Canada
How Canadian schools aid students’ gender transition without family consent
When a student in a Calgary Grade 6 class came out as transgender this year, the teacher made one thing clear to the other pupils: they mustn’t let slip their classmate’s new gender identity to her parents. The couple was not yet aware of the change.
Housing, groceries and travel were huge headaches for Canadians last year. Here’s why 2023 might not be any better
The predictions for 2023 are rolling in, and they’re not pretty.
Right now, we’re at that nasty spot where inflation is high, food and homes feel unaffordable, and the economy is slowing rapidly before our eyes. Not to mention a new strain of COVID-19 on the loose.
Economists are forecasting not much growth at all this year before coming back to life in 2024, and their lookaheads are laced with foreboding.
A plan to plug gaps in the continent’s Arctic defence shield faces roadblocks
Despite the ballyhoo that surrounded last year’s announcement, it’s becoming clear that the modernization of North American air defence systems — a plan to spend $4.9 billion over six years — has a long way to go and a number of key technical obstacles to overcome.
The Trudeau government announced the long-anticipated NORAD modernization plan back in June during the run-up to the NATO leaders summit — a tense gathering where alliance members, sobered by the war in Ukraine, were expected to show how serious they are about defence spending.
More needs to be done to contain GG’s extravagance
In a rare show of unity, members of Parliament from all parties are angrily demanding answers about sky-high expenses racked up by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and her team.
Curiously, Rideau Hall’s rebuttal is essentially that the expenses are “not very extravagant” (emphasis added). MPs haven’t bought that line since the moment the National Post broke the story about Simon and her entourage racking up nearly six figures on airplane food during a week-long trip to the Middle East. Yet, government bureaucrats remain committed to misleadingly downplaying the wasteful spending and offering half-measures rather than meaningful reforms.
Justin’s CBC Warns – Stop being mean to Justin! … Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., says report
” … The media environment in Canada, and the social media environment in Canada is increasingly resembling the media and social media environment in the United States,” Bremmer said Tuesday.
“It is dysfunctional. It is rife with disinformation. It is deeply polarized. [The online discourse] is a bunch of people that do not reflect the average Canadian, do not reflect the average American in both countries.”
Policy issues, especially energy and climate change, are being weaponized in Canada for political gain at the expense of national unity, he added.
“The realities of the business models of media and social media in both countries move people and empower people that engage with the radical right and left,” Bremmer said.
I bet Katie Telford has this guy in her Rolodex.
A whiff of the WEF about this fellow. The Eurasia Group’s founder Ian Bremmer has a show on PBS.
Typically he blames everyone but Trudeau for weaponizing climate change despite Junior being responsible for pushing a radical economy wrecking extremist climate policy. As pointed out by commenters Butts and Solomon work for this outfit, in other words the CBC and LPC have colluded to present Liberal Party propaganda as “news.” The Ceeb needs to be sold off yesterday.
“Polarization” means you refuse to kowtow to the extremist left.
SLOBODIAN: Unity Convoy still going to Winnipeg
Start packing those bouncy castles and barbeques, horns will still be honking in Winnipeg, February 17-21.
World Unity Convoy 2023 is still on.
“The Winnipeg convoy is still proceeding,” participant Ron Clark told the Western Standard.
Confusion stemmed from a recent press release issued by Team Canada Unity’s James Bauder.
I am confused.
Jordan Peterson says Ontario psychologist regulator requesting he do social media wrongthink cleanse
Prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson said the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) is demanding he do a course about social media etiquette.
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 3, 2023
h/t SDMatt
Why Canada has the most activist Supreme Court in the world — and how it’s changed the country
Often, if there’s a massive political controversy gripping the country, there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court of Canada had something to do with it.
Ontario was recently driven into a miniature constitutional crisis due to a Supreme Court decision declaring that striking is a Constitutional right. A series of recent Supreme Court decisions kneecapping bail and sentencing provisions has helped fuel a crisis of “catch and release” justice. And, of course, Canada is now experiencing regular incidents of contentious assisted suicide cases — a regime whose existence is due entirely to Supreme Court order.
