Swedish Professor of Economics Mats Hammarstedt has rejected claims that mass migration can be economically beneficial over the long term, citing problems of integration.
Professor Hammarstedt, who teaches at the Linnaeus University in Växjö and the Institute for Business Research, said that integration failures, particularly of asylum seekers, have contributed to a much higher unemployment rate among migrants over the long-term.
The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in which their firms accepted the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), according to an analysis of share ownership stakes by the Financial Post.
Earlier this month, a Post investigation revealed that at least 68 companies that received more than $1 billion in CEWS — a subsidy designed to help companies that have seen their revenue drop significantly cover payroll costs and keep employees in their jobs — paid out more than $5 billion in dividends over the past two quarters.
Canada rejected a plan by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. to acquire TMAC Resources Inc., which runs a mine in the country’s Arctic region, on security grounds.
Toronto-based TMAC owns the Hope Bay gold mine in the northern territory of Nunavut, an operation that includes a port and air strips. Shandong, an acquisitive state-backed metal producer, agreed to buy the company for about $150 million in May, but in October TMAC said it had received notice that the Canadian government had ordered a national security review.
The federal environment ministry predicts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proposed second carbon tax, known as the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), will increase energy poverty in Canada.
It concludes the CFR will disproportionately impact low and middle-income households, seniors, single mothers, rural Canadians, oil, gas and freight transport workers, single family homeowners, tenants and possibly other groups for which there is insufficient data, such as the LGBTQ2+ community.
A new satellite from Capella Space is capable of taking high-resolution images anywhere in the world, even through the walls of buildings, according to Futurism.
What makes the Capella-2 satellite nothing short of magnificent is its onboard sensor, called the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which can snap a picture in night or day, rain or shine.
h/t Mauser
Time magazine was wrong. And not just in its lame pick of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its person(s) of the year. It was wrong in the concept.
2020 was not, by any stretch, a year in which a person or persons could be selected as being most impactful. It was an “event” year; one event visited every corner of the globe, and in one measure or another played out in the lives of almost everyone. The event was, obviously, the coronavirus pandemic, and as that word so clearly marks, it had a greater universal impact than any other event since the end of World War II.
An Ontario court has decided that internet companies can be held liable for child pornography that is hosted on their servers, sending a warning signal to the corporate world to be more vigilant.
Dubbed a “big box store” of child sexual abuse content by police in 2019, YesUp eCommerce Solutions Inc. has become the first known corporation in Canada to be convicted on criminal charges targeting child porn distribution.
Google informs children when their parents are monitoring their account activity, the tech giant confirmed this month, with the company claiming that doing so is a way of balancing the interests of both parents and children.
Google’s child-notification policies received attention when film director Robby Starbuck claimed on Twitter that his 7-year-old child had received a warning from Google that his account was being monitored.
Ontario is reporting more than 2,200 new cases of COVID-19 as the number of virus-related hospitalizations surpasses 1,000.
Ontario is reporting 2,202 new infections today, up from the 2,123 logged on Monday but down from the record 2,432 confirmed on Dec. 17.
LILLEY: Trudeau needs to ban flights or test the passengers
Last month, as he urged Premiers to do everything they could within their powers to stop the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hoped none were doing anything than what was best to stop COVID-19.
“I would hope that no leader in our country is easing public health vigilance because they feel pressure not to shut down businesses or slow down our economy,” Trudeau said.
McDonald’s has just released a bizarre new creation from its test kitchens in the form of a new burger. The new addition comes with a full cast of unlikely burger characters such as Spam, crushed Oreo pieces and a creamy sauce. McDonald’s China is the birthplace of this unique menu item called Oreo x Spam burger which was launched on December 21.
The body of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani human rights activist, has been found in Toronto, Canada, where she had been living for five years in exile.
Ms Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region of Balochistan in western Pakistan, was a vocal critic of the Pakistani military and state.
Toronto police issued an appeal after she went missing on Sunday and later confirmed that her body had been found.
Police said there were “not believed to be any suspicious circumstances”.
Toronto Mayor John Tory says he can’t believe some “adults” still aren’t getting the message about the deadly danger of COVID-19 transmission as the entire province prepares to go into a lockdown at midnight Boxing Day.
He pointed to tickets being handed out in T.O. over the weekend for illegal games of shinny hockey at city rinks as one example.
Tories called out Ottawa for failing to decide whether Huawei should be banned from participating in Canada’s 5G network, and developing a plan to combat Beijing’s growing foreign interference on Canadian soil.
Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Chong issued a statement Monday criticizing the Liberal government for not responding to a motion passed in Parliament on Nov. 18 that requires the government to “make a decision on Huawei’s involvement in Canada’s 5G network and to introduce a robust plan to counter China’s foreign interference operations here in Canada, both within 30 days.”
Canada’s China class has earned a lucrative living selling Canada out to the CCP. They won’t give that up easily.
The Canadian government has released a database of businesses which have received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) with WE Charity being listed among the beneficiaries of the program.
The CEWS was implemented by the Canadian government in April to help struggling businesses which have faced declining revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.
Eleven people died and 60 were seriously injured when the Islamist Anis Amri drove a stolen truck into a Christmas market in central Berlin on December 19, 2016.
The 24-year-old Tunisian national whose application for asylum had been rejected had hijacked the semi-trailer truck, killing Polish driver Lukasz Robert Urban.
The attacker managed to escape and travel through Europe until he was shot dead by Italian police on December 23 after an altercation in Milan.
