Alberta Tops BC in Court Battle Over Provincial Rights to Control Oil, Natural Gas Pipeline Flows
The Alberta government has won an epic court battle with its British Columbia (BC) counterpart over rights of oil- and natural gas-producing provinces to control pipeline flows.
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a BC lawsuit against a 2018 Alberta bill nicknamed the “turn-off-the-taps act,” formally titled the Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act. BC was also directed to pay costs of the two-year case.
The ruling overturned an injunction by the Federal Court of Canada trial division that blocked Alberta from using its contested bill to prevent BC from opposing the 590,000 b/d Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) of its oil pipeline.
iPolitics Because Canada sends asylum-seekers to American detention facilities, it enables and contributes to the decades-long violations of human rights in the U.S. People protest the Safe Third Country Agreement outside the Federal Court of Canada in June 2020. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star)
It’s been just over six weeks since U.S. President Joe Biden entered the White House, and six of his first-day executive orders concerned immigration.
They include: ending the so-called “Muslim Ban”; halting construction of the Mexico-U.S. border wall; and reinstating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
This may seem promising for refugees and asylum-seekers in the U.S., but is it enough for Canada to keep upholding the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA)?
Crime by Anton Nilsson An Australian bikie informant who fled the country after being almost beaten to death has spoken from his Canadian hiding place and revealed he still faces threats to his life. The former Bandidos associate Stevan Utah spoke exclusively to NCA NewsWire after learning this week he lost a bid to sue the Canadian government for slow-walking his asylum application. Mr Utah was embedded in the Bandidos motorcycle club in Queensland in the 2000s, feeding the Australian government information about serious crimes before his identity was exposed in 2006. He fled to Canada and lodged his application for asylum the following year.
India’s disinformation games
December 20, 2020
On December 9, 2020 the EU-based watchdog DisinfoLab uncovered an Indian disinformation network, operating since 2005, tasked solely with promoting India and damaging the reputations of nations it is at odds with.
The report highlighted the network’s efforts to discredit Pakistan by publishing anti-Pakistan content on a variety of seemingly credible online platforms. EU DisinfoLab’s investigation unearthed several websites and UN-accredited NGOs either belonging or tied directly to the Delhi-based Srivastava Group. Using this network of fake NGOs and news sites this operation vociferously lobbied in favor of India and against Pakistan, holding demonstrations, courting European politicians, and holding press conferences and delivering speeches – often before the UN itself – on behalf of the several UN-accredited NGOs it concealed itself behind.