Keeping it Real…

This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney and several Canadian Cabinet Ministers will sit down in Toronto with dozens of the world’s TOP money managers … with TRILLIONS of dollars to invest.

Why Canada? Because WE are offering world investors a stable, reliable rule-of-law country where agreements are respected and signatures are written in ink, not pencil.

“Canada ranked well on openness to capital and execution in the energy transition, and trailed only Singapore when it came to policy stability and predictability. Nearly 70 per cent of investors ranked predictability as extremely important or essential in decisions about where to park their money,” Global News reported, citing a CPP Investment study.

Take that, Donald Trump!

Canada will propose to the investors hundreds of projects involving energy, critical minerals, defence, agriculture, port expansions, transportation, data centres, power plants etc.

And that’s not all.

Last Week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Ottawa where Canada announced another $350 Million in aid to purchase air defence missiles, nearly $435 million in new loan guarantees with the European Bank to support Ukraine winter gas purchases and $200 million in loans through Export Development Canada to support Ukraine’s reconstruction.

But the BIGGEST vote of confidence for Canada’s increasing stature in the world: a 100-year agreement with Ukraine to co-operate/develop/build intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance military drones together at six sites in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan. (More details here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-canada-drones-defence-russia-9.7339040).

Clearly, Ukraine also sees Canada as a reliable, loyal, stable, principled ally that will stand by it over the long term!

And later this week, Canada will achieve another very significant milestone: the European Parliament has invited the Prime Minister to address its members, his office says ” “to strengthen Canada’s ties with the EU in trade, investment, and security.”

“His speech will come the day after EU President Ursula von der Leyen announces a new deal with Canada to broaden collaboration on defence, trade and other areas,” The National Post reported Sunday.

Next week, Carney will also meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, the French islands south of Newfoundland, where the PMO says they will discuss “partnership in strategic sectors, including aerospace, energy and critical minerals, and advanced technologies such as quantum, satellites, and supercomputing.”

It’s clear what is happening … although none dare say it out loud: the world is looking more and more to Canada as a partner.

In fact, I put it to you: Canada has become the new “shining light on the hill” for many of the world’s democracies!

We all knew that Carney had impressed when he spoke in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January, calling out Trump (without naming him) for the “rupture” of the global economic order.

“The most striking thing about Carney’s provocative address was that it was the first time that the leader of a close U.S. ally had the courage to stand up to President Donald Trump and the guts to say enough is enough, ” said Stewart Patrick of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace afterwards.

“If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” Carney warned the mid-level powers.

Canada has since stood up against Trump on Greenland, criticized the US’s strongest ally, Israel’s policies in the West Bank, and, probably most shockingly for the Mad Hatter, walked away from the trade “deal” the US administration put before Canada … and even retaliated with tariffs on their goods when they hit ours.

In fact, Carney’s personal popularity soared to 62% immediately after and as high as 76% of Canadians support his standing up against the US bully.

Now, it’s looking more every week like the rest of the world supports us too!

Harv Oberfeld

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The CBC’s anti-Israel bias is finally out in the open!

For months … no, more than a year … I have alerted readers to what I observed to be a sustained, consistent anti-Israel bias in the CBC’s reporting of the Mid-East conflict.

It has manifested itself repeatedly in the CBC’s extensive coverage of Palestinian casualties, deaths, injuries, suffering, funerals, destruction, hardships in Gaza … accepting almost without questioning Hamas’ figures, claims and narratives. Lots of wailing women, old men and children … but including very, very few explanations from Israeli spokespersons pointing out (even naming) exactly the Hamas/Islamic Jihad fighters eliminated in the fighting.

Meanwhile, correct me if I missed it, but the CBC gave little coverage to the fact that 46 Thai civilian migrant workers in Israel were also murdered by Hamas … including three who were taken ALIVE as hostages, but “died” in captivity in the hands of Hamas.

You would also hardly know, watching the CBC, that in addition to the 1,200 Israeli civilian music festival patrons and migrant workers murdered and 250 hostages taken in the Oct 7,2023 Hamas terrorist attack … another 1,150 Israelis have been killed and 8,500 injured in the ensuing war since then. Where was the CBC coverage of their funerals? Injured women and children? Mourning families? Or the traumatized kids, woken up almost every night at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. by alarms signalling incoming rockets as the conflict has droned on?

Where have been the CBC stories about all the wreckage/deaths/casualties on Israel’s northern border from Hezbollah rockets/missiles/drones … or the 60,000 Israeli residents (lots of women, elderly, kids there too!) forced to abandon their homes/schools/businesses/farms and flee south … thousands of them still evacuated.

Have we already forgotten the 12 Arab kids killed by Hezbollah while playing soccer in their schoolyard in northern Israel?

And yet, the CBC has insisted on NOT calling Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah terrorists but “militants” or “fighters” or even worse when they are targeted just referring to them as “people” killed … making them sound like just innocent civilians.

The innocent civilians are those the terrorists hide among, store and fire rockets from inside apartments or even schools and mosques. And their civilian targets in homes, schools, shopping malls.

In fact, it turns out, for 25 years, the CBC even refused to refer even the 911 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon “terrorism”, unless it was termed so by someone they interviewed.

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” a leaked CBC memo reminded staff recently, in preparation for the 25th Anniversary of the 2001 hijackings/attack that killed almost 3,000 people, including 24 Canadians.

Three thousand innocent civilians killed by terrorists who hijacked full passenger planes …and those who did it are not terrorists????

“In a post on social media, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote that condemning the terrorist attack “is not merely a political position.” Canada has legally recognized 9/11 as a terrorist attack, he said,” The National Post reported last week.

The leaked memo also drew attention in the United States.

“After political consultant Warren Kinsella revealed a recent memo about the CBC’s policy, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X: “Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have [a] friend in this FBI,” The Toronto Star told its readers.

“Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had also taken issue with the CBC policy, stating that “to call 9/11 anything other than a terrorist attack is an appalling distortion of history.” He called on the CBC to “immediately apologize and retract this directive.” (Read the full story here: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/cbc-reverses-restriction-on-labelling-911-as-terrorism/article_ada4e513-a803-4bc5-82d6-c91b8b82d347.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share.)

It finally did.

“In a blog post Friday, Basem Boshra, CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, wrote that a leaked memo about the policy “has caused significant concern, anger and hurt for many people who believe CBC News seeks to minimize or obscure the horror of that day and who was behind it,” said The National Post. (Read their coverage here: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/cbc-reverses-policy-against-calling-911-a-terrorist-attack-without-attribution/ar-AA2b9q3G?ocid=socialshare.)

““That is the last thing we want to do,” said Boshra, who is the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust of CBC News.”

Some journalistic standards!!!

It took 25 years for the CBC to call 911 exactly what is was: a TERRORIST attack on civilians.

Now everyone should understand why I see Canada’s public broadcaster today as under siege: much of it under the control of anti-Israel leftists and even some Jihadi sympathizers . (Any doubts? Check out https://honestreporting.ca/ eye-opening catalogued litany of CBC one-sided bias … far too numerous now to be ignored.)

Maybe in another 25 years, the CBC will also cleanse itself enough to call attacks by Palestinian terrorists on innocent civilians in Israel (Jews, Christians, Arabs, foreign visitors/workers) exactly what is: TERRORISM!

Harv Oberfeld

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