A decline in travel to the U.S. may be more significant than it first appeared, according to Canadian researchers.
Initial estimates based on border crossings from Canada into the U.S. suggested a decrease of about 25 per cent, wrote researchers from the University of Toronto, citing data from Statistics Canada.
Recent findings, argue researchers Karen Chapple, Yihoi Jung and Jeff Allen, suggest that this year-over-year analysis of crossings doesn’t provide the full picture.
Heather Bacchus worried when her 15-year-old son started using marijuana. Randy Jr was a bright, precocious teenager doing well at his school in Minnesota, but like many children his age he experienced ADHD and anxiety.
He had turned to cannabis to quiet what Bacchus called his “overactive brain”. However, she noticed an almost immediate, worrying shift in his mood.
On May 31, 2001, a former Pakistan army captain named Tahawwur Hussain Rana swore the oath of citizenship in front of an Ottawa judge, who anointed him a Canadian.
But he is a fraudulent Canadian, according to hundreds of pages of government documents obtained by Global News that allege he obtained his citizenship through “deception.”
The documents show that an RCMP investigation uncovered considerable evidence that Rana lied on his citizen application form by claiming he resided in Canada, when he did not.
Donald Trump is expected to confront Xi Jinping about selling weapons to Iran when the pair meet for a pivotal summit in Beijing this week.
The US president will raise the ongoing war with the Chinese president, including Tehran’s attempts to rearm using Chinese hardware once a deal to end the war has been reached.
According to US intelligence, Beijing has considered shipping air defence systems to Iran via other countries to mask its involvement, something Mr Trump has threatened to punish with 50 per cent tariffs.
‘Colonial thinking’: Inuit criticize backlash to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s brand of bilingualism
Crystal Martin says it was “emotional” when she and her daughter watched Mary Simon be sworn in as Governor General in 2021.
“For me, it was this moment of she can see herself in that role if she wanted to,” Martin, an Inuk advocate, said. “[Simon] being in this role has really opened up a lot of imagination for Indigenous youth and children across Canada.”
Germany’s labour minister has been accused of denying reality after insisting “nobody immigrates into our social welfare system” despite government data showing foreigners are heavily overrepresented among welfare claimants.
The controversy erupted during a government question session on Wednesday, May 6th, when right-wing AfD MP René Springer asked why the government was not cutting spending “where it is obvious: immigration into our social systems” as Germany struggles with rising welfare costs and mounting budget pressure.
Labour Minister Bärbel Bas dismissed the claim outright, arguing instead that immigration was helping to address labour shortages.
This week in Ottawa, hundreds of Canadians gathered at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference to debate ideas, challenge assumptions, and discuss the future of the country. Contrary to the narrative often advanced by parts of the media and political establishment, the conservative movement in Canada is not fractured, exhausted, or retreating. It is alive, serious, intellectually engaged, and increasingly focused on the central question facing this country: how do we restore Canadian performance?
Not sure I entirely agree, but hey it’s Monday.
The repurposed prison van rammed through one security fence and then another as the activists inside — armed with sledgehammers and crowbars — readied themselves.
It was the early hours of August 6, 2024, and behind the wheel was Charlotte Head. The 28-year-old charity worker had been recruited by Palestine Action and tasked with breaking into the Israeli-owned Elbit Systems’ arms factory in Filton, near Bristol.
I spent last weekend crossing half the globe with Prime Minister Mark Carney, to spend a few hours with European leaders in Yerevan, the stunning Armenian capital, before crossing all the way back to Ottawa.
Mr. Carney was the first non-European leader to be invited to a meeting of the European Political Community, a grouping that brings together the 27 European Union member states with allies and neighbors, including Britain and Turkey, as well as aspiring members such as Ukraine and Albania.
No matter how hard the Iranians try to pretend they have the upper hand in negotiations to end hostilities with the US, the inescapable reality is that the ayatollahs desperately need to seal a deal – and quickly – if the Islamic Republic is to stand any chance of surviving the conflict.
While Iranian negotiators are doing their level best to string out negotiations with the Trump administration in the hope of securing a better deal, their efforts are nothing more than an attempt to conceal the regime’s catastrophic weakness.
Young Canadians are buying homes at the lowest rates seen since the postwar period, according to new Statistics Canada data that adds to growing concerns over affordability, declining optimism and widening generational inequality.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the report found millennials are significantly less likely to own homes than previous generations were at the same age, reinforcing fears that the traditional middle-class path to ownership is slipping out of reach.
President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran’s response to US proposals to end the war as “totally unacceptable”.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said Tehran’s proposal, sent via Pakistan, which has served as a mediator, included an immediate end to the war on all fronts, a halt to the US naval blockade of Iranian ports and guarantees of no further attacks on Iran.
A ceasefire meant to facilitate talks to end the war launched by the US and Israel in February has been largely observed, despite occasional exchanges of fire.
Canada doesn’t have term limits on its highest political offices, but perhaps it should have, if only for the benefit of the office holders.
Call it mercy legislation. An Act to Save Senior Politicians from the Humiliations of their own Hubris.
One of the most destructive misconceptions of our time was that addiction is a condition that can be maintained with proper management. We were told that fatal overdoses were caused by impure drug supplies rather than the drug itself. It was asserted that homelessness caused addiction rather than the other way around.
These counterintuitive fallacies were embraced by government authorities, and policies were created based upon them. The results of these policies were catastrophic, and we saw them most acutely in B.C.
