#MEXICO: Voters Choose First Woman President

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Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected the first female president in Mexico’s 200-year history.

Sheinbaum, the favored successor of outgoing Pres. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vowed to continue on the direction set by the populist leftist leader. But the cool-tempered scientist offers a sharp contrast in style — and a break with Mexico’s male-dominated political culture.

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#CANADA: Quebec Pushes Back Against Govt Immigration Plans

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The Canadian federal government recently announced some ambitious plans when it comes to immigration in Canada, although not everyone appears to be happy about the news.

According to the government's 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan, Canada wants to welcome over 1 million new permanent residents over the next three years.

But Quebec Premier François Legault maintains that the province cannot take in more than 50,000 immigrants annually. Part of the problem is the supremacy of the French language in the province, which Quebec seeks to preserve at all costs. Legault and others feel that immigrants would dilute French speakers.

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#CANADA: Air Canada Welcomes Lifting Of COVID Travel Restrictions

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The government of Canada recently lifted all COVID-19 restrictions on travel to, from and within the country. Airline Air Canada celebrated this decision, and in a press release posted on its website, took a bit of a dig at the government, asserting that the restrictions "were not justified by science."  

The release reads, in part, "Air Canada today welcomed the Government of Canada's decision to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions, including requirements for wearing masks on aircraft, testing and quarantine, and the compulsory use of ArriveCan beginning October 1, 2022.

"Air Canada welcomes the removal of these restrictions, acknowledging that air travel is safe and that the measures were not justified by science."

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#CANADA: Rights Group Slams China-Like Digital ID Plans

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A constitutional rights group has blasted the federal government’s plan to create a Digital ID infrastructure as a threat to Charter rights and a step towards implementing a Communist China-style social credit system. 

In the report titled Canada’s Road to Beijing, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) outlines how China’s mass surveillance system operates and in what ways a national Digital ID system is a step towards authoritarianism. 

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#CANADA: Patrick Brown Booted From Conservative Leadership Race

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Brampton, Ontario Mayor Patrick Brown, in a bizarre turn of events, has been disqualified from the Conservative Party leadership race.

The party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) released a statement late Tuesday after a hastily called meeting, claiming grave violations of party rules and the Canada Elections Act by Brown’s campaign. They did not release any details on the allegations and said the party would not be commenting further.

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#CANADA: Member pf Parliament Threatened With Expulsion After Refusal To Disclose Vax Status

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When the member of parliament for the riding of Yorkton—Melville in Saskatchewan Cathay Wagantall took the decision of finally coming back to Ottawa's Federal parliament building in order to better serve her constituents, the Liberals and NDP in the House of Commons threatened to kick her out of Parliament. Therefore she preemptively decided to leave, before security would need to get involved. Earlier his week, guards at the building could be seen with photos of her, to help identify her and prevent her from entering the building.

After this occurred, she staged a press conference in front of the parliament building (West Block) to explain what the situation was, and what actions had been taken. “There’s no way that any of our public servants are being nearly as efficient as they should be working from home,” she said. 

Wagantall explained that she believes “there are very good reasons why an exemption should be given to a number of Canadians – actually the majority of them. Because there are a lot of reasons why an individual may choose not to get vaccinated.”

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#CANADA: Organ Donation To Be The Default In Alberta In Legislation Passes

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Every adult in Alberta would be considered a potential organ and tissue donor — unless they choose otherwise — if a new private member's bill is passed in the legislature.

The Human Tissue and Organ Donation (Presumed Consent) Amendment Act passed first reading on Wednesday after it was presented by MLA Matthew Jones.

Albertans currently have to opt-in as organ donors.

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#CANADA: Supreme Court Rules Extreme Intoxication Is Valid Defense For Violent Crimes

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Canada’s supreme court has ruled that defendants accused of violent crimes such as homicide and sexual assault can use self-induced extreme intoxication as a defense, striking down a federal law passed in 1995 supported by women’s advocacy groups.

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#CANADA: Parliamentarians Question RCMP's Use Of Facial Recognition Program

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An attempt by members of Parliament to find out more about the RCMP's use of controversial facial recognition software hit a wall as one MP accused police officials of being "intentionally evasive."

The standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics met this morning to continue its study of the use of the emerging technology in Canada.

Federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has said the RCMP's use of facial recognition software created by the U.S.-based Clearview AI violated Canada's privacy laws.

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#CANADA: Raucous First Conservative Party Leadership Debate

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The early days of the Conservative leadership campaign have featured top-tier candidates declaring each other unfit to lead, exclusionary and untruthful, so you had to wonder what would happen when they were asked to debate face-to-face. Insults? Badgering? Accusations?

Yes, yes and yes. Two things rang out through the 90-minute debate: posturing about truckers’ convoys and nasty exchanges.

