"Like-Minded Allies" Canada/China
"In
the time of growing uncertainty and Trump's tariffs threatening our
economy and our sovereignty, it's more important [than] ever to protect
and strengthen partnership with key trading partners such as Europe and
China."
"The
blend of tradition and innovation is something that I admire. Deepening
our partnership with like-minded allies such as China present
opportunities for shared prosperity and supports Canadians' role as a
constructive and engaged player in the global economy."
"[The] Chinese community needs a strong voice to fight for them."
Majid Jowhari, Liberal MP Richmond Hill South
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| Liberal candidate Majid Jowhari puts a lawn sign into the ground of a
supporter in Richmond Hill in 2021. (Credit: National Post file) |
The
Richmond Hill riding outside and just north of the Greater Toronto
area, is 32.6 percent Chinese-Canadian.Their Member of Parliament, Majid
Jowhari has represented the riding since 2015, and ran to preserve his
seat in the 2025 federal election, held yesterday. In a video posted the
day before the vote, published by a Chinese-language media outlet,
Jowhari described a need for Canada to deepen its trade ties with China,
particularly at a time when Canada is under threat of steep tariffs
imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
This
Liberal was actually trumpeting the prevailing and longstanding line of
thought of the Liberal Party executive, from past prime minister Jean
Chretien, to recently-departed Justin Trudeau, and the
freshly-re-elected new prime minister of Canada, former international
banker Mark Carney, all of whom have vigorously pumped for trade
relations with China. Despite China's reputation as a hawkish burglar of
other nations' science, technology, military and business trade secrets
and its well-recognized habit of infiltrating foreign countries at
every level, engaged in cyber-theft and stealth sabotage.
The
candidate boasted of his frequent visits to China, his campaign to
advocate against anti-Asian racism and his work in Parliament to
regularize relations between Canada and China. "The
Liberal party needs a voice to help strengthen the partnership between
Canada, Chinese-Canadians and China. I am Majid Jowhari and I can be
that voice. Please vote for Majid Jowhari on April 28. Thank you", his campaign message concluded.
Canadian
national security agencies consider China to represent the most serious
and sophisticated threat actor against Canada. The federal election
monitoring task force warned on two occasions during this election
campaign that the People's Republic of China was in all likelihood
behind influence campaigns in Canada. And it has proven to have been,
for years. Members of the task force of the Security Intelligence
Threats to Elections (SITE) on Monday revealed that the PRC appears to
be behind a transnational repression operation to undermine a
Toronto-area Conservative candidate who happens to be a vocal critic of
the Chinese regime.
The electoral interference watchdog revealed that the PRC was behind an information manipulation campaign on WeChat to
influence positive opinion of Liberal leader Mark Carney. Liberal
candidates have been revealed for their proximity to individuals
suspected of ties to the Chinese government. The head of two
organizations the RCMP tagged with operating a secret Chinese police
station, was invited by a Montreal area Liberal candidate to attend an
election gathering. The PRC produced a "wanted" poster of a Toronto-area
Conservative candidate, Joe Tay.
Another
Toronto-area Liberal candidate attended a massive by-invitation
military parade and show of martial power in Beijing that saw Peter Yuen
Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville attend the event, invited by a
Chinese agency dedicated to influence ethnic Chinese in foreign
countries. He had replaced Paul Chiang following confirmation by the
RCMP it was investigating comments made to Chinese media relating to
Tay, the Conservative candidate. Suggesting the crowd at an event could
claim a bounty by turning Tay over to the Chinese consulate in
Toronto.
As
it happens, Chinese-Canadian voters in the swath just north of the
Greater Toronto area took it in their hands to cross the wishes of the
Chinese government, voting out the Liberal candidates and bringing in
their Conservative alternatives, foiling the work of the Liberals to
represent Chinese interests, and voting for the Conservative candidates,
directly opposing the Chinese election interference in Canada's
affairs.
Jowhari
was challenged for the seat by Conservative candidate and corporate
lawyer Vincent Ho. Tellingly, Jowhari was co-chair of Parliament's
Canada-China legislative association, as an 'advocate for the local
Chinese-Canadian community'. That community chose to replace Jowhari,
and vote in his stead for Conservative Vincent Ho, the new Member of
Parliament for Richmond Hill South. In fact, the entire region, rejected
their Liberal candidates and but for two seats that remained Liberal,
all others switched to the Conservatives, no friends of China.
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Conservative Vincent Ho is the new MP for Richmond Hill South Mike Adler/Metroland |
"[The People's Republic of China is the] main perpetrator [of clandestine and illegal influence operations in Canada]."
"The
PRC uses a range of tolls, including Canada-based proxies. These tools
include the monitoring of diaspora communities and transnational
repression; activities meant to impact the outcome of Canadian
democratic processes [including providing financial support to preferred
candidates]; and clandestinely shaping narratives in support of PRC
strategic interests."
"[The
Chinese government also exerts significant control on the
Chinese-language traditional and social media platforms and uses the
influence to promote] pro-PRC narratives, spread disinformation and
suppress anti-China content."
Foreign Interference enquiry head Marie-Josee Hogue
Labels: Chinese-Canadian Community, Federal Election 2025, Liberal Candidates Ousted in Favour of Conservative Members of Parliament, Minority Liberal Government
Famine in Sudan: Where Is The Organization of Islamic Cooperation?!
"I think we're in dire straits here in Sudan."
"Severe acute malnutrition happens over time. It's
where kids don't get enough nutrients…They're unable to fight
infections like normal."
