City council in Surrey, B.C., says it is restricting public access to its meetings after persistent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters.
Mayor Brenda Locke began the Mar. 11 meeting by announcing that the public would be allowed to attend meetings on city premises, but outside the gallery.
She told the meeting that council had adopted provisions for registered members of the public to speak on items on the agenda.
Just yesterday, Breitbart News reported on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state isn’t such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.
I missed the following post in February but it is well worth the read if you have time.
In Praise of Conspiracy Theories: From The Camp of the Saints to Camps in the Darién Gap
Last week, the American journalist Tucker Carlson interviewed Bret Weinstein, a professional biologist who became a public intellectual after he and his scientist wife were driven out of their woke university for refusing to cooperate with a diversity program they regarded as racist. Though he has been a lifelong leftist and atheist, Weinstein’s iconoclastic observations and commentaries have been embraced by conservatives who are more interested in truth than ideological conformity. It turns out that people like him, who find themselves thrust outside the bubble of epistemic closure, often see things that the rest of us do not.
On the Carlson program, Weinstein reported on his recent visit to the Darién Gap, the densely forested patch of land in Panama, through which all migrants headed north from South America must pass. For most of the millions of migrants who have passed this way headed to the United States in recent years, this is the most perilous part of their journey. Weinstein, who is familiar with the area from his field research there as a biologist, was shocked to see NGOs everywhere in the Darién Gap, and also the United Nations migration office.
“The United States Government is facilitating this economic migration,” he said on the show. “It’s unmistakable.”
Bret Weinstein traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who’s behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: “it’s not a friendly migration.” pic.twitter.com/8Ase52sLOz
— TUCKER CARLSON (Parody) (@tuckercarlsonew) March 4, 2024
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) dished out $14.9 million in bonuses to employees in 2023, government records show.
The Crown corporation is facing criticism for its growth in bonuses in recent years despite widespread layoffs.
There are two steep hills that Pierre Poilievre will have to climb if he hopes to turn his good polling numbers into victory: the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Quebec.
The 60 or so seats in the GTA and the 78 seats of La Belle Province have been elusive prizes since the creation of the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper.
In 2021, the Liberals ran the table in Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton. This time around, things promise to be very different. Clever policy work, deep data and an open approach to ethnocultural communities and their concerns could open the floodgates for Poilievre.
Personally I believe the disgust Canadians hold for Trudeau makes re-election impossible however Mulcair is not talking pie in the sky nonsense.
While an increasing proportion of Canadians blame businesses increasing their prices (26%, up from 13% in 2022), Canadians still blame most often the Government of Canada’s spending and budget deficit policies for the sharp rise in prices and cost of living over the past year. Of note, blame on the Russo-Ukrainian war continues to decrease since tracking started (five per cent; 17% in 2022).
In a forecasting report meant to prepare the police force for the future, the RCMP notes a degradation of living conditions in Canada could lead to increased “popular resentment.”
“The coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations,” says the report “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.”
High immigration levels have traditionally enjoyed multi-partisan support in Canada, but half of all people now say that there are too many newcomers, according to a new poll.
The survey conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute found 50 per cent of Canadians agree that there are too many immigrants coming into Canada — a number that has more than doubled since January 2023 but has remained consistent across polls conducted in the past six months.
“Concerns over immigration are primarily about the economy rather than fears about immigrants changing the social fabric of Canada, the poll suggests.”
I find this statement misleading as it is only natural that economic concerns would be ranked first which in no way diminishes the worry people have about Canada being remade by mass immigration from incompatible cultures especially given the extent of Hamas support recently revealed. Not to mention the rising tide of anti-white discrimination endorsed by governments at all levels in Canada.
The organization responsible for conducting this poll seems suspiciously Liberal left & multicultural receiving funding from Heritage Canada and coming complete with a land acknowledgement.
One afternoon in early February, an alarming number of people started dropping on the sidewalks of Belleville, Ont. When the overdoses piled up to 13 in just two hours, police warned residents to stay away from downtown, the way you might cordon off a mass accident scene, so emergency responders could rush in to help.
Belleville hugs the Bay of Quinte, its downtown watched over by a clock tower above City Hall that looks like it’s made of gingerbread. The city of 55,000 is home to a profusion of good manufacturing jobs and hosts a big walleye fishing derby as a Kiwanis fundraiser every spring.
A monument in Oakville, Ont., honouring Ukrainian soldiers who fought in a Nazi military unit during the Second World War has been removed after years of controversy. While Jewish advocacy groups celebrate, however, the cemetery where it was located said the stone marker is being repaired rather than destroyed.
Chinese-made cargo cranes that have been flagged as a security concern by an ongoing congressional probe in the United States are widely deployed throughout Canada’s ports.
A House of Representatives’ joint committee said its investigation turned up evidence of cellular modems on the Chinese-made port cranes that “do not appear in any way to contribute to the operation … raising significant questions as to their intended applications.”
Abacus Data’s latest survey suggests while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives saw a slight decline in their lead over the government, that lead persists nonetheless, with that party holding the support of 41 per cent of those polled, compared to 24 per cent for the Liberals – the same spot they were in the last time the pollster took voters’ temperatures.
The smart rats are leaving early … Liberal MP says he won’t run again in battleground GTA riding
OTTAWA — The Liberal MP for a GTA riding that’s expected to see a fierce fight between the Conservatives and Liberals in the next election campaign announced Monday he’s not going to run again.
Tony Van Bynen became the member of Parliament for Newmarket-Aurora in 2019 after serving as Newmarket’s mayor for 12 years. He said Monday that it’s time for him to return to private life and spend more time with his family.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is pledging $1 million to support victims of sexual violence by Hamas in Israel during last October’s attacks.
The funding comes with an offer of RCMP support for investigations three months after a group of women who hold political office in Canada called on Ottawa to provide this type of support.
Last year, Mexico became the United States’ biggest trading partner, surpassing Canada and China for the first time. This humiliating fact is simply the latest statistic that illustrates Canada’s economic decline since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took power in 2015.
I think of the job of acting as inhabiting a situation or identity significantly different from my own. As a rabbi, acting is not really in my wheelhouse. However, when I was cast in a commercial sponsored by the Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism (FCAS) to play a rabbi whose synagogue receives a bomb threat during a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, I found it was a familiar role.
Rabbi Michael Dolgin is senior rabbi of Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto and is actively engaged in interfaith dialogue.
Was filmed in Vancouver BC. Easily the best example why the decriminalizing of drugs and poorly regulated safe injections sites is a bad idea.
— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) March 10, 2024
Perfect addition to any neighborhood!
