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jemcanada2 wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:09 am
pipistrelle wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:18 am
Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 1:17 pm Canada is an oasis of reasonability in the desert of chaos.
Not entirely. Ford won.
I tried to prevent that. I guess I didn’t vote early or often enough this election. :brokenheart:
So Ford and his government are burning down the province. He used the Not Withstanding Clause for the second time to pass legislation this week to make it illegal for a union to go on strike. Education support staff with CUPE were supposed to go on strike Friday if they didn’t reach a settlement. School boards said that they would close the schools if the support staff were on strike. Ford’s government passed legislation making the strike illegal and fining every employee on strike $4000/day. The union told them to pound sand and went on strike. They have a lot of support from other unions and the public.

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Canadian man charged with murdering four Indigenous women
Two of the women killed around the same time as Rebecca Contois are also Indigenous, and the third is believed to be

Associated Press in Winnipeg
Thu 1 Dec 2022 22.37 GMT

A Canadian man previously charged with murdering an Indigenous woman has been accused of killing three other women – two also confirmed to be Indigenous and one believed to be.

Jeremy Skibicki was charged 18 May and kept in custody after the partial remains of Rebecca Contois, 24, were found in a garbage bin near an apartment building. Contois lived in Winnipeg but was a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also known as Crane River.

Police at the time said they were not ruling out more victims. On Thursday, they said Skibicki has been charged with first-degree murder in three other deaths in the same short period in the spring.




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Twins killed in Canada bank shootout aimed to kill as many police as possible
Isaac and Mathew Auchterlonie were heavily armed, had strong anti-government views and did not expect to survive 2022 incident

AP in Sanich
Fri 20 Jan 2023 23.06 GMT

Twin brothers who died in a hail of gunfire last summer outside a Canadian bank had been planning their attack for years, with a goal to kill as many officers as possible, police said on Friday.

An investigation by the Vancouver Island integrated major crime unit found that 22-year-old Isaac Auchterlonie and his twin, Mathew, showed up at the Victoria, British Columbia, area bank on 28 June 2022 wearing full body armor and carrying semi-automatic rifles.

The pair had strong anti-government and anti-police views and did not expect to live past the confrontation, police said.

“It was determined the suspects’ primary objective was to shoot and kill police officers in what they saw as a stand against government regulations, especially in relation to firearms ownership,” Cpl Alex Bérubé of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said during a news conference at the Saanich police department.

As the twins left the bank, members of the Greater Victoria emergency response team, who were in the area on an unrelated matter, drove into the parking lot to assist other officers, police said.

Six officers were injured in the ensuing gunfight. An earlier report said police fired as many as 100 rounds at the suspects, killing them both.

Bérubé said the pair had been planning some sort of “act of extreme violence” since 2019 and originally wanted the shootout to happen in mid-2023.

They decided to move up their timeline after finding out they had to move out of the house they shared with their mother.

“The suspects concluded that they could not move their arsenal of weapons to a new location without attracting attention, and thus electing the bank location at random,” Bérubé said.

In the trunk of their vehicle, police discovered more than 30 improvised explosive devices, four additional firearms and more than 3,500 rounds of ammunition.




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I’ll cross post this in the Freedom Convoy thread. Trudeau’s government acted appropriately in invoking Emergencies Act. A lot of criticism for Ford’s (mis)handling of the convoy protest.

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Mandated Payment for Links To Cover 35% of News Expenditures?: Google Responds to Bill C-18 By Testing Blocking Links to News Content

February 23, 2023

The battle between Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and Internet giants Google and Facebook continues to head toward a seeming inevitable collision in which the government repeatedly says it will not be intimidated even as the two Internet companies block or reduce access to news content on their platforms in Canada. Reports last night indicate that Google is now testing blocking news links for a small percentage of Canadian users, with the company saying it needs to assess potential responses to Bill C-18. This follows earlier Facebook comments indicating that it would consider blocking news sharing on its platform if the bill is enacted in its current form.

The government’s standard line to these developments is that it won’t be intimidated by the companies with the belief that this is all just a bluff designed to influence the bill. As I argued months ago in the context of Facebook’s response, I think that’s wrong and I believe that if the bill passes largely in its current form, both companies will curtail linking to news in Canada. Bill C-18 is more than just a badly crafted piece of legislation that raises a myriad of concerns including risks to press independence, inconsistency with international copyright law, and harm to innovative digital news services that at best will receive a tiny fraction of any proceeds. There were better options for the government that would have supported journalism and avoided these harms, including establishing a fund for journalism backed by the Internet companies. But by creating a bill that effectively mandates payments for links and suggesting that the two companies alone could be held liable to pay for 35 percent of the news expenditures of Bell, CBC, Postmedia, Torstar, and hundreds of other outlets, the government has created a serious threat to the free flow of information online.

