Québec
Observatoire de la liberté d’expression |
Période: 1 janvier au 7 janvier 2024
Nombre d’articles: 40
Région: Québec
| La mise en place d’un registre des agents étrangers est loin de faire l’unanimitéOTTAWA — Depuis plus d’un an, le Canada réfléchit à la création d’un registre des agents étrangers pour lutter contre l’ingérence dans le processus démocratique du pays. Le gouvernement libéral et même certains fervents partisans de l’idée reconnaissent qu’un registre ne serait qu’un outil parmi d’autres pour empêcher des acteurs hostiles de s’immiscer dans les affaires canadiennes. D’autres disent qu’une telle mesure n’a pas du tout sa place dans la boîte à outils. La justification de la création d’un registre vient du fait que les États peuvent se livrer à…
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| Les faits marquants de l’année à Trois-Rivières## Le Carrefour 40-55 Assurément le dossier qui a fait couler le plus d’encre en 2023: l’agrandissement du parc industriel 40-55. Deux visions s’affrontent : l’environnement et le développement économique. Si certains affirment qu’il est possible de concilier les deux, d’autres estiment que détruire ne serait- ce qu’un hectare de milieu humide, c’est déjà trop. Le Carrefour 40-55 a été le dossier de l’année 2023. (François Gervais/Le Nouvelliste) Dès le début du mois de janvier 2023, le conseiller François Bélisle comparait l’agrandissement du parc industriel à un «cancer». Pierre Montreuil…
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| On ne change pas, même en 2024 !Ma résolution télévisuelle de 2024 a tenu quelques heures, à peine. Désolé, mais pas tant désolé. Publié à 0h56 Mis à jour à 7h15 J’y croyais pourtant. Moins consommer de calories vides au petit écran. Me concentrer sur les costauds journaux télévisés européens, les documentaires sur la crise migratoire en Afrique et la programmation complète de TV5. Voilà. Nouvelle année, nouvelle personnalité télé ! J’ai lamentablement failli à la première tentation. Le soir du 1er janvier, encore gonflé de petits fours du Choix du Président et de Bubly à la…
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| Que fait le gouvernement fédéral contre la haine en ligne?Lors de la campagne électorale de 2019, les libéraux se sont engagés à légiférer pour lutter contre la haine en ligne. Ils n’ont pas tenu cette promesse et l’ont réitérée pendant celle de 2021, allant jusqu’à promettre le dépôt du projet de loi dans les 100 premiers jours de leur troisième mandat. Cet échéancier est passé depuis longtemps et nous n’avons toujours pas vu l’ombre d’une législation en ce sens. Le 17 octobre dernier, lors d’une imposante conférence sur l’antisémitisme organisée par le Centre consultatif des relations juives et israéliennes,…
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| Un groupe représentant TikTok et Meta a lancé une poursuite contre l’Ohio, vendrediCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Un groupe commercial représentant TikTok, Snapchat, X, Meta et d’autres grandes entreprises technologiques a lancé une poursuite contre l’Ohio vendredi au sujet d’une loi qui obligera les enfants à obtenir le consentement de leurs parents pour utiliser des applications de médias sociaux. La législation fait partie du projet de loi sur le budget de 86,1 milliards $ que le gouverneur républicain Mike DeWine a promulgué en juillet. Elle devrait entrer en vigueur le 15 janvier. L’administration a présenté cette mesure comme un moyen de protéger la santé…
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| Un juge ontarien dit que «prédateur» est une insulte contre un artiste de dragL’avocat d’un artiste de drag affirme qu’une récente décision d’un tribunal de l’Ontario indique que les personnes qui utilisent de dangereuses insultes anti-LGBTQ+ ne peuvent pas se cacher derrière certaines protections de la liberté d’expression pour se défiler de toute responsabilité juridique. La décision rendue ce mois-ci à Thunder Bay, en Ontario, ouvre la voie au client de l’avocat Douglas Judson pour intenter une action en diffamation contre un homme qui aurait utilisé une insulte sur sa page Facebook «média/information» auto-identifiée pour accuser les artistes de drag de comportements de…
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| Un retour sur investissement… en pleine facePour tout vous dire, à l’époque j’enseignais dans une roulotte parquée sur la cour de récréation. Sa réponse en m’écrasant la main par deux poignes: «On ne parlera pas de ça, ici, ce soir.» Il est vrai que le sujet était chaud, cinq ans après la bourbe de Parizeau sur le vote ethnique, il n’était pas prioritaire de s’occuper des besoins criants des enfants immigrants pour le gouvernement péquiste de l’époque. Presque 24 ans plus tard, après 22 jours de grève sans salaire au froid, sans toilette, avec un feu…
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| « Je suis Charlie », trois mots transformés en sloganVous naviguez sur le site de Radio-Canada Aller au contenu principalAller au pied de pageAide à la navigation Début du contenu principal Début du contenu Le slogan JE SUIS CHARLIE créé par le directeur artistique français Joachim Roncin et adopté par les partisans de la liberté d’expression et de la liberté de la presse. PHOTO : Wikipedia libre de droits Publié le 5 janvier 2024 Le 7 janvier 2015, il y a neuf ans, le journal _Charlie Hebdo_ était la cible d’une attaque terroriste. Dix-sept personnes perdent la vie, dont…
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| Josh Freed: Let’s peer into my 2024 crystal ballBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Columnists # Josh Freed: Let’s peer into my 2024 crystal ball Get ready for the fake frenzy and AI apocalypse. Author of the article: Josh Freed • Special to Montreal Gazette Published Jan 06, 2024 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 4 minute read Good luck getting tickets to President Taylor Swift’s inauguration next year. Photo by Natacha Pisarenko /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ## Article content So long 2023, you’ve been a difficult, nasty, angst-ridden, violent, vicious year and we’re glad to see your rear end….
