Canadian court to consider when minors can be sentenced as adults

Canada's highest court is set to hear arguments on Tuesday on when a young person can be considered an adult for sentencing purposes.

At issue are the cases of I.M. and S.B., two young men who cannot be identified under Canadian law because the crimes they were convicted of took place when they were minors.

I.M. was convicted of first-degree murder following a 2011 stabbing, when he was 17. S.B. was convicted of first-degree murder following a 2010 shooting, when he was 16. Both were sentenced as adults, to life sentences with no parole eligibility for 10 years.

They are appealing their sentencings to Canada's Supreme Court, arguing prosecutors did not meet their obligation in rebutting the presumption of the accuseds' "diminished moral blameworthiness."

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The end goal of MAID.

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'The "defund" narrative has picked up momentum,' CBC president warns in email

The push to axe funding to CBC “has picked up momentum” especially when it comes to television, its CEO and president warned in a private email earlier this year.

In the January email from Catherine Tait, the CBC president asked two people to volunteer for a committee being set up by the heritage minister to develop a government plan for CBC/Radio-Canada.

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All-girls robotics team from Peel school wins Canada’s first championship noscript at world competition

This is the team in question.

#Ontario
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Foreign interference inquiry resumes after damning accusations levied against India

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc will testify at a federal inquiry into foreign interference, a day after revealing explosive allegations about murder, coercion, and extortion tied to Indian government agents in Canada.

He stated that expanding the inquiry's mandate isn't necessary, as it already covers India’s interference. Prime Minister Trudeau’s key staff, including Katie Telford, will also testify, with Trudeau set to appear again on Wednesday.

#India
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Samidoun doubles down, says 'death to Canada' an accurate summation of its goals

After Samidoun was roundly condemned for chanting “death to Canada” at a Vancouver rally celebrating the one-year anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks, the group has doubled down on the slogan, saying it’s an accurate representation of what it intends to do.

We acknowledge that the community was shocked by the phrase, and the burning of the Canadian flag that came after the march was concluded. Yet, we at Samidoun stand by this phrase as the call to action that it is.

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Bomb threat causes Air India emergency landing in Iqaluit

An Air India flight made an emergency landing in Iqaluit Tuesday morning due to an online bomb threat.

Flight AI127 was en route from New Delhi to Chicago, when it took the precautionary measure of landing at the Iqaluit airport, according to a written statement from Air India. Air India said it, and other Indian airlines, have been subject to a number of threats in recent days.

It seems only natural when you let Khalistan separatists do whatever they want.

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🇮🇳Sikh groups calls for Indian consulates to be shut down in Vancouver, Toronto

Representatives of a British Columbia Sikh temple whose president was shot dead last year, as well as the Sikh independence group he was involved in, say their communities won't feel safe until India's consulates in Vancouver and Toronto are shut down.

The audacity!

#India #BritishColumbia
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🚫Samidoun, group behind ‘death to Canada’ chant, listed as terrorist entity

Canada has listed Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group behind a rally where people chanted “death to Canada” and burned the Canadian flag in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement on Tuesday and noted that the listing was made alongside the U.S. Treasury Department’s own decision to list the group as a specially designated global terrorist entity.

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🚶‍♂️Liberal MPs will present official demand for Trudeau to resign in coming days, sources say

Earlier rumblings among some Liberal MPs that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign appear to be quickly snowballing into a serious effort to force him out, with caucus members expected to present within days an official demand that he step down.

Three Liberal MPs said they anticipate the demand to be presented in two steps: first, in writing as soon as this weekend, laying out the fact that constituents are telling MPs that Mr. Trudeau needs to go; and second, in an open microphone session at the party’s next caucus meeting in Ottawa, on Wednesday.

Unlike past talk of a caucus revolt, which gained no momentum, many Liberals say they believe that this time is different and that since Friday it has become clear that the Prime Minister has a problem on his hands.

Saving the sinking ship by any means necessary.

#Trudeau
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Poilievre demands names after Trudeau claims Conservatives compromised by foreign interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says several current and former Conservative parliamentarians are either engaged in or targets of foreign interference as he lambasted the federal Conservative leader for refusing to get top-level security clearance.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accuses Trudeau of “lying” and calls on him to release the unreleased names of parliamentarians alleged by a review committee to have wittingly or unwittingly acted on behalf of a foreign country.