"They're unable to utilize nutrition like
normal…And the majority of children who have severe acute malnutrition
end up getting an infection and dying from it."
"There was no food [his grandmother, Neamat Abubaker, told us]. At times nothing at all, not even water."
Dr. Mohammed Fadlalla, Al-Buluk Children's Hospital, Omdurman
"It was ground-breaking [ a channel for direct funding]."
"The only time that USAID had
ever done this was with the White Helmets [humanitarian group] in
Syria."
"[Most of the kitchens had closed. Some are trying to get food
on credit from local fishermen and farmers, but very soon] we expect to
see a lot of people starving."
"I think we can shore up [the emergency
kitchens]. But the reality is that [private donations] are
going to have to do even more now, because even if humanitarian
assistance resumes, it's never going to be what it was."
"These
volunteers were challenging us to work differently, and we were
responding. [They are] exhausted, traumatized and underfunded [and] we were scaling up to help them".
Andrea Tracy, a former USAID official, now with Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition fund
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| Dr. Mohammad Fadlala (left) a Cincinnati
native volunteering in war-torn Sudan with the Doctors Without Borders
charity, is seen treating a severely malnourished child at the Al-Buluk
Children's Hospital in Omdurman, in late January 2025.
CBS News |
President Trump's decision to slash the funding available through USAID, has stark consequences in many areas of the world. None more than in countries of majority Muslim rule, where constant outbreaks of conflict impact the populations. In Sudan, the conflict is Muslim versus Muslim; the Sudanese military fighting a revolt by its former partner, once known as the horse-mounted Janjaweed Arab militias that aided the former government of Sudan in its conflict with the pastoral people of Darfur. That was a war spurred by herders using the land for pasturage, and farmers farming the land.
The former Janjaweed has now become the Rapid Support Forces, comprised of Islamist fundamentalists often described and for good reason, as terrorist brigades. The civil war that ensued with the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces challenging one another for supremacy is a brutal, no-holds-barred conflict, and once again the people of Darfur are faced with potential genocide. Now, in Sudan, 25 million people have been internally displaced. Over half of the population now faces acute hunger.
In its third year, the war is considered by the United Nations to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis and aid groups agree as famine spreads throughout the land. In Darfur alone, 400,000 people were made homeless, hundreds killed as the paramilitary terrorists raid camps for displaced people. The U.S. provided $830 million last year in emergency aid to help 4.4 million Sudanese; more aid than any other nation has provided. Since the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Khartoum's devastation was completed.
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| The community kitchens, like this one photographed in December, have provided a vital lifeline for many Getty Images |
Over 300 soup kitchens operated by Emergency Response Rooms, a network of volunteer aid workers closed. Leaving 600,000 Sudanese living in famine conditions, another eight million "on the cliff edge". According to the Trump administration, lifesaving aid is exempt from cuts. A State Department spokesperson relayed the information that four million people in Sudan, and 3.8 million refugees in neighbouring countries are given aid by the U.S.
The question begs to be asked. Yes, the situation is horrible, dreadful, mind-numbing conditions for any population. Yet these conditions are increasingly common in many Muslim-majority countries where incapable and uncaring administrations exploit their vulnerable citizens, and focus on conflict, not civilized governance. Why is it in very particular the obligation of the West and most particularly, the United States to ensure that humanitarian aid flows to these desperate people whose governments ignore their needs and in fact, place them in these life-threatening situations?
Where in heaven's name is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation? A compendium of Muslim countries formed to support one another through their common Islamic roots. Surely they could organize missions, including military forces to intervene when their member-nations impose such conditions on their populations? The national collective wealth of the group alone is staggering, and why is some of that wealth not used to give humanitarian assistance to those of their member states badly in need of it? Why is it the West, democratic nations of the world, that these miserable countries at war depend on, and not their religious cohorts?
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| Tigrayan
refugees collect food rations from USAID at Hamdeyat Transition Center
near the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Eastern Sudan on Mar. 24, 2021. After
Sudan was plunged into its own intramural war, the U.S. Agency for
International Development supplied food to the grassroots self-help
effort known as Emergency Response Rooms. In January, President Donald
Trump ordered the aid stopped. Nariman El-Mofty—AP |
Labels: Darfur, Displaced Populations, Focus on Western Aid, Humanitarian Aid, Organization of Islamic Cooperation Failure, Starvation, Sudanese Civil War, USAID Cut
The Islamic Republican Guard Corps Amateur Handling of Explosives
"Two conservative [Iranian] newspapers have suggested a possible link between the port explosion and the nuclear talks."
"Jomhuri-ye Eslami
daily on April 28, 2025, wrote, “The coincidence of the explosion at
Shahid Rajaei Port with one of the most sensitive periods of
negotiations between Iran and the United States in Oman cannot be
unrelated to the positive developments that have emerged in our
country’s foreign policy”."
"Established and supported by the office of
Supreme Leader, the paper accused Israel of seeking to derail the
negotiations but also questioned who would take responsibility for the
incident, warning that blame likely would be evaded, as usual."
"In an
editorial, the Sobh-e No daily also noted that although the cause
of the blast remains officially undetermined, its timing—alongside
nuclear talks and heightened Israeli threats—raises the possibility of
targeted sabotage."
Mardo Soghom, Middle East Forum
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The explosion at the Bandar Abbas port happened during U.S.-Iran nuclear talks. Shutterstock |
"The
fire was reportedly the result of improper handing of a shipment of
solid fuel intended for use in Iranian ballistic missiles."
"[The port took in a shipment of] sodium perchlorate rocket fuel."
