Broadcasting groups says Apple must be included in Online News Act

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The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is asking the Trudeau government to include Apple in its proposed regulations under the Online News Act, which would force the tech company to pay news publishers for content shared through Apple’s news app.

CAB says Apple News, a paid subscription service aggregating stories from different platforms, clearly falls within the Online News Act.

The CAB said it disagrees with the fact that only Google and Meta are currently included, “even though there are other platforms that benefit from the distribution of news content and are negatively impacting news businesses in Canada.”

“The CAB believes that such services should be scoped into the framework, rather than excluded up front,” it said. Continue…

Gov foreign interference study calls for more online misinformation control

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In response to growing concerns about foreign interference in Canada, the House of Commons ethics committee is calling on the government to adopt measures to combat misinformation online.

On Tuesday, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics recently released a report, focusing on foreign interference tactics employed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia.

The report also delved into allegations of communist China’s interference in past Canadian elections, as well as a donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation by a Chinese businessman.

The committee claimed social media platforms were “accountable for publishing false or misleading information.” Additionally, legislators called on the government to “develop policies to support the media ecosystem.” Continue…

Clean tech agency distributed tens of millions of taxpayer dollars inappropriately: report

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A report commissioned by the federal government revealed that Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has been violating its contribution agreement with the federal government, distributing tens of millions of taxpayers dollars inappropriately.

Furthermore, SDTC board members and executives were incentivised with big bonuses to erroneously distribute these taxpayer dollars with little oversight, the report found.

The Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton report, commissioned by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED), found that SDTC’s seed fund, which distributes $50,000 to $100,000 grants to clean tech companies, violates the crown corporation’s contribution agreement with the federal government.

Specifically, the ISED mandates that SDTC review the projects its funding to ensure its grants don’t surpass 50% of the total project costs.

However, the Raymond Chabot report found that SDTC had not been following this procedure before approving projects for funding, noting that there was a significant chance SDTC were overpaying firms. Continue…

LIVE UPDATES: B.C. nurse continues fight over 'two genders' statement

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Amy Hamm previously told Rebel News that she received tens of thousands of messages of hate and abuse following the complaint.

Amy Hamm, a B.C. nurse, women's rights advocate, and mother of two, continues to face scrutiny from her regulatory board after placing an 'I heart JK Rowling' billboard in Vancouver in 2020.

Two members of the public, who had never been patients of the accused, lodged a complaint with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) last year. They claimed Hamm disseminated "medically inaccurate information" by standing in solidarity with Rowling, also an advocate for women and children.

The professional body subsequently launched an investigation into the matter, rescinding the initial charge in June 2022.

Now, they allege the nurse "[…] made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people [between approximately July 2018 and March 2021] as a nurse or nurse educator" across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media. Continue…

Senate continues study on viability of universal basic income

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According to the Fraser Institute, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program that provided working-age Canadians $2,000 a month, would cost $464.5 billion annually.

niversal Basic Income (UBI) inches closer to becoming reality as the Senate continues its examination of a controversial piece of legislation that would exacerbate Canada’s spending problem.

Independent Senators Group Senator Kim Pate first sponsored Bill S-233, An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income, on December 16, 2021, to establish a national UBI framework, she told reporters.

The bill completed its Second Reading this April and is currently under consideration by the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance.

“Now is the fact we are struggling throughout this country with homelessness, food insecurity, poverty, health, mental health issues,” Pate said October 17.

Senate and private members’ bills are rarely successfully passed.

At the conclusion of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) during the COVID pandemic, the Commons and Senate engaged in debate to ascertain the feasibility of guaranteed income. Continue…

Swim competition allows a 50-year-old biological male to swim with 13 year-old girls

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The Markham Pan Am Centre just north of Toronto was the venue for the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre’s Fall Classic swimming competition last weekend. And the classic Sesame Street song came to mind: “One of these things is not like the others; one of these things does not belong.”

Rebel News was tipped off by concerned parents that there was something perverse happening in the pool at Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre's Fall Classic swimming competition this past weekend October 20 in Markham Pan Am Centre.

Namely, at one of the swim races on Friday, 10 competitors took part. Nine of the competitors had much in common: they were female and they were either 13 or 14 years of age. Alas, the tenth competitor was Nicholas J. Cepeda, a.k.a., Melody Wiseheart, a member of the Orangeville Otters Swim Club. That’s right: somehow, 13 and 14-year-old girls were swimming against a 50-year-old biological male. Unbelievable. Continue…

Health Canada stands firm: Pfizer vaccine safe and effective despite undisclosed contaminants

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The federal health agency continues to endorse and authorize the novel COVID-19 mRNA injections despite revelations that Pfizer omitted crucial contamination information, sparking safety and oversight concerns.

