She said it again on Sunday in an unhinged speech in Toronto. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland insisted just 0.13% of tax filers would be affected by the new, higher capital gains tax rate that comes into effect on June 25.
(She then went on to claim that without the money generated by this one tax increase, Canada would soon be on the verge of a pitchforks-and-torches mob uprising.)
She and her party authored this very crisis.
Ford Motor is ending a controversial electric vehicle dealership program that initially asked store owners to invest upward of $1 million to sell EVs.
The “EV-certified” program was announced in September 2022 by Ford CEO Jim Farley amid high demand for the vehicles, low supplies and industry-wide optimism for all-electric cars and trucks. That optimism, however, has not panned out as expected.
EV sales for Ford and other automakers are growing but at a far slower pace than many expected. That’s led to automakers delaying or canceling future electric vehicles and investments.
Electric vehicles have swiftly gone from a bright spot in the global climate fight to cause for concern, leading BloombergNEF to slash sales estimates and warn that the auto industry is falling further off the track toward decarbonization.
In its annual Electric Vehicle Outlook, BNEF reduced its battery-electric sales projections by 6.7 million vehicles through 2026. While the demand deceleration isn’t universal across countries and EVs will be buoyed somewhat by the resurgence of plug-in hybrids, a few Nordic countries and the state of California are the only places on pace to eliminate passenger vehicle fleet emissions by 2050.
This seems an optimistic outlook …
World faces ‘staggering’ excess of oil by end of decade, warns IEA
On Tuesday night’s episode of The ReidOut, MSNBC host Joy Reid juxtaposed the trials of Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump, specifically pointing out what she felt was “ironic” about them. Throughout the entirety of the segment, she shamelessly empathized with Biden, smeared Republicans, and expressed concern over the future consequences of his felony conviction.
Canadians pay a lot of taxes. Federal sales tax, provincial sales tax, income tax, carbon tax, you name it. But what value are we getting for all of those dollars that end up in the government’s pockets?
When it comes to the K-12 public education system, Canadians believe the system has gone in the wrong direction.
The 18-29 demographic has usually been a huge problem for Republicans. Since the Vietnam War, only one Republican has been able to capture a near majority of the youth vote. Ronald Reagan lost to Jimmy Carter by one point in the 18-21 demo and was tied in the 22-29 age group.
You must understand: there is nothing anyone can do.
I know, I know. It is shocking to learn that a number of MPs and senators have been acting, effectively, as agents of a foreign power, selling secrets and influence to countries such as China and India in exchange for money and political favours.
Rishi Sunak will meet some of the world’s most unpopular leaders at the G7 summit – but none have such high disapproval ratings as the British Prime Minister.
It means that Mr Sunak will win at least one contest this year as he hurtles towards wipeout in July’s general election.
Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi brands Justin Trudeau a ‘neo-Marxist Ken doll’ @RitaPanahi pic.twitter.com/fyk0uDQNzJ
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) June 12, 2024
Thursday is Tax Freedom Day this year, signifying the day when Canadians stop working to pay taxes levied on them by all levels of government and start earning money for themselves, according to an annual survey by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.
WTF? I remember this video. I didn't know he was working with/for Chow, although it isn't surprising. @fancypants_s https://t.co/rQFipaAQs1
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) June 13, 2024
Hmmm
Canadian Favourability Of Israel:
Unfavourable: 55%
Favourable: 29%Angus Reid / May 28, 2024 / n=1603 / Online pic.twitter.com/URa2kYNw8N
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) June 13, 2024
The European Parliament elections saw over six in ten Muslims in France back the far-left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who like other leading leftists in Europe has faced accusations of antisemitism and of cozying up to radical Islamists.
An NDP MP who frequently joins parliamentary proceedings remotely from her riding billed the House of Commons for a trip she took to reportedly meet with “stakeholders” over the Christmas holidays in Quebec — travel that included bringing her husband and kids along at taxpayers’ expense.
Parliamentary travel records indicate NDP MP Niki Ashton was only in Ottawa on one occasion for four days during the fall 2022 sitting.
But on Dec. 21 of that year, Ashton flew from Thompson, Man. to Ottawa — five days after the House of Commons had already risen for its Christmas break.
Dr Anthony Fauci’s former department ‘deceived’ Congress over its plans to create a Frankenstein monkeypox virus that had pandemic potential, a new report says.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) submitted plans to create a more transmissible and more lethal strain of Mpox in 2015, when Dr Fauci was still in charge of the agency.
The plans only received widespread attention in late 2022 – amid concerns that Covid may have been borne out of similar experiments using US government grant money in China.
h/t Mauser
Despite its geographic isolation from the rest of the world save for the United States, Canada was the fifth largest recipient country of asylum seekers last year.
According to the latest global trends report released Thursday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (also known as the United Nations Refugee Agency), Canada received 146,800 new claims in 2023, up from 94,000 the year before. Only four countries were ahead: the U.S. (1.2 million), Germany (329,100), Egypt (183,100) and Spain (163,200).
The confused “president” Joe Biden will skip the “peace summit” in Switzerland on June 15-16, where his buddy Volodymyr Zelensky will speak. Instead, the Democrat Party presidential candidate, who is falling behind in funding, will fly to California, where the far-left actor George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife are hosting a fundraiser with Julia Roberts and Jimmy Kimmel for the head of the Biden Crime Family.
h/t Mauser