Private security firm Ambrey
"Our
security forces are on high alert given past instances of attempted
sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate
response."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
The
massive explosion and fire Saturday in southern Iran that has destroyed
a major part of Iranian shipping has been linked to a shipment of a
chemical that is used in in the manufacture of missile propellant. The
blast killed 70 people, while more than ten times that number were
injured. The Shahid Rajaci port will be out of business for a very long
time. While reaction to the blast and fire has been restrained in the
sense that there have been no official statements suggesting this was
the result of an attack, the thought is there, albeit for the present,
submerged.
The
expression of the country's foreign minister was as close a warning in
its reminder of previous Israeli attacks on Iranian weapons facilities
and the assassinations of some of the country's top nuclear scientists
as it's likely to be, at this stage. Few details have emerged on what
caused the blaze close to Bandar Abbas, a conflagration that burned into
Saturday night, when other containers began exploding, adding fuel to
the fire.
The
fuel in question formed part of a shipment from China shipped in two
vessels to Iran back in January. The chemicals were meant to be used to
replenish Iran's missile stocks, depleted through its direct attacks on
Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. One of the vessels
is believed to have carried the chemical in the area back in March,
according to ship-tracking data. Iran has held back from acknowledging
taking possession of the shipment.
What
is puzzling, given the obvious danger of storing and stocking such
flammable explosives is why the chemicals would not have been moved out
of the port. The situation resembles the Beirut port blast that took
place in 2020 when that explosion, the result of the ignition of
hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed over 200
people, injuring more than 6,000. Suspicion would, of course, naturally
fall on Israel which has targeted Iranian missile sites where industrial
mixers to create solid fuel are used by Tehran.
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| Thick black smoke was still towering above the port on Sunday Getty Images |
"Get back, get back! Tell the gas [truck] to go!"
"Tell him to go, it's going to blow up!"
"Oh God, this is blowing up!"
Everybody evacuate!
"Get back! Get back!"
Reddish-black
smoke was seen rising at Shahid Rajaei on social media footage Saturday
from the fire, immediately prior to the explosion. The state-run IRNA news agency stated that the Customs Administration of Iran cast blame on a "stockpile of hazardous goods and chemical material stored in the port area", which caused the blast. A surveillance video distributed by the Fars news agency is that of a small
fire appearing among containers, and alerted workers moving away
from the area in a panic, before a huge explosion erupted.
"[Prior to the blast there had been a] failure to observe safety principles [according to state-affiliated outlet Mehr News]."
"Determining the definitive cause of this incident requires a
complete and comprehensive investigation of its various aspects, which,
due to expert requirements, requires technical and laboratory
processes."
"[There were] discrepancies [in a statement
given to the committee which did not elaborate on what these might be or
their source]."
Iranian Investigating Committee
Labels: Improper Storage/Handling Chemicals, Iran, Missile Fuel, Shipping Port Blast/Fire
Ukraine's Special Operations
"[Moskalik was] one of the most intelligent and demanding officers in the Main Directorate of the General Staff -- not well-liked, because he demanded results and was relentlessly tough on his subordinates."
"Given the high-profile nature of the target and the method of execution, there is little doubt [that] Ukrainian special services were involved."
Rybar channel report
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| Investigators work at the scene
where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational
department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed
by an explosive device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside
Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo) |
It is murder when specialized agents of a country that is being blasted apart by a larger, wealthier, more aggressive military with no shortage of arms and munitions that has caused millions of deaths, seeks its own mode of punishment of the aggressor beyond the battlefields? When, with skill, intelligence and infiltration it carefully designs scenarios it is able to plan with the use of advanced technologies to reach its enemy in its very heartland to execute daring, sobering and highly successful executions of those who have bombed its country to smithereens?
In a full-scale invasion of a massive military the aggressor calls a 'special military operation' with a view to territorial expansion on an internationally illegitimate scale with no scruples regarding international norms of warfare, targeting hospitals, civilian apartments, municipal energy sources with both targeted and randomized attacks to spread terror of mass-produced murder, there is no stopping Russia in its goal of destroying Ukraine and helping itself to its vast territories and natural resources.
This is the Russia that is indignant with fury that embattled Ukraine would divert from the front lines to mount discrete attacks within Russia's borders, for as far as the Kremlin is concerned, the conflict they brought to Ukraine should remain within Ukraine's boundaries. For Ukraine to scheme for strikes within Russia, to hit civilian areas in their search for military targets, is tantamount to 'terrorism', which is what they ascribe to a nation under fire for the past three years, while portraying their hostility against Ukraine as a noble reaction against 'fascism' and Neo-Nazism.
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| Videos and photos circulating on Telegram show a car in flames outside a block of flats Telegram |
Authorities in Russia are treating the killing on Friday of a high-ranking Russian military official as a case of murder. An explosion took place in a suburb of Moscow taking Russian authorities by surprise. What arrogance, for Ukraine to think it has the right to strike back against Russia for its wholesale destruction of Ukraine. A criminal investigation into the death of Lt.-Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik has been undertaken by Russia's Investigative Committee, the country's top policing agency.
A vehicle set up with an improvised explosive device was detonated and killed Moskalik as he was walking past the car. Citing sources familiar with the investigation, Kommersant newspaper reported the device was remotely detonated. It seems that Moskalik had been under surveillance through a camera that had been installed in the vehicle. The resulting explosion and the subsequent death was a "terrorist attack", according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
In 2014 Moskalik had been with the Russian delegation that negotiated the aftermath of the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, along with the invasion of eastern Ukraine, also participating in a 2019 meeting over the failed peace process. And while Kyiv has made no public comment on the incident, Rybar noted a comparison to the December killing of Lt.-Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Biological and Chemical Defence Forces.
