OTTAWA — One week after tabling the latest federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained on the defensive while responding to increasing opposition from business and industry groups against proposed changes to capital gains taxation.
Speaking to reporters during a budget promo tour stop in Saskatoon, Sask., Trudeau was repeatedly asked to respond to critiques of the key point of contention in last week’s budget: the increased capital gains tax inclusion rate.
h/t DS
The corporate conglomerate building an electric battery plant in Windsor that is slated to receive billions of dollars in government has ramped its use of foreign workers at the site and has even taken work away from unionized tradespeople in recent weeks, according to explosive new allegations from a national trades union federation.
H/T SweetPea
TORONTO – A few Ontario government members have voted again today to uphold a ban on keffiyehs in the legislature, prompting some people watching question period from the public galleries to put on the scarves.
Legislative security ejected the protesters, who were shouting, “free free Palestine.”
The Speaker of the legislature has ruled that people in the chamber as well as in the building cannot wear keffiyehs, which he says are being worn to make a political statement.
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Protesters kicked out of the Ontario Legislative Building and trespassed from Queen’s Park for defying the recent keffiyeh ban.#cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/bAcwfdp603
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 23, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
I was born an Indian Muslim. Today, I’m a Canadian atheist. I have lived and worked in some of the most war-torn regions of the world. I know what repressive cultures look like, which is why I’m troubled by the political shifts of the past decade. The Canada I grew to love in my youth is regressing into something eerily reminiscent of the cultural climate my parents fled from — one that shuns skepticism, enforces orthodoxy, and imposes rigidly hierarchical thinking.
My family moved from India to Canada in 1975 when I was a small boy. Shortly after we settled in, representatives from the local mosque showed up at our home. They came to tell my father how to be a “good” Muslim, explaining exactly how he was to worship and conduct himself as a member of their community. After a few minutes, I watched in shock as my father unceremoniously showed these religious leaders the door. Once they were gone, he told us no one could dictate what we were supposed to believe — that this was a country where people were free to go their own way. That lesson stuck with me.
h/t DS
MONTREAL – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged after they allegedly took part in a conspiracy to illegally sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment to Libya.
The RCMP says Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, who is 61 and lives in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Catherine, Que., has been arrested and is expected to appear in a Montreal court today.
Police say his alleged accomplice, Mahmud Mohamed Elsuwaye Sayeh, 37, remains on the run and INTERPOL has issued an alert to police around the world.
Over the last several years, Canadian employers have increasingly brought in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) trainers to rid their workforces of conscious, and even subconscious, racism. On the face of it, who can object to diversity, equity and inclusion? It is like objecting to Santa Claus.
Unfortunately, these workshops too often have been hijacked by radical ideologues who pitted races against each other. The unhappy story of Richard Bilkszto, who committed suicide after alleging he was deemed a racist by one such trainer for observing that Canadians are not more racist than Americans, was simply the publicly exposed tip of that iceberg.
White people must never have been the target of DEI programs if this article is to be believed.
The author has likely never heard of the ADL I suppose.
More right than he knows to include the media.
Peel police chief met Sri Lankan officer a court says ‘participated’ in torture
The head of one of Canada’s largest police forces met with a Sri Lankan inspector general of police who two weeks earlier had been found by the South Asian country’s highest court to have “participated in the torture” of an arrested man.
Photos published by Sri Lankan media, including the Ceylon Today, an English-language daily newspaper, show Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah in uniform posing alongside senior Sri Lankan officers on Dec. 29, 2023 at police headquarters in the capital Colombo – a visit a Peel police spokesperson says Global Affairs Canada and the RCMP had been made aware of ahead of time.
An unprecedented streak of pre-budget announcements focused on housing and youth may have dominated headlines, but they did little to move the needle for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, polling suggests.
Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have their highest-ever lead over the Liberals, with 37 per cent of survey respondents choosing the Tories, compared to 19 per cent who say they’ll vote for Trudeau’s Liberals. But it remains to be seen how last week’s budget will impact the horse-race, as Trudeau and his cabinet pitch their plan to Canadians.
The 2024 federal budget failed to spark a much-needed rebound in the polls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trailing Liberal party, according to new Ipsos polling released Tuesday.
Canadian reaction to the Liberal government’s latest spending plans shows an historic challenge ahead of the governing party as it tries to keep the reins of government out of the Conservative party’s hands in the next election, according to one pollster.
A U.S. border patrol sector in Vermont has apprehended a record number of attempted illegal crossings from Canada in a single month.
Officials in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Swanton Sector in Vermont saw 1,109 apprehensions in March 2024, the highest recorded by the sector in a single month.
The dominant issue in the Milton byelection doesn’t seem to be expanded Go-Train service or building Hwy. 13 — it’s Gaza. That’s based on what is being said and what is not being said by candidates and leaders.
While antisemitic slogans shouted during a weekend anti-Israel protest triggered a rare, online-only rebuke from the prime minister, Canadian Jewish groups blame the deafening silence from Canada’s political leaders for emboldening protesters, resulting in a conspicuous increase in hateful rhetoric.
A judge has dismissed an application to throw out the case of a Calgary man accused of going to Syria to fight with ISIS, for what the defence said were unreasonable delays in the court process.
Justice Corina Dario made the ruling on Monday, saying 34-year-old Jamal Borhot’s rights had not been violated, which allowed the trial to officially begin.
Borhot pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ottawa police say they are investigating an allegation of hate speech that has emerged from a weekend protest on Parliament Hill.
Police say they received complaints about some of what was said during a pro-Palestinian demonstration Saturday about the Israel-Gaza war.
The protest featured demonstrators brandishing Palestinian flags and placards calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
🚨 We are no longer a nation of laws.
Anti-Israel thugs in #Ottawa praise the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists, chant antisemitic slogans and set off smoke grenades at Parliament Hill without consequence. @JustinTrudeau is this the type of Canada you wanted? This is all… pic.twitter.com/gkFxYK6BXu
— HonestReporting Canada🎗️ (@HonestRepCanada) April 21, 2024
A Canadian humanitarian organization says its key water-aid truck was bombed in Gaza this week, and the federal government now says it has contacted the Israeli government for “more information” on the incident.
Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday evening that the government reached out to Israel after hearing that the truck operated by the International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) had been bombed.
