Five years removed from being fired for promoting poppies, Don Cherry still believes Canadians should wear a poppy for Remembrance Day.
Some things never change. Nor do some people.
Canada
Canadians think there is not enough pride in the country’s military: poll
A large majority of Canadians will be observing Remembrance Day this year, most by wearing a poppy, but Quebecers tend to be less likely to observe the national day of remembrance than Canadians in other provinces, says a new poll.
The Postmedia-Leger poll looked at Canadians’ pride in the military, treatment of veterans and Remembrance Day.
It’s pretty obvious Trudeau and his government despise Canada’s military and its history, they turned the armed forces into a haven for cross-dressers and racist DEI cranks.
SNOBELEN: Trudeau’s parallels with Biden’s Democrats will doom Liberals
This week my thoughts travelled back a few decades to a long drink of a man I knew well. Sam was rail thin with a shoe-leather face and big, working hands. The smile lines on his face were deep and gave a hint of a big heart and generous soul.
Sam was from Arkansas. He was a working man his whole life. Of course, he was a Democrat.
Ahead of Remembrance Day, Poll suggests most Canadians don’t know much about their history … It’s a real mystery alright
Ahead of Remembrance Day, poll suggests most Canadians don’t know much about their history
As people gather to remember those who fought and died to protect this country in past wars, a new poll suggests many Canadians know little about their country’s history.
That’s likely because high school students in most provinces and territories are not required to take a Canadian history class before graduating, experts say.
Many Canadians are in the dark about the people who helped build this country and the seminal moments that define its past and could inform its future, according to an Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Historica Canada — the educational charity best known for producing the Heritage Minutes.
How an alleged Russian plot suddenly upended Canada’s air cargo rules
The Labour Day long weekend was anything but restful for Bruce Rodgers.
His phone started buzzing on the Friday night and didn’t stop, with dozens of emails and calls all asking the same thing: Why had air cargo imports to Canada suddenly ground to a halt?
As executive director of the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFFA) — the industry body for the national network of cargo handlers — Rodgers is used to dealing with the fallout from labour disruptions, accidents or even natural disasters. But not mysteries.
Trudeau political games with Trump could hurt Canada
For the past year, Justin Trudeau has been foolishly attacking Donald Trump in an attempt to link Trump to Trudeau’s main rival Pierre Poilievre. It’s been a ridiculous campaign that has seen the Liberals invoke MAGA — Make America Great Again — more than 100 times in the last year during their attacks on Poilievre.
Nearly a Quarter of Canadian Parents Cut Back on Meals so Kids Can Eat: Report
One in four parents report eating less so their children can have food, according to a report from The Salvation Army.
The report, 2024 Canadian Poverty and Socioeconomic Analysis, looks at Canadian’s behaviours and attitudes on issues such as housing, food, health care, and affordability from year to year.
In 2024, it found that Canadian parents are shouldering most of the burden of rising costs when it comes to food and housing.
THOMSON: Remembrance matters, and we need to do a better job of it
There are only two days remaining until November 11th. Why is this important day of solemn remembrance in danger of irrelevance in Canada?
Of course this premise stems from Friday’s news that in Halifax Sackville Heights Elementary, sent a notice to families asking veterans and serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces to abstain from wearing their uniform if they planned to attend the school’s Remembrance Day ceremony.
From ‘maple syrup MAGA’ to ‘Team Canada’: Why Liberals shouldn’t count on Poilievre as they navigate Trump
OTTAWA — If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is counting on his Conservative opponent to offer support as the Liberals navigate a second Donald Trump presidency, he shouldn’t.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has spent the days since the president-elect’s win taking aim at how Trudeau handled his last administration. He lambasted policies like the carbon tax as making Canada less competitive, and said Trudeau was too weak to stop the U.S. from reimposing tariffs on softwood lumber, amid anxieties about Trump’s threat to slap a 10 per cent one on global imports.
LEDREW: Picking apart dire observations of Trump’s election victory
So many Canadian columnists and journalists and those nonsensical political science academics are blowing a gasket at Donald Trump’s victory that one would think we are about to be overtaken by the Huns and Visigoths, and our comfortable life destroyed.
There are warning signs for Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre in Donald Trump’s win
OTTAWA—Don’t let anyone tell you the re-election of Donald Trump is not a jolt to Canada’s political landscape. Or that we’ve been there, done that.
The fallout is about to overwhelm the Canadian government’s agenda for the next four years.
More random TDS ….Thing is TDS is really the same response by the Liberal-Left to any politician they declare to be right of Pol Pot maybe just a bit more whiny.
So many people suffering from TDSpic.twitter.com/N2g8Zh3UO9
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 9, 2024
Canada Prepares to Receive Our Illegal Aliens
Trump’s victory didn’t just ruin the celebration plans of Kamala and Doug, but that of the countless illegal aliens headed for the border to celebrate four more years of open borders.
Some illegal aliens are calling off the invasion.
David Polansky: Neither Canadian nor U.S. media understand America
The great novelist Saul Bellow once wrote: “I have developed a certain sympathy with Canada. It’s no easy thing to share a border with the USA. Canada’s chief entertainment — it has no choice — is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what happens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other show.”
Unfortunately, despite countless hours of American media consumption, many Canadians understand their neighbor surprisingly poorly. The latest program to capture attention here, as elsewhere, was of course the U.S. general election, which Donald Trump won for a second time, much to the consternation of the pundit class in particular.
Random TDS …
She’s triggered by random men smiling now pic.twitter.com/GpHj9cx2mi
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 8, 2024
Trump won the working-class vote and Poilievre’s Conservatives are well on the way to doing just that too
Like a lot of Canadians, I thought I knew quite a bit about the United States.
After all, I lived there for five years. I reported from almost half the states and travelled in most of the others. I was married to an American for 45 years and spent time with her family in Hawaii, California and Colorado. My son is a dual citizen. I even speak their language, more or less.
Obviously, I don’t know as much as I thought I did. I thought Kamala Harris had a good shot at winning on Tuesday. Donald Trump’s take-that victory came as a surprise — not so much that he won, but that the voters’ verdict was so decisive. I’m struggling to figure out why.
Gary Mauser: Do Canadians Have the Right to Carry Arms?
Canadians are worried about being victimized by violent criminals, according to a national survey recently released by the Canadian government. Unlike Americans, Canadians often lack the means to defend themselves against unprovoked attacks by strangers or in violent home invasions, even though the controversial law permits a robust self defence.
Both Canada and the United States inherited the right to bear arms found in the English Magna Carta of 1689, but, despite this common heritage, their paths diverged widely since their founding. While the American Constitution protects the right to bear arms, Canadian elites effectively surrendered this basic right. Canadian elites gradually abandoned their duty to uphold the basic rights outlined in the Magna Carta, despite widespread popular support for the right to bear arms. This summary is drawn from a series of articles published in the Dorchester Review.