At the time of that successful operation, the Investigative Committee concluded that Kirillov had been killed by a remotely detonated explosive planted on a scooter that had been parked outside a Moscow residential complex. The highest-ranking Russian military official to be killed outside combat since February 2022, Kirillov's assistant was also killed. Ukraine's domestic security service, the SBU, was responsible for the "special operation", according to an agency official.
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| AP Photo |
According to Russian authorities, two days after the event, a "Ukrainian
special services agent" has been detained and charged with terrorism. Ignat Kuzin is said to have purchased the vehicle that had exploded in Balashikha, 20 miles east of Moscow. According to Russia's Federal Security Service, the man has a residence permit in Ukraine. The Russian Investigation Committee contends that Kuzin was recruited by Ukraine's Security service, with a promise of $18,000 to commit to the attack.
Labels: Detonation of Car Bomb, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Targeting High-Profile Russian Generals, Ukrainian Special Operations
"We Will Pursue Them to the Ends of the Earth"
"Those behind this heinous act will be brought to justice."
"Our resolve to fight
terrorism is unshakable and it will get even stronger."
"India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers."
"We will pursue them to the ends of the earth."
Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
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| Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan after Kashmir attack – video |
"We will not only reach those who have perpetrated this incident but also
those who, sitting behind the scenes, have conspired to commit such
acts on the soil of India."
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
"We cannot get over the fact that such an
incident has occurred, and that too in the place we call heaven on
earth."
"Tourists have been coming to Kashmir since the last three or four decades and they have never been touched."
Akib Chaya, hotel owner, member, Kashmir Chamber of
Commerce
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| Indian soldiers in Kashmir. The army confirmed there had been limited firing of small arms overnight. Photograph: Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock |
"[Attempts to link Pakistan to the Pahalgam attack are] frivolous [Islamabad will respond to any Indian action]."
"Any
threat to Pakistan’s sovereignty and to the security of its people will
be met with firm reciprocal measures in all domains."
Pakistan statement
"Clear evidence of cross-border complicity" has been presented by Indian investigators in the wake of the gruesome attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir when gunmen opened fire in a deadly attack that saw 26 innocent people die. A group called the Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the attack. Indian officials identify it as a proxy for the Lashkar-e-Taiba based in Pakistan. For its part, Islamabad has vehemently denied any involvement, denying that India has in fact any proof of their accusations against Pakistan.
The Kashmir attack represented the most deadly assault in years in the restive region, an attack that targeted civilians. The region has seen more than its share of anti-India attacks in the past thirty years. Indians are shocked and outraged at the deadly event, raising calls that their country take action against Pakistan. The initial claim for the attack was a terrorist group previously unheard of, that called itself the Kashmir Resistance. Pakistan's instant reaction was that there was no involvement on its part.
India's "belligerent measures" were condemned by Pakistan's National Security Committee. Claiming that while Pakistan remained committed to peace, it would never permit anyone to "transgress its sovereignty, security, dignity and inalienable rights". At a time when it was a Pakistani 'resistance' group that mounted the deadly attack, so in essence, Pakistan is condemning India for reacting to the transgression of ITS sovereignty, security, dignity and inalienable rights. How that makes sense is debatable.
The most immediate reaction was that of India, followed by Pakistan, cancelling visas for their nationals to enter the others' countries. New Delhi has been 'warned' by Islamabad for suspending a water-sharing treaty in the aftermath of the tragedy. All visas issued to Pakistani nationals were to be revoked effective Sunday; and all Pakistanis in India at the present time given notice they must leave before the expiration of their visas based on a revised timeline.
Other measures were also announced, including reducing the number of diplomatic staff, closing the sole land border crossing between the two nations, and suspending a crucial water-sharing agreement. Pakistan, in retaliation has closed its airspace for all Indian-owned or -operated airlines, as well as suspending all trade with India. Included in that suspension is trade to and from any third country. There were hints by government authorities representing both sides that matters could escalate militarily.
Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir as their territory entirely, even as each administers a part of the disputed Kashmir. Clashes between the two countries' military break out occasionally and then die down almost spontaneously. Kashmiri separatists out of Pakistan mount terrorist raids of much smaller dimensions from time to time in a never-ending commitment to bring terror to Indian Kashmir. These are Islamist death squads brewed in Pakistan in reflection of the culture of war and confrontation between the two competitors for Kashmiri exclusive entitlement.
For the present, a number of Pakistani diplomats were ordered to leave New Delhi, while Indian diplomats were summarily recalled from Pakistan leaving diplomatic missions in each of the countries with reduced staff from May 1 forward. Indian citizens were advised not to travel to Pakistan by India's foreign ministry, which has also urged those of its citizens currently in Pakistan to depart for India.
The landmark water-sharing treaty in place between the two countries despite two wars and a major border skirmish, has now been suspended indefinitely, with Pakistan angrily responding to warn that any Indian attempt to stop or divert the flow of water would be considered an "act of war", to be met with "full force across the complete spectrum" of Pakistan's national power.
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"We very much appeal to both the governments … to
exercise maximum restraint, and to ensure that the situation and the
developments we’ve seen do not deteriorate any further."
"Any
issues between Pakistan and India, we believe, can be and should be
resolved peacefully through meaningful mutual engagement."
UN
spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric
"There are many imponderables Modi must deal with, including the
significant capabilities of the Pakistan army."
"But given the horrific nature of the attack and
the outrage that has convulsed the nation – the victims came from 15
states across India – the PM may have no option but to explore some
major risks."
