Canada

Rent is going up more than $100 a month right now — with the average asking price a record $2,117

Although the pace of increase has come down ever so slightly, the price of rental accommodation in Canada continues to go up, with the average new tenant now being asked to pay $2,117 a month.

That’s according to a new report from Rentals.ca, which tabulates the data every month from its database of the largest single group of rental listings across the country.

The $2,117 figure is an increase of 9.6 per cent from the average rent in August 2022. That’s down from an all-time high of 12 per cent from August 2021 until August of last year, but still the highest figure ever in dollar terms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

William Watson: The Tories should embrace the woke backlash

Out here in the far reaches of the American empire, it’s always gratifying and more than a little thrilling when people in the imperial capital take notice of us. Last week, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat wrote about wokeness in the Anglosphere and though he started with how James Bond has gone woke in the latest Bond novel (“On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” written not by Ian Fleming, who died in 1964, but by one Charlie Higson), the subject of woke Canada entered soon enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

MP Michael Chong testifies before U.S. lawmakers about being target of Chinese foreign interference

Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, a repeated target of Chinese government intimidation, told U.S. congressional hearings Tuesday that Ottawa and Washington need a co-ordinated response to Beijing’s concerted efforts to interfere in Western democracies and bullying of diaspora communities.

Mr. Chong received a rare invitation to speak to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, an 18-member panel of Senators and House of Representatives that monitors human abuses in China and is examining Beijing’s global repression campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Diane Francis: Co-captains Trudeau and Singh running Canada into the ground

The Good Ship Canada is taking on water, and bringing in far too many unproductive crew, and its Captain Justin Trudeau simply re-arranges the deck chairs.

Suddenly, Canada’s economy contracted in the second quarter this year and heads toward a recession, the first high-income country to do so. Canadians threaten to mutiny — a recent poll showed that a majority want Trudeau and his governing sidekick, Jagmeet Singh, out of office.

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Sask. premier accuses Trudeau of risking trade with India, hiding status of talks

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s government is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of damaging relations with India and keeping the provinces in the dark about trade talks.

In a letter Moe released Monday, Saskatchewan Trade Minister Jeremy Harrison argues Trudeau is picking a fight with India for domestic political gain and risking access to one of his province’s most important export markets.

Harrison claims the province learned that Canada paused trade talks with India through media reports, and that Trade Minister Mary Ng had not replied to a late July letter seeking an update on the negotiations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Snubbed by world leaders at G20 to embarrassing Canada on the global stage, Justin Trudeau became famous for all the wrong reasons

Trudeau has also come under severe attack by the Canadian opposition and policymakers for his “woke agenda” on issues around gender and freedom of speech.

There are doers and there are talkers, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s character qualifies as that of a talker reading his own eulogy. This much is clear from the global media coverage, including Canadian media, of Trudeau’s G20 participation which was a disaster in itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Justin Trudeau Mocked On World Stage, Khalistan

Indian prime minister scolds Trudeau over Sikh protests

TORONTO – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed strong concerns about protests in Canada against India to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi, according a statement by India.

New Delhi has been long sensitive to Sikh protesters in Canada. In June, India criticized Canada for allowing a float in a parade depicting the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards, perceived to be glorification of violence by Sikh separatists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Justin Trudeau Mocked On World Stage, Justin Trudeau Useful Idiot, Khalistan

A U.S.-based Sikh group is rallying the diaspora in B.C. to vote for an independent state in India

U.S.-based group Sikhs for Justice is mobilizing members of its diaspora to vote in what it describes as a referendum, including one scheduled in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday to create an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called Khalistan.

The vote has been on a world tour since 2021 with more events planned to tap into separatist sentiments in the Sikh diaspora.

Organizers have conducted votes in London, Melbourne, Rome, Geneva and in Ontario, which attracted thousands of people in Brampton last year, and thousands in Mississauga this July. The group’s ultimate goal is to hold a vote in Punjab in 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Khalistan, USA

John Ivison: Ottawa fiddles around on firefighting while wildfires burn

Canada’s summer of wildfires has exposed its political leaders as participants in a never-ending roundtable, jabbering about solutions while the country burns.

It must be clear even to this federal government that it cannot keep calling on its combat professionals to sling sandbags and mopping up after fires if it wants to have any level of operational readiness during a period of heightened geopolitical tensions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘It’s deeply corrosive to our democracy’: What Michael Chong will tell an American probe into Chinese interference about being targeted

QUEBEC CITY—Conservative MP Michael Chong, twice the target of alleged Chinese state interference, will make the case to American legislators Tuesday that more international co-operation is urgently required to thwart Beijing’s efforts to meddle in Western democracies.

His top-line message: If influence operations go unchecked, they will threaten economic prosperity, undermine public confidence in democracy and place social cohesion at risk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Conrad Black: Steven Guilbeault’s destructive crusade against Canadian prosperity

Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Steven Guilbeault, has been an activist all of his conscient life.

He co-founded an organization that rejoiced in the name Action for Solidarity, Equity, Environment and Development. In 2001, when he was in his early 30s, he scaled the CN Tower like Spiderman to an altitude of 340 metres and unfurled a banner proclaiming “Canada and Bush — Climate Killers.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam