Accepted as one of Ottawa’s most important festivals, the 2019 Canadian Tulip Festival was held from May 10 to 20 at the Commissioners Park on the shores of Dows Lake and along the picturesque Dows Lake section of Rideau Canal, which is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Canadian Tulip Festival is the ...
A report prepared by a cross-party committee of Canadian MPs has pegged China as one of the most significant national security cyber threats to the country. It accuses Beijing of mobilizing Chinese students and using businesspeople to influence Canada’s politics. The Chinese threat to Canada “China is known globally for its efforts to influence Chinese ...
Canadians love shrimp so much that they import US$700 million worth of them every year, with the majority of them coming from countries like China, Vietnam, Thailand, and India. Food experts are concerned that this might end up as a health issue very soon since many of these shrimp imports come with bacteria that are ...
The threat of Confucius Institutes in America is something that U.S. lawmakers have been drawing attention to for some time. Now, politicians from the UK are also highlighting the dangers posed by such Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded institutions in Britain. Confucius Institutes fall under scrutiny in the UK According to the Chinese Communist Party, Confucius ...
Receiving foreign investment sounds like a great thing for an economy. Unless you are Canada and are receiving a ton of Chinese money. The cash flow, part legal and part illegal, is reportedly causing a surge in property prices and particularly benefiting criminal organizations in Canada. Chinese money According to a report by The New ...
Rarely does a book release come at such an opportune time as Claws of the Panda. The topic it discusses is currently debated all across the world. In this aspect, the publisher of the book might consider themselves lucky. The book, written by Jonathan Manthorpe, who has almost four decades of international reporting experience, focuses ...
Renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has no hope for his country ever becoming a free-spirited society as long as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in power. He was responding to the current political tensions between Canada and China. Weiwei is currently in Canada preparing for his exhibition at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum on February 28, ...
The Canadian government has announced that it will provide CAD$40 million to Finnish telecom company Nokia to study the possibilities of 5G technology in the country. Beijing fears that the research project is simply a prelude to banning Huawei from rolling out 5G services in Canada. 5G research The research project is aimed at understanding ...
After the Canadian government arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou as a part of an extradition treaty with the U.S., the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “hit back” by arresting a few Canadian citizens. While the call for releasing the arrested Canadian nationals grows stronger back home, allies like the U.S. and EU have also extended their ...
Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Huawei who was arrested by the Canadian government at the behest of the U.S. administration, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The bail, which came at a cost of $10 million Candian (US$7.5 million), will end Meng Wanzhou’s 10-day stay in prison. ...