An average family of four will pay nearly $18,000 for health care services this year, according to a new study.
The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2024 by the Fraser Institute said health-care expenses will cost families an estimated $17,713 in 2024.
“Canadians pay a substantial amount of money for health care through a variety of taxes—even if we don’t pay directly for medical services,” said Nadeem Esmail, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and co-author of the study.
Canada will impose new tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, aluminum and steel, lining up behind western allies and taking steps to protect domestic manufacturers.
The government plans to announce a 100% levy on electric cars and 25% on steel and aluminum, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition they not be identified because the matter is still private. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to unveil the policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he’s gathered with the rest of his cabinet for a series of meetings about the economy and foreign relations.
The number of Canadians registered in Lebanon is nearly 23,000, or four times the amount evacuated by Global Affairs Canada’s past three evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, Sudan, and Haiti combined.
Following an attack by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah on Israel’s north late last month, Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly implored Canadians to leave Lebanon while they still have the opportunity to do so.
A resident of the St-Laurent borough who admitted to sexually abusing six women and two girls over the course of 13 months will probably be deported after Quebec Superior Court rejected his appeal of his 16-month sentence.
… In the appeal, Akra argued that St-Onge did not properly weigh the aggravating factors in his case versus the mitigating factors, including his claim that there was no sexual dimension involved in his crimes. Akra argued he was having difficulty adapting to life in Canada and was working in an environment where he felt he was denigrated.
While determining the sentence, St-Onge noted Akra’s denial that there was a sexual dimension to his crimes and how it contradicted the evidence, including how he told one victim: “You’re so sexy, I want to pleasure you.”
Bomb threats sent to dozens of synagogues and other Jewish institutions in Canada this week have left some community members shaken, with several Jewish Canadians telling CBC News they’ve recently experienced antisemitism on a level they haven’t seen before and changed how they go about their daily lives.
Several respondents to a CBC News request for people to share their experiences did not feel comfortable telling their stories on the record out of concern for their safety and that of their families.
The GTA is about 10% Islamist so there’s really no place to hide.
And the rest of the region’s diverse 3rd World settlers don’t really give a crap having no connection to Canada or western history and values.
OTTAWA — On the face of it, Ahnaf Zahin and Taylor Stuart don’t have much in common.
Zahin, who arrived in Canada from Bangladesh when he was a child, just turned 20 and is about to start his third year as a neuroscience and physiology major at the University of Toronto.
Stuart is 37, grew up in Kamloops, B.C., and is an air ambulance pilot in Vancouver.
Canada suffers from Uniparty Syndrome, a permanent political class of pols and crony capitalists who along with an ever growing bureaucracy devour our rights and freedoms.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s fed up with the Liberals because the Trudeau cabinet decided to send the lockout/strike affecting the country’s two major railways to binding arbitration. Singh would have preferred the work stoppage be settled at the bargaining table rather than at a Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) hearing.
For our own safety and security, Canadians — starting with His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition — must be relentless in insisting that Ottawa give the same priority and attention to detail to national security that they deliver in abundance to anything concerning climate change or the extermination of the oil and gas industry.
It is utterly scandalous that people with terrorist links are able to enter Canada undetected and stay here.
Imagine a controversial Christian preacher from the U.S. who tells his followers that Muslims are our enemy being allowed to tour this country.
Would the Trudeau government allow such a preacher to conduct a lecture tour if he taught that all Muslims are liars who cheat, and that homosexuals are animals?
It’s doubtful — but if it did happen, there would be outrage and demonstrations outside of the tour locations.
John Carpay is a rugged veteran of the beleaguered Canadian civil rights movement as founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. Over the years he’s been the target of frequent unjust harassment, but is now in the throes of a particularly odious and hypocritical persecution, which should concern all Canadians. At the worst of the Covid pandemic, with oppressive lockdowns and requirements of vaccine passports, mask-wearing, distancing, and belligerent and unctuous enforcement of all these rules, most of which we now know to have been medically superfluous if not counterproductive, with disastrous results in all other respects, John Carpay was one of the great many Canadians who was disgusted by the hypocrisy of politicians and public officials rigorously imposing Covid rules while ignoring them themselves. Unlike most of the vast number of people who objected to these practices, he determined to do something about them. In 2021, he engaged a private investigator to see if the widespread rumours about the premier of Manitoba, its chief health officer, and its chief justice were in fact breaking Covid rules, were true. The investigator followed these men around but did not otherwise bother them, but in consequence of this activity, which was designed as a legitimate pursuit of the public’s right to know, John Carpay was briefly prosecuted in a spurious and politically motivated criminal action in the course of which he was briefly incarcerated, and the Manitoba Law Society inflicted upon him more than two years of disciplinary proceedings. Carpay agreed to a lifetime ban on practicing law in Manitoba and payment to the Manitoba Law Society of $5,000.
This week, Jagmeet Singh called Justin Trudeau “cowardly” over his position on the railway work stoppage. Last week, Singh was saying life for Canadians under Trudeau has gotten much worse.
But don’t expect the NDP Leader to do anything about a government he clearly doesn’t think is working for Canadians.
A web of anti-Jewish activists, Muslim radicals, a fringe Jewish group, and Marxist organizations (including the Canadian government) are cooperating in a red-green alliance as a strategy to advance the pro-Hamas cause. Recent efforts to undermine Canadian-Israeli charities, demoralize Jews, and facilitate funding to pro-terrorist “Palestinian” charities have not gone unnoticed amid the backdrop of over 300 days of pro-Hamas rallies on Canadian city streets. This trend is evident in recent Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) decisions to revoke the official charitable status of two Jewish charities: the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of Canada and the Ne’eman Foundation.
OTTAWA – In a contest between the Charter-protected freedom of expression and Ottawa residents’ right to the enjoyment of their property, there is no contest, the lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich argued Friday.
Lawrence Greenspon’s final arguments in the criminal trial focused largely on the fundamental freedoms that protect protest in Canada, and the failure of Ottawa police to enforce the law during the 2022 demonstration.
B.C. activists Charlotte Kates and her husband Khaled Barakat who are facing calls for their deportation over their support for Hamas and its October 7 massacre in Israel say they are Canadian citizens.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives allegedly acted as Elections Canada poll workers in the 2021 campaign, according to documents submitted to a federal inquiry, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev in a sworn affidavit said she was told by Chinese Canadian constituents they knew of foreign operatives working at polling stations.
