At a press conference on Oct. 6, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced mandatory vaccination in federally regulated workplaces and sectors, including for passengers boarding a plane or a train. Trudeau said his government’s two-dose vaccine mandates for travellers and for federal government employees, who continued to work from home, were amongst the “strongest in the world.”
One of the most frustrating aspects of the Biden administration — and Lord knows there are a lot of things that infuriate people about them — is the way the U.S. went from a net energy exporter to record high gas prices and a reliance on oil imported from other countries.
KINGSTON, Ont. — Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals say they would bring in a law to fight Islamophobia and other sorts of hate if elected to form government on June 2.
Speaking to reporters in Kingston, Ont. on Wednesday, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said addressing racism and hate is a priority for people who have experienced hateful attacks based on their race, faith or any other part of their identities.
She said she is proud of her party’s work with the National Council of Canadian Muslims to bring forward legislation earlier this year to help address Islamophobia in Ontario.
Well this certainly will be a game changer. What will Andrea do about this?
Western University cows to Islamists and deletes LGBTQ poster showing hijab wearing women about to kiss
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today confirmed a single case of monkeypox virus infection in an adult male with recent travel to Canada. Initial testing was completed late Tuesday at the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain and confirmatory testing was completed today at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DPH is working closely with the CDC, relevant local boards of health, and the patient’s health care providers to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient while he was infectious. This contact tracing approach is the most appropriate given the nature and transmission of the virus. The case poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition.
Crown prosecutors want Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich sent back to jail to await trial, claiming she breached her bail conditions by agreeing to participate in an event next month where she will receive a “Freedom Award.”
In an application filed in advance of Lich’s bail review hearing, the Crown claims she violated the court-imposed condition that she not express support for anything related to the Freedom Convoy movement she led in Ottawa earlier this year.
The cost of living continues to rise at the fastest pace in decades, with Canada’s official inflation rate rising at a 6.8 per cent annual pace in April, a new 31-year high.
Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that the cost of living crept higher mostly because of increases in the cost of food and shelter. Food prices have increased by 9.7 per cent in the past year, while shelter costs are up by 7.4 per cent.
Canadians love their cars so much that high fuel prices won’t make most of us change our ways
If you are expecting clear sailing on the highways this coming long weekend because soaring gas prices have forced all the other drivers — except you, of course — to leave their cars at home, you might want to think again.
Some motorists insist that $2-a-litre gasoline means they’ll drive a lot less, but people who study Canadians’ love affair with their cars are skeptical — and they have the research to back them up.
Trusting the Trudeau Liberals – or any political party – to define the truth for an entire nation would be a massive mistake.
Failing upwards.
It seems to be the hallmark of government as of late.
The worse the government does at something, the more they demand even more money and power.
They fail, and use that failure to ‘justify’ gaining more control over your life.
As U.S. baby formula shortage spills into Canada, questions arise over why our biggest producer doesn’t sell to Canadians
… Canada Royal Milk is a Kingston-based plant owned by a Chinese multinational company, which has received government funding through Ontario’s jobs and prosperity fund for the food and beverage sector. The plant, construction for which began in 2017, makes formula with Canadian cow and goat milk, and ships its products to China, said Charlebois.
Canadians essentially subsidize the dairy industry through the supply-management system, argued Charlebois. He thinks that if the company isn’t making products to be sold in Canada, it should have to buy its milk from outside the supply-management chain.
“That would be acceptable because it would no longer be supply-managed, it would no longer be subsidized,” he said.
A spokesperson for the Canadian Dairy Commission said it is very common for processing companies in Canada to buy Canadian supply-managed dairy and use it for products that are then exported.
Our China class at work.
Conservative MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis has launched a petition calling on the Trudeau government to decline signing the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic treaty.
The International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response was proposed by the WHO in 2021 as an “international pandemic instrument” to increase collaboration between governments at all levels.
Lewis warns that the treaty, which includes 190 countries, “would be legally binding.”
“It defines and classifies what is considered a pandemic and would give the W.H.O. legal power over Canada’s pandemic response, including the ability to force lockdowns and dictate which drugs or vaccines can be used,” her campaign website reads.
Trudeau says inviting Iran to Vancouver soccer friendly is not ‘a very good idea’
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a soccer friendly between Canada and Iran next month in Vancouver is ill-advised.
“This was a choice by Soccer Canada,” Trudeau said Tuesday in St. John’s, when asked about the match. “I think it wasn’t a very good idea to invite the Iranian soccer team here to Canada. But that’s something that the organizers are going to have to explain.”
Whole lotta of stupid goin on.
I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.
Canada’s Justice Minister is adamant that Liberal legislation will begin reversing the country’s disproportionate rate of Indigenous incarceration, but he acknowledges more needs to be done to address racial inequities in the justice system.
In an interview, Justice Minister David Lametti responded to recent criticism that the Liberal government has produced little in the way of policy response to the problem. The Globe reported earlier this month that Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent.
Dozens of experts advising the government on adapting to climate change say Canada needs to do more to prepare infrastructure for the threats of extreme weather and get faster at helping Canadians recover from floods, fires and major storms.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is set Monday to launch the second and last development phase for the national adaptation strategy that the Liberals promise will be ready by the end of the year.
It is hard to find a politician in Canada who could be said to be more divisive in nature than Justin Trudeau, but despite the odds stacked against him Jagmeet Singh always is trying to take that mantle, never missing an opportunity to smear Canadians who don’t vote for him as racist, sexist and insert-a-phobic. He spread disinformation about the Freedom Convoy like the arson hoax, and the man is even banned from India for his support of the violent extremists in the Khalistani movement.
Coming back from an event for one of his MP’s in Peterborough on May 12 Jagmeet Singh was met with an angry crowd who yelled obscenities at him. The F-word was said and he was called a “traitor.” Shockingly, after the incident, there was not a total collapse of society and the world did not spin off its axis.
This is one of those situations where a lot of things can be true at the same time. Was this crass behaviour by the protestors? Yes. Did Jagmeet instigate this by inciting hatred and goading anyone on the political right for years with his platform as NDP leader? Yes. Do two wrongs make a right? No.
You would think that with Canadian taxpayers spending $100 billion fighting climate change — that’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s figure — we would at least get some credit for it from the global environmental movement.
Fat chance. A report last week by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper which devotes enormous resources to covering climate change, condemns Canada, yet again, as one of the world’s worst climate offenders.
