A German man who was among the first customers to successfully descend to the Titanic wreck aboard a submersible destroyed in an implosion one week ago believes the tragedy will put an end to adventure tourism at the site for the foreseeable future. Arthur Loibl made the journey on Titan in 2021 with the submersible…
School Trustee Candidates Opposed to Gender Ideology Received Highest Rates of Abusive Tweets in 2022 Ottawa Election: Report
School board trustee candidates received the highest proportions of abusive tweets among all candidates in the last Ottawa municipal election held in October 2022, according to a new report by the Samara Centre for Democracy, a charity. This finding is contained in the Ottawa section of a larger report issued June 20, titled “Online Abuse in Local…
Wage-Fixing Law Takes Effect in Canada: What Does It Mean?
Canada has implemented new legislation to make it a criminal offence for two or more employers to engage in wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements regarding employees. The legislation took effect June 23 with amendments to the Competition Act’s conspiracy provisions. It is now criminally prohibited for employers from different companies to make deals that will “fix,…
Shopify CEO Vows to Fight CRA Demand for Six Years of Canadian Merchant Records
E-commerce giant Shopify plans to fight a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) demand for six years of records from more than 121,000 Canadian merchants that work with the platform to build online stores. “I don’t particularly want a fight with the CRA (Canada’s tax authority)- but we got asked to backchannel them 6 years of records…
Muslims, Other Parents Stage Large Protest Against Gender Ideology Outside Justin Trudeau’s Ottawa Office
A large demonstration protesting against gender ideology in public schools took place outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office on Wellington Street in Ottawa on June 24. A significant number of participants were Muslims, with many carrying signs and chanting, “Leave our kids alone.” Videos of the event were posted on Twitter. The crowd of hundreds of…
When Intel Services Go Public, You Know It’s Serious
Commentary I don’t know how many times I have heard Canadians say that CSIS stands for the “Canadian Secret Intelligence Service.” It does not. The first “s” stand for “security,” and a security intelligence service is different than a foreign intelligence one, although in some countries the mandates overlap (think CIA). Similarly, many are convinced…
RCMP, Transportation Safety Board Launch Investigations Into Titan Sub Tragedy
The RCMP will be doing a preliminary investigation into the deaths of five passengers aboard the Titan, an underwater Titanic tour submersible, while the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is also investigating the events leading to what officials believe was the sub imploding on June 18. “There’s no suspicion of criminal activity per se, but the…
Canada Is Investigating Why the Titanic-Bound Submersible Imploded
June 25, 2023
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Saturday that it’s conducting an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible and has been speaking with those who traveled on Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince. The development comes as authorities from the U.S. and Canada began the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion…
Trudeau Off to Iceland to Meet Nordic Leaders Ahead of NATO Summit
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to meet with Nordic leaders ahead of an upcoming NATO summit and as uncertainty looms over the future of the Arctic. Trudeau is slated to travel to Iceland, which will host leaders from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway over the next two days for an annual gathering…
Quebec Wildfires: More Evacuations Ordered in Northwestern Quebec
Officials in northwestern Quebec have ordered residents of two villages near the Ontario border to leave their homes as a wildfire continues to spread in the area. Residents of the villages of Val-Paradis and Beaucanton, home to around 340 people, were given an hour and a half to evacuate on Friday night due to the…
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