Students from nine First Nations will not be charged tuition at the University of Toronto, part of wider efforts, the university says, to make the institution more inclusive and accessible to Indigenous Peoples.
The new policy, which comes into effect next month, applies to members of First Nations whose territories the university occupies or is adjacent.
Although this country’s population grew robustly last year, our total fertility rate continues to decline, data released by Statistics Canada Wednesday reveal.
The debate over how to address the issue is going to get ugly. In some parts of the world, it already has.
Canada grew by more than a million people in 2022, because we took in just under 470,000 immigrants and almost 700,000 non-permanent residents, mostly students and temporary workers. That’s significant, because at just 1.33 children per woman last year, this country’s total fertility rate (TFR) is far below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to maintain population stability absent immigration.
Canada assassination claim sparks rare consensus in India’s polarised politics and media
When Justin Trudeau stood up in Canadian parliament last week to announce there were “credible allegations” that agents linked to the Indian government had been involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist in a suburb of Vancouver, it sent reverberations across the world.
Countries from the US to the UK expressed concern at the allegations, urging India to cooperate with the investigation. Inside India, the response was defiant. The government called the allegations “absurd” and politically motivated and attempted to turn the tables, accusing Canada of being a rogue state that is a “safe haven for terrorists”.
She claims to be the Queen of Canada, and now she’s holding court in an abandoned school.
Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist, leads a group of supporters who have spent the last few years traveling around Canada in motorhomes and other vehicles.
Recently, the group moved into Richmound, a village of around 150 people in south-western Saskatchewan, and settled in at a former school.
The current India-Canada crisis has exposed a sharp disconnect between India and the West on the issue of Sikh separatism.
Ever since Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged possible Indian involvement in the June assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia, New Delhi has doubled down on a long-standing grievance: Canada is home to dangerous anti-India extremists that Ottawa refuses to curb. It is a controversial contention, and one that Ottawa has never endorsed.
Nijjar was training recruits on machine guns in Mission BC.
h/t MW
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked to personally apologize for the embarrassment he caused to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week — instead, he apologized for all parliamentarians.
The University of Alberta is returning a $30,000 donation it received from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, saying it regrets any harm it may have caused by accepting the endowment in his name.
“The university recognizes and regrets the unintended harm caused,” Verna Yiu, interim provost and vice-president of the university, said in a statement.
“On behalf of the university, I want to express our commitment to address anti-Semitism in any of its manifestations, including the ways in which the Holocaust continues to resonate in the present.”
An Oakville cemetery is once again facing calls to remove a monument that pays tribute to a Ukrainian unit that was recently thrust into the spotlight when controversy erupted over a decision to honour one of its veterans in the House of Commons.
The monument in question is located within West Oak Memorial Gardens, a 100-acre cemetery at 1280 Dundas St. W. that is owned and operated by St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery. In 1988, a large statue commemorating what is known as the First Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army was erected at the burial ground, which is the largest Ukrainian cemetery in Canada.
You remove the monument you had better ensure Freeland is gone as well as her background is looking sketchier than Hunka’s.
Look at Chrystia Freeland’s nervous hand squeezin’ when she’s asked about investigating Canadians who fought alongside Nazis. pic.twitter.com/qkVYlk4vMm
— golden pup (@Golden_Pup) September 27, 2023
MPs expected to dig deeper on how war vet who fought with Nazis ended up in the House
This is dangerous offender Ijahim Peter’s escape from Toronto’s hospital for the mentally ill – part three.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is responsible for a long list of crimes against humanity, including genocide, slavery, child abduction, human trafficking, drug dealing and, of course, terrorism.
Canada welcomes ISIS terrorists back with open arms. What’s wrong with a little mass murder and slavery anyway?
Authorities claim it’s just too darned hard to dig up evidence against ISIS members.
I guess he didn’t get @karinagould’s memo about not making this a partisan issue. Not to mention, if you thought this would make him think twice about making careless and dangerous comparisons to Nazis? Think again. pic.twitter.com/BjipFUWIaw
— Jacqui Budden (@JacquiDelaney) September 28, 2023
It was only last week that Canada’s relations with India, the world’s largest democracy, went downhill fast. The drama became a big international story and when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the United Nations in New York last week, the India affair was pretty much all he was asked about.
Trudeau publicly accused the Indian government of participating in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil—a Sikh independence activist born in India who has been accused of terrorism, a charge he had denied. Trudeau produced no meaningful evidence and India was not happy, creating a chill in relations that included the stopping of all visas for Canadian citizens.
👀 https://t.co/fOapoQgXra pic.twitter.com/WAZ8BgIXim
— drefanzor memes (@drefanzor) September 25, 2023
Months after a pro-Khalistan activist was shot and killed in Surrey, B.C., a second Sikh activist was allegedly warned by law enforcement about threats to his life, according to a newly disclosed document.
The document, titled “duty to warn” is addressed to Gurmit Singh Toor and dated August 24. It was made public by pro-Khalistan activist group Sikhs For Justice.
Speaking through a translator, Toor confirmed to CBC News that Surrey RCMP and the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) came to his home and issued the warning. CBC News is working to confirm the veracity of the document with RCMP, but has not yet received a response.
It was the “optics” of the thing.
That’s what it’s always been about with Justin Trudeau’s government: The fancy-socks neoliberalism, the matinee-idol magazine covers, the Pride parades, the ill-advised Bollywood haberdashery. It’s always about optics.
But if you live by optics you just might perish by them, and what we’re beholding now is the “world stage” reputation of Trudeau’s Canada suddenly engulfed in a hurricane of mortifying, barely-believable global headlines. Like this one: Canadian parliament accidentally honours Nazi.
OTTAWA — The Conservatives have maintained their summer lead in the polls, according to fresh numbers from Leger.
Leger has released the findings of an online survey conducted over the weekend with more than 1,600 Canadian respondents.
Among decided voters, Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre’s party has the support of 39 per cent of respondents, which is 12 points ahead of the federal Liberals.
Trudeau apologizes after a Ukrainian Nazi veteran was celebrated at Zelenskyy speech
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized on behalf of Canada after a veteran of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi forces was included in a parliamentary event last week honouring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context,” Trudeau said in a brief statement to reporters.
“It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust,” he said, saying the celebration of ex-soldier Yaroslav Hunka was “deeply, deeply painful” to Jewish people, Poles, Roma, the LGBT community and other racialized people in particular — some of the groups that were targeted by the Nazi regime in the Second World War.
Canada isn’t guilty of anything. Trudeau and his Nazi party loving pals are guilty.
Trudeau: "All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped, even though we did so unaware of the context … It was deeply, deeply painful for Jewish people. It also hurt Polish people, Roma people, 2SLGBTQI+ people…" pic.twitter.com/WAH8XYeHaD
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 27, 2023
Greg Gutfeld SNAPS into most EPIC rant EVER after "Blackface" Castro Jr. Trudeau gives literal Ukrainian NAZI standing ovation:
“Justin Trudeau couldn’t be red in the face because he’s black in the face… Apparently, unvaxxed truckers are treated worse than Nazis.”🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/ArfVQQ0hYl
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 27, 2023
