There Would Be No Need to Hide a Blacklist If the CBC Ceased to Exist

As it ought to be removed from the country:

The CBC yesterday would not release an internal guide detailing which public figures are banned from interviews by the news department. Travis Dhanraj, a former CBC-TV host, told the Commons heritage committee he had seen the guide and a companion blacklist of 45 names: “Do not go near these people.”

Not Everyone Sees It That Way

To wit:

Canadians are owed “solid proof” of unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools, Alberta Senator Scott Tannas said yesterday. “How do we address deniers when we don’t have any kind of solid proof?” Tannas asked the Senate committee on Indigenous peoples: “How do you see this ending?”

 The proles are owned an explanation, are they?

Why Does This Sound Familiar?

This:

The committee will deliberate expanding MAID to the mentally ill ahead of the conclusion of a temporary federal ban on assisted suicides for individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, which is set to expire on March 17, 2027.

Oh, yes!:

Children’s euthanasia was a prologue to the more ambitious and destructive campaign to kill mentally ill adults. Sometime in July 1939, Hitler commissioned his escort physician, Karl Brandt, and the head of the Führer’s Chancellery, Philip Bouhler, to organize adult “euthanasia.” In collaboration with Herbert Linden of the Reich Ministry of the Interior’s Department IV (a co-developer of the children’s program), they assembled a circle of ideologically reliable doctors around them to assist with planning and executing the program. The circle included the chaired professor of neurology and Psychiatry, Max de Crinis; the director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology of Heidelberg University, Carl Schneider; Professor Berthold Kihn of Jena; and Werner Heyde, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Würzburg. The circle of initiates also included Ernst Wentzler, Helmut Unger, Hans Heinze, Hermann Pfannmüller, Dr. Bender of the mental hospital at Berlin-Buch, and Professor Paul Nitsche of the asylum at Sonnenstein near Pirna. In late July and August 1939, a series of meetings occurred between these hand-selected individuals in Berlin. Bouhler explained to the participants that “euthanizing” mental patients in German asylums and nursing homes would create necessary hospital space for the impending war, freeing up medical staff to care for the wounded. Bouhler further indicated that Hitler had refrained from publishing a euthanasia law for foreign policy reasons. He went on to reassure everyone present that they would be immune from criminal prosecution for their actions in connection with the killing program, inviting dissenters to withdraw from involvement if they so desired.

 

No Country For Anyone

Presented with no comment:

So two-and-a-half years after Hamas’s slaughter in southern Israel, what do we have in the way of concrete action? Carney mentioned new legislation, presumably referring to Bill C-9 on hate speech, but that’s hardly a game changer, even as it activates freedom-of-speech concerns. Critics, including the Conservatives, argue compellingly that it adds little of value to the Criminal Code that isn’t already in there just waiting, in theory, to be enforced.

What most still seem to be missing is that even when laws are enforced, it often goes nowhere. Pick a well-publicized incident of anti-Israel attacks since Oct. 7, 2023 where charges have been laid, and chances are very good those charges have been dropped.

There was the “Indigo 11,” the gang of weekend revolutionaries who vandalized a location of Heather Reisman’s bookstore chain in November 2023, accusing her of “funding genocide.” Two of those charged pleaded guilty to mischief and received absolute discharges — i.e., they won’t have a criminal record. All the rest of the charges were dropped.

That same month, Calgary police tried charging a protestor for chanting “from the river to the sea,” as a public-disturbance charge, with a “hate motivation” attached. The Crown declined to proceed.

In September 2024, three anti-Israel activists were arrested and charged for harassing then immigration minister Marc Miller’s office in Montreal. The Crown dropped the charges.

In November 2024, anti-Israel protesters refused Ottawa police instructions to stay on the sidewalk near the Human Rights Monument, as opposed to blocking Elgin Street. Five people were charged with mischief, obstructing police and participating in an unlawful protest. All those charges were dropped.

Remember the folks who disrupted the Giller Prize book awards ceremony that same month, claiming title sponsor Scotiabank “funds genocide”? Three people were charged with “obstruct(ing), interrupt(ing) or interfer(ing) with the lawful use, enjoyment or operation of property,” as well as “use of a forged document.” The Crown then withdrew all charges.

Readers may recall an ugly scene a few weeks later at Toronto’s Eaton Centre outside a Zara store, where various goons harassed staff and appeared to scuffle physically with police. A 34-year-old man was charged with unlawful assembly, interfering with property and assaulting a peace officer. That case was dropped.

In October 2025, a protest on behalf of the Gaza-supporting “freedom flotilla” blocked a major downtown Toronto intersection for hours, resulting in nine arrests for unlawful assembly, obstructing a peace officer and common nuisance. Six weeks later, the Crown dropped the charges “for lack of public interest based on the need to be judicious with respect to the use of court resources.”

(As always, the definition of “public interest” in a Canadian courtroom is entirely up to the lawyers in attendance.)

Anti-Israel protesters will surely have noticed these outcomes, and could only have been emboldened.

The Legal Support Committee, which aids protesters arrested under the Palestinian flag in Toronto, recently offered left-wing online news outlet The Grind some remarkable statistics: Of 154 people criminally charged between October 2023 and January this year in Toronto, 96 cases have been resolved. In 94 cases the charges were dropped or stayed, or the accused received absolute discharges. (That’s similar to a count provided by Toronto Police: 165 arrests representing 309 charges, though it doesn’t maintain a tally of case outcomes.)

The Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism (ALCCA) has been keeping track of such cases as well. The only convictions it notes that are relevant to this discussion are those of Omar Elkhodary, who assaulted a woman putting up posters of child hostages taken by Hamas, and received a five-month conditional sentence followed by a year of probation; and Razaali Bahadur, who got a year in jail for inciting hatred against Jews, to wit, bellowing at children through a megaphone that their parents had “raped and murdered (Palestinian) children.”

A Toronto Police spokesperson underscored for The Grind that just because the Crown doesn’t proceed with charges does not mean there weren’t grounds for arrest. But when the prosecution rate is this low, surely it’s stretching that point nearly to breaking: If the Crown’s not willing to proceed with protest-related charges, are those things really illegal? Should people be arrested for them in the first place? Arresting someone isn’t just supposed to be a way to defuse a tense situation at a protest.

