat from the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he could serve jail time should he defy the feds.

Moe and Saskatchewan Party MLA Jim Lemaigreas made the announcement last Thursday in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter).

“We are going to need to determine who is heating their home with electricity and then estimate the percentage of their power bill that is being used for that heat,” Moe said.

Moe added that his government is working out how to stop collecting the carbon tax on electric home heat. Regardless, anyone using electric heat in the province or natural gas to warm their home will not pay a federal carbon tax.

According to Moe, extending the carbon tax exemption to electric heat makes sense because 15 percent of people in the province use it to heat their homes. The other 85 percent use natural gas to heat their homes.

January and February can bring brutally cold temperatures to many parts of the province, and natural gas-fired furnaces are best at handling extreme temperatures. However, many in the province, especially those in the north, use electric heaters to heat their homes.

Moe noted how Saskatchewan owns its natural gas utility SaskEnergy, which by extension means taxpayers own it. He said the move to stop collecting the tax is ideal given the province controls its utilities, which acts as a safeguard from federal overreach.

“Well, we also own the electrical utility, and that’s why our government has decided that SaskPower will also stop collecting the carbon tax on electric heat,” Moe said.

On October 30, Moe first announced that he would stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating starting January 1, after Trudeau suspended his carbon tax on home heating oil, which is almost exclusively used in Atlantic Canada to heat homes, and not in his province. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20036254 (062236ZDEC23) Notable: Ontario city officials could ban abortion victim photographs on public property

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Ontario city officials could ban abortion victim photographs on public property

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-city-officials-could-ban-abortion-victim-photographs-on-public-property/

During the meeting, Councilor Sam Trosow recognized that both the 2022 bylaw and the newly proposed motion violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

City councilors in London, Ontario, have passed a motion to consider banning all images of unborn children from public property.

On Tuesday, December 5, councilors Hadleigh McAlister and Sam Trosow brought this motion to the city’s Community and Protective Services Committee to expand the controversial 2022 bylaw that bans all images of fetuses from being openly delivered to private homes. The new motion seeks to ban pro-life demonstrations on sidewalks with so-called “graphic images,” meaning any images of unborn children, either whole or dismembered.

During the meeting, Councilor Trosow recognized that both the 2022 bylaw and the newly proposed motion violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“[The bylaw] created a burden on freedom of expression and indeed constituted a violation of section 2b of the Charter… There is no dispute of that,” he said.

“It was a content-based measure, and it limited otherwise permissible speech.”

Despite this admission, the councilor attempted to justify this infringement by citing Section 1 of the Charter, commonly known as the Reasonable Limits clause.

The five councilors of the committee, Jerry Pribil, Elizabeth Peloza, David Ferreira, Sam Trosow, and Hadleigh McAlister all unanimously voted in favor of the motion. The motion calls for a public participation meeting on the proposed bylaw amendment as well as city staff to generate a report for the committee on the subject.

London is only one of a series of Canadian cities that have restricted free speech for pro-life activists. Blaise Alleyne of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform told LifeSiteNews that Toronto, Calgary, and St. Catharines have all implemented their own restrictions on delivering photographs of aborted remains of children to homes.

Alleyne said that this new motion, however, would be the first of its kind. “No city has passed any legislation that restricts pro-life signs on the sidewalks,” he said. “It would just be such a brazen violation of the Charter” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20036332 (062251ZDEC23) Notable: Rile up public to see climate change like WWII, a pandemic: journalist panel

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Journalists suggest reporting on ‘climate change’ like war or COVID to rile up Canadians

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/journalists-suggest-reporting-on-climate-change-like-war-or-covid-to-rile-up-canadians/

Regardless of researched data to the contrary, politicians and media continue to push the narrative that there is a climate crisis and carbon emissions must be reduced to 'save' the planet.

A panel of journalists has instructed mainstream media to rile up Canadians to consider “climate change” as serious as war or a pandemic to encourage political and civil action.

On November 22, Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (SFU CERi) hosted a panel for mainstream media journalists which focused on “the responsibility of Canadian media in the climate emergency.”

