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Mar 24 2023

Roxham rules. Ford’s billions. TikTok trashed.

Mar 24, 2023
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
Canada
U.S. strikes deal with Canada over northern border, asylum seekers
The deal will expand the ability of Canadian and American border officials to turn back asylum seekers who cross without authorization. [LA Times]
As the influx of irregular crossings into Canada becomes a political lightning rod, Global News spoke with migrants and those who help them on the final leg of their journey. [Global]
The House of Commons voted in favour of a non-binding motion calling for a public inquiry into foreign election interference, placing more pressure on the Liberals to do so. [Global]

The Oxford, Ont., nomination race is getting testy with contestant Rick Roth describing Arpan Khanna as a ‘parachute candidate from Brampton’ and Khanna accusing Roth of ‘telling lies.' Candidate Deborah Tait, meanwhile, is urging the Conservative Party to protect the voting process. [Hill Times]
With Albertans set to go the polls in a provincial election this year, Smith says the United Conservative Party has more ground to gain in the province's two largest cities. [Global]

The aides, advisers and campaign geniuses behind the big names. [Macleans]
From the Provinces

Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled a record $204.7-billion spending plan on Thursday that boosted funding for health care but cautioned that storm clouds loom. [TorStar]
Alberta's system for managing environmental risks from old oilpatch facilities still hasn't spelled out how it will ensure cleanups, the province's auditor general said Thursday. [Global]

Despite the surplus, the government is primarily targeting paying down debt in lieu of spending the windfall of cash from resource revenue. [Leader Post]
Dan Fumano: In 2020, B.C.'s chief electoral officer highlighted gaps in elections laws around foreign interference. Those gaps still exist. [Vancouver Sun]
Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives will table the second budget of their mandate today, and the focus is expected once again to be on health care. [Global]
Elsewhere
China, US Navy in row over guided-missile destroyer in South China Sea
China's defence ministry said on Friday that it yet again had to monitor and drive away the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Milius that entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands. [Reuters]
Media

The News/Media Alliance calls on 'every corner of the Administration to stand strong against Big Tech’s efforts to resist fair payment' [National Post]

Passing a data privacy bill is "the only way to stop TikTok," committee says. [Ars Technica]
Issued this day ...
... in 1971: Sc # 534: Ernest Rutherford. Design: Ray Webber.
This stamp was issued on the 100th anniversary of the nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) and, at the time of issue, Canada Post had this to say about its decision to mark the man: 

"The broad and fruitful research program in the field of radioactivity undertaken by Ernest Rutherford at Montreal's McGill Universtity provided a tremendous impetus to physical research in Canada in the late 1880's and early 1900's. Knighted in 1914, this native of New Zealand, born on 30th August, 1871, was created Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, in 1931, some six years before his death at Cambridge, England, on 19th October 1937. 
He came to McGill to begin his teaching career as professor of physics in 1898 and remained until 1907. Returning in England he continued his teaching and research at the University of Manchester. In 1908 he was awarded a Nobel Prize and in 1919 he accepted an invitation to continue his work at Cambridge University. He received the Copley medal of the Royal Society in 1922, in turn was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society, and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1925. 

Energetic, robust and dynamic, he was a man of compelling personality possessed of a bright lively nature. With the remarkable capability of devising the precise experiment to prove a specific theory, he is recognized as one of the men who triggered the chain reaction of atomic research which so radically changed the world. Of his work at McGill in Canada, it has been said that he made this institution at that time the world centre of research in atomic physics."

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