And of course, some of the most disturbing incidents since October 7 haven’t led to any charges at all. Marching through a Jewish neighbourhood in protest over Israel’s assault on Gaza, for example, is about as nakedly antisemitic as you can get — an unambiguous statement that Canadian Jews are responsible for Israel’s actions purely by dint of being Jewish. Not only do Toronto Police not think it’s their job to stop that from happening; they escort those marches through the Jewish neighbourhoods.

On Wednesday, the federal government committed $10 million “to help Jewish institutions strengthen security at gathering spaces such as schools, daycares, camps and places of worship.” That’s better than nothing. -

(Sidebar: it IS nothing and you know it.) 

 But it’s profoundly disturbing, and a national scandal, that playing defence — bollards outside schools, bulletproof windows and doors, even more security — is the only plausible idea anyone in charge seems to have.

 

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week vantage point ...

Carney announcing he's going to visit another country that just signed a multi-billion deal with Brookfield. China, UAE, Quatar, India and now Norway.

March 6 2026: Brookfield signs a $2.6B deal with Norway.

March 9 2026: Carney announces he's going to Norway. @dsimieritsch pic.twitter.com/tKsDQxOgon

— G.M. Forbes (@gmforbes35) March 10, 2026

Give the government installed to fail another try:

As the prime minister continues his latest circumnavigation of the globe in pursuit of trade opportunities, his government’s memorandums of understanding are piling up like St. John’s snowdrifts in March.

This year alone, the prime minister’s website lists fresh agreements with China, Qatar, Luxembourg, India and Australia.

The latest list of putative deals from India suggests the government has now signed $85 billion worth of global investment agreements in the past 10 months. This would be big, if true, since foreign direct investment in Canada reached a 20-year high of $96.8 billion last year.

But the applause should be held until we see the evidence.

Adam Chambers, the Conservative critic on international trade, said the prime minister has no problems setting expectations very high on the world stage.

“However, the risk he faces is one of results.  These memorandums of understanding and agreements to agree generally do not guarantee actions or results.  The prime minister’s time spent as a central bank governor and as lead finance official for international engagements would often see heavily negotiated communiques tossed aside when the respective parties returned to their home countries.  Success should be measured by results achieved — not on promises to deliver something in the future,” he said.

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According to Statistics Canada’s January numbers , Canada employs 4.6 million people in government, representing 21.8 per cent of all workers. That’s over one in five working Canadians drawing a paycheque from a state-supported institution. We’re approaching the share seen in the early 1990s, just before federal and provincial governments undertook major fiscal reforms.

Even more striking: public sector workers now represent 11 per cent of Canada’s entire population, the highest share on record.

Public sector employees include all workers employed by federal, provincial and local governments, government agencies, Crown corporations, and publicly funded establishments like schools, universities, and hospitals. It’s a broader measure than just bureaucratic administration.

The pandemic sparked the surge, but the expansion continued well past emergency measures. Between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2025, Canada added approximately 822,000 public sector employees, a 21.9 per cent increase. Over the same period, Canada’s population grew by 3.7 million , or 9.9 per cent. Government hiring outpaced population growth by more than two to one.

Throughout this period, the federal government and many provinces ran budget deficits, meaning this workforce expansion is largely debt-financed. Canadians aren’t just covering the salaries; they’re paying interest on the borrowed money to fund them.

Every dollar of government spending must eventually be funded by current or future taxation. When businesses anticipate higher future tax burdens to service today’s deficits, they think twice about investing and expanding. When talented workers are drawn into stable government jobs, they are redirected away from the riskier businesses, startups and innovations that drive productivity growth.

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Complaints of misleading “Made in Canada” labeling increased tenfold since tariff troubles erupted with the U.S., says the Food Inspection Agency. Inspectors attributed it to “an increase in awareness.”

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Defence Minister David McGuinty fell billions short of promised spending on military preparedness equivalent to 2 percent of GDP in 2025, new figures confirm. Cabinet has promised to try again this year: ‘We are making reliable contributions to our allies.’

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Defence Minister David McGuinty included costs of tree-planting in attempting to meet a minimum 2 percent NATO target on military spending, Access To Information records show. The defence department still fell billions short: ‘It’s for the ongoing planting of approximately 14,450 trees at strategic locations.’

 

The Trudeau dynasty must be expunged from memory:

The 1968 federal election was the first for the new Progressive Conservative leader, Robert Stanfield. Like other leaders before him, Stanfield had a Quebec lieutenant, in this case, Marcel Faribault. Westerners were suspicious of Faribault.

At a candidate forum in the rural Alberta riding of Crowfoot, arch-conservative MP Jack Horner was asked about Faribault. Himself a bit skeptical of the fellow, Horner replied, “I don’t know much about Faribault, but at least I could say this: that he’d fought for our country in the last war. Need I say more?” The audience went quiet.

It was sufficient that Faribault had served in World War Two to get the respect of Albertans. Why? Because the new Liberal leader and prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, had refused to serve. When war broke out in 1939, Trudeau was of military age, fit, and healthy. But he did not want to fight for Canada. He thought it was someone else’s war.

Even some of Trudeau’s admirers seem ashamed of his actions and statements about the war. A few years ago, John English, a former history professor at the University of Waterloo and also a former Liberal MP, wrote a favourable two-volume biography of Pierre Trudeau. In the first volume, Citizen of the World, Trudeau’s attitude and response to the war are explained.

When war broke out, English writes curtly, “Pierre could have enlisted, but he did not.”

It wasn’t just that he didn’t enlist. He openly opposed Canada’s participation. Indeed, English notes, “Trudeau’s virulent opposition to the war was publicly expressed.”

In November 1942, during a federal by-election in Montreal, Trudeau actively campaigned for an anti-conscription, Quebec nationalist candidate. At a major campaign event, Trudeau gave a fiery speech that was subsequently published in the newspaper, Le Devoir. According to English, in this speech, Trudeau “minimized the Nazi threat” and stated that “the government had irresponsibly declared war even though North America faced no direct threat of an invasion.”

Of course, the Second World War led to hardships for millions of Canadians. Coming from a wealthy background, however, Pierre Trudeau lived a life of ease. “Throughout this period, Trudeau lived at the family home, with its chauffeur and servants, while denouncing the bourgeois life.”

