Hamas smuggled bullets used in the Oct 7 massacre into Gaza in food bags designed for humanitarian aid, the Israeli military has claimed.
Investigators found up to 50 rice sacks in the aftermath of the slaughter, which they say served as ammunition pouches for weapons such as AK47s, Dragunov sniper rifles and MPK machine guns.
Freeland’s fiscal update pledges new guardrails to keep deficits in check
OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s fall economic statement acknowledges the cost-of-living crisis weighing on Canadians but offers few new measures to tackle it while pledging to keep deficits in check.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented her fiscal update in the House of Commons on Tuesday, stressing the pressure inflation and a slowing economy are putting on federal finances.
At a time when the Liberals are facing pointed criticism from the Opposition Conservatives for years of deficit spending, the update outlines new guardrails to demonstrate fiscal restraint.
Canada’s debt charges are ballooning as Freeland tables a gloomy fall economic statement
The cost to service the federal government’s sizeable debtload will spike in the years ahead — and those public debt charges will eat up much more of Ottawa’s revenue than they have in recent years, according to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement, tabled today.
Freeland’s document suggests Canada will avoid a recession but predicts economic growth will slow to a crawl. Unemployment is set to rise nearly a full percentage point next year and tens of thousands more people could be out of work.
Billions for home building back-loaded, deficit projected at $40B in 2023-24: fall economic statement
OTTAWA – The federal government’s fall economic statement presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday includes billions of dollars in new spending and targeted policy measures aimed at increasing Canada’s housing supply in the years ahead, with the deficit projected to be $40 billion in 2023-24.
Noting Canadians continue to feel the squeeze of inflation and high interest rates in their everyday lives, while increasingly becoming preoccupied about their looming mortgage renewals, Freeland’s fiscal update is focused on responding to two pressing challenges: affordability and accelerating home building, while trying to maintain a degree of fiscal restraint.
Ottawa loosens mortgage stress test in housing-focused fall fiscal update
Homeowners fretting about paying more on their mortgages at renewal could soon have more power to shop around for a better rate, thanks to a package of housing affordability measures proposed in the Liberals’ fall economic statement.
6 key take-aways from the Trudeau government’s fall fiscal update
Freeland’s economic update pledges to cap future deficits at 1 per cent of GDP
As the sun pierces the horizon to reveal a distant Toronto skyline, a fit-looking man in his 70s emerges on his third-floor condominium balcony. He’s come out to tend an expansive collection of flowers and plants that crowd his terrace, making it difficult to get a clear view of his face.
This low-rise condo building is unremarkable, one of several fanning out across a leafy west Toronto suburb.
So is the man carefully looking after his plants in the early autumn light. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and jeans fastened neatly with a belt. His greying hair has receded since he was last photographed publicly nearly three decades ago.
This guy’s story crops up in the media every few years, why he’s protected is anyone’s guess.
Illegal alien criminals, child traffickers, and potential terrorists violating our laws to cross the southern U.S. border get all kinds of moolah and freebies. But if you’re an American soldier who put everything on the line to defend your country, Uncle Sam would apparently like a thousand bucks for that gear you were told you COULDN’T bring out of Afghanistan.
Despite the university warning it could cut ties with its student union over the issue, McGill students have voted in favour of adopting a contentious pro-Palestinian policy.
In a vote that ended Monday, 78 per cent of students who participated voted in favour of the policy, titled Policy Against Genocide in Palestine.
Our elites have done a thorough job destroying Canada.
I don’t care for the Canada of atrocity fetishists marching in our streets.
The mass reveal across the west of Hamas supporters is the result of the numbers game we warned about these many years.
That smug little bubble inhabited by the open borders kumbaya crowd is burst.
It was inevitable once a sufficient number of foot soldiers were in place.
Does the will exist to upend the schemes of the 5th columnists in academia and the political, media and corporate classes?
Is there anything left to put back together again?
Do you trust any of our DEI/CRT infested public institutions?