As the government trots out the bravado about not being intimidated, Canadians should keep three things in mind. First, Bill C-18 is fundamentally about paying for links. Last night, Rodriguez’s press spokesperson said “all we’re asking the tech giants to do is compensate journalists when they use their work.” But that isn’t what the bill does. The bill requires payments for “facilitating access to news”. That is a far cry from use as it instead covers links or inclusion in search results. The news articles themselves reside on the publisher sites and are not reproduced by either Internet company, yet I Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner has described this as theft. Bill C-18’s dangerous approach ascribes value to links where there isn’t any, regulates which platforms must pay in order to permit expression from their users, and dictates which sources are entitled to compensation. If you are a company that depends on links for all aspects of your business, establishing a precedent of payment for links is a non-starter.

Second, the government’s expectations for payment for links are massive, even if the companies involved weren’t in the process of laying off thousands of workers, including many Canadians. The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the bill will require the two companies to pay $329 million annually for links. The government’s own estimate is slightly lower at $215 million. Either way, more astonishing is Senator Peter Harder, the government’s representative on the bill, told the Senate that the government expects that the mandated payments could cover as much as 35% of news expenditures. The bill covers hundreds of businesses (the House actually expanded to hundreds of broadcasters that don’t even produce news) including some of Canada’s most powerful corporations: Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Corus, Postmedia, Torstar, Videotron, and the Globe and Mail among them. If this involved full reproduction of the news, that would be high. But paying 35% of the news expenditures at the CBC, Bell, or Postmedia for just for links to the originating source renders linking to the content uneconomic.

Third, Google already has a history of stopping news services in response to government legislation. For example, Google shut down Google News in Spain for eight years after that country passed copyright laws that raised liability concerns for the inclusion of snippets. It conducted the similar testing of blocking news content in search in Australia. More recently, it stopped its Google News service in Czechia as a result of the local copyright law implementation. In other words, companies respond to legal developments. Where offering a service becomes prohibitively expensive or uneconomic due to those developments, they may stop offering the service. That outcome seems entirely possible in light of Bill C-18’s mandated approach to link payments and the government’s expectation that the companies will pay hundreds of millions of dollars for “privilege” of referring Canadians back to the publishers. Should that come to pass, cries of intimidation will be cold comfort to Canadians blocked from sharing news or to innovative news services who find their business models undermined due to the repercussions from Bill C-18.



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Giving the middle finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian judge rules
Gesture may not be civil or polite but ‘it is not a crime’ and is protected under Canada’s constitution, judgment says

Oliver Holmes
Fri 10 Mar 2023 11.17 GMT

Giving your neighbour the middle finger may not be polite but is protected as part of a person’s right to freedom of expression under the Canadian constitution, a judge has ruled.

In a 26-page decision, Dennis Galiatsatos dismissed a case against a man accused of harassing his neighbour in a Montreal suburb.

“To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,” he said in a ruling dated 24 February. “Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian,” he added, referring to Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms.

The accused, Neall Epstein, a teacher, had been arrested by police in May 2021 for uttering death threats and “criminal harassment” against his neighbour in Beaconsfield, Quebec.

In his decision, Galiatsatos launched a stinging rebuke of the neighbour and complainant, Michael Naccache, whose grievances, he said, were “nothing more than mundane, petty neighbourhood trivialities”.

“It is deplorable that the complainants have weaponised the criminal justice system in an attempt to exert revenge on an innocent man for some perceived slights that are, at best, trivial peeves,” Galiatsatos wrote.




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Canada Supreme Court justice on indefinite paid leave after he had a fight in Arizona hotel over his alleged 'creepy' behavior toward female guests while drunk

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert,Yelena Dzhanova
Sat, March 11, 2023 at 6:42 AM GMT+1
  • Canadian Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown is on paid leave after he got into fight while on vacation.
    Brown allegedly drunkenly followed guests from the hotel bar back to their rooms, per a police report.
    The Justice was reportedly punched twice in the face during an altercation with one guest he followed.
Russell Brown, a justice of Canada's Supreme Court, is on indefinite paid leave following an altercation that occurred while he was on vacation after he is alleged to have drunkenly attempted to follow hotel guests back to their rooms, according to a police report reviewed by Insider.

On January 28, Brown was a speaker at a gala at the luxury Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia, celebrating a former colleague's receipt of the Sandra Day O'Connor Justice Prize from Arizona State University. Following the celebrations, the reportedly inebriated judge approached a group in the hotel lounge and sat with them.

Among those in the group was a man identified in the police report as Jonathan Crump, who told the Vancouver Sun that Brown began bragging about his importance as a Supreme Court justice and read aloud from the speech he had delivered earlier in the evening.