Perceptively, English adds, “It was easier to be anti-bourgeois when your circumstances were thoroughly bourgeois.”

The basic point is this. While Canadian soldiers were fighting and dying overseas, “Trudeau and his associates stood on separate ground, avoiding the battles in Europe while furiously debating what their future as francophone professionals would be in a modern North America.”

Useless sack of crap.

 

It wasn’t only the government buoyed by replacement immigration.

Others were in on the scam, too:

However, the government does not bear the full blame for the sharp increase. Between 2020 and 2022, numerous business, educational and non-governmental organizations supported raising permanent and temporary immigration levels and easing restrictions on temporary workers.

The provinces, with the exception of Quebec , also generally went along with the federal immigration strategy, backing large numbers of international students, whose higher tuition helped fund post-secondary schools.

Ontario, which is dead last in government funding for post-secondary education, was particularly egregious in its use of international students to maintain the financial stability of its universities and colleges. This strategy aimed to compensate for its freezing of provincial funding since 2019, a policy that was only recently reversed .

The education sector overall was similarly bullish on international students, driven by limited provincial funding and the lucrative gains from higher enrolments. Universities Canada urged the federal government to “invest in diverse talent, both undergraduate and graduate, domestic and international. ”

Colleges and Institutes Canada argued that, “International talent will play a critical role in tackling skills gaps in may sectors and meeting the labour needs of Canadian employers.” Neither seem to have considered the broader, longer-term impacts. Some academics noted the growing “education-immigration nexus ” and institutional implications, but did not question the societal effects of high immigration.

Many academics and numerous conferences, including Metropolis and Pathways to Prosperity , supported higher levels of immigration. The Canadian Council for Refugees predictably argued for increased numbers of refugees after the pandemic.

The business community prioritized immigration as a cheaper means to meet labour-market needs than raising wages and investing in technology.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business , which represents small and medium-sized enterprises, argued that the federal government should make it easier for businesses to bring in foreign workers, including those categorized as lower-skilled.

The Business Council of Canada surveyed companies and found that half thought Canada should increase the number of permanent residents, with the majority supporting the levels outlined in the government’s 2022–24 immigration plan.

The Conference Board of Canada and the Century Initiative similarly argued that, “Increasing Canada’s immigration levels remains the most effective lever to grow our economy and address persistent labour-market needs,” with the latter recognizing the need for “ growing well ,” rather than just higher numbers.

However, some demographers, geographers and labour-market economists offered a more balanced view of higher permanent and temporary immigration.

David Ley , a geography professor at the University of British Columbia, for example, highlighted immigration’s impact on housing costs. Economists Fabian Lange, Mikal Skuterud and Christopher Worswick noted that, “Increasing low-skilled immigration to increase the overall size of the economy risks driving down average living standards in Canada.”

Post-pandemic recovery and stakeholder pressure do not excuse the previous federal government’s ill-advised expansionist policies, even though those pressures are real, and hard for politicians and policymakers to ignore.

The recent decline in public support for immigration has not prompted serious self-reflection on the impacts to housing, health care, social services and infrastructure. In terms of the five stages of grief , most stakeholders have not progressed beyond the early states of denial, anger and bargaining.

Returning to measured, human-capital-based immigration policies depends on the grieving parties reaching the acceptance stage. They need to learn to live with the new reality, rather than trying to roll the stone back up the mountainside.

 

Also:

Anyone in the world who shows up in Canada and makes an asylum claim is entitled to free subsidized daycare if citizens get it too, said all but one judge of the Supreme Court on Friday. They framed their decision as a matter of social justice — seemingly ignorant that their words degraded the value of Canadian citizenship by extending our social safety net, which we pay for, to unvetted foreigners.

 

We don’t have to trade with China:

The big trouble is that when dealing with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a little “stabilizing” can slide into “normalizing” relations with a state that’s anything but normal or trustworthy. And when the costs of dependence and arbitrary political decisions are calculated, far fewer economic agreements look worthwhile. All four countries have been down that rough road before: Canada (and I) had the ordeal of the Meng-Michaels affair; India got a border war that killed 20 of its soldiers; Australia spent years in the Party’s doghouse losing billions of dollars in trade; and Japan is currently suffering its economic and diplomatic wrath after Takaichi stated publicly what has been longstanding policy on Taiwan. The uncomfortable reality is that accommodating Beijing’s demands at best yields temporary relief, and at worst incentivizes further bullying.

All four Indo-Pacific prime ministers can see how the CCP is increasingly contesting the balance of power in their region. China seeks not only to supplant the United States, but also to divide, co-opt and weaken any other countries it fears might band together to constrain its ambitions. To that end, and to prop up its own unbalanced economic growth, for the past decade Beijing has been rolling out the biggest industrial policies in history. It wants to seize the commanding heights of advanced technology and manufacturing, make other countries more dependent on China, and reduce China’s reliance on others. Chinese officials insist they support the WTO and free trade and oppose tariffs, but their policies put the lie to this propaganda. Their aggressive mercantilism, which last year generated an unprecedented US $1.2 trillion trade surplus, has played a key role in provoking Trump’s tariffs and now is subjecting the world economy to a Second China Shock.

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China scholar and former Canadian diplomat Charles Burton says Beijing expects that its strategic partnership with Ottawa means Canada will refrain from disrupting its espionage and foreign interference operations.

The partnership suggests Canada “won’t disrupt China’s operations in Canada, and espionage and influence operations, so that they can continue to expand their influence in Canada for the future when, from their point of view, China becomes the dominant power on the planet,” Burton said.

Burton’s comments come after Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a visit to China in January that Ottawa’s relations with Beijing had entered “a new era” and the two countries were in a “strategic partnership.”

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On the surface, these are noble goals. But the MPS is not a standard police force; it is the primary arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s internal security apparatus — the same body responsible for "Operation Fox Hunt" (whose purported aim is to capture or harass political dissenters), as well as the establishment of illegal overseas police stations on Canadian soil.

Why the great wall of secrecy? Why the silence?

Despite repeated calls from opposition MPs Michael Chong and Frank Caputo, this Liberal government has officially deemed the MOU "confidential." Unlike trade deals, which at least offer high-level summaries, the operational protocols of this police pact remain locked in a vault. If you are not deeply disturbed by this, you should be.

