For more than a year, Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons has been pushing the federal government to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers some of its franchisees can hire, CBC News has learned.
The requests occurred over at least 18 months, in writing and in lobbying meetings with officials and MPs, as Canadian views on immigration soured and Ottawa reduced various newcomer streams.
Tim Horton’s doesn’t meet the standard of pig’s swill.
Government job growth outpaced that of the private sector as the public service added nearly one million positions over the past decade, accounting for nearly one-third of the total employment increase in Canada, a new study suggests.
Canada experienced a rise of 950,000 government sector jobs from 2015 to 2024, representing approximately 30 percent of the total employment gains in the country during that timeframe, according to a recently-released report from the Fraser Institute.
John Rustad says he’s still the leader of the B.C. Conservative Party despite his own party’s board giving him the boot.
In a statement on Wednesday, the board of the party said Rustad has been removed as leader because he has lost the confidence of a majority of caucus.
OK.
The dream of home ownership is alive, but not well. According to a recent Abacus poll, nearly nine in 10 young Canadians, those aged 18 to 29, aspire to own a home – but a similar share worry about the current state of housing in Canada.
Of course, those worries are justified. According to our new study, in 2023 (the latest year of comparable data), typical homes on the market were unaffordable for families earning the local median income in every major Canadian city. It’s not just Vancouver and Toronto – housing affordability has eroded nationwide.
I trust our Corporate Titans to lead us out of this morass. Therefore the answer must include importing additional cheap foreign labour in their millions.
Danielle Smith was flying high last Thursday as she and Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Calgary. Interesting that it was called an MOU and not an agreement, although most of the news media, and Smith herself, talked about it in those terms.
So now Carney and Smith have an “understanding” that an oil pipeline may be built from Alberta to the northwest coast of B.C. despite the oil tanker ban and B.C. premier David Eby’s objections; the industrial carbon price may go up in Alberta; and Alberta may get its multibillion Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage facility. That’s an awful lot of uncertainty given all the hype and hoopla surrounding the announcement.
OTTAWA – The government is pledging another $235 million in funding for Ukraine, with National Defence Minister David McGuinty and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announcing Canada’s latest commitments.
McGuinty says Canada will work with NATO allies to purchase a package of critical military capabilities sourced from the United States valued at around USD $500 million.
Canada’s contribution to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List package will be CAD $200 million
This latest Canada-Alberta MOU is just another chapter in the same infuriating story we’ve lived through for fifty years: Ottawa dangles a lifeline to the oil patch when it needs votes or headlines, then quietly lets the rope go slack the moment BC coastal outrage or a Vancouver fundraiser kicks in.
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The Canadian prime minister invokes the language of faith to silence critics of Net Zero policies.
Tariffs delivered a big blow to Canada’s economy this year, but they would be less of a problem if Canada weren’t squandering billions of dollars on Net Zero, which will not stop climate change.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Budget 2025 passed first reading on Nov. 18 by a vote of 170-168, which spared Canadians a snap election. The second reading is in progress, and as of Nov. 28, the third reading had not yet been scheduled.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973 Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations, stating the devices present “high security risks, primarily due to their country of origin.”
Chinese drones make up about 80 per cent of the federal police force’s fleet of 1,230 remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), which are used to monitor the Canada-U.S. border and in various police operations.
Trump’s halting of asylum claims prompts fresh calls to suspend Safe Third Country Agreement
Lawyers and refugee experts say U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that his country will halt all asylum claims should prompt the Canadian government to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, which they say is now unworkable.
The agreement mandates that asylum seekers must make a claim in the first country they arrive in, which allows Canada to turn away potential refugee claimants who enter the country from the United States as it is considered safe there.
“Lawyers and refugee experts” = snakes.
A leading Conservative MP is calling for change after the accused rapist of a 13-year-old Ontario girl was given time to weigh how a guilty plea would affect his immigration status.
The case involves a 47-year-old Bradford resident, and non-citizen, who pleaded guilty last week to “two counts of sexual interference, one charge of child luring and another to breaching his release conditions,” local news outlet BarrieToday reported.
Ontarians continue to be using food banks at a record-breaking rate, with a new report warning the number of users grew for the ninth straight year as some families are “barely holding on.”
“What we’re seeing is really a greater depth of need in with the affordability crisis,” said Carolyn Stewart, CEO of Feed Ontario which released the report. “It’s really pushing more families from really that just getting-by area to barely holding on.”
We are being asked to support our replacement. Much pushback in the comments here.
What is rarely revealed is the number of “migrants” , “foreign students”, “TFW’s” etc… who use the foodbanks.
h/t Patti Jo
Five years after he was first arrested, a Calgary man accused of travelling to Syria to fight with the Islamic State has been found guilty on three counts of participating in terrorist activities.
VICTORIA — Finance Minister Brenda Bailey released a budget update Thursday confirming that Premier David Eby has thrown away the good financial position he inherited from his NDP predecessor, John Horgan.
The proof is evident in a side-by-side comparison between two financial updates: the last one from the Horgan government, delivered Nov. 25, 2022, and the one Bailey delivered this week.
Eby is one among many who deserve blame more than Trump does.
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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has shattered an alleged criminal conspiracy that moved millions of dollars in cocaine and methamphetamine over the border.
According to the CBSA, Operation Meridian was a targeted 60-day operation in Southern Ontario. Officials said the goal was to disrupt the import and export of illicit narcotics through commercial channels at ports of entry across Southern Ontario.
No arrest would be complete without Singhs.
