Police-Reported Crime Rises for 3rd Year, Child Porn Reporting Main Contributor: StatCan

The volume and severity of police-reported crime rose for the third consecutive year in 2023, with increased reporting of child pornography being the largest contributor, a new Statistics Canada report says.

Canada’s Crime Severity Index (CSI) increased by 2 percent in 2023, continuing an upward trend observed since 2015. The rise of the index, which assesses both the number and relative severity of crimes, was driven primarily by a 52 percent increase in reported rates of child pornography compared to 2022, according to StatCan’s July 25 report.

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OPSEU officially endorses boycott of Israel, upsetting Jewish union members

Jewish members of an Ontario public sector labour union say they feel betrayed after leadership ratified a resolution supporting a contentious worldwide anti-Israel movement.

Last month, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) executive adopted a motion in support of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaign that is designed to isolate and punish Israel in support of Palestinians. National Post has obtained a copy of the motion.

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63% of Canadians think feds overspending and not wisely: POLL

A new survey finds 63% of Canadians consider themselves overtaxed by the federal government, which is spending too much and unwisely, an opinion that is eight percentage points higher than last year.

The MEI-Ipsos poll also found seven in 10 Canadians are dissatisfied with the accountability and transparency of the Canadian government’s spending practices.

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Montreal city hall replaces crucifix with hijab, prompting criticism

Five years after Montreal city hall removed a crucifix, it has reopened an image of a woman with a hijab, prompting criticism from some, and support from others.

Visitors to city call now encounter the message “Bienvenue à L’Hotel de Ville de Montréal“ in an image two metres high. The picture includes a sketch of a young man wearing a hoodie and ballcap, a woman wearing a hijab, and a male senior citizen.

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Trump comeback could see familiar faces re-emerge — and they may spell trouble for Canada

Canadians are watching the U.S. election campaign with more than their usual mix of trepidation and fascination, as it careens from a near-miss assassination attempt on one candidate to an unprecedented step-aside from the other.

Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either ‘”bad news” or “terrible news” for Canada, according to a poll of 1,435 adults conducted by the Angus Reid Institute.

(The online poll was conducted over the four days following the shooting in Butler, Pa., and has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.)

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Supreme Court rules Ontario & Ottawa made ‘a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham’ of First Nations treaty

Supreme Court rules Ontario and Ottawa made a ‘mockery’ of First Nations treaty, orders them to negotiate settlement in multibillion-dollar lawsuit

OTTAWA—The governments of Canada and Ontario “dishonourably breached” their promises to the Anishinaabe of the upper Great Lakes by freezing annual treaty payments at $4 a person for 150 years, and it’s up to both parties to come to an agreement on how much is owed, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.

In a landmark ruling, Canada’s highest court slammed the Crown’s approach to the Robinson Treaties, forcing the governments of Canada and Ontario to negotiate an agreement with the beneficiaries of the Robinson-Superior treaty, who are seeking $126 billion in compensation, within six months.

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Canada revoking JNF Canada charitable status, JNF says motive antisemitic

The Canadian Revenue Agency notified the Jewish National Fund Canada that it was revoking the organization’s charitable status because the government body did find its original 1967 main charitable object unacceptable, the JNF said in a statement and newsletter on Thursday.

JNF Canada national president Nathan Disenhouse and CEO Lance Davis announced in a statement dated Wednesday and published Thursday that they had launched a legal challenge against CRA with the Federal Court of Appeal.

h/t DM

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Canada Has Third-Worst GDP Growth per Capita Among 30 Top Economies

Canada is one of the worst performing advanced economies when it comes to GDP growth per person, a new study suggests.

Canada had the third-lowest growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per person from 2014 to 2022, coming 28th out of 30 other countries, according to a report published by the Fraser Institute.

“In terms of GDP per person, a broad measure of living standards, Canada’s performance has weakened substantially in recent years,” Fraser Institute director Alex Whalen said in a July 23 press release.

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ANALYSIS: ‘Bumpy Road’ Ahead as Canada Moves Toward 2035 EV Goals

Canada’s electric vehicle transition is a matter of much debate, but the gears of industry and policy are already in motion to roll the vehicles out en masse.

Even if a new government were to reverse the federal mandate of all zero-emission sales for light-duty vehicles by 2035, many provinces have their own mandates in place.

In British Columbia and Quebec, the policies are even more stringent than Ottawa’s. Quebec, for example, recently announced it would ban the sale of used gas engines by 2035 as well. International policy also has some impact on Canada, as EU countries and U.S. states bring their own mandates, impacting vehicle supply.
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The cost of a hoax

Justin Trudeau started and anti-Christian pogrom based on false claims of Aboriginal mass graves at Residential schools. Nearly 100 churches have been burned down or vandalized. No graves have been found.

The scandal surrounding Canada’s Kamloops Indian Residential School (1890-1969, British Columbia) is an ultracautionary tale about the damage inflicted by self-interested politicians and activists, backed by a media that toes the line. The 2021 scandal sprang from the alleged discovery of 215 graves of indigenous children. They were said to have died under suspicious circumstances at the Catholic-run school and then buried in unmarked graves behind the facility. Kamloops was one of the largest schools in the residential system through which indigenous children were culturally deprogrammed and indoctrinated to mold them into “proper” Canadians.

h/t DS

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Scott Stirrett: The time has come for mandatory national service for young Canadians

Last month’s British election catalyzed a debate about the advantages and drawbacks of a policy of national service for young people. In particular, the British Conservative Party proposed twelve months of mandatory service for 18-year-old Britons in the military or other public institutions. A previous Hub article in favour of compulsory service provoked a similar debate.

Not sure that providing military training for imported 5th Columnists is such a great idea.

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