“[During the ‘pandemic’] we heard a lot of scientists on the air, they were the voices of authority,” former CBC Radio producer Donya Ziaee said. “Public health officials also got quite a bit of air time and sometimes were approached not critically enough or questioned about the policies they were enacting.”

“The point is there was a clear decision to devote the resources and airtime it took to treat the pandemic with the urgency and gravity that it called for and we’ve seen no vision or leadership of that kind from the CBC when it comes to the climate crisis,” she added. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20036510 (062331ZDEC23) Notable: Forbes names ‘most powerful woman’ award winner: Ursula von der Leyen second year running

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Forbes names ‘most powerful woman’ award winner

https://www.rt.com/news/588631-forbes-von-der-leyen/

Ursula von der Leyen’s backing of Ukraine saw her take the spot for a second year running

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been named ‘The World’s Most Powerful Woman’ by Forbes magazine for the second year in a row. She beat off competition from European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde and US Vice President Kamala Harris to clinch the top spot.

Von der Leyen rose from eighth on the annual list in 2021 to first in 2022, with Forbes citing her “strong and decisive support of Ukraine, as well as her continued leadership in bringing Europe through the coronavirus pandemic.”

Her support for Ukraine was cited again this year, with the magazine describing her as “one of the West's staunchest supporters of Ukraine amid Russia's unprovoked invasion.”

Unlike in 2022, von der Leyen did not get a feature article this year, with Forbes simply naming her atop its list on Wednesday and updating its biography of her. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20039526 (071538ZDEC23) Notable: Senate Republicans Vote Down $60 Billion in Ukraine Aid as Russia Blasts West for Obstructing Peace Talks

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Senate Republicans Vote Down $60 Billion in Ukraine Aid as Russia Blasts West for Obstructing Peace Talks

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/senate-republicans-vote-down-60-billion-ukraine-aid/

Senate Republicans voted down $60 billion in new aid to Ukraine in the US on Wednesday, holding out for radical changes to US immigration policy before sending any more money to the corrupt Kiev regime’s losing attempt to conquer ethnically Russian territories in Eastern Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova charged the UK with sabotaging a peace deal in 2022 and accused Ukraine of “doing the will of the United States and Britain.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20039612 (071556ZDEC23) Notable: Ukraine’s Zelensky Running out of Time While Russia Motors On

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Ukraine’s Zelensky Running out of Time While Russia Motors On

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/ukraines-zelensky-running-time-while-russia-motors/

The news out of Ukraine late today is dire for Volodomyr Zelenksy. General Zaluzhny reportedly gave him the Clint Eastwood threat, “Go ahead punk; make my day. According to a Ukrainian Telegram channel:

Zelensky demanded that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, resign of his own free will or due to health problems, etc. (to leave for any personal reason in order to avert suspicions that the commander-in-chief is being leaked personally by ZeErmak).

Zaluzhny refused to leave himself, believing that he brought many victories to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saved many lives of ordinary soldiers and did/will do a lot more good. According to the source, Zaluzhny said directly in army style: “I myself will not leave, if you are personally dissatisfied with me – “fire”, but this will be your personal decision for which you will have to answer.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20039740 (071624ZDEC23) Notable: World Health Organization Calls for Huge Global Tax Increases on Alcohol, Soda

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World Health Organization Calls for Huge Global Tax Increases on Alcohol, Soda

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/world-health-organization-calls-huge-global-tax-increases/

The World Health Organization is advising the government to use taxes to take your freedoms away.

In a Tuesday news release, WHO called for huge global tax increases on alcohol and sugary drinks, suggesting that increasing the price of these beverages by a whopping 50 percent would create healthier societies.

Sounds just ducky, right?

Citing a 2017 study, WHO claimed that its recommended tax increases would “help avert over 21 million deaths over 50 years and generate nearly US$17 trillion in additional revenues. This is equivalent to the total government revenue of eight of the world’s largest economies in one year.”