C Raja Mohan, veteran analyst, Indian Express
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| Supporters of the Indian Secular Front, along
with others, stage a protest over the killing of more than 25 tourists
at Pahalgam. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock |
Labels: Disputed Kashmir, India, Nuclear-Armed Deadly Enemies, Pakistan, Terrorist attacks
In the Spirit of Honesty, Integrity, Transparency
"[We
had a] constructive [discussion both agreeing to begin comprehensive
negotiations on a new economic and security relationship between Canada
and the United States] as sovereign nations [immediately following the
28 April federal election in Canada]."
"Look,
the president says lots of things, but the essence of the [shared
telephone] discussion and where we moved the conversation to was exactly
what I said."
"We
talked about lots of things, OK? And what's important is the
conclusions of the call, the results of the call, and those are exactly
the same on the American side and the Canadian side."
"And those were that it was very constructive."
"Who can stand up to President Trump, who can build Canada strong, who has the experience in order to do that?"
"That's the crucial choice that Canadians need to make."
Liberal leader, Mark Carney
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| U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Carney had their first phone conversation on March 28. Sources tell
Radio-Canada that Trump raised the idea of Canada as the 51st state on
the call. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters, Blair Gable/Reuters) |
"I'm not their strategist, I'm not imagining wild conspiracies, but I can imagine that it serves them."
"Liberals
are [juggling[ between pretending that Mr. Carney has extinguished the
threat [of Trump annexing Canada] and regularly resurrecting that threat
because fear has been their main argument at the start of the Liberal
campaign."
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet
Mark
Carney, smug and self-confident that he will win Monday's general
election to become elected Prime Minister of Canada, is accustomed to
manipulating the truth to his advantage. He evades the truth, preferring
to replace it with his version of events that are likelier to portray
him as he feels he should be viewed; superior, entitled and exceptional.
In that way, as in so many others he is the mirror-image of the man he
intends to replace, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Mr.
Carney has already established a track record of unethical behaviour;
the most notable one to be brought to the attention of an electorate
prior to the ballot, is his having ethically invalidated his doctorate
by the expedient of casual plagiarism. More latterly, he denied having
had any hand in moving Brookfield Asset Management headquarters from
Canada to the United States, at a time when he was still its head. Nor
seeking out a tax haven for Brookfield to avoid paying taxes directly in
Canada.
Now
it has been revealed that in his March 28 telephone conversation with
President Trump, the threat of annexing Canada to the United States had
come up, even as Mr. Carney later claimed publicly that President Trump "respected Canada's sovereignty".
Radio-Canada had reported that Mr. Trump had indeed brought up the idea
of Canada as the 51st state during their exchange. Mr. Carney sought to
exploit his version of events to portray himself as a strong leader
whom the American President respected enough to avoid speaking of
annexing the country.
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| Liberal Party
Leader Mark Carney says his phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump
on Friday morning was very ‘cordial’ between two leaders of two
sovereign nations. Carney says Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty both
in his private and public comments on Friday. CBC News |
"To
be clear, as I've said to anyone who's raised this issue in private or
in public, including the president, it will never happen",
Mr. Carney said at an election stop in British Columbia; that under his
leadership the threat to annex Canada by economic force would never
come to pass. What Mr. Carney also failed to reveal about the
conversation with President Trump was his having alerted the American
president that as part of his electoral campaigning, he planned to use
the threats as fuel to inspire fear in Canadians to enhance his claims
that he was the right person to lead Canada.
Accordingly,
in a cooperative gesture, Trump's own read-out of the call with Carney
saw him dial back talk of Canada as the 51st state. And nor has he
spoken dismissively of Carney as the "governor" of Canada. He obviously
finds more in common with Carney's business/banker approach to
government than that of Justin Trudeau's commitment to diversity, equity
and inclusion. If nothing else, Trump reacts to blustery confidence and
he hasn't done his homework on Carney for whom DEI, a green agenda and a
commitment to quash Canada's natural resources in energy are a driving
force.
White
House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied a change of stance had
occurred on the annexation of Canada; that President Trump still "believes that Canadians would benefit greatly from becoming the 51st state of the United States of America". During a signing ceremony at the Oval Office last week Mr. Trump said that Canada "would cease to exist as a country" if the U.S. stopped buying its goods and that Canada "as a state, it works great".
"He has these things in his mind. This is not news."
"He raises it all the time. But then the question is, what's going to be done with it? And does he understand where we stand?"
"More particularly, where do I stand? He is under no illusions."
Mark Carney, aspirant to the leadership of Canada
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| U.S.
President Donald Trump has warned that 25 per cent tariffs against
Canadian-made cars could go up. He also expressed his desire to make
Canada the 51st state after a period of relative quiet on his annexation
threats. CBC News |
The
latest and newest revelations of Mr. Carney's failure to respect the
truth and relay it to the public at a time when voters are entitled to
know exactly what it is they are voting for and for whom as a candidate
most likely to act in Canada's best interests during an economic
slowdown of recession proportions, during a time of provincial
alienation in response to the Liberal government's decision-making
impeding their decision making on energy extraction, when society in
general has been politically fractured, and the country's social
services and universal health care network is facing collapse, marks a
failure of leadership.
Instead,
during the campaign Carney has portrayed himself as a Canadian hero
during the economic downtown of the 1980s when as Governor of the Bank
of Canada, he lead Canada out of a recession; when in fact it was not he
but then-Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the Canadian banking system
that saved Canada. During a recent press conference, the man who has
never been elected to public office, but who aspires to govern a nation,
when asked about the need for ethics and transparency laws in
government, responded that he would have no problems distinguishing
between rules and conduct:
"If there were specific proposals, obviously we would look at them."
