Canada

Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending.

"Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple," Blair said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has firmly stated that Ukraine should be allowed to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, despite threats from Moscow.

This stance comes in the wake of Ukrainian forces occupying parts of Russian territory for the first time since World War II, and Ukrainian officialls asking Western partners to remove restrictions on the use of Western long-range weapons so that Ukraine can degrade Russia’s logistics and airfields in the rear and bring the war to an end faster.

“Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia’s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, and mostly to kill innocent civilians in their unjust war,” Trudeau declared at a news conference in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

MBFC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28858201

Results of Motion M-86:

❌219 MPs: 🔴107 🔵111

✅103 MPs: 🔴40 🔵4 ⚪️30 🟠24 ⚫️3 🟢2

❓14 MPs: 🔴9 ⚪️2 🔵2 🟠1

Use Control-F to find your MP:

🔵Conservative:

Poilievre, Hon. Pierre (Carleton)

Aboultaif, Ziad (Edmonton Manning)

Aitchison, Scott (Parry Sound—Muskoka)

Albas, Dan (Central—Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola)

Allison, Dean (Niagara West)

Arnold, Mel (North Okanagan—Shuswap)

Baldinelli, Tony (Niagara Falls)

Barlow, John (Foothills)

Barrett, Michael (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes)

Berthold, Luc (Mégantic—L'Érable)

Bezan, James (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman)

Block, Kelly (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek)

Bragdon, Richard (Tobique—Mactaquac)

Brassard, John (Barrie—Innisfil)

Brock, Larry (Brantford—Brant)

Calkins, Blaine (Red Deer—Lacombe)

Caputo, Frank (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo)

Carrie, Colin (Oshawa)

Chong, Hon. Michael D. (Wellington–Halton Hills)

Cooper, Michael (St. Albert–Edmonton)

Dalton, Marc (Pitt Meadows–Maple Ridge)

Dancho, Raquel (Kildonan–St. Paul)

Davidson, Scot (York–Simcoe)

Deltell, Gérard (Louis-Saint-Laurent)

Doherty, Todd (Cariboo—Prince George)

Dowdall, Terry (Burnaby North-Seymour)

Dreeshen, Earl (Red Deer—Mountain View)

Duncan, Eric (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry)

Ellis, Stephen (Cumberland—Colchester)

Epp, Dave (Chatham-Kent—Leamington)

Falk, Rosemarie (Battlefords—Lloydminster)

Falk, Ted (Provencher)

Fast, Hon. Ed (Abbotsford)

Ferreri, Michelle (Petersborough—Kawartha)

Findlay, Hon. Kerry-Lynne D. (South Surrey–White Rock)

Gallant, Cheryl (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke)

Généreux, Bernard (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup)

Genuis, Garnett (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan)

Gladu, Marilyn (Sarnia—Lambton)

Godin, Joël (Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier)

Goodridge, Laila (Fort McMurray—Cold Lake)

Gourde, Jacques (Lévis—Lotbinière)

Gray, Tracy (Kelowna—Lake Country)

Hallan, Jasraj Singh (Calgary Forest Lawn)

Hoback, Randy (Prince Albert)

Jeneroux, Matt (Edmonton Riverbend)

Kelly, Pat (Calgary Rocky Ridge)

Khanna, Arpan (Oxford)

Kitchen, Robert (Souris—Moose Mountain)

Kmiec, Tom (Calgary Shepard)

Kram, Michael (Regina—Wascana)

Kramp-Neuman, Shelby (Hastings—Lennox and Addington)

Kurek, Damien C. (Battle River—Crowfoot)

Kusie, Stephanie (Calgary Midnapore)

Lake, Hon. Mike (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin)

Lantsman, Melissa (Thornhill)

Lawrence, Philip (Northumberland—Peterborough South)

Lehoux, Richard (Beauce)

Leslie, Branden (Portage—Lisgar)

