“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” the philosopher Laozi wrote in Tao Te Ching. Yet, when it comes to travel in our modern society, it seems like there’s a thousand steps before we journey a single mile.
The state of transportation in Canada can certainly be described as one of constant frustration, aggravation, and consternation. There’s a steady stream of hurdles to bypass, hoops to jump through, and rivers to cross. And that’s before you even get on the plane!
The findings of a new poll suggest political parties should be fighting over people in the middle, not those on the edges of the spectrum
If Canadians are asked to place themselves on the political spectrum — right, left, centre — most will put themselves smack dab in the middle, according to new polling on Canadians’ ideological affiliations.
… The research came from a survey of 3,031 Canadians done via a Leger web panel between Oct. 3 and Oct. 14. No margin of error can be associated with an online survey …
This is why our two main political parties, the LPC & CPC, are virtually identical in policy.
We are the Land of Lemmings.
It’s a tale of two outlooks on how to deal with people who disagree with political leaders.
Justin Trudeau saying he feels he needs to call people out, Pierre Poilievre saying politicians need to try to understand why people are hurting.
John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, was arrested over charges he hired a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge involved in a COVID-19 public health order case.
In a statement issued on Jan. 1, the Justice Centre said Carpay was made aware of the charges on Dec. 30, and turned himself in to police. He was released on bail after spending 23 hours in detention, the statement said.
OTTAWA – Freedom Convoy 2.0 appears to be a bust.
Canada Unity, one of the anti-government protest groups behind the protests that headlined much of last year, is calling off its plans to restage the event this February.
Canada Unity founder James Bauder initially planned to bring a four-day blockade to Ottawa but then said it would be moved to Winnipeg.
For many Canadians, 2022 was a tough year as interest rates climbed, inflation soared and the economy slowed. Unfortunately, 2023 doesn’t look like it will provide much respite.
Analysts say a recession is looming, unemployment is expected to rise, all while prices remain high and interest rates bite into our purchasing power.
“We could be in store for a bit of a doozy [of a year],” said Royce Mendes, the managing director at Desjardins Capital Markets.
‘Freedom Convoy’ protests had MélanieJoly and other foreign ministers all worried about the same thing
Most of the world’s eyes were focused on Ukraine last February when the convoy protests were disrupting life in Canada.
But Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she was fielding questions from her international counterparts about what the heck was going on in this country.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told Joly the so-called “Freedom Convoy” bore a strong resemblance to protests being seen in her own country. The foreign ministers from Britain and New Zealand said the same thing.
An imam prayed, “O Allah! Count their number; slay them one by one and spare not one of them”. A new report funded by the Canadian government claims that his critics are Islamophobes. The targets of the report include the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, was set up to “create profiles of key public, media and political figures as well as organizations who produce and distribute Islamophobic ideologies and propaganda”.
Have you heard of Alice in Wonderland? Have you perhaps read it? No need.
It has been replicated on a very recent flight—West to East in Canada, and I here offer its themes. The dialogue here is my own, but it accurately captures an actual incident on a real flight.
Last December, I visited Curve Lake First Nation near Peterborough, Ontario, to interview Chief Emily Whetung about the water access crisis in her community. Curve Lake was one of three lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit, settled that month, that claimed Canada breached its legal obligations to First Nations for failing to ensure access to safe drinking water on reserves.
Almost one year after that, I traveled to a remote community called North Spirit Lake First Nation to continue reporting about the enduring boil water advisories on many Indigenous reserves.
“Permacrisis” is the word of 2022, according to the Collins Dictionary. It also perfectly captures the state of politics in Canada — not just these past 12 months, but over almost the entire tenure of Justin Trudeau’s government as it blows past seven years in power.
The year definitely kicked off in crisis mode here in Canada. The Omicron wave of COVID-19 had played havoc with the holidays, while a “freedom convoy” of truckers started rolling across the country, soon to paralyze Ottawa and several major border points. Just as the state of emergency was being wound down in Canada in February, Russia brazenly moved an invasion force into Ukraine.
The federal government will require COVID-19 testing for travellers coming into Canada from China, Hong Kong and Macau.
Beginning on Jan. 5, air travellers arriving in Canada from flights originating from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macau that are two years of age and older will be required to present a negative COVID-19 test before boarding the aircraft to Canada, according to the government.
Headline writers have a challenging job before them (note that they are rarely, if ever, the same people who actually write columns or news stories in the media). They have to read an article, understand it, figure out something to write in less than 10 words that captures the essence of the piece, and compose it in such a way that the reader sees it and says, “Wow! I really want to read the whole thing now!”
Canada has been much on my mind these days, weeks, months, and years, not only because I am a Canadian citizen, but because, like many of my American friends, I am witnessing firsthand the destruction of a country.
The current prime minister’s campaign, amounting to a kind of jihad, to destabilize the nation and create the world’s first “post-national state” proceeds on many levels. Among them, as I have previously catalogued, are a burgeoning national debt, a series of repressive bills making their way through parliament (C-4, C-11, C-12 and C-18), a prohibitive and unnecessary carbon tax, the deliberate destruction of the energy sector, the impending rollout of digital ID surveillance technology, and the notorious invoking of the deeply flawed and inappropriate Emergencies Act to deal with the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy protesting the vaccine mandates. This last travesty was compounded by the government’s striking a Commission of Inquiry in which it set its own terms and appointed its own Commissioner.
Canadian-born older adults more like to successfully age than immigrants, recent study finds
The process of aging may be inevitable, but a recent study shows that the aging experience for Canada’s immigrants is worse than those born in Canada, and more policies and health interventions are needed to improve the experience and help older people age successfully.
Immigrants make up 21.9 per cent of the Canadian population, and while some studies have found that older immigrants often do better if they have strong social networks, social participation, and access to the internet, others have found that those who have recently immigrated may experience psychological distress as the adjust and potentially face economic hardships, negative employment experiences, lack of social support and ethnic discrimination.
No money need be spent. We shouldn’t be accepting older immigrants & certainly not those who can’t or won’t adapt. Look after our own for a change.