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#CANADA: Environment Minister Opposes Cutting Gas Taxes

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Claiming that “climate change is killing people in Canada,” Liberal environment minister Steven Guilbeault has said that he opposes the Alberta in Ontario provincial governments reducing the cost of fuel by cutting gas taxes, because it “goes against our efforts to fight climate change,"

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#CANADA: Ontario MP Lewis First To Qualify For Conservative Leadership Ballot

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Dr. Leslyn Lewis has become the first Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate to officially when a place on the party's ballot.

The Ontario member of the federal Parliament also ran for the conservative leadership in 2020.

Candidates have until April 19 to enter the race and until April 29 to submit their nomination papers, 500 signatures from members of the party as well as a total of $300,000. That includes a leadership registration fee of $200,000 and a compliance deposit of $100,000.

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#CANADA: Ontario Legislature Considers Four-Day Work Week

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The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is advancing legislation to create a Four-Day Work Week Commission.

Its job will be to research whether or not the province could realistically pursue an abbreviated work schedule. The legislation was introduced in December 2021.

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#CANADA: Poll: Majority Want COVID Restrictions To End

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A majority of Canadians now say it is time to end COVID restrictions, according to an Angus Reid poll, a sharp increase from when the same question was asked in early January.

The latest poll, taken Jan. 27-28, found 54% want restrictions to be lifted compared to just 39% who wanted restrictions lifted when the same question was asked two weeks earlier.

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#CANADA: Quebec Govt Imposes 10 pm Curfew

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As announced by Quebec Premier François Legault on Dec. 31, a nightly curfew came into effect across the province Friday night, for an undetermined length of time. 

People who are outside between 10 p.m.  and 5 a.m., without a valid reason for breaking the curfew could receive fines ranging from $1,000 to $6,000. Children under 14 years of age could be fined $500.

Dog walking is also not allowed after 10 pm under the new curfew.

Éric Duhaime, leader of the opposition Conservative Party in Quebec, criticized the government in a post on Twitter for failing to provide a scientific study to justify the curfew.

"Return of the curfew? It was a bad idea last year. It's a bad idea this year. There was NO scientific study to justify such a step last year. There are still NONE this year."

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#CANADA: New Brunswick Gov't Reverses Itself, Won't Allow Vax Passports In Grocery Stores

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After sustained public pressure, the New Brunswick government has announced it is no longer allowing grocery stores to bar unvaccinated Canadians.

The announcement came in a government news release on interim COVID measures directed at slowing the Omicron variant.  

“An option allowing stores that sell groceries to ask patrons 12 and over for proof of vaccination, instead of implementing distancing requirements, is being removed from the province’s mandatory order.”

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#CANADA: Car Dealers Could Be Forced To Sell Quota Of Electric Cars By Next Year

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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he wants a national mandate that would force auto dealers to sell a certain number of electric vehicles to be in place by the end of next year.

Road transportation accounts for one-fifth of Canada’s total greenhouse-gas emissions. As Canada charts a path to net zero by 2050, eliminating carbon dioxide from passenger cars is a big part of the process.

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#CANADA: O'Leary Cites Trudeau's Diverse Cabinet's Lack Of "Competence"

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Conservative leadership hopeful Kevin O’Leary says the prime minister has ended up with a mediocre cabinet because he was more concerned about diversity than competence.

The Shark Tank star, who sought the Conservative Party leader spot in 2017, said he believes diversity and gender parity is important in government, but if elected, he would balance that diversity with competence.

“He has built up a caucus and a cabinet full of incompetent and mediocre leaders because he only listened to the siren call of diversity without even looking at competence.”

In his first cabinet of 30 ministers, Trudeau said he appointed an equal number of men and women “because it’s 2015.”

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#CANADA: Researcher Loses Govt Job After False Indigenous Heritage Claims

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A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.

Carrie Bourassa, a public health expert who served as scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, was suspended on Nov. 1, five days after the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a lengthy expose on her background.

Some are comparing her to US senator Elizabeth Warren, who claimed native American heritage based on "family stories."

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#CANADA: Conservative Senator Seeks "Review" Of Party Leader O'Toole

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Conservative Saskatchewan Senator Denise Batters is calling on the Conservatives to hold a review of Erin O’Toole’s leadership within the next six months.

In a video statement, Batters launched a petition for Conservative members to seek a referendum on O’Toole’s leadership, accusing him of causing division within the party. 

“On behalf of Conservative activists and members from coast to coast, we started this petition because we don’t want to see the party ripped apart again,” said Batters.

Batters excited the poor results of the 44th general election held earlier this year in which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won re-election. O'Toole has come under fire for running on "moderate" positions during the campaign, such as supporting a carbon tax.

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