The third time it happened, I started getting curious. I’d be in the grocery store or on a walk in Vaughan, my suburb just north of Toronto, and bump into an acquaintance. “Hey Danielle, we’re moving to Florida next year. My husband just can’t handle this country anymore.” One by one, millennial families with young kids seemed to be emptying out of my neighbourhood.
After four weeks in court, the Crown has presented its final evidence in the trial of three men accused in a Mississauga restaurant shooting three years ago that left one man dead and left four others injured.
Naim Akl, 25, was killed in the May 29, 2021, attack in a restaurant called Chicken Land that was owned by his family. Akl’s mother, father, brother and a family friend were injured.
Jihad Akl, Naim’s father, was shot in the chest that night. It was busy at the restaurant when a man burst in and started firing, he testified in Superior Court in Brampton earlier this week.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday he’s “more convinced than ever” that some parliamentarians are “willing participants” in foreign states’ efforts to interfere in Canadian politics after reading an unredacted version of a bombshell report from one of Canada’s intelligence oversight bodies.
But after a raucous half-hour scrum with reporters, he would not confirm whether he was referring to serving MPs who wear a turban.
Oh my. Look what Drinky May has been up to.
Elizabeth May @elizabethmay – links to the same People’s Republic of China Environmental Body where Stephen Guilbeault is the Vice-Chair with the Vice-Premier of China / Member of Chinese Communist Party Politburo:
1. Elizabeth May was for years a Director of the… pic.twitter.com/JX3XSnfcuZ
— Andrew Haynes (@AndrewJWHaynes) June 12, 2024
h/t Lord Dilligaf
Canadians pay a lot of taxes. Federal sales tax, provincial sales tax, income tax, carbon tax, you name it. But what value are we getting for all of those dollars that end up in the government’s pockets?
When it comes to the K-12 public education system, Canadians believe the system has gone in the wrong direction.
You must understand: there is nothing anyone can do.
I know, I know. It is shocking to learn that a number of MPs and senators have been acting, effectively, as agents of a foreign power, selling secrets and influence to countries such as China and India in exchange for money and political favours.
They come from as far afield as Comox, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Guelph, Ont.
Once strangers, these new Canadian Armed Forces recruits are now seldom more than a few metres from one another — eating, sleeping and exercising as a unit — all part of the bonding process designed to create the soldiers, sailors and airmen (and women) of tomorrow.
They’re among the first cohort to pass through Basic Military Qualification, or basic training, under new guidelines aimed at removing hurdles and boosting numbers — changes the Department of National Defence (DND) hopes will solve a personnel crisis that Defence Minister Bill Blair called a “death spiral” for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
It’s possible to be both astounded and completely unsurprised by the allegations that some members of Parliament have colluded with foreign states to serve both their own interests and those of governments like China and India.
For years now, Canada’s elite have been acting as if there is no real legitimate national interest. Imagine a new prime minister trying to invoke a Canadian version of JFK’s self-abnegating admonition to, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Young Canadians would say: “But I thought you told us we lived on stolen land?”
"Immigrants should only be allowed in Canada if they adopt Canadian values"
Agree: 65%
Disagree: 24%Research Co. / June 3, 2024 / n=1001 / Online
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) June 12, 2024
Some first-year students attending the University of Guelph may have trouble finding a place to stay during the semester.
The university recently announced that over 7,000 high school students across Ontario who had applied for programs at U of G have accepted offers of admission.
Canada is the only one of 32 member nations not to publicly release a plan to meet the target
One of the country’s leading business voices is warning that Canada faces “diplomatic isolation” if it’s not prepared to deliver a concrete plan next month to raise defence spending to meet NATO’s benchmark.
The Business Council of Canada — which has been wading more and more into the debate on national security lately — made the assessment in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The letter comes as both NATO defence ministers and G7 leaders prepare to gather at separate meetings in Europe, and as leaders of the NATO alliance nations get ready for a summit in Washington, D.C. next month.
We are a Clown State.
The stakes are high in a looming June 24 federal byelection in a long-held Liberal riding in Toronto, and if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party shows signs of slipping, it could spark a bigger conversation, pollster Nik Nanos(opens in a new tab) says.
“I think a lot of people are going to be reading the entrails on this because we are getting closer to the election. Byelections are sometimes referendums on the government of the day,” Nanos said on the latest episode of CTV News’ Trend Line.
“If it’s close, that’ll create for some … nervous Nellies in the Liberal caucus, and it’s going to be interesting to see what happens.”
It’s an ultra safe seat and Toronto voters are ideological nitwits.
If Greater Toronto is still ahead of the national curve, Canada may be in trouble. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the unemployment rate climbed sharply in May. Rising unemployment is a national trend, but the rapid pace at which it’s climbing can be attributed to Greater Toronto, home to a third of the increased unemployment in the past year. It’s a general trend across Southern Ontario, which has gone from the driver of the national economy to a major drag.
Conservatives lead Liberals by 12 points – Inflation and jobs/the economy top concerns (Nanos)
Ontarians are under extreme financial strain as more mortgages come up for renewal at higher interest rates while unemployment creeps up, according to a new report by credit reporting agency Equifax.
In Ontario, the total mortgage balance reaching “severe delinquency” — 90 days or more without payment — exceeded $1 billion for the first time in the first quarter of 2024. That’s double the level recorded before the pandemic, the report stated.
As if there are not enough problems with the exorbitant cost of housing, now we must face up to how it contributes to poor health.
Overcrowding within houses and apartments helps spread disease, according to studies in the U.S., Britain and Australia.
Overcrowding, which is calculated on the number of people living together per square foot, could be at its worst in almost a century in English-speaking countries.
The RCMP is warning of a growing number of cases of public speech that could incite hatred and is asking whether it has the legal tools to counter the trend.
RCMP Chief Superintendent Karine Gagné told Radio-Canada that while she wouldn’t comment directly on the case of controversial imam Adil Charkaoui — who gave a speech in Arabic in Montreal late last year in which he called on Allah to “kill the enemies of the people of Gaza” — she believes it may be time to revisit Canada’s laws on hate speech, which date from the early 2000s.
Following an RCMP investigation, prosecutors in Quebec chose not to charge Charkaoui.
