It’s been a full week since federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment that lays out an aborted murder-for-hire plot hatched in India last spring, and there’s still nothing to warrant claims by the federal government and its friends that the news is a vindication of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s melodramatic detonation of Indo-Canadian relations in September.
The number of Canadians who have died while on a waiting list for medical care is at a five-year high, according to a new report.
Over 17,000 patients died before they could be treated with surgery or diagnostic scans, says a SecondStreet.org report published on Dec. 6.
That number represents a 64 percent increase since 2018, the report said.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre threatened Wednesday to throw a massive wrench into the machinery of Parliament unless Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exempts more people from having to pay the carbon price.
Between proposing thousands of legislative amendments to forcing hundreds of votes on individual government spending plans, Poilievre vowed his party will not let the Trudeau Liberals take their Christmas break without changing their carbon pricing program.
“You’ve ruined Christmas for Canadians,” Poilievre said in a speech to his MPs Wednesday morning, in reference to the current cost of living pressures facing Canadians and that he blames in part on the carbon pricing program.
Funding cuts, fewer generalists and inefficient organisation are preventing more and more Canadians from accessing public primary healthcare, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) which compares Canadian healthcare unfavourably with public systems in nine Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.
About 20% of Canadians have no family doctor at all, and many more have irregular access to clinicians – a reality likely to worsen if not properly addressed now, said Dr Tara Kiran, a family physician in Toronto and one of the authors of the study.
Canada is a very broken country.
Canada has launched a deportation case against a senior Iranian government official found living in Toronto, Global News has learned.
Seyed Salman Samani, 42, is facing a deportation hearing under sanctions imposed a year ago against members of Iran’s hardline regime.
The Canada Border Services Agency has asked the Immigration and Refugee Board to hold a hearing for Samani that could result in his removal.
The number of Canadian spies with permission to break the law is rising, according to an internal memorandum. The memo, marked secret, provides a glimpse into a murky world of how operatives can ignore normal rules with prior approval.
Under current legislation, people working with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) who are “acting in good faith” can obtain “limited justification” to “commit acts or omissions that would otherwise constitute offences,” said a memorandum to Canada’s public safety minister. That limited justification can be granted to agents, contractors or intelligence assets, legal analysts said.
Another study confirms this. The standard of living of Canadians is in constant decline. The situation is even worse than before the pandemic.
The indicator comes from GDP and its variations per hour worked and per capita, from which we can make a nod to productivity and standard of living. On this basis, it is known and documented that productivity growth in Canada has lagged behind countries with so-called developed economies for decades. Particularly compared to the United States. “ What is new is that productivity has actually reversed itself over the last five years, has declined, taking real GDP per capita with it on a downward trajectory. » Douglas Porter, chief economist of BMO, even speaks of a sustained decline in recent years without precedent since the post-war period.
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There really does appear to be a surliness in the land, perhaps fuelled by pent-up sentiments after several years of lockdowns, isolation and kids at home from school. The sudden return of high inflation(opens in a new tab) has no doubt contributed to the resentment.
Several premiers who were riding high after the pandemic have landed with a thud.
Doug Ford and Francois Legault were easily elected to second majority terms as their provinces exited the health crisis. Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick had earlier turned his minority government into a majority.
The Official Opposition is criticizing the judge running the public inquiry into foreign interference for not granting the Conservative Party full standing in the first phase of this probe, a decision that means they cannot ask questions of witnesses or gain access to any secret evidence gathered.
The first part of the foreign interference inquiry will examine foreign interference by states such as China in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. The second phase will examine what reforms are necessary to fight foreign interference.
Social justice is a signature mission of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has promoted it with incessant virtue signalling. Yet it is unraveling due to an amoral, self-contradictory ideology and incompetent execution. As a result, Canada is a more divided country, riven by interpersonal and communal tensions and afflicted by the worst outbreak of antisemitism in our history.
This is multiculturalism, this is diversity, this is mass immigration you bigots! Now if you’ll excuse me I have a DEI session to attend where I’ll learn all about my white privilege and have my heritage denigrated. https://t.co/K2vVzJRg3q
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) December 5, 2023
The Canadian government and media spread fear among citizens about the COVID-19 pandemic while implementing measures to force them into taking vaccines under threat of potential reprisals, according to a report by the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI).
“The pandemic was a textbook case of the collaboration of government and industry to subvert the democratic institutions and convince the citizens of the validity and truthfulness of a narrative that was objectively false from the start,” the Nov. 28 report reads.
In the days since parliamentarians unwittingly applauded a Ukrainian veteran who fought in a Nazi unit, political parties and observers have found one thing to agree on — Canada has embarrassed itself.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called it the “biggest single diplomatic embarrassment in Canadian history.”
Politicians across party lines have condemned the impact the incident has had on many people in Canada and around the world, including Jews and Poles.
Former national-security adviser and CSIS director Richard Fadden said that during his time in government, there were internal reports of diplomats with Global Affairs’s foreign information-gathering unit overstepping their authority.
The Global Security Reporting Program, which sends diplomats to hot spots to collect security-related information for Ottawa, has come under a spotlight after accusations by Michael Spavor, held prisoner by China for nearly three years.
Canada remains a chronic underachiever. Our economy contracted by 1.06 per cent quarter-over-quarter in the third quarter, while the United States economy grew by 5.2 per cent. The European Union and Australia also saw modest economic growth.
Defence Minister Bill Blair says he is committed to pushing for increased investment in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) after two top commanders sounded the alarm recently on operational readiness.
“Colleagues and shipmates, the [Royal Canadian Navy] (RCN) faces some very serious challenges right now that could mean we fail to meet our force posture readiness commitments in 2024 and beyond,” Vice-Adm. Angus Topshe, commander of the navy, said in a YouTube video posted earlier this week.
