The capital gains debate has turned dramatic and mysterious

Announcing the Liberal government’s proposed changes to capital gains taxes last week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland repeated a thought experiment she first suggested in her budget speech back in the spring.

The richest Canadians, Freeland said, should ask themselves whether they “want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury, but must do so in gated communities behind ever higher fences, using private health care and airplanes, because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less-privileged compatriots burns so hot.”

Days later, after announcing his party’s intention to vote against the changes, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a 16-minute video on the topic that referenced Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

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Jesse Kline: Thanks to Trudeau, Hamas is winning the propaganda war

The two major international conflicts currently roiling the world, in Ukraine and Israel, should be fairly morally unambiguous, but a new poll shows a stark contrast in how Canadians view them.

Although there are clear differences between Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, both were unprovoked acts of aggression against western-aligned states orchestrated by dictatorships intent on upending the liberal postwar international order. Both Kyiv and Jerusalem have been forced to fight existential wars they did not ask for, against enemies with military ambitions that go far beyond the current conflicts.


Support for Israel is very different from what I have observed in the past, far less grassroots.

Social media has seen a concerted elite lead effort where besides the official organizations a mix of academics, journalists, MP’s and other prominent individuals work to win hearts and minds.

Some of these grandees are base hypocrites who made themselves busy in the past calling myself and my late wife “right wing Islamophobes”. Be assured their Oct 7th conversions will be quickly reversed once the wind changes direction. 

Their messaging has been off as well. I have seen some tweets that are real clangers suggesting that Hamas supporters are an affront to multiculturalism when it was multiculty that enabled the Islamists to begin with.

There has been a push by some to denounce DEI not realizing that Jewish organizations such as the ADL continue to seek the blessing of official victim hood status from the DEI cabal.

Others seem to believe DEI was created solely to target Jews forgetting that Whites have been the primary target for years.

What is off-putting is their efforts to secure victim status if successful would leave Whites as the sole official DEI villain.

That’s a bad look for people seeking our assistance.

Make no mistake that Trudeau’s desperate whoring for the Muslim vote has poisoned the land and we will all pay for that for many years to come until Islamist immigration is halted.

Our elites must hate us.  Why else would they have imported incompatible 3rd world cultures that have no regard for Western civilization in general let alone Israel.

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Toronto truck signage denounces Muslim aggression of “prayer” street takeovers – usual suspects cry racism

A truck was spotted in Toronto on Tuesday flashing in LED lighting pro-Canadian messages and denouncing thousands of Muslims taking over city streets for ritual prayer.


Make no mistake Muslim prayer street takeovers are an act of aggression. Islam is violence.

Of course! The Toronto Police Hate Crime Unit is investigating after a van adorned with video screens saying Canada is “under siege” by Muslims was spotted driving around Toronto.

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A cursory list of things that got worse once Trudeau pledged to fix them

A recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer found that in the six years since the Trudeau government launched its National Housing Strategy, homelessness has actually gone up by 20 per cent.

Despite an unprecedented 374-per-cent increase in homelessness spending, “The best available evidence suggests that homelessness has increased,” concluded the report.

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Where are the Viennese waltzing to? Mecca…

If in Vienna’s schools there are more Muslims than Catholics…

According to the German-Turkish SPD businessman Vural Öger (he said this during a meeting with Turkish businessmen in Germany), “what Süleyman started with the siege of Vienna we will achieve with our women”. At the time it was dismissed as a provocation. Then, on the 333rd anniversary of the Battle of Vienna against the Turks, Vienna’s Cardinal Schönborn said: “Will there be an Islamic conquest of Europe? Many Muslims want it and say: Europe is at the end”.

Now the government survey causing a stir:

“Muslims are a majority in Vienna schools.” Der Standaard reveals it. Thirty-five percent of public school students in Vienna are Muslim. The percentage of Catholic students in comparison: 21 percent. Christoph Wiederkehr, deputy mayor of Vienna, presented the data.

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Another Hurdle for the Electric Vehicle

EVs depend on batteries that must be replaced. This has crushed their resale value.

The truth about battery-powered devices (EVs) is finally being emitted. One of these truths — styled a “hurdle for EV adoption” — is the plummeting resale value of these devices.

How much — and how fast?

How about more than 30 percent in just one year? That’s about five times as much loss in over 12 months as you’d typically lose (about 10 percent) if you bought a vehicle rather than a device. It’s a loss that is actually fast — as opposed to how long it takes to charge a device.