Health Canada continues its endorsement and authorization of novel COVID-19 mRNA injections for everyone aged six months and up, despite confirmation that Pfizer duped the government agency.

The federal regulatory agency has confirmed that it is aware of the presence of at least one previously undisclosed residual DNA plasmid, known as the SV40 promoter, through an investigation conducted by journalist Matthew Horwood at the Epoch Times.

Although Pfizer was expected to disclose biologically functioning DNA sequences such as the enhancer, they did not.

This is what many in the scientific integrity community are referring to as “#PlasmidGate” — that scientists have since confirmed the presence of residual DNA, or a genetic structure called plasmids in the vials of the novel biological injections, a disclosure that the manufacturer hid from the regulators during the drug submission and review process. Continue…

Gun owners considered "tertiary" group in Liberal government's gun ban messaging

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Exclusive documents obtained by Rebel News through access filings show that the Trudeau Liberals tailored their handgun ban communications strategy around appeasing LGBTQ+ groups and women's organizations.

The Trudeau Liberals tailored their handgun ban communications strategy around appeasing LGBTQ+ groups and women's organizations shown in exclusive documents obtained by Rebel News.

The data on the messaging plan was found in a 339-page return of documents on Bill C-21, which outlawed private handgun ownership in Canada, stranded the assets of gun shops and handgun owners all across the country and requires highly vetted restricted license holders to turn their property over to the state upon their death.

The government's propaganda social media plan to sell C21 to solve rising violent crime rates in Canada's big cities treated gun owners as an afterthought, although they were directly targeted by the legislation.

The social media content plan from the Department of Public Safety indicated the target audience for the government's messaging was mental health advocates and LGBTQ+ associations like Eagle Canada. Continue…

Israel calls on UN chief to resign

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Antonio Guterres sympathizes with Hamas, West Jerusalem has claimed

Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan demanded Secretary-General Antonio Guterres step down on Tuesday, accusing him of showing “compassion” for terrorists and murderers in a speech to the Security Council.

“The UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I call on him to resign immediately,” Erdan said on X, formerly Twitter. “There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people.”

The “shocking” speech by Guterres is evidence that the secretary-general “is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner,” Erdan argued.

“His statement that, ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomable. It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!” he posted.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen reacted to Guterres’ speech in the Security Council by pointing his finger and yelling at the secretary-general. He then announced he would refuse to meet with him again.

“After October 7th there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped out from the world!” Cohen declared on X.

Guterres had condemned the “appalling” and inexcusable violence by Hamas, but noted that Gaza had been “subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation” and that the Israeli response to October 7 attacks has amounted to collective punishment of Palestinians. Continue…

Evil Walks Among Us: Monsters with Human Faces Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms

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“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Enough already.

Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting.

Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just.

We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long.

We are approaching a reckoning.

This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.

We have seen this convergence before in Hitler’s Germany, in Stalin’s Russia, in Mussolini’s Italy, and in Mao’s China: the rise of strongmen and demagogues, the ascendency of profit-driven politics over deep-seated principles, the warring nationalism that seeks to divide and conquer, the callous disregard for basic human rights and dignity, and the silence of people who should know better.

Yet no matter how many times the world has been down this road before, we can’t seem to avoid repeating the deadly mistakes of the past. Continue…

The Dangers of a “Cashless” Economy

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/10/the-dangers-of-a-cashless-economy.html

Before delving into the dangers of eliminating cash and mandating that all transactions be conducted by digital means, let us briefly discuss the legal aspects of money. In the United States, as in all economies that have legal tender laws, only cash is recognized as money. Some may think that the balance of their bank accounts is money, too, but that is not quite the case. Your bank balance is one step removed from legal money.

All banks must maintain minimum balances of reserves, in cash held either in their vaults—a very small amount—or in their “reserve accounts” with their local Federal Reserve Bank branch (there are twelve of them). These reserve account balances may be converted to real money, or cash, at your bank’s discretion. However, the total cash in our economy also includes cash held outside the banking system, such as the money in your wallet, cookie jar, or personal safe deposit vault.

The total of bank reserves plus cash held outside the banking system is known as the monetary base. The monetary base is not the same as the money supply. Most of the money supply is composed of bank credit not backed by reserves. When banks make loans, they credit your account, which becomes bank credit money. Yes, this money was created by the bank out of thin air. Notice that the banks did not create reserves, only credit money, which is not the same thing. Continue…

Did you know that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse are the same colors as the Palestinian Flag?

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(OPINION) I am going to share something with you that social media is really buzzing about right now. If you go to Revelation chapter 6, you will find that the colors of the horses that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are riding are white, red, black and “pale”.