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Canada: images of felled ancient tree a ‘gut-punch’, old-growth experts say
Shocking photos of chopped-down tree in western Canada highlights flaws in plan to protect forest from loggers, activists say

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Thu 11 May 2023 16.47 BST

Stark images of an ancient tree cut down in western Canada expose flaws in the government’s plan to protect old-growth forests, activists have said, arguing that vulnerable ecosystems have been put at risk as logging companies race to harvest timber.

As part of an effort to catalogue possible old growth forests, photographer TJ Watt and Ian Thomas of the environmental advocacy group Ancient Forest Alliance travelled to a grove of western red cedars on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. But when they arrived to the forest in Quatsino Sound, they found hundreds of trees that has recently been logged.

“It’s absolutely gut-wrenching to see a tree lying on the ground, and to think that it had lived for more than 500 years and then it can be gone in the blink of an eye, never to be seen again,” said Watt, who photographed the forest as part of a grant from the Trebek Initiative, a partnership between the National Geographic Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society named after the late Jeopardy host.

Shocking photos and drone footage reveal the destruction of rare, big-tree old-growth forests on northern Vancouver Island in Quatsino Sound
The trees were downed in a grove in Quatsino Sound on Vancouver Island. Photograph: TJ Watt
Watt’s images have been used previously to highlight the dramatic change to landscapes after an old-growth forest is cleared.

In November 2021, amid mounting public frustration over the destruction of old-growth trees, the British Columbia government deferred logging in 2.6m hectares within the most at-risk forests. The BC government has also pledged to protect 30% of the province’s land area by 2030, part of broader efforts within Canada to meet biodiversity preservation goals.

Since outlining its planned deferrals, however, less than half of the proposed areas have been agreed upon by the province and First Nations communities, whose consent is required. A number of First Nations are actively involved in the logging industry and would see a drop in revenues if logging in their territory was halted. Groups such as the Ancient Forest Alliance say more funding is needed to help offset lost forestry revenues among First Nations.



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The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canada's vanishing rainforest
Spared by the loggers’ chainsaws a Douglas fir perhaps 1,000 years old stands in splendid isolation on Vancouver Island

Harley Rustad
Tue 5 Mar 2019 13.48 GMT

On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, Dennis Cronin parked his truck by the side of a dirt logging road, laced up his spike-soled caulk boots, put on his red cargo vest and orange hard hat, and stepped into the trees.

He had a job to do: walk a stand of old-growth forest and flag it for clearcutting.

In many ways, this patch of forest was unremarkable. Cronin had spent four decades traipsing through tens of thousands of similar hectares of lush British Columbia rainforest, and had stood under hundreds of giant, ancient trees. Over his career in the Canadian logging industry, he had seen the seemingly inexhaustible resource of big timber continue to dwindle, and the unbroken evergreen that once covered Vancouver Island reduced to rare and isolated groves.


The cutblock represented a small sliver – around the size of 12 football fields – of the kind of old-growth forest that once spanned the island nearly from tip to tip and coast to coast. But this small patch of trees was a prime example of an endangered ecosystem. Black bears and elk, wolves and cougars passed quietly under its canopy. Red-capped woodpeckers knocked on standing deadwood; squirrels and chipmunks nibbled on cones to extract seeds; and fungi the size of dinner plates protruded from the trunks of some of the largest trees in the world.



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How long will a single exposed tree stand in storm winds?
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Indigenous nation in US seeks to block billion-dollar port project in Canada
Lummi Nation in Washington state says it holds transboundary rights and that Canada has failed to ‘consult and accommodate’

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 19 May 2023 22.12 BST

A tribal nation in the United States is seeking to block approval for a multibillion dollar port expansion in Canada, arguing that it holds transboundary rights and should have been included in consultation process.

The effort to block approval of a controversial new container terminal project in Vancouver marks the first major attempt to use a recent landmark decision by the Canadian supreme court, which found that some Indigenous peoples living in the US have rights in Canada.

On Thursday evening, the Lummi Nation filed a judicial review in Canadian federal court, seeking to quash approval of the Roberts Bank terminal expansion and arguing that Canada failed to “consult and accommodate” the nation on the “potential adverse impacts” the project could have on the community’s Aboriginal rights and title in Canada.

Canada’s federal government last month approved a container terminal expansion that would double the port’s current size, but environmental groups warned the project could have damaging effects for maritime species already on the brink of extinction. The port lies in a key habitat for endangered southern resident killer whales, the ailing chinook salmon they rely on for food, and dozens of other at-risk species.

Rick Desautel at a ceremony. Canada’s highest court agreed, ruling that Desautel and the 4,000 other members of the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington state were successors to the Sinixt. As a result, they had constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt their traditional lands in Canada.

Under Canadian law, the crown has a “duty to consult” Indigenous communities on projects that could adversely affect them, and throughout the project’s years-long review process, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has consulted with 46 Indigenous groups, drawing up agreements with 26 of them.

