Blacklock's Reporter on X - "MEMO: @MelanieJoly's dept contemplates "legal action" against users on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook & other social media that it suspects of spreading "misleading information." https://t.co/r6XNHvEh5Q #cdnpoli @ISED_ca"
Blacklock's Reporter on X - "The department @ISED_CA itself would determine whether social media posts were “factually incorrect, misleading or out of context.” Any punitive measures against individuals would be “proportionate and subject to senior level approval.”"
Matt Alexander on X - "The Canadian government wants to determine if your posts are true, then take legal action against you if they deem them to be untrue. They redacted exactly what they considered as legal action. Interesting. LOST FREEDOM FILES # 5221"
Toronto Star faces heat over alleged spiked Carney critic column - "Supriya Dwivedi, a political commentator and former Liberal staffer, said on X that an editor at the Star told her the paper was pulling her column for the week. In a later post, she said the column had been approved and then “spiked” because of a tweet criticizing what she described as wrong reporting by the newspaper. In a Real Talk podcast episode description, Dwivedi has reportedly linked the alleged decision to her criticism of a Star report about Prime Minister Mark Carney and Nate Erskine-Smith, even after the paper later issued a correction. The dispute became politically combustible as Dwivedi’s recent commentary sits close to several live political fault lines for Carney’s government: India, foreign interference, privacy, and contested speech legislation. National Newswatch’s archive shows Dwivedi has been publishing across Canadian political issues, including columns on Bill C-22, surveillance pricing, Manitoba politics, and earlier Toronto Star work on Carney. The India file is especially loaded. Carney invited Modi to the June 15-17, 2025 G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, arguing that India’s economic weight made its presence relevant to the summit’s agenda. AP reported that the invitation came despite continued strain over the 2023 killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. Reuters later reported that a CSIS report identified India as a perpetrator of foreign interference in Canada and said transnational repression was central to India’s activity in the country. India has denied involvement in Nijjar’s killing. The Dwivedi controversy also landed weeks after Sylvain Charlebois, known as The Food Professor, said La Presse suspended his long-running column. Charlebois said the column had run for 25 years and more than 1,000 unpaid pieces before being suspended following his social-media comments about Canada’s media landscape, government support for media, and possible effects on editorial independence. Charlebois has now publicly linked his case to Dwivedi’s, calling the situation “deeply concerning.”"
Clearly, it was right and proper that she got fired for spreading misinformation. A responsible press cannot do that. If you don't think the government should subsidise the press and you think that creates a conflict of interest, you're a far right extremist and a fascist
Meme - *Stone rolling down hill*
10 YEARS OF LIBERAL POLICY: "HEALTHCARE. CRIME. DRUG EPIDEMIC. AFFORDABILITY. ENERGY. INFRASTRUCTURE. Immigration"
Running red jacketed Liberal Party members: "VOTE LIBERAL AGAIN!"
"It's Trump's fault!"
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 on X - "There are some long-time Liberals upset that I’m running for leader, in part, because I am trying to pull my party back towards liberalism. I believe that:
- The law should apply equally to everyone
- People should be judged on merit
- Markets should be competitive
- Opportunity must be real for all
- Government should be secular
- Speech should be free
- Excellence should be celebrated
These values are simple, but they are good, and our politics has wandered too far away from them."
Rachel Gilmore on X - "Speaking of the broligarchy’s project to influence Canadian politics… I just noticed something VERY interesting about an Ontario Liberal leadership candidate that’s confusing everyone with that ambition given his right-wing policies and anti-immigrant language:"
🌐 Rohit 🇮🇳🇺🇸🇨🇦 on X - "I'm an immigrant and I find no part of Eric's platform to be anti-immigrant. I'm very disappointed in @atRachelGilmore 's usage of straw arguments and ad-hominem. What's "right-wing" about Congestion Pricing, Platform Screen Doors, Transit Signal Priority and better compensation for Civil Servants tied to performance?"
