Freedom of Speech
Ontario’s top universities are paying employees generous six-figure salaries to promote and advance “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” (EDI) initiatives and ideology, True North has learned.
The 2022 salaries were found using the Ontario Sunshine List, which publicly lists provincial public sector salaries that are over $100,000 per year. The list covers public sector employers that receive significant funding from taxpayers – including universities.
Universities in Ontario get part of their funding from the provincial and federal governments. They also receiving funds through tuition fees and other forms of revenue.
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Read MoreIn March of 1996, Falun Gong withdrew from the Qigong Association as it refused to charge money for the practice per the association’s requests and wished to exercise autonomy from government or CCP interference. After that, articles critical of Falun Gong began appearing in local-level CCP-controlled media outlets. The Public Security Bureau (PSB) began monitoring Falun Gong adherents, and Falun Gong books (national best-sellers) were banned from further publication. Although the harassment and surveillance of practitioners escalated, the practice continued to grow, with an estimated of 70 million adherents by 1998. Viewing its moral philosophy of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance (Zhen-Shan-Ren) as being incompatible with the Party’s atheism, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin was disturbed by the size and independence of the practice and sought to eradicate Falun Gong.
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Read MoreThis plan explains how the CRTC will work with Canadians to modernize Canada’s broadcasting system. Modernization will take place in three phases.
The CRTC will adapt its approach in light of any future policy direction.
Phase 1
Spring 2023(completed)
April 27: Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) receives Royal Assent.
May 8: CRTC publishes its Regulatory Plan.
May 12: CRTC publishes an Information Bulletin.
Public consultations(in progress)
Consultation on contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system: This consultation will consider who should contribute, how much and how.
Status: Open for comments.
Consultation on registration of online streaming services: This consultation will consider which online streaming services will need to be registered with the CRTC.
Status: Open for comments.
Consultation on exemption orders and basic conditions of service: This consultation will consider changes to orders under which online services have operated in Canada.
Status: Open for comments.
There may be additional consultations, including on establishing a new fund to provide financial support for participation in CRTC proceedings by persons and groups representing the public interest.
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Read MoreAn Indigenous policy expert is accusing Mississauga mayor and potential Ontario Liberal Party leadership candidate Bonnie Crombie of jumping “on social media trends,” after Crombie proposed a motion to change the lyrics of Canada’s national anthem.
Crombie’s Motion to city council proposes to change the lyrics of Canada’s national anthem from “our home and native land” to “our home on native land.” If passed, it would have Mississauga send a letter requesting the federal government change the lyrics of O Canada.
The motion says, “the new wording represents a truth which is critical to the understanding of present-day Canada and that such a change is consistent with the federal government’s commitment to Reconciliation.”
When asked about Crombie’s effort to change the national anthem, MacDonald-Laurier Institute Indigenous Policy Analyst and Outreach Coordinator Melissa Mbarki told True North the latter “may bring you some popularity [but] does nothing to improve the lives of Indigenous people.”
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Read MoreDays after the brutal assault, pro-life sidewalk counselors Mark Crosby and Dick Schaefer returned to the Baltimore Planned Parenthood where they have faithfully ministered by praying, handing out rosaries, and urging pregnant moms to choose life.
BALTIMORE (LifeSiteNews) — The two elderly pro-life Catholic sidewalk counselors who were violently assaulted outside a Baltimore Planned Parenthood spoke to LifeSiteNews’ Jim Hale in a video report June 1.
In the video, the men described the attack and called on younger Catholic men to step up to support sidewalk counselors who risk their own physical safety to try to protect the unborn.
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Read MoreOne of the Canada’s largest Indigenous groups is requesting permission to search Canadians’ private mail, as they claim letters are a common means of smuggling drugs. According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is appealing to Parliament to change federal law to allow police, postal inspectors or First Nations constables to search Canadians’ mail, as they claim letter mail is a leading method of narcotic distribution.
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Read MoreNewspaper publishers need the government, their chief lobbyist yesterday told the Senate transport and communications committee. “We need them,” said Paul Deegan, CEO of News Media Canada.
“We have a market failure here,” testified Deegan. “We need a solution and that’s why we’ve come to government even though frankly we would like to stay as far away from government and the CRTC as we can. But we do need them.”
Deegan was testifying on Bill C-18 the Online News Act. The cabinet bill would compel Google and Facebook to pay newsrooms a portion of ad revenues generated by linked stories. Only newsrooms deemed by the CRTC to “follow the code of ethics of a recognized journalistic association” would qualify.
“We represent all,” said CEO Deegan. “We’ve got everyone from the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, LaPresse, Le Devoir, right down to these independents.” Membership in the lobby group is voluntary. Numerous independent newsrooms are not members of News Media Canada.
Jen Gerson of Calgary, co-founder of the online newsletter The Line, yesterday told senators that federal meddling in the business has been a “poisonous thing” for news media integrity. “Everything about this bill is a disaster,” said Gerson.
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Read MoreFor much of Downton Abbey, viewers are treated with glorious eye candy of British aristocratic life in a mighty estate, robust at first but fading as the seasons progress. What we are not given is a rationale behind the whole cultural structure of the house and the social order surrounding it. This is particularly important for American audiences who know none of this from modern experience.
The Dowager Countess is being pushed to turn over control of their own private hospital to a municipal government. Of course all the ‘progressives’ in the family and estate support this move but she is intransigent. Control must remain with the family, she insists.
Finally, in the course of a conversation in the library, she lays out her thinking. In a short soliloquy, she summarises 800 years of British history in a paragraph, and elucidates the understanding of such great thinkers as Bertrand de Jouvenel and Lord Acton. It’s the kind of history that is routinely denied to students and has been for decades. It’s a good lesson in political science too.
“For years I’ve watched governments take control of our lives,” she says, “and their argument is always the same: fewer costs and greater efficiency. But the result is the same too: less control by the people and more controlled by the state, until the individual’s own wishes count for nothing. That is what I consider my duty to resist.”
“By wielding your unelected power?” asks Lady Rosamund Payneswick, the daughter of the Dowager Countess.
Ignoring the swipe, the Dowager answers: “See, the point of a so-called great family is to protect our freedoms. That is why the Barons made King John sign the Magna Carta.”
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Read MoreFacebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday it would remove news content in its home state of California if the state government passed legislation forcing tech companies to pay publishers.
The proposed California Journalism Preservation Act would require “online platforms” to pay a “journalism usage fee” to news providers whose work appears on their services, aimed at reversing a decline in the local news sector.
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Read MoreThey’re affixed to old buildings where someone important used to live. Or they’re mounted on a rock overlooking somewhere where something once happened.
Cast in bronze or lettered on a sign, they’re sometimes the only history lesson many of us ever get. And now Parks Canada wants hundreds of them changed.
“The way that many of the national historic designations are framed and positioned does not do justice to the breadth of impacts that they had on Canadian society,” said Patricia Kell, the agency’s director of heritage.
Parks is in the middle of a three-year program to re-examine and rewrite the plaques that the Historic Sites and Monuments Board use to point out places deemed important to understanding Canada’s past.
Sites slated for rewrite include fur trade forts such as Fort Langley in British Columbia and Manitoba’s York Factory. Others relate to the War of 1812, like Queenston Heights in Ontario.
Some involve historic figures who held beliefs at odds with current standards. They include one of the Fathers of Confederation, John A. Macdonald; Archibald Belaney, otherwise known as Grey Owl; and Nicholas Flood Davin, founder of one of the West’s first newspapers.
The rationale for the changes, as well as a list of priority sites, is outlined in a document obtained under Freedom of Information legislation.
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