Last week, JJ Bean Coffee Roasters, a socially progressive chain of over 20 cafés in the Greater Vancouver area, closed its location in downtown Vancouver’s Gastown district due to public disorder and drug abuse.
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David Krayden: How Serious Do Beijing’s Threats Against Canadian Lawmakers Have to Get Before Ottawa Acts?
Even as the Trudeau government had its “special rapporteur,” David Johnston, supposedly investigating foreing interference in Canada’s electoral process, China was harassing MP Michael Chong.
This is incredible and demonstrates how little China cares about any repercussions of its surveillance, interference, spying, and intimidation of Canadians who dare to question Beijing’s dictatorial and genocidal policies.
Freeland touts home savings account for 1st time buyers .. says 300 years will fly by!
TORONTO – Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the uptake of a new savings account for first-time homebuyers is exceeding expectation, though she acknowledged the limits of what it can do to address affordability.
Speaking after meeting with constituents in Toronto who want to buy a home, Freeland said the First Home Savings Account is just one tool to help people get into the market.
Canada and Massachusetts open the door to the quartering of soldiers—oops, I mean unhoused populations
As a colleague noted, there are no property rights in a socialist state.
It should come as no surprise that Canada, with its notoriously socialist and interventionist government, is in the midst of a housing crisis. Who woulda thunk it?
Canada’s slide into woke dystopia
Rupa Subramanya, columnist at the Free Press, returns to the The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the slipperiness of Justin Trudeau, why Canadian parents are revolting against trans ideology, and the tragedy of Richard Bilkszto.
Alberta’s Danielle Smith slams ‘unconstitutional’ net-zero electricity regulations: ‘They will not be implemented in our province’
EDMONTON — The federal government’s newly released electricity regulations sparked criticism out of Alberta, a staunch critic of the Liberal government and one province that could be hard hit by the new targets.
“The draft federal 2035 net-zero power grid regulations are unconstitutional, irresponsible and do not align with Alberta’s emissions reduction and energy development plan that works towards a carbon-neutral power grid by 2050,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a statement Thursday.
MANDEL: Catholic teacher fired after viral TikTok video ordered reinstated
In the heat of the COVID mask wars, a scuffle between two Starbucks customers narrated by a “distorted” 23-second viral video turned Toronto Catholic teacher Angela Sena’s life upside down.
Uproar Follows Video Of Ex-Iranian Minister In Canada
A former Iranian minister has been spotted in Montreal, leading to uproar about Canada’s loose immigration controls in allowing entry to regime’s officials.
The footage circulating on social media captured Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the former Health Minister in President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, strolling through the streets of Montreal, accompanied by his family. The video is part of promotional materials for Quebec’s tourism industry.
Ottawa police identify 15 suspects in storming of Senegalese Embassy
Ottawa police are asking for help identifying 15 people accused of storming the Embassy of Senegal.
In a statement, they say a protest was happening just before noon on Aug. 1 and that a group forced its way inside the embassy.
The Senegalese Embassy said in a statement that people violently took over the premises, causing serious damage to the consular section and hurting staff and visitors.
Wow! Soon we’ll be just like those sophisticated Euros!
Supporters of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rioted outside the walls of the Senegalese embassy in Paris. Earlier, at the suggestion of France, the pro-Russian opposition leader was arrested. In Dakar, the capital of Senegal, his supporters began to take to… pic.twitter.com/qQY4CzeZiV
— pocalypsis pocalypseos (@apocalypseos) July 31, 2023
Most Canadians Still Couldn’t Buy A Home In Their City—It’s Not Even Close
Canadian housing is getting more affordable, but it’s still way out of reach for most. National Bank of Canada (NBF) released its Q2 2023 Housing Affordability Monitor (HAM) showing improvements in most markets. Despite rising financing costs, home prices fell enough to improve affordability. It was the third quarter to show affordability improvements, but it’s a long way from correcting 8 years of sharp erosion. Most of Canada’s households aren’t even close to being able to purchase a home at today’s prices.
More … Canada Lost 45K Construction Jobs In July — And Yes, That Spells Grim Things For Housing
The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?
Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline in 2022 cost almost $9 billion, almost double the estimate of $5.3 billion, a Global News analysis has discovered.
The expenditure for the Crown corporation expansion, found through a detailed reading of filings that included corporate plan summaries and projections, is one of several line items that reveal how a project purchased by Ottawa exceeded its original cost estimate by a factor of six, from $5.4 billion to $30.9 billion.
Average price of a new car tops $66,000 as drivers wrestle with ‘a very surprising reality’
Brace yourself. The average price of a new vehicle hit a record high in Canada in June – $66,288 – up 21 per cent in one year and 47 per cent over four years, according to AutoTrader.ca’s price index report.
That, combined with higher lease and finance rates, has accelerated auto loan delinquencies, prompting one industry expert to predict that drivers will be forced to downgrade their cars and extend the terms of their loans or leases to keep their payments manageable.
That is insane.
Billion Dollar Liberal Party Propaganda Outlet Warns Profligate Conservatives Have Launched “MASSIVE” Ad Campaign
The Conservative Party of Canada is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that depicts its leader, Pierre Poilievre, as a family man who wants to fix the country — all while his party is soaring in the polls and his main rival is going through a public split with his spouse.
“This is not a branding campaign. This is an amplification of who Pierre is and always has been,” said Regan Watts, a former senior adviser to the Conservative foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon.
“He’s warm, he’s kind, he’s empathetic and he listens… It’s important for people to delineate between Parliament Hill and the rest of the country, engaging with Canadians one-on-one. “
GUNTER: Increase in violence is real, not a perception
On Monday, Edmonton city police issued a warning to residents that a dangerous offender was about to be released into the city at the end of his jail term.
Mike Cardinal, 49, has a long list of previous offences for violence and for sex crimes against women between the ages of 15 and 82. Police have “reasonable grounds” to believe he will commit more crimes once he gets out.
MP Michael Chong targeted in ‘information operation’ likely from China
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) says it has detected an “information operation” targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and it is “highly probable” — but not conclusive — that came from China.
I bet it came from the PMO.