Lewis, Chris (Essex)

Lewis, Leslyn (Haldimand—Norfolk)

Liepert, Ron (Calgary Signal Hill)

Lloyd, Dane (Sturgeon River—Parkland)

Maguire, Larry (Brandon—Souris)

Majumdar, Shuvaloy (Calgary Heritage)

Martel, Richard (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord)

Mazier, Dan (Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa)

McCauley, Kelly (Edmonton West)

McLean, Greg (Calgary Centre)

Melillo, Eric (Kenora)

Moore, Hon. Rob (Fundy Royal)

Morantz, Marty (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley)

Morrison, Rob (Kootenay—Columbia)

Motz, Glen (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)

Muys, Dan (Flamborough—Glanbrook)

Patzer, Jeremy (Cypress Hills—Grasslands)

Paul-Hus, Pierre (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles)

Perkins, Rick (South Shore—St. Margarets)

Redekopp, Brad (Saskatoon West)

Reid, Scott (Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston)

Rempel Garner, Hon. Michelle (Calgary Nose Hill)

Richards, Blake (Banff—Airdrie)

Roberts, Anna (King—Vaughan)

Rood, Lianne (Lambton—Kent—Middlesex)

Scheer, Hon. Andrew (Regina—Qu'Appelle)

Schmale, Jamie (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)

Seeback, Kyle (Dufferin—Caledon)

Shields, Martin (Bow River)

Shipley, Doug (Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte)

Small, Clifford (Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame)

Soroka, Gerald (Yellowhead)

Steinley, Warren (Regina—Lewvan)

Stewart, Jake (Miramichi—Grand Lake)

Strahl, Mark (Chilliwack—Hope)

Stubbs, Shannon (Lakeland)

Thomas, Rachael (Lethbridge)

Tochor, Corey (Saskatoon—University)

Tolmie, Fraser (Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan)

Uppal, Hon. Tim (Edmonton Mill Woods)

Van Popta, Tako (Langley—Aldergrove)

Vecchio, Karen (Elgin—Middlesex—London)

Vidal, Gary (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River)

Vien, Dominique (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis)

Viersen, Arnold (Peace River—Westlock)

Vis, Brad (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon)

Wagantall, Cathay (Yorkton—Melville)

Warkentin, Chris (Grande Prairie—Mackenzie)

Waugh, Kevin (Saskatoon—Grasswood)

Webber, Len (Calgary Confederation)

Williams, Ryan (Bay of Quinte)

Williamson, John (New Brunswick Southwest)

Zimmer, Bob (Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies)

🔴Liberal:

Trudeau, Right Hon. Justin (Papineau)

Freeland, Hon. Chrystia (University—Rosedale)

Joly, Hon. Mélanie (Ahuntsic-Cartierville)

Ali, Shafqat (Brampton Centre)

Anand, Hon. Anita (Oakville)

Beech, Hon. Terry (Burnaby North—Seymour)

Guilbeault, Hon. Steven (Laurier—Sainte-Marie)

Anandasangaree, Hon. Gary (Scarborough—Rouge Park)

Arseneault, René (Madawaska—Restigouche)

Arya, Chandra (Nepean)

Bains, Parm (Steveston—Richmond East)

Battiste, Jaime (Sydney—Victoria)

Aldag, John (Cloverdale—Langley City)

Bibeau, Hon. Marie-Claude (Compton—Stanstead)

Bittle, Chris (St. Catharines)

Blair, Hon. Bill (Scarborough Southwest)

Boissonnault, Hon. Randy (Edmonton Centre)

Bradford, Valerie (Kitchener South—Hespeler)

Brière, Élisabeth (Sherbrooke)

Chahal, George (Calgary Skyview)

Champagne, Hon. François-Philippe (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)

Chatel, Sophie (Pontiac)

Chiang, Paul (Markham—Unionville)

Cormier, Serge (Acadie—Bathurst)