The government’s excuse is predictable: "operational security" and the "sensitivity of diplomatic relations." However, this lack of disclosure masks a deeper failure. By refusing to publish the full text, the government has failed to provide any public evidence of safeguards that prevent the RCMP from inadvertently sharing data on Canadian dissidents under the guise of "criminal investigations."

Or oversight mechanisms. For example, we do not know who, if anyone, monitors the "bilateral working groups" to ensure they don't become pipelines for Chinese intelligence.

Or any indication of jurisdictional boundaries. It remains unclear whether this MOU grants Chinese "liaison officers" increased access to Canadian information, territory, or security and intelligence databases.

The backlash has been swift and severe. The critics of this MOU have spoken out, and we really need to pay attention. Diaspora groups, particularly the Hong Kong Watch and various Uyghur advocacy organizations, have expressed "profound alarm." For those who fled Communist China’s reach in Asia, seeing the RCMP shake hands with their former oppressors is nothing short of a betrayal.

Former RCMP senior officer Garry Clement and other security experts warn that the MPS uses "cooperation" as a cover for transnational repression. Without a public list of "no-go" zones, critics fear the RCMP could be tricked into assisting in the "return" of political targets labelled as "financial criminals" by Beijing.

The mere existence of a secret police pact creates a "trust crisis." If a Hong Kong-Canadian activist believes the RCMP is sharing information with Beijing, they stop reporting threats. They stop speaking to the media. They disappear from the democratic process. In effect, the Carney government is outsourcing the silencing of its own citizens.

The timing of this is particularly galling. Justice Hogue’s inquiry into foreign interference recently concluded that China’s activities in Canada are "real and persistent." To sign a secret police pact with the very entity accused of that interference is, as one critic put it, "inviting the fox to help guard the hen house.”

 

But you can't let the US invade Canada.

That would be weird somehow.

B!#ch, please – we’re poised to kill more people than the Second World War did:

Trade with the United States is compromising Canada’s “moral compass,” a Commons committee chair said yesterday. Liberal MP Salma Zahid (Scarborough Centre-Don Valley East, Ont.) said internal American immigration enforcement raised “serious human rights questions.”

Someone owes Sarah Palin an apology.

She’s waiting.

 

A country that has allowed Nazis into its borders, allows Jews to be terrorised, films a man as he is being murdered, dissolves traditional marriage for votes, wallows in its political corruption, appeals to the basest jingoism while forgetting the country’s original underpinnings is not a country that is serious.

It is a country incapable of self-reflection but indulges in self-congratulation and hypocrisy.

To wit:

A survey of 25 countries by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center has found that Americans are most likely to rate others living in their country as morally or ethically bad. In fact, it was the only country where more people defined others as bad than good.

At the other end of the scale was Canada.

Participants in the survey were asked: “Generally, how would you rate the morality of (survey country nationality) – are their morals very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad or very bad?”

In America, four per cent of respondents chose “very good,” while 43 per cent said “somewhat good,” for a total of 47 per cent on the good side. Meanwhile, 11 per cent thought other Americans were “very bad,” and another 42 per cent went with “somewhat bad,” putting 53 per cent on the bad side.

Several other countries — Turkey, Brazil, Greece and France — had a near 50-50 split on the good and bad responses, but the United States was the only one where the bad outweighed the good.

Canadians, however, were the most likely to view their fellow citizens as morally and ethically good. To the same question, more than a third of Canadians said others in this country were very good (38 per cent) and more than half chose somewhat good (54 per cent). A mere five per cent said they thought Canadians were somewhat bad, and just two per cent chose very bad. (One per cent did not know or refused to answer.)

 

It’s about time someone mentioned this:

Autism should not be considered a “spectrum”, according to one of the architects of the theory.

Dame Uta Frith, a pioneer of research that underpins our understanding of autism, said the spectrum was now so “accommodating” it was “completely meaningless”.

The 84-year-old said while the factual definition of autism remained, the interpretation of the condition had changed over time, becoming “more inclusive”.

“The basic definition of autism that I’ve given you – that it’s lifelong and neurodevelopmental, and that there are communication difficulties and restricted behaviour – has remained the same,” Dame Uta told the Tes magazine.

“It is generally accepted. But the interpretation of that definition is a different matter, because we have made it more inclusive.”

Dame Uta, an emeritus professor in cognitive development at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, said the “spectrum” concept came about because “nothing is a neat category, and we wanted to include the not-so-typical cases”, and so widened the criteria.

“But that’s very difficult, because what’s notable about being part of a huge spectrum that we all belong to? We’re all neurodiverse; we can accept this because all our brains are different. But it makes a medical diagnosis completely meaningless,” she said.

Dame Uta said they had adopted a spectrum approach because the “categorical approach” had meant lots of people did not fit within the precise definition. She warned, however, that “because of various cultural factors, the spectrum has gone on being more and more accommodating, and I think now it has come to its collapse”.

“This is something that I don’t think has been quite recognised, because people still hang on to the idea that there is something that unites all the people who are diagnosed as autistic. I don’t believe that any more,” she said.

Dame Uta added that it seemed now that there were “two big subgroups” which included those diagnosed early in childhood, typically under five, and those diagnosed later in life, who she suggested could be called “hypersensitive”.

The latter, she said, was “made up of a lot of adolescents, and among them, a lot of young women” who are “without intellectual impairment, who are perfectly able to communicate verbally and non-verbally, but who might feel highly anxious in social situations”.

This group of primarily young women and teenagers, Dame Uta said, was growing at a “frightening rate”, but that the first group was “only moderately increasing”.

“In autistic children with intellectual disability, there has not been any real increase; that group seems quite stable,” she said.

“I think the people in the second group really do have problems. I would definitely not say they are ‘making it up’. But I would say that these are problems that can perhaps be treated much better than under the label of ‘autism’. I would fight for that label to be limited to the first group,” she added.

Dame Uta also said the condition “existed from birth” and would still call it a “disorder” despite some objecting to this.

The professor said many people were “self-diagnosing” and putting pressure on doctors to diagnose them, while also criticising the current testing methods, which rely on a patient’s “subjective experience, rather than on objective clinical observation”.

