The money’s been deposited, the order’s been placed. It’s been more than one year and Canada still hasn’t delivered its promise of a $406-million missile system to help Ukraine in the battle against Russian invaders.
National Defence Minister Bill Blair, in Edmonton this week to announce a $45-million infrastructure project at CFB Edmonton, said the hang-up is stateside.
OTTAWA — Canada will join an international effort to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to go hungry.
Joly issued a statement saying Canada will join the international coalition that is working together to increase the flow of aid to Gaza through a humanitarian sea corridor originating from Cyprus. Further details have not yet been released.
The announcement came following a meeting between Joly and her counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed.
Homeowners in Canada are edging closer to mortgage default as many near the “trigger point” on their loans, according to a federal memo to the superintendent of financial institutions.
A trigger point is when the amount of interest is equal to the fixed monthly mortgage payment, meaning that zero is going to pay off the principal of the loan. At this point, nothing is being paid down on the mortgage itself. If interest rates keep going up, those with variable rate, fixed payment mortgages will need to pay more just to cover the interest payments.
Here is the funniest thing said by any MP on Parliament Hill this week: “We share the outrage on foreign interference. We know this is an issue. This is a challenge we have to address.”
The hilarious speaker was Iqra Khalid, the Liberal MP for Mississauga-Erin Mills, whose declaration came just after Liberal and NDP members had voted together to shut down a Commons ethics probe into how two Public Health Agency of Canada scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Kedie Cheng, came to pass some of this country’s most sensitive secrets to Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Three years in prison for a predator – Attacks worthy of “women’s worst nightmare”
“No one deserves to be harassed and disfigured. To be afraid of losing your face,” whispers Cassandra*. This Montrealer, like four other women, experienced horror at the hands of an extremely violent sexual predator. The young foreign student was sentenced Monday to three years in detention and will be deported from Canada.
…El Mehdi Badi has time to attack two other women before attacking Cassandra, his last victim. The attack is particularly violent. “You like that, you’re looking for that,” El Mehdi Badi says to her when she tries to push him away. The woman suffered two concussions. She thought she would die at that moment.
“I was disfigured because he tried to tear my lip off with his teeth,” says Cassandra, on the witness stand, staring at her tormentor in the box. Impassive, the young man stared at the ground in silence.
Note – Google Translate
Few things delight residents of Toronto more than unexpected animals in unexpected places.
When a family of foxes took up residence beneath a boardwalk during the coronavirus pandemic, thousands flocked to the beach for a glimpse of the kits. When a beaver waddled throughout the city’s downtown core with a large branch in its mouth, children excitedly cheered on the determined rodent. And even when a raccoon plunged parts of Toronto into darkness, the urban critters were celebrated for their wily, indefatigable character.
h/t DS
Bob Rae has spent a lifetime in public life railing against injustices and invasions.
Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations has been fearless since arriving in New York in 2020 — lashing out at Russian aggression in Ukraine and condemning China’s human rights abuses.
Now, our most fiery envoy finds himself on the firing line.
“While the report says it covers geopolitical factors, references to geopolitical challenges appear to be among the passages redacted. Two pages of the report are entirely blank, with the exception of a picture of a globe.”
I read that as “Don’t make the Muslims angry”.
In this edition of our Canadian politics tracking, we report on our usual metrics along with some updated data comparing perceptions of the Trudeau government’s performance in areas such as housing, healthcare, managing the economy, and managing government finances.
Conservatives lead by 18 over the Liberals. It’s been 658 straight days that the Conservatives have led the Liberals in Abacus Data polling.
When Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault suggested it was “immoral” for the government of Saskatchewan to deliberately defy the federal carbon pricing law, the allegations of hypocrisy followed quickly.
Had Guilbeault himself not been arrested for breaking the law? Hadn’t he proudly climbed the CN Tower in 2001 to protest Canadian climate policy?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted a picture of Guilbeault being taken into custody by police in 2011 and later asserted that what was really “immoral” was the Liberal government increasing the carbon tax while also flying to international summits.
The federal government is reducing its national beer tax that was set to increase on April 1, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Saturday.
For an additional two years, Freeland told reporters that the federal government will extend its inflation adjustment cap at two per cent for beer, spirit and wine excise duties.
h/t Mauser
A beauty consultant, a chef and a musician who claimed to be stuck in China.
B.C. Housing filed 14 new lawsuits this week against a wide range of people accused of abusing a program designed to get affordable homes into the hands of people who need them.
After days of questioning following CBC stories about alleged violations of an Affordable Home Ownership Program, B.C’s Housing Minister released figures suggesting as many as a third of the 135 units in Victoria’s Vivid condominium project went to buyers who never lived in the building.
Expanding evidence of Toronto Method fraud capturing BC Affordable Housing program- this adds corroboration to the assessments from my HSBC whistleblower investigation that a China connected fraud network is significantly impacting Canadian housing https://t.co/HIikRWefuj
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) March 10, 2024
To Romana Didulo’s followers, the Queen of Canada doesn’t live in a British palace – she’s in the rural village of Richmound, Sask.
Surrounded by farmland about 450 kilometres west of Regina near the Alberta border, Richmound has a population of just over 100. Since September 2023, it has also been home to Didulo and a group of her followers, leading to protests and heated confrontations with locals.
Charlotte Kates of PFLP Samidoun celebrates the October 7th slaughter of Israelis at a Samidoun Rally in Ottawa today. pic.twitter.com/mTkbMaefWR
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) March 10, 2024
Leger just released the results of its latest poll done for the National Post asking Canadians how they feel about the state of the nation. Seventy percent of the voting-age respondents said they agree with the statement that “it feels like everything is broken in this country right now.”
That number rises to 85 percent when you look at those who vote Conservative but drops to about half that, 43 percent, for Liberal supporters. Interestingly, these people live in the same country but it’s like they live in two different worlds.
