OTTAWA — A Toronto Liberal MP dismissed the ongoing chatter about Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s political future as “whispers in the shadows” and compared it to sports commentators looking to fill airtime during the off-season.
James Maloney, a former Ontario Liberal caucus chair, came to Freeland’s defence on Monday during a housing announcement.
Canadians are divided over the country’s record-high immigration quotas, with more than half saying new residents are failing to assimilate, according to new federal data.
“Half of Canadians, 51 percent, agree immigrants need to do more to integrate into Canadian society,” said in-house research by the department of immigration. “Just under half of Canadians, 46 percent, agree Canada should focus on helping unemployed Canadians rather than looking for skilled immigrants to fill labour shortages.”
It’s no secret that Canada’s immigration system is broken. From selection to integration, every aspect seems to be in peril. Yet, while headlines abound about Canada’s population trap, productivity emergency, housing crisis, and the mass exodus of talent leaving our country, discussions about the root causes and solutions remain notably scarce.
Canada’s immigration policy is anti-Canadian.
Chris Kostav and Shari Keyes may have targets on their backs.
In a hot Toronto real estate market, both tenants are paying well below market rent for their units in a low-rise building in East York.
And now their landlord wants them out. According to their eviction notices, the landlord plans to move family members into both apartments.
This month, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland proclaimed that “Canada is the best country in the world.” But it’s a hard statement to square with the evidence. Canadians are getting poorer relative to their peers in many other countries and our living standards are falling. This trend is expected to continue well into the future, unless our policymakers make significant changes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he has no plans to resign, insisting he will lead the Liberal Party of Canada into the next election, currently set for October 2025.
But after months of dismal polls, the pressure on him is mounting after his party failed to keep a formerly safe Liberal Toronto riding in a June byelection, signalling growing unpopularity with this government among Canadians. The loss prompted calls for Trudeau to step down from former Liberal ministers, former British Columbia premier Christy Clark, and current MPs within his own caucus.
TLN aired an interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, on the weekend. If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tuned in, it must have ruined his vacation. Should the Conservatives win the next election, little of what Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal government enacted will survive.
Mr. Poilievre rarely grants interviews with the major networks or news publications. But he is open to speaking with other media, including ones aimed at various ethnic communities. The half-hour program on TLN, hosted by Camila Gonzalez, aired Saturday and Sunday evening, and will also be available on YouTube.
The LPC hasn’t built anything other than a mountain of debt.
Canadians are feeling negative about their personal finances this quarter, even following the recent interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada (BOC), according to the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index conducted by Ipsos.
MNP LTD said 56% of Canadians expressed concern interest rates have not gone down fast enough to provide the financial relief they require, and 57% will need interest rates to go down way more before their financial situation improves. It added two-thirds desperately need interest rates to go down.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals remain deeply unpopular, currently trailing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by as many as 17 points in the polls, after more than a year of lagging behind.
If an election was held today, the Conservatives would likely trounce the Liberals and cruise to a majority government, with polling aggregator 338Canada projecting the Conservatives would win 212 seats, based on the current polling data. The Liberals would win just 74 seats.
Canada has lost its way in the world. Its international influence and respect is in serious decline, as a result of a combination of poor political leadership and inept actions, especially during the nine years of Justin Trudeau’s government.
It is a challenge for any government to avoid foreign-policy missteps. Given the volatility in global affairs with unexpected crises beyond a country’s control, it is impossible to always get things right, as governments react and adjust to sudden events. But Canada’s errors in recent years go far beyond this, showing astonishing ineptitude – own-goals that will have long-term consequences, and are of the Liberal government’s own making.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced two federal byelections to be held on Sept. 16, according to a government release Sunday morning.
The byelections will be held in the ridings of Elmwood-Transcona in Winnipeg and LaSalle—Émard—Verdun in Montreal.
And if he wins either or both the media will trumpet the victory as an across the board nation wide endorsement of Trudeau.
Convenience stores are cornerstones of our communities, operated by responsible retailers who are not just business owners, but neighbours and friends.
These local businesses hold a special place in our hearts and memories, whether it’s grabbing an icy drink on a hot summer day, buying packs of trading cards, grabbing goodies or filling up before a weekend trip to the cottage or campsite.
He makes everyone mad.
Companies that don’t tow the government line on climate change will soon have to, now that Bill C-59 is law. The bill, which received royal assent in June, amended Canada’s Competition Act to prohibit the private sector from “greenwashing” — a move that cracks down on corporate communications to an intrusive degree.
Interesting to me:)
Pic is Largest number of Study permit holders in Canada, by country of citizenship, permitted entry in 2023 alone
India 'wins' by an insane amount@TheophanesRexThe total for 2023 is 682,000 foreign students!! That's f'cked pic.twitter.com/Q6Dlx2mTjP
— Nya Pfannerstill (@NyaPfanner) July 28, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
By now, Justin Trudeau’s unpopularity is not a bug in Canadian politics, but a feature.
It is the starting point for every conversation revolving around the Liberals’ future prospects against the Conservatives in the next election. It figures large when trying to guess the lifespan of the Liberal-NDP deal — how long will Jagmeet Singh and his New Democrats want to remain allied with an unpopular PM?
