Even as he pleaded for a deal to be done, Jonathan Dekel-Chen was under no illusions. To get his son released from the clutches of Hamas meant negotiating with the devil.
“We’re dealing with Satan,” Dekel-Chen told CBS news on Sunday as he talked about his son Sagui, a father of three girls, who is being held in Gaza.
Timing is everything in politics.
If New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton had not emerged as the clear winner of the 2011 federal leaders’ English language debate in Canada, the Liberal Party may have had a chance to regroup and stop the Conservative Party from forming a majority government.
If a televised debate had not aired so early on CNN in the presidential electoral season this year, Democratic Party supporters in the United States would not have realized that Joe Biden had to be replaced as their nominee.
Any sentence that ends with “for the first time since 1945” is likely to garner attention. When the first part of the sentence is “Germany votes for far-right government,” drinks are spat out and the volume on the telly is turned up.
And so it is. Over the weekend, German voters in Thuringia easily lifted the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the top spot in regional elections. In Saxony, the party placed a close second, right behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which, together with the centre-left Social Democratic party, has had a lock on power nearly everywhere in Germany since the modern Germany state was founded in 1949.
There is nothing “extremist” about defending your best interests from vile politicians and a rapacious corporate class as we are faced with in Canada.
OTTAWA, W.Va. – New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat.
Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next year in exchange for movement on key priorities.
More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.
And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.
We know what side Trudeau is on.
The Trudeau Foundation and former Northwest Territories premier Stephen Kakfwi are seeking more than $37,000 in surety from an Indigenous activist suing the foundation and Kakfwi for $2.25 million over alleged sexual harassment.
In a document filed in Quebec Superior Court on Aug. 14, lawyers for the defendants request that Cherry Smiley provide “suretyship for security for the legal costs that the Court could award in favour of the Foundation.”
Justin Trudeau’s exchange with a steelworker at the Algoma plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., last Friday suggests two things — that the prime minister’s position is objectively hopeless but that he is not, in fact, totally helpless.
Let me explain. The worker — (and it appears he was a worker, not a Conservative plant, as some online have charged, given he was wearing a Local 2251 shirt in a secure part of the Algoma property at shift change) — was about as rude as Canadian voters ever get when they meet a politician. Namely, he wouldn’t shake hands and told Trudeau he didn’t believe a word he said, before urging the prime minister to “have a nice day.”
Trudeau just got castrated by a steel worker:
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The cabinet retreat showcased a laissez-faire prime minister not interested in a cabinet shuffle or bringing new blood into the party.
HALIFAX—For a party trailing by a country kilometre in the polls for over a year, the recent Liberal cabinet retreat was a pretty self-satisfied affair.
True, there was a laundry list of announcements: tariffs on EVs from China, a tweak of the temporary foreign workers program, a task force here, and more studies there. Not unimportant, to be sure.
But it was very much a bits-and-pieces rather than a strategic or visionary exercise. There was no overarching message. As one shrewd observer put it, Justin Trudeau’s motto seems to be “more of the same.”
Surrounded by sycophants.
It initially took Canada four months to get into the queue after deciding to join a plan by the United States to buy urgently needed National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) for Ukraine.
Defence Minister Bill Blair insists the lag did not contribute to the slow pace of acquiring the high-tech defensive capability, which is still months away from being delivered.
Trudeau is always full of shit.
Liberal MP Leah Taylor Roy (Aurora-Oak Ridges, ON) on Monday would not comment on an affidavit alleging Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives interfered in her riding.
Taylor Roy was honoured as a “new local star” at a Chinese Canadian banquet nine days before the election was called, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s decision to reel in the temporary foreign worker program after loosening the rules to help businesses find workers after the pandemic is sparking a contentious debate about whether governments should even try to address labour shortages.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that his government is bringing back stricter rules to stem the flow of low-wage temporary foreign workers, and he urged businesses to hire and train Canadian workers.
There was never a “labour shortage” there was a slave shortage and our Captain’s of Industry had Trudeau fix that for them.
Shocking testimony at the Commons Public Safety Committee last week raises serious flags about how two men now charged with a slew of terror related charges were allowed into this country. One of them, Ahmed Eldidi, was granted Canadian citizenship just two months before he was arrested. One of those charges is related to a terror video made before Eldidi came to Canada. He can be seen allegedly dismembering a body, “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with” the Islamic State.
Trudeau is the cheapest of whores.
Justin Trudeau retreats from Canada’s liberal immigration regime
Business groups raise concerns over measures to reduce the number of foreign workers entering the country
Justin Trudeau this week moved to quell a public backlash to one of the world’s most progressive migration policies by rolling back Canada’s foreign worker scheme.
Trailing in polls ahead of an election next year, the prime minister announced measures to slash the number of new arrivals. But executives worry the measures will curb their supply of cheap labour.
Simranzeet Singh, manager of policy at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, said that more consultation was needed to ensure “changes do not inadvertently harm our economy or critical services”.
They aren’t “Business Leaders” they’re Welfare Scammers.
And remember The Great Replacement is just a conspiracy!
Whenever Stephan Fuchs starts talking about Black Axe, his desk quickly gets cluttered with dozens of notes, arrows, and diagrams. The co-director of Victras, a Swiss non-governmental organization fighting human trafficking, says these complex inner machinations are precisely what makes the group so successful. “Authorities can recognize Nigerian networks,” he explains, “but for a long time, nobody understood the group dynamics and mechanics behind them.”
For years, Fuchs has been advising law enforcement agencies on groups such as Black Axe and explaining how they spread. In Europe, the wider public is barely aware of such groups, even though criminal organizations like these have been on the rise in past years.
When it comes to disastrous immigration policy Trudeau’s government is always ahead of the curve …
An “Ultra Violent Cult” Is Stealing Cars & Using Canadian Real Estate To Launder: FINTRAC
Canadian real estate, an “ultra violent cult,” money laundering, and Toronto’s stolen cars. Sounds like a spy thriller, but that’s reality in Canada, according to FINTRAC. In 2017, the financial intelligence agency assessed the money laundering threat of an organized crime group called Black Axe. The group infiltrated the government, conducts mass fraud, and runs a Toronto-based car theft ring. FINTRAC found nearly 1 in 5 suspicious transaction reports linked to Black Axe, involved real estate.
Gee what a surprise …
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen spoke at venue known as criminal hangout
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen provided a briefing to members of the African-Canadian community at a Toronto barbecue establishment but the department hadn’t advised him that court documents have identified it as a known hangout for members of the notorious Black Axe criminal syndicate.
Canadian Per-Capita GDP Is Negative For A 5th Consecutive Quarter
Canada’s economy is expanding, but the details are worth reviewing before getting too excited. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows real gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than expected in Q2 2024. A dive into the details shows productivity further eroded on a per capita basis, while household spending weakened. Most growth is now government spending, accounting for a whopping 80% of the quarter. Canada increasingly resembles an economy in recession, despite not quite meeting the country’s preferred definition of one.
It’s all smoke and mirrors folks. Lies actually.