It’s some sort of fashion to pretend at being “neurodiverse”, as if the social currency of simply being awkward, as opposed to being trapped in one’s own mind and body, was not at all pretentious and utterly insulting.

It is.

 

Also – this is fiction, too:

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional.

Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, has published the cases since 2000 in articles for a series for its Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program. The articles usually start with a case description followed by “learning points” that include statistics, clinical observations and data from CPSP. The peer-reviewed articles don’t state anywhere the cases described are fictional.

Some People Are "Special"

But don't take my word for it:

Homeowners in the Vancouver area should know that the title to their land hasn’t been taken away from them by the Mark Carney government. That said, an expert in constitutional law and Indigenous rights said he understands why people are anxious when they hear about the recently signed agreement between Ottawa and the Musqueam Indian Band in the Vancouver area. …

On Feb. 20, during a Friday afternoon when most people had checked out for the weekend, the Carney government announced what it called “Historic Agreements Recognizing Rights, Stewardship and Fisheries.” The part that had people wondering about their home, land or business ownership was where the federal government signed an agreement giving right and title to the Musqueam Indian Band to pretty much all of the land in Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond and much of Delta.

“The purposes of this agreement are to: (a) recognize Musqueam’s Rights and Title within Musqueam Territory; (b) demonstrate progress in incrementally implementing Musqueam’s Rights and Title,” the document says.

That part of the agreement and many others have left Vancouver-area residents unsure about the future. The phrase “rights and title” has a very specific meaning that denotes ownership, which understandably has many people wondering about the repercussions.

“These agreements do not impact private property,” Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty said in a post on X last week.

That’s nice and so too is a statement from Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow saying they aren’t coming for anyone’s private property. The problem is that words in legal documents have meaning and a court could easily see the words in this document meaning something different down the road.

“There’s this cloud of uncertainty,” Newman said.

So many questions, so few answers

All of this is taking place against the backdrop of the Cowichan Tribes v. Canada court decision last year that granted the Cowichan Tribes rights and title over more than 7.5 sq. km, more than 1,800 acres, of land in Richmond, B.C. That land is now land that the Musqueam has been given rights and title to in their agreement with the Carney government.

The Musqueam are appealing the Cowichan court decision, saying it infringes on their land. Meanwhile, the Squamish Nation is challenging the Musqueam agreement saying that it infringes on their traditional territory.

In the background, homeowners and businesses throughout the Vancouver area wonder what any of this means for them and the land that they think they own.

After the Cowichan decision, there were also claims that nothing would impact private property owners. Yet, the British Columbia government ended up putting forward a $150-million fund to assist landowners after banks and other lenders said mortgages in the area were in question.

Newman said that in the Cowichan case, Justice Barbara M. Young made the argument that Aboriginal title and private property ownership, called fee simple title, can coexist.

 “She says at one point that the two can coexist, which doesn’t make sense, because each is an exclusive ownership of the land and two people can’t both exclusively own the exact same thing,” Newman said.

Newman points out that the New Brunswick Court of Appeal shut down an attempt by the Wolastoqey Nation to try to claim Aboriginal title over private land rather than Crown land. That is the opposite of what was decided in B.C. in the Cowichan decision and Newman believes this will end up at the Supreme Court.

“We might see the Supreme Court of Canada engage with this question sooner than later if they decide to hear an appeal,” he said.

Newman admitted that there is a lot of complication and uncertainty and that is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future as these cases work their way through the system.

Bottom line: You haven’t lost the title to your home, but that doesn’t mean you won’t.

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People living in a trailer park in the Comox Valley say they’re being evicted unfairly by the K’omoks First Nation.

The First Nation has given notice that residents at the Queneesh Mobile Home park have less than two years to move off the property.

Many considered them their forever homes.

With the high cost of moving a trailer and extremely limited places to legally move them, the residents say they deserve better.

“There’s no place to move our trailers to on the Island. We are stuck. We have put our life savings into this trailer, and now we have to leave with nothing. That is ludicrous,” said Kathy Jenkins, a park resident of 34 years.

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After 11 years of reconciliation fewer than half of employees in one major federal department say they have a clear understanding of what it means or how it applies to their work. It follows a 2024 Privy Council survey of Indigenous people that found reconciliation had not resulted in “any tangible improvements in the qualify of life for Indigenous people.”

From the "Most Transparent" Government in the Country's History

The Canadian people do NOT have the right to know anything, apparently:

🚨The Liberals are shutting down debate on their own censorship bill.

Bill C-9 will not stop the attacks we’ve seen against Jewish Canadians or places of worship across this country. Canadians want real leadership against rising anti-Semitism — not rushed legislation and… pic.twitter.com/WUav2Yvxjx

— Larry Brock (@LarryBrockMP) March 9, 2026

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Immigration Minister Lena Diab’s office yesterday declined comment over its refusal to speak to independent media. Only newsrooms that meet criteria for government approval will be granted questions, according to a Department of Immigration notice: “The department must be satisfied.”

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The federal Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has redacted nearly all details from internal reports describing how a B.C. First Nation spent millions in taxpayer funding intended to locate alleged graves of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Blacklock's Reporter says documents released under the Access to Information Act show the department labelled the reports “confidential,” concealing details about work undertaken by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation after Ottawa provided $12.1 million to support searches tied to claims that 215 children were buried on the site.

The reports, filed in 2023, were requested to determine what activities were completed as part of the federally funded effort to identify burial sites.

However, all substantive material was blacked out by the department.

The funding was originally provided to “coordinate engagement, investigation and commemoration activities related to the 215 missing children and burial sites.”

By the time the reports were filed, the First Nation had already received $8,394,166 of the total grant.

Federal officials cited multiple sections of the Access to Information Act to justify withholding the details, including provisions covering personal information, confidential technical data and material supplied in confidence by third parties.

The department also said disclosure could interfere with contractual or other negotiations.

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Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.

Jason Jacques’ six-month term as the interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) ended on March 2 without Prime Minister Mark Carney’s (Nepean, Ont.) government appointing a successor. It’s the second time the Liberals have put off making a permanent appointment, after Giroux’s term expired in September 2025.

