Canada

OTTAWA — The federal government has set aside billions of dollars to quickly build affordable housing across the country, but delays in construction suggest many of the projects approved for funding are missing their deadlines.

The Rapid Housing Initiative is a federal program launched in 2020 that provides funding to cities and non-profit organizations to build affordable homes for vulnerable Canadians, including those experiencing homelessness.

Not enough immigration, that must be the problem.

Few of the sites built to protect Canadians from a radioactive cloud of destruction have been preserved.

Recently I made several trips to the Diefenbunker, the underground complex in the village of Carp, Ontario, that — assuming everything went to plan — would preserve Canada’s political and military leadership when nuclear warheads fell from the skies. Those plans, as I wrote in an article published this week, relied heavily on wishful thinking.

Can Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s 13 premiers and territorial leaders fix our health care system that decades of federal and provincial governments of all political stripes broke?

Tony has been shoplifting most of his food and he feels no guilt.

“I shoplift 80 per cent of my groceries,” the Toronto-based 32-year-old said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Since moving to the city from North York two years ago, his monthly pay of

$2,000 isn’t enough to live on amid rising costs, he said, and he’s struggling to pay the bills.

Shoplifting — theft under $5,000 — is a criminal offence in Canada. But that hasn’t deterred Tony, who feels that stealing from big supermarket chains to survive should not be a crime.

OTTAWA—Duelling speeches from the leaders of the governing and official opposition parties made it crystal clear Friday how each intend to attack the other when federal lawmakers head back to Parliament next week.

Here’s a comparative look at how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre threw down their gauntlets in speeches to their caucuses in Ottawa.

Canada’s government is under pressure to launch an independent judicial inquiry into abuse in sport during a series of parliamentary committees in the country’s House of Commons following harrowing testimonies by abuse survivors in December.

Appeals for a widespread inquiry into abuse from athletes, politicians, and academics have so far been resisted by Justin Trudeau’s government and his Minister for Sport, Pascale St-Onge, sparking one senior member of the government to split from her party to demand “real leaders step up”.

At a caucus meeting, Poilivre told his MPs a Conservative government would cap spending, reduce waste and ‘fire high-priced consultants’

And what about immigration? Bueller? Bueller?