Damoff, Pam (Oakville North—Burlington)

Dhaliwal, Sukh (Surrey—Newton)

Dhillon, Anju (Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle)

Diab, Lena Metlege (Halifax West)

Drouin, Francis (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell)

Dubourg, Emmanuel (Bourassa)

Duclos, Hon. Jean-Yves (Québec)

Duguid, Terry (Winnipeg South)

Ehsassi, Ali (Willowdale)

El-Khoury, Fayçal (Laval—Les Îles)

Fraser, Hon. Sean (Central Nova)

Fry, Hon. Hedy (Vancouver Centre)

Gaheer, Iqwinder (Misssissauga—Malton)

Gould, Hon. Karina (Burlington)

Hajdu, Hon. Patty (Thunder Bay—Superior North)

Hardie, Ken (Fleetwood—Port Kells)

Hepfner, Lisa (Hamilton Mountain)

Holland, Hon. Mark (Ajax)

Hussen, Hon. Ahmed (York South—Weston)

Hutchings, Hon. Gudie (Long Range Mountains)

Iacono, Angelo (Alfred-Pellan)

Ien, Hon. Marci (Toronto Centre)

Jaczek, Hon. Helena (Markham—Stouffville)

Jones, Yvonne (Labrador)

Khalid, Iqra (Mississauga—Erin Mills)

Khera, Hon. Kamal (Brampton West)

Koutrakis, Annie (Vimy)

Lambropoulos, Emmanuella (Saint-Laurent)

Lamoureux, Kevin (Winnipeg North)

Lapointe, Viviane (Sudbury)

Lattanzio, Patricia (Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel)

Lauzon, Stéphane (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation)

LeBlanc, Hon. Dominic (Beauséjour)

Lebouthillier, Hon. Diane (Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine)

Longfield, Lloyd (Guelph)

MacAulay, Hon. Lawrence (Cardigan)

MacKinnon, Hon. Steven (Gatineau)

Maloney, James (Etobicoke—Lakeshore)

Martinez Ferrada, Hon. Soraya (Hochelaga)

May, Bryan (Cambridge)

McDonald, Ken (Avalon)

McGuinty, Hon. David J. (Ottawa South)

McKay, Hon. John (Scarborough—Guildwood)

McKinnon, Ron (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam)

Miao, Wilson (Richmond Centre)

Miller, Hon. Marc (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)

Morrissey, Robert J. (Egmont)

Ng, Hon. Mary (Markham—Thornhill)

O'Connell, Jennifer (Pickering—Uxbridge)

Oliphant, Hon. Robert (Don Valley West)

Petitpas Taylor, Hon. Ginette (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe)

Powlowski, Marcus (Thunder Bay—Rainy River)

Qualtrough, Hon. Carla (Delta)

Robillard, Yves (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin)

Rodriguez, Hon. Pablo (Honoré-Mercier)

Rogers, Churence (Bonavista—Burin—Trinity)

Romanado, Sherry (Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne)

Sahota, Hon. Ruby (Brampton North)

Sajjan, Hon. Harjit S. (Vancouver South)

Saks, Hon. Ya'ara (York Centre)

Samson, Darrell (Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook)

Sarai, Randeep (Surrey Centre)

Scarpaleggia, Francis (Lac-Saint-Louis)

Schiefke, Peter (Vaudreuil—Soulanges)

Sgro, Hon. Judy A. (Humber River—Black Creek)

Shanahan, Brenda (Châteauguay—Lacolle)

Sheehan, Terry (Sault Ste. Marie)

Sidhu, Maninder (Brampton East)

Sidhu, Sonia (Brampton South)

Sorbara, Francesco (Vaughan—Woodbridge)

St-Onge, Hon. Pascale (Brome—Missisquoi)

Sudds, Hon. Jenna (Kanata—Carleton)

Tassi, Hon. Filomena (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas)

Thompson, Joanne (St. John's East)