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| Politicians’ oath of allegiance to King Charles could be history if Liberal MP gets his wayMembers of Parliament and senators may be able to dodge the centuries-old oath of allegiance to King Charles if a Liberal MP gets his pending private member’s bill passed. Canadian monarchists say the bill is republicanism by stealth — part of a larger effort to slowly chip away at the Crown’s standing in Canada without actually scrapping the monarchy through a protracted constitutional fight with the provinces. Canada’s republicans, meanwhile, are welcoming the bill as a necessary first step toward ridding the country of what they maintain is an outdated…
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| Russian antiwar activist could lose Canadian citizenship bid over conviction abroadA critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn’t a crime in Canada to criticize the Russian army. Maria Kartasheva, who has lived in Ottawa since 2019, has been convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the invasion of Ukraine which bars « public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. » Kartasheva says she was surprised Russian prosecutors pursued her over two blog posts she wrote…
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| Tensions flare at Pointe-Claire city council as councilor asks for mayor’s resignationTensions are again rising at Pointe Claire city hall with at least one councillor asking for the mayor’s resignation. The latest fuss stems mostly from a December 5th council meeting that prompted Brent Cowan to pen an open letter, asking Mayor Tim Thomas to step down for allegedly uttering false information and for alleged misconduct. In the letter Cowan states, “I was appalled with your disregard for the rules of procedure governing city council meetings, which you are duty-bound not only to respect, but to enforce.” It concludes, “caught in…
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Observatoire de la liberté d’expression |
Période: 1 janvier au 7 janvier 2024
Nombre d’articles: 115
Région: Canada sans Québec
| ‘You need to start to speak to us’: UBC medicine professor on his resignation over antisemitismBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. News 2. Canada # ‘You need to start to speak to us’: UBC medicine professor on his resignation over antisemitism ‘We know this subject. We’re not radicals. We don’t hate Palestinians, we don’t hate Muslims. We want a dialogue,’ Dr. Ted Rosenberg says Published Jan 05, 2024 • 4 minute read File photo of the University of British Columbia campus. Photo by Mark van Manen/Postmedia ## Article content _Dr. Ted Rosenberg says he felt he had “no choice but to resign” from his post at the…
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| A Day in the Life: A Conspiracy Theory ResearcherCarmen Celestini keeps the internet safe for normies. A lecturer at the University of Waterloo and a post-doctoral fellow at Queen’s University in Kingston, she studies religion and social theory. Her primary focus rests on conspiracy theories, the Christian belief that the world is coming to an end — and where these two things overlap. “From that, I’ve branched out into a lot of social media work, looking at disinformation, extremism, hate, mass shootings, all of the things you wouldn’t talk about at the dinner table,” Celestini says. Thankfully, The…
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| Artificial wombs for premature babies are on the way. Will they change abortion rights?Breadcrumb Trail Links 1. World 2. News 3. Health # Artificial wombs intended to save premature babies — for now. Next step could be ‘immaculate gestation’ For some, the prospect of artificial wombs raises concerns about uncoupling reproduction from human bodies. For others, it would be the ultimate gender equalizer Get the latest from Sharon Kirkey straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 16, 2018 • Last updated Mar 16, 2018 • 8 minute read An artificial womb could help keep babies born severely premature alive. Photo by Children’s…
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| Bill Ackman: Claudine Gay resignation was a good first step, but more needs to be done to fix HarvardBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Bill Ackman: Claudine Gay resignation was a good first step, but more needs to be done to fix Harvard Self-censorship, speech codes and cancel culture must be forever banished from campus Published Jan 05, 2024 • Last updated 12 hours ago • 18 minute read Harvard University Photo by Bloomberg News ## Article content In light of Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is…
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| Calgary’s top cop expects more arrests as Gaza protests evolveBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Calgary # Calgary’s top cop expects more arrests as Gaza protests evolve Law enforcement gave protesters too much latitude during COVID-19 demonstrations, says Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld Published Jan 06, 2024 • Last updated 58 minutes ago • 4 minute read The Calgary Police Service mounted unit keeps watch over pro-Palestinian protesters rallying in Tomkins Park in this photo from Dec. 10, 2023. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia ## Article content Calgarians can expect the number of charges laid during political street protests to increase…
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| Canada blocks citizenship for Russian activist convicted for blog posts opposing warBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Canada # Canada blocks citizenship for Russian activist convicted for blog posts opposing war Author of the article: Canadian Press Dylan Robertson Published Jan 05, 2024 • Last updated 24 minutes ago • 3 minute read Maria Kartasheva, a representative of the Russian Canadian Democratic Alliance, organized an Ottawa group that came together Saturday, March 25, 2023, at Le Moulin De Provence downtown. The group was writing letters to support political prisoners in Russian prisons, particularly those who spoke up against the war and paid with…
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| Canadians favour individuals over government regarding internet safety: Report## Article content Safely using the internet is the responsibility of each individual Canadian and not the federal government, according to in-house Privy Council research. Article content “Discussing actions which could be taken to mitigate online misinformation and disinformation, participants stressed the role of individual responsibility,” said Privy Council researchers, reports Blacklock’s Reporter. Article content Even Canadians concerned about hurtful content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and SnapChat said it “was the responsibility of individuals” and not cabinet to decide what was suitable. “A number were of the view…
