OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers on Wednesday.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
This was likely a deliberate act of sabotage.
We rarely run pieces this long. But today’s investigation—the story of how antisemitism became deeply embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada—called for it. This is a piece worth reading carefully. It is relevant not just to our many Canadian readers, but to anyone invested in the future of the West. —Bari Weiss
For Sarah Rugheimer, a professor of astronomy at York University in Toronto, the first sign of the virulent strain of antisemitism now embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada appeared on a lamppost.
It was a few weeks after the Hamas massacre of last October 7. Rugheimer, 41, was walking in a park near her home in the city’s quiet Cedarvale neighborhood when she saw a poster of the Israeli hostage Elad Katzir, a 47-year-old farmer from Kibbutz Nir Oz, covered with swastikas.
In the days that followed, as the war raged in Gaza, swastikas turned up all over Cedarvale. They also started appearing on the York campus, where Rugheimer serves as the Allan I. Carswell Chair for the Public Understanding of Astronomy. As fall turned to winter, a swastika showed up in the snow outside the campus building where she works.
The Liberal Party is cracking down on Jew hate. pic.twitter.com/0zB2SZBQJy
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 11, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will release the Liberal government’s fall fiscal update next Monday. Many financial observers are hopeful Freeland will (finally) come clean on the size of last year’s federal deficit.
Poilievre’s Conservatives still in majority territory: Nanos seat projections
Nearly three weeks after the Liberals first announced their “tax break for all Canadians(opens in a new tab),” Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives remain in comfortable majority territory, according to latest ballot tracking by Nanos Research(opens in a new tab). It shows the Conservatives at 42 per cent nationally, while the Liberals and the NDP are within the margin of error of each other at 23 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively.
Trudeau highlights Kamala Harris presidential defeat as an attack on women’s progress
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, pointing to the recent defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris as an example.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
“It shouldn’t be that way. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress,” Trudeau said, adding he is a proud feminist and will always be an ally.
Trump should just refuse any further contact until we can dump this idiot.
After cheers rang out in Damascus this weekend at the toppling of brutal Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, there came another sound: that of countries slamming the door on Syrian refugees. On Monday, 15 European nations declared that they would no longer grant them asylum. Some, like Austria, are discussing deportations; German politicians are suggesting that the country charter aircraft and offer financial incentives for people to leave. The United Kingdom has similarly put on a pause on asylum claims from Syrian refugees.
There’s lots of food, as you’d expect, at the food bank where I volunteer on Friday mornings. I’m usually put on the tuna-and-pasta table, so I find myself handing out hundreds of cans of fish and just as many packages of spaghetti. Oh, and tomato sauce too.
But food banks, when you get right down to it, aren’t really about food. The people who turn up at the Fort York Food Bank on College Street in central Toronto, my spot, aren’t hungry in the sense of arriving with growling stomachs from not eating. What they are is struggling to get by in a very expensive city.
This is Trudeau’s fault. Mass migration is killing Canada’s standard of living.
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada will continue evaluating the asylum claims of people who have fled Syria, even as some European countries are pausing those claims after the Assad regime’s fall.
Miller says Canada’s asylum system isn’t seeing the same pressure as European counterparts such as Germany and Austria.
Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, and is reportedly in Russia, after opposition forces seized the capital Damascus.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre could potentially receive the names of Conservatives allegedly tied to foreign meddling activities — and reveal that information to the public, a former head of Canada’s spy agency says.
“The (Canadian Intelligence Security Service) can do what it wants or say what it wants, as long as it doesn’t violate a federal statute or the Constitution,” said Richard Fadden, who also served as national security adviser to both prime ministers Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau.
This has devolved into a big circle jerk.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is not committing to meeting the $40.1-billion deficit target she set for the government last year.
Freeland says she expects the fall economic statement, which she will present on Dec. 16, will show a declining debt-to-GDP ratio.
When asked if she would also meet her deficit target, Freeland wouldn’t answer, saying she chose her words “carefully.”
Some things are just a mystery.
A lot of people comment on how low the federal Liberals are in the polls.
On Dec. 8, poll aggregator 338Canada.com showed the Conservatives at 43% and Liberals at 22%. That means almost one in four Canadians think voting for the Liberals under Justin Trudeau is worth it.
Now that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has finally announced she will deliver her fall economic statement on Dec. 16, it raises the question of how much of our money are the Liberals prepared to spend in a desperate bid to win the next federal election?
Under the bright lights of a production line, a shiny black Dodge Charger Daytona sits plugged into a charger. Then one worker unplugs the car while another in a neon vest drives it away. The loudest noise it makes is the squeak of rubber tires on the factory floor.
Millions of vehicles have rolled out of the Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., during its 96-year history, but this car is different. It’s electric, and it marks the beginning of a new era for these workers, the city, the province, the country, the Canadian auto industry and, if all goes according to plan, our climate goals.
“It feels historic. It really does. You can feel that energy with everybody on my team, and the people we’re working with,” said Audrey Moore, chief engineer responsible for the launch of the new Charger.
Getting to this moment – the first mass-produced electric passenger car made in Canada – is the culmination of years, arguably decades, of work by governments, unions, auto workers, suppliers and car company executives, not to mention tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies for companies all along the EV supply chain.
