COVID-19 case counts are down dramatically from a year ago, according to federal data. Hospitalizations are higher than during the first two pandemic summers, but are hovering around their lowest point since December, 2021. And there are now fewer than 30 COVID-19 deaths reported across the country per week.
But owing to limited testing and COVID-19 deaths that are undetected or not yet reported, the real toll COVID-19 continues to take on Canadians is not yet known.
This week, the Wall Street Journal, a strong candidate for “best newspaper in the English-speaking world,” became the latest news outlet to lift a questioning eyebrow at Canadian immigration policy. WSJ’s superb Ottawa reporter Paul Vieira gestures, for the benefit of his paper’s international audience, at facts most of our readers already know well. Inflexible, highly regulated parts of the economy like housing, medicine and transport are screaming under the burden of immigration levels with few precedents anywhere — levels the Liberal government has done nothing but increase.
An embarrassing attempt at journalism from the usually upright Canadian Press over the weekend was desperate to convince readers that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is moving conspiracy theories from “the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking.” It didn’t offer a single piece of evidence to support this thesis.
“All I know is in my province we have 650 fires and 500 of them were human caused, so we have to make sure that when people know that when it’s dry out there and we get into forest fire season, that they’re being a lot more careful because anytime you end up with an ignition that happens, it can have devastating consequences,” Smith said.
To the slogans “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength,” one could now add “Hate is love” judging by how often social justice seems to be delivered via the policeman’s truncheon. Even in famously polite Canada.
Also “Censorship is free speech” and “Dissent is treason,” because a Christian group had to sue after its event permit was cancelled in Quebec City this summer because it was suspected of Thoughtcrime. And because of the brazenness of the rationale.
A surge in infections from the Omicron variant during the last respiratory virus season left three quarters of Canada’s population with some level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The figures on infection-fuelled immunity — as opposed to vaccine protection — was produced by the COVID-19 immunity task force and published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The Liberal government’s approach to gun control to reduce violence is not backed by evidence, says a new report by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).
The report released on Aug. 14 goes over the various measures implemented by the government in recent years, from the ban of so-called “assault-style” firearms to the freeze of handgun transfers, and the introduction of Bill C-21.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection is saying little about an operation earlier this year that used helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane to round up 124 people in the vicinity of the Canada-U.S. border.
That’s despite the fact it publicized the sweep, dubbed “Operation Jagdakommando,” in a July 20 news release that described it as a response to “unprecedented illicit cross-border activity” in the Northern U.S.
The release said personnel from CBP’s air and marine units in Detroit and Washington state also took part in the multi-jurisdictional “surge operation,” which was led by the U.S. Border Patrol.
August 14, 2023 – A challenging summer for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally, as he and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, announced they would be separating, is becoming a challenging summer politically.
A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Trudeau’s Liberal Party behind the Conservative Party of Canada among decided and leaning Canadian voters.
Canada’s f—ing falling apart. All the s— they did during COVID was just the total wrong direction,’ podcaster says
Joe Rogan: "Canada is fkn falling apart. All the shit they did during Covid was the total wrong direction…they froze people's bank accounts that donated money to the Freedom Convoy."
"That makes people self-censor and that's the terrifying aspect of that." pic.twitter.com/FJeDHudvZa
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) August 8, 2023
Blamed for affordability crisis, Liberals look to pivot on housing
OTTAWA – Chris Burke and his fiancée have been less than a year away from buying their first home for the past three years.
Saving for a down payment was the first challenge. Now, rising interest rates have kicked home ownership down the road again, stalling the couple’s plans to get married and have children.
“Any gains we make towards purchasing a house, we’re watching the goalposts move further and further away,” the 31-year-old Ottawa resident said.
When it comes to analyzing Conservative political success, our commentariat has a massive blind spot
On May 2, 2011, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives won a majority government. That was what happened, but in the days following election day, it wasn’t really the dominant narrative. Instead, commentary tended to focus on related phenomena. There had been an “orange wave”, with the NDP scooping up dozens of seats in Quebec and forming the official opposition in Parliament—their leader Jack Layton was a star. The Liberals had cratered, plummeting to only 34 seats in the House of Commons—their leader Michael Ignatieff was a dud.
The intake of newcomers is rising rapidly and straining housing, healthcare and transportation
Canada is known for its embrace of immigrants and hasn’t experienced the same backlash that has been seen recently in countries such as the U.S. and the Netherlands. But new polling released last month from Ottawa-based Abacus Data reflects skepticism, with 61% of citizens saying the government’s plans are too ambitious because of the negative impact on housing and healthcare. The Canadian Medical Association said the country’s population-to-physician ratio ranks 29th out of 36 developed-world economies, while data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show Canada’s hospital-bed capacity is one of the lowest on a per-capita basis among rich-world economies.
Canada is known for its embrace of immigrants?
Submission to mass immigration is more like it. Romanticized views of immigration in Canada are the domain of politicians selling snake oil nowadays.
No one signed on for an inundation of incompatible cultures or to have their own government dismiss their heritage and nation as so much racist garbage.
Multiculturalism was weaponized and the smear of racism was used as a bludgeon to smash dissent and ensure Canadians clapped like trained seals in approval whenever the topic of immigration was raised.
Ethnic disaporas possessed of little in common with Canadian values are catered to by our political class who tolerate the intolerable for votes.
Who asked that hiring decisions be made on the basis of government ordained victim status?
Who asked that being white be considered a virtual hate crime and Canada be turned into a low trust society?
Who asked for “racialized sentencing guidelines” for criminals as if the average Joe who just wants to be left alone is somehow responsible for the alleged historic oppression of predators?
No one asked for a balkanized society where foreign ethnic conflicts spill out into our streets.
Who asked for an immigration policy that does not benefit citizens?
No one asked because it was imposed upon us and its true purpose is to benefit the corporate and political classes at our expense.
No one asked because divide and conquer works best when its victims are forbidden to talk about it until it’s too late.
This so called “embrace of immigration” is better described as a choke hold.
OTTAWA – Droughts in the West have so far prompted at least 13 districts in Alberta to declare agricultural disasters, but appeals to the federal Liberal government for assistance to the province’s farmers, livestock producers and ranchers are being ignored say local leaders.
On Wednesday, the Municipal District (MD) of Pincher Creek, tucked into the southwest corner of Alberta between the Crowsnest Pass and Fort Macleod, became the latest jurisdiction to declare a state of agricultural disaster.