Canada Proud on X - "#REPORT: Finnish President Alexander Stubb calls on Canada to join the European Union. He was quoted saying "wouldn’t it be lovely if Canada was the 28th state of the European Union rather than the 51st state of the United States?""
John Tomkinson on X - "28th EU state? Where’s the fake outrage from the left? Is Canada for sale to the EU? As Canada approaches national insolvency with no viable economic plan to reverse course, it appears we might become the target of a bidding war, Alberta excluded."
Left wing Canadians don't love sovereignty. They just hate the US
Meme - "If you're angered by Trump's jokes about the 51st state... But unbothered by these EU leaders seriously calling for Canada to become their 28" state... YOU HAVE FALLEN FOR PROPAGANDA"
Ben Woodfinden on X - "Wagner holds press conferences like this one every year to lecture Canadians that criticizing court decisions amounts to portraying judges “as partisan actors, or described as obstacles to the will of the people.” But if the judiciary wants to be “sheltered from all politicization,” maybe the Chief Justice shouldn’t be holding press conferences wading into political debates. You can’t appoint yourself a public commentator and then claim immunity from public criticism. Canadians have every right to object when courts invent rights found nowhere in the constitutional text or effectively legislate from the bench."
David Polansky on X - "Lèse-majesté is the outstanding political principle for much of the Canadian establishment"
Billy Bute on X - "A Bust of himself is sitting in the Grand Entrance Hall of the SCC, in full view for all to see, should tell you exactly what kind of person he is. This is highly unusual for a sitting Chief Justice to have his bust on display. Obviously an arrogant narcissistic Liberal elite."
Steve Saretsky on X - "2018: NDP cancels bridge plans already approved
2018-2021: NDP spends years reviewing alternatives.
2021: NDP announces a new 8-lane tunnel instead.
2024: NDP Selects a contractor to design and build the project.
2026: Still no tunnel construction. NDP Government terminates the contractor.
A masterclass in incompetence. 9 years later, same tunnel."
Damn Conservatives!
Meme - Only In Canada: Shrivasha Ramnasibsingh:
Enough Is Enough UCPI - Alberta: "The Maple Magas and especially The Alberta Separatists all have a serious case of CDS. CANADA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME The remedy? GET OUT OF CANADA."
Criticising your country is only patriotic when it pushes the left wing agenda. Telling people who don't like how things are to leave is only ridiculous and like selling a house with minor problems when it's left wingers complaining
Herb Powell on X - "Canada
Your prime minister was installed. It's true. He then won the election after having little chance. Then he made deals to steal a majority. His biggest accomplishment is enriching his own portfolio. You are the only nation in the g20 having a recession. They've shut down debate and are just ramming through bills to become law and entrap you in a digital prison. And the majority defend it, love it, thank it. Canada is being fleeced, we're being robbed, and most aren't mad at the people doing it, they're mad at the people seeing it."
