An information request has revealed SaskTel spent just under $13,000 last year to comply with a Liberal government order to offer free feminine hygiene products in bathrooms of all genders.
The request was made by Yorkton., Sask. resident and Buffalo Party supporter Tim Kasprick, and shared exclusively with Western Standard.
The Canadian government is pushing Israel to accept the emergency orders of the International Court of Justice to prevent genocide in Gaza, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says.
At the same time, Canada is asking South Africa to use its connections in Iran and Hamas to push for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Ms. Joly told The Globe and Mail in an interview on Thursday.
I bet all Israel hangs on her every word.
The closing of the unofficial border crossing Roxham Road last year stemmed the flow of asylum-seekers into Quebec from New York state, but overall numbers are rising in Canada with a spike in those arriving by air. The rise has many reasons behind it and can’t be accounted for by the growing scope of global conflict alone, immigration experts told The Epoch Times.
A major contributor is likely an increase in travel visa approvals.
No question Trudeau is deliberately altering Canada’s demographic to harvest future votes.
The Canadian government awarded billions of dollars in contracts earmarked for Indigenous enterprises without always requiring bidders to prove that they were First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, a Global News investigation has found.
A program that now helps Indigenous businesses land more than $1.6 billion in contract awards annually, the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB), used to rely largely on an honour system, said Anispiragas Piragasanathar, a spokesman representing federal departments.
Meeting between Trudeau and Muslim leaders in Quebec called off after many refuse to attend
A meeting between Muslim leaders in Quebec and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planned for this afternoon north of Montreal — weeks ahead of a critical byelection in the city — was cancelled after many of those invited refused to attend, CBC News has learned.
“Many members of our community continue to feel angry and frustrated with a government that in their view simply hasn’t operated with integrity in relation to what is happening in Gaza, or in addressing the steep rise of Islamophobia in Canada,” the National Council of Canadian Muslims told CBC News in a media statement.
Justin Trudeau got a bit of a reprieve this summer from the questions about whether he was staying on to fight the next election.
Two months since those questions rose to a fever pitch after the Liberals’ loss of their St. Paul’s seat in Toronto, Trudeau and his team are probably thinking they rode out that storm — as they have ridden out so many storms over the past decade.
“This too shall pass” is an integral part of the Trudeau crisis-management method.
Canada’s goal of reducing carbon emissions cannot be achieved without relying on China, a new energy industry report says.
The key to success is copper, an essential component of electrification, according to the authors of “Securing Copper Supply: no China, no energy transition,” published by data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie.
China dominates in the smelting and refining of copper, which is essential to creating tools needed for cleaner energy and reduced carbon emissions, the report says.
The Trudeau government has claimed that Canada “continues to have an enviable fiscal and debt position relative to international peers” because we have the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7. But this is misleading. In reality, Canada is actually a highly indebted country relative to our international peers.
Broadcaster Charles Adler says he’s asked for a face-to-face meeting with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and its grand chief after the assembly called for Adler’s recent Senate appointment to be rescinded over what it called “grossly offensive” comments he made about Indigenous communities 25 years ago.
“I am accountable for what I say and do,” Adler said in a brief emailed statement on Tuesday, adding that he looks forward to hearing from the advocacy group, which represents all 63 First Nations in Manitoba.
Justin who?
Bonnie Crombie is distancing her provincial party from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s struggling federal Liberals.
As the Ontario Liberals gather in London, Ont. for a Sept. 20-22 policy conference, Crombie has invited some prominent Trudeau critics to speak to delegates.
Few Canadians are immune to the rising cost of living, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, with 9 percent of those in the highest income quintile considering using a food bank.
Data from spring 2024 shows that while 42 percent of Canadians are concerned over rising food prices, about 9 percent of those in the highest income bracket report they may have to turn to a food bank or similar community organization for help. That number rises to 14 percent for those in the second-highest income bracket, StatCan said.
Nearly half of Canadians report struggling to meet day-to-day expenses, up 12 percentage points from 2022 to 45 percent.
The Trudeau Liberals have failed Canada’s middle class.
On taxes, housing, employment, economic growth, health care and income, ordinary working Canadians are worse off than they were in 2015 when the Liberals took over.
Ottawa’s $10-a-day Early Learning and Childcare Program was designed to ease the financial burden on families, but in Alberta — and across the country — it has (predictably) turned into a nightmare for childcare operators and families.
The Association of Alberta Childcare Entrepreneurs (AACE) is urging the Alberta government to find a way out before it’s too late. Just three years into the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, childcare operators are facing unprecedented financial strain, with many on the brink of closure. What was promised as affordable and accessible child care has instead become a government-driven disaster threatening to collapse Alberta’s childcare system.
Summer is a time when many people take a break, but a local food bank says they learned the hard way recently that hunger does not go on holiday.
The Salvation Army Food Bank in Brant County says it had to temporarily turn some people away from its Paris location because the shelves were empty.
They’ve since been restocked, but high demand means the supply may not last long.
The situation is more pronounced in the summer – a time of year where people don’t typically donate as often.
h/t Patti Jo
A friend’s mother was fond of saying there’s no good way to do a bad thing, and no bad time to do a good one. It’s true of public policy as of life generally, which is why both the public and politicians should talk more about principles and less about motives or tactics. And just as I was wrestling with applying this maxim to the current fiscal mess, someone Xed the classic Milton Friedman line to “Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax.”