"But
what's important is bringing that spirit of honesty, the highest
integrity, and my track record is consistent with that, but also that
commitment that goes with it to transparency."
Liberal leader Mark Carney
"I wasn't there [so cannot verify the heads-up Carney gave to Trump]."
"But
what's clear is that we will stand up for our sovereignty, we will
never be an American state, and we will focus on what we can control,
which is to reverse the disastrous Liberal economic policies that Mark
Carney advised Justin Trudeau to take."
Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre
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| Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre, when asked about a Radio-Canada report saying
U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned ‘51st state’ during a call with
Prime Minister Mark Carney, said his Liberal rival will have to explain,
and he reiterated his call to defend Canada’s sovereignty and focus on
things Canada can control. Carney previously said Trump ‘respected
Canada’s sovereignty’ during the conversation. CBC News |
Labels: 28 April 2025, Canadian General Election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Can Rescue Canada, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Recession Agenda, U.S. President Donald Trump
Vladimir, STOP!
"I am not happy with the Russian strikes in KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing."
"Vladimir, STOP!"
"5000 soldiers a week are dying."
"Let's get the Peace Deal DONE!"
"I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelenskyy. So far it's been harder, but that's OK. It's all right."
U.S. President Donald Trump
"The principle of Ukraine's territorial integrity is not something that can be negotiated."
"This was the position taken last week and reiterated yesterday in London in a meeting of a similar format."
Christophe Lemoine, French Foreign Ministry spokesman
Kyiv was struck by Russia with an hours-long barrage of missiles and drones with a dozen people killed and 90 injured. So much for the progress being made by the Trump administration's efforts for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. But a rare rebuke by Trump to Putin was at the very least, refreshing when Trump's frustration led him to lash out at Putin. This, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy got similar treatment for his intransigence in refusing to allow Moscow to take full possession of Ukrainian territory ill-gotten by Putin's illegal invasion.
President Zelenskyy was accused of prolonging the "killing field" when he refused to surrender the Crimea Peninsula to Putin, to achieve a peace agreement. Occupied by Russia which annexed Crimea in 2014. Since February 2022 Mr. Zelenskyy has said repeatedly that recognizing occupied territory as Russia's represents a Ukrainian red line. Ukraine agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal 44 days ago, as an initial step in a negotiated peace, Mr. Zelenskyy reminded Trump, yet attacks by Moscow had simply continued.
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Trump's irritation with Moscow is evident in his reaction, given that the American president has stated repeatedly that Russia -- the conflict's aggressor -- is more willing to get a deal done than is Ukraine. In his negotiations with both leaders in the conflict, Trump's focus has been on which of the two has leverage. Putin, he decided, has "the cards", and Zelenskyy does not, he has repeatedly said, taking steps in a cooperative relationship with Putin, a man he has long admired. A strongman attracted to others like himself.
Norway, a NATO member and supporter of Ukraine, with its 198-kilometre border with Russia, has reason to fear that Russia's territorial ambitions will not stop with Ukraine. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store wrote in a social media post his intention to underscore during talks with Trump that "close contact between Norway and the USA is crucial. We must contribute to a lasting and just peace in Ukraine".
"There is only one answer we are waiting for: Does President Putin agree to an unconditional ceasefire?"
"The Americans' anger should focus on just one person: President Putin."
"[Putin should] stop lying [when he claims to want] peace."
French President Emmanuel Macron
Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to visit Moscow for a new round of talks with Putin; representing their fourth meeting since January. NATO leaders will meet in the Netherlands in two months' time. France's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lemoine, asked whether France is in agreement with comments by Trump that Ukraine's position was responsible for prolonging the war, responded that Ukrainians demonstrated they are open to negotiations. Russia, on the other hand, continues its strikes.
Labels: Peace Talks, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, Warmongering
Mark Carney -- a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
"People
correct course either by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and
it looks to me like we've chosen the severe pain route [in the outcome
to the federal election]."
"All you have to do is read his [Mark Carney's] book, but people don't, of course, because it's a book."
"Either
he's decided that every single thing he's ever believed was wrong right
to the core [or he's a] wolf in sheep's clothing."
Jordan Peterson
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| Jordan Peterson appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week. Photo by Joe Rogan Experience /YouTube |
Canadian
psychologist Jordan Peterson has made no secret of his disdain for
former prime minister Justin Trudeau, describing him as a 'narcissistic
pretender' who brought ruin to Canada in the decade that Canadians were
foolish enough to vote him into office and consecutively cast their vote
for him again and again; gluttons for punishment. And should Canadians
vote for his successor, Mark Carney, there will be no relief from all
the Liberal-mandated ills that have beset Canada's economy, its culture,
its cohesiveness, its values and its laws, nor relief from basic
unaffordability of housing, food and other necessities of life, much
less continued reliance on a universal medical system that is hobbling
toward dysfunction.
While
tying Canadian industry and the handling of Canada's vast energy stores
to hamper the economy and discourage investment to a green strategy,
the Liberal solution has been to bring in more 'foreign assets' in the
guise of immigration, refugee intake and migrant acceptance from sources
that have brought unrest and instability to those areas of the world
where all too many of those refugees, migrants and emigrants derive
from. Already scarce social services from emergency housing to food
banks, to hospital services and employment sourcing have been strained
further by the Liberal government's embrace of unbridled numbers of
temporary foreign workers and foreign students in Canadian universities.
