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  1. Ron in Regina

    Refugee/Migrant Crisis

    I don’t know where this should fit, but it’s gotta fit somewhere, & here might be as good as place as any: Canada plans to restore the right of citizens born abroad to pass their citizenship to children also born outside the country, following a court ruling that a “first-generation limit” in...
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    Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

    The University of Toronto (UofT) has warned pro-Palestinian activists that they have 24 hours to accept a proposal to end a three-week protest camp on the schools’ downtown campus – or risk being treated as trespassers and potentially face police action. In a statement Meric Gertler, the...
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    Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia

    For many Canadians, the 9/11 terror attacks and the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings were a wake-up call to the dangers of Islamic extremism. A 2017 Public Safety Canada report stated that more than 190 extremists with ties to Canada were suspected of engaging in terrorist activity abroad; at that...
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    Omnibus Russia Ukraine crisis

    http://apple.news/ABA2VlgigS2242w-6HSgQKg
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    Two years into the Trudeau 2.0 Minority Term, which day will Justin call the election that only he wants?

    That was September 20th, 2021. The date of the election is determined by the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, which requires federal elections to be held on the third Monday in October in the fourth calendar year after the polling day of the previous election. That would be...
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    Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

    JK or JT? ‘Cuz if it’s JT, I think he’s the one deciding what’s misinformation or disinformation for the next 17 months.
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    Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

    We pronounce it differently up here, misinformation & disinformation, & I can’t even remember who started it but we’ve got legislation against it…or it’s coming anyway. It all runs together…& somebody gets to decide what is misinformation and disinformation.
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    In Canada, are the Conservatives the Centerist Party?

    Guess we’ll have to wait (until Oct 27th, 2025-ish) to see where the center of Canadian votes lay for the answer then.
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    Hamas attacks Israel

    The respective heads of three European countries—Ireland, Norway and Spain—announced on Wednesday that they will formally recognize the State of Palestine, effectively rewarding Hamas for its unprovoked slaughter of more than 1,100 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel on October 7 of...
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    In Canada, are the Conservatives the Centerist Party?

    If not for double standards some politicians would have no standards at all, is the unofficial edict of politics often laughed about. But here’s the question of questions. What would have happened if Pierre Poilievre had commented on Chrystia Freeland’s makeup during question period in the...
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    Palestine & Israel

    http://apple.news/Ay1OKPSnjSROwlMoHPocAvw 7&1/2months in, & Hamas & Friends still have rockets to lob at Israel/Israeli’s…so priorities, etc…
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    Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

    Left & Right. Both are prey to propaganda.
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    Well, today is the Liberal/NDP Non-Coalition Coalition Budget Day!

    One statistic stuck out in this week’s inflation report from Statistics Canada, and it had to do with food inflation. While Statistics Canada said that overall inflation was cooling and reported that food inflation was down significantly, over the last three years the cost of groceries has gone...
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    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating meddling by China and other hostile states in Canadian democracy. The government is also completely withholding an...
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    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    http://apple.news/AY4aDAjc3SouqmrjSyzPAqQ
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    Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

    http://apple.news/Any9ycGDkSamPIktv7uPcsg
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    Two years into the Trudeau 2.0 Minority Term, which day will Justin call the election that only he wants?

    http://apple.news/APSRxUmuRSu2v7dGcedXG2Q (Liberals have spent two decades suggesting the Tories have a super-secret plan to undermine Canada’s abortion laws, despite nine years of Conservative rule in which the plan somehow never surfaced)