TORONTO — The Ford government is continuing with increased healthcare spending and cash grants to businesses and parents as its pathway out of the pandemic will be paved with more than $100 billion in new debt and deficits that are not likely to end before 2029.
The deficit for 2021-2022 is projected at $33.1 billion, down from $38.5 billion last year, with deficits of $27.7 billion and $20.2 billion projected for 2022-23 and 2023-24.
One of P. G. Wodehouse’s best quips concerned the “confusion of ideas” between A.B. Spottsworth and one of the lions he was hunting, which resulted in him making the obituary column. “He thought the lion was dead and the lion thought it wasn’t.”
A confusion of ideas explains Erin O’Toole’s problems with his party membership: He thought him saying “the climate change debate is over” made it so, and the grassroots thought it didn’t.
What a curious thing it must be to write for the New York Times. Your employer has cultivated an educated audience that knows less about what is really happening in America than does the average Joe, and your mandate is to keep that audience ignorant.
The recent chaos in Miami Beach presented an opportunity to do just that. If the three reporters assigned to the story — “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew” — had spent just an hour on Google, they would know what Joe knows. To get this story past their woke editors, however, they apparently had to pretend that Joe doesn’t know what he knows.
What Erin O’Toole and the federal Conservatives need is a platform like Mike Harris’ 1995 Common Sense Revolution in Ontario. Solid, sensible, small-c conservative policies presented in a way that is clear to voters.
What they don’t need is O’Toole pandering to elite consensus on issues such as climate change, then trying to force his party to go along because the CBC and Toronto Star say that’s the path to victory.
But that’s exactly the path they’ve chosen.
More people than ever in the United Kingdom are suffering from food poverty, with even working families turning to charities for help, aid agencies say.
In a damning statistic issued in December 2019, fact-checker FullFact said there were more food banks in the UK than outlets of the fast-food chain McDonald’s.
“It is true that there are now more food banks in the UK than there are McDonald’s,” Liam Evans of food aid provider turn2us told DW. He says there are at least 2,000 food banks and around 1,300 McDonald’s branches across the UK.
The near-murder of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny by the nerve-agent novichok last August, his return to Moscow in January, and the resultant protests attended by tens of thousands of citizens in more than a hundred Russian cities, raise the question of how long the Russian people will continue to tolerate President Vladimir Putin’s repressive acts against political enemies and rivals.
The crowds were rallying in support of Navalny after his return to Moscow on January17, 2021 from medical treatment in Germany, some in temperatures of -60 degrees Fahrenheit. The police, attacking the protestors with batons, arrested more than 3,300 people.
PARIS (AFP) – A row has erupted in France over plans to build a mosque in Strasbourg, with the interior ministry on Wednesday (March 24) accusing the municipal authorities there of using public money to fund “foreign meddling” on French soil.
While President Emmanuel Macron wants to crack down on Islamic extremism, which he blames for a series of deadly terror attacks in France since 2015, the planned mosque in the eastern French city has found itself in the government’s crosshairs because it is backed by a leading Turkish Muslim group.
On Monday, municipal officials in Strasbourg, run by a Green mayor, approved a grant of 2.5 million euros (S$3.98 million) to the Milli Gorus Islamic Confederation (CMIG), a pan-European movement for the Turkish diaspora. But the CMIG is one of three Muslim confederations in France that have refused to sign a new anti-extremism charter championed by Macron.
A Seattle activist who has called for abolishing the police and prisons has been named the city’s “Homelessness Czar,” a position that will allow him to establish and run the new Regional Homeless Authority for Seattle and surrounding King County.
This is just what Seattle needs.
…There are many factors propelling surges, but Sharkawy points to the slow vaccine rollout and variants being the main drivers of the third wave.
“What we’re witnessing now is a bit of a perfect storm,” he said, adding that complacency with some of the public health restrictions isn’t helping.
“Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be better treatment of migrants,” Lopez Obrador said. “And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so.”
A Florida spring breaker accused of drugging and raping a 24-year-old woman who later was found dead in a Miami Beach hotel room is “not some monster,” his friends and family claim.
Evoire Collier, 21, remained in jail Wednesday along with pal, Dorian Taylor, 24, for allegedly drugging Christine Englehardt with a “green pill” before raping her and stealing her credit cards, the Miami Herald reported.
We know, he’s not ‘some monster’, he’s your monster.
The position of the United States, the UN, the EU, and Russia about what a legitimate Palestinian government would look like has been consistent since this statement made in 2006: “It is the view of the Quartet that all members of a future Palestinian Government must be committed to non-violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the Road Map.”
Despite this, Hamas — the front-runner in the planned upcoming Palestinian legislative elections — has yet again made it crystal clear that it has no intention to abide by even one of those conditions.
I’d like to call myself an optimist, but maybe I’m actually a fool for believing that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government will ever change when it comes to dealing with China.
They’ve made some steps over the past week or so rallying international support to condemn the mock trials of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, but I still have lingering doubts that they’re truly going to change.
We were betrayed by Canada’s China class. It is my hope that they one day be regarded in the same light as those who collaborated with Hitler.
The Danish government has announced a package of new proposals aimed at fighting “religious and cultural parallel societies” in Denmark. A cornerstone of the plan includes capping the percentage of “non-Western” immigrants and their descendants dwelling in any given residential neighborhood. The aim is to preserve social cohesion in the country by encouraging integration and discouraging ethnic and social self-segregation.
The announcement comes just days after Denmark approved a new law banning the foreign funding of mosques in the country. The government has also recently declared its intention significantly to limit the number of people seeking asylum in Denmark.
Singh says he disagrees with MP’s tweet on racism in Quebec; doesn’t demand apology
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he does not agree with accusations that Quebecers are racist after one of his MPs applauded controversial remarks by a University of Ottawa professor.
Nonetheless, Singh said NDP lawmaker Matthew Green, who is Black, has the right to express himself as a racialized Canadian and that every province and territory continues to struggle with systemic racism.
Imagine the MSM’s coordinated outrage if a conservative said this.
