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China is making significant strides in solidifying its presence in Nigeria through the newly inaugurated administration of President Bola Tinubu, according to a national politician.
Early talks between Chinese officials and Tinubu, who took office on May 29, indicate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is looking to expand its foothold in Africa’s largest democracy under the new government, a member of the Nigerian senate Simon Mwadkwon told The Epoch Times.
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Read MoreThe federal government has introduced new measures to protect against potential foreign interference in several byelections being held between June 19 and June 24, according to Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc.
Voters will head to the polls on June 19 for byelections in the Quebec riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, the riding of Oxford in southern Ontario, the Winnipeg South Centre riding, and Portage–Lisgar, another Manitoba riding.
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Read MoreBlinken and Xi pledge to stabilize deteriorated US-China ties, but China rebuffs the main US request
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said they agreed to “stabilize” badly deteriorated U.S.-China ties, but America’s top diplomat left Beijing with his biggest ask rebuffed: better communications between their militaries.
After meeting Xi, Blinken said China is not ready to resume military-to-military contacts, something the U.S. considers crucial to avoid miscalculation and conflict, particularly over Taiwan.
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Read MoreMurray’s interim report said that the federal government should give “urgent consideration” to using legal tools to deal with “denialists,” which should include both civil and criminal sanctions. According to Murray, after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation in B.C. announced that preliminary findings from a radar survey of the ground had discovered what could be up to 215 unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021, “denialists” wanted proof. “Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to ‘see for themselves’ if children are buried there. Denialists also attacked the community on social media.” So far, no excavations to recover remains have been performed at any of the sites alleged to potentially contain unmarked graves of indigenous children.
At the time, Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said, “This is not a mass grave site. These are unmarked graves.” According to Delorme, at one point in history, the graves may have had markers, but these may have been removed by the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s. He also acknowledged that the graves may not contain children, and it is not known if they have any connection to a nearby residential school that was there from 1899 to 1997. While the First Nations chief said some of the remains could belong to people who attended the church or lived in nearby towns, Delorme also said the community would be treating the site “like a crime scene.”
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Read MoreParliament is catering to transgender visitors by mandating the installation of “non-gender” washrooms, the Opposition Leader in the Senate said yesterday. “Why don’t we call a spade a spade?” Senator Donald Plett (Man.) told the Senate committee on internal economy.
“We are trying to sugar coat and skirt around the problem we have here,” said Senator Plett. “This all has to do with one issue and that is the gender issue.”
“That is the one and only reason we are doing it,” said Plett. “Let’s at least have the courage to admit that’s what we’re doing, that we’re catering to a group of people who say, ‘I want to go into a washroom I don’t belong in.’”
Parliament’s Centre Block, home of the iconic Peace Tower, closed in 2019 for a decade-long refit. Senator Plett objected to new plans by the Department of Public Works to install non-gender “self-contained washrooms” in the renovated building.
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Read MoreAddressing an audience in Montreal, Senator Victor Oh said he is planning to rent buses to transport up to 3,000 people to Ottawa for an upcoming demonstration against proposed legislation to create a foreign agent registry aimed at combatting foreign influence. “We need to rent buses to [transport people] from Toronto. I plan to rent 50 buses. … Each can accommodate around 55 to 60 people, so with 50 buses, that’s 3,000 people,” Oh told his audience in Chinese at an event held at the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre (MCCUC), according to a video posted June 13 on Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat. The video’s caption said Oh spoke “yesterday,” indicating the event was held on June 12.
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Read MoreAddressing an audience in Montreal, Senator Victor Oh said he is planning to rent buses to transport up to 3,000 people to Ottawa for an upcoming demonstration against proposed legislation to create a foreign agent registry aimed at combatting foreign influence.
“We need to rent buses to [transport people] from Toronto. I plan to rent 50 buses. … Each can accommodate around 55 to 60 people, so with 50 buses, that’s 3,000 people,” Oh told his audience in Chinese at an event held at the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre (MCCUC), according to a video posted June 13 on Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat. The video’s caption said Oh spoke “yesterday,” indicating the event was held on June 12.
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Read MorePrivy Council President Bill Blair yesterday said he never saw a secret memo on Chinese spies because it was sent to the wrong office. Blair’s earlier claim that information was deliberately withheld by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was contradicted in committee testimony.
“I am advised they sent it to another office with the intent that I would somehow get to see it,” Blair told reporters. “The briefing note was sent to another deputy head, to another office, not my office, and I was never advised that the report existed or where it could be located.”
Blair would not name the official who received the security warning. “Do you know if the memo was read?” asked a reporter. “I have no idea,” replied Blair.
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Read MoreCabinet yesterday said Canadian delegates will no longer attend meetings of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank but stopped short of dumping Canada’s shares in the Beijing operation. It followed complaints by a Canadian executive working for the Bank that the Communist Party “runs the joint.”
“The Government of Canada will immediately halt all government-led activity at the Bank and I have instructed the Department of Finance to lead an immediate review of the allegations raised and of Canada’s involvement in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters. Freeland stopped short of withdrawing Canadian funds from the Bank.
The review follows the abrupt resignation of Bob Pickard, a Toronto publicist working as chief of communications for the Bank. “As a patriotic Canadian this was my only course,” Pickard said in a statement. “The Bank is dominated by Communist Party members.”
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