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| Chris Selley: Free speech can’t take breaks for election campaignsBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Chris Selley: Free speech can’t take breaks for election campaigns Shouldn’t public discussion be more valued while we’re electing our leaders, not less? Get the latest from Chris Selley straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 06, 2024 • Last updated 33 minutes ago • 4 minute read A lawn sign promoting a book by Ezra Levant during the 2019 federal election. The Commissioner of Canada Elections deemed that this amounted to illegal election advertising. Photo by @ezralevant/X ## Article content A…
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| Colby Cosh: Bill 34 suspension shows the slippery slope of B.C. harm reductionBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Colby Cosh: Bill 34 suspension shows the slippery slope of B.C. harm reduction The court is obstructing a left-wing government whose leader has the highest imaginable harm-reductionist credentials Published Jan 03, 2024 • Last updated 5 hours ago • 3 minute read Photo by Gerry Kahrmann/The Province ## Article content I must offer congratulations to the Harm Reduction Nurses Association, a pressure group numbering 220 or so people that has now succeeded in legally delaying the introduction of British Columbia’s Restricting Public Consumption…
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| Colby Cosh: Honouring Tom Smothers, network TV’s accidental Sixties troublemakerBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Opinion 2. Columnists # Colby Cosh: Honouring Tom Smothers, network TV’s accidental Sixties troublemaker Opinion: More than just half of a comedy duo, Smothers made entertainment history with his anti-war messages, civil rights commentary and daring guests Published Dec 31, 2023 • Last updated 5 days ago • 7 minute read Tom Smothers, seen in an undated photo, trod new ground in social commentary with his brother Dick in the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which CBS cancelled in 1969 due to its controversial content. Tom Smothers…
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| Dave Chappelle continues to mock trans community in new Netflix specialBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Celebrity # Dave Chappelle continues to mock trans community in new Netflix special: ‘He’s telling the truth’ ‘I love punching down,’ comedian jokes in new standup set Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 02, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer. Photo by Netflix ## Article content After promising he was done making jokes about them, Dave Chappelle’s newest special, _The Dreamer_ , doesn’t…
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| EDITORIAL: If it’s not about Jews, stop targeting them## Article content From the moment protests in Canada against Israel began in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Oct. 7, protesters have insisted their protests are against Israel, not Jews. Article content This is while many “protesters” vandalize businesses owned by Jews and demonstrate outside restaurants owned by Jews and gathering places frequented by Jews. Article content That’s to say nothing of others “protesting” by firebombing a synagogue and a community centre, firing bullets at Jewish schools, painting Swastikas on synagogues and targeting Jewish homes by smearing then…
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| EDITORIAL: Not Canada, you say? Sadly, it’s what we are## Article content The most unsatisfactory response to incidents of anti-Semitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas has been the glib statement that “this is not Canada.” Article content When a Jewish-owned deli is firebombed, in an act that has shocked Toronto to its core, we can’t pretend it was unexpected or unusual. Pro-Palestinian protesters have become increasingly bold with threats and intimidation. While the police response to the apparent arson attempt has been decisive, until that point protesters flooded malls, threatened Jewish schools and blocked…
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| Expect more arrests during political protests, says Calgary police chiefBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Local News # Expect more arrests during political protests, says Calgary police chief Law enforcement gave protesters too much latitude during COVID-19 demonstrations, says Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld Published Jan 06, 2024 • Last updated 29 minutes ago • 4 minute read The Calgary Police Service had a heavy presence during duelling protests between pro-Palestinian and Israel demonstrators at city hall in Calgary on Sunday, December 3, 2023. Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia ## Article content Calgarians can expect the number of charges laid during political street protests…
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| GUNTER: Micro-managing leading to mistrust of federal governmentBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Columnists # GUNTER: Micro-managing leading to mistrust of federal government Get the latest from Lorne Gunter straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 02, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read One of the many police lines where protesters and police clashed during the Freedom Convoy protest, February 18, 2022. Photo by Jean Levac /Ottawa Citizen ## Article content Over the last several years, senior federal civil servants have repeatedly expressed their surprise at Canadians’ eroding faith in government. Advertisement 2…
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| HANSON: America finding itself on the razor’s edgeBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Columnists # HANSON: America finding itself on the razor’s edge Published Jan 01, 2024 • Last updated 3 days ago • 4 minute read US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in Christiansted, Saint Croix, on the US Virgin Islands, on December 27, 2023. Photo by MANDEL NGAN /AFP via Getty Images ## Article content As we begin a new year, America is on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up. Advertisement 2…
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| Hasina is set to stay in power in Bangladesh after opposition boycotts electionOpen this photo in gallery: An election official being escorted by police, carries a sealed ballot box after voting concluded at a polling station in Dhaka on Jan. 7.MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/Getty Images Vote counting was under way Sunday in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election that was fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, paving the way for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League to seize a fourth consecutive term. At least 18 arson attacks preceded the vote but the election day passed relatively calm. Turnout was…
