National Identity
There was much to discuss at this week’s annual meeting of Nordic leaders in Iceland, from the short-lived rebellion in Russia and the war in Ukraine, to the ascension of Finland and Sweden to NATO, and the fate of the Arctic Council.
But if the meeting, to which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been invited as a special guest, was also intended to discuss Canada’s commitment to the region, the timing was pretty bad. Shortly after the PM was talking it up with his Nordic peers, it emerged that his government is shutting down its Arctic centre headquarters in Norway and moving it to Ottawa.
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Read MoreCanadians need to be made aware of the ways in which Non-Governmental Organizations are interfering in indigenous participation in Canada’s natural resource sector.
These organizations – which are almost all foreign entities with Canadian branches – hire activists and promote misleading commentary about Canada’s oil and gas sector and First Nations’ interest in development. These organizations, which include the Sierra Club, Stand Earth, World Wildlife Federation, and Tides Foundation, have garnered a great deal of sympathetic attention from the national and international media.
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Read MoreStaff in a briefing note to Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly complained media coverage of misconduct by Chinese agents has been “very negative.” The analysis noted the Prime Minister was openly criticized “for appearing to be weak.”
“The tone was very negative,” said the briefing note Analysis Of Media Coverage. “All the articles urged the government to be proactive and take China’s alleged interference in the 2019 elections seriously.”
“Overall, article angles were divided between criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau versus investigating how this interference infiltrated the Canadian political system,” wrote staff. While some media protested partisanship “others criticized Trudeau for appearing to be weak,” they wrote.
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Read MoreFederal departments and agencies spent millions advertising on the CBC even as private sponsors fled the network, records show. English television ad sales fell 25 percent with the loss of Hockey Night In Canada licensing.
Cabinet in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons said since 2019 federal sponsors spent $15.8 million buying CBC ads. The figures were requested by Conservative MP Tracy Gray (Kelowna-Lake Country, B.C.) who asked, “How much did each department, agency or other government entity spend on advertising with the CBC?”
The largest CBC sponsors were the Business Development Bank ($4.9 million), Department of Health ($1.6 million), VIA Rail ($1.3 million), Farm Credit Canada ($1.2 million), the Department of Employment ($945,000) and the Royal Canadian Mint ($919,000). Government ad revenues were in addition to a $1.3 billion annual parliamentary grant, the network’s largest revenue source.
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Read MoreIt didn’t take long for C-18 to shake up the Canadian media landscape after two of the country’s largest — and least profitable — newspaper publishers confirmed they are in talks to merge.
The companies took the unusual step of issuing a joint statement “in light of unusual trading activity” in their respective stocks, confirming they’re in “non-binding discussions” to consider a potential combination.
The way it reads makes it sound like it’s already a done deal.
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Read MoreA Paris suburb was struck with major violence overnight as residents protested the shooting of a teenager by police, with a major police deployment ready for more anger tonight.
A major police deployment to French cities is planned for this evening, with 2,000 extra officers called out, after a night of violence apparently triggered by the death of a teenager who tried to escape a traffic stop. Violence spread to several French cities and saw a town hall office burnt down.
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Read MoreThe World Economic Forum is back in China. The globalist organization, which is pushing for the “Great Reset” agenda, is partnered on the economic side with the United Nations Agenda 2030 program to remake the world. And that vision of what the new world should look like revolves around the “17 Sustainable Development Goals,” which read like a socialist wishlist that would make Vladimir Lenin blush.
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Read MoreA senator who threatened to sue Canadian media over China coverage took more state-sponsored trips to the People’s Republic than any other parliamentarian, records show. Senator Victor Oh (Ont.), a Mississauga developer, accepted six junkets at China’s expense to promote trade and “cultural exchanges.”
Records show Senator Oh from his appointment in 2013 by then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeatedly toured China as a guest of the Communist Party. Senator Oh within months of his appointment visited Changchun on a trade junket sponsored by the People’s Government of Jilin Province.
In 2014 he traveled to Hainan with his wife on a “cultural exchange” sponsored by the People’s Government of Hainan Province. Senator Oh returned to Hainan in 2015 on another “cultural exchange” as a guest of state-run Hainan Airlines.
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Read MoreImmigrants taking the citizenship oath at federal ceremonies receive as keepsakes a maple leaf pin made in China, records show. The Department of Immigration last year ordered a quarter-million pins from a Chinese vendor.
The 250,000 pins were purchased “for distribution at citizenship ceremonies,” the department wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons. The records were requested by Conservative MP John Brassard (Barrie-Innisfil, Ont.).
The pins cost 18¢ wholesale. The department earlier justified using Chinese suppliers since “they provided a product that was cost effective and achieved the best value for money.”
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Read MoreBy 1950, nearly 90% of status Indian kids were attending day schools on their home reserve, not residential schools. And fewer than one-third of indigenous children at any time attended a residential school.
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