Immigration minister’s office restricts questions to government-approved media outlets

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/immigration-ministers-office-restricts-questions-to-government-approved-media-outlets/71767

Independent media organizations are being shut out from asking questions of the federal immigration minister after the department introduced a policy requiring journalists to meet government-approved criteria before receiving responses.

Blacklock's Report says the office of Lena Diab declined to comment on the policy Tuesday after refusing inquiries from non-approved outlets.

According to a Department of Immigration notice, only journalists representing organizations that meet specific standards will be granted access to media relations services.

The notice states the department must be satisfied that reporters are “media professionals who represent bona fide media organizations,” using criteria similar to the “qualified journalism designation” outlined in the Income Tax Act (Canada).

However, the act itself does not define journalism. Instead, the designation is determined by the Canada Revenue Agency for the purpose of deciding which newsrooms qualify for federal journalism subsidies.

CRA guidance published in 2019 indicated that eligible organizations must meet several requirements, including demonstrating a consistent practice of allowing those being criticized — including federal departments — to respond.

The guidance also referenced expectations that outlets publish government statements in certain circumstances.

Government departments have frequently contacted media outlets seeking changes or corrections to reporting.

A 2023 inquiry tabled in the House of Commons showed federal managers requested hundreds of corrections from journalists. The Health Canada department issued the highest number, with 269 notices. Continue…

Conservatives Call to Expel an Estimated 700 Iranian Regime Agents From Canada

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/conservatives-call-to-expel-an-estimated-700-iranian-regime-agents-from-canada-5996678?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Conservative MPs are calling on the federal government to do more to evict Iranian regime agents and officials from Canadian soil, amid hostilities in the Middle East and acts of violence on Canadian streets.

Tories said on March 9 they will table a motion in the House of Commons immigration committee calling on Ottawa to ensure individuals linked to Iran’s regime or Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are swiftly removed from the country.

Ottawa added the IRGC, an Iranian armed force whose core mission is to protect the regime, to its list of designated terrorist entities in 2024. The government also deemed regime officials inadmissible to Canada in 2022.

Media reports in recent years have pointed to the presence of Iranian regime officials or IRGC agents in Canada. The figure often cited is 700, which apparently comes from a Global News investigation published in 2023. Continue…

Ottawa Reverses TikTok Operation Ban as China, Canada Pursue Closer Ties

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/ottawa-reverses-tiktok-operation-ban-as-china-canada-pursue-closer-ties-5996635?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Ottawa has decided to allow TikTok to continue its operations in Canada under new data security and regulatory oversight rules, reversing its previous decision to order the Chinese-owned firm to close its doors in Canada over national security concerns.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a March 9 statement that TikTok Canada agreed to implement enhanced protection for Canadian users’ personal information, including “new security gateways and privacy-enhancing technologies” to control access to user data.

The company also agreed to implement improved protections for minors, and to appoint an independent third-party to audit and continuously verify data access controls, Joly said.

She said the decision comes after a “thorough assessment” of information gathered during a further national security review of the company, including advice from Canada’s security and intelligence agencies and other government partners.

“The Government of Canada will exercise its full authorities under the Investment Canada Act and ensure the full implementation and enforcement of the measures committed to by TikTok Canada,” Joly said.

For its part, TikTok said in a March 9 news release that it was “pleased” to reach an agreement with the federal government to keep its local operations and related jobs in Canada. Continue…

Special forces sergeant who assaulted ex-wife gets reduced sentence due to Canadian military service

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/elite-special-forces-sergeant-gets-reduced-sentence-for-assaulting-ex-wife-due-to-military-service

A Canadian sergeant convicted of assaulting his former spouse three times has been handed a conditional discharge by an Ontario judge who noted a “link between his service-related concussions and the mental health deterioration” the soldier experienced from deploying to Iraq five times and Afghanistan thrice.