Time to condemn PP again, because the Conservatives are destroying the country despite not having been in power for 11 years
Canada breaking U.S. trade dependence like fighting ‘gravity,’ new economic study shows - "The framework at the centre of their analysis is the gravity model of trade—among the most consistently validated tools in international economics. Its core insight is that commerce between any two countries tends to expand in proportion to their combined economic weight and contract in proportion to the costs, visible and hidden, of doing business across their shared border. Applied to Canada and the U.S., the model produces a straightforward verdict: the pull is immense, and the friction is low, and that combination is not easily replicated with any other partner... More than 100 million Americans live within a day’s drive of the Canadian border, and roughly 70 percent of Canadians are clustered within a maximum of a couple of hours’ drive to our southern neighbour. Cross-border shipments can move by truck or rail in hours. Meanwhile, reaching customers in Asia or Europe generally means container vessels and weeks at sea—options that carry costs no amount of port investment can bring fully into line with the economics of north-south trade... Where the paper complicates the government’s case is on the question of what actually drives trade resistance. Freight costs are the intuitive culprit, but academic research cited by the authors suggests they account for only about 10 percent of the drag that physical distance imposes on trade flows. The larger share comes from what trade economists call “dark costs”—an umbrella term for the trust deficits, informational gaps, unfamiliar legal environments, and absent commercial networks that make doing business with a new partner inherently more expensive and uncertain than continuing with an established one. Canada and the U.S. have spent decades bringing those costs down. With most prospective diversification partners, they remain largely intact... regional trade deals have shown no statistically meaningful positive effect on bilateral flows in energy and mining—sectors that together account for roughly 40 percent of Canada’s merchandise exports. Canada has held Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) membership since 2018, yet the data show scant evidence that other signatories have meaningfully increased their appetite for Canadian resources as a result. “Given the outsized role of energy and mining goods in Canada’s overall export portfolio, it does give one pause in thinking about the extent to which current and future trade agreements with non-U.S. countries are likely to affect foreign demand for Canadian goods,” Finlayson wrote. The more binding constraints, according to the economist, are domestic: bottlenecks in how Canada moves and prices its resources, rather than tariffs or market access terms abroad. “The challenges of exporting increased volumes of energy and mining goods from Canada have more to do with infrastructure constraints within Canada and the cost of producing and shipping goods from Canada than they do with foreign trade barriers,” he said... Ambitions from the Carney government to reorient the country’s trade geography should be informed by what that reality actually permits."
Damn Maple MAGA!
Mario Zelaya on X - "Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s department wants to sue Canadians for what they post on Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. This not conspiracy. It’s her department’s own words in an internal strategy memo. Most of it, conveniently redacted. She calls it “protecting integrity of public trust in government information.” Liberals conveniently have taken zero action against:
-Four floor crossing MPs who lied to their voters
-A minister who faked a CBC headline
-A PMO that pre-briefed a pollster on 24 Sussex
-A foreign minister who lied to Parliament and called it “submitted in error”
-Carney’s “New World Order” with China
THE GOVERNMENT WILL SUE YOU FOR YOUR SOCIAL POSTS BUT WILL NOT DISCIPLINE ITS OWN MINISTERS. Welcome to 1984."
Greg MacEachern on X - "One of the key organizers of the illegal occupation of downtown Ottawa gets an invitation to the US Ambassador’s 4th of July event. So that’s a pretty clear message."
Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM on X - "When, and by whom, was it declared an “illegal occupation”? That is a very specific and important claim. What we do know is that four judges have found the Emergencies Act was illegally invoked. If anyone has been found to have acted illegally, it is the federal government. Yet no one has been held accountable. Let us set the record straight once and for all. And perhaps that explains why Justin Trudeau did not receive an invitation."
Meme - Melissa @MelissaLMRogers: "HOLY CRAP. Canada's new reliable partner, CHINA, just imposed a 73.5% tariff on imports of Canadian pea starch. China says Happy Canada Day with a 73.5% TARIFF"
"China imposes 73.5% preliminary tariff on Canadian pea starch"
Damn USA! Damn Trump!
Canada sent no one to make its case against Trump tariffs - "Compare that with the room. Mexico sent its Economy Minister to appear in person and argue that there was no legal basis for the action, and that Mexico should be excluded. Peru’s minister argued that the United States had not carried out the individualized analysis the statute requires. Those governments treated a tariff proceeding against their workers as a fight over law and jurisdiction. Canada treated it as a form to fill out, and left half the form blank. Canadians like to say we go into a fight with our elbows up. Canada sent no person into that room, and no elbows. The people who pay for Canada’s absence were not in the room either. They are the autoworker whose plant went quiet, the steelworker whose shift was cut, the millwright in a town where the mill was the town, and then it wasn’t. Some of them have already lost the jobs this proceeding is about. They dismantled nothing, and they broke no rule. They are simply told, after the fact, what was decided about their livelihoods in a room their own country chose not to enter. They deserved someone there to defend their rights. They had an empty chair. I made Canada’s argument this week because someone with a Canadian connection had to, and no one from Ottawa would. That is not a role a private lawyer should have to fill. The government of a G7 country, facing tariffs on the work of its own citizens under a law that points the dispute somewhere else, should not have to be reminded to attend, or to argue, or to care."
