Canada

Via Rail’s performance has gone from bad to worse — and it’s costing the company millions

Cédryk Coderre was one of dozens of travellers left stranded on a Via Rail train for 10 hours earlier this year.

As the government-owned passenger railway struggled with a mechanical failure, passengers on board Train 622 on Aug. 31 were left hungry and thirsty and forced to contend with sometimes inoperable toilets that belched out foul odours.

Some irate passengers — frustrated after waiting for hours with little to eat beyond bagged pretzels — got combative with Via personnel on this Montreal-Quebec City trip, Coderre told a recent House of Commons committee studying the incident.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

GOLDSTEIN: Trump will boost U.S. energy production while Trudeau cuts Canada’s

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has thrown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s green energy and climate change policies into chaos, because of the Liberal government’s failure to understand the importance of harmonizing Canada’s energy policies with those of the U.S.

No problem we’re in good hands with Joly on the job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Tom Mulcair: Donald Trump has a long enemies list, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on it

Donald Trump’s election as president could have a profound effect on Canadian trade, manufacturing and immigration.

Trump’s icy relationship with Justin Trudeau could aggravate what already promises to be a very difficult situation for Canada, socially, economically and environmentally.

When Trump was last in power, he started making life much more difficult for asylum seekers in the United States. Seeing a political advantage in the contrast, Justin Trudeau famously tweeted #WelcometoCanada(opens in a new tab) in January, 2017.

OMG she breeds! Poor kids.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

Incurable TDS: “We are all victims,” Trump convinced the angry and disaffected who were searching for acceptance and validation

“When terrorist groups or cult leaders recruit new members, there are some commonalities they look for: isolation, past traumas, social, economic or mental depression. And, perhaps most importantly, a sense of victimhood.

… Women, the system, non-whites. Choose your supposed oppressor and make your vote count.

A CNN exit poll on Tuesday stated that nearly three-fourths of voters said they were “angry” with the way things are going in the United States. And if you want to burn it all down, who better to fight the system than the victim in chief, the anti-establishment messiah?”

The Star contributor needs an intervention. A normal person would not produce such drivel knowing Trump’s victory was earned in large part by winning over Hispanic, Black and women voters.

Who exactly is the brainwashed cultist?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Canada preparing for influx of U.S. migrants facing deportation after Trump’s victory

RCMP in Quebec say they have prepared contingency plans in case of an influx of migrants from the United States after Donald Trump’s victory, as Quebec Premier François Legault and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet raised fears about asylum claimants streaming into the province.

Mr. Legault warned about “turbulence” at the border, saying Wednesday that he expects a stream of asylum seekers from the U.S. and arguing that the capacity of Quebec to integrate new arrivals had already been exceeded.

Hmmm

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, Election 2024, USA

‘Canada will be absolutely fine’: Liberals try to reassure Canadians they are ready for Trump 2.0

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is prepared for a second Donald Trump presidency as questions swirl about how his government plans to handle the Republican president-elect’s incoming agenda.

From trade tariffs and the war in Ukraine, to defence spending and immigration, cabinet ministers exuded confidence on Wednesday that they are ready to handle whatever another Trump administration may bring.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

One big winner of the U.S. election: Justin Trudeau

As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump piled-up the votes last night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have been pinching himself in anticipation. For months, Trudeau and his PMO palace guard will have followed the U.S. presidential race polls more closely than most. Despite the whispers to the Star’s Ottawa Bureau, I’m dubious that the Liberals actually preferred a Kamala Harris victory.

How so? Trump’s political rebirth presents our Prime Minister with a career-saving opportunity: Trudeau gets to spend the next eleven months playing the delicious role of Escamillo, the brave bullfighting Toreador from Bizet’s timeless opera Carmen.

It is shocking how our regime typists underestimate the contempt held for Trudeau by the great unwashed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, President Trump, USA

CSIS warned Health Canada of “insider threat” from Wuhan Institute-tied scientist Dr. Qiu Seven Months Before Lethal Ebola Shipped to China

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

OTTAWA — In an explosive admission, Parliament’s Canada-China Committee has confirmed that Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, issued a direct and unheeded warning to senior health officials in August 2018, raising concerns about “insider threat activities” linked to Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng.

This alert, delivered seven months before the couple’s network—connected to the highest levels of Chinese biological weapons research—coordinated the shipment of live Ebola and Henipah virus samples from Canada’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, highlighted risks posed by their continued access to sensitive materials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why a convicted synagogue bomber is teaching at Carleton University

On the same weekend that Montreal hosted a conference featuring the head of Samidoun, Canada’s newest listed terror organization, Ottawa’s Carleton University faced renewed outrage for employing a lecturer wanted as a convicted terrorist.

Last year, 70-year-old Hassan Diab was convicted in absentia by a French court in connection with the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

CBC – He just wound up in Syria! … Jihadi Jack Letts “I volunteered for a suicide bombing”

Supreme Court ‘signed my son’s death warrant,’ mother says of refusal to hear plea

… Letts became a devoted Muslim, went on holiday to Jordan at 18, then studied in Kuwait before winding up in Syria. His family says he was captured by Kurdish forces while fleeing the country with a group of refugees in 2017.

I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits

Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.
“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

More Canadians think Poilievre would be a better match if Trump wins the U.S. election: poll

Canadians don’t have much of a say in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, but they will soon be able to choose a new leader for our country, since the next federal election must take place no later than October 2025. And how favourably Canadians view the next prime minister has a lot to do with who wins the election south of the border.

A new poll from Angus Reid found that more than a third of Canadians — 38 per cent — think Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would be a better prime ministerial match for a second Donald Trump presidency, while a similar number — 37 per cent — think current leader Justin Trudeau would be better at dealing with President Kamala Harris.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ex-Israeli government official says antisemitism in Canada ‘out of control’

OTTAWA — As he attempted to speak with students at the University of Calgary last week, masked anti-Israel activists pounded on the doors shouting “Allahu akbar!”

That was the scene that greeted former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy on Halloween during a cross-country speaking tour that he said exposed him to the true nature of Canada’s pressure cooker of largely tolerated antisemitism and hatred against Jews.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

How Canada’s auto industry is ‘on the ballot’ in today’s U.S. presidential election

As voters decide who will take over the White House, there’s a feeling the person who becomes U.S. president will bring in policies that could shift Canada’s role in the automotive industry.

Promises from both the Republican and Democratic parties to protect vehicle manufacturing in the United States and skepticism of North America’s free trade agreement have been central themes to the extensive campaign stops in Michigan.

“The auto industry is on the ballot in 2024 like never before,” said Patrick Anderson, who runs a consultant firm in Michigan that works with manufacturers on both sides of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Why Trudeau and Harris face similar troubles with voters

As the US presidential campaign nears the finish line, Canada’s prime minister is facing the threat of a snap election being called at any moment.

Justin Trudeau is under intense pressure to step down as leader after nine years in power. His Liberals have been trailing the Conservative Party by a wide margin in the polls for months.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is in a deadlocked race against Donald Trump as she makes the case for why a Democrat deserves another four years in the White House.

A large segment of voters in both countries are feeling a sense of malaise, telling pollsters they think their respective country is moving in the wrong direction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Nearly Half of Canadians Avoiding Hospitals Because of Wait Times

Around 47 percent of Canadians choose to stay home rather than seek medical treatment with a doctor or hospital because of long wait times, says a new survey.

“For decades, the Canadian government and provincial governments have taken the general approach that the system isn’t working, so let’s throw more and more money at it,” Dominic Lucyk, communications director with think tank SecondStreet.org which published the study, told The Epoch Times.

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