OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals added thousands of executives to the ranks of Canada’s public servants since 2015, government documents reveal.
According to human resources statistics published online by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada currently employs 9,155 public servants in the executive categories, responsible for interpreting policy and managing government departments and agencies.
Toronto’s homeless shelters now house almost triple the number of kids they did eight years ago — with more than 1,400 in hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… As of September, nearly 1,500 kids were staying in the city’s shelter system, two thirds of whom were 10 or younger, as well as more than 1,400 children waiting for space in scattered hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… These “bridging hotel” rooms are different from hotels leased as temporary shelters during the pandemic, which are now considered part of the regular shelter system and offer more services like meals. The federal government also operates its own network of hotels specifically for refugees.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller today called efforts by disaffected Liberal MPs to oust Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “garbage” and said it would be better for the team to pull together to take on their main opponent: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
“Any minute spent on this garbage is a minute that’s not spent on Pierre Poilievre and what he wants to do to this country, and I think that is very dangerous,” Miller told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting.
The loved ones of single mom Kassidy Ballantyne-Holmes never got the firearms memo.
The 35-year-old Stratford woman was shot to death early on Oct. 15. Her family and friends are now trying to make sense of her senseless slaying.
Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the… https://t.co/DOyjfCXHfe
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) October 22, 2024
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser and the deputy minister of foreign affairs provided sensitive intelligence about India to The Washington Post days before the RCMP publicly alleged that Indian government agents have been linked to homicides, extortions and other violent criminal activities in Canada, two sources say.
The leak to the U.S. publication about the killing of a Winnipeg Sikh leader and the role of India’s Home Secretary in violent acts in Canada stands in contrast to Mr. Trudeau’s view of leaks of classified information on China’s interference activities. Last week, he told the public inquiry into foreign interference that “a criminal leaked classified information” about China’s meddling in 2023 to The Globe and Mail.
So Justin and his girlfriend leaked intelligence data to stamp out the anti-Trudeau mutiny.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in an abysmal political situation, and the hits keep on coming. Before the House of Commons returned for the fall sitting, the New Democrats terminated the supply and confidence agreement that had inoculated the minority Liberal government since March of 2022. Successive public opinion polls predict Trudeau’s demise in the next election, set for October 20, 2025, but which could come any time based on Trudeau’s weighting of an early election call as a way out of his current situation and the government’s exposure to non-confidence motions.
OTTAWA — Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau’s economic platform adviser, says he plans to enter elected politics but won’t say when, where or what job he wants, telling a fellow Liberal “you can’t map these things out.”
As more than two dozen Liberal MPs are working behind the scenes to urge the prime minister to step aside for a new party leader, some of the would-be candidates for the job are making their intentions clearer — albeit not all publicly.
Fentanyl made in Canada by criminals is increasingly being shipped to international markets, according to a briefing note from the department of foreign affairs.
“Seizures of Canada-sourced fentanyl in places like the U.S. and Australia suggest that domestic production is likely exceeding domestic demand, and that Canada is now a source (and transit) country for fentanyl to some markets,” said the briefing note from June, which was first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
For too long, this country’s foreign policy has been misguided by outdated and idealistic views of the world beyond Canadian shores.
The Hogue Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Canadian democracy has not yet concluded, but it now appears that China and India may have both stuck their hands into our elections, and worse. The potential for this should have been foreseen years ago, and strong safeguards should have been placed against it.
OTTAWA — More than 20 and as many as 40 of the Liberals’ 153 members of Parliament have signed a letter calling for Justin Trudeau to step aside as party leader, one of their number said Monday, with some believed ready to make the case at a national caucus meeting Wednesday.
Publicly, however, many are holding their cards close, refusing to divulge either the letter’s contents, its signatories or its organizers.
High grocery and rental costs are squeezing lower-income Canadians even as inflation trends downward, a new survey suggests.
A slight majority (51 per cent) of respondents in an Angus Reid Institute survey said it is a challenge to keep up with their household food needs. This proportion hasn’t changed much since it rose to this level in late 2021, the non-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation said in a news release published Monday.
The number of surveyed Canadians who are struggling with costs climbed to two-thirds (65 per cent) among those whose annual household incomes are less than $50,000.
There was a time when many Canadians rooted for Justin Trudeau. It was the thing that won elections for the Liberals.
That was true in 2015, when he first won power promising an open, hopeful government. It was still true in 2019, despite the SNC-Lavalin affair and a blackface revelation. Many Canadians just didn’t want to think badly of him. Even in 2021, when the Liberals turned to sharp wedge politics, he had enough goodwill to eke out a win.
The House of Commons returns on Monday from a week-long break, but it’s unlikely to be business as usual.
Members of Parliament are slated to resume debating a Conservative demand for documents about federal spending on green technology projects.
The matter of privilege has all but paralyzed House business as the Liberals try to maintain a grip on an increasingly fractious minority Parliament.
Canadians today have less freedom to decide what to buy, where to work, and whether to start a business than they did in the late 1970s, partly due to the size of government, which has grown since the pandemic, a new study suggests.
After maintaining an economic freedom score above 8 out of 10 since the late 1970s, Canada’s score reached its lowest level in four decades during the pandemic–a trend observed in many countries–at 7.86 points in 2020, according to the Fraser Institute’s economic freedom ranking. The score remained below 8 points until 2022, the last year of available data.
Gazan refugees arriving in Canada will receive free health care, language training, work and study permits, and other financial assistance, the Department of Immigration announced this week.
However, the department did not disclose the total cost of the program.
“Financial assistance will help Gazans meet their basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing as they arrive in communities across Canada and find jobs,” the department said in a statement. “More details about this program will be shared when available.”
