China’s regulations look good on paper but the absence of an independent judiciary means the rules are sometimes applied inconsistently. By Patricia Adams, Special to the Financial Post In January, Canada’s Food Inspection Agency and China’s customs authority signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance co-operation on food safety and animal and plant health. Prime Minister Mark Carney framed it as part of a bilateral […]
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By Lisa Peryman for Probe International China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, which encompass roughly 90% of the strategic waterway via the so-called nine-dash line, rest on a surprisingly modern and error-prone foundation rather than ancient, unbroken sovereignty, according to seasoned analyst and author Bill Hayton. In a recent lecture examining the modern origins of these “historic” […]
Can an advanced technology that thrives on open debate and interdisciplinary collaboration rise to its highest potential within an authoritarian structure? By Probe International China faces a paradox in the escalating AI race with the United States: while computational power, data centers, and chips matter, the true contest for dominance could hinge on political culture. […]
A striking display during a House of Commons session on EV policy and Chinese imports, involving floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma, has raised fresh concerns about foreign influence in Ottawa. By Probe International March 26: In a heated House of Commons committee session examining EV policy and Chinese imports, newly minted Liberal MP Michael Ma—a recent […]
By Bruce Pardy, first published by the National Post In December 2021, Everton Downey stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in a stairwell at a shopping mall in Burnaby. She died. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder. In February, theBritish Columbia Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison, the minimum sentence set out in the […]
By Bruce Pardy, first published by the National Post Bill C-9 (the Combatting Hate Act) is a dangerous overreach on free speech, but it’s just the latest symptom of a much deeper, long-standing erosion of free expression in Canada, argues law professor Bruce Pardy. True free speech, he says, isn’t about “reasonable” limits or social […]
By Bruce Pardy for the Brownstone Institute Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures is met in the petition drive, which […]
By Lisa Peryman for Probe International Earlier this month, a bombshell report from the U.S. defence policy think tank, Jamestown Foundation, delivered a critical wake-up call that exposed the alarming extent of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltration in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany through its United Front Work Department (UFWD) network. […]
Top general Zhang Youxia purged as rumors rock the CCP. By Probe International The recent purge of China’s top general, Zhang Youxia, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), marks a potentially historic turning point for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Second only to Xi Jinping himself in the country’s military pecking order, one of […]