CBC reports that less than 1% of permanent residents in Canada are allowed to join the Canadian military.
Alberta's going top leave the national pharmacare program.
Canada's announced that new visa restrictions will be implemented for Mexican visitors under certain conditions. This is due to Mexicans coming to Canada (a lot) to get asylum.
The Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the province's secularism law, which is already controversial in itself.
https://www.barrons.com/news/ottawa-settles-with-one-of-two-michaels-in-china-spy-row-3dd18a6e
Spavor agreed to a settlement with Ottawa worth $7 million (US$5 million) with regards to his detention in China. Global Affairs Canada is not saying much, citing privacy.
Fifth Estate has a vid on what happened to Nijjar and it highlights some of the misinformation used to discredit Sikhs living in BC.
Nenshi’s running for thr Alberta NDP: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-mayor-naheed-nenshi-1.7140075
He’s not really a New Democrat, but he is a prominent figure who’s done a lot of good work.
Not sure if it was him when Calgary wanted to use a COMPASS-based public transit card.
Planeswalker
I wonder if the NDP thinks Nenshi would make more people in Calgary vote for them. Because Nenshi's appeal is very love him or hate him (usually depending on city quadrant), and I suspect the people who voted for him in Calgary vote NDP anyways.
His protégé and successor Jyoti Gondek is generally seen as a complete failure of a Mayor, but to be fair Nenshi is a much stronger public speaker than her so her failures likely won't impact his future success.
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Far-right sources are claiming that the judicial system said they can issue life sentences for "speech crimes". Can anyone give context for that?
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
It is a proposal, but only for someone who repeatedly and consistently advocates genocide towards actual groups of people and refuses to stop after every single other avenue has been exhausted, and it would be a house arrest with limited internet access.
Everything else, it’s taking the penalties that exist for IRL hate speech and applying it to online hate speech.
Not Three Laws compliant.
Here’s a CBC article, though I’d like more concrete information than it gives: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-bill-margaret-atwood-1.7141165
Here is the text of the bill itself:
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-reading
The provision they are referring to is this: 318 (1) Every person who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.
Edited by Galadriel on Mar 13th 2024 at 5:19:52 AM
The House of Commons allowed a probe into the National Microbiology Laboratory at Winnipeg after two Chinese scientists (legally employed) were laid off for sharing sensitive info to other Chinese nationals and lied while being investigated.
Edited by Ominae on Apr 11th 2024 at 4:57:41 AM
Trudeau Jr. having his day at the foreign interfernce inquiry.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-tax-rebates-climate-1.7159209
Been some news lately with Trudeau and the carbon tax...
Edited by Ominae on Apr 29th 2024 at 12:05:38 PM
Could be YMMV, but the ruling on the Emergencies Act also gave a dent to him too.
Well as least to the ex-CSIS analysts I've heard from.