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| Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty to sedition and collusion chargesHONG KONG (AP) — Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign countries in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong. Lai, a media tycoon who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, faces one count of conspiring to print seditious publications to incite hatred against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments, as well as two counts of collusion with foreign countries to call for sanctions and other hostile actions against China and Hong Kong. Flanked by three…
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| How George Brown helped create Canada in spite of himselfThe whippings drove some prisoners insane. Seven floggings over 14 days for one inmate. A 14-year-old girl whipped five times within three months. One prisoner received 720 lashes during his imprisonment. A boy of 8 was confined to the dreaded “box” for staring. A 10-year-old boy was whipped for laughing. And the food was so vile that inmates stole from the pigs’ trough. All these abuses and many others at the Kingston Penitentiary – “this den of brutality” – George Brown chronicled in his newspaper, The Globe. “Who can calculate…
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| Howard Levitt: Claudine Gay resignation may signal the beginning of the end of the woke DEI cabalBreadcrumb Trail Links # Howard Levitt: Claudine Gay resignation may signal the beginning of the end of the woke DEI cabal Diversity, equity and inclusion has gone off the rails Published Jan 05, 2024 • 6 minute read Harvard University President Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. Gay resigned Jan. 2, 2024, amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the…
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| Jonathan S. Tobin: Claudine Gay debacle highlights the perils of DEIBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Jonathan S. Tobin: Claudine Gay debacle highlights the perils of DEI DEI’s debased standards and apathy for antisemitism permitted a marginal, ethically challenged scholar to become a university president Published Jan 03, 2024 • 7 minute read Claudine Gay Photo by Steven Senne/AP Photo ## Article content In the end, not even the support of former U.S. president Barack Obama and one of his former cabinet members was enough to save Claudine Gay from being forced out as president of Harvard University. Nor…
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| Lawn signs for Ezra Levant book were illegal election ads, judge rulesBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. News 2. Canada # Lawn signs for Ezra Levant book were illegal election ads, judge rules Federal Court also denies request to declare a section of the Canada Elections Act unconstitutional as a violation of free speech Published Jan 01, 2024 • Last updated Jan 01, 2024 • 4 minute read A lawn sign promoting a book by Ezra Levant during the 2019 federal election. The Commissioner of Canada Elections deemed that this amounted to illegal election advertising. Photo by @ezralevant/X ## Article content Canada’s ban…
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| Letters Jan. 6: Vocal minority; the dead in Gaza; Greater Victoria’s architecture### Censorship to satisfy a vocal minority It was with much dismay that I received a notice from the Belfry Theatre that it is cancelling _The Runner_ , a play about an Orthodox Jew in Israel and his job as a ZAKA member. ZAKA is a volunteer organization not only responsible for honouring the Jewish dead after a calamity, but also engages in search and rescue internationally after major catastrophes. The play rises above politics. It is about the humanitarian efforts of Jacob, the ZAKA member who saves the life…
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| MANDEL: Harold the Mortgage Closer fights bid to revoke his licenceBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Toronto & GTA # MANDEL: Harold the Mortgage Closer fights bid to revoke his licence A provincial watchdog has accused the well-known cash-for-gold hawker of lacking ‘integrity and honesty’ in his mortgage business Get the latest from Michele Mandel straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 05, 2024 • Last updated 38 minutes ago • 3 minute read Harold Gerstel, better known as Harold the Jewellery Buyer and Harold the Mortgage Closer, is seen here in 2011. Photo by Chris Doucette /Toronto Sun files ##…
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| Man, 34, charged with spray-painting antisemitic messages in downtown OttawaBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Local News # Man, 34, charged with spray-painting antisemitic messages in downtown Ottawa Published Jan 05, 2024 • Last updated 4 hours ago • 1 minute read Ottawa Police Service HQ on Elgin Street. Photo by Tony Caldwell /POSTMEDIA ## Article content Ottawa police have charged a 34-year-old man in connection with a series of hate-related spray-painting incidents downtown in December. In a release on Friday, the Ottawa Police Service said its hate and bias crime unit had charged the man with 18 counts of mischief…
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| McMaster University sued for $77 million over alleged antisemitic incidents on campus## Article content A $77 million class-action lawsuit has been brought against McMaster University and the McMaster Students Union on behalf of Jewish students at the university. The lawsuit alleges Jewish students have faced increased difficulties due to a rise in antisemitic rhetoric on campus since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. Article content Diamond and Diamond cites a vigil organized by Jewish student groups that had to be moved to a secret location for safety reasons, as well as a McMaster teaching assistant who allegedly supported the public…
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| Michael Higgins: For Harvard president Claudine Gay, resigning was the only appropriate actionBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Michael Higgins: For Harvard president Claudine Gay, resigning was the only appropriate action Moral responsibility shouldn’t take a back seat to a poisonous, divisive ideology Published Jan 04, 2024 • Last updated 2 hours ago • 4 minute read Harvard University president Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Education on Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. Gay resigned Jan. 2, 2024, amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over her remarks regarding antisemitism. Photo by Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated…
