Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Speaker Ted Arnott to reverse a ban on keffiyehs at Queen’s Park, describing the move as “needlessly” divisive.
“The decision to ban the keffiyeh was made by the speaker and the speaker alone. I do not support his decision as it needlessly divides the people of our province,” Ford said in a statement issued Wednesday evening.
The foreign interference inquiry concluded its core public hearings phase on April 12 and a clearer picture has emerged of the threat Canada faces and what the government is doing about it.
The Liberal government had initially resisted holding the inquiry but eventually folded amid political pressure following a steady stream of intelligence leaks in the media about interference from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Canada stands with Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday, living up to the Trudeau government’s tradition of empty rhetoric and meaningless bromides.
Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been spouting such banality since the horrendous Oct. 7 massacre.
GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth testified in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the RCMP has raided one of his properties, but said it was not related to the ArriveCan app.
Firth’s two-person Ottawa IT firm is the main contractor behind the controversial pandemic-era program.
The goal of Budget 2024(opens in a new tab) was simple enough: Put out the raging fire in the dumpster this government has become.
Will it work before the election? Probably not.
A Hail Mary rehash of the greatest hits from the government’s three-week travelling pony-show, the budget takes aim at reversing the party’s popularity plunge in the under-40 set.
A transgender military chaplain who was celebrated by the Canadian Armed Forces on ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ has been disciplined for making an inappropriate comment or request of another individual, according to the Department of National Defence.
Captain Beatrice Gale, was celebrated by the Department of National Defence (DND) in a video released in 2023 that discusses the chaplain’s gender transition.
What a sick joke.
York University faculty group recommends defining support of Israel as ‘racism’
A York University faculty committee has recommended that the school henceforth define any acknowledgement of Israel’s existence as evidence of “anti-Palestinian racism.”
According to an April 5 “recommendations report” leaked to National Post, an official committee within York’s Department of Politics has proposed that any defence of Israel be viewed as “anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab.”
The BCF Settler Colonial Project claims rights to its ancestral lands on which York U is parked.
The CBC is gaining $42-million in the budget to help support its programming after declining advertising and subscription revenues, and warnings last year of looming job cuts.
The public broadcaster signalled last December that it may have to cut 800 jobs to address a $125-million projected shortfall for the fiscal year.
Catherine Tait, chief executive officer and president of CBC/Radio-Canada, prompted an outcry when, on the day the broadcaster announced the possible job cuts, she told its newscast that it was too early to say if executive bonuses would be cut.
… The study, titled “Six months after October 7th: An analysis of terror attack responses by Canada’s religious groups,” had its origins in author Rahim Mohamed’s shock at the “wave of public displays of religious intolerance—mostly targeting Jewish Canadians—that would have been unthinkable just days earlier.”
A senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation and a National Post columnist, Mohamed undertook a careful analysis of post-Oct. 7 statements, both formal and informal, by Canada’s leading Muslim organizations. From his findings, he concluded that interfaith relations in Canada are arguably “even worse than the headlines would suggest; indicating that it is not just a small, vocal minority who’s turned against Canada’s Jewish community, but in fact much of the Muslim community’s leadership.”
No offense but the good guys are not exactly legion and Justin funds votes.
As Canadians deal with a crushing housing shortage(opens in a new tab), high rental prices and inflationary price pressures(opens in a new tab), now Equifax Canada is warning that Canadian consumers are increasingly “under stress” from the surging cost of living.
“Our data says about 50 per cent of Canadians are living paycheque-to-paycheque(opens in a new tab),” Sue Hutchinson, the president of Equifax Canada, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.
The Liberals have already announced a bevy of measures to help put a dent in Canada’s housing crisis, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau(opens in a new tab) pledging to “meet the moment” as younger generations increasingly feel “middle-class stability” is out of reach.
Some people said it couldn’t be done. But after spending the winter warm and dry in her insulated RV, Carrie Steeves feels triumphant.
“It feels good that it was successful,” Steeves said in a recent interview. “It feels good that so many people told me that we couldn’t do it and that it was not doable to live in a camper for the winter, and I knew that it could be done.
“We survived it. Not only did we survive it, we thrived.”
After an initial meeting on sharing information with allies on unidentified flying objects, the Canadian military has cooled on its interest in the extraterrestrial file.
The Canadian Forces do not have any plans for additional meetings with allies at this point and will not be working with the federal government’s science advisor on the phenomena, National Defence confirmed to this newspaper.
I bet Ottawa wasn’t invited given it was a 5 Eyes event.
This is interesting …
From today's AARO's Kona Blue report Bottom of pg 18 (pic 2 ⬇️) “Recovered AAV technology exists in and is accessible only within a SAP construct.”. #ufotwitter#uapx #ufos pic.twitter.com/2M54hHrLjC
— Mick East (@MickSeagull) April 16, 2024
One-on-one interview with Nick Pope, journalist and UFO investigator
Nick Pope was The Brit Mulder, official UFO guy of the MOD. Went in agnostic, came out a believer.
As part of a routine rollout of pre-budget announcements, last week the Trudeau government casually announced that it was going to solve the housing crisis.
In a Friday press release headlined simply “Canada’s Housing Plan,” the Prime Minister’s Office laid out a plan to “unlock 3.87 million new homes by 2031.”
“Canada can and will solve the housing crisis,” read an attached quote by Housing Minister Sean Fraser.
The federal government says it plans to explore new measures to expand access to “alternative financing products, like halal mortgages.”
According to the federal budget, the Liberal government has already begun consultations with financial services providers and diverse communities “to understand how federal policies can better support the needs of all Canadians seeking to become homeowners.”
The Islamic faith considers the charging of interest to be a form of usury, and considers gains made through interest to be unjust.
h/t Patti Jo
Governor General Mary Simon understands that with holding high office comes power. What she doesn’t understand is that this power is not to be used for political ends — for promoting contentious Liberal bills that are trying to be passed in Parliament, for example.
Hi @nationalpost!
I hope you have the day you deserve. pic.twitter.com/M10CtEp2zY
— Rachel Gilmore (@atRachelGilmore) April 16, 2024
h/t Richard Elliot
