Liberal MP John McKay says that, from what he has seen, about 38 per cent of companies acknowledged there was some risk of forced labour.

[...]

McKay has announced his retirement, but said he would ultimately like to see responsibility for these [forced labour] reports transferred to the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, a government agency charged with reviewing complaints about Canadian companies work outside of the country.

[...]

McKay said he also intends to table legislation that would require companies to take a reverse onus approach to goods from certain areas where forced labour is considered high risk, like the Xinjiang region of China.

Several companies, including the Hudson’s Bay Company, mentioned in their filings that they do not take cotton from the Xinjiang region or from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan because of the risk.

[...]

McKay said beyond the moral imperative there is a real trade risk to Canada if the issue isn’t addressed.

Scurvy is a disease that likely conjures up images of sickly sailors from hundreds of years ago, but doctors in Canada are being warned to look out for the condition now, as a result of growing food insecurity.

A report published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) details the case study of a 65-year-old woman diagnosed with scurvy at a Toronto hospital last year.

The authors say the case points to the need for physicians to consider the possibility of scurvy, particularly among patients at higher risk for nutrient deficiencies, including people with low socioeconomic status and isolated older adults.

"This isn't the first case of scurvy that I've seen in my career so far," said Dr. Sally Engelhart, the study's lead author and an internal medicine specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Inflation and higher interest rates have eroded Canadians' purchasing power since 2022, particularly for lower-income households, a new report from the parliamentary budget officer has found.

But wealthier households have seen their purchasing power rise thanks in big part to their investment income.

Over a longer time period — since the last quarter of 2019 — the average purchasing power of Canadian households rose by 21 per cent.

For the lower-income households, "small increases in income were not enough to counteract the effect of inflation on their purchasing power."

As Alberta grapples with the climate crisis and the need to reduce carbon emissions, it may look to replace the role of fossil fuels in its electricity grid with another controversial energy source — nuclear.

Calgary-based company Energy Alberta, which was involved in a previous attempt to bring nuclear power to the province, has been quietly working on a new proposal since late last year, including meeting with Premier Danielle Smith and other officials.

Scott Henuset, president and CEO of Energy Alberta, told CBC News that the project details are still being finalized, but that the company's plan is to build a nuclear power plant with two — and eventually as many as five — Candu reactors in Alberta's Peace Region, about 400 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

A specific site has not yet been chosen, and the company is evaluating multiple locations about 25 kilometres north of the town of Peace River. The reactors would have a lifespan of 60 to 70 years, and the total power plant would be licensed for a maximum output of 4,800 megawatts. (Alberta's largest natural gas-fired power plant, the Genesee Generating Station, can produce about 1,300 megawatts.)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre marked the one year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by speaking against rising antisemitism in Canada during a ceremony in Ottawa on Monday night.

But while Trudeau spoke about the need to fight rising antisemitism in general, Poilievre largely offered a pointed criticism of the Liberal government.

"This ideology that seeks to divide out people based on race and ethnicity, that has led to these horrifying outbursts of hatred, are not from the bottom up. They are from the top down," Poilievre said.

The Conservative leader pointed to recent controversies — such as the appointment of Birju Dattani as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the granting of a federal contract to a group who employed a consultant that was accused of posting antisemitic content on X — as examples of the government's failings.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government was warned more than two years ago that it had to take action to counter threats from state actors like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, says a summary of a secret cabinet document made public by the foreign interference inquiry Monday.

The government was also warned that hostile activity by state actors (HASA) was on the rise and presented "one of the greatest threats to Canada's national security."

"It described HASA as a multi-faceted threat that targets Canada's strategic interests, the integrity and the security of Canadian institutions and democratic processes, and the ability for members of the public to exercise their Charter-protected rights and freedoms," says the summary of the memorandum written in May 2022.

Scientists Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University were honoured with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Scientists Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University were honoured with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. And hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate.

But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?

For the Conservative leader, there seems to be no such thing as overstatement. And he seems to feel it's almost always worth going on the attack.

Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. And hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate.

But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?

For the Conservative leader, there seems to be no such thing as overstatement. And he seems to feel it's almost always worth going on the attack.

Looks like Roblaw’s at it again… robbing the working class to keep obscene profits rolling to the Parasite Class. And I bet the farmer who raised those turkeys get only a few dollars per.

AFTER LOSING the by-election in the Toronto–St. Paul’s riding in June, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took another blow in the LaSalle–Émard–Verdun (LÉV) by-election on September 16. Like St. Paul’s, LÉV was once considered a stronghold of the Liberals: in the 2021 federal election, the Liberal Party had won this southwestern Montreal riding by more than twenty percentage points.

These two crushing defeats, along with over a year’s worth of polling data, reveal a hard truth for the Liberals—they can now lose anywhere in the country. There are no safe seats left for the party.

All the warning signs have been flashing incessantly for over a year. The latest projections show the wear and tear of nearly a decade in power, and the widespread dissatisfaction with the prime minister could lead the Liberals to the brink of collapse in the next general election. This is not an editorial comment but a cold, factual analysis of the available data.

Canada has 6,000 signed up to leave and officials are trying to reach another 2,500 over the weekend, an official in Trudeau's office said, adding that more flights were being added for Monday and Tuesday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30484506

Called "Sama Sama," which means togetherness, this year's drills, which involve almost a thousand sailors and personnel from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the United States and the Philippines, are high-intensity exercises focusing on anti-submarine, anti-​surface and ​anti-​air warfare.

This guy is human garbage. His "supporters" are human garbage. They are shit that a decent society should scrape off the bottom of its boot.

2 months in jail, 3 years probation, 12 month social media ban, a personal protective order, and $1,900 restitution seems light to me.

A decent view of Trudeau's thinking on a few popular issues in case you care to know.

Nate is an LPC MP from TO. He was the runner up candidate for OLP's last leadership election.

In Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan, public policy appears to be open to the “highest bidder.”

Thanks to lax regulations for campaign financing, Premier Moe’s Saskatchewan Party has lined its pockets with donations from corporate landlords, oil and gas companies, financial firms, and the largest landowner in the province.

Since Moe became premier in 2018, the Saskatchewan Party has raised over $6.7 million in corporate donations.

Many of those contributions are from businesses outside Saskatchewan, including Alberta, Ontario, and Manitoba.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21085323

BACKGROUND

Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning.

"This is very Orwellian"

On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio One’s The Current.