Valdez, Hon. Rechie (Mississauga—Streetsville)

Vandal, Hon. Dan (Saint Boniface—Saint Vital)

Virani, Hon. Arif (Parkdale—High Park)

Yip, Jean (Scarborough—Agincourt)

Zuberni, Sameer (Pierrefonds—Dollard)

Fonseca, Peter (Mississauga East—Cooksville)

Kusmierczyk, Irek (Windsor—Tecumseh)

O'Regan, Hon. Seamus (St. John's South—Mount Pearl)

Wilkinson, Hon. Jonathan (North Vancouver)

Statement:

Canadians are done with the first-past-the post system as it favours the powerful few over the needs of the many, forcing folks to often choose between 2 bad choices at the ballot or their vote is spoiled. We cannot continue with first-past-the-post as it enables corrupt politicians to vote against a fairer electoral system that would represent 95% of the vote instead of 40%. Canadians deserve a electoral system that will allow them to vote for their favourite candidate and to hold the government accountable without having to vote for the most popular opposition in order to fire the corrupt MPs of the government.

We need to build up the pressure and force the corrupt MPs to listen to the voices of everyday Canadians.

Here's what you can do:

Send a letter to your MP and demand they support proportional representation and advance electoral reform immediately. (Letters do not require stamps)

Use Open Parliament to watch their next moves.

Use 338Canada to watch the polls.

Protest against them on the streets.

Hold strikes demanding proportional representation be passed without a referendum, try to push for a national general strike.

Vote them out.

Bring the topic of proportional representation up when meeting with them in person.

Talk to your family, friends and neighbours about proportional representation.

We have more than a year to pass proportional representation, so lets get it done before the next election and force the corrupt MPs to do the right thing and make our democracy fairer.

Sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1REoZ89VAqdcT2eqoGrkQpBOyxUWB9Dioc_-mpgvGZ9g/edit#heading=h.wcvuwdkfukli

https://www.fairvote.ca/21/02/2024/vote-result-mps-from-all-parties-vote-for-motion-m-86-for-a-citizens-assembly-but-not-enough-to-win/

But Salem said elected officials have an obligation to engage with their constituents. He said Plante could deal with online harassment by blocking individual accounts or reporting them to the police. "When we decide to be public figures, that goes with the position," he said. "When we want to be representative of the population, we have to be representative of the whole population."

Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, director of the fundamental freedoms program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a "blanket prohibition on comment" is an unreasonable limitation of people's freedom of expression. Instead, she said, elected officials should evaluate inappropriate comments on a case-by-case basis.

"I would say that elected officials with significant resources shouldn't have their cake and eat it too," she said. "In that if they choose to have access to and to use social media platforms in the context of their public work, they should also accept that their constituents might want to comment on their work on that very public platform."

But researchers say focusing on the environmental impacts and potential health harms of the finished products alone hides their actual environmental impact. Manufacturing Teflon and other fluoropolymers uses other, more dangerous PFAS chemicals. These compounds are known to contaminate the environment surrounding manufacturing facilities, said Rainer Lohmann, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

"Basically, anywhere where there's a major fluoropolymer producer, they seem to have succeeded in contaminating the entire region with their production process," he said.

The ministry's move to remove fluoropolymers from its proposed rules suggests those industry lobbying efforts have worked, MacDonald said. Using a study with self-declared ties to the chemical industry to back up the ministry's decision to exclude fluoropolymers "just kind of shows a little bit of what's happening behind the scenes in terms of where the government is taking the industry's word," she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-labour-dispute-1.7321527

Obligatory fuck the CEOs and Shareholders

"We are bargaining. We are committed to reaching a deal. But we are saying that if that fails, the government should be ready to intervene and avoid the disruption," - Christophe Hennebelle (Air Canada’s vice-president of corporate communications)

this is not what a company that's negotiating in good faith does

NDP won't support interference

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday morning the party would not support efforts to force pilots back to work.

