Canada has long had one of the world’s most open immigration policies. Now, faced with a growing popular backlash, it’s changing the rules.
A late-night Uber ride from Toronto’s Pearson Airport into the city usually guarantees a good fare for the driver.
But not for Sachindeep Singh on the evening of Sept. 19.
A few miles into the ride, his Uber app stopped working.
Mr. Singh’s work permit had expired at midnight and, like Canada, Uber was putting him on notice.
Bill Blair knows how to be a witness. The career cop and former Toronto police chief has even trained other officers on how to testify. He knows how to stick to facts and not let lawyers entice him into speculative testimony in areas where he doesn’t want to go.
And the place he didn’t want to go to when he testified at the foreign-interference inquiry on Friday was inside his own office.
As attitudes toward immigrants shift, this Ottawa shelter is just trying to keep them warm
Ashley Potter looks through a rack of donated winter clothing, where there are more than a few Ottawa Senators jerseys hanging amid the winter coats and sweaters.
Soon, new immigrants to Canada might find themselves supporters of Ottawa’s hockey team.
“We have to make sure that we’re getting people dressed properly to be able to brave the elements of their first Canadian winter,” Potter told CBC Radio’s The House.
No Canadian homeless anymore?
Liberal support is a shadow of what it was nine years ago. Why? In brief: Incumbency, inflation, immigration and identity
Just shy of nine years ago, Justin Trudeau led his Liberals to a majority government with 39.5 per cent of the popular vote. Today, depending on which poll you prefer, the Liberals have lost a shade less than half of that support. Where did it go, and why?
Liberal support began leaking during Mr. Trudeau’s first four-year term. The result of the ensuing election was a minority Liberal government. Since the last election, in 2021, which produced another minority, the Liberals have tried many tricks in the political book and unveiled a range of policies designed to meet social needs, as the party sees them, and to tickle the electorate’s fancy. Politically speaking, nothing has worked. The party has at most one year left before the next election to avoid a crushing defeat. Recently, the Liberals lost by-elections in seats they had long held in Toronto and Montreal, a harbinger of electoral disaster.
Long read but worth it. Trudeau’s immigration scam is a plot to destroy Canada, no one cane deny that.
OTTAWA—Is it déjà vu all over again?
That’s a loaded question for the half dozen Liberal MPs who were part of the doomed Kathleen Wynne government that lost to Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in 2018 and now sit in Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal caucus facing Pierre Poilievre’s surging Conservatives.
Two of those veteran politicians wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole, their silence a telling indication of where things appear to be headed and how history could repeat itself.
MPs were pulled into meetings across Parliament Hill this week to sign a pledge demanding change at the top
Pressure is building on the prime minister and his office as a growing number of anxious Liberal MPs are co-ordinating efforts to force Justin Trudeau to step down as Liberal Party leader, multiple sources have told CBC News.
Disgruntled Liberal MPs held a series of meetings to discuss a path forward for the party since the surprising Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection loss in June.
Those talks accelerated with Parliament’s return and the Montreal byelection loss. They escalated further this week with the prime minister and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, out of the country for a summit in Asia.
h/t DS
Justin Trudeau led the federal Liberals out of the political wilderness. Now they run the risk of returning there.
Things were bleak for the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013. Despite having governed for a significant part of the 20th century, it was reeling from successive defeats at the hands of the Conservatives while at the same time trying to hold off an insurgent New Democrat Party led by Jack Layton and then Tom Mulcair.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun ban and buyback policy is running out of steam.
And it hasn’t even left the station.
The buyback is broken. Law-abiding firearms owners don’t want to lose their guns. It doesn’t go far enough for gun control advocates. And taxpayers don’t want to pick up the massive bill.
After nine years in office, the Canadian prime minister’s approval rate has plummeted and voters are calling for his resignation
In Verdun, a working-class but gentrifying neighbourhood of Montreal, Stéphane Altimas was celebrating. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party had held the seat in the French-speaking province almost uninterrupted since the Second World War, but the separatist Bloc Québécois claimed a surprise victory last month.
“It pained me to vote against my party, but it sends Trudeau a message — we’re done with you and we’re done with the Liberals, unless something changes,” Altimas, 43, a maths teacher who voted for the Bloc, said. “Bon débarras,” he added — good riddance.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face mounting pressure from his caucus this week to step down from the leadership of the Liberal party.
A group of backbench MPs, primarily from Atlantic Canada and southwestern Ontario, are in discussions to formally release an ask for the prime minister to consider the future of the Liberal party in making a decision about whether to stay at the helm of it.
Last Friday, anti-vaping activists took to Parliament Hill and called for the resignation of Minister of Addiction Ya’ara Saks. They said they’ve been waiting 14 months for the minister to “strengthen controls” on vaping and she has not delivered. Their main grievance is that vaping products are flavoured, and they repeated their call for all vape flavours to be banned.
Another form of Astro-turfing, policy masquerading as grassroot public opinion.
We slipped past the anniversary of a massacre this week. A year ago, a throng of crazed, heavily armed young men crossed the border from Gaza on a mission to kill Jews.
They raped and murdered at will, posting videos of their carnage on social media. They returned to Gaza as heroes, having murdered 1,200 Jews. They dragged with them 251 hostages, including women, children and the elderly.
It was, for those who hate Jews, a glorious day.
OTTAWA — Canada’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis is driving household inequality to historic levels, according to a new economic snapshot from Statistics Canada.
The snapshot, released on Thursday, revealed that income inequality between the top and bottom 40 per cent of households reached 47.0 percentage points in the second quarter of 2024, the largest gap ever recorded since Statistics Canada started collecting this data in 1999.
In the complicated world of international conflicts, contradictory moral positions can often be justified by competing narratives, conflicting facts, differing starting points and starkly opposed ideological perspectives. However, when large-scale heinous crimes are systematically committed by a murderous organization or nation state, responsible countries should take an unequivocal stand. High on a lengthy list of crimes against humanity are the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Holodomor, Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia, and the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda. Belatedly, most countries acknowledge that failure to mitigate or at least decry those monstrous tragedies was shameful.
Inviting Islamists to settle in Canada reeks of moral rot.
Smearing citizens as Islamophobes and Racists because they had the good common sense to object also reeks of moral rot.
Continuing to slavishly cultivate the Islamist vote goes beyond mere moral rot and is nothing less than satanic evil.
The fallout from CTV News’ airing of an altered clip continues, as Bell Media Vice-President Richard Gray faced a barrage of questions from a House of Commons committee on Thursday.
The contention stems from an edited clip that aired on CTV News last month that misrepresented what Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had said in the House of Commons, leading to a blanket Conservative boycott of the Bell Media-owned news network. After two CTV News employees were let go, and two public apologies from the broadcaster, Poilievre lifted his boycott last week.
