>snapped awake when Chrystia Freeland started talking about nuclear weapons.
Oy vey… TABERNACK!
Checkmate: The Triumph of Technocracy
How Trump, Elon & the Tech Elite are paving the way for a Brave New World - And what it means for all of us
Erik Wikström
Feb 15, 2025
https://erikwikstrom.substack.com/p/checkmate-the-triumph-of-technocracy
https://g7.canada.ca/en/
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/ottawa-playbook/2025/02/18/canadas-g7-preppers-00204632
Canada’s G7 preppers By NICK TAYLOR-VAISEY & SUE ALLAN 02/18/2025 06:00 AM EST
Thanks for reading the Ottawa Playbook. Let’s get to it.
→ Behind the scenes of G7 planning.
G8-KEEPERS — TRUMP wants PUTIN back in the G7.
→ Countdown G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
— Fill in the blanks: Ottawa’s ambition for Canada’s 2025 G7 presidency is still mostly a mystery. But bureaucrats have been planning the calendar for months. Deputy ministers have been coordinating interdepartmental efforts since at least Oct.
G7 foreign ministers are set to meet Mar 12-14 in Charlevoix, Quebec.
— Meetings before the meetings: CINDY TERMORSHUIZEN is running point on G7 planning. Termorshuizen is Trudeau’s sherpa — a personal rep who works with high-ranking officials from the other 6 countries.
Sherpas typically meet a few times ahead of the summit. Termorshuizen kicked things off with a Vancouver check-in on Jan. 29-31.
→ The Canadian Chamber of Commerce leads the “Business 7,” which will gather May 15-16 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
→ The Canadian Labour Congress & the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development are “pressing the government to prioritize worker-first solutions & for Canada to use every tool at our disposal.”
— One more key player: Each country appoints a “political director” to focus on the foreign ministers’ meetings. They’ve met several times already in 2025. Canada’s political director is DAVID ANGELL, whose GAC day job is assistant deputy minister for international security & political affairs.
— Agenda pieces: Canada’s G7 website refers to issues ranging from “international peace & security to global economic stability & growth, to the digital transition.” In France last week, Trudeau added artificial intelligence to the agenda.
https://g7.canada.ca/en/
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/readouts/2025/02/10/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-speaks-artificial-intelligence-business
ENERGY PRIORITIES — Documents obtained by Playbook:
Last Nov, Natural Resources DM MICHAEL VANDERGRIFT approved C$945,000 in grants for a pair of International Energy Agency initiatives that “support” the G7 presidency.
→ The first IEA project, worth up to C$860,000, will focus on “energy security & ensuring an inclusive transition.” The money will pay for “research, policy analysis, reports, drawing-up next steps/road maps, and support towards overall preparations for” Canada’s big year. Most details TBD.
→ The second IEA project, worth up to C$85,000, will produce a report and workshop that “will allow Canada to showcase its leadership on the important linkage between energy efficiency and affordability.”
Also: "Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy"
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ai-strategy/en
KEK! Fuck shit up Canada!
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-834195
Disgrace in Canada: Despair and hatred for Jews is becoming normalized - opinion
By DAVID M. WEINBERG DECEMBER 21, 2024 00:56
Last week I wrote about the antisemitic and anti-Israel lurch of Australia. The situation in Canada is no better. In fact, the parallels to Australia are chilling, with the two governments coordinating their progressive distancing from Jews and Israel.
… WORSE STILL, Trudeau and his Foreign Minister Melanie Joly dramatically have shifted Canada’s stance away from Israel.
…NOTE THAT this past year, Trudeau and Joly made Canada the first Western country to impose arms export restrictions against Israel. Joly even denied military export licenses to Canadian companies that were sub-contracting for American defense companies with munitions and weapons system contracts relating to Israel.
Joly’s Global Affairs Canada ministry has been one of the first to sanction not only “malign” settlers but a broad range of right-wing Israeli civil society organizations such as Regavim and Tzav 9 – just because they have different views on land and humanitarian matters than Joly’s ministry. In so doing, Canada has served as somewhat of a stalking horse for the nastiest aspects of the Biden administration.
The writer is senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy. He was coordinator of the Israeli government’s Global Forum Against Antisemitism under the leadership of Natan Sharansky in the Prime Minister’s Office. The views expressed here are his own. His diplomatic, defense, political, and Jewish world columns over the past 27 years can be found at davidmweinberg.com.
November 30, 2023 4:29 PM JP Alegre
As of this writing, there hasn’t been any announcement or confirmation from the WEF or Freeland. It’s unclear whether her disappearance from the list was a site error — her profile on the WEF website still says she’s a member of the board of trustees — or was a still unannounced voluntary or involuntary departure.
https://thedeepdive.ca/is-chrystia-freeland-no-longer-on-the-wef-board-of-trustees-
https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/01/world-economic-forum-announces-new-trustees/