A Brampton resident has launched a Change.org petition urging KFC to reverse its decision to serve exclusively halal meat eventually in all of Canada.
Roop Sandhu says the policy — which the company announced in a memo to franchisees in May for Ontario (except Thunder Bay and Ottawa) with a plan to roll it out nationwide by year’s end — dismisses the dietary preferences of religious communities which prohibit the consumption of halal meat.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants you to know that his government is taking the case of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi very seriously. In case you’ve missed the news, Eldidi is the father part of the father-son duo facing charges after their arrest two weeks ago for what authorities said was a terror plot.
Canadian developer aims to preserve airport’s features, including hangars and a runway, to draw residents and businesses to the neighborhood
A planned community for about 55,000 residents in Toronto will include the usual playgrounds, bike paths and shops. It will also feature 11 airplane hangars and more than a mile of airport runway.
That is because the 30 billion Canadian dollar, equivalent to about $22 billion, development will be located at the city’s former Downsview Airport.
Airports have been repurposed as communities and parks before, but developers typically raze the original infrastructure and start from scratch. In this case, Northcrest Developments is betting that by preserving the airport’s main features it can enhance the community’s allure.
City subsidized Slum in 5 years time is my bet.
About $15-billion, a year: that is the amount that the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the federal government would have to invest to reach NATO’s defence spending requirement of 2 per cent of GDP.
It is a big number and a major challenge, one made harder in the context of a large federal budget deficit, an affordability crisis, and demands on Ottawa from premiers, interest groups and other Canadians to spend even larger sums in many other areas – not to mention those who want tax cuts. Compounding the problem is that Ottawa has spent 10 years trying to justify why it has not met this goal, rather than developing and executing a plan to get there.
WASHINGTON/TORONTO, Aug 12 (Reuters) – As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations.
Even so, Bains said she was shocked when four men came to her office in August last year, shortly after California adopted her resolution declaring the killing of thousands of Sikhs in India in 1984 a genocide. The men, who appeared to be of Indian origin, warned they would “do whatever it takes to go after you,” Bains said.
In a sensational domestic terrorism case, late last month, the RCMP arrested an ISIS-inspired father-son duo who were allegedly plotting to carry out a mass casualty attack in Toronto. It was later revealed that Canadian authorities had inexplicably permitted the father to immigrate to Canada and granted him citizenship, despite allegedly appearing in an ISIS propaganda video in which he is seen dismembering a prisoner.
Canada is broken.
We’ve heard that a lot from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre followed by a list of things that are broken: the carbon tax, grocery prices, housing, addiction treatment programs etc., etc. You’d think that we were a failed state.
It sounds a lot like former U.S. president Donald Trump, who forecasts doom and gloom whenever he gets a chance; a third World War, a depression, people flooding into the country from insane asylums. The list goes on and on and of course, only he can fix it.
Trudeau calls Poilievre’s stance on Chinese EV tariffs ‘baloney’
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau took aim at federal Conservatives on Monday, accusing leader Pierre Poilievre of not supporting investments in the electric vehicle sector.
Trudeau was attending a funding announcement at Goodyear’s tire plant in Napanee, Ont. Goodyear Canada announced it is investing $575 million to expand and modernize the plant with the goal of making it net-zero in less than two decades. The federal government is contributing $44.3 million, while Ontario’s government is kicking in another $20 million.
Trudeau said the plant’s increased capacity will include tires made specifically for electric vehicles.
Two men convicted of mischief at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade are to learn their sentences later this month.
On Aug. 2, a jury also found Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert guilty of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and Olienick was convicted of possessing a pipe bomb. But they were acquitted of the more serious charge of conspiring to murder police officers.
In Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench on Monday, Crown prosecutor Steven Johnston and defence lawyer Katherin Beyak agreed the sentencing hearing would begin Aug. 26.
A final report by UN investigator Tomoya Obokata concludes that Canada’s temporary foreign worker program is a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.
Prof. Obokata is the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and a professor of international human-rights law at the the University of York in Britain.
The recently released final report cements Prof. Obokata’s initial impressions, which he first expressed last year after visiting Ottawa, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver on a fact-finding tour.
Trudeau and our so called Captains of Industry are garbage humans, hateful, greed driven pigs.
Together they plotted to import slaves and undermine the economic security of Canadians.
Now we understand why they were so quick to label us “racists” for speaking up in defense of our best interests: Trudeau and his corporate cronies conspired to exploit our poverty for personal gain.
Never have Canadians been faced with so evil a “ruling class.”
It will take years to recover from the economic and social devastation these monsters have caused if it is possible at all.
In the name of ‘national unity’.
That’s how the Québec Liberal Party is selling a plan for the province to adopt its own constitution — as a means of strengthening Confederation, not weakening it.
In End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate, philosopher Jon Mills reflects on the Taliban attack with machine guns and explosives on a school in Peshawar, in which 132 schoolchildren were slaughtered. The act is almost incomprehensible. “The immediate dislocation of understanding any rational means behind such atrocities,” he writes “is emotionally unfathomable for the simple fact that it disrupts our psychic need for a moral order in the universe.” It represents a “pathological breach” in our implicit conviction that we live in a civilized world. “It takes only one act of barbarism,” he concludes, “to remind us that evil is no illusion.” Of course, the single act of barbarism can be and is multiplied exponentially all over the world every moment of the day, but there exists one world-historical belief system in which such occasions are both justified and mandated.
h/t PA Cat
Real estate investment is a way of life in Vancouver, with investors – people who don’t reside in the homes they own – representing close to half of the condo market.
In recent years, Toronto has pretty much caught up, with a 28 per cent increase in all investor-owned condos from 2019 to 2022. Vancouver held steady, with a 10 per cent increase in the same time frame, according to new data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program. In 2019, the CHSP began releasing data on properties that were “not owner occupied.” According to the new release, 43 per cent of Toronto condos are investor-owned. In Vancouver, it’s 46 per cent.
In raw numbers, Toronto’s investor-owned properties outnumber those of Vancouver. In 2022, Toronto investor condos numbered 140,435. In the city of Vancouver, the number was 47,585.
Royal Bank of Canada’s ex chief financial officer is suing the bank for $36 million, claiming that she suffered ‘public humiliation’ after she was fired over an undisclosed personal relationship with a colleague, which she denies.
Nadine Ahn, 52, filed a lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, saying was humiliated and suffered ‘palpable reputational harm’.
Ahn’s employment was terminated by RBC on April 5 after the bank said she had violated its code of conduct for being involved in an ‘undisclosed close personal relationship with another employee’.
The recently appointed chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission says he has agreed to resign today after an investigation into comments he made in the past related to Israel.
The justice minister launched an investigation after Canadian Jewish organizations raised concerns about Birju Dattani’s past activities.
The repeated hiring of antisemitic Muslims will be Trudeau’s legacy.
