Juno Jump Start | Pearson Airport urges Ottawa to approve digital ID for travel
Pearson Airport’s push for federal approval of digital ID for air travel is drawing sharp criticism, a video shows a sitting Calgary councillor taking a neighbour’s election sign, and more.
Pearson Airport urges Ottawa to approve digital ID for travel
Toronto Pearson International Airport’s push for federal approval of digital identification and biometric screening for air travel is drawing sharp criticism from civil liberties advocates, who warn that such measures could erode Canadians’ privacy and mobility rights.
Calgary candidate: video shows sitting councillor taking neighbour’s election sign
Calgary City Council candidate Landon Johnston believes a home surveillance video shows incumbent Calgary councillor Peter Demong allegedly removing a neighbour’s campaign sign.
Former Harper staffer who flipped Liberal lectures Poilievre in the Toronto Star
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is facing criticism from former Stephen Harper communications director Dimitri Soudas, who in a Toronto Star column on Friday accused him of “dismantling” the integrity and seriousness of the Conservatives.
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OP-ED: What If October 7 had happened here? Israel’s courage should shame the West’s cowardice
Gwyn Morgan writes, “Canadians can scarcely imagine living beside people who wish them wiped off the face of the Earth. Yet that is Israel’s daily reality – and the only way to understand the massacre of October 7, 2023”
Alberta teachers’ union rejects mediation plan, strike to continue
The Alberta Teachers’ Association has rejected the provincial government’s proposed “enhanced mediation” process, confirming that the strike will continue and kids won’t get to return to school on October 20.
Carney said he’d have Netanyahu arrested if he entered Canada
In a stunning declaration, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that Canada would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he ever enter the country, citing an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes.
WATCH: Carney goes ELBOWS DOWN after auto jobs vanish while Libs warm to Communist China
‘Straight Up’ host Marc Patrone is joined by Wyatt Claypool to discuss Mark Carney’s lackluster response to Stellantis moving Canadians’ jobs to the US, plus news of the Liberals re-embracing China.
“Violent offenders will keep walking free”: Larry Brock slams Carney’s crime ‘reforms’
Official Opposition justice critic and Conservative MP Larry Brock slammed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new public safety reforms, saying they fail to address the root cause of Canada’s spiralling repeat crime crisis: the Liberal government’s disastrous 2019 bail reform law.
No Canadians charged after meth-laced beer kills New Zealand man
More than a year after a young man in New Zealand died from drinking meth-laced beer shipped from Canada, no Canadians have been arrested or charged in connection with what police in New Zealand describe as the country’s largest-ever methamphetamine bust.
OPP cocaine probe uncovers 72 guns
A major Ontario Provincial Police investigation into cocaine trafficking has led to the arrest of Balraj Singh, 31, and Kawalbir Singh, 21, both of Brampton, after uncovering not only a cross-border cocaine smuggling operation but also dozens of illegal firearms.
The Daily Brief | Liberal PM Mark Carney is now anti-crime?
Prime Minister Mark Carney caves to Conservative pressure, rolling out tougher bail and sentencing laws.
Energy minister says world wants “access to Canadian” exports
Despite no substantive talk of building an oil pipeline for global export, Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says the world wants “access to Canadian conventional energy.”
Miller’s attack on Poilievre backfires, reminds voters of Liberal immigration record
Former immigration minister Marc Miller’s recent attack on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre regarding Canada’s immigration policy backfired, exposing the Liberals’ own disastrous track record of open border policies.
Anand says Khalistan issue not discussed during India visit
When Canada’s new Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India last week, the biggest takeaway wasn’t what they discussed, but what they deliberately avoided: Khalistan.