In 2021, one and a half weeks before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had Parliament dissolved for a snap federal election, the Liberals dangled a $130 million carrot in front of Canadian municipalities: the national urban park program.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says staff in his office and department aren’t to blame for not informing him of Beijing threats to MPs and has repeated that Canada’s spy agency is at fault.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) “had Top Secret information that they felt that I should see, and clearly, the process that they had in place to bring it to my attention was not complete, and did not bring it to my office’s attention and that’s now been remedied,” Mr. Blair said in a press conference in Ottawa on July 11.
As NATO leaders meet in Vilnius this week, the big news is that Sweden is finally going to join the club. After over a year of resistance, Turkey dropped its opposition and agreed to let the Nordic national become the 32nd member of the defense pact. Sweden isn’t over the finish line yet but is expected to finalize its status soon, adding additional heft together with NATO’s other new member, Finland.
Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) has paid out nearly $7 million in claims since it first launched, according to updated bi-annual records.
According to the VISP, a total of 1,859 claims have been received thus far from Canadians who suffered death or injury as a result of vaccines administered in Canada on or after Dec. 8, 2020.
A total of 103 claims have been approved to date, with payments totalling $6,695,716.
You may have heard that the Canadian and Ontario governments are spending up to $15 billion to ensure Chrysler-maker Stellantis builds an electric battery plant in Windsor. From this news, it might be reasonable to conclude that Stellantis is in the business of making batteries, but that would be incorrect. It is quite clear that Stellantis is, instead, in the business of securing government subsidies.
OTTAWA – Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog has announced investigations into a gold-mining corporation and the Canadian branch of Nike for possible forced labour in supply chains.
Sheri Meyerhoffer, who is the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, says the first two investigations her office has launched related to China’s Uyghur minority.
I suspect Canada’s China Class has nothing to fear.
The Trudeau government is stifling Canada’s economic growth, leading to irreparable societal divisions unless the trend is reversed, warns Statistics Canada’s former chief economic analyst.
In an essay for the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute — “What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis?” — Philip Cross cites a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development which “forecasts that Canada’s per capita GDP growth between 2020 and 2060 will be the lowest among its 29 member nations” without fundamental changes in government’s attitude to growth.
Justin Trudeau is a stupid hateful person.
A health authority in British Columbia has been actively promoting euthanasia via a slideshow it has allegedly been emailing to healthy seniors’ groups, according to a recent report.
The PowerPoint slideshow was alleged to be from Fraser Health Authority, which is a large healthcare region in a suburban area of the Vancouver area. It was obtained by Will Potter of the Daily Mail, who detailed it in a report published July 1.
According to a newspaper, not this one, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week “pressure will be on” to make a meaningful contribution to the alliance. Pressure being a colourless, odourless gas whose only known effect is to cause journalists to write headlines.
We’ve been free-riding on American defence spending since Trudeau Sr. scorned “pressure” to be less of a frivolous peacenik. No matter who’s in power, usually the Liberals, we never reached our oft-promised 2 percent of GDP on defence, mostly because we never tried. Nor will we.
Ottawa’s Momin Khawaja, the first person convicted under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, has lost his bid for full parole.
The Parole Board of Canada denied Khawaja’s application in a recent decision, saying he still represents an “undue risk to society” even after spending more than 19 years behind bars.
In a striking move, Canada has unveiled a new pathway for high-skilled immigrants in the United States to migrate north. The policy risks undermining America’s economy and geostrategic position and should serve as a wake-up call to Washington. Reforming the nation’s high-skilled immigration system is a pressing need.
On net, legal immigrants with college degrees create jobs. Immigrants founded most U.S. billion-dollar startups. And the most successful immigrants, like Elon Musk, came to the U.S. as international students and then transitioned to an H-1B visa, designed for specialty occupations.
I call Bullshit, in the US H1-B Visas are a known scam benefitting the corporate class by depressing wages …
THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM HARMS AMERICAN WORKERS AND SHOULD BE REPEALED
“… According to data compiled in 2020, some 60 percent of H-1B workers were paid at the two lowest prevailing wage levels for these top H-1B employers, meaning that three out of five foreign visa workers were being paid wages far below the local median wage for similar occupations. Amazon and Microsoft are particularly egregious in their practices, with over 75 percent of their H-1B workers in 2019 paid at the two lowest prevailing wage rates.
There is substantial data to suggest that the H-1B visa program continues to be one of the most abusive programs condoned by the federal government. The design and implementation of this program necessitate inflicting real harm on middle-class and middle-class-aspiring Americans, their families, and their communities, as well as many of the foreign recipients of the visa.”
A report by insolvency firm MNP Ltd. says 52 per cent of Canadians say they are $200 away or less from not being able to pay all of their bills at the end of the month as higher interest rates and a rising cost of living have stretched budgets.
The result for the July report is up six percentage points from 46 per cent in April.
As Olivia Chow campaigned successfully to become Toronto’s new mayor, she received some unsolicited help from controversial sources.
Two prominent community groups aligned with the Chinese government — including one that allegedly hosted a Chinese police station in Ontario — “went all out” to support Chow’s push to be mayor, supplying numerous volunteers to the effort, a letter from one of the groups claims.
This should invalidate the election.
“… Pertinent data reveals that the cost of housing exerts a considerable influence on our grocery expenditures. Notably, despite prevailing inflation, the latest quarterly results from Empire/Sobeys/IGA indicate a $16 million decline in food sales compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.“
