Today a cell phone buzzes or an email chimes and our modern, tech-addicted brains crave to read what has been sent, hoping it is good news. Not so back in 1944. Not so back then at all. Especially, when the husband was off to war.
Interactions like these show that Canadians are some of the most humble and down-to-earth people on this planet. Even with a sense of historical greatness currently looming over the NBA title, they remain grounded.
A bill to scrap Ontario’s contract with the Beer Store has just passed at Queen’s Park and Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will make an announcement at a North York convenience store later this afternoon.
A day after the committee’s vote, its chair and Liberal MP Anthony Housefather admitted he was unsure of rules regarding procedure in this rare, yet albeit formerly exacted prerogative.
Diane Claveau is one of Canada’s homeless military veterans—a segment of the population that, embarrassingly enough, reaches not the hundreds, but the thousands.
D-Day, short for Deployment Day, were landing operations that took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. Over 156,000 allied troops from several different countries including Canada stormed the beaches of Normandy to aid in the liberation of Germany-occupied France. Tom Rice was one of them.
It appeared as though even Bilous knew that his statement was one of pomp. The next day, Bilous made an apology, along with a tweet showing a video of his statement.
On Wednesday afternoon, it was revealed that the Ontario government will be capping annual wage increases at one percent for public sector workers.
“It increases my feminism. It continues to challenge and make us think differently about it,” said Justin Trudeau.
Ever since the election of Trump we’ve been subject to Orwellian inversion after Orwellian inversion. In 1984, it’s “freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength.” In 2019, it’s language is violence, segregation is inclusive, and straight is queer. Perhaps it’s time to try sanity.
“Michael didn’t do anything wrong, he was expressing his point of view and we need people like that in our parliament,” said Bernier.
Different from the terrorism offence in the criminal code, Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act encompasses genocide, enslavement, torture and rape “or any other inhumane act” committed against an identifiable group.
Police say the woman had tied up the child and put her in the back seat, but was unharmed otherwise.
Human rights tribunals become the tools by which those who speak their mind peacefully and nonviolently, are silenced.
Censorship doesn’t really work. It didn’t even really work in tyrannies. Censorship in the Soviet Union allowed communism to last longer and in the end to collapse more disastrously.