Our mass immigration loving business class and their political minions have proven themselves an enemy determined to impoverish us.
Canada has been tribalized and its people weakened by the lies of multiculturalism and diversity.
Are there enough of us left to make a difference?
Left-wing Hollywood star Susan Sarandon is being slammed for comments she made at an anti-Israel rally in New York, where she reportedly said that Jews “are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim.”
That’s unhinged.
The first inkling of trouble came four months later. On July 5, 2019, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrived at the lab. Qiu, her scientist husband, and several students from China working with them were marched out and had their security clearances revoked.
“Delete That Comment”
In late October 2017, a US health official from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) arrived at the Wuhan Institute of Virology for a glimpse of an eagerly anticipated work in progress. The WIV, a leading research institute, was putting the finishing touches on China’s first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory. Operating with the highest safeguards, the lab would enable scientists to study some of the world’s most lethal pathogens.
The project had support from Western governments seeking a more robust partnership with China’s top scientists. France had helped design the facility. Canada, before long, would send virus samples. And in the US, NIAID was channeling grant dollars through an American organization called EcoHealth Alliance to help fund the WIV’s cutting-edge coronavirus research.
h/t Mauser
Transgender women have been banned from international women’s cricket after the world governing body ruled to prioritise “integrity … and the safety of players” above inclusivity.
The decision, which was announced on Tuesday morning, will add to the pressure on the England & Wales Cricket Board, who are currently reviewing guidance which says that players at recreational level should be accepted in the gender with which they identify.
Canada was of course on the cutting edge of making cricket a farce.
A political official presented this evening (Tuesday) the outline for the deal to release dozens of hostages from Hamas captivity and emphasizes that “all the security forces, the Shin Bet and the Mossad are in favor of the outline and also the entire war cabinet is united in favor of the proposal.”
As part of the deal, which is expected to go into effect on Thursday, 12 Israeli hostages will be released every day during the four days of the agreed-upon truce. In the event that Hamas agrees to additional truces – for each day of the truce, ten additional hostages will be released.
Joe Scarborough:
"Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read.” pic.twitter.com/NC0vo48xAe
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 21, 2023
h/t XC
Twitter/X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has sued a liberal media organisation, alleging defamation over claims that advertising for major brands had appeared on the site next to posts promoting Nazism.
X has faced a backlash after Media Matters for America, an organisation set up to counter what it claims is a right-wing bias in the media, said that it had found adverts for IBM, Apple and others placed alongside content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
HALIFAX—“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” —Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is riding an anti-Trudeau tide that may well lead to political fortune.
For weeks now, Justin Trudeau’s poll numbers have resembled the heart monitor of a patient on his way out.
Canada is expressing concerns about “extremist settler violence” in the occupied West Bank and is calling on the government of Israel to intervene, Global Affairs Canada said in a Monday evening statement.
“Canada strongly condemns the extremist settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and is also gravely concerned by reports of Palestinian communities being forcibly removed from their lands in the West Bank,” the department said(opens in a new tab).
“Canada, along with partners, calls on the Government of Israel to take immediate action to stop such further occurrences of extremist settler violence, protect the Palestinian population, and hold those responsible for the violence accountable under the law.”
A Federal Court judge has recently declared the federal government’s decision to categorize plastic items as toxic to be both “unreasonable and unconstitutional.” This ruling has introduced further regulatory uncertainty for the food industry as it grapples with its dependence on plastic.
The Palestinian cause has become a fashionable pretext for all those who despise Western democracy.
It is striking how ‘far-right’ has become an all-purpose insult in Europe and the West. It is a label slapped on anybody who stands outside the narrow conformism of woke politics. Whether it’s parents protesting against drag queens preaching trans ideology to children, or citizens concerned about anything from the EU’s crusade against cars and farmers to the imposition of vaccine passports or mass migration, they are all apparently ‘far-right’ now.
The message is always that ‘these people’ are basically scum, beyond the limits of respectable debate, and should not be engaged with. Instead they should be cancelled, arrested or banned altogether.
