Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other political leaders and diplomats in praising — and reflecting on — Joe Biden’s legacy, as Ottawa prepares to work with whomever Americans vote for as their next president this fall.
Biden announced on Sunday he is abruptly ending his presidential re-election campaign.
Even as federal Liberal government is pledging to cap the number of international study permits, its own data show Canada is approving permits at a pace faster than last year, which saw a record number of approvals.
According to numbers curated online by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Canada handed out 216,620 international study permits in the first five months of 2024.
The little prick is currently on vacation.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t soft-pedal Beijing’s interference in Canadian affairs or its human-rights record during blunt talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week, a one-day visit aimed at reopening channels of dialogue after six years of a deep freeze in bilateral relations.
Ms. Joly met with the Chinese foreign minister for three and a half hours at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Friday but the two ministers did not break any significant ground in strained bilateral relations. A major reset is unlikely in part because of unfavourable perceptions of China among Canadians, she said.
Uh, what is Joly talking about? It’s not “the government” that has a problem with China interfering in our elections, threatening our citizens etc. but “Canadian perceptions”? …What? https://t.co/3uvO0fke47 pic.twitter.com/tbm7v6S5bp
— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) July 22, 2024
A terror attack occurred near the Gaza border Kibbutz of Netiv Ha’asara on Monday, the IDF and police said.
“A suspect arrived at the entrance of Netiv HaAsara, exited his vehicle, and threatened with a knife members of the community’s rapid response team operating in the area,” the IDF later stated of the incident.
The knife-wielding terrorist was thwarted after the rapid response team opened fire on the suspect.
Imagine this… your hate for jews is so big
You buy a planeticket from canada to Israel, you hire a rental car for two weeks and on your second day there
You are so dumb as to attack armed israeli's over the gaza war
The scene this morning at Netiv HaAsara. You wont be… pic.twitter.com/b209uda453
— Brian BJ (@iamBrianBJ) July 22, 2024
Last May, it was looking likely that Donald Trump was poised to win the presidential election this fall. After June’s debate exposed President Joe Biden as a dotard with advanced cognitive decline, Trump’s electoral victory was all but assured. With the failed assassination attempt on Trump last weekend, Trump’s victory is now virtually inevitable assuming some lunatic doesn’t manage to kill him before this fall.
The toxic effects of the Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel have spilled over into Canada in the form of a sharp intensification of antisemitic incidents.
As Deborah Lyons, Canada’s former ambassador to Israel and now its special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, said recently, “It’s clear from the data we’re seeing, particularly coming from police units across Canada, that there’s a huge increase in antisemitism in terms of hate crimes happening. I would say the level of antisemitism now in Canada is at an all-time high. It’s unprecedented.”
Maybe we shouldn’t have imported an Islamist 5th Column after all!
Maybe we shouldn’t have allowed our universities to become racist Marxist shitholes!
Maybe we shouldn’t have declared open season on White People under the guise of DEI and CRT!
Perrin Beatty was Canada’s defence minister at a key moment, and later served briefly as foreign minister. He understands better than most what Canada’s lack of military readiness means, and says politicians of all stripes should shake any comfortable assumptions about the world.
“We’re living at the most dangerous time in the world, in my lifetime,” says Beatty, who notes Canadians don’t live in a “fire-proof house.”
All those 3rd Worlders our elites let in?
Ready made 5th columnists at worst or having no loyalty other than to their “home country” will be completely unwilling to defend Canada for any reason.
China and India have been accused of exploiting the opaque nomination contests of Canadian political parties to meddle in elections.
It is the “Wild West” of Canada’s political system, a “critical gap” in its democracy. But Canadian political leaders — and some foreign nations — are big fans.
Canadian elections have long rested on what many experts say is an undemocratic foundation: opaque nomination races in which political parties select their candidates for general contests in a process mystifying to most Canadians.
Party bosses enjoy an unshakable grip. Money flows, often unaccounted for. Rules tend to be lax, with no impartial judge in sight.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies could be thrown into chaos if former president Donald Trump wins the U.S. election on Nov. 5 and makes good on two things he promised in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.
h/t DS
Long seen as punching below its weight, Canada, the world’s second-largest country by area and one of its seven wealthiest economies, said it would meet its NATO pledge to significantly bolster its military spending by 2032.
But everything about the commitment, which NATO is pushing all alliance members to make, is fraught.
Some have criticized the timeline as too protracted, though it is actually compressed if seen through the lens of the slow pace of global military hardware production.
On the day of the invasion, Hassan Husseini reacted to a social media post by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) that denounced Canadians celebrating the atrocities by responding: “It is called liberation of stolen land, stupid!!!”
OTTAWA — Elections Canada is suggesting possible changes to protect the political nomination process from foreign meddling, including barring non-citizens from helping choose candidates, requiring parties to publish contest rules and explicitly outlawing practices such as voting more than once.
The federal elections agency outlines the proposed moves in a discussion guide intended to help chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault draft final recommendations to be submitted later this year to a commission of inquiry on foreign interference.
Chinese international students passing on Canada: ‘Monotonous’ and unaffordable
When 19-year-old Ricky Liu was applying for universities in the fall of 2022, one thing occupied his mind: how to score a seat at a top-ranked institution. Both Chinese and Western universities courted Liu, a dual citizen of mainland China and Hong Kong: he was fluent in multiple languages, scored high grades in STEM and humanities courses, and showed leadership through his extracurricular activities in sports and music.
J.D. Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was as comforting and familiar as chicken soup for many Canadians.
Donald Trump’s new running mate touched on many of the same notes that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting: championing the working class, domestic production and legal immigration; maligning elites, wasteful spending, unaffordable housing and unfair Chinese trading practices.
If Canada was a deserving ally under the Liberals why did Trudeau send Joly to kiss China’s ass?
It wasn’t how the emergency doctors ranked each statement — from “never” to “every day” — in the burnout inventory that alarmed Dr. Kerstin de Wit and her research team.
It was the doctors’ responses, in a final, optional, open-ended question: “Is there anything you would like to tell us about your experiences?”
“This is awful. Worst in 20 years. With no light; just darkness,” one remarked.