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| Michael Shellenberger: No, Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard was not a result of a vast right-wing conspiracyBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. NP Comment # Michael Shellenberger: No, Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard was not a result of a vast right-wing conspiracy If media organizations don’t stop waving away genuine scandals as conspiracy theories, they will continue to lose legitimacy Published Jan 04, 2024 • Last updated 2 hours ago • 6 minute read A truck with electronic panels drives along a street near Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 12, 2023. Photo by Steven Senne/AP Photo ## Article content Right-wing activists are responsible for the resignation…
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| North York deli arson ‘hate motivated,’ Toronto Police chief saysBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Toronto & GTA 2. Crime # North York deli arson ‘hate motivated,’ Toronto Police chief says Incident ‘very frightening,’ Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs VP says Published Jan 04, 2024 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 2 minute read Officers are giving an arson investigation their « full attention » after a blaze at International Delicatessen Foods in North York, which was being cleaned up on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Photo by Jane Stevenson /Toronto Sun ## Article content Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw re-iterated the…
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| Ontario megachurch’s former victim’s advocate concerned after role goes to person with ties to denomination_**Warning: This story contains references to sexual assault.**_ A former victim’s advocate who was hired to support the The Meeting House congregation says she feels the Ontario megachurch’s current leaders don’t have the « same commitment » to survivors as it once did, two years after its primary teaching pastor was charged with sexual assault. Melodie Bissell started working with the church as an independent contractor in March 2022, after allegations about Bruxy Cavey came forward. Cavey was charged by Hamilton police in June 2022. Bissell, who is no longer working with…
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| Opinion: University presidents have been hoist by their own hypocrisyBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. FP Comment # Opinion: University presidents have been hoist by their own hypocrisy They should not pontificate on political and social issues, but having done so in the past, can’t complain about backlash now Published Jan 03, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 8 minute read Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, Pamela Nadell, professor of history and Jewish studies at American University, and Sally Kornbluth, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education…
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| Ottawa man, 34, charged with series of hate related offences: OPSAn Ottawa man, 34, has been charged with a series of hate offences, Ottawa Police Service said in a news release Friday. Officers say the suspect allegedly spray painted a series of antisemitic symbols and other hateful messages in several locations, including the downtown and Golden Triangle areas in the evening hours of Dec. 22, 2023. The suspect, who has not been named, has been charged with 18 counts of mischief to property. He is expected to appear in court on Friday. Police encourage anyone who witnesses or experiences such…
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| Pearson: Time to denounce hatred, bigotry, disruptors who prevent civil discourseBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. Opinion 2. Columnists # Pearson: Time to denounce hatred, bigotry, disruptors who prevent civil discourse It’s almost impossible to get through a day without encountering voices that are heated, intransigent, or downright destructive. Author of the article: Glen Pearson • Special to The London Free Press Published Jan 06, 2024 • Last updated 33 minutes ago • 3 minute read (Getty Images) ## Article content Call it defiant democracy or honourable humanity, perhaps the time has come for those who believe in the kind of public…
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| Politicians’ oath of allegiance to King Charles could be history if Liberal MP gets his wayMembers of Parliament and senators may be able to dodge the centuries-old oath of allegiance to King Charles if a Liberal MP gets his pending private member’s bill passed. Canadian monarchists say the bill is republicanism by stealth — part of a larger effort to slowly chip away at the Crown’s standing in Canada without actually scrapping the monarchy through a protracted constitutional fight with the provinces. Canada’s republicans, meanwhile, are welcoming the bill as a necessary first step toward ridding the country of what they maintain is an outdated…
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| Protests on Edmonton streets have more than tripled in recent years, police sayBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. News 2. Local News # Protests on Edmonton streets have more than tripled in recent years, police say “Our goal is always to regulate and minimize, to keep it to a lower level, but yet giving people, obviously, the ability to express grief, and anger and frustration … If you’re thousands of miles away and something’s happening, you’re losing family members, it’s not easy. » Published Dec 31, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 4 minute read Edmonton Police Service (EPS) Chief Dale McFee speaks…
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| Rudsak founder looks back on three decades of leveraging ‘expertise in Canadian winters’Breadcrumb Trail Links 1. Life 2. Fashion & Beauty # Rudsak founder looks back on three decades of leveraging ‘expertise in Canadian winters’ Rudsak founder Evik Asatoorian looks back on three decades of leveraging ‘expertise in Canadian winters’ Get the latest from Aleesha Harris straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 02, 2024 • Last updated 5 hours ago • 3 minute read A model wears a look from the Canadian brand Rudsak. sun _Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate…
