Canada

There’s an old joke about the typical Canadian who is nudged off the sidewalk by a passerby and immediately apologizes, a humorously rueful sign of the national character. The other side of the debased coin is the sense of national superiority, in particular to our putatively boorish neighbor south of the border, a cultural factor that came politically to the fore during the stridently anti-American Liberal government of Jean Chrétien. Neither tendency does us much credit.

In Singapore, they don’t fool around on housing.

While Canadian housing prices are shooting into the stratosphere largely due to an unprecedented surge by investors, Ottawa has done little to ease the destructive trend.

Justin has no will to piss off the China Class and their ChiCom masters.

If you are auditing 1 in 400 charities per year … it is going to leave a lot of charities out that are doing some very bad things and CRA is not auditing them’

OTTAWA – The Canada Revenue Agency’s charitable audits have dropped four-fold in the last decade, with just over 200 done in 2019, leaving experts concerned that fraud and mismanaged funds are going undetected.

I’m shocked.

A new survey shows that growing numbers of Canadians are finding it harder to put food on the table as the country’s annual inflation rate reaches a 30-year high.

The Angus Reid Institute poll, conducted online between Jan. 7 and Jan. 12, shows that three in five Canadians (57 percent) say it is “difficult” to feed their households, a 20 percent increase since the institute asked the same question in 2019.