OTTAWA — One week after tabling the latest federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained on the defensive while responding to increasing opposition from business and industry groups against proposed changes to capital gains taxation.
Speaking to reporters during a budget promo tour stop in Saskatoon, Sask., Trudeau was repeatedly asked to respond to critiques of the key point of contention in last week’s budget: the increased capital gains tax inclusion rate.
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Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa’s plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say.
The Crown corporation informed the government of its position in a recent letter. It said its decision was based on concerns about its employees’ security, according to federal sources who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker resumed his testimony on Tuesday as the first witness in former president Donald Trump’s “hush-money” criminal trial.
Pecker took the stand to answer questions from prosecutors about his longtime relationship with Trump and the discussions he had with Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen during the 2016 campaign, according to multiple reports.
Zelensky has tried to dispel the idea that the US has a choice between supporting one or the other
When Israel and its allies shot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, they demonstrated what an effective air defense looks like. The slow-moving Shahed-136 suicide drones were not hard for the Israeli, Jordanian, British, American and (probably) Saudi air forces to find and eliminate. Even Iran’s cruise missiles were thwarted. It was an overwhelming victory for Israel and a humiliation for Iran. In Ukraine, all this was watched with desperation and even anger.
A friend pointed out something interesting to me: If you watch videos and look at still photos from pro-Hamas events on college campuses, what you notice is a preponderance of women. There are men there and even members of the gay and “trans” crowd, but it’s the women who are front and center, and who occupy most of the protest real estate. Their presence at these protests shows the catastrophic decline and fall of progressive women.
The new movie can’t talk about why we might actually go to war with each other.
A moronic liberal president opens up the borders to mass migration in order to change the nation’s demographics and win an election, but instead touches off a civil war when the governor of a conservative state refuses federal orders to let any more refugees inside.
It’s not just the state of the Biden administration, but The Second Civil War, an HBO political satire from the era of the Clinton administration, that does what Civil War, a 2024 movie, won’t.
Last week, an old video of Katherine Maher, the new CEO of NPR, resurfaced online. It was filmed just after she stepped down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), which raises funds for Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia.
The country is of America’s staunchest allies in the war on terror and the world’s most enslaved nation
In April 1864, the US Senate passed a bill that set in motion what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Slavery was to be abolished.
Seven months later, Union forces would burn Atlanta to the ground, a year after Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg marked the battle that began the South’s collapse and the April 1865 surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army.
The Civil War remains the bloodiest and most divisive conflict in American history with at least a million dead, including soldiers and civilians from both sides.
Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw has walked back the controversial comment that he’d been “hoping for a different outcome” in the trial of Umar Zameer, the man acquitted over the weekend of deliberately police Const. Jeffrey Northrup in the line of duty.
But he stopped short of criticizing his predecessor, former police chief James Ramer, who in the hours after the July 2, 2021, fatal collision dubbed Zameer’s actions in the plainclothes officer’s death “intentional” and “deliberate” — a position that was eventually rejected by Zameer’s jury and criticized by the judges who oversaw his case.
“Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter cried foul over the lack of available information about what happened to the students whom she alleged sprayed “chemical weapons” at the anti-Israel protesters occupying Columbia University last week.
Isra Hirsi, 21, who was suspended by nearby Barnard College over her involvement in the Thursday demonstrations, called the higher education institutions hypocritical for their approach to the unrest.
A Jewish French woman was allegedly raped, kidnapped, and threatened with murder by a man in Gennevilliers who reportedly sought revenge for Palestinians, French media reported on Tuesday night.
The 32-year-old was charged on Tuesday with religiously-motivated death threats and use of narcotics, according to Le Parisien. BFMTV said that the rape allegation is still being investigated, but the prosecution did believe a kidnapping charge was warranted.
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The corporate conglomerate building an electric battery plant in Windsor that is slated to receive billions of dollars in government has ramped its use of foreign workers at the site and has even taken work away from unionized tradespeople in recent weeks, according to explosive new allegations from a national trades union federation.
H/T SweetPea
TORONTO – A few Ontario government members have voted again today to uphold a ban on keffiyehs in the legislature, prompting some people watching question period from the public galleries to put on the scarves.
Legislative security ejected the protesters, who were shouting, “free free Palestine.”
The Speaker of the legislature has ruled that people in the chamber as well as in the building cannot wear keffiyehs, which he says are being worn to make a political statement.
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Protesters kicked out of the Ontario Legislative Building and trespassed from Queen’s Park for defying the recent keffiyeh ban.#cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/bAcwfdp603
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 23, 2024
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This steaming pile of shit only knows how to lie. https://t.co/vL1BRcr2zF
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) April 23, 2024
I was born an Indian Muslim. Today, I’m a Canadian atheist. I have lived and worked in some of the most war-torn regions of the world. I know what repressive cultures look like, which is why I’m troubled by the political shifts of the past decade. The Canada I grew to love in my youth is regressing into something eerily reminiscent of the cultural climate my parents fled from — one that shuns skepticism, enforces orthodoxy, and imposes rigidly hierarchical thinking.
My family moved from India to Canada in 1975 when I was a small boy. Shortly after we settled in, representatives from the local mosque showed up at our home. They came to tell my father how to be a “good” Muslim, explaining exactly how he was to worship and conduct himself as a member of their community. After a few minutes, I watched in shock as my father unceremoniously showed these religious leaders the door. Once they were gone, he told us no one could dictate what we were supposed to believe — that this was a country where people were free to go their own way. That lesson stuck with me.
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