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Psst … Hey Queers For Palestine Over Here …

Ain’t no Pride Parade

 

Hezbollah has declared war against the enemy. No, not just Israel

“… The “danger” he speaks of emanates from Lebanon’s LGBTQ+ population. It is the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people that preoccupy his Party of God.

The sayyid has seen the enemy and the enemy is queer. Which is why Nasrallah repeatedly dehumanizes and demonizes LGBTQ+ people.

“The culture of homosexuality is very influential and comes from the United States,” he complained in a televised speech. “It is not only demonic; it has real effects.”

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Today in history: Crusaders celebrate first major triumph over the Muslim persecutors of Christians

Today in history, on June 19, 1097, the first major victory of the First Crusade occurred at Nicaea.

In the years following the decisive Battle of Manzikert (1071), which saw the Seljuk Turks defeat the Eastern Roman Empire and conquer that ancient bastion of Christianity, Anatolia (modern day Turkey), mindboggling atrocities were committed. Whether an anonymous Georgian chronicler tells of how “holy churches served as stables for their horses,” the “priests were immolated during the Holy Communion itself,” the “virgins defiled, the youths circumcised, and the infants taken away,” or whether Anna Comnena, the princess at Constantinople, tells of how “cities were obliterated, lands were plundered, and the whole of Anatolia was stained with Christian blood” – the same scandalous tale of woe reached the West.

h/t XC

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GUNTER: Liberals have no shame in ridiculous defence of capital gains tax

You can tell how desperate the federal Liberals are — and how many political eggs they’ve put in their capital-gains basket — by just how deranged they have become in defending the main tax hike from their April budget.

First, it was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland trying to frighten Canadians into believing that without the $20-billion tax on doctors, farmers, small-business owners, tech firms and cottage owners, Canada will quickly devolve into a dysfunctional wasteland where marauding mobs wielding pitchforks and torches wander the streets looking for the hides of “the rich.”

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Feminist campaigner accuses police of ‘bullying’ her over tweet about trans doctor

A leading feminist campaigner has said police have been investigating her for almost a year over a social media post she wrote about a transgender doctor.

Maya Forstater, 51, said the Metropolitan Police is examining a post on X, formerly Twitter from June last year in which she said Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin “enjoys intimately examining female patients without their consent”.

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They’re accused of murdering to cover their ISIS ties. But their lawyers say the Crown’s witness can’t be trusted

Chicken Land Terrorists – Anand Nath, Suliman Raza, Naqash Abbasi

Lawyers for three men accused of orchestrating the attempted massacre of a family at a Mississauga restaurant say the Crown’s lead witness has “significant credibility issues,” and “should not be trusted to fill the holes in the Crown’s case.”

Naqash Abbasi, Anand Nath and Suliman Raza looked on from the accused box Tuesday, as their lawyers took turns casting doubt on the Crown’s theory that the three were behind a May 29, 2021 plot to kill former business associate Naim Akl and his entire family in order to prevent Akl from telling police about the men’s ties to a terrorist group.

The lawyers, in their final address to the jury, took turns in attempting to rubbish that theory. They called for the men to be acquitted on all charges against them.

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Germany debates scrapping benefits for Ukrainians

“… Alexander (name changed), a 37-year-old Ukrainian who spent about a year living on the citizen’s income in Berlin, said he could understand the sentiment behind the FDP and CDU’s calls, but that the Bürgergeld had been vital to helping him find his feet in a very dark period of his life.

“When I came here I was totally lost, I was mentally lost,” he told DW. “Then we went to the Job Center, and we had the payments, we had the support from them. In my case everything went pretty smoothly.”

Receiving Bürgergeld — currently €563 ($603) a month for single people — also meant Alexander, a music producer and sound designer who had a successful business in Ukraine, had access to job counselling and help finding a German language course, all of which ultimately allowed him to get off state support within a year. Under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, he would have received just €354 a month, and no help from the Job Center.”


He’s 37 why was he a “refugee”?

The issue of fighting age men evading the draft undermines support for Ukraine.

It’s not just a “few” estimates now place the number at 1 million men.

Is the Zelensky government one we should support?

Our 19 Billion in funding been nothing more than an ego trip for Trudeau and Freeland. 

Have all of Canada’s problems been solved?

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