OTTAWA—The way former Liberal cabinet minister Catherine McKenna sees it, change is coming. Either her party supplies it, or they lose power.
She’s quick to say that doesn’t necessarily mean Justin Trudeau needs to go, though she observes that what’s on offer “clearly” isn’t resonating with voters.
On the eve of Pride month, a new poll has found declining support for LGBTQ2 rights in Canada.
The Ipsos survey polled adults in 26 countries on a variety of metrics measuring support for the queer community.
Canada, it found, was among the few countries where support for rights and visibility appeared to register “precipitous drops,” Ipsos vice-president of public affairs Sanyam Sethi said.
There are still too many supporters of sexual mutilation for children.
Canadian rockstar Bryan Adams — known for his hits “Summer of ’69” and “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” — slammed federal legislation in a video posted online, grabbing the attention of the federal heritage minister.
“Canadian music is global. It’s time the government recognises that,” says the caption of the video Adams posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Canada’s economy went from boom to bust faster than anyone could anticipate. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows slower-than-expected real gross domestic product (GDP) in Q1 2024, along with a downward revision for the previous report. Combined with the rapid population growth, this has led to a rapid decline in per-capita real GDP. In fact, Canada’s per-capita real GDP rolled back to 2014-levels, indicating the country is facing a lost decade of household progress.
… And while Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau responded to this latest shooting at the Toronto Jewish girl’s school, by referring to the attack as, “a brazen act of antisemitism, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice,” it’s just a bit confusing for those of us who have noticed Trudeau’s proclivity towards the acceptance of Woke ideology, part of which seeks to classify certain ethnicities in the oppressed or oppressor category. Because within that warped concept of reducing individuals into divisions, which represent evil or victimhood, Jews have somehow ended up on the side of those who perpetrate hardship, deprivation and even genocide against Palestinians, perennially seen as the consummate victims.
A CBC ad campaign last summer tried to define the increasingly amorphous sense of “Canadianness” on which its brand is built: “It’s not how Canadian you are; it’s who you are in Canada.” But, if the Liberals have their way, even this tagline will be outdated soon.
OTTAWA — The head of Canada Post says the Crown agency wants nothing to do with the Trudeau government’s gun grab, despite efforts by Ottawa to enlist the postal service in the “buy back” plan.
Testifying before the House operations committee on Wednesday, Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger said the Crown corporation had serious concerns over its involvement with the program, which would see firearms owners turn in their now-outlawed firearms to Canada Post locations.
Lying prostrate in a mansion in Montreal, battling a chronic heart condition and late-stage Parkinson’s, Robert Miller is close to death.
The 80-year-old billionaire, described by media in his home country as Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein, is facing a class action lawsuit brought by scores of women who say that he groomed and sexually abused them, some of them when they were underage.
Update: Billionaire Robert Miller arrested, faces 21 sex exploitation charges
Canada’s Immigration Minister, Marc Miller, has commanded center stage in Ottawa over the past few weeks making a rash of new policy announcements. The changes being made to Canada’s immigration system will make it easier for newcomers to come into the country – seemingly without regard for either the costs to taxpayers or the strain placed on Canadians’ social contract.
Last Thursday, the government tabled legislation that extends birthright citizenship, allowing Canadians who live abroad to pass down “Canadian citizenship” to their children who may have been born outside the country and live abroad. This allows for a person who never has set foot in Canada to hold Canadian citizenship based on one of their parents’ citizenship.
Welcome to Delhi, India… sorry, we mean Toronto, Canada.
The effects of mass immigration and #TheGreatReplacement make it difficult to tell the difference, and it’s happening all over the West.
We don’t want to be replaced by anyone. pic.twitter.com/qs54bGlRx1— Britain First (@BFirstParty) May 29, 2024
Does anyone know the context for this video?
Was there a festival or holy day or something being celebrated?
Or is Toronto just Fucked?
A few weeks ago, a friend who lives in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s heard the doorbell ring. It was Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hadn’t even called the by-election for the affluent midtown riding, and yet Mr. Poilievre was already knocking on doors in a seat that has been Liberal for decades.
No one is realistically predicting that public disaffection with the Liberals will result in an upset in Toronto-St. Paul’s when the by-election is held on June 24.
Toronto will vote Liberal. That comet can’t come soon enough.
Politicians are justly criticized for always voting at their party’s call, and never thinking for themselves at all, to paraphrase the musical HMS Pinafore.
Yet there are still freewheeling, free-thinking MPs who put the public interest ahead of their party.
Veteran Liberal MP John McKay, a parliamentarian for 27 years and current chair of the House defence committee, is one such.
“‘With Trudeau, I have to get out of here,’ that’s what people tell me. They say to me, ‘Marco, who do I have to talk to to get out of here?'”
Tens of thousands of Canadians are emigrating to the United States and the number of people packing up and moving south has hit a level not seen in 10 years or more, according to data compiled by CBC News.
There’s nothing new about Canadians moving south of the 49th parallel for love, work or warmer weather, but the latest figures from the American Community Survey (ACS) suggest it’s now happening at a much higher rate than the historical average.
NDP MP Laurel Collins slammed the term “climate hysteria” and tearfully insisted “climate emergencies are not gender neutral” while repeatedly admitting she is “wildly emotional.”
Speaking in the House of Commons this week, Collins complained the Conservatives had called a witness to testify on climate change who called it “climate hysteria,” meaning people are getting emotionally and irrationally worked up over the future of the planet.
The U.S. Department of Justice says two men are facing human smuggling charges in Seattle for their alleged role in what it calls a dangerous scheme to transport people out of B.C. and across the border on freight trains.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Tessa Gorman says 45-year-old Jesus Ortiz-Plata of Oregon and 35-year-old Juan Pablo Cuellar Medina of Washington were arrested last week, along with three non-citizens who were allegedly smuggled out of Canada.
The Royal Canadian Navy is not looking at the option of nuclear submarines despite earlier suggestions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the contrary.
The navy has been focused on the potential acquisition of convention-powered submarines for the past several years to eventually replace the existing Victoria-class submarines, according to emails from National Defence to this newspaper.
“The RCN is completing an analysis of conventional submarines that meet Canada’s requirement to patrol all three of its oceans,” National Defence spokeswoman Frédérica Dupuis confirmed in the latest email.
