OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a “carbon tax election,” and is calling on the Liberals to exempt all home heating from carbon pricing until the next federal vote.
Poilievre threw down the challenge in an address to his caucus this morning, where he chided the Liberals’ decision to pause the levy only for home heating oil over the next three years.
For 37 years, Canada has kept close guard on an explosive roster of names.
The classified report lists 883 possible Nazi war criminals who found harbor in the country after World War II, and many believe it offers insights into exactly what the government knew about how they got there, the extent to which they were investigated and why most escaped prosecution.
Canada’s strong privacy laws and government secrecy have kept the report confidential, but a recent political blunder may crack it open.
Although a majority of Canadians have already received or intend to get a COVID-19 booster shot or flu vaccine this year, 40 per cent of the population does not plan on rolling up their sleeves for the updated shot this fall, according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News.
The poll, released Wednesday, found of that group, 45 per cent said they did not feel it was worth getting one. An additional 23 per cent of this group expressed concerns regarding the shot’s safety, while seven per cent were outright opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
How can you minimize your exposure to the burdensome carbon tax? Stop driving the car you need to get to work, eat less and — as of last week — move to a region that’s key to the Liberals’ electoral success.
Last Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year pause on the carbon tax for home heating oil. Technically, the pause applies to all Canadians, but in practice, it’s really just Atlantic Canada that stands to benefit, since it’s the only region where this particular fuel is used to a significant degree.
America’s northern neighbor has euthanized tens of thousands of its citizens.
Do we live in a post-Christian world? Yes and no. The Western vision of equality, human rights, accountable government, and even contemporary democracy are derived from Christian assumptions. But the faith that once supported those assumptions has waned. What remains are mere professions of values without attempts at justification. Think of Jefferson’s “self-evident” truths in the Declaration of Independence, or the United Nations’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its mere “recognition” of the “inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family,” and so on. Our leaders no longer defend those values with appeals to any religious or metaphysical sentiment—or even to reason. They simply assert, but assertion is not proof.
OTTAWA – The Conservative party is maintaining a steady lead over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, a new poll suggests, at a time when Canadians are reporting limited trust in their institutions.
Pierre Poilievre’s Tories are 14 percentage points ahead of the governing party, according to the survey by polling firm Leger. Forty per cent of respondents said they would vote Conservative, 26 per cent Liberal and 17 per cent NDP if an election were held that day.
In the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel earlier this month, a lot of commentators were shocked and angry to learn that a lot of young people did not support Israel and that many had sympathy for Hamas. This shift in public opinion differs greatly from older Americans.
Not only is Generation Z anti-Israel, but it is generally anti-capitalist, anti-military, anti-empire, and many have declared their unwillingness to serve if America resumes the draft.
This is only shocking if you have not been paying attention.
More recent immigrants are leaving Canada for greener pastures, a new study says.
The findings suggest the phenomenon is especially prevalent between four and seven years after newcomers have received their permanent residence.
Although the number and ratio of people leaving each year varied, over the course of 25 years, accumulatively about 20 per cent of immigrants in each cohort ultimately left Canada, said the report, “The Leaky Bucket: A Study of Immigrant Retention Trends in Canada.”
Which may say something about the “quality” of immigrant who is forced to stay.
An analysis of educational attainment and economic outcomes shows limited evidence of broad systemic racism in Canadian society, despite what anti-racism activists and the mandate letters from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his cabinet might insist, according to new research from The Aristotle Foundation.
“What this study tries to do is introduce some facts and evidence and logic into trying to (assess) the accuracy of this claim that we’re a systemically racist society,” said Matthew Lau, a senior fellow with the think tank who authored the research paper.
Canada’s economy is showing clear signs of a slowdown, as after shrinking in June, the total value of all goods and services sold was essentially unchanged in July and August — and likely September, too.
Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that the country’s gross domestic product was flat in August, as the service sector expanded a little but output from goods-producing industries shrank.
Canada’s GDP in August came in at $2.082 trillion during the month. That’s barely ahead of just over $2.081 trillion the previous month.
The teenage driver who killed Calgary police Sgt. Andrew Harnett can now be identified. He is Al Azan Shah Muhammad.
According to his passenger, the motive to flee the traffic stop was because there were drugs in the vehicle, which Muhammad feared would be discovered.
Muhammad was 17 years old at the time of the crime so a publication ban protected his identity under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).
Who is this Toronto woman with the whiny voice and vile heart? Is she mentally unstable? If so, we need to get her into treatment asap. https://t.co/YqeK9hwihr
— Sue-Ann Levy (@SueAnnLevy) October 31, 2023
I think the hostage posters have been a great success.
They have put the very worst of the Liberal-left Hamas alliance on public display.
Israeli ministry ‘concept paper’ proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt’s Sinai, with Canada as a possible final destination
JERUSALEM – An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s(opens in a new tab) 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise — a “concept paper.” But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt’s problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.
… Egypt would not necessarily be the Palestinian refugees’ last stop. The document speaks about Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates supporting the plan either financially, or by taking in uprooted residents of Gaza as refugees and in the long term as citizens. Canada’s “lenient” immigration practices also make it a potential resettlement target, the document adds.
No thanks. Stupid of Israel to suggest Canada be used as a doormat for Hamas supporters. There is precedent however as they did dump their unwanted Eritreans in Canada.
It’s hard to believe she really said it.
On CTV’s Question Period on Sunday, federal Rural Economic Development Minister Gudie Hutchings said if Western Canadians and Prairie premiers would like carve-outs in the federal government’s carbon tax similar to the carve-outs given to Atlantic Canadians on Thursday, then Westerners should elect more Liberal MPs.
Vote Liberal. Or twist in the wind.