Data banks on all of us would end up being hacked | Financial Post - " Omar Abdulaziz left Saudi Arabia in 2014, built a new life in Montreal and became one of the most prominent Saudi opposition voices outside the kingdom, as well as a close confidant of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In 2018 his phone was infected with Pegasus spyware, which was traced to a Saudi-linked operator and likely played a role in the chain of events that led to Khashoggi’s murder. Despite Abdulaziz seeking safety in Canada, his persecutors found him anyway. Parliament is now moving quickly to pass Bill C-22, the so-called Lawful Access Act, which would make Canada more susceptible to exactly that kind of targeted surveillance... The centrepiece of Bill C-22 is a provision allowing the minister of public safety to order companies to build access mechanisms into their encrypted services so they can access Canadians’ metadata — provided doing so doesn’t create a “systemic vulnerability.” But how can companies comply with this idea of avoiding “systemic vulnerability”? Creating a backdoor for Ottawa creates a backdoor for nefarious actors. In its parliamentary testimony, Apple accused Ottawa of inserting such backdoors into its products. Google went further, warning that the bill could facilitate foreign interference and weaken global user privacy precisely because a backdoor built for Ottawa doesn’t remain exclusive to Ottawa. Rather, it would be a massive green light for hostile foreign intelligence services, criminal hackers and any government willing to coerce, compromise or even legally compel companies to hand over information they want. No government can mandate “access only for the good guys.” This naive idea was debunked by every major cryptographer and technology company that testified regarding Bill C-22. There is no such thing as a vulnerability only the right people can exploit. On metadata specifically, the bill wants service providers to record and retain that information on all Canadians for six months, which is enough to know almost everything about most of us. The coverage is not just suspects or people under investigation but every person who sends a message or makes a call. Do you know anyone who doesn’t do so on a daily, if not hourly basis? The Bloc Québécois described the six-month data stores as a “treasure trove” for hackers. But that undersells the specific danger for people like Abdulaziz, or Sheng Xue, a Chinese dissident who fled to Canada and believes Chinese agents have tracked her movements and threatened her life. For a dissident from an authoritarian state, metadata alone can be a death sentence. Months of retained records reveal who someone contacts, when, how often and from where. It maps attendance at community meetings and protests and exposes any contact with people still living inside the home country. The intelligence services of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia do not need to hack individual phones to connect the dots, they just need the blueprint that this bill wants built and stored on behalf of everyone in Canada. That blueprint ultimately becomes exploitable by any state actor willing to hack or coerce the same access point. The market is already registering its verdict on the risks. Signal has said it would rather withdraw from Canada than compromise its privacy commitments. Toronto-based VPN provider Windscribe is already looking at relocating its headquarters because the bill would make it impossible to honour its no-data-collection policy, and NordVPN has said it is considering following suit. Canada has long presented itself as a sanctuary where people who flee surveillance states can live, speak and organize without fear of being found and watched by the governments they have escaped. Khalid Ramizy, an Afghani activist who fled the Taliban and founded the World Anti-Extremism Network, says: “Canada must remain a place where those fleeing authoritarian regimes can feel secure and protected.” Bill C-22 trades that reputation for surveillance architecture that those same governments will eventually exploit."
Shopify's policy head says Bill C-22 handicaps tech sector | Financial Post - "Ottawa’s lawful access act casts too wide a net and risks creating an expanded surveillance regime that could harm homegrown companies and jeopardize the country’s push to improve productivity and economic growth, says Shopify Inc.’s public policy chief. Michael Liboiron said if the act, Bill C-22, is made into law, it endangers small and mid-sized Canadian businesses because of its compliance burdens and could hinder the growth of larger ones. “If you’re a small company … and you’re being faced with this type of an order, it can be existential,” he said during a webinar hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation on Tuesday. He also said it could also curb the growth of larger Canadian companies such as Shopify that export technology and platforms to customers worldwide. “Exporting technology that is sourced from this type of a context is not optimal,” he said. “It’s a barrier to growth (and) growing your market share in other places in the world.”"
