National Identity
“CBC/Radio-Canada is key to our democracy,” reads Budget 2024. And that’s why Trudeau is giving them $42 million for 2024-25 to continue producing “independent” and “high-quality” journalism.
As per page 236 of the budget, “Budget 2024 proposes to provide $42 million in 2024-25 for CBC/RadioCanada news and entertainment programming, ensuring Canadians across the country … have access to high-quality, independent journalism and entertainment.”
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Read MoreCitizens of Edmonton are fighting to protect the River Valley from federal ownership and Parks Canada’s diversity plan. A group of concerned citizens took notice of what they perceived to be government overreach regarding the National Urban Park Initiative, a federal program aimed to amplify urban parks in Canada.
In 2022, Edmonton’s Mayor Amarjeet Sohi offered up the entire Edmonton River Valley for this program, saying it would help break systemic barriers and allow additional federal support.
The National Urban Park Initiative includes policies that many Edmontonians found questionable, including their plan to “provide long-lasting benefits to the urban area” by using “sustainability, conservation, equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation.
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Read MoreElections Canada yesterday detailed plans for a media marketing campaign targeting young voters. Electors under 25 number 2.7 million but fewer than half, 1.2 million, cast ballots in the 2021 campaign.
“Most of them intend to vote in the upcoming federal election,” said a pollsters’ report. “A vast majority of participants saw voting as important including those who did not vote or were ambivalent about voting,” added researchers.
Voter turnout among electors of all ages averaged 63 percent in the last campaign. Turnout for those under 25 was 47 percent, prompting Elections Canada to organize a “new digital campaign specifically targeting youth,” it said.
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Read MoreResidents of Nottingham have hailed the unveiling of the country’s largest St George’s Flag, as England prepares to celebrate the day of its patron saint.
The 60ft-long flag was installed on the front of the city’s council house, as locals boasted about the display.
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Read MoreOne of Ahmed Alid’s housemates told police the defendant was previously turned down for asylum in Germany
A Moroccan asylum seeker on trial for stabbing a pensioner to death in the street and attempting to murder a Christian convert in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict told police he would have killed “thousands” if he had a rifle, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Ahmed Alid, 45, is on trial for the death of 70-year-old Terence Carney, a stranger whom he allegedly stabbed in Hartlepool town centre on October 15 2023, eight days after the Hamas attacks on Israel.
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Read MoreKids love playing with toys, but even adults would have fun with a Second World War military vehicle.
Norfolk County resident David Wassenich has a unique item that would make collectors and military enthusiasts – and the kid in everyone – envious: a functioning 1944 Studebaker M29C Weasel.
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“I’ve always loved military vehicles, even as a kid, but owning a tank . . . I didn’t realize the general public could,” Wassenich, 39, said.
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Read MoreJason Nixon, Alberta’s Minister of Community and Social Services, stressed his government ‘won’t be bribed with our own money’ to bring in ‘dangerous building codes’ that will increase the cost of living for every Albertan.
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Read MoreIt has been revealed that the Haitian illegal immigrant who allegedly killed his roommates in Middleton, New York earlier this month entered the United States using the Biden administration’s CBP One app.
Kenol Baptiste, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon before his deportation hearing was set to take place
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Read MoreDuring a Tuesday city council meeting in New York City, African migrants complained about the food they were given and having to leave the city accommodations after a set period.
One woman, speaking through an interpreter, told the Committees on Immigration and Hospitals that her children “cannot eat the food at the shelter.”
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Read MorePremier Danielle Smith is accusing Trudeau of encroaching on her jurisdiction by working directly with municipalities to solve the housing crisis.
Now as Blake Lough reports, a new provincial law is trying to make Alberta the gatekeeper.
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