Giroux, who left after completing a seven-year term, said this shows the government is “not concerned at all” with this position being empty. 

“The position being vacant means that the office cannot answer MPs’ or committees’ requests, and they cannot publish anything. So, de facto, it means that, for parliamentarians, the office is shut down, and it means the same thing for the media and Canadians because the longer the position remains empty, the longer the PBO or the office cannot publish anything,” he told The Hill Times in a March 2 interview.

 

Shooting At the American Consulate in Toronto

Another sign of escalating violence and anti-Westernism in Canada:

Toronto police have released more information about an early morning shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, and an image of a suspect vehicle.

Police responded to a call at 5:29 a.m. Tuesday concerning a firearm being discharged in front of the building on University Avenue.

They noted that a white Honda CR-V was seen travelling westbound on Dundas Street West before turning southbound onto University Avenue and stopping in front of the Consulate. At that point, they said, two males exited the vehicle and fired multiple rounds at the building.

The suspects then re-entered the vehicle and drove southbound on University. When officers arrived, they found damage to the glass and door of the building, as well as shell casings at the scene. People were inside the building at the time, but no injuries have been reported.

More to come.

Bungling Is the Liberal Way!

While Israel and the US are dealing with a forty-seven year old problem, Canada cannot decide which side to be on or even if Canada should be involved in this game-changing conflict.

(Sidebar: it certainly won't turf people who shouldn't be here in the first place.)

In the vacuum, Canada is not ready to step in where it could if it were able: oil.

Decades of whittling the armed forces to nothing and a deliberate decision to keep as much oil in the ground as possible have made Canada even more functionally useless than before: 

The folly of Canada’s last decade of energy policy is a never-ending saga for which the costs to Canadians and Canadian industry seem only to rise. As the price of a barrel of oil and LNG skyrocket due to American and Israel military action in Iran and its fallout, Canada should be sitting on a massive opportunity to benefit from soaring prices. However, a decade of neglect and underinvestment in pipelines and egress capacity sees us looking wistfully on as other nations, such as the Untied States benefit while we toil away for little gain.

The simple reason for the LNG and oil spike is that Iran’s retaliation has effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz. A critical link in the world’s energy supply chain, connecting the Persian Gulf with the rest of the world, around 20–22 million barrels of oil, or roughly 20 per cent of global oil consumption, passes through the Strait each day. Qatar supplies approximately 20 per cent of global LNG supply, which also transits the Strait. The Strait of Hormuz is not an area which generally receives much attention from the broader public unless something is seriously off, so when you see those words populating your social media feed, you ought to know something is wrong in the world. Indeed something is very wrong: tankers are trapped and so is the oil and gas.

As a result of the Strait’s closure, a huge portion of the Middle East’s oil and LNG production, which normally leaves via tanker, can’t go anywhere. The situation is dire. Early Sunday the price of a barrel of oil went negative on the “trapped” side of the Strait, meaning producers are paying customers to take the oil away, because they can’t sell it elsewhere. It doesn’t take a genius to know that this means producers will stop producing to save money, and indeed this has already happened. On March 4, Qatar shut down natural gas production, on March 7 the Kuwait Petroleum Company cut oil production and declared force majeure, an emergency contractual clause that allows companies to suspend obligations such as delivery when faced with uncontrollable events such as war. On March 8, it came to light that Iraqi oil production had fallen from 4.3 million barrels per day to 1.3 million. It is anticipated that more companies and countries will cut production and declare force majeure in the days to come.

This is all a catastrophe for the world energy markets, which were already relatively tight. In response to the situation the price of a barrel of oil has already gone up over $20 a barrel in the past two weeks. Sunday afternoon, the price of both Brent Crude and WTI — both key global oil benchmarks — went over $100/barrel, and there are signs this will slow down, unless the Strait of Hormuz is immediately re-opened.

However, there ought to be more opportunity for Canada. While Canadian producers still benefit from higher oil prices for their existing production, the Canadian oil and gas industry ought to be benefitting more. Our failure to build pipelines to access markets other than the United States will have huge financial implications.

By deluding ourselves that “there was no business case” for LNG or that the world would not want more Canadian oil, we have literally cost ourselves billions of dollars. This should be a national scandal. While the current government has tried to reverse the failed policy of the past, so far nothing has actually been built or accomplished.

Looking back, recent years and decisions make for dark reading. When Germany came to Canada in 2022 looking for LNG we pushed them away. Where did they go? Qatar, that’s where. That Qatari LNG to Germany is now trapped as Qatar has been forced to shut down LNG production. Do we not believe Germany and Europe would rather get LNG and oil from Canada rather than from a clearly much more unstable region like the Middle East? Of course they would, but we were too myopic and foolish to get out of our own way to build the infrastructure we need to get our most valuable resource to market.

In the last 10 or so years Canada has made policy mistakes that have caused the country to lose billions of dollars, by turning away from economic prosperity in favour of failing battery plants and other unprofitable green energy fantasies. Politics over economics has cost us dearly, we cannot miss the opportunity and the message again. Build the pipelines and get our oil and gas to market.

Don't think for one moment that Canada is ready to step in.

It always lets everyone down.

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The greatest threat to Canadians emerging from the war in Iran is domestic terrorism.

While all Canadians are vulnerable given that Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of global terrorism, two groups are the most vulnerable.

They are Canadians of Iranian origin who oppose the Islamist dictatorship in Iran, and Jews.

Attacks on both groups have already started just one week into the war and the longer it goes, the greater the threat will become.

Within hours of the death of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28 following the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, the Saliwan Boxing Club in Richmond Hill, owned by Salar Gholami, a prominent Iranian human rights activist, was sprayed with 17 bullets.

Three synagogues have already been hit by gunfire since the war began – Beth Avraham Yoseph in Thornhill and Shaarei Shomayim in Toronto, sometime between March 6-7, and Temple Emanu-El in North York, on March 2.

No one was hurt but we all know this is just the start of what’s coming.

We sure do.

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Oh, look - things are going to get more expensive:

Fertilizer markets are particularly vulnerable. The Middle East is a major exporter of urea and ammonia, both critical for global crop production. Any sustained disruption will push input costs higher.

Canadian farmers try to shield themselves from volatility by pre-buying inputs months ahead. But they are not fully protected. Some fertilizer is locked in early, but other purchases remain exposed to global price swings.

