In a quiet corner of a bustling Toronto methadone clinic, Dr. Robert Cooper shared a sobering reflection on the state of Canada’s opioid crisis, which he believes is being fuelled by reckless “safer supply” programs.
Author: Blazingcatfur
MRC POLL: Most Dem Voters Don’t Know About Harris’s Radicalism
A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.
Carson Jerema: Blame Trudeau for threat of cheap Chinese EVs flooding in
Canada isn’t a country, so much as an elaborate program for distributing public money to a handful of manufacturing companies in southern Ontario. It doesn’t matter if the government in Ottawa is Liberal or Conservative. And it doesn’t matter if whatever is being manufactured is something people want to buy. The existence of industries in other parts of the country, such as oil and gas in Alberta, that thrive largely without subsidies only seems to reinforce Ottawa’s need to coddle Central Canada.
CUPE Ontario president called out for reposting ‘divisive’ and ‘vile’ social media post
The president of CUPE Ontario is under fire from some of the union’s Jewish members for reposting a social media post on Facebook.
Fred Hahn shared a video Sunday of a diver at the Paris Games. It shows the athlete with a prominent Star of David on their arm jumping off the diving board before turning into a bomb that drops on innocent civilians. The narrator in the video calls the diver an ‘Olympic champion.’
Fred Hahn is really filling my evidence binder for the CUPE discrimination case pic.twitter.com/EMn7blwC1T
— Kathryn Marshall (@Lawsome_) August 13, 2024
Liberal government refuses to say if it approved bonus for CBC CEO Catherine Tait
OTTAWA – The Liberal government is refusing to say if it approved a bonus for the head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., as Opposition Conservatives demand answers and New Democrats call for a ban on bonuses.
It is up to the federal government to approve a bonus for Catherine Tait following a review of her performance and recommendation by the board of directors at CBC/Radio-Canada.
CBC deferred questions to the federal government. Canadian Heritage, which oversees the Crown corporation, then deferred questions to the Privy Council Office, which supports cabinet and the prime minister.
Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Remake Will Feature CGI ‘Dwarfs’ and an Anti-Israel Lead Character
“… Make sure to BOYCOTT the Snow White movie as they have cast an Israeli terrorist Gal Gadot in the film. She is a trained killer who served in the Israeli degenerate forces. Don’t let Zionist terrorists normalize this EVER!” wrote another.
Rachel Zegler, Gadot’s co-star playing Snow White, posted a “Free Palestine” flag on her X feed. “Always remember, free Palestine,” she wrote.
The political consensus on taxing Chinese imports is now complete — your move, Minister Freeland
Now that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party have joined the chorus calling for more action against Chinese imports, a key decision facing Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this month just got a little easier.
Cross-party consensus on the wisdom of lining up with the Biden administration’s incoming tariffs on made-in-China electric vehicles provides the government with more political cover. But there’s still a risk of incoming flak.
To understand how complicated this gets, consider how then-president Donald Trump’s earlier campaign against Chinese state-sponsored overproduction played out for the United States and its trading partners in what was then NAFTA, now the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). That policy debate got very confusing for voters who like to slot politicians on a predictable left-right axis.
Kamala Harris to Announce Soviet-Style Price Controls on Food Under Guise of ‘Gouging Ban‘
Soviet-style centrally administered price controls on food and grocery prices will form part of the federal economic proposals U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil Friday when she finally delivers an insight into her 2024 policies.
News: Harris to propose “federal ban on corporate price-gouging” on groceries and “impose stiff penalties in the food industry,” campaign announces.
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 15, 2024
h/t Mauser
WTF?
❓How much does the CBC cost taxpayers?
💰We break down the numbers.
🎞️FULL VIDEO⬇️ pic.twitter.com/cTAmF7uSHu
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) August 15, 2024
Migrant Workers Lured to Canada Are Being Scammed Out of Their Life Savings
High salaries, top-notch schools, beautiful scenery and low crime: the promise of a better life attracted over a million newcomers to Canada last year. But as idyllic as it may seem, a post-pandemic migration surge is revealing a dirty underbelly of the immigration system.
Fraud is running rampant in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program, another wrinkle in immigration debates playing out around the world as developed countries seek to bolster their labor forces without alienating the native-born population. In the US’s northern neighbor, critics have honed in on employers and consultants who illegally sell jobs to migrants desperate for an advantage in their quest for permanent residency. A patchwork of overwhelmed government agencies appears ill-equipped to crack down.
Disney wants NYU doctor allergy death suit tossed because of widower’s Disney+ subscription
Disney is trying to get a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a New York University doctor’s grieving husband tossed — because he signed up for the Disney+ streaming service years earlier, court papers said.
Kanokporn Tangsuan’s bereaved widower, Jeffrey Piccolo, is suing the theme park juggernaut, claiming that she suffered a fatal allergic reaction shortly after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant in Florida last October.
The Magic Kingdom is a steaming pile of shit.
h/t Patti Jo
Joly’s public missteps embarrassing, inexcusable
Last week, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly was amplifying Hamas talking points against Israel.
Again.
On Aug. 10 — and for the second time — Joly posted a Hamas talking point that is still at the top of her official X account, now read by 1 million people.
“Canada condemns the Israeli strike that killed Palestinian civilians sheltering at a school in Gaza including children”
WTF?
WHAT!
A secret service agent reportedly abandoned her post at the Trump rally in North Carolina to nurse her baby. pic.twitter.com/wqZYbgWaQB
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 15, 2024
h/t Mauser
Federal government planning sharp cut to low-wage stream of temporary foreign worker program, sources say
The federal government is planning to sharply cut the low-wage stream of the temporary foreign worker program back to prepandemic levels, government sources say, amid criticism of its growing use by Canadian employers.
Reliance on the low-wage stream has shot up since 2022, when Ottawa agreed to ease access to the program in response to calls from restaurant owners and other employers who said they were struggling to find staff after months of pandemic restrictions.
Even if they do cut the numbers and I doubt they will the damage is done.
Our Captains of Industry have enough slaves to last them for some time as the scam has generated a significant surplus.
Trudeau’s gov’t has lost track of the many foreign workers and students who have gone underground.
Evidently they’ve postponed the “path to citizenship” for an estimated 500K illegals.