Clearly, the solution is to get other countries to pass similar laws
Stephen Harper helped save the conservative movement — and the country | National Post - "The first bill introduced by the Harper government was the Federal Accountability Act, which was a direct response to the Liberal sponsorship scandal. It seems almost surreal that some of our government’s biggest scandals involved a $16 bottle of orange juice and a staffer paying $90,000 of his own money to protect the public treasury. My first role, as minister of foreign affairs, gave me a unique vantage point that marked one of the biggest changes in policy from the previous government. We took morally sound positions on Israel, condemning the terrorist attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah, and their Iranian backers. On China, we took a cautious approach to trade that was mindful of the Chinese government’s long history of intellectual property theft, political interference and human rights abuses... Harper had tremendous pride in our country, which came in large part from his parents. His insistence on commemorating Canadian history, such as marking the 200th anniversaries of the War of 1812 and the birth of Sir John A. Macdonald and discovering the lost Franklin expedition, stands in stark contrast to the last decade of flag-lowering, destructive post-national tearful rhetoric and woke ideology. Harper believes passionately in the critical importance of national unity and sovereignty, in particular in the Arctic, where he hosted cabinet meetings alongside Leona Aglukkaq, the first Inuit woman to serve in cabinet. I stood aboard ships and on the tundra as we met with CAF members on the annual Arctic military expeditions known as Operation Nanook. It was apparent to me that Harper’s love of country and the CAF ran deep. On issues of law and order, we often faced fierce opposition. Our policy of putting the protection of the public at the centre of our justice system through mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes and the introduction of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights stand out. Cynically, some of our policies were struck down by the courts and are now being revisited and repackaged by the current government."
If you flag Carney's $70 orange juice as a problem, you are Maple MAGA
CTV News on X - "Canadians view China more favourably than U.S., new survey finds"
captive dreamer on X - "Truly some of the most propagandized people on earth"
Canada dispatch: Montreal activist Yves Engler found guilty over email campaign to police, original harassment charge dropped - "Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler was found guilty Friday by Quebec Court Judge Karine Giguère on three charges of harassment and obstruction of justice stemming from an e-mail campaign directed at a Montreal police detective... The charges relate to over 1,600 e-mails sent to Detective Francesca Anna Crivello on February 19, 2025, after Engler publicized her plan to arrest him and encouraged supporters to contact police. Notably, the original harassment charge related to media personality Dahlia Kurtz, which triggered the police investigation, was dropped by prosecutors in July 2025. The case originated in the summer of 2024 when Kurtz contacted Montreal police, alleging harassment over Engler’s social media posts criticizing her positions on the Israel-Gaza conflict. In February 2025, Detective Crivello of the Montreal hate crimes unit contacted Engler to inform him she would arrest him the following day on harassment charges related to Kurtz’s complaint. During that call, Crivello indicated she would impose a release condition prohibiting Engler from discussing the case on social media. The detective testified that this condition was “very rare” but necessary given the social media nature of the alleged harassment... Between 6:39 pm on February 18 and approximately 9:15 am on February 19th, when police installed an email filter, 1,662 emails reached Investigator Crivello’s inbox. In total, investigators identified 1,803 emails bearing the subject line “Drop charges against author Yves Engler.” Engler promoted the campaign across multiple social media platforms, where he has tens of thousands of followers. The judge noted that on X (formerly Twitter) alone, the post generated over 263,000 views within 15 hours... Detective Crivello testified that the volume of incoming emails prevented her from working on her computer because the system indicated she lacked space each time she tried to write an email. She described feeling “intimidated” and “targeted” because her full name and personal work email were used rather than a generic Montreal police address"
Weird. Left wingers are usually very keen to go all out on prosecuting "hate crimes"
