The Security and Prosperity Partnership is an agreement entered into in 2005 by the then liberal prime minister Paul Martin ... This is something that crosses party lines. Wendy Forest, Canadian Action Party candidate
The Security & Prosperity Partnership immediately brings to mind the question for whom? Dian Nicholson, Canadian Action Party candidate
Canada’s Lake Okanagan – eerily the man disappeared in the exact spot where locals recently reported sightings of a legendary lake monster known as Ogopogo ... The story of Ogopogo stretches back nearly a thousand years. Destination Truth s4e2, Skyfy 2010
Witnesses report seeing razor-back humps thrashing above the water line. ibid.
Canada’s the best country in the world. Justin Bieber
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour. Mike Myers
As always, Canada will now bury its war dead, just as the rest of the world, as always, will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada’s historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. Kevin Myers
Canada could have enjoyed:
English government,
French culture,
And American know-how.
Instead it ended up with:
English know-how,
French government,
And American culture. John Robert Colombo, O Canada, 1965
In BC [British Columbia] fifty pounds of Bud is worth $55,000 at wholesale prices. In Spokane, two and a half hours from the border, its value had almost doubled to $100k. Misha Glenny, McMafia
An industry that the BC Organised Crime Agency valued at $4 billion in 2001. ibid.
Around 100,000 workers are engaged both full-time and part-time in the cultivation, distribution, smuggling and retail of marijuana. ibid.
Western Canada is home to the largest per capita concentration of organised criminal syndicates in the world. ibid.
President George W Bush dealt the most punishing blow to BC’s economy in recent years by bending to pressure from the American lumber industry and imposing a 27 per cent tax on Canadian softwood sales into the United States. ibid.
Many of those who once worked in the traditional industries have moved into marijuana. ibid.
Popular resentment towards American and the intellectual insularity of Americans is part of everyday life in Canada. It is persistent, low-level, sometimes dumb and sometimes funny. ibid.
In the key marijuana-growing areas, parties supporting the decriminalisation or legalisation of marijuana won huge majorities. ibid.
The debate between Washington and Ottawa and the future course of narcotics policy have enormous implications for the shadow global economy, for transnational organised crime, for international policing, and for domestic policy around the world. ibid.
The Vikings: thorny, brawny and brutal they plundered and pillaged across continents in the days before the Norman Conquest. Their long-ships wreaked havoc across the North Atlantic. Dan Snow, The Vikings Uncovered, BBC 2016
Newfoundland: the first people to explore this place … may have been British (Vikings) … 1960: archaeologists made the remarkable discovery of a Viking transit camp. ibid.
British Columbia: these islands are to this day the homeland of the Haida people; one of the most powerful of the west-coast nations. Jago Cooper, Masters of the Pacific Coast II: Survival, BBC 2016
In Montebello back in 2007 there was three police officers who were dressed as aggressive protesters with rocks in their hands wearing masks in an attempt to incite violence … Into the Fire, Press for Truth, 2011
Toronto G20 summit: ‘this is a completely unprecedented level of police’ … ibid.
‘Why would certain rights be suspended just because the G20 is coming to town?’ ibid. to rozzers
Toronto has been turned into a police state. ibid.
Above each cage they had two CCTV cameras and a little toilet in the corner with cameras pointing at that as well … Dark and scary and really cold … a cold cage in a warehouse. ibid.
And they said, We’re strip-searching you … kept beating me in the face … kicked me in the legs … I have one man sitting on me beating me … ibid. protester
You won’t be making it to the protest today. ibid. rozzer
People dressed in black attire going behind a police line. ibid. protester
If the bubble touches me, you’re going to be arrested for assault. ibid. rozzer
The murder and disappearance of thousands of women from indigenous communities. Why have so many killers escaped justice? Stacey Dooley Investigates: Canada’s Lost Girls, BBC 2017
Since 1980 the police say almost 1,200 indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered right across Canada. But other organisations estimate it to be as high as 4,000. ibid.
‘It is absolutely mindboggling to me that I am 29 years of age and I have never heard anything about residential schools until two years ago’. ibid. texter to radio station
Out of the past, a secret plan to lock up thousands of Canadians whose crime was their support for radical ideas … a programme so draconian it even shocked the politician supposedly in charge of it. A tale of paranoid security from yesterday that resonates with activists today. The Fifth Estate: Enemies of the State, CBC 2010
Its work conducted for the most part by undercover cops and spies. It’s about a shocking programme that we’d never heard about until recently. A secret scheme that was in place for more than thirty years. It’s a story about how people in authority were prepared to use fear to justify repression in the name of public safety. ibid.
1950: A secret gathering in Ottowa … In the time of crisis – a pre-emptive strike against people deemed to be the enemies of Canadian democracy … The plan was called Profunc – targeting prominent functionaries and groups believed to be pro-Soviet ... approved in its broadest outlines by the government of Canada. ibid.
Canada has its own dark history of internments … It didn’t take much to get on the list of targets. ibid.
Mike Duffy never ran for public office but became as famous of the politicians he reported on. He was born to smooze and it took him to the top of his profession in radio and TV. It was fun and it was funny when it was just a joke but beneath the joking lurked a secret dream. An appointment to the senate made the private lifestyle of the bon vivant public business. And a $90,000 cover-up has turned the newsman into news. The Fifth Estate: The Rise and Fall of Mike Duffy, CBC 2014
An audit that would eventually flag four senators: Harb, Brazeau, Wallin, Duffy for dubious expenses. ibid.
The Federation owes us a lot of money. They will turn us all into criminals. Dirty Money V: The Maple Syrup Heist, Maple syrup producer, Netflix 2018
About 30 times the price of oil. And if you want to work with maple syrup you have to deal with the Federation of Maple Syrup Producers. ibid.
I fight so producers can regain their freedom from this Mafia.’ ibid.
Around 9,561 barrels had been discovered stolen worth more than $18 million. ibid. lawyer
This enforced quota that tells producers how much maple syrup they can make in any season. ibid.
Avik Caron 6 years in jail, $1.7 million fine, Richard Valliers 8 years in jail $10 million fine, Etienne St Pierre 2 years home imprisonment $1.03 million fine. ibid. caption
What a place! This is completely epic. I’m in Alaska … I’m travelling the length of the Americas starting at the top and heading to the toe … through North and Central America. It’s a journey of 5,000 miles through some of the biggest landscapes on Earth: it’ll take me to places of myth and wonder. The Americas with Simon Reeve, BBC 2019
Ice that’s thousands of years old is dripping and pouring away. ibid.
Missing indigenous women: some suggest the figure since the 1970s is as high as 4,000. An official enquiry is describing what is happening to Canada’s indigenous people as genocide. ibid.