TORONTO, May 18 (Reuters) – Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains.
The phenomenon has prompted at least one province to build a new storage facility. Demand for memorial fundraisers has surged. The overall cost of a funeral in Canada at the top end has increased to about $8,800 from about $6,000 in 1998, according to industry trade group estimates.
The “demographic shock” of mass immigration is aggravating Canada’s affordable housing problem, the National Bank of Canada says in a new report.
A dying woman has been denied a partial liver transplant offered by her own partner for drinking while she was on the waiting list.
Amanda Husk, 36, has been on life support for three months awaiting the much-needed organ.
But she was denied the transplant after medics found the struggling alcoholic had relapsed before being admitted to hospital.
Beverley McLachlin has spent the past six years servicing the reputation of Hong Kong’s top court, while destroying the one she spent a lifetime building in Canada.
Had she decided, upon her retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017, to invest in a nice condo in Boca Raton and take up watercolour portraits or something, her legacy would have been set as one of the most esteemed and accomplished jurists in generations. She was the first woman and longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court; she was a professor, an author, and at times, a polarizing figure, but her fidelity to law and order, to democracy and fairness was without question. But Ms. McLachlin has torched that very legacy by renting out her reputation to a sham court operating under the thumb of Beijing’s repressive and authoritarian regime.
TDSB investigating incident of alleged antisemitism at North York school following community rally
The Toronto District School Board is investigating an incident that sparked a community rally outside a North York school Friday morning in support of a Jewish student.
In a letter sent home to parents Friday afternoon, Principal Katia Robles said the rally “was related to serious allegations involving students.” She said it was reported to administrators that “a small group of students were throwing stones, among other items, at each other at various times during the day” on Thursday. The letter does not specify further details about what happened or why.
Rally attendees, however, say that the student they showed up to support was targeted because he is Jewish and the victim of antisemitism and bullying.
Canada Needs Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants While Speeding Up Deportations, Trudeau says
There needs to be a path to citizenship for undocumented Canadian immigrants, while in other cases deportation proceedings must be “accelerated,” says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“There needs to be … a pathway towards regularization and citizenship which I know [Immigration Minister Mark Miller] is working on. In some cases we need to accelerate deportation proceedings,” Mr. Trudeau said during a press conference on May 17.
“There’s a balance in making sure that the integrity of our immigration system holds.”
That lying prick is destroying Canada through his mass immigration scam.
Chris Selley: Trudeau’s abortion shtick reaches new lows
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States,” the Toronto Star reported this week. I was disbelieving. Even by the standards of Trudeauvian hyperbole and Canada’s kabuki abortion politics, that would be a hall-of-fame howler.
In some of his most hawkish comments to date, the head of Canada’s intelligence agency is warning Canadians — including teenagers — against using the wildly popular video app TikTok.
“My answer as director of [the Canadian Security Intelligence Service] is that there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China … to be able to acquire … personal information from anyone around the world,” said CSIS director David Vigneault in an interview with CBC’s The House airing Saturday.
“As an individual, I would say that I would absolutely not recommend someone have TikTok.”
OTTAWA – Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah.
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance in the region.
The money will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, as well as trusted partners in the region including the Canadian Red Cross and other Canadian non-governmental organizations.
Two Ontario-based Chinese media outlets that had published information aimed at former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu weeks before the 2021 federal election have been identified in the foreign interference inquiry report as having “close links” to the Beijing regime.
“Canadian intelligence holdings identify both 105.9 Yes My Radio and CGCTV as having close links to the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government or PRC state-media,” stated the interim report published by the foreign interference commission on May 3.
I was struck by some numbers in Robert Lyman’s column in FP Comment yesterday on the costs of net-zero climate policies. The costs he talked about were impressive enough: the units they come in are years’ worth of GDP. But what impressed me almost even more was that, according to a compilation by Navius Research for the Canadian Climate Institute, there are, as Lyman wrote, no fewer than 112 federal and 364 provincial and territorial programs addressed at various aspects of climate change. That’s almost 500 in total.
Canada is imposing sanctions on “extremist” Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada announced Thursday.
“The sanctions are a response to the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank,” Global Affairs said in a news release.
Canada is sanctioning four people, the department said: David Chai Chasdai, Yinon Levi, Zvi Bar Yosef and Moshe Sharvit. Global Affairs Canada said the four have engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians and their property.
I bet Netanyahu is beside himself.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to suspend all taxes on gasoline and diesel between Victoria Day on May 19 and Labour Day on Sept. 2 to help Canadians save money and retain their summer vacations amid high inflation.
Speaking to reporters in Vancouver, Mr. Poilievre said many families could be forced to cancel their summer vacation plans due to the rising cost of living, noting the record number of visits to food banks across the country.
Greatest number of terrorist watch list individuals being apprehended at northern border
(The Center Square) – The northern border largely has been unmanned and understaffed for decades as federal reports issue conflicting conclusions about how much, or how little, operational control exists.
Some officials have suggested the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just 1% operational control over the northern border after a 2019 General Accounting Office audit of U.S. Customs and Border northern border operations. But a December 2022 DHS report claimed, “The Border Patrol is better staffed today than at any time in its 87-year history,” noting no surveillance of extensive parts of the northern border existed prior to 9/11.
Canada is a politically moderate country, with a mostly moderate voter base, so the large Conservative lead in the polls should surprise absolutely nobody.
Last week, the Liberal government granted British Columbia’s request to end its cursed drug decriminalization experiment that has only served to make the province’s addiction situation worse.
