Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to suspend all taxes on gasoline and diesel between Victoria Day on May 19 and Labour Day on Sept. 2 to help Canadians save money and retain their summer vacations amid high inflation.
Speaking to reporters in Vancouver, Mr. Poilievre said many families could be forced to cancel their summer vacation plans due to the rising cost of living, noting the record number of visits to food banks across the country.
Elon Musk’s pledge to pay the legal costs of people who suffer repercussions for speaking their minds on his X social media platform is drawing him deeper into Canada’s battle over free speech.
His platform is providing financial support for a legal appeal by a Brampton, Ont., pediatrician who was professionally rebuked for criticizing Canada’s COVID-era lockdowns. Mr. Musk is also funding a free-speech lawsuit filed by another Ontario-based doctor who had spoken out against COVID-19 health policies.
Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
“Despite claims to the contrary, living standards are declining in Canada,” study co-author Grady Munro says in the report by the fiscally conservative think tank, “Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023.”
Don’t believe your lying eyes!
Many Canadians are well aware of the myriad of apologies that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered throughout his time in office. Some half-hearted apologies were issued for his own behaviour; others have been for the ills and errors of his predecessors, with no explanation of the context in which they lived.
Here is a tale of two recent childcare webinars. One was organized by entrepreneurs who see their daycare centres and the families they serve being bulldozed by the Trudeau government’s national takeover of their sector; the other was held by government-funded activists and aspiring central planners who see the governmentalization of childcare as an opportunity to inject it with their notions of social justice.
The April job numbers, released this week by Statistics Canada, contained a pleasant surprise: 90,000 jobs created, when only 20,000 new jobs were expected.
But the stats also contained an inconvenient truth. Canada’s economy has passed a dangerous tipping point – two in fact.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has delayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s controversial move to amend the Broadcasting Act until late 2025.
Bill C-11: The Online Streaming Act, initially scheduled for implementation in 2024, would require media giants like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify to promote Canadian content and contribute financially to its production.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government signalled a major shift in Canada’s Middle East policy last week by abstaining on a United Nations General Assembly resolution backing the recognition of Palestine as a full UN member.
Until last week, Canada had always sided with Israel and its allies in arguing that a recognition of Palestinian statehood could come only after negotiations on a two-state solution and Palestinian endorsement of Israel’s right to exist.
A Sikh Canadian separatist leader allegedly targeted for death by the Indian government says New Delhi arrested three of his secessionist colleagues Tuesday, part of what he called a crackdown on a cause that was championed by B.C.-based Hardeep Singh Nijjar before his fatal shooting last year.
Gurpatwant Pannun, the New York-based legal counsel for Sikhs for Justice, who also holds American citizenship, said he was in touch with the arrested men as recently as Monday. A criminal indictment unsealed in New York last November said a thwarted 2023 plot to kill Mr. Pannun was directed by an Indian government employee.
At least someone is doing their job.
Canada’s Department of National Defence has spent nearly $10 million on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion programs since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in 2015.
According to records released May 7 by Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of National Defence has paid consultants and contractors $9,510,247 to promote “equity and inclusion” within the military.
A Toronto businessman that reportedly attended a private fundraiser with Prime Minister Trudeau in May 2016 before winning approval to launch a bank catering to Chinese-Canadians has slapped the Globe and Mail and myriad government defendants including CSIS director David Vigneault with an extraordinary $250-million libel suit seeking to expunge a series of articles that suggest Ottawa is concerned Beijing is clandestinely pursuing a range of geopolitical and economic strategies “that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”
The lawsuit, filed May 9 in Toronto Superior Court, alleges Canada’s leading newspaper has defamed the plaintiff and his bank.
Bill Blair, the federal defence minister, made a rare admission of Liberal fallibility in Washington on Monday when he said he regrets using the word “explore” when talking about renewing Canada’s submarine fleet.
Ottawa’s recent defence policy update said the government will “explore options for renewing and expanding the submarine fleet,” a form of words that was criticized for lacking urgency.
“It’s certainly not my intention to be wishy-washy. What I’ve tried to articulate very, very clearly and strongly in the document is, we know we have to replace our submarine fleet, and we’re going to do that,” Blair said .
Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack.
“Make no mistake: this is a political assassination,” Singh told the agitated crowd in June 2023. “And it’s been carried out by India.”
Reaction from Delhi, more than 11,000 kilometres away, was starkly different. The government had long considered Nijjar a “terrorist” and Indian media wrote off the killing as a “fratricidal gang-world slaughter”.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a “summer of discontent” — not only because the electorate is fed up with his disastrous economic policies, woke sermonizing and lack of moral leadership, but because his own public-sector employees are fuming over his government’s decision to make them go into the office three days a week.
Listening to the rhetoric being espoused by union leaders, one might get the impression that public servants are being forced to work in sweatshops that aren’t up to fire code, and that the future of democratic governance is at stake.
All in the game. Trudeau is vulnerable and the public service unions are a formidable vote bloc.
Trudeau will rob us to fatten their wallets in the expectation of securing union loyalty.
Old age and death are the only guaranteed routes to forgiveness for politicians.
As English playwright Alan Bennett once said: “If you can eat a boiled egg at 90, they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.”
Perhaps it’s too much to expect a dispassionate appraisal of a sitting prime minister.
But has anyone been as roundly abused as Justin Trudeau by people who were formerly some of his closest associates and colleagues?
