Canada

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Until recently, Hassan Diab’s life in Ottawa had begun to settle back into a quiet suburban routine: spending his days teaching sociology part time at Carleton University, taking his two youngest children to the park to play football, or going for an afternoon swim.

It had been well over a year since he was convicted in absentia for carrying out a deadly bomb attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980, and the media attention had largely quieted down. He was trying to move on with his life.

Diab, who is Lebanese Canadian, has consistently maintained his innocence, claiming he was in Beirut sitting university exams at the time of the bombing.

But in January, a new voice weighed into his case, returning it to the headlines. Elon Musk reposted an X post about Diab by Pierre Poilievre, leader of the country’s federal Conservative party. Musk added a remark: “A mass murderer is living free as a professor in Canada?” More than 21 million people saw the post.

Diab’s lawyer, Don Bayne, has long argued that the (Israeli) intelligence used to identify him is unreliable, saying: “It’s unknown sources. Unknown circumstances. Who said what? When? Is this a human source? Is this just something some analyst made up? We have no idea.”

The 2-day rollup numbers...

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Just saw this groups and on YouTube and it was fucking rediculous. Literally had a picture of Justin when he was younger and then phased in a picture of Carney right over him🤡.

This group is a western separatist group who wants to see YOUR tax dollars from Sask and Alberta put into: ThE BuFfALo PEnsioN PlaN.

I wouldn't be surprised if Danielle or road kill Moe is behind this absolute bullshit. All they do is whine on it about the money Alberta has sent to the federal government.... As if we don't all do that? It's called fucking taxes? And then complains about how Ottawa has kneecapped the Oil and Gas industry. As if they didn't buy a fucking pipeline and help a LNG exporting project in BC gain its footing. Albertans reading this, do you really want to continue letting that sack of horseshit ruin your province?

Crude oil tariffs in response to Trump's threats would cause pain on both sides

In Canada's arsenal of possible responses to a Trump tariff, the nuclear option is the threat to withhold, reduce or place export tariffs on Canadian energy.

Already, the mere suggestion of such a tactic has caused a split between the government of Alberta, on one side, and the governments of Canada and all other provinces on the other.

Tariffs on imports from the U.S. have the potential to cause pain to certain industries and regions, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself has acknowledged that the effect of Canada's import tariffs would be diluted by the size of the U.S. population and economy.

The withholding or tariffing of Canadian resource exports, on the other hand, has the potential to cause real, generalized discomfort to the U.S. — albeit at great cost to Canada as well.

Everything the Americans said about TikTok and more can be said about Twitter/X’s dangerous role in Canada.

read the document about hybrid warfare from the Canadian Armed Forces Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) Professional Development Centre (PDC. Anti-globalism is one of the main theme being pushed by Russia. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/mdn-dnd/D4-10-19-2016-eng.pdf

extract from the document:

To further understand the danger hybrid warfare poses, it becomes useful to examine the “Kremlin Tool Kit” as described by researchers from the Institute of Modern Russia: • The Kremlin exploits the idea of freedom of information to inject disinformation into society. The effect is not to persuade (as in classic public diplomacy) or earn credibility but to sow confusion via conspiracy theories and proliferate falsehoods. • The Kremlin is increasing its “information war” budget. RT, which includes multilingual rolling news, a wire service and radio channels, has an estimated budget of over $300 million, set to increase by 41% to include German- and French-language channels. There is increasing use of social media to spread disinformation and trolls to attack publications and personalities. • Unlike in the Cold War, when Soviets largely supported leftist groups, a fluid approach to ideology now allows the Kremlin to simultaneously back farleft and far-right movements, greens, anti-globalists and financial elites. The aim is to exacerbate divides and create an echo chamber of Kremlin support. • The Kremlin exploits the openness of liberal democracies to use the Orthodox Church and expatriate NGOs to further aggressive foreign policy goals. 38 • There is an attempt to co-opt parts of the expert community in the West via such bodies as the Valdai Forum, which critics accuse of swapping access for acquiescence. Othersenior Western experts are given positions in Russian companies and become de facto communications representatives of the Kremlin. • Financial PR firms and hired influencers help the Kremlin’s cause by arguing that “finance and politics should be kept separate.” But whereas the liberal idea of globalization sees money as politically neutral, with global commerce leading to peace and interdependence, the Kremlin uses the openness of global markets as an opportunity to employ money, commerce and energy as foreign policy weapons. • The West’s acquiescence to sheltering corrupt Russian money demoralizes the Russian opposition while making the West more dependent on the Kremlin. • The Kremlin is helping foster an anti-Western, authoritarian Internationale that is becoming ever more popular in Central Europe and throughout the world. • The weaponization of information, culture and money is a vital part of the Kremlin’s hybrid, or nonlinear, war, which combines the above elements with covert and small-scale military operations. The conflict in Ukraine saw non-linear war in action. Other rising authoritarian states will look to copy Moscow’s model of hybrid war—and the West has no institutional or analytical tools to deal with it. • The Kremlin applies different approaches to different regions across the world, using local rivalries and resentments to divide and conquer. 39 • The Kremlin exploits systemic weak spots in the Western system, providing a sort of X-ray of the underbelly of liberal democracy. • The Kremlin successfully erodes the integrity of investigative and political journalism, producing a lack of faith in traditional media. • Offshore zones and opaque shell companies help sustain Kremlin corruption and aid its influence. For journalists, the threat of libel meansfew publications are ready to take on Kremlin-connected figures. • Lack of transparency in funding and the blurring of distinctions between think tanks and lobbying helps the Kremlin push its agendas forward without due scrutiny.70 In sum, the threat posed by hybrid warfare is substantial. Its application is insidious as it deludes decision-makers into separating the specific tactics being utilized by an adversary from the actual strategic level political objectives that are driving their campaign. In short, it becomes hard to recognize that one is under attack or at “war.” As such, it becomes difficult to recognize the seemingly disconnected series of events as a carefully synchronized campaign designed to achieve specific political objectives.

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