Lunatic Electric Vehicle Mandate Will Cost at Least $99 Billion: Environment Canada
A recently proposed federal mandate that would require all vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by the year 2035 will cost at least $99 billion, according to new government figures.
“The proposed amendments are expected to lead to a loss of consumer choice as the non-zero emission vehicles which are preferred by some will eventually be phased out of the light duty vehicle market,” wrote Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department in a regulatory notice on Dec. 31, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
These morons are making stupid decisions that will endanger your future.
.@EnvironmentCa says lightbulbs endorsed by cabinet & @DavidSuzuki as good for #ClimateChange will be banned within the year due to mercury poisoning. https://t.co/T4tFEhUYhU #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/IOdvDydUfu
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) January 3, 2023
Trudeau Liberals give big assist to Corporate class’ desire to depress wages and sustain housing shortage with immigration record of 430,000 bodies in 2022
Canada sets immigration record in 2022 with 430,000 new permanent residents
The federal government settled 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022, blowing past the previous all-time record set in 2021.
It’s one signal that the federal government appears on track to carry out its immigration plan. Next year, the government hopes to bring in another 485,000 new permanent residents.
“Newcomers play an essential role in filling labour shortages, bringing new perspectives and talents to our communities, and enriching our society as a whole,” said Sean Fraser, the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, in a news release Tuesday.
BULLSHIT. Unless of course you happen to like virulent anti-Semitism, honor killings and Sikh-Hindu sectarian violence spilling out on our streets or the poison of identity politics.
The Bank of Canada loves it too, they told the Corporate class to keep wages down as it was their intent to fight inflation on the backs of working people.
Immigration policy in Canada is designed to meet the needs of the corporate class, it should be designed to benefit citizens FULL STOP.
Now tell me again that Canada is not a Banana Republic.
Liberal government that pays anti-Semites and Antifa supporters caught filtering out dissent to their ‘anti-hate’ agenda survey
Jamie Sarkonak: Trudeau Liberals are filtering out dissent to their ‘anti-hate’ agenda
Internal emails show a question was added to a survey to weed out those critical of the government’s plans after too much negative feedback
Back in April, Canadian Heritage ran online consultations for a future “National Action Plan on Combatting Hate” that could introduce anti-hate laws and curb freedom of expression. While the department publicly encouraged “every person in Canada” to participate in a survey about what this plan should include, email records show that people were screened out if they believed that an anti-hate plan wasn’t needed at all.
This is a government deserving of your hatred.
Hoping for a break on your grocery bill next year? Don’t bank on it, new report suggests
Anyone hoping for a break on sky-high grocery bills should brace themselves for a shock in 2023, as the typical family’s food bill for the year is predicted to go up by more than $1,000.
That’s one of the main takeaways of the 2023 Food Price Report, an annual publication by Canadian researchers that looks at factors across the supply chain to attempt to predict what the cost of putting food on the table will be.
CRA Considered Publishing List of Tax Cheaters: Report
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in internal polling considered whether to make publicly available a blacklist of individuals who cheat on their taxes, according to a report.
“More than 1 in 3 Canadians, 35 percent, strongly agree the Canada Revenue Agency should publish a list of people found guilty of tax offences,” said a report titled “2022 CRA Annual Corporate Research Quantitative Phase” and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The report did not detail why the agency polled the question.
How Canadians got their beloved breakfast cereal back
Red River porridge, first concocted in Winnipeg in 1924, left a huge hole when it was discontinued
It’s been more than a year since Juanita Metzger cooked the perfect bowl of Red River hot cereal, a blend of cracked wheat, rye and flax that commands a cult-like following across Canada.
“It’s got to be thick enough but not gluey. It’s got to be crunchy enough but not undercooked,” she said of the porridge. And when she finally got her hands on a bag after weeks of waiting, she realised how quickly the skill can atrophy.
Hot porridge with milk and brown sugar, toast on the side. The breakfast of school mornings throughout the winter. I have few childhood memories of me Sainted Irish Mother ever sitting down at a meal, she was all hustle and pots and occasional swats.