Diesel, meanwhile, is the real wild card.

Energy markets have already reacted. Oil is up about 13% since Monday. Natural gas prices in some regions have jumped 30%. Diesel prices are climbing between 8% and 13%. Agricultural commodities – wheat, soybeans, milk – are edging upward, but markets are not panicking.

For Canada, the concern is transportation costs across the food supply chain.

If diesel were to spike 25% under a prolonged Iran conflict scenario – combined with Canada’s scheduled industrial carbon price increase on April 1 – the effect on food inflation could be noticeable. The country’s industrial carbon price will rise from $95 to $110 per tonne. Yes, it is still there. Someone in Ottawa once referred to it as “shadow taxing.”

Our models suggest this combination could add 0.4 to 0.7 percentage points to national food inflation by May or June. That may not sound dramatic. But every percentage point of food inflation translates into roughly $150 to $200 more in annual food spending for the average Canadian household. Fresh produce and meat would likely feel the pressure most.

And Canadians are already under strain.

According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, food prices are currently rising at 7.3% year-over-year – far above the country’s overall inflation rate of about 2.3%.

In other words, the system is already running hot.

But carbon pricing is only one part of the equation. Fuel used across the food system – from farm equipment to trucks, rail and processing facilities – is also subject to other levies, including federal excise taxes, provincial fuel taxes, and sales taxes such as GST or HST applied to fuel purchases. …

Individually, these costs may appear manageable. But together they compound. When global energy prices rise at the same time as domestic fuel-related taxes remain embedded throughout the supply chain, the pressure on food production, processing and transportation costs increases as well.

Still, energy shocks alone rarely drive long-term food inflation. Exchange rates, labour costs, and global commodity markets typically matter far more. What matters most now is duration.

If the conflict fades quickly, the market impact will likely remain limited. If it drags on, costs will ripple through global supply chains.

Global energy shock. Domestic carbon tax hike.

Lovely timing.

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week traipse through logic ...

It took months of planning and an iron-clad sudden decision but the forty-seven year old regime that plagued a major player is no more:

They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior… https://t.co/I5l7iUI2HU pic.twitter.com/RXZSsSb12l

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) February 28, 2026

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Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here is what actually happened to each of them.

Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command… pic.twitter.com/UiWXsGfm4K

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) February 28, 2026

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It’s gone almost without saying for most of our lives, or at least most of our adult lives for those of us who are more seasoned citizens, that Iran was an imminent threat to American national interests. But if you’re unimpressed by that fairly obvious fact, then there’s this — now that we’ve hit Iran and taken out Khamenei, the defense minister, the head of the country’s judiciary (he signed off on the slaughter of some 30,000 or more political dissidents over the past few weeks), the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and a host of others, it’s pretty damned obvious that what’s left of that regime is an imminent threat now.

Including who-knows how many Iranian assets are sitting inside our country right now, waiting to cause mayhem. Or somewhere else where they can attack American interests.

As of this writing, Ali Khamenei and forty-nine of his underlings are dead.

Canada is appalled - APPALLED! - that Trump did not see Canada trustworthy enough to explain the operation beforehand:

Well, DUH! 🙄 @fancypants_s https://t.co/jCWcjgMGom

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 2, 2026

It's like trusting Canada is counter-productive:

After a whirlwind few days that saw much of Iran’s line of succession killed in U.S. and Israeli air strikes, a surviving official poised to fill the leadership vacuum happens to have Canadian family connections.

Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, is widely reported as being one of the most powerful surviving members of the Iranian ruling elite following the Saturday assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He’s one of five Larijani brothers who have served in top posts in the Iranian hierarchy. “The Larijani family is at the head of the Iranian state,” reads a 2016 CSIS analysis.

And at least two of those brothers have spent significant amounts of time on Canadian soil, and allegedly still have Canadian family.

One brother, Fazel Larijani, served as a cultural affairs attaché at Ottawa’s Iranian embassy before Canada severed diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic in 2012.

Larijani would end up attached to a Toronto building that once operated as the Centre for Iranian Studies, and would end up being caught in a Canadian government freeze of Iranian assets in 2012. The building was owned by Farhangeiran Inc., which listed Fazel as president.

Iranian-Canadian activists have alleged that members of Fazel’s family remain resident in Canada.

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Canadian taxpayer money intended for humanitarian aid in Gaza was allegedly diverted and exploited by the terrorist group Hamas, according to a shocking new report. The allegations are based on secret Hamas documents recovered by the Israeli military.

The documents originated with the Gaza Interior Security Mechanism, a unit within Hamas’ Ministry of Interior and National Security. This unit is responsible for internal surveillance, counter-intelligence operations, policing political dissent, border oversight, civil defence, enforcement of Islamic law and the administration of detainees in Gaza.

 

Carney did it for the most important person on Earth - himself:

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Cameco president Tim Gitzel shared centre stage in Delhi yesterday as the Saskatoon-based uranium producer signed a multibillion-dollar contract with the Indian government, a deal that was brokered by the prime minister.

Also:

There are no coincidences. pic.twitter.com/dUr2VDuuzz

— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) February 27, 2026

Carney is man of principle and action - according to him:

🚨BREAKING - CARNEY BACKSTABS CANADIANS AND THE USA, PIVOTS TO SIDING WITH THE EU ON IRAN

Now says that he took the position of supporting the US in Iran "with regret"

urges the US to "respect international rules"

says "Canada was not consulted on this war" pic.twitter.com/9TWIkSfPVy

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 3, 2026

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Most Canadians questioned in federal focus groups predict the country will fall into recession. The Privy Council had researchers poll the public on fears of rising unemployment and whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government was “headed in the right direction.”

Also principled, MPs:

It’s an April Fool’s Day tradition. MPs give themselves pay raises every year on April 1 under the Parliament of Canada Act.

But this year, an Oakville, Ont., business and economics teacher has written the parliamentarians — each one of them copied in a group email — to urge them not to take the raise.

“I am writing to ask that you voluntarily forgo this increase, in solidarity with the millions of Canadians currently facing financial hardship,” writes David Suchanek in an email shared with National Post.