And there you have the real concern — $17 trillion in new revenue. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20039858 (071659ZDEC23) Notable: European Parliament Rejects Landmark Legislation in the EU’s Agriculture Reforms - Climate Alarmism Is Losing Ground as Economic Situation Deteriorates

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European Parliament Rejects Landmark Legislation in the EU’s Agriculture Reforms – Climate Alarmism Is Losing Ground as Economic Situation Deteriorates

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/european-parliament-rejects-landmark-legislation-eus-agriculture-reforms/

The European Green Deal is under attack.

As we continue to follow the relentless news cycle coming from Europe, we can identify two major trends that are in play both inside the countries and also in Pan-European terms.

The first, of course, is the rejection of unchecked mass migration. And the second, equally as urgent, is the pushback against the European climate alarmist policies.

It came to a point where the European Green Deal, that was once a point of political convergence, has now become a source of discord within the EU.

Euronews reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20039957 (071720ZDEC23) Notable: "Why No Advertiser Boycott?" Musk Nails Disney's Iger After Facebook Child Sexual Abuse Bombshell

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"Why No Advertiser Boycott?" Musk Nails Disney's Iger After Facebook Child Sexual Abuse Bombshell

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-no-advertiser-boycott-musk-nails-disneys-iger-after-facebook-child-sexual-abuse

Elon Musk took another shot at Disney CEO Bob Iger Thursday, after the state of New Mexico sued Meta for allegedly enabling child sexual abuse and trafficking - yet Disney and other woke advertisers, who paused advertising on X in a kneejerk reaction to claims of antisemitism - apparently have no problem when it comes to the sexual exploitation of minors.

"Why no advertiser boycott, Bob Eiger? [sic]" Musk posted on X. "You are endorsing this material!"

"He should be fired immediately," Musk continued in a response to a question over why Disney hasn't canned Bob.

On Tuesday, New Mexico sued Meta for "knowingly" exposing children to 'sexual exploitation and mental health harm.'

In a Tuesday court filing, New Mexico’s Attorney General’s (NMAG) Office revealed that it had conducted an undercover investigation, creating fake accounts of minors which were then used to fish for offending content, according to a press release reported by the Daily Caller.

"Meta and its CEO tell the public that Meta’s social media platforms are safe and good for kids," reads the lawsuit. "The reality is far different. Meta knowingly exposes children to the twin dangers of sexual exploitation and mental health harm. Meta’s conduct has turned New Mexico children who are on its platforms into victims. Meta’s motive for doing so is profit."

And crickets from Disney... Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20040149 (071803ZDEC23) Notable: Canada Reports 135% Spike in Deaths from ‘Unspecified Causes’

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Canada Reports 135% Spike in Deaths from ‘Unspecified Causes’

https://slaynews.com/news/canada-reports-135-spike-deaths-unspecified-causes/

New Canadian government data has revealed the nation has suffered a staggering 135% spike in listed as “unspecified causes.”

Statistics Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, has just published a new report revealing that the nation smashed records for deaths in 2022.

Aside from soaring numbers of Canadians dying from “unspecified causes,” the nation recorded a record number of Covid deaths, despite high vaccination uptake and the pandemic being over.

A report released by Statistics Canada last week admitted that deaths due to COVID-19 in Canada rose by 36% last year.

According to the government, Covid caused 19,716 deaths in total.

However, deaths due to “Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality” rose by a shocking 135% from 2020 to 2022.

Statistics Canada blames the increase in Covid deaths on the relaxing of the tyrannical mandates, masking, and lockdowns.

The government agency also argues the “new highly transmissible COVID-19 variants” are causing deaths to spike.

Additionally, the report reveals that Canadian life expectancy dropped for the third year in a row.

The falling life expectancy trend coincidentally started in 2020.

Maxime Bernier, the leader of the conservative-populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC), took to Twitter/X to blow the whistle on this development. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041165 (072149ZDEC23) Notable: Data shows only 11% of human trafficking cases end with guilty verdict

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Data shows only 11% of human trafficking cases end with guilty verdict

https://tnc.news/2023/12/06/human-trafficking-cases/

Human trafficking in Canada often goes unpunished, new statistics show despite a troubling rise in cases.