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Canada’s housing crisis
The average house
price in Canada when Trudeau took over in November 2015 was 446,000
Canadian Dollars. Nine years later they stood at 732k after peaking at
834k in March 2022. |
In
an interview with U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan, Dr. Petersen warned that
should Canadians choose to elect Mark Carney as the next leader of
Canada in the 2025 election, a mere few days into the future, they will
have unwisely chosen a path of "severe pain". In his opinion, and that
of a good many other Canadians, a Carney government would continue --
and in a more accelerated manner -- the economic decline that his
predecessor set a course on for Canada's future. And along with that
economic collapse would tag along an increase in social disorientation
and disorder.
Disorder
exemplified by the anti-Israel demonstrations and blockades that the
Liberal government has been complicit in ensuring has become a regular
feature in Canadian cities, particularly Toronto. The viral raging mobs
of keffiyeh-clad, masked antisemitic psychopaths who speak of
Palestinian terrorists as 'freedom fighters' and rejoice at the October
7, 2023 massacre of over 1,200 Israeli men, women and children -- many
of whom were gang-raped and mutilated before they were finally murdered
-- as a celebratory event.
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| The attempt to claim Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau are cut from the
same political cloth has been a significant feature of the Conservative
campaign. But it also raises questions about just how fair
such comparisons are, and if they're an effective political tool against
the Liberal leader. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press) |
In
his conversation with Joe Rogan throughout the 190-minute podcast, the
subject of Canadian politics loomed large. In mentioning that he had
read through Mark Carney's 2021 book, Values: Building a Better World for All, Dr.
Peterson points out that the former Bank of Canada/Bank of England
governor spells out his values, all of them twin to Trudeau's, only
somewhat more vehemently and utterly determined. Dementedly green and
decidedly devoted to DEI. And, like Trudeau, a faux feminist.
Mr.
Carney is more, much more than all that. He is also a consummate
manipulator, a man so convinced of his own entitlements and intellectual
brilliance that he demonstrates his impatience with anyone who might
question the correctness of his views and values. Much less his loose
ethics. Such as his doctoral thesis plagued with plagiarism in full
view. His denials when faced with evidence that as head of Brookfield
Management, he was involved in tax avoidance, in moving its head office
to the U.S., and in sum total working against Canada's best interests in
loyalty to Brookfield shareholders.
"Your
children and grandchildren see Carney as he is: not as the warm-milk
and grandfatherly-advice 1940s Jimmy Stewart banker who will stand up to
the mad Yankee mob."
"We
look at Carney and we don't pay any attention to politics and we
certainly don't read his goddamned book, and so we see someone who looks
like a banker from the 1990s, when everything was just fine in Canada
and Canadians were just as rich as Americans and the whole country was
stable and peaceful."
Jordan Peterson
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Canada’s unemployment rate
Canada’s unemployment
rating has been steadily increasing since 2022, with 6.8 per cent of
the population now unemployed. It brings the total number of unemployed
people in Canada to 1.5 million – a figure that’s increased by 22 per
cent since 2023.
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In an April opinion piece column he wrote for the National Post
, Dr. Peterson spoke of his disillusionment with Canadian voters,
reflected in the 2025 general election. Where, the Trudeau decade
failures, the ethical lapses, the Liberal entitlements, grandstanding
and fabrications had finally penetrated the voters' consciousness,
leading to a general rejection and a wholesale switch to the opposition
Conservative Party under its leader, Pierre Poilievre. Yet when Mark
Carney was exchanged for the disgraced Trudeau, voters pivoted back to
the Liberals, despite that Carney's agenda is that of Trudeau's, on
steroids.
"Spiralling housing prices, a lot of social instability in Canada,
especially since Oct. 7; all my Jewish friends in Toronto are
terrified."
"That’s not fun. I don’t like seeing that.
It’s awful."
"And all those psychopaths who have been
parading around their moral virtue since October 7, they’re plenty
emboldened. Plenty."
Jordan Peterson
Canadians
-- before it is too late -- have to wake to the substance that
submitting to the feckless reality of voting a Liberal government back
into power will sink us completely. The current misery we're mired in --
growing unemployment, homelessness, Food Bank use, soaring crime rates,
dysfunctional, interfering government, a Third Column of terrorist
sympathizers owning Canadian streets, defying Canadian laws, threatening
Canadian Jews, burning the Canadian flag, abandoning our allies, is set
to continue and to intensify.
There
is a solution, a way to return Canada to its former proud status as a
nation of clear morals, and laws that will be upheld rather than
countenance their being flouted by those unwilling to share our values
and our culture. A political party that has refused to pander to the
vote-gathering impetus that infuses the Liberal party. The Conservative
Party of Canada under its leader Pierre Poilievre spells it out: the
issue of rampant crime will be addressed, the economy will be liberated
from the straitjacket the Liberals have shoved it into, our immigration
system will undergo the cautionary ratings that have been abandoned.
Canada
and Canadians desperately need liberation from the clutches of the
Liberal party. And the time is now! Grasp the opportunity that April
28th represents! Bring in a government prepared and determined to remedy
all the restraints, constraints and burdens imposed on Canada by the
Liberal government. Restore our trust in our politicians who really do
care about the country we are loyal to, the country that is now barely
recognizable as Canada.
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| Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking during the English-language leaders’
debate on Thursday, says Liberal Leader Mark Carney is making the same
promises as former leader Justin Trudeau. Carney responds by saying that
both Trudeau and the carbon tax are gone. CBC News |
Labels: 2025 Federal Election, Canada, Central Banker Mark Carney Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Liberal Government Gross Mismanagement, Restoration of Canadian Values
Dividing Canadians : The Liberal Legacy
"Make Palestine unavoidable this federal election."
