Two ministers in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government are condemning Hong Kong police’s new arrest warrants for 19 overseas-based activists and their offer of rewards for information leading to their capture. Officers have accused the activists of violating a national security law imposed by Beijing. In a joint statement Saturday afternoon, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said “the actions taken by Hong Kong threaten the sovereignty of Canada and security of the people in this country.” “This attempt by Hong Kong authorities to conduct transnational repression abroad, including by issuing threats, intimidation or coercion against Canadians or…

Asylum seekers staying in federally-funded hotels will soon have to check out as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says that funding will end in September.  A spokesperson for IRCC told CBC News via email that as of Thursday, the federal government was housing 485 asylum seekers in five hotels in Ontario and Quebec, noting it has spent approximately $1.1 billion on temporary hotel housing for asylum seekers since 2020.  “This measure was never meant to be permanent, and IRCC is funded to continue hotel operations only until September 30, 2025,” the email said. Ottawa has provided funding for asylum seekers to…

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau upended 150 years of Canadian parliamentary tradition when he dumped Liberal senators, named Independents to the upper house and generally stripped the place of partisan elements. The experiment produced mixed reviews, with some old-guard senators — those who were there well before Trudeau — arguing the Senate is now irrelevant, slower, less organized and more expensive. Some of Trudeau’s appointees say the reforms have helped the Red Chamber turn the page on the near-death experience of the expenses scandal, which they maintain was fuelled by the worst partisan impulses. Defenders of the new regime say partisans are pining…

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