Eric Lombardi: How elites and established interests hijack government to crush Canada’s middle class

Today in Canada, the promise of shared prosperity and equitable growth is fading amidst escalating challenges. Our country is grappling with the fallout from a record surge in temporary immigration, pushed through without debate at the behest of influential business interests without adequate planning for infrastructure, housing, or social capacity. Construction costs and timelines for these social goods, from housing to transit to hospitals, have ballooned to comical levels.

Meanwhile, petty crime is rising as community trust erodes, homelessness is multiplying, and the cost of living has skyrocketed post-pandemic. Unemployment is inching up, especially among young adults who increasingly see the “Canadian Dream” as out of reach.

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FORSETH: Expect the Liberals to go low

Despite the stunning electoral turnaround in the Toronto St Paul’s byelection on June 24, Trudeau doubled down on his assertion that he is still being the man for the job.

He will not resign. His ego is too big to accept that kind of accountability. Furthermore, there are no credible replacements. No, not even the untainted partial outsider Mark Carney. As for the cabinet, it is compromised as a normal course: any pretender to the throne would have to resign from that pack.

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Two former Liberal ministers say Trudeau should resign following Toronto by-election loss

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing calls from two Chrétien-era Liberal cabinet ministers to step down as party leader, with the former MPs pointing to this week’s midtown Toronto by-election defeat as further evidence of a strong desire for change among Canadian voters.

Wayne Easter said in an interview Wednesday that Mr. Trudeau and his team of senior advisers in the Prime Minister’s Office need to make some hard decisions in light of the party’s surprise loss to the Conservatives in the former Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s.

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It may begin with the Jews, but it never ends with the Jews

A monster is incubating at Europe’s doors and within its walls and it will devour everyone who is not a muslim. Is that so hard to understand?

Islamic attacks against Christians across Asia and Africa. Islamic attacks against Jews in Israel. Islamic attacks in Paris, Mannheim and Malmö. Islamic attacks against synagogues and churches in Dagestan. But if you connect the dots you are just an “Islamophobic conspiracy theorist”.

It begins with the Jews, but it will never end with the Jews.

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FBI Raids Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao

Bay Area and state government have been a target-rich environment for decades.

On June 20, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, carting away boxes of material. The purpose of the raid wasn’t clear, but it may have had something to do with Oakland’s recycler, California Waste Solutions, whose offices were also searched, along with the homes of CWS owners David and Andy Duong.

On June 24, Mayor Thao proclaimed her innocence and blamed the raid on “right-wing forces.” In a city home to the Black Panther Museum, and with UC Berkeley close at hand, that claim had locals wondering whom Oakland’s Democrat mayor had in mind. The raid on the mayor’s home wasn’t the FBI’s first Bay Area bust, and the state has been a target-rich environment for decades.

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Pierre Poilievre presents himself as a hard-scrabble populist. Away from the cameras, the truth is very different

Justin Trudeau’s fall from grace probably has a lot to do with the perception of him as a patrician close to the heart of the Canadian establishment, who fraternizes with corporate lobbyists and vacations at the Caribbean retreats of billionaires.

Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a scrappy guy with modest Alberta roots, has been traversing the country describing Canada as a “living hell” for working class people, and promising that “when I’m prime minister my obsession — my daily obsession — will be about what is good for the working-class people of this country.”


Oh no! He consorts with the business community!

Justin has near destroyed Canada importing cheap labour for his corporate cronies.

Poilievre will be little different I am afraid to say.

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Iran Moves Into Somalia

After six months of Iran using its Houthi Jihadis to impose a blockade near Yemen while defying Biden to do anything about it, the Islamic global terror state is moving on to a Somali blockade.

Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen’s Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran’s control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis can offer upgraded drones and missile technology.

And best of all, the Houthis can claim that the weapons were battle-tested on the US Navy.

I bet Hussen is angling to be ambassador.

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Turkish migrant arrested for allegedly raping 15-year-old girl in his car in Albany

A migrant from Turkey was arrested in Albany last week for raping a 15-year-old girl he forced into the backseat of his car after threatening to beat her with a metal pole, authorities said.

Sakir Akkan, 21, is accused of attacking the teen on Arch Street in the state capital in the early hours of May 14, court records obtained by The Post show.

 

h/t kiki9

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GOLDSTEIN: What did their byelection loss teach Liberals? Probably nothing

In the wake of their surprise loss to the Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s going to remain laser-focused on helping Canadians through tough economic times.

Cabinet ministers such as Chrystia Freeland and his long-time friend, Marc Miller, said Trudeau is best positioned to lead the Liberals into the next election and they support his decision to do so.

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Joy Reid SEETHES At AIPAC Over Jamaal Bowman Primary Ouster

There was a lot of seethe tonight but little to no cope, as MSNBC host Joy Reid and U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) commiserated over the defeat of fellow Squad member Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) in the Democratic Primary. And, as you’d reasonably expect, the first culprit of Bowman’s defeat is AIPAC. Which in the context of this primary and MSNBC’s coverage thereof, is clearly shorthand for “the Jews”.

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Donated Canadian-built armoured vehicles break down often, Ukrainian commander says

That’ll Buff Out.

Ukrainian troops are learning that some of their Canadian-donated vehicles have limited usefulness close to the frontlines, a military official in the eastern part of that embattled country told CBC News.

In a recent interview near the embattled city of Kharkiv, Yuriy Fedorenko, commander of the Achilles drone unit in the Ukrainian 92nd Brigade, said the Roshel-manufactured Senator armoured cars in his unit have broken down frequently.

“It is not designed to drive off-road,” Fedorenko said, adding the vehicles seem better suited to law enforcement than combat.

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Tucker Carlson Gloriously Destroys Aussie Reporter

Tucker Carlson has given us another must-see moment. This time, you just have to see how he destroyed a “journalist'” while he was on a speaking tour in Australia. The reporter clearly had no idea what she was in for when she tried to challenge Carlson’s views on “replacement theory” by completely making up what he had said on the issue.


This is the full speech below.

h/t DS

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