Beijing and other tyrannical regimes exploit gaps in Canadian law to advance their transnational repression in Canada, and a prominent international human rights lawyer says this is a problem that calls for comprehensive legislation to combat their foreign interference. Winnipeg-based lawyer David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said repressive states like China, Russia,…
Fighting Foreign Influence: Beijing Exploits Gaps in Canadian Law; David Matas Proposes Remedies
Hong Kong Slashes Number of Directly Elected Council Seats
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s legislature unanimously voted on Thursday to overhaul district level elections by drastically reducing directly elected seats, a move critics said removed some of the last vestiges of democratic freedoms in the China-ruled city. Under the amendment bill, only 88 seats would be directly elected by the public, down from 452 seats in…
3 Years With COVID-19: The Real Story and Its Connection to the Erosion of Democracy
In Pieter Bruegel’s painting “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” the canvas is dominated by workers going about their daily routines. A person looking at the painting must strain to find the legs of Icarus as he plunges into the sea—having flown too close to the sun—resulting in the melting of his wings, made of…
America Needs a Transfusion – Part II
Commentary In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful…
‘Journey of Hope’: Couple Takes Lady Liberty Statue of Hong Kong on Cross-Canada Honeymoon Trip
Parkie Li and his wife, Angel, decided to make their honeymoon trip across Canada a meaningful display of solidarity with democracy in Hong Kong. By showcasing a replica of the Lady Liberty Statue of Hong Kong, the two Canadians wanted to send a message of hope to Hongkongers who were forced to flee their home…
America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals
May 10, 2023
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Commentary Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us to be separate from each other. We couldn’t even encounter each other during shopping thanks to one-way grocery aisles. We were not allowed to visit families or even attend funerals. Weddings were out of…
Alan Miller: ‘The Public Should Be at the Heart of Things and Freedom is Essential’ | British Thought Leaders
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Alan Miller, co-founder of Together, a membership organisation that campaigns for freedoms, staging protests and townhall events on issues such as digital currency, 15-minute cities and low traffic neighbourhoods. Alan has influenced policy at all levels of government. …
Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
April 12, 2023
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Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
[PREMIERING at 10AM ET] Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
April 12, 2023
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Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
Gov. Newsom Neglects State for Presidential ‘Democracy’ Tour
April 5, 2023
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Commentary Do you think COVID-19 is bad? Far worse is Oval Office Fever. And Gov. Gavin Newsom has a bad case of it. That explains his national Campaign for Democracy tour—even as the state he governs continues to deteriorate. It’s paid for by a new Political Action Committee (PAC) using funds he didn’t spend on…
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