Mark MacChesney who served as a member of JTF2, an elite special forces unit, was found guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice last fall of assaulting his ex-wife Malory Seaboyer in August 2020, September 2022 and November 2022. The same judge also found the 41-year-old soldier guilty of mischief for damaging a wall in their matrimonial home.

“His character, and public service are both mitigating factors on sentence. But I find that they also bear on his moral responsibility. On the evidence and material before me, I find that the effects of Mr. MacChesney’s concussions and PTSD from combat in (the Canadian Armed Forces) lessen his moral responsibility,” Justice David Rose wrote in a recent decision. Continue…

WEF’s Owner Blackrock Toxifies the Organization into a Tyrannical Abyss

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wef-owner-blackrock-toxifies-organization-tyrannical-abyss/5918387

Under BlackRock’s (BR) leadership, the WEF has become an even more tyrannical, highly toxic organization. The technocratic BR CEO, orders the next larger WEF Conference scheduled for April 22-23, 2026, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to go forward, despite Saudi Arabia being in the midst of a War zone.

Voices wondering about the human risks are shut down by BR’s CEO greedy dictate, “Imagine the financial losses, if we cancel”.

No consideration for human lives, except for his greedy own. Power and money in our wicked society go hand in hand. Humanity and social values are run over like cockroaches, by those who pretend to run the world and its institutions.

It appears that the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at Jeddah Corniche Circuit (April 17-19) for Formula 1, has just been canceled – due to war zone risks. Yet, the WEF must go on. The power of money is above lives. Obviously, it makes wars, creates terror acts – and makes more money by destruction and killing than anything else, outranking by far drug and human trafficking – in which of course, big finance is also involved.

Big Finance is organized crime – and vice-versa. Continue…

BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Authorities Seek to Have Dr. William Makis Imprisoned for Two Years “For Helping Cancer Patients”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-authorities-seek-have-me-imprisoned-two-years-march-9-send-message/5918476

As of March 4, 2026, Canadian authorities seek to have Dr. William Makis imprisoned for 2 years, by having him arrested as early as March 9, 2026, for helping cancer patients.

The recent March 4 Alberta Court Decision 2026 ABKB159 concludes:

• There is no evidence of any patient harm after 2 years and 9000+ cancer patients.

• There are documented life saving benefits to cancer patients which the Court deems “irrelevant”.

• Doing a Podcast Interview or making a Youtube Video constitutes “practicing medicine without a license” which can lead to imprisonment up to 2 years (this is new).

• Health Coaching is now illegal in Canada (this is new).

• This also applies to Naturopathy and all non-allopathic medicine health fields which are now also effectively illegal.

My Response:

• I am complying with the Court’s Directions to remove what was described as “offending social media”.

• I am moving out of Canada as soon as humanly possible.

• I am securing the safety of my family who are in extreme danger after recent threats were issued.

• I intend to open a Florida Clinic to help cancer patients as soon as humanly possible.

• My Florida Medical License is approved and is not in any danger.

Thank you for your support. God bless.

SHOCKING: Sex Offender Registry Ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL – Predators Get a Free Pass!!

https://odysee.com/@PressForTruth:4/SHOCKING–Sex-Offender-Registry-Ruled-UNCONSTITUTIONAL-%E2%80%93-Predators-Get-a-Free-Pass!!:9

A Hamilton judge just ruled Ontario's sex offender registry UNCONSTITUTIONAL scrapping mandatory lifetime tracking for convicted predators! Justice Davin Garg says it's "overboard" and violates Charter rights for offenders like Michael Roberts (convicted of sexually assaulting FOUR victims).

But that's not all, this comes hot on the heels of even more insanity: A transgender-identifying man (“Alice” Michael Attwood) who stabbed his OWN 7 and 8-year-old children with a serrated knife, slashing his daughter's throat, severing 75% of her esophagus, gets a pathetic 5 YEARS in prison!

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth ties it all together with Supreme Court rulings that gutted mandatory minimums for child luring and possessing child porn, opening the doors wider for groomers and predators.

This is a pattern of protecting the guilty over the innocent!