But the ancient Greek word that is translated as “pale” in Revelation 6:8 is more commonly translated as “green”. In fact, the other three times that “khlōros” is found in the New Testament it is translated as “green” in the King James Version.

So if the most accurate translation of “khlōros” in Revelation 6:8 is “green”, that would give us horses that are white, red, black and “green”, and it turns out that those are the exact same four colors that we find on the Palestinian flag.

Of course, I do not believe that Revelation chapter 6 is talking about the Palestinians. But I do think that this is a really weird “coincidence”. It has also been pointed out that these four colors are used on flags throughout the entire Islamic world.

That is pretty amazing. And it really does appear that an apocalyptic war is about to fully erupt in the Middle East. Even though they claim that they want a ceasefire, on Tuesday afternoon Hamas terrorists launched another “massive rocket barrage” at cities all over Israel Continue…

‘Spamouflage’: Canada Says CCP Bots Targeted Lawmakers’ Social Media With Mass Disinformation Campaign – Spy Agency Blocks Chinese Acquisitions of Property Close to Strategic Assets

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Canadian foreign policy has definitely entered a new era in which tensions that were worked out in secret are now all out in the open.

While still in the throes of a diplomatic spat with India, accused by Ottawa of involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist, it now appears that Canada has singled China out as the next former friendly country turning foe in front of the public.

The Canadian government detected a China-linked campaign that ‘involved bots posting disinformation and propaganda as comments’ on the social media feeds of members of parliament, including the prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

The ‘spamouflage’ used networks of new and hijacked social media accounts to post bulk messages.

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According to Canada’s foreign ministry, the op took place in August and September and targeted dozens of lawmakers from across the political spectrum.

The Guardian reported:

“The messages included accusations against the lawmakers of criminal and ethical violations, a claim that the Hawaii wildfires were caused by a secret US military ‘weather weapon’, and deepfake videos.”

Thousands of comments in English and French were posted on Facebook and X feeds, and the government worked with the platforms to get the bot networks removed.

“’This campaign could discourage and make it difficult for MPs to carry out their duties and may dissuade MPs and diaspora communities in Canada from speaking out on issues which concern them’, said a foreign ministry report.

In a statement, the Chinese embassy in Canada said Beijing had never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries and the accusations were a ‘blatant smear campaign’.” Continue…

'Boycott UFC' Calls Soar After Mega-Sponsorship Deal With Bud Light

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV have entered into a multiyear marketing agreement, making Bud Light the official beer of the mixed martial arts promotional organization. This sponsorship is UFC CEO Dana White & Co's biggest one yet and has already sparked boycott calls from UFC fans.

Anheuser-Busch wrote in a press release that the new multiyear marketing partnership will begin on Jan. 1. The brewer will become the "Official Beer Partner of UFC," and Bud Light will be plastered on broadcasts, signage across arenas, fight-week activities, social media channels, weigh-ins, press conference, and much much more. Continue…

Chinese Digital Yuan CBDC Used For First Time To Settle Cross-Border Oil Deal

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The digital yuan has been used for the first time to settle an oil transaction, the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange (SHPGX) announced. PetroChina International bought 1 million barrels of crude on Oct. 19.

The transaction was a response to a call by the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to apply the Chinese central bank digital currency (CBDC), also referred to as the e-CNY, to international trade, the exchange said. It is “another major step forward” for the digital yuan, according to the state-controlled China Daily.

The seller and the price in the transaction were not disclosed. For comparison, the price of the “OPEC basket” of oil from 13 producers was $95.72 per barrel on Oct. 19.

The crude oil deal also marks an overall major step in the use of the yuan on the international market and in the global movement toward de-dollarization. In the first three quarters of 2023, the use of the yuan in cross-border settlements was up 35% year-on-year, reaching $1.39 trillion, China Daily reported. Continue…

We’re All Doomed: U.N. Warns Planet Earth on the Eve of Destruction

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Melting glaciers. Unbearable heat. Space junk. Accelerating extinctions. Population growth. Groundwater depletion. Societal decay. The U.N. warned in a report Wednesday these are just a few of the potentially irreversible impacts threatening the planet that must be immediately addressed through drastic changes to “human actions.”

The report and its breathless warnings are just the latest in a long list of catastrophic predictions issued by the globalist organization.

The Interconnected Disaster Risks Report identifies thresholds it calls “risk tipping points,” defined as “the moment at which a given socioecological system is no longer able to buffer risks and provide its expected function” — after which the risk of catastrophe increases significantly.

AFP reports it focuses on six areas that bind the physical and natural world with human society. They are: Continue…