In his testimony, Trudeau said he directed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to inform the Conservative party of the intelligence backing the foreign interference claim. But since Poilievre doesn’t have top-secret clearance, Trudeau said that “no one” in the party knows about the intelligence.

#Trudeau #Poilievre
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❌Canada Revenue Agency fires 330 employees over CERB claims during pandemic

The Canada Revenue Agency says it has terminated 330 employees for inappropriately receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit during the pandemic, giving its final update on an internal review.

The CRA launched an internal review in June 2023 into employees who received CERB despite being ineligible for the benefit, which identified 600 employees for further investigation.

The benefit, known as CERB for short, provided $2,000 per month to Canadians whose jobs were lost as a result of public health restrictions during the pandemic.

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📊Nearly two-thirds of Canadians feel immigration levels too high: poll

Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe there are “too many” immigrants currently in the country, according to a new national poll.

The survey, conducted by Leger for the Association of Canadians Studies (ACS), suggests an emerging national consensus on the matter. While slightly over a fifth of respondents felt Canada’s immigration levels were “about the right number,” just two per cent thought the country allowed in “too few” people and 65 per cent said there are too many.

Don't actually need a poll to know that.

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🐄Billions of litres of Canadian milk were discarded in the last 12 years

"Systemic inefficiencies" in Canada’s supply management system have led to billions of litres of milk going to waste since 2012, according to a new study published in the journal Ecological Economics.

Between 6.8 billion and 10 billion litres of milk was discarded on Canadian dairy farms over 12 years, according to researchers based in Denmark, Michigan and Halifax's Dalhousie University. They found that the amount of tossed milk made up about seven per cent of milk produced on dairy farms over that time, and was valued at up to $14.9 billion.

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Homelessness is not stopping this Halifax man from running for mayor

The things you have to do in Trudeau’s Canada to fix your housing situation.

#housing
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🗳B.C. smashes advance voting record, over a million ballots cast

A record number of British Columbians have cast their ballots in advance voting before the provincial election on Saturday, Elections B.C. says.

The elections body says 1,001,331 people have already voted, representing more than 28 per cent of all registered electors and putting the province on track for big overall turnout.

#BritishColumbia
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Tobacco giants to pay $32.5B to Canadian provinces, smokers in 'historic' proposed deal

Three major tobacco companies are set to pay close to $25 billion to Canadian provinces and territories, and over $4 billion to Quebec smokers and their families, as part of a proposed deal stemming from a long-standing legal battle. The plan was filed in an Ontario court after five years of mediation.

The companies—JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, and Imperial Tobacco Canada—entered creditor protection in 2019 after losing an appeal in a Quebec court case.

Under the new arrangement, provinces and territories will receive phased payments, with $6 billion paid upon implementation. Quebec plaintiffs could receive up to $100,000 each, while smokers in other provinces with lung or throat cancer or COPD diagnosed between 2015 and 2019 could claim up to $60,000.

#Quebec #Ontario
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Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation

An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness, raising concerns over approvals for vulnerable people in the country’s assisted dying system.

Ontario’s chief coroner issued several reports Wednesday reviewing the euthanasia deaths of people who weren’t terminally ill. The expert committee’s reports are based on an analysis of anonymized cases, chosen for their implications for future euthanasia requests.

#healthcare #MAID
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Canada’s Indigeous chiefs reject $47.8B child welfare reform deal

First Nations chiefs have voted to reject a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal, reached in July with the Canadian government.

At a special chiefs assembly in Calgary hosted by the Assembly of First Nations, 267 out of 414 chiefs voted against a resolution in support of the deal after a lengthy debate that at points was emotionally charged as they argued either for or against it.

This was not a good agreement: we have to do better for our children.

Mary Teegee, the chair of the Our Children Our Way Society.

48 billion not good enough?

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🇨🇦🇺🇦Canada to give $65 million in military aid to Ukraine

Canada plans to give Ukraine a $64.8 million (US$47 million) military aid package that will include small arms, ammunition, and protective gear, Defense Minister Bill Blair said in a statement on Friday.

The aid package, which also allocates money for training Ukrainian troops, is part of a $500 million military funding committed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in July.

#Ukraine
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🇵🇰Pakistani taxi driver in Canada tells a woman that if they were in Pakistan, he would kidnap and rape her, but since they’re in Canada, he cannot do anything.

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