“MP Mike Dawson has already set the standard by refusing his hike, proving that true leadership is about more than just optics, it’s about fiscal responsibility and accountability. While some dismiss the $5 million total as a small figure, I see it as a vital test of character for our elected officials.”

Dawson is a small business owner and new Conservative MP from New Brunswick, who represents Miramichi—Grand Lake. In a letter provided to National Post, Dawson told the clerk of the House of Commons on Feb. 10 that he wouldn’t be taking the raise, criticizing it as “distasteful.”

He said the raise is unseemly “when everyday Canadians are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living,” and said he “cannot in good conscience accept the pay increase of nearly $10,000, which every Member of Parliament is set to receive.”

In Canada, there are no property rights but there are new court-appointed landlords:

The government of Canada AGREEMENT

with the MUSQUEAM tribe

that was DUMPED on a Friday afternoon

and which gives the tribe "property rights" to MOST of VANCOUVER

.....was not made public. You cant see it.

Think about that. pic.twitter.com/s5LW3ZVIPK

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 1, 2026

We don't have to trade with China:

A Chinese-language website named in federal documents at Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission — in connection with a disinformation campaign that targeted Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in the days before the 2021 federal election — has published an anonymous op-ed circulating speculation that Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing to appoint floor-crossing MP Michael Ma as Canada’s next ambassador to China.

The piece appears on info.51.ca, a Chinese-language community platform largely aimed at readers in Markham and Scarborough. Federal documents tabled before Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s Foreign Interference Commission identify a WeChat account called “CouponKing51ca” — with the relationship between that account and the broader 51.ca news site and its 602,000-subscriber WeChat account explicitly flagged — as one node in an amplification chain that attacked Conservative leader Erin O’Toole while spreading false narratives about MP Kenny Chiu’s foreign agents registry bill before the September 20, 2021 vote.

Those federal documents tied the disinformation campaign’s origins to Toronto-area media accounts connected to Beijing’s United Front Work Department.

The unsigned op-ed, dated February 25, 2026, argues that appointing Ma — the MP for Markham-Unionville who crossed from the Conservative Party to Mark Carney’s Liberals in December 2025 — would constitute an institutionalized reward for his floor crossing, a “dirty behind-the-scenes political deal” that would trigger a by-election in his riding and signal the imminent launch of a general election campaign.

In making its argument, the article invokes as precedent the case of John McCallum, the longtime Liberal MP who represented the neighbouring riding of Markham-Thornhill before resigning his seat in January 2017 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him Canada’s ambassador to China.

That appointment vacated a safe Liberal seat in a majority Chinese-Canadian riding — and Trudeau moved swiftly to fill it, parachuting his own director of appointments from the Prime Minister’s Office, Mary Ng, into the resulting April 3, 2017 by-election. Ng — a Hong Kong-born Trudeau insider — won with just over 51 per cent of the vote.

She went on to serve as Canada’s Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, and later Minister of International Trade, for seven years, before not seeking re-election in 2025. The McCallum appointment, in other words, did not merely fill a diplomatic post — it simultaneously engineered a parliamentary succession, inserting a senior PMO operative into a safe seat in one of the country’s most strategically significant diaspora communities.

What the 51.ca article does not mention is how the McCallum ambassadorship ended. McCallum was fired by Trudeau in January 2019 after appearing before Chinese-language media in Markham — the same community the 51.ca piece is now addressing — to publicly argue that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou had strong legal grounds to resist extradition to the United States, a position that aligned with Beijing’s own at a moment of acute Canada-China tension.

The piece purports to weigh arguments for and against the speculated Ma appointment, cautioning that it would reinforce perceptions of political transactionalism, and send ambiguous signals to Beijing.

But in a section cataloguing Ma’s potential advantages and disadvantages as a diplomat, the piece simultaneously acknowledges that his Chinese-Canadian heritage could improve “symbolic aspects of cultural communication” — then undercuts the point by explaining that Beijing “places greater emphasis on decision-making power and institutional signals than on ethnic symbols.”

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Was it something they said?:

Chinese are now leaving Iran like crazy, the price of a one-way ticket to Beijing has gone up to 3M Yuan ($425,000). What are the Chinese so afraid of? According to a Taiwanese news, they have done too many bad things in Iran (such as helping Iranian regime to crack down the… pic.twitter.com/wLzel5XBQB

— Bin Xie (@bxieus) March 1, 2026

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Zhu, according to Canadian court statements, told a co-conspirator in an earlier theft of U.S. intellectual property that these efforts would help "defeat the American aggressor and wild ambitious wolf!" "The law is strong," he added at the time, "but the outlaws are ten times stronger."

These statements were included in the Las Vegas Declaration of Arrest Report. As a recent analysis states, "the declaration reveals, for the first time, the full scope of what U.S. investigators believe they are dealing with: not merely a rogue lab operator, but a PRC-trained biologist with state-linked corporate ties, a proven history of stealing American technology for Beijing's benefit, and language that investigators now treat as evidence of ideological motivation."

As Weichert said of the Reedley lab two years ago, "It is, I believe, a part of a large Chinese military operation to spread disease throughout the American population."

He is undoubtedly correct. A quarter century ago, General Chi Haotian, China's defense minister and vice chairman of the Party's Central Military Commission, reportedly gave a secret speech advocating the extermination of Americans. "It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans," he said. "But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the Communist Party leads the world."

Chi's plan was to use disease for this purpose.

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Canadian Investigators have discovered that the monks and nuns have come to P.E.I through Canada's "Provincial Nominee Program," which was created, allegedly, to bring talented, specialty workers to Canada.

Here is a list of workers that P.E.I is currently looking for. Most of the offerings seem to be for fairly unskilled laborers. I don't see a calling for Chinese monks and nuns.

The monks of P.E.I. have set up a mafia-like web of shady corporations, so following their chicanery hasn't been easy.  

Foreigners are allowed to own no more than five acres of Canadian soil per person, but the monks and nuns of Bliss and Wisdom have, despite their vow of poverty, thus far accumulated 17,000 acres of the island and about $500 million in assets. The aforementioned authors allege that the monks and nuns are purchasing and/or building enough housing on P.E.I. to house thousands more people.

Chinese "investors" have also been buying Canadian farmland for years, to the point that the Canadian government has taken notice or is at least pretending to.