On Monday, data published by Statistics Canada revealed that only a marginal portion of trafficking victims can see justice, as police only solve less than half of the cases.

Additionally, the majority of incidents that are reported to police do not end in charges being laid.

“Hearing those statistics, it’s enough to bring tears to my eyes,” Wyndolyn Brown, a trafficking survivor, told Global News.

The Statistics Canada report shows that the justice system appears to be stacked against survivors, as only 40% of the 4000 incidents reported between 2012 and 2022 resulted in police laying charges, or recommending charges.

“If [human traffickers are] not stopped, how many other girls do they traffic along the way?” asked Sarah Dillon, another survivor.

Almost all of the incidents were against women and girls, with 70% of the victims being under the age of 25, states the report and 25% were under the age of 18.

Of the incidents reported, 56% remain unsolved, however, some are still under investigation.

Over 3,500 charges were laid in a little over 1,000 cases, yet only 11% of the completed adult criminal cases resulted in a guilty verdict.

The majority of cases, 83%, resulted in charges being either stayed, withdrawn, dismissed or discharged. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041262 (072212ZDEC23) Notable: Speaker of the House Greg Fergus under fire speaking at Ontario Liberal leadership event

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Speaker Greg Fergus says he will not resign amid uproar from MPs

https://tnc.news/2023/12/07/fergus-will-not-resign-amid-uproar-from-mps/

Greg Fergus intends to remain as the House of Commons Speaker despite calls from the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois to resign due to his breach of impartiality. He apologized Monday while in Washington D.C., citing miscommunication about the video’s intended use.

The Speaker is facing severe criticism for his participation in a video tribute shown at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention, which led to many MPs questioning the non-partisan nature of his role as Speaker, as previously reported by True North.

Despite the calls for resignation, Fergus told CBC he won’t resign, saying he plans to demonstrate fairness and impartiality.

The video showed Fergus in the Speaker’s office, wearing his official Speaker’s robes while paying tribute to interim Ontario Liberal leader John Fraser. Fergus said the video was not intended to be broadcast at the event.

Shortly after the video controversy, Fergus travelled to Washington.

“Following weeks of planning, Speaker Fergus will spend two days in Washington, D.C., carrying out the diplomatic portion of the Speaker’s role. He will be meeting with members of the diplomatic community and elected officials from both sides of the aisle,” said Mathieu Gravel, a spokesperson at Fergus’ office.

Fergus is expected to remain in Washington until Wednesday evening. During his trip, he will be taking part in a number of meetings, namely with former US Speakers Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041295 (072220ZDEC23) Notable: Food bills for Canadian families expected to go up by $700 in 2024

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Food bills for Canadian families expected to go up by $700 in 2024

https://tnc.news/2023/12/07/food-bills-families-to-go-up-2024/

Food prices are set to increase by $700 more for Canadian families in 2024, according to an annual report on grocery pricing.

According to the Canada Food Price Report, grocery prices will rise between 2.5% and 4.5% next year.

A family with two parents and two children can expect to pay $16,297.20 for their annual grocery bill.

The annual report was released on Thursday and first began 14 years ago, published by Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph and the University of Saskatchewan.

It estimates that in 2024, certain items like bakery, meat and vegetables will go up in cost by 7%.

While the rate of inflation is slowing, with the estimated 4.5% peak being less than the 5.9% increase of 2022, the cost of groceries is expected to go up overall.

Interest rates will contribute to the price hikes, as well as energy costs brought on by policies related to climate change like the carbon tax. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041343 (072235ZDEC23) Notable: Senior Iranian living comfortably in Toronto, prompting deportation case

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Senior Iranian living comfortably in Toronto, prompting deportation case

https://tnc.news/2023/12/07/senior-iranian-living-in-toronto/

A senior Iranian government official has been discovered living comfortably in Toronto, prompting Canada to launch a deportation case against him.