But the Lummi Nation, across the border in neighbouring Washington state, says it was absent from these consultations.



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bob wrote: Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:34 pm
how the hell did Scotty 'from marketing' Morrison get between Don and Ivanka?
Has everybody heard about the bird?
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One hand on Donnie’s and one on Ivanka’s..
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‘Real threat to city’: Yellowknife in Canada evacuates as wildfire nears
20,000 residents of capital of Northwest Territories ordered to leave after forecast that wildfire 11 miles away could arrive by the weekend

Tracey Lindeman
Thu 17 Aug 2023 04.07 BST

An evacuation order has been issued for Yellowknife in the north-west of Canada as a wildfire comes closer, with a local minister saying: “The fire now represents a real threat to the city.”

Shane Thompson, the environment and climate change minister for the Northwest Territories, said on Wednesday night that the fire could reach the outskirts of Yellowknife by the weekend and was about 17km (11 miles) away.

Teams were also working to evacuate Hay River, a community of 3,000 on Great Slave Lake, by bus or plane on Wednesday night as the fire approached.

Residents in Yellowknife, the capital and only city in the Northwest Territories, were urged to leave as soon as possible as part of a phased evacuation, with those living along the Ingraham Trail, in Dettah, Kam Lake, Grace Lake and Engle Business District at the highest risk.

Other residents were until noon on Friday to evacuate.

Yellowknife’s mayor, Rebecca Alty, said evacuation flights would begin on Thursday at 1pm and continue until everyone was evacuated. She stressed that the order was being issued early in order to give everyone enough time for an orderly evacuation. “It’s being called now, so that we can allow people the opportunity to drive while the highway is still open. The highway is subject to closures at any time. Conditions will be smoky, and residents should drive with caution and care.

“This is an incredibly difficult time for everyone. Please look out and help one another as you can. If you’re driving, and have space, please consider bringing a friend or pets.”

On Tuesday night, local authorities had declared a territory-wide state of emergency and an evacuation order for the outskirts of Yellowknife, a city with a population of 20,000.




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:crying: :crying:

I have friends in Kelowna but they haven’t been evacuated yet. The fire is getting close to surrounding them. :cry: :cry:
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jemcanada2 wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:49 pm :crying: :crying:

I have friends in Kelowna but they haven’t been evacuated yet. The fire is getting close to surrounding them. :cry: :cry:
I hope your friends are OK.

I didn’t realize that there were fires in the Kelowna area; I thought they were mostly further north in BC. I went hiking yesterday to Cascade Pass at the southern end of North Cascade National Park. There was a ton of smoke, and the normally dramatic glacier views were hazy or absent. The berries along the trail were great, and there were a bunch of pika in the rocky areas. (The biggest surprise was a wolverine crossing the trail.) It was only when I arrived back home that I read about the Kelowna fires.
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jemcanada2 wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:49 pm :crying: :crying:

I have friends in Kelowna but they haven’t been evacuated yet. The fire is getting close to surrounding them. :cry: :cry:
Oh, jem. :bighug: :pray:
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stumbled accross this recent historical item

British Columbia Nisga'a Lisims Government
Canada’s last volcanic eruption occurred in the Nass Valley approximately 263 years ago. The lava destroyed everything in its path, sparked fires in the surrounding forests, and covered two Nisga’a villages. More than 2,000 people perished. Today, the vast lava beds still dominate the Nass Valley. They serve as a memorial to those who lost their lives and as a reminder of the importance of respect — for both the natural world and the wisdom of the elders. Join us for guided tours of the lava beds that tell of Nisga'a history, culture, and clan relationships.


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The Bruce Trail is a 900 Km trail along the Niagara Escarpment with lots of beautiful scenery and waterfalls. My family hiked on it when I was a kid and my friends and I have been hiking on it since Covid.

Here’s a YouTube movie hiking along Bruce Trail. Enjoy the scenery!

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Cooooool!!!
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Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets
Cameron Ortis from RCMP convicted of violating Security of Information Act in one of Canada’s largest ever security breaches

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Thu 23 Nov 2023 02.21 CET

A jury has found the former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit guilty of leaking state secrets, the first time a Canadian has been convicted under the country’s Security of Information Act

On Wednesday afternoon, jurors said Cameron Ortis was guilty of three counts of violating the act and one count of attempting to do so. They also found him guilty of breach of trust and fraudulent use of a computer.

The charges followed one of Canada’s largest-ever security breaches, a revelation that alarmed Five Eyes allies.

Ortis, 51, had pleaded not guilty to all charges, including violating the secrets law by revealing classified information to three individuals in 2015 and trying to do so in a fourth instance.

After a lengthy investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Ortis was arrested in 2019, a move that sent shock waves through the intelligence community.

In his defence, Ortis told the court he offered secret material to targets as a way of enticing them to use an online encryption service that would feed information to allied spy agencies.



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