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She immigrated to Canada nearly five years ago with a common as dirt degree. Why can’t she find full-time work?

She immigrated to Canada nearly five years ago with a master’s degree. Why can’t she find full-time work?

Nearly five years after moving to Canada, Mani Bhandari still hasn’t secured a full-time job.

Despite holding a master’s degree in business management from India, Bhandari isn’t hearing back from the countless employers to whom she’s applied for work — both within her field and outside of it.

Maybe the Star should ask themselves why she is here in the first place and why she should take precedence over native born Canadians?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians are stupid and masochistic according to Globe

Carney and Freeland are perfect foils for Poilievre’s populism

There is probably no one in Canada today more qualified for the job of prime minister than Mark Carney. At 59, his life up to now has been one of awe-inspiring achievement fuelled by the pursuit of excellence in his field of specialization, central banking. His stellar reputation and real-world experience in the roller coaster global financial sector precede him.

Mr. Carney’s long-time friend, and now likely principal rival for the federal Liberal Party leadership, is similarly a woman of singular accomplishment. Chrystia Freeland rode a groundbreaking career in journalism covering the fall of the Soviet Union and rise of Vladimir Putin to insinuate herself among the upper echelons of the global financial establishment before charting a meteoric political career as Canada’s first female finance minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", "Experts", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

So called “Indigenous Business” sold city of Hamilton made-in-China Tiny Homes for $35K each

As tiny homes arrive in Hamilton, councillors ask why city bought made-in-China units for $35K each

When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company for a new outdoor shelter site last fall, they thought they were supporting a local, Indigenous-owned business that was one of the few capable of delivering on a short timeline.

What they didn’t know was MicroShelters was a new corporation that would go through an American company to order the tiny homes from China, staff said at a general issues committee meeting Wednesday.

“It was a very quick turnaround” to meet deadlines on the project, said Danielle Blake, the city’s manager of housing-focused street outreach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Diversity", "Identity Politics", Canada, WTF?

Chris Selley: Why did it take Trump to get us to take border security seriously?

Because Donald Trump is brandishing his 7-wood at us about fentanyl and illegal migration, Canada is leasing two Black Hawk helicopters for the RCMP and putting them on border patrol, and also bolstering the fleet of border-patrolling drones. That’s an accurate assessment of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, and that’s more or less how media reported it: “Canada sending Black Hawks, drones to border as the clock to pacify Trump ticks down,” was one apropos headline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Jamie Sarkonak: It doesn’t matter to Mark Carney if Canada survives

The problem Mark Carney, likely Liberal leader-to-be, will always run into is this: his fate doesn’t depend on a successful Canada.

Carney will be announcing his leadership run Thursday. Odds are good he’s going to win. He’s not as recognizable as his only real competition, potential candidate and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, but he doesn’t share her bruised record of inflating the deficit to multi-billion dollar highs, and last week’s polling shows that more people are open to voting for him than for her.

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

Susan McArthur: Mandatory national service would fix what ails Canada

A recent Angus Reid poll found only half of Canadians feel a deep connection to their country. This reflects a sharp decline in the past decade, and a stark contrast to the 85 per cent of Americans who, according to Statista, consider themselves very patriotic.

There are many reasons why Canadians might be ambivalent: Does the duality of our English/French history, or strong provincial jurisdictional powers make it difficult to hang on to a national narrative?

Never happen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

People who want to be in charge are making their case to very softball questioners

Some big figures in federal politics are having themselves a Linus moment, dragging around their ideological security blankets while making their case to the public, like the anxious little brother in Peanuts.

Seems like the thing to do right now is to seek out a comfy media perch from which to trot out your message, knowing you and the host share a common outlook and the spiciest question might be, “How are you great and/or good? Please be specific.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Poilievre pledges to roll back capital gains tax hike, retaliate against Trump tariffs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will soon lay out his own strategy to confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canada as part of a broader economic agenda that, if he becomes prime minister, will include a promise to roll back the capital-gains tax increase.

Mr. Poilievre told The Globe and Mail in an interview that he believes Canada must respond with tariffs of its own to counter Mr. Trump’s promise that he’ll levy 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump’s tariffs are the price Canada must pay for freeriding on defence

Canadian political leaders have reacted to Donald Trump’s tariff threat with a stubborn lack of understanding about why the U.S. president-elect keeps targeting his country’s friendly neighbour.

They still seem genuinely perplexed by Mr. Trump’s seemingly anachronistic concept of international trade, which they see as rooted in 19th-century mercantilism.

This helps explain why most of them are still expounding on the win-win virtues of Canada-U.S. free trade, despite Mr. Trump’s endless protestations to the contrary. They still seem to think that he is simply misinformed or has a shaky grasp of economics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, NATO, USA

‘We’re seeing a Hunger Games’ across Ontario: Hundreds in this town line up for a chance at a family doctor

They started to arrive, and the line began to form, as early as 2 a.m.

Despite a steady snowfall and bone-chilling cold, they came to stand outside and wait their turn, hours before the doors opened at 10 a.m.

This wasn’t a queue to purchase Taylor Swift concert tickets at a kiosk in downtown Toronto.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Ontario, WTF?

‘Justin Trudeau played India card for vote bank, it didn’t work’: Canadian journalist Tahir Gora

Toronto [Canada], January 14 (ANI): Canadian journalist Tahir Gora believes that outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s diplomatic row with India was a desperate attempt to garner votes, which ultimately backfired.

Trudeau’s popularity had been waning due to his handling of immigration policies and the economy, and his party’s trust in him had begun to erode. He raked up the diplomatic row with India only for his ‘vote bank politics’ which didn’t work, Gora said.

In an online interview with ANI, Tahir Gora said he doesn’t see the India-Canada ties improving anytime soon, irrespective of the results of the next general elections due later this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India

We’ll need more migrants to replace them! More than 74,000 Canadians have died on health-care wait lists since 2018: report

At least 15,000 Canadians died while waiting for surgery or a diagnostic scan over the course of a year, according to government data collected by public policy think tank SecondStreet.org.

The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data, said SecondStreet president Colin Craig. Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.

We need more dancing nurses, doctors and EMT’s. And more migrants!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?

GUNTER: Carney and Freeland cut from similar cloth, destined to fail

With the announcement by former B.C. Premier Christy Clark that she would not seek the leadership of the Liberal Party, the race is really down to two people who have not yet officially declared: former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Given how the criminal pigs of the LPC have turned Canada into 3rd World cesspit no member of the party should ever be elected again.

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

Ukrainian families question Canada’s commitment as residency applications appear ‘lost’

As Canada plans cuts to immigration, Ukrainian families say they’re worried and “disoriented” after getting mixed messages about their permanent residency applications under a special humanitarian pathway to reunite families fleeing war.

Some applicants allege Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) “lost” their applications, and question Canada’s commitment to continue supporting Ukrainians as the war rages on in Ukraine and Russia.

“It worries me very much because it’s once again interruption of promises,” said Eugenia Pynchuk, a Canadian citizen, as she sat next to her father. Her parents are currently in Ottawa under a visitor visa that’s set to expire next year.

Something is rotten at IRCC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government