A member of Iran’s Islamist dictatorship, Seyed Salman Samani, 42, now faces a deportation hearing under sanctions that were imposed last year, banning any senior member of the Iranian regime from Canada. Proceedings are scheduled to start on Jan. 3, 2024.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) requested the Immigration and Refugee Board hold a hearing for Samani that could result in his deportation.

“Samani was referred for an admissibility hearing on Nov. 10, 2023,” Anna Pape, a spokesperson for the Refugee Board told Global News.

Samani’s case will mark the first of its kind under the new sanctions, implemented following the murder of Mahsa Amini by Iranian morality police after she showed her hair in public.

Amini’s death sparked outrage from women under Iran’s regime and prompted the Canadian government to designate Iran’s government as a regim engaged in “terrorism and systematic and gross human rights violations.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041413 (072253ZDEC23) Notable: Mayor Jyoti Gondek sparks outrage over boycott of Calgary menorah lighting

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Mayor Jyoti Gondek sparks outrage over boycott of Calgary menorah lighting

https://tnc.news/2023/12/07/mayor-gondek-outrage-boycott-calgary-menorah/

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek announced her decision to skip the city’s annual menorah lighting ceremony at City Hall, claiming she could not attend because of the event’s support for Israel.

Gondek wrote in her press release, posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, that she has looked forward to attending the event over the years.

She said that when she initially asked to speak weeks ago, it was to bring traditional greetings celebrating Hanukkah and the spirit of Calgary’s Jewish community. However, she claimed in her release that the event had been repositioned as an event to support Israel.

“This last minute change goes against the original intention, and has left me feeling let down by leadership,” Gondek wrote.

She added that this change makes it impossible for her to attend, citing concern that people wishing to celebrate Hanukkah will have their good intentions compromised.

Calgary’s mayor recognized her responsibility to attend diverse and inclusive events with and for Calgarians from many faith-based and ethnic communities.

“However, when a celebration of community is turned into something with political intentions, it goes against the mission to uphold diversity and inclusion,” she said. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041448 (072300ZDEC23) Notable: BC gang extortion letters have South Asian community fearing for their lives

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BC gang extortion letters have South Asian community fearing for their lives

https://tnc.news/2023/12/07/bc-gang-extortion-letters-south-asian-community/

A surge of extortion letters, aimed at South Asian businesses in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, has the local community fearing for their lives as tensions rise between conflicting ethnic groups.

The letters, purportedly originating from a group identifying as “an Indian gang,” insist on large sum payments from the recipients, accompanied by threats of death in case of non-compliance or if the matter is reported to law enforcement.

Letters shared online alleged that two residences had already been targeted with gunfire due to the owner’s failure to meet the financial demands outlined in the extortion threats.

The letter further asserts that those seeking to engage in business activities in Abbotsford must provide a share of their earnings, or they will encounter severe repercussions.

“We want your share from your business like protection money,” the letter reads.

“We are asking only two million. We have links all over. Do not ignore us. It will affect you real bad.”

BC Conservative leader John Rustad said that based on a recent meeting with local business owners in Abbotsford, a gang task force must be assigned to the case immediately. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041464 (072304ZDEC23) Notable: Mainstream media downplays COVID-19 vaccine 'glitch' impacting up to 30% of recipients

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Mainstream media downplays COVID-19 vaccine 'glitch' impacting up to 30% of recipients

https://www.rebelnews.com/mainstream_media_downplays_covid-19_vaccine_glitch_impacting_up_to_30_of_recipients

A recent Nature publication has revealed unintended consequences of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, causing citizen scientists to raise additional safety and efficacy concerns. They are calling for a thorough investigation and public disclosure from regulatory agencies.

There continue to be mounting safety concerns with the mRNA platform globally, and yet, when those concerns are scientifically proven, the mainstream media works to quickly brush them off as harmless.

