Media including the CBC left Canadian Jews “ostracized and marginalized” by normalizing anti-Semitic themes in news coverage, B’nai Brith Canada said yesterday. The advocacy group’s Annual Audit Of Anti-Semitic Incidents for the first time faulted media as “megaphones for terrorist propaganda.”
Canada Post should offer small business the same discount bulk mail rates they offer banks, utilities and other large corporations, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet said yesterday. The election proposal comes ahead of new financial statements due in May that are expected to detail steep losses at the post office: "Nearly all businesses send and receive mail."
Canadians should expect to become poorer over the next five years, says a Privy Council report. The forecast was drawn from interviews with “experts across the Government of Canada” who said economic outlooks for families were so stark they predicted a national mental health crisis: 'It is crucial to anticipate potential future scenarios.'
Tesla vehicles remain eligible for federal rebates despite Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland’s claim that she froze payments to punish America. The transport department did not comment: "All vehicles that appear on the list have been deemed eligible."
CBC News says it will avoid all editorial comment on funding after Prime Minister Mark Carney promised it millions in additional subsidies if Liberals are re-elected. “During the election period we do not have any comment on the parties’ positions on CBC,” said Eric Wright, spokesperson for the network.
Parliament should abolish offshore tax agreements with “known havens" like those used by Brookfield Asset Management, says New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh. Brookfield under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mark Carney avoided more than $5 billion in federal taxes using offshore accounts, he said: "Is it ethical?"
The British Columbia First Nation that announced its discovery of 215 children’s graves sought a visit to the Kamloops Residential School site by Pope Francis, Access To Information records show. Minutes of a local meeting quoted councillors as remarking they were “the first to announce unmarked graves.”
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: “Neatly on my shelf, eighty books I haven’t read. They make me look inept. I should move with the times…”
Everything was political in the 1930s. It was a haunted decade that “almost made me a Communist,” as Alberta Premier William Aberhart put it. Strong, Beautiful and Modern captures the oddest political expression of all, the campaign for physical culture. Archival images of mass synchronized exercises of the Pro-Rec League in the parks of Vancouver bear an unnerving resemblance to parades of bronzed youth so popular in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia.
“Interest in fit, strong and beautiful bodies in the 1930s was not the monopoly of totalitarian and right-wing regimes,” writes historian Charlotte Macdonald. “Was it a modernity of individuality and freedom or of mass conformity and national duty?”
Beginning in 1937 with Britain’s Physical Training and Recreation Act and spreading through the “white Dominions” of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, legislators enacted national fitness programs. This is an intriguing story, crisply told.
Canadian universities are targets of foreign agents determined to intimidate critics and scout recruits, says an RCMP briefing note. The Mounties did not identify any campus by name but said foreign interference was sophisticated: "Universities can be used as venues for ‘talent spotting.'"
An emotional Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday recited comments from elementary schoolchildren he said were worried about an American takeover. Neither Liberal Party aides nor the Georgetown, Ont. school he claimed had forwarded the children’s comments would corroborate the story: "Last week I met a teacher."
Any future Conservative cabinet would remove the GST on the purchase of a new light passenger vehicle providing it is Canadian-made, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. Costs were not detailed: "This will boost the sale of new Canadian-made cars."
Public works should be financed through the sale of consumer savings bonds with a promise of tax-free interest, New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singhs said yesterday. Costs were not detailed: "Canadians are saying, ‘I want to do my part.'"
Indigenous Canadians do not have an ancestral right to sell marijuana without a license, a Nova Scotia judge has ruled. Provincial Court dismissed the “test case” of a First Nations distributor who invoked treaty rights following his arrest: "This type of offence has become a widespread problem."
Prime Minister Mark Carney only weeks before seeking the Liberal leadership lobbied Beijing’s mayor to “deepen co-operation," according to a Chinese account of the meeting disclosed yesterday by The Epoch Times. Carney lobbied as chair of Brookfield Asset Management though cabinet at the time had censured China for unfair trade practices that would "cripple our own industry."
