A federal program launched to increase hiring of black employees has failed to deliver, according to a Treasury Board report.
Blacklock’s Reporter says The Centre on Diversity and Inclusion, established in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, has made little progress in four years, despite employee efforts.
A whopping 38 per cent now see Canada with the most extreme level of inequality, a 19 percentage point increase in five years
Hundreds rallied in northwest Winnipeg to call on the federal and provincial governments to allow more international workers to remain in Manitoba.
Protesters gathered at the city’s Adsum Park in The Maples on Sunday afternoon to demand that more people get their expiring work permits extended, among other things.
The federal government announced late last year it would stop offering an 18-month extension to post-graduate work permits, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students can’t find jobs? Gee how did that happen?
Especially difficult summer ahead for young people looking for jobs, economist says
Isabelle Burzese started looking for a summer job in February. Now, after finishing her first year of studies at Concordia University in Montreal, she’s back home with her family and she’s still looking. With expenses piling up, her search is becoming more and more urgent.
“I’m not looking to get a job for spending money or money to have fun, even though I would love to,” the 18-year-old from Toronto says. “It’s really for tuition and rent and groceries and things like that for next year.”
Do not believe a word that the business community or the government says about the need for mass immigration to offset labour shortages. They are evil liars.
Canadian international student goes to Tim Hortons job fair
finds 100 other international students there pic.twitter.com/JK50WqqrzJ
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 24, 2024
The front-page headline demanded action: “Time to Close the Gates.” It was March 26, 1908. Centred on the page, a list of three recently murdered men and their four “supposed slayers” – their non-Anglo-Saxon, ethnic names unmissable in all-caps. “The Goth is at our own gates,” The Globe editorial warned.
“One has only to glance at this list to see that the Slav and the Italian are swelling the statistics of crime in this country.” The only effective cure for the “invasion” would be “the closing of the gates on the offscourings of the Slav and Latin races.”
This Globe piece is one of a small flurry of articles that have recently appeared expressing concern about Canadian attitudes toward immigration and or identity politics.
It’s not surprising that the paper of record for Canada’s Corporate cronies will have published 3 such pieces in that last week.
The elite have have sold Canadians a “patriotic myth” that immigration is always beneficial and that to oppose it is racist.
Someone is getting worried about their supply of cheap foreign labour hence the push to remind Canadians to know their place in the run-up to Canada Day.
Globe – Canadians don’t need to worry about identity politics
Globe – In a country where immigrants are the majority, anti-immigration politics are obsolete
Ottawa Citizen – As Canada ages, it risks losing the post-war consensus on immigration
Epoch Times – Identity Politics Destroy a Country’s Unity (Despite the title just a big ‘Hurrah’ for immigration)
Trudeau says he is ‘committed’ to staying as PM after byelection loss
Justin Trudeau says Monday he is “committed” to staying on as prime minister after the Liberals’ shocking Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection loss exactly one week ago.
“There’s always going to be lots of reflection after a tough loss, but there’s also so much to do,” Trudeau told CBC’s Heather Hiscox, answering questions about his future for the first time since the upset.
Before last week’s vote, a Conservative candidate hadn’t been competitive in the federal riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s since the 1980s. The party hadn’t won a seat in urban Toronto since the 2011 federal election.
He knows he's toast. Have you ever seen him avoid looking into the camera so much while babbling? pic.twitter.com/RAuPNvUo1w
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 1, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office declined to comment Sunday on a letter signed by several MPs calling for an immediate in-person national caucus meeting to discuss the party’s surprising by-election loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s.
A small group of MPs sent the letter to Liberal caucus chair Brenda Shanahan on Friday requesting the immediate meeting to discuss what they call the “extremely concerning” by-election results.
While Canada conducts studies to figure out how to resuscitate our domestic production of military ammunition, our allies are aggressively moving forward, modernizing their munitions facilities and ramping up outputs in support of Ukraine.
In the U.S., the Pentagon committed $6 billion to this drive for self-sufficiency in the production of critical ammunition. In just one year — combining Turkish technology with General Dynamics’ leadership and innovation — the Americans have built a greenfield ammunition factory in Mesquite, Texas, that will produce 30,000 to 40,000 rounds a month.
A recent federal report reveals a significant shift in public opinion on immigration quotas, with a growing number of Canadians expressing concerns about the number of immigrants entering the country.
Blacklock’s Reporter says according to a Department of Immigration memo, 35% of Canadians believe that the current number of immigrants is “too many,” a 13-percentage-point increase between March and November 2023.
While Liberal MPs desperate to get re-elected next year are busy knifing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the back, the Trudeau government has just passed a draconian new law against free speech aimed primarily at Canada’s oil and gas sector.
The Liberal Party of Canada is in dire straits. The loss of Toronto-St. Paul’s in a byelection is more than a setback for the party. It is a catastrophe. Toronto-St. Paul’s isn’t a bellwether seat that could swing either way with the political winds. It was one of the safest Liberal seats in Canada and had been in their possession for more than 30 years.
If Liberal MPs weren’t already in a panic before, they certainly are now. If Toronto-St. Paul’s can fall to the Conservative Party of Canada, any seat can.
From any angle you look at it, Canada’s housing market is badly broken.
The promise of home ownership, long the ultimate expression that one had secured a spot in the Canadian middle class, has faded away, not just in the usual suspect cities for real estate exuberance – Toronto and Vancouver – but in towns and communities across the country.
Appointments of judges, arbitrators and, for today’s purpose, human rights commissioners, have real-life consequences. After all, the people who decide things matter.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) already had considerable power before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new Online Harms Act, amending the Canadian Human Rights Act, made it the arbiter of complaints about online hate speech. Of course, what constitutes “hate speech” remains open for debate.
Calls have intensified for Justin Trudeau to resign as head of the party he almost single-handedly pulled back from the brink after a decimating electoral defeat in 2011.
Still, Trudeau has been steadfast in his intention to lead the party into the next election.
Canada is experiencing a crisis of unaffordable housing. One recent survey concluded that housing in Greater Vancouver was “impossibly unaffordable.” Another survey found that only 23% of British Columbian renters pay less than 30% of their income on rent, almost half spend 31%-49%, and 25% spend more than half of their income on rent.
That raises the question of what is affordable housing.
A man in St. John’s rents office space, but he doesn’t have an office job.
He’s an electrician, driving from gig to gig all day. The office is where he sleeps at night, secretly, because he couldn’t afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the city. For two months during the frigid Newfoundland and Labrador winter, he lived in his truck. Then, in February, he found an office listed for $450 per month.
“I’m 100 per cent doing this clandestinely,” the 37-year-old told CBC News. “I basically have given up on finding anything else.”