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| Russian antiwar activist could lose Canadian citizenship bid over conviction abroadA critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn’t a crime in Canada to criticize the Russian army. Maria Kartasheva, who has lived in Ottawa since 2019, has been convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the invasion of Ukraine which bars « public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. » Kartasheva says she was surprised Russian prosecutors pursued her over two blog posts she wrote…
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| S.Korean minister says U.S. troops likely to stay even if Trump is re-electedSTORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States is unlikely to cut back its forces in South Korea even if former U.S. president Donald Trump wins re-election, the South’s minister tasked with matters related to neighbouring North Korea said in a television interview. In the interview transmitted on Saturday, Unification Minister Kim Yung Ho told broadcaster KBS this was because the U.S. Congress had already decided the matter in a defense bill it recently passed. « One of the concerns many people have is… the issue of…
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| Second administration official resigns in protest of Biden’s support for Israeli war in GazaWASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit Wednesday to protest the administration’s crucial military support of Israel’s war in Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad. Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had worked in the education department to help overhaul the student loan system and address inequities in higher education, told The Associated Press he submitted his resignation Wednesday. That was after he and others had “done everything imaginable” to work within the system to…
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| Sentencing hearing starts for man found guilty in London attack on Muslim familyA local faith leader says Nathaniel Veltman’s sentencing hearing will be a time to reflect on the ways the deadly attack on an Ontario Muslim family has reverberated through a community. Abd Alfatah Twakkal, who chairs the London Council of Imams, says he expects the sentencing hearing will feature accounts of the emotional, physical and spiritual impacts of Veltman’s attack directly from the victim’s family, friends and community members. The Imam says the killing of four members of the Afzaal family must be a moment of decisive action to ensure…
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| Sheikh Hasina once fought for democracy in Bangladesh. Her critics say she now threatens itDHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh’s opposition leader in 2007, when hundreds of troops raided her home and took her to a court in the capital of Dhaka, where she was arrested on extortion charges. Hasina, who had served as premier in 1996-2001, slammed the charges as a conspiracy to keep her from running in upcoming polls. She was fighting for the rights of her people, she said at the time, in a Bangladesh trapped in a state of emergency under a military-backed interim government. She…
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| Show goes on in Vancouver after Gaza tensions scrap play’s Victoria runVancouver’s PuSh Festival is sticking to theatrical tradition that the show must go on, and will stage « The Runner » this month despite the play being cancelled in Victoria over tensions linked to the war between Israel and Hamas, say festival officia Vancouver’s PuSh Festival is sticking to theatrical tradition that the show must go on, and will stage « The Runner » this month despite the play being cancelled in Victoria over tensions linked to the war between Israel and Hamas, say festival officials. Victoria’s Belfry Theatre dropped the Canadian play from…
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| Supports for passengers, farmers, artists: 7 bills from MPs and Senators to watch in 2024When parliamentarians return to Ottawa in a few weeks to kick off the 2024 sitting, there are a few bills from MPs and senators that will be worth keeping an eye on, from a « gutted » proposal to offer a carbon tax break to farmers, to an initiative aimed at improving Canada’s DNA data bank. Each Parliament there is a push from MPs to see their private member’s bill, or in the case of Senators, see their public bill pass. But, with often a few hundred tabled and a set schedule,…
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| Taiwan president says ties with China must be decided by will of the peopleSTORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s relations with China must be decided by the will of the people and peace must be based on « dignity », President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday after China’s leader Xi Jinping said « reunification » with the island is inevitable. China has been ramping up military pressure to assert its sovereignty claims over democratically governed Taiwan, which on Jan. 13 holds presidential and parliamentary elections. Xi’s comments, in a New Year’s Eve address, struck a stronger tone than the previous year where he…
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| The Israel-Hamas war led to one of the deadliest years for journalists on record, says advocacy organizationNinety-five journalists and media workers around the world have been killed in the past year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The majority were Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, covering the continuing war between Israel and Hamas. The committee, an advocacy organization that documents these killings, says the first month of the war, which began on Oct. 7, was the deadliest month for journalists since it began its work in 1992. **** By Dec. 31, at least 77 journalists and other media workers had been killed in that conflict,…
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| The Supreme Court is expected to determine whether Trump can keep running for president. Here’s whyDENVER (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to determine whether former President Donald Trump can keep running for the White House. Trump on Wednesday appealed a ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that he’s ineligible for the presidency because he violated a rarely used constitutional prohibition on those who hold office having “engaged in insurrection.” On Tuesday, he appealed a similar ruling from Maine’s Democratic secretary of state, but it’s the Colorado appeal that’s most significant. That’s because the nation’s highest court has never before ruled on Section…
