Lipstick on a Pig?
“So that's why this proposal is a name change. We're not saying to formally split from the federal party, because I think there is value in being able to share it resources and share expertise between the various NDP in the country. I think that's useful,” Malkinson explained.
Despite publicly putting some distance between itself and its Ottawa cousins, the Alberta NDP has relied heavily on national NDP luminaries like Brian Topp and Nathan Rotman to run its election campaigns. Even the federal NDP’s national director Anne McGrath ran the Premier’s McDougall Centre office when Notley was premier and was the Alberta NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity in 2019.
https://daveberta.substack.com/p/alberta-ndp-name-change-pushed-by
“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
