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As the holidays approach, Canadians say they’re being tipped over the edge

Cathy Khalil recently tipped five bucks on an $18 box of doughnuts at one Ottawa store — and says she has no regrets.

“I think when people see [the options on the debit machine] they feel obligated, sometimes, to tip,” Khalil said. “[But] I’m not tipping for the sake of tipping. I’m tipping because I want to tip, and it’s coming from me.”

She may be in the minority: As the holidays approach and Canadians shell out money for gifts, food and other festive purchases, some experts say people are recoiling from all those tip requests that come with an increasingly wide variety of debit or credit card purchases.

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1 in 4 Canadians fear income won’t cover basic needs in Trudeau’s Canada says poll

A new survey suggests one in four Canadians are extremely concerned about having enough income to cover their basic needs, with the highest degree of hardship being felt by single parents.

The Salvation Army released the data today as part of their annual report examining Canadians’ attitudes and experiences with poverty and related socioeconomic issues.

Among single parents, closer to half are reporting extreme concern about meeting basic needs at 40 per cent, while the numbers clock in at 31 per cent for single-person households and 31 per cent for caregivers.

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Walking In A Death Cult Wonderland! Mohammedans Make Christmas Shopping Special This Year With Promises Of Murder

‘I’LL PUT YOU SIX FEET DEEP’: Chaos ensues during anti-Zara rally at Eaton Centre

A pro-Palestine demonstration targeting a Zara store on Sunday at Eaton Centre quickly went sideways as video surfaced of a man, his face partly concealed by a mask, uttering threats with police officers standing nearby.

There are people who should be in shackles for visiting this madness upon us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

TPS undermines public confidence in their integrity by allowing Hamas supporters to threaten to murder citizens with impunity

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Bob Rae: Siding With Hamas Is The Compassionate Thing To Do

Canada’s UN ambassador defends UN vote as ‘compassionate’ response to humanitarian disaster in Gaza

Canada’s ambassador to the UN says Canada’s decision to vote in favour of a humanitarian ceasefire was a necessary reaction to the increasingly desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza, as major international powers join the call for a ceasefire.

In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Bob Rae said that Canada could not stand by and remain fixed in its position as the scale of destruction and number of civilian deaths in Gaza continued to rise.

“It was a changing of the situation on the ground. The war has caused such major destruction in Gaza, and caused such humanitarian hardship … and over the last three weeks [the calls of humanitarian agencies] have gotten more and more urgent, so naturally it’s something that causes us to reflect,” he told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.

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Canadian housing starts dive as higher rates bite

Canadian housing starts plunged 22% in November from the previous month and missed estimates by a wide margin as higher borrowing costs hurt groundbreaking on multiple unit and single-family detached urban homes, data from the national housing agency showed on Friday.

The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 212,624 units from a downwardly revised 272,264 units in October, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) said.

… A sharp drop in new building starts will further aggravate a housing crisis in Canada and hurt the popularity of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His Liberal government has made housing its top priority and has announced a series of measures, including a plan to convert federal properties into new homes by March and to identify more public buildings for home conversion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada

Ottawa youth arrested in alleged terror plot targeting Jewish community

Canada’s national police force has arrested a youth in Ottawa in relation to an alleged terrorism threat against the Jewish community, Global News has learned.

Two national security sources said the alleged plot was believed to be religiously motivated and targeted against the Jewish community. A male youth – who cannot be identified due to his age – was arrested in Ottawa Friday night in what one source described as a significant national security investigation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Assault charge over car-swerving incident at Gaza protest near B.C. legislature

A man who allegedly accelerated his car toward a pro-Palestinian protester near the British Columbia legislature earlier this month has been charged with assault and dangerous driving.

Victoria Police say the man is facing one count of assault with a weapon and one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in charges sworn on Thursday.

You can see the video here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

U.S. should stop enabling Canada’s defence deficit

I was disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the Trudeau Liberals recently bucked the NATO trend and decided to go ahead with a series of cuts to our already emasculated Canadian Armed Forces. This comes after revelations that Trudeau quietly informed NATO that Canada will “never” be able to boost its GDP spending on defence to the promised NATO minimum of two per cent. All this while our Chief of the Defence Staff recently declared that Canada is “at war” with Russia and China.

But Canada’s perennially derelict military funding in an increasingly volatile world is not ultimately the fault of our defence-dollar-averse politicians or their voting public.

The problem, frankly, is the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA

Climate change could be avenue for adversaries to harm Canada, spy service warns

Mr. Freeze – biding his time.

OTTAWA – Canada’s spy service warns that dramatic shifts caused by climate change and the ensuing fractious upheaval around the world could leave Canada vulnerable, imperilling its food and water supplies, energy security and Arctic sovereignty.

Global warming will threaten security as countries and other actors seek to either bolster their economic positions or exploit their adversaries’ climate change-related weaknesses, says a newly released Canadian Security Intelligence Service analysis.

“Climate change will almost certainly heighten competition between nations, contribute to instability, strain capabilities and become the source of international tensions,” the CSIS analysis says.

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Conservatives still ‘comfortably’ in majority territory: Nanos seat projections

 

Support for the Conservatives has trended sharply up since the summer and if an election took place today, they’d win at least 166 seats compared to the Liberals’ 53 — with tight races in 76 seats that are too close to call right now — according to latest monthly seat projections by Nanos Research.

The projections, intended to show how popular support for a party would translate into seats in the House of Commons, have the NDP at 20 seats, the Greens at 1 and the Bloc Quebecois at 22.

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