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| The evolution of cancel culture in comedyThe conversation around cancel culture and its impact on comedy might feel like a modern problem. But as Canadian comic and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff explains in his new book, _Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars_ , cancel culture and comedy have been intertwined for arguably hundreds of years. Nesteroff joins _Commotion_ host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss what the past can tell us about current tensions around free speech, and how cancel culture has evolved over centuries. _For the full discussion,_ _ _check out Commotion with Elamin…
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| These are the celebrities and newsmakers who died in 2023Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin’s Aug. 23 death put an exclamation point on what had already been an eventful year for the brutal mercenary leader. His Wagner Group troops brought Russia a rare victory in its grinding war in Ukraine, capturing the city of Bakhmut. But internal friction with Russian military leaders…
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| Toronto mayor condemns suspected antisemitic arson attack at Jewish-owned deliBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. News 2. Canada # Arson attack on Toronto deli condemned as antisemitism, assault on ‘Canadian values’ ‘This is not a lawful protest protected by constitutional right. This is a criminal act. It is violent. It is targeted. It is organized’ Published Jan 04, 2024 • Last updated Jan 05, 2024 • 3 minute read People stand out front of the International Delicatessen Foods in North York that has been vandalized, Thursday January 4, 2024. nat ## Article content The day after a suspected antisemitic arson attack…
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| Transcript: Biden’s first campaign speech of the 2024 election yearWASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript of President Joe Biden’s campaign speech delivered Friday, Jan. 5, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, as prepared by the AP. — Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pa., Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please, thank you. Please, thank you very, very much. Today, the topic of my speech today is deadly serious and I think it needs to be made at…
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| Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his removal from Colorado ballotFormer U.S. president Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Colorado’s top court disqualified him from the state’s Republican primary ballot for engaging in insurrection leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, an attorney for the former president said. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, is contesting the Dec. 19 Colorado Supreme Court decision that disqualified him under a constitutional provision barring anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office. Trump is asking the…
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| Trump takes Colorado ballot disqualification to U.S Supreme CourtOpen this photo in gallery: Former President Donald Trump at a rally in Reno, Nev., on Dec. 17, 2023.MAX WHITTAKER/The New York Times News Service Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Colorado’s top court disqualified him from the state’s Republican primary ballot for engaging in insurrection leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, an attorney for the former president said. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, is contesting the Dec. 19 Colorado Supreme Court…
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| Tunisian journalist detained, facing defamation charges after criticizing trade ministerTunisian judicial authorities on Monday ordered that prominent journalist Zeid El-Heni should be detained and tried on charges of defamation, days after he criticized the trade minister, his lawyer said. El-Heni will have his first court hearing on Jan. 10 on the charge of “defaming others on social media,” his lawyer Ayachi Hammami told reporters. Police first arrested him on Thursday after he made comments about the minister on local radio in an interview that was posted on Facebook, Tunisia’s state news agency said. Tunisia’s journalists union demanded his immediate…
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| Turkey detains 34 people suspected of ties to Israel’s Mossad, official saysTurkish authorities have detained 34 people suspected of being linked to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and of targeting Palestinians living in Turkey, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday, adding Mossad also recruited members in the country. Last month, Turkish officials warned Israel of “serious consequences” if it tried to hunt down members of the militant group Hamas living outside Palestinian territories, including in Turkey. President Tayyip Erdogan warned that would be a mistake. Turkey, unlike most of its Western allies and some Arab nations, does not classify Hamas as…
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| UBC family medicine prof resigns, claiming antisemitism in faculty and student bodyA 30-year professor of family medicine at the University of British Columbia has stepped down, citing rising instances of antisemitism within his faculty. In his resignation letter, Dr. Ted Rosenberg of Victoria said UBC has not addressed concerns raised about a medical student’s petition, antisemitism with the faculty, and a toxic work environment resulting from politicization and polarization of the Middle East conflict. « One-third of the medical students and some faculty have publicly expressed their contempt toward me as a Jew, » said Rosenberg in the letter addressed to Dr. Dermot…
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| UBC professor of medicine resigns over its response to rising antisemitismBreadcrumb Trail Links 1. News 2. Local News # UBC professor of medicine resigns over its response to rising antisemitism Dr. Ted Rosenberg claims the university faculty of medicine has failed to address rising antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war Published Jan 04, 2024 • Last updated 12 hours ago • 3 minute read File photo of the University of B.C. campus. Photo by Mark van Manen /PNG ## Article content A longtime professor in the University of B.C.’s faculty of medicine has resigned over what he sees as…
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| US agency suing Tesla for race bias says no need to pause lawsuitSTORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc’s bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker’s flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a filing in federal court in San Francisco late on Wednesday said its September lawsuit is not duplicative of two other pending racial discrimination cases against Tesla, as the company had argued in an attempt to pause the case last month….
