Canada

Via CBC (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-party-leadership-results-1.5695925)… Erin O’Toole has won the leadership for the Conservative Party, promising to present a vision to make Canada more prosperous and reaching out to broaden the party’s base of supporters. After a six-hour delay due to glitches with the ballots, O’Toole took 57 per cent of the votes on the third and final…

Via Global News ()… According to Justin Trudeau, the reason his government handed a sole-source contract to WE Charity to run a $912-million student-grant program is a pretty simple one. WE Charity was the only organization in Canada capable of doing the job, the prime minister has said repeatedly. “We needed to have a partner…

A viral Facebook post shared over 3,000 times claims all Canadian citizens are entitled to a government grant of $200 a day from July 8 to Aug. 8 for staying home to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.  Verdict: False A spokesperson from the Canada Revenue Agency confirmed that the post was inaccurate. The link…

The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control's website has an entire section dedicated to sex education during the virus pandemic. Deep within, government leading health experts suggest "glory holes" could be the safest technique to minimize virus spreading during sex.  "Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact," the…

There are two things that the priest in this video said that were correct. One was, “we are not worthy to receive Holy Communion.” That is a statement every single Orthodox Christian can agree with. But it is different when we say it and hopefully mean what we say, that we may be grateful to…

Submitted by MediaPart, authored by Nicholas Molodyko… Let’s play master and servant. I am your British master. And you are the servant. You get undressed. I’ll put a blindfold around your eyes. If you try to remove the eye covering, I will handcuff you. Then, if you cry for help, I will muzzle you. Don’t…

Col. Eric Laforest, commander of Task Force Latvia, gave an interview to CBC News. As reportes in the article the Canadian-led NATO battle group in Latvia was the target of a pandemic-related disinformation campaign that alliance commanders say they believe originated in Russia. Reports circulated recently in some Baltic and Eastern European media outlets that…

Eric Zuesse The U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has declared that Julian Assange is being tortured in Britain’s super-max Belmarsh Prison, by applying “torture that will not leave physical traces, that will erase the personality of the victim,” and that these methods of torture were first applied by the Nazis at the Dachau…

April 19, 2020 7:33 PM ET At least 10 people including a policewoman were killed in a shooting rampage in Canada that began Saturday, numerous sources reported. Gabriel Wortman, 51, was identified by authorities as the gunman who went on a 12-hour shooting rampage in Nova Scotia beginning Saturday night, killing at least 10 people…

The United States’ reliance on China and Canada for plastic lids and bottles is trickling down into a shortage of high-demand hand sanitizer for Americans in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. A report by Bloomberg details how American manufacturers are ramping up production of hand sanitizer but do not have enough plastic bottles…