Shortly after Canada Post’s top executives warned of “unsustainable” finances and the need for “significant changes” to survive, the federal government has little to say about what solutions are necessary.
Board chair André Hudon told the Crown corporation’s annual general meeting Wednesday that the national mail carrier is at a “critical juncture” as it struggles to compete against e-commerce platforms like Amazon and faces dropping demand.
Horse and buggy?
Hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s hateful anti-Israel campus protests this fall, a Jewish group is putting university administrators on notice.
In letters addressed to the heads of over 80 schools across the country, B’nai Brith Canada is urging universities to apply existing anti-racism and DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) policies to ensure Jewish students are protected from hate — particularly with the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks just around the corner.
Canadian politicians love to look down south and try to adopt America’s trends, debates and cultural wars as our own. They rarely fit, but it doesn’t stop them from smashing the wrong puzzle pieces together with their fists and, for example, announcing new Canadian gun control measures after a mass shooting in Texas.
We’re already seeing it happen over the course of the U.S. presidential election campaign. Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen has been trying to transpose the Democrats’ highly effective “weird” label for Republicans onto Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, with little success. Indeed, it’s roughly as effective as trying to cheat off a fellow student’s exam paper when the teacher has scrambled up the order of questions for each test.
A Nigerian woman based in Ontario, Canada, has appeared in a disturbing video calling for the killing of Yoruba people of the South-Western Nigeria and Benin people in Edo State, a South-South state, through mass poisoning.
The woman – who is probably an Igbo, made the call in a TikTok live meeting video trending on social media, and vowed to start poisoning foods and waters of Yoruba and Benin people at her place of work.
She asked people of the South-East region of Nigeria, inhabited by the Igbo people to develop a ‘hard heart’ and start poisoning Yoruba people of the South-West and Benin people of the South-South by poisoning their foods and waters anywhere they see them.
Amaka Patience Sunnberger is the vote of hat* in the video.
She should be held accountable for threatening harm and de*th pic.twitter.com/1EZ933wIL4— nigerianoise.com (@nigerianoise) August 28, 2024
The Igbo are primarily Christian, but then Christians are not exactly protected in Nigeria.
In 1926, McGill University imposed a ban on Jewish students. Like other elite colleges at the time – including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the University of Toronto – the school viewed with suspicion the increasingly Jewish inflection of its student body. Raising the admission standards for Jewish applicants, McGill succeeded in dropping enrolment levels of Jews.
There’s not much doubt what was on the minds of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet when members met in Halifax this week — at least when it comes to policy and not their party’s dismal standing in the polls.
You could tell by who they brought in to speak to them. There was Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan and one of Donald Trump’s leading advisers on trade. There was Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, along with two former Canadian ambassadors and others deeply involved in cross-border issues.
OTTAWA — More than 200 Gazans have arrived in Canada under a special temporary residency program launched in January, according to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
“As of August 24, 2024, 209 people have arrived in Canada under the temporary public policy,” wrote IRCC spokesman Jeffrey MacDonald in an email to the National Post.
Massive lineup of employment seekers at Longo’s job fair
Hariharan Thirupal hopes the proverb is correct, and the early bird catches the worm.
Sudhi Govind Thekkeparambil Anil feels the same way.
The Conestoga College students arrived at the Doon Pioneer Park Community Centre at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, seven hours before a two-day in-person job fair to hire about 100 employees for Waterloo Region’s first Longo’s grocery store.
Trudeau is destroying your quality of life for future votes.
Foreign students keep coming to Conestoga College despite big visa rollback
h/t Patti Jo
The Egypt-born father and son accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Toronto on behalf of ISIS successfully passed through multiple immigration and security screening steps, a timeline of events released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) indicates.
The Epoch Times obtained the timeline from IRCC after it was provided to the House of Commons public safety committee on Aug. 28 for the testimony of Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc. The committee is studying the foiled alleged terrorist plot by the two men and seeks to understand how they were admitted to Canada.
Passenger trains. Freight trains. I’ve got to admit I like them.
They seem so Canadian. At least they used to. Trains no longer bring together people across this vast land like they did.
As kids, in addition to travelling through B.C. and Alberta by train, we would sometimes put coins on tracks and, after the lumbering beasts rolled over them, marvel how the flattened metal turned into something completely different. I only learned later our game was illegal. Sorry about that.
I did ride a freight through Alberta/BC and also took the passenger train back to TO from BC when a teen.
I hitched out west a couple of times. It was the thing to do.
The Liberal Party of Canada is facing a revolt by ministerial staffers, mostly of Arab and Muslim origin, over the Trudeau government’s handling of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally.
Fifty-two Arab and Muslim staffers working in the Liberal government signed a letter addressed to “the leader of the Liberal Party” that says they will not participate in its byelection campaign to hold on to the seat of LaSalle–Emard–Verdun, left vacant by the resignation of former Liberal justice minister David Lametti.
Referring to “the increasing push for Liberal staff members to phone bank and door knock,” the letter obtained by CBC News warns that “while many of us started our political careers in elections as volunteers, we can no longer in good conscience campaign for a party that excludes us and our values.”
“Death to Israel” = “Stance on Gaza”
This will not get better for the Jews.
Especially if European nations serve as a valid precedent.
Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, England etc all suffer for having allowed Muslims to settle.
Islam only ever brings blood.
Last week, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre sent out a tweet in honour of Black Ribbon Day, a European Union-originated day of “Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.” Because Poilievre is always heavily motivated by making exactly the right people lose their marbles, the text of the tweet read thus :
“On the 85th anniversary of Black Ribbon Day, we remember the victims of Soviet Socialism & National Socialism (Nazism). May we never forget the countless atrocities committed by these socialist ideologies, and may we honour those who fought to liberate Europe. Canada must always stand against socialism for freedom and democracy.”
OTTAWA — Canadians are split over the federal government’s plan to take in 5,000 Gazan refugees and doubtful that the newcomers are being thoroughly screened by government officials, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
Forty-two per cent of Canadians support the government’s decision to raise the cap on refugee admissions in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while 44 per cent oppose the action. Sixteen per cent say they don’t know enough about the policy to support or oppose it.
It was a bit of bad luck for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, having to hold their annual cabinet retreat on the heels of the wildly successful Democratic convention in the U.S.
The comparisons and the questions were going to be inevitable — why can’t the Trudeau Liberals do that kind of progressive political revival here in Canada?
As minister after minister explained, no one is talking about showing Trudeau the exit door, as the Democrats did with Joe Biden.
OTTAWA — A new poll shows the NDP sliding dramatically over the summer, while the Conservatives continue to hold onto their significant lead.
The Postmedia-Leger poll, found support for the New Democrats dropped five percentage points to 15 per cent in just over a month. The Conservatives enjoy 43 per cent support nationally, a full 18 percentage points ahead of the federal Liberals, who are at 25 per cent.