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| United Arab Emirates acknowledges mass trial of prisoners previously reported during COP28DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Saturday acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents as it hosted the United Nations COP28 climate talks last month. The trial likely includes a prominent activist lauded by rights group abroad. The state-run WAM news agency quoted the country’s attorney general, Hamad al- Shamsi, as saying the 84 defendants face charges of “establishing another secret organization for the purpose of committing acts of violence and terrorism on state territory.” This is a…
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| Voters cast ballots in a Bangladesh election marred by violence, opposition boycottDHAKA (AP) – Voters in Bangladesh cast ballots Sunday in a parliamentary election fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, paving the way for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League to seize a fourth consecutive term. Days of violence including at least 18 arson attacks preceded the vote but the election day passed relatively calm. One hour before the voting closed, turnout was only 27.15%, said the Election Commission. Security incidents, including four deaths in an arson attack on a passenger train on Friday,…
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| What we expect to learn about UFOs in 2024UFOs invaded headlines worldwide in 2023. The subject was suddenly everywhere after a high-altitude Chinese balloon and three unidentified objects were shot down over North America in February. NASA and the Pentagon then released separate reports in September and October on what they call « unidentified anomalous phenomena, » or « UAP » for short. Perhaps the most incredible 2023 development came during a televised U.S. congressional hearing in July, when a former intelligence officer alleged under oath that his country is involved in a multi-decade crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program involving « non-human » technology; claims…
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| What would a Taiwanese story look like, out of the shadow of China?Open this photo in gallery: Author Jessica J. Lee went to Taiwan in 2017 to write her second book, Two Trees Make a Forest. While she was there, she lived in a tenement apartment from the 1960s, and spent time retracing the steps to her family’s old haunts and venturing into the Central Mountain Range.Ricardo A. Rivas _Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese environmental historian and author of three books, including_ Two Trees Make a Forest, _which won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2020._ Looking out…
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| When protests become acts of intimidationOpen this photo in gallery: Protesters gather outside an Indigo store in Toronto, on Nov. 30, 2023. The demonstration, organized by the group « Jews Say No to Genocide, » gathered outside the bookstore chain owned by Heather Reisman, was partly in response to arrests made on Nov. 10 after the store was vandalized with red paint and had posters plastered on its window, claiming the Jewish founder of the company is ‘funding genocide.’Chris Young/The Canadian Press Police and public officials have been remarkably tolerant of the demonstrators who have periodically occupied…
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| ‘She believed in journalism as a means to change the country’Open this photo in gallery: In 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb near her home in rural Malta. A journalist who for decades had covered corruption within and around the Maltese government, her work was so well-known that fans and detractors alike referred to her only by her first name. Daphne’s shocking murder prompted many, including her three sons, to believe she had been targeted by some of the same politicians and businessmen she had written about. Her work included the local fallout from the 2016…
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| Politique fédérale. Pas de citoyenneté canadienne pour une opposante russe d’Ottawa à la guerre en Ukraine?.Une blogueuse condamnée pour désinformation en Russie a eu la surprise d’apprendre qu’elle risque de voir son dossier d’immigration rejeté. Critique du Kremlin, Maria Kartasheva doit prouver aux fonctionnaires de l’immigration que critiquer l’armée russe n’est pas un crime au Canada. Mme Kartasheva, qui vit à Ottawa depuis 2019, a été condamnée en vertu d’une loi russe adoptée peu après l’invasion de l’Ukraine, qui interdit la « diffusion publique d’informations délibérément fausses sur l’utilisation des forces armées de la Fédération de Russie ». Mme Kartasheva se dit surprise que les procureurs russes…
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