Canada Begins Real Estate Developer Bail Out With 55 Year Loans

Canada’s record population growth combined with slowing new home construction might seem paradoxical at first. The Government of Canada (GoC) claims it’s because housing is “illegal” but a confidential memo sent to lenders indicates it’s an issue of leverage. The CMHC quietly notified lenders they’ll be extending the maximum amortization, or length of repayment. The developer bailout will help borrowers repay their loan over two generations, with projects at risk of default now able to extend their repayment term up to 55 years.

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Hunter Biden Trial Watch: ABC, NBC Play Up ‘Emotional’ Hunter on First Day of Trial

Following nauseatingly soft and sympathetic-seeking coverage on Monday morning and evening about the first Hunter Biden trial, Tuesday morning brought about even more of the same about the “emotional” First Son “getting support from the First Family” who’ve “rush[ed] to his defense”. The coverage disparity grew even more stark with a total of 23 minutes and 30 seconds through three news cycles vs. 49 minutes and 47 seconds at this point in the Trump trial.

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UBC posts research chair job, white men need not apply

Now showing more anti white bullshit

The University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver campus is hiring a new research chair position and explicitly stated the position is not for able-bodied straight white men.

The UBC Faculty of Dentistry is looking to hire an internal applicant for the role of Research Chair in Oral Cancer Research with an emphasis on diagnostics and prevention, and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion).

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Wish I may…

h/t Mauser

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Cost of going green sparks backlash from Europe’s voters

It is being called a “greenlash”.

Resistance to green policies has broken out across Europe. It was all so different in the last European elections five years ago, when young voters especially demanded action against climate change.

Soaring energy prices because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the wider cost of living crisis have turned many Europeans against abandoning fossil fuels. And farmers across Europe have blocked roads in anger at environmental reforms.

It could spell trouble for the EU’s Green parties at the polls from 6-9 June.

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ISIS member behind Mississauga restaurant shooting ordered fellow members to ‘slaughter’ victims, court hears

The alleged organizer of a fatal Mississauga restaurant shooting in 2021 made a man pledge allegiance to ISIS before he told him he ordered two others to “slaughter” the victims, court heard Tuesday.

Mikail Aras testified in Superior Court in Brampton that he saw accused gunman Anand Nath at a Mississauga warehouse before and after the May 29, 2021 shooting at Chicken Land that left 25-year-old Naim Akl dead, and four members of his family injured.

He’ll probably be a Liberal candidate next election.

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Not starved at all Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers end farce at McGill University

Pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill University have ended their hunger strike after 76 days, having failed to persuade the university to cut ties with Israeli-linked institutions.

The group, dubbed the McGill Hunger Strikers, began their strike in February, relying on nutritional broth to demand that the university sever ties with Israel-linked companies and universities amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

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Chicago woman loses unborn baby after she and husband were attacked on date night by ’14 year-old boy and 17 year-old girl’

A group of teens forced a woman to miscarry with a brutal attack after she and her husband dared to stray onto a Chicago street that the youths claimed as their own.

The 41-year-old mother was returning home with her husband from a date night on Friday when they were surrounded by at least 10 young people in the city’s notorious Streeterville neighborhood.

The woman, who gave her name only as Nina, told Fox32 that she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as her husband was held back by the mob.

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Canada’s failure to block forced-labour imports draws U.S. scrutiny

Canada made a promise to block imports of products made by forced labour, to keep those goods from entering this continent as part of the new North American trade agreement.

Now a U.S. senator heavily involved in the issue offers a blunt answer when asked by CBC News whether Canada is keeping that promise.

“No, not yet,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who co-wrote his own country’s legislation on the topic, said, followed by a dead silence.

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Muslim strangled Christian Swedish victim rather than face the ‘shame’ of telling his family she was expecting his child

Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim and murdered girlfriend

A Somalian refugee who murdered his seven-months-pregnant girlfriend last year in an ‘honour killing’ has been jailed for life by a Swedish court.

Saga Forsgren Elneborg, 20, was found strangled to death at her home in the city of Örebro in April 2023 in a case that shocked the Scandinavian country.

Prosecutors claimed that her 22-year-old boyfriend Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim decided to murder her rather than face the shame of telling his Muslim family that his girlfriend – believed to be half Thai, half Swedish and Christian – was expecting his baby.

h/t kiki9

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‘Canada turned its back on Israel,’ says visiting Israeli legislator

OTTAWA — As Israel continues to both recover from and deal with the aftermath of the October 7 terror attacks, a visiting member of the country’s legislature is calling Canada out for turning its back on its longtime ally.

Sitting down with the National Post during a visit to Ottawa this week, Knesset member Sharren Haskel expressed concerns over Canada’s lack of support for Israel after the October 7 massacre.

Votes matter, nothing else comes close for Trudeau.

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The New ‘White Fortress’ Cities of the American South

The push to form the city of St. George in Louisiana is the latest example of residents from whiter, wealthier enclaves depleting resources from their surrounding communities.

The Louisiana Supreme Court last month cleared a path for the creation of a new city, St. George, after a prolonged legal battle over the feasibility of the city and its implications for tax revenue.

St. George would take almost 100,000 residents away from East Baton Rouge Parish, and critics say it will deplete the parish of the resources from this wealthier, whiter community.

As researchers on racial equity, we have been studying moves like this to create new cities. What we’ve found is that these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”


It’s BAD to allow white people nice things. I bet Freeland would fund a Black Fortress.

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Leaving Canada: Housing Costs, Falling Living Standards, and Politics Prompt Outflow of Canadians

An increasing number of Canadians can’t afford a house or find a decent-paying job. Some can’t find a date or are fed up with the bitter politics, while others are in search of adventure, are sick of the cold winters, or simply miss home. The solution they seek? Leave Canada.

The rising cost of living, record-high immigration, a stagnating economy, and political tensions are prompting rising numbers of Canadians—both native and naturalized—to leave the country.

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Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation.

… Last week, Meta and OpenAI published reports attributing the influence campaign to Stoic. Meta said it had removed 510 Facebook accounts, 11 Facebook pages, 32 Instagram accounts and one Facebook group tied to the operation. OpenAI said Stoic had created fictional personas and biographies meant to stand in for real people on social media services used in Israel, Canada and the United States to post anti-Islamic messages. Many of the posts remain on X.

X didn’t respond to a request for comment.

It’s not as if the Pallies aren’t doing the same with a larger sympathetic media footprint.

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