The 2023 homeless count has shattered the stereotypes of where people are living without a home, and who is at risk of being unsheltered.
No longer an urban issue, the count released Thursday shows huge increases in homeless people in the suburbs. For the first time, the number of unsheltered was up in every city across the region: An increase of 159 per cent in Delta, 91 per cent in Richmond, and 86 per cent in the Tri-Cities since the last count in 2020.
If there’s one thing most Americans not named Michael Vick can agree on, it’s not to abuse dogs. But somebody needs to tell that to Presidentish Joe Biden, whose approval rating was already in the toilet even before today’s Judicial Watch revelation.
FREDERICTON – Even as the technology to produce so-called “ghost guns” becomes less expensive and more widespread, the RCMP is not keeping records on how often the weapons are used in crimes across the country.
Ghost guns are firearms without serial numbers that are assembled from individual parts or 3D printers. They are easy to make and hard to trace, and are increasingly showing up at crime scenes in Canada and the United States.
The massive looting sprees and violence against both pedestrians and police in Philadephia have been too much for even the legacy media to ignore. Retail stores, state liquor distributors, and pharmacies have been utterly destroyed and emptied of anything that can be sold on the black market, while the city’s understaffed law enforcement units struggle to bring down at least a few of the gangsters. But to their credit, they have managed to make at least some arrests. So what will happen to these violent vandals? That remains an open question, apparently. The city’s infamous District Attorney, Larry Krasner, was asked about it yesterday. He appears to be taking a “wait and see” approach, insisting that the criminals will have to be dealt with in “an even-handed way.”
“As popular support for the Trudeau government plummets — and the party is reportedly wracked by discord behind closed doors — it’s the issue of the carbon tax that is leading to the first major eruption of opposition from the Liberal backbenches.”
It’s a start.
The retreat by Russia’s Black Sea fleet from Crimea after weeks of Ukrainian missile attacks is another major setback for President Putin in a war of repeated humiliations for the Kremlin dictator.
The redeployment of the fleet to the Russian port of Novorossiysk and a new naval base in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway region that is propped up by Moscow, will not deprive the Kremlin of the ability to strike Ukrainian cities.
A leading NATO official and Canada’s top military commander have both warned allies within the past week that their ammunition shortages have reached a crisis state, and are calling for urgent action to boost production of critical artillery rounds.
Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, recently told a House of Commons committee that if Canadian troops were called upon to fire their big guns at the same rate as Ukrainian troops fighting to repel the Russian invasion, their supply of shells would last for only a few days.
A senior NHS scientist who won a race claim after her username was changed to “paininarse” on a work spreadsheet has been awarded almost £60,000 in compensation.
Ubah Jama was considered a “troublemaker” after complaining about a fellow biochemist throwing a test tube in her direction, an employment tribunal heard.
Her alleged ill-treatment culminated in the “offensive” insertion of the phrase “paininarse” on a shared Microsoft Excel document which could be seen by colleagues across two hospitals, the tribunal heard.
Agrowing majority of Canadians believe owning a home has become a privilege that can only be afforded by the rich, a new poll suggests, with nearly three-quarters of those surveyed agreeing.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released Friday further suggests two-thirds of Canadians have given up on ever owning a home. That number has also risen since the spring.
“Instead of the dream of homeownership, it is turning into a nightmare for an entire generation of Canadians,” said Sean Simpson, Ipsos’ vice-president of public affairs.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Thursday on CNN’s “Primetime” she believed there needed to be a “formal deprogramming of the cult members” who support former President Donald Trump.
It’s the study heard around the world, often cited as the answer to the housing-affordability crisis in big cities.
The research purported to show that blanket property upzoning in pricey Auckland, New Zealand, led to a dramatic increase in new housing units. It has drawn remarkable attention this year across the English-speaking world.
Hundreds of people — including those seeking asylum — have once again taken to sleeping on Toronto’s streets in front of shelters and churches.
The city’s shelter system is once again at capacity, turning away nearly 300 people a day, the city said Thursday. While it’s continuously moving “dozens” of people from overflowing churches to shelters, hotels or permanent housing where possible, it is nowhere close to meeting demand, said Lindsay Broadhead, the city’s chief communication officer.
Pic. Just up the road from me is a Citizenship and Immigration office.
On Saturdays a hired bus arrives and unloads what I suspect to be newly arrived “asylum seekers” as many as 30 0r 40 wait outside for processing.
OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged publicly Thursday a truth at the heart of the controversy over a Ukrainian war veteran’s visit to Parliament last month: none of the MPs present realized they were applauding someone who had fought with the Nazis, and their ignorance is a factor in the pain the incident has caused.
Just like she never asked Granpappy what he did in the war.
Liberal MP with degree in Russian history and Slavonic studies from Oxford University had no idea a WWII veteran of the Ukranian 14th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS could be a Nazi. I guess Rhodes scholars aren't what they used to be.pic.twitter.com/MGpzu4ACUo
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) October 5, 2023
China continues to move hundreds of millions of tons of coal across its railway system each year, drawing ire from Western pundits as other countries are forcing citizens to ‘go green’ and reduce their carbon footprint.
Scottish journalist Andrew Neil recently ripped Western governments in the wake of China’s projects, such as the Menghua Railway, which is the longest-coal transporting train in the world.
The 1,141-mile railway moves 200million tons of coal each year as fossil fuel use – and traditional greenhouse gas emissions – continue to skyrocket in the communist nation.
COBOURG, Ont.—About six years ago, Jamie Briscoe first saw someone smoking drugs off a piece of tinfoil—a method for consuming crack-cocaine, heroin, and other hard drugs—near his home in the little lakeside town of Cobourg, Ontario.
“I was just mind-blown that there was somebody sitting there in the middle of the day doing drugs and nobody was doing anything about it,” he told The Epoch Times. Now, it’s a daily sight, he said.
