Canada

All six Canadian venues cancel Christian musician Sean Feucht’s shows

U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht is continuing his Canadian tour in spite of having to find new venues for all six shows.

The City of Vaughan, Ont., where Feucht was to have finished the first leg of the Let Us Worship: Revive in 25 tour on Sunday afternoon at the Dufferin District Park, confirmed to National Post that it had cancelled the special event permit “on the basis of health and safety as well as community standards and well-being.”

The Ugly Canadian is not a myth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Canada, USA, WTF?

Trump’s steel tariffs against Canada have been working just how he wants

For the hundreds of Canadian steelworkers who lost their jobs this year amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, talk of reaching a trade deal between Canada and the U.S. is coming too little, too late.

For Trump, the effects — driving down imports, boosting the U.S. steel industry and winning concessions from Canada — seem to be getting him what he wants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada, we’ve already got Trump’s best trade deal

The frenzied tariff announcements of recent weeks risk obscuring a simple fact: most Canadian exports face no tariffs when entering the United States.

Goods that are compliant with the rules of origin of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement have been exempted from tariffs imposed in February based on White House claims about fentanyl coming from Canada, and what the U.S. calls “reciprocal” tariffs, which are poised to come into effect on Aug. 1. No such exemption has been granted to other countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

JAY GOLDBERG: The time to end the CBC as we know it has come

Canada’s beleaguered national broadcaster should have been privatized long ago.

There are endless reasons why. The CBC’s budget is bloated. The organization’s accountability to taxpayers who foot the bill is virtually nil. And journalists shouldn’t have their salaries paid for by the government. Full stop.

The CBC is an extreme-left activist NGO, not a broadcaster.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CBC

Plan to accept newcomer parents and grandparents will strain health services, Alberta warns

Alberta’s immigration minister says he’s concerned about the federal government’s plan this year to accept thousands of parents and grandparents of immigrants already in Canada.

Joseph Schow responded Tuesday to a federal notice that Ottawa plans to take in 10,000 applications from those who have previously expressed interest in sponsoring family members.

Schow took issue with the 10,000 figure.

In a statement, Schow said provincial health-care systems, housing and social services don’t have the capacity and could be overwhelmed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

U.S. and Canada might not reach trade deal, Trump says

The United States may not reach a negotiated trade deal with Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, suggesting his administration could set a tariff rate unilaterally.

Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Scotland, said: “We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada. I think Canada could be one where there’s just a tariff, not really a negotiation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

REMPEL GARNER: Young Canadians losing jobs to robots and ‘temporary’ foreign workers

Last week, Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne penned a column about the federal government’s immigration levels entitled “A shrinking population is hardly what this country needs right now.”

His thesis would have been at least notionally credible if he had addressed two obvious problems. But there’s a third problem that no one, including Coyne, seems to be internalizing.

(Go Incognito)

The Star does not recognize White people … He’s sent out 1,100 job applications — and still hasn’t been hired. Canada’s youth are facing rising unemployment rates

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

Why do we keep letting Canada’s ultrarich use tax havens to stash wealth?

Imagine, in our incredibly polarized times, a truly unifying issue. A clear problem that everyone from the late great Ed Broadbent on the left to Pierre Poilievre on the right has agreed on. Imagine a policy proposal with 90 per cent popular support.

You can stop imagining. The issue is tax havens. This trick that allows Canada’s ultrarich and big corporations to stash wealth and avoid paying their fair share of tax is almost universally loathed. So after decades of public conversation, years of international negotiations and several pieces of new legislation, corporate Canada’s use of tax havens must be on the decline, right?

Not a chance. In fact, the problem just keeps getting worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Judge rules immigration to Canada is not a right

A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that foreign nationals do not have a guaranteed right to immigrate to Canada, rejecting a legal challenge from an Indian lab technician whose provincial permit was revoked over suspected fraud.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Andrew Davis said in his ruling that immigration decisions fall within the discretion of government and that applicants have “few or no rights at stake.”

(Go Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The silent exodus: Why some Canadians are giving up

How many Canadians would leave if the door to the United States was held open by a President Donald Trump?

It’s not a rhetorical question anymore. The exodus has already begun. Families are quietly packing up and heading south. People who once wore the maple leaf with pride are asking themselves a painful but unavoidable question: Can I still raise my children here?

(Open incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Lowering Canada’s voting age to 16 is her ‘top parliamentary priority,’ senator says

Kymani Wint -Future LPC Voter

OTTAWA — Now that the British government has vowed to lower its voting age to 16 by the next general election, one Canadian senator says it’s past time for Canada to do the same.

The U.K. announced last week that it would lower its voting age from 18 to 16 in a bid to strengthen British democracy and restore trust in politics.

Sen. Marilou McPhedran said the issue has been her “top parliamentary priority” since she joined the Red Chamber. She said lowering the voting age to 16 would be good for democracy and that the only arguments against it are “based on stereotypes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?