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on what he sees as a failure of civics education in Canada, pointing to recent news items to suggest many Canadians don’t seem to understand how our democracy is supposed to work.
And the really troubling and bottomless part of all of this is that we are gradually losing something imperative in the fog drifts of ignorance and disinformation – namely, how to effectively wield our individual and collective power within a democracy. We are losing our people power.suspended its refugee settlement program
as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada proposes new regulations that pose barriers for volunteer groups, theCanada is facing pressure to expand its refugee programs to welcome Ukrainians and Afghans forced to flee their homelands, but the decision by the church highlights theConvoy organizersaid in court Monday that he’s still searching for lawyers to represent him at trial more than six weeks after his arrest, CTVright now,” King told court on Monday.
King, 44, is facing 10 charges in relation to his role during the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests that occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, including intimidation, obstructing police and mischief. A co-accused, Tyson George Billings, also appeared in court Monday from the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, Ont.
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