A recent Nature publication by Mulroney et al, conducted under the guidance of the UK government, revealed the unintended consequences of adding modified DNA to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

This modified DNA is a synthetic compound of uridine known as N1-methyl pseudouridine [N1]. It’s often used to reduce the chances of the immune system reacting too strongly to the vaccination and to enhance the translation of mRNA into the cells – a process known as transcription.

The authors observed a change in how the cells of vaccinated individuals read genetic instructions due to the addition of N1. In turn, this created the formation of unintended and abnormal proteins, a phenomenon referred to as “ribosomal frameshifting.”

While the Telegraph disregarded this as a mostly harmless immune system “glitch,” the consequences are completely unknown when this frameshifting occurs at certain and/or unknown points in the genetic code.

Genomics expert Kevin McKernan, scientists David Speicher and David Wiseman, along with microbiologist Jessica Rose and pharmacist Maria Gutschi—citizen scientists in their own right—are raising urgent concerns. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041635 (072334ZDEC23) Notable: Black Lives Matter activist sentenced to 30 days in prison for assaulting off-duty sheriff

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Black Lives Matter activist sentenced to 30 days in prison for assaulting off-duty sheriff

https://www.rebelnews.com/black_lives_matter_activist_sentenced_to_30_days_in_prison_for_assaulting_off-duty_sheriff

Taylor McNallie, 32, also faced several charges stemming from a May 17 protest on 'radical gender ideology,' including two counts of assault, one count of unlawful confinement, and one count of sexual assault.

Black Lives Matter activist Taylor McNallie has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for striking an off-duty sheriff with a megaphone.

In August 2021, McNallie led a nearly two-week protest outside the Calgary Courts Centre against Calgary Police Service Const. Alex Dunn, who body-slammed a handcuffed woman and later lost his job.

Dunn received a judicial stay on appeal, serving 30 days after Justice Nancy Dilts acknowledged he already completed his original 30-day conditional sentence.

On August 12, 2021, McNallie got into an altercation with off-duty sheriff Elena Cunningham, where she struck the victim with the megaphone while protesting the Dunn verdict.

Justice Peter Barley ruled Monday that she would serve her sentence of 30 days in prison starting the first weekend of January. The 'anti-racism' advocate also received two 14-day sentences stemming from a two mischief charges following a separate incident in front of the courthouse.

McNallie had to pay $2,800 in restitution for damaging the photographer’s equipment for the latter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041689 (072345ZDEC23) Notable: Green ‘slush fund’ gave $400,000 to company with ties to board director

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Green ‘slush fund’ gave $400,000 to company with ties to board director

https://www.rebelnews.com/green_slush_fund_gave_400_000_to_company_with_ties_to_board_director

Guy Ouimet, a Liberal-appointed director to a controversial green ‘slush fund,’ awarded $393,805 in COVID-19 grants to a Québec company from a pool of $20 million.

A Liberal-appointed director to a controversial green ‘slush fund’ gave nearly $400,000 in grants to a Québec company in which he had a direct interest.

“We all declared conflicts of interest — well, not everyone,” testified Guy Ouimet at the Commons industry committee.

According to True North, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) allocated tens of millions of dollars to firms in which its board members are financially vested.

Among the alleged culprits include director Guy Ouimet, who served on the Project Review Committee while working on the board of Lithion Technologies.

Ouimet voted to award $393,805 in grants to the Québec company from a pool of $20 million, reported Blacklock’s Reporter. On August 29, 2018, the board also approved $3,842,000 in funding for Lithion — less than two months after the company’s incorporation.

Conservative MP Michael Barrett questioned the director on whether he awarded pandemic relief grants to the company at the expense of taxpayers.

“Were you in attendance at those meetings? You didn’t leave the room for the decision on Covid payments, is that correct?” asked Barrett.

Ouimet replied “Yes” to both questions.

“You voted in both cases to award the money to a company you have an interest in, is that correct?” asked Barrett. “Yes,” said the director.

“This kind of insider dealing, and corruption is very problematic for Canadians,” said the Conservative MP. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20041803 (080013ZDEC23) Notable: Conservative MP says it’s ‘fair and right’ for Canada to approve Christian Heritage Month bill