Canada
This Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America
It’s said to be the most Asian city outside Asia. Where a quarter of residents speak a Chinese language and the char siu rivals what’s served in Hong Kong barbecue shops. Where a Sikh gurdwara, a Tibetan monastery, and a Chinese evangelical church coexist in harmony along a 3-kilometer stretch of road dubbed the Highway to Heaven. The kind of place that should be immune to a rise in pandemic-fueled racism.
Liberals overstate benefit of fiscal stimulus: PBO
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) says the federal stimulus plan may have been “miscalibrated” and will have less of an impact than the Liberals’ claim.
Ontario vowed to investigate horrific deaths in long-term care. Now it says that didn’t happen.
Nearly one year ago, as that first detailed picture emerged of the true scale of the horror faced by residents of Ontario’s long-term care system during the pandemic, a visibly emotional Premier Doug Ford vowed: “There’s going to be justice.”
Trudeau dismisses critics of Internet bill as ‘tinfoil hats’
Trudeau’s remark came under questioning yesterday of Bill C-10 that would regulate YouTube videos as programs subject to CRTC controls.
The Liberal Long-Gun Registry Lives On
Documents disclosed by prosecutors in a court case reveal data that could only have come from the long-gun registry, a report from Brian Lilley in the Toronto Sun says. The problem is these data were supposed to be destroyed in 2012 when Parliament scrapped the long-gun registry. True North’s Andrew Lawton, a licensed gun owner, discusses.
GOLDSTEIN: The skyrocketing costs of Canada’s grey tsunami
Canada is ill-prepared for the rapidly increasing costs of its grey tsunami as the baby boomers head into retirement, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.
“Canada’s Aging Population and Income Support Programs” by Steven Globerman says the price tags of two major taxpayer-funded federal benefit programs for seniors will increase by 70% within 10 years, rising from $60.8 billion annually today to $103.2 billion in 2030.
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Primary school apologises for mistakenly showing picture of Prophet Muhammad in assembly ‘and wishing him happy birthday’ as angry father calls for Muslim parents to pull their children out of lessons
Rex Murphy: How’s Trudeau going to get out of this Line 5 pickle and keep oil flowing?
He must, with the same vigour he applies to stopping oil from getting out of Alberta, now man all stations to make sure oil keeps going into Ontario.
Ontario medical regulator threatens to punish doctors for criticizing lockdowns
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) plans to investigate physicians who speak out against government lockdown measures, according to a statement issued Friday.
“The college is aware and concerned about the increase of misinformation circulating on social media and other platforms regarding physicians who are publicly contradicting public health orders and recommendations,” said CPSO’s statement.
TDSB considers letting LGBTQ students change names without parental approval
According to a report by the LGBTQS Community Advisory Committee, the committee has a table working with human rights groups to discuss the matter.
Peter Menzies: Who’s killing free internet speech? Canada’s culture industry
Canada’s cultural sector, long a champion of rights and social justice, now finds itself — despite Monday’s government pullback — in the awkward position of having inspired the mugging of free speech and expression on the internet.
Jordan Peterson hammers home the importance of telling the truth
University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B Peterson spoke on Tucker Carlson Today Monday morning on the importance of a truth-based reality, and how any consequence that comes from telling the truth is the “best thing that can happen.”
Canada’s Realization That Its Covid Response Was Worse Than the U.S. Is a Blow to Its National Prestige
Canada’s overall response to the Covid pandemic has been a blow to the country’s national prestige. Canadians are asking themselves why America will get back to normal months before Canada.
They’re supposed to have a superior health care system. They’re supposed to have a more competent and civilized government. They’re supposed to be better than the U.S.
Canada’s leaders used this fantasy to explain away their own failings. “You think it’s bad here, just look at what’s happening in America!”
As clock ticks down on Enbridge’s Line 5, anxiety grows in Sarnia and Michigan
CALGARY — For Mike Bradley, the mayor of Sarnia, the impending shutdown of a pipeline that supplies fuel to his city’s biggest employers has been “hovering” for seven months.
That anxiety has been steadily building ahead of a deadline this month imposed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for Enbridge Inc. to shut down its Line 5 pipeline, which crosses through Michigan, where it delivers more than half of the state’s propane needs, en route to deliver oil to Ontario, Ohio and Pennsylvania.