🇵🇰Pakistani man denied Canadian status over two wives gets another chance

A Pakistani man denied permanent resident status in Canada after an immigration officer discovered he had two wives has won another kick at the can, courtesy of the Federal Court.

The court found that the man’s case was complicated and an immigration officer was being “unreasonable” when they failed to try and understand the circumstances that lead to the man being married to two women at once, for a time.

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🚴 Ontario plans to remove Toronto bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, University

Ontario is planning to remove sections of bike lanes on three major roads in Toronto, as it considers whether to rip up more bike lanes elsewhere.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has complained about some bike lanes creating gridlock, in particular a stretch of Bloor Street West that is about a 10-minute drive from his home in Toronto's west end.

#Ontario
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🇨🇳Chinese hacking is biggest state cyber threat to Canada, spy agency says

An aggressive Chinese hacking campaign is the most active state cyber threat to Canada, the country's signals intelligence agency said.

In a new threat assessment, the Communications Security Establishment Canada also said Russia's cyber program was trying to confront and destabilize Canada and its allies and cited Iran as a threat.

Chinese hacking served high-level political and commercial objectives, including espionage, intellectual property theft, malign influence, and transnational repression, the agency said, adding that the PRC cyber program's scale, tradecraft, and ambitions "were second to none."

#China
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🇺🇸Deported fentanyl dealer hired human smuggler in Canada to get back into U.S.

A convicted fentanyl dealer deported last year from the U.S. recently found his way into Canada and then hired a human smuggler who moved him across the border into Vermont, court records show.

Luis Edison Capellan-Ortiz, from the Dominican Republic, was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on Oct. 20. They said they found him hiding in the woods about four kilometres from the Quebec-Vermont border.
#US
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💉Three years and waiting for Canada's made-in-Montreal COVID shot

Vaccine production is nearly three years behind schedule at a federally owned plant in Montreal and the future of a deal between Ottawa and an American company to make COVID-19 vaccines here is now under review.

It's 2024, how about we stop laundering money on COVID vaccines?
#Quebec
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🇺🇸U.S. company under investigation after monopolizing Banff/Jasper attractions

Competition Bureau Canada has launched an investigation into VIAD Corp., an Arizona-based company that’s dominating the attraction market in Canada’s Banff and Jasper National Parks.
#US
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🇮🇱Canada would arrest Israeli PM if he came to Canada: Trudeau

In the wake of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canada’s PM said they’d abide by the court’s ruling.

On Thursday, the Netherlands-based court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Ibrahim Al-Masri.
#Israel
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🧠 Neuralink gets approval to start human trials in Canada

The first Neuralink clinical trials outside the US will take place in Canada.

Neuralink has secured Health Canada's approval to launch human trials in the country, with the Toronto Western Hospital being the "first and exclusive surgical site" for the procedure.

The company first opened its Canadian patient registry in March this year, but now it's actively looking for potential participants. "Recruitment is now open," it has announced on X.

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Warrant issued for Toronto gold heist suspect after court no-show

A warrant has been issued for one of the men charged in connection to the Pearson Airport gold heist after he failed to appear in court.

Prasath Paramalingam, 35, is charged with one count of accessory after the fact for his alleged role in helping Durante King-McLean escape. King-McLean is the alleged wheel man who drove a white truck loaded with more than $22.5 million in gold from the Air Canada cargo facility in April 2023.

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Greenpeace protesters arrested outside Poilievre's official residence

Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a mockup of oil-extraction equipment outside the official residence of the Official Opposition leader Thursday morning.

Two protesters chained themselves to replica pumpjacks to call out what Greenpeace says is Poilievre's "anti-climate agenda."
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🇺🇸Trump picks Pete Hoekstra as U.S. ambassador to Canada

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has picked former Michigan congressman and diplomat Pete Hoekstra as his upcoming administration’s ambassador to Canada.

Trump said in a statement that Hoekstra would help him “once again put America first.”

Easy to do when our politicians have already put Canada last.
#US
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Rising threat of nitazenes joins fentanyl in Canada's toxic drug supply

With drugs claiming more than 47,000 lives in Canada since 2016, a soft on drugs policy doesn't seem like the best option. But nobody likes to admit their mistakes, right?

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📉 Support for immigration in Canada plunges to lowest in decades

Canadians haven’t felt this strongly opposed to immigration levels in a quarter century.

Nearly six in 10 people now agree “there’s too much immigration to Canada,” according to the country’s longest-running survey on the topic by the Environics Institute. It’s the first time since 1998 that this view is held by a clear majority.

The real numbers are higher, no doubt.
#immigration
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Trudeau unveils $6.28-billion in new spending on two-month GST break, stimulus cheques

The federal government unveiled its multibillion-dollar plan to alleviate pocketbook pressures for households, dropping the GST on a wide range of products for a two-month period and sending most working Canadians a $250 cheque in April.

The measures will cost the federal government $6.28-billion, according to the Finance Department – $1.6-billion for the sales tax break and $4.68-billion for the cheques.

Anything to win over voters.

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📊 More than half of Canadians say Trudeau should be replaced as Liberal Party leader, poll shows

Fifty-seven per cent of Canadians say the Liberal Party should be led by someone other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the next election, with only 24 per cent saying he should stay on.

Did we need a poll for that?
#Trudeau
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Mass riots engulf Montreal as an anti-NATO demonstration turns violent

Montreal is hosting the 70th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from Nov. 22 to 25.

According to police, at least three people have been arrested.

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At the same time, Justin Trudeau was spotted having a good time at a Taylor Swift concert.
#Trudeau
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🪖Blair defends Canada’s defence spending plan as ‘credible’ amid criticism

Defence Minister Bill Blair on Friday pushed back on U.S. critics of Canada’s defence spending, saying the eight-year plan to reach its NATO commitment was “credible and verifiable” despite reports saying otherwise.

Speaking to reporters at the opening of the Halifax International Security Forum, Blair said “nobody has to argue with me” that Canada needs to spend more on defence, and that the federal government was making the necessary investments, but more international and industry collaboration is needed to reach the NATO spending target.
#NATO
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🩺 Feds want $411 million to cover refugee health care as the number of new arrivals soars

The federal government is asking Parliament to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending to cover the health-care costs of eligible refugees and asylum seekers.

How does that make you feel?
#healthcare #immigration
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Allowing homeless encampments to remain is no better than dispersing them.

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Canadian MPs among social media users pivoting from X to Bluesky in the wake of U.S. vote

What a soy move.

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