Amy Hamm: Jagmeet Singh’s exit from deal changes nothing

For a moment there, it looked like we could retire “Sellout Singh” and offer some plaudits to Canada’s NDP leader. Not so.

After a week of Conservative party rumblings about a looming no-confidence vote, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announced today that his party is pulling out of the supply and confidence agreement that has propped up Trudeau’s Liberals for more than two years. It’s not clear, yet, if Singh plans to trigger an election. That seems unlikely.

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Canadians turn on Trudeau over immigration

One of the most pro-immigration countries in the world has turned sour on welcoming more newcomers. A recent poll conducted on Canadians’ attitudes towards immigration shows that 65% of the population believes the Liberal government’s current immigration targets are too high. Ever since coming to power in 2015, Justin Trudeau has opened the floodgates of new migrants pouring into Canada, with 500,000 permanent residents expected in 2025. Polling shows that 78% of respondents believe high immigration levels are contributing to the national housing shortage, while 76% said they are having an impact on healthcare.

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The Establishment Media Has Gaslit America for Four Years

Never has gaslighting gone so far, for so long, with such high stakes. Over the last four years, the establishment media has propped Biden up, pushed Biden out, and now it seeks to ram Kamala Harris in.

There is a reason why Americans no longer trust the establishment media. A year ago, Gallup found that just under one-third (32 percent) of Americans had a “great deal” to “a fair amount” of trust that the “mass media” reports “the news in a full, fair and accurate way.” That matched “Gallup’s lowest historical reading, previously recorded in 2016.” At the time, “29% of U.S. adults [had] ‘not very much’ trust, while a record-high 39% register ‘none at all.’” By roughly two-to-one, Americans distrust the establishment media.

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WTF?

Can anyone shed some light on this.

h/t Patti Jo.

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Peter Carey: Jordan Peterson’s forced ‘re-education’ should worry millions of Canadians

It appears that freedom of speech is under attack all across the western world. One only has to look at Britain or Ireland to see draconian crackdowns by governments against speech they don’t like. As is typical in these times, it is “woke” leftist governments that are mainly engaging in this behaviour.

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Volkswagen Considers Germany Plant Closure For First Time in Its History

German car-manufacturing giant Volkswagen is considering closing some of its plants and laying off some of its workforce.

Rising costs were cutting into profits, leaving Volkswagen facing “particularly significant challenges,” the group said in an internal memo seen by AFP. “In the current situation, even plant closures at vehicle production and component sites can no longer be ruled out,” Volkswagen said in the note sent to employees.

Founded in 1937, the company has never had to close plants in Germany.

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Concern over immigration quadruples over last 48 months

September 4, 2024 – While the number of Canadians galvanized over the cost of living and inflation is beginning to decrease, their attention is fixating on an issue that was once only glancingly thought of: immigration.

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians’ concern over immigration has risen four-fold over the last two years, prompting the federal government to announce plans to shrink the Temporary Foreign Workers program. One-in-five (21%) say “Immigration/refugees” is one of the top issues facing the country, putting it in a tie with climate change (21%), though still far off from the high cost of living (57%), health care (45%) and housing affordability (32%).

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Brian Stelter and ‘Reliable Sources’ Returning to CNN

You read that correctly. The liberal media’s janitor, Brian Stelter will be returning to CNN two years after being canned amid network-wide shake ups under the leadership of since-ousted boss Chris Licht. That’s according to a Tuesday scoop by Stelter’s former CNN media beat buddy Dylan Byers, and later confirmed by Stelter on X and in a post from the resurrected Reliable Sources Newsletter.

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Georgia high school shooting: 4 dead, one suspect in custody, authorities say

At least four people are dead Wednesday after a shooting at a high school in north central Georgia put the building on lockdown, authorities said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed that four people died at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia — approximately 40 miles northeast of Atlanta – and nine others were taken to various hospitals with injuries. The suspect is alive and in custody.

Was out running errands saw a headline before I left and it did not seem urgent.

h/t XC

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Internal docs show Ontario was aware it had an ‘over-reliance’ on international students

As Ontario’s post-secondary institutions come to grips with a far-reaching federal cap on international student approvals, internal provincial documents reveal that the Ford government was aware that colleges and universities had an “over-reliance” on overseas students as a way to make up for budget deficits.

The documents, obtained by Global News, also gave the Minister of Colleges and Universities a dire snapshot of the life of international students in Ontario, highlighting the lack of existing services for students who are dealing with “intensive feelings of isolation.”

Follow the money always.

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