"We are turning up the pressure and making it clear: Palestine must be at the forefront."
"Free Palestine National Day of Action."
"The resistance [Hamas] has set a new precedent for the Palestinian struggle."
Palestinian Youth Movement
"While Jewish Canadians live in fear, terror groups like Samidoun are
free to fundraise and support organizations like Hamas and the [Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine] who seek to kill innocent Jews."
"We've seen what happens when these groups aren't taken seriously."
"The Jewish community feels understandably under siege as these hate
marches and antisemitic outbursts have become an unfortunate part of
Canadian life."
"Frankly, the Liberals have encouraged these
divisions. We see what they do. They say one thing to one group, and
then exactly the opposite to another group."
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
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Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre
speaks during his election campaign tour, in British Columbia,
April 6, 2025 (photo credit: REUTERS/JENNIFER GAUTHIER)
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"Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney."
"But
instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war
with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and
only Jewish state."
"Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "If they [the Liberal government] took action, they would have listed them already."
"So,
if burning a Canadian flag, if calling for the death of Canadians, if
fomenting hate in this country, and most of all being a front for an
already-listed terrorist organization is not enough to put them on the
list, then what the hell is it going to take for them to ban them?"
Thornhill Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman
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| Saturday’s pro-Palestinian protest included a march through Ottawa’s ByWard Market. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia |
During this federal election culminating in an April 28 vote to determine the next prime minister of Canada, Palestinian groups have been busy honing their public relations skills, lobbying federal politicians, insisting that the issue of Israel in Gaza, following the unforgettable Palestinian Hamas terrorist invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, must become a primary issue. Not the savagery of Palestinian terrorists slaughtering Israeli civilians in an infamous day of sadistic mass rape, torture, and immolation of entire families in their homes, and the hostage-taking of innocents.
Canada has undergone a steady infiltration of hostile Muslim immigrants, refugees and migrants over the past decade. Palestinian students at Canadian universities have entirely politicized Canadian academia, slandered a Canadian ally, threatened Jewish-Canadian students, damaged Canada's international reputation, destroyed university property, arranged for mass Muslim prayer sessions on major city roads and intersections, harassed and threatened Canadians in major Jewish city enclaves, and called for the destruction of Israel.
The Liberal-led government of Justin Trudeau invited and welcomed this infiltration as a humanitarian gesture. Canada's communities that have always been tolerant of one another and shared the experiences of Canadian culture, heritage, values, laws and neighbourliness will never be the same again. This is the legacy of the Trudeau government, alongside a decade of economic stagnation, unaffordability of housing and food, the degradation of the Canadian universal health system, all of which has led to distrust of government, as the provinces themselves cope with federal interference in provincial jurisdictions.
In the final days of the 2025 general election, it has been revealed that 300 federal candidates have signed on to an initiative with direct links to a radical anti-Israel group; to be anti-Israel in Canada is directly related to support for Hamas as a legitimate government whose role is to defy Israeli 'oppression' of Palestinians. It must be understood that by Israel defending itself against Palestinian deadly attacks against Israeli citizens, Israel is defined as an 'oppressor' of Palestinian self-realization.
In Canada the VotePalestine.ca website lists over 330 federal election candidates expressing their full endorsement of the "Palestinian Platform". A platform that demands Canada recognize Palestinian statehood under Hamas's continued governance. Canada, it demands, must sanction anything connected to Israel, including "cultural and academic exchanges". Canada must increase foreign aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which has been linked to Palestinian terrorism.
The Palestinian Youth Movement is one of the central organizers of anti-Israel blockades and street demonstrations that began throughout Canada on October 8, 2023 and has flourished ever since, making a hellscape of Canadian city streets, with no intervention from the federal government. Celebration of the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel is one of the hallmarks of PYM values. 'Victory' rallies were organized by PYM in a number of Canadian cities even as the attack was ongoing.
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| Saturday’s protest included marching along Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia |
Predictably, VotePalestine's supporters have been drawn primarily from candidates for the NDP and Green party. Along with these numbers some 18 Liberal candidates also signed on. Sitting Liberals listed by VotePalestine include Patrick Weiler, Chris Bittle, Shafqat Ali, Alexandra Mendes, Sameer Zuberi, Sean Casey, Salma Zahid and Adam van Koeverden. Salma Zahid is chair of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group which hosts extremists at Parliament Hill gatherings.
Nazih Khatatba, publisher of an Arabic-language newspaper that refers to the Holocaust as a 'hoax" was a featured speaker at one of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group's 2022 events. An event that was attended by Mahmoud Khalil, Montreal activist whose reaction to the October 7 attacks saw him publicly declare allegiance to Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif at an Ottawa rally.
In a mosque appearance in April, van Koeverden accused Israel of committing genocide, pledging to "make sure that Palestinian voices are heard in Ottawa by our leaders". Should he be re-elected he has made it clear that he intends to prioritize Palestinian issues. While Conservatives gave this issue wide berth, in recognition of its betrayal of Canadian values and system of justice, Nabila Ben Youssef of the Bloc Quebecois signed on.
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| A
keffiyeh'ed demonstrator lights off a smoke bomb during a rally in
Vancouver celebrating the one-year anniversary of the October 7
massacres. Photo by Ethan Cairns /The Canadian Press |
Labels: Anti-Israel Slanders, Canadian 2025 Federal Election, Conservative Liberation of Canada, Liberal Government Enablers, Palestinian Hate Rallies