"We're going to send a clear message again that we are opposed to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, or any government, interfering with workers," said Singh.

Wendy Washik was at a neighbourhood barbecue on Sept. 1 when she joined a playful water gun fight with one of her neighbour’s children. As the 58-year-old educational assistant was chasing the child to the front of the home, she said she accidentally sprayed another neighbour with water.

Washik said the neighbour called police and officers arrived at the scene a short time later and charged her with assault with a weapon. She claims police spoke to the neighbour who made the call but asked no one else questions about the incident.

(Monte MacGregor, a Toronto-based criminal defense lawyer, said) “Am I surprised that the charge has been laid? No. But do I recognize that it's an unfortunate and almost meaningless waste of resources? Yes, because they didn't interview her, right?” he said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be bracing for an earful from his caucus when Liberal MPs gather in Nanaimo, B.C. today to plot their strategy for the coming election year.

It will be the first time he faces them as a group since MPs departed Ottawa in the spring.

Still stinging from a devastating byelection loss earlier this summer, the caucus is now also reeling from news that their national campaign director has resigned and the party can no longer count on the NDP to stave off an early election.

"They should be giving the prime minister a rough ride," said strategist Ginny Roth, who served as director of communications for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's leadership campaign.

She's skeptical they will, though.

On Tuesday, “gig workers” who drive for platforms like Uber and Lyft in British Columbia gained the right to be paid a minimum wage for their work. Lawyers say many more provinces may follow suit.

“What it signals for us is a growing awareness that these people in this industry deserve some protections and some minimum standards,” said Paul Edwards, a Winnipeg labour and employment lawyer who is representing workers in a class-action lawsuit against the food delivery company SkipTheDishes.

Last month, workers in that case won an important victory when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear SkipTheDishes’s appeal to stop the lawsuit from proceeding. The lawsuit, which has yet to be certified, claims SkipTheDishes’s workers should be considered employees, which would entitle them to minimum wage and other protections.

Dozens of residents of an upscale southwest Winnipeg neighbourhood are trying to overturn a City of Winnipeg decision to allow a home to be temporarily used for live-in addiction recovery services.

Ninety five separate notices of appeal against the decision have been entered as exhibits for a Sept. 11 hearing, along with an additional 75 letters in support of the appeal (some from the same people who filed notices).

A single letter backing the project, and opposing the appeal, has also been filed.

Despite facing heavy pressure to ramp up military spending, the Department of National Defence (DND) has slow-rolled one of the least complex of its vehicle replacement programs.

The light utility vehicle program has been on the books for several years. Its purpose is to update the military's fleet of two-decade-old Afghan war-era Mercedes G-Wagons and civilian-grade utility vehicles, such as pickups and SUVs.

The light utility vehicle program isn't as high-tech as some other military procurement projects — but it's still a perfect example of how a procurement system petrified of making mistakes can take a very long time to get anything done, said Steve Saideman, a defence expert at Carleton University.

"We'd rather have no corruption and slow purchases rather than [moving] fast and [accepting] more risk of making mistakes," he said.

A corrections officer charged in the 2021 death of an inmate who was shown on video repeating the words "I can't breathe" while officers swarmed and restrained him in a Manitoba jail has been acquitted in the man's death.

Robert Jeffrey Morden pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life, following a February 2021 altercation that began as a prolonged standoff between inmate William Walter Ahmo and corrections officers in a common room of the Headingley Correctional Centre, west of Winnipeg.

Judge Cellitti said in his decision Ahmo's death "represents a terrible tragedy" that "has no doubt had and will continue to have an immeasurable and lasting impact" on his loved ones, but that the video of Ahmo saying he couldn't breathe does "not tell the whole story."

"In my view, the fact that Mr. Ahmo said that he could not breathe on numerous occasions and that seemingly there was no medical assistance offered to him standing alone is not determinative of this case," Cellitti said.