Nextstar giving work promised to Canadians to foreign workers at Windsor battery plant: CBTU

The corporate conglomerate building an electric battery plant in Windsor that is slated to receive billions of dollars in government has ramped its use of foreign workers at the site and has even taken work away from unionized tradespeople in recent weeks, according to explosive new allegations from a national trades union federation.

H/T SweetPea

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Canada threw open its doors to visitors after the pandemic. Now, many don’t want to leave

A special program Canada brought in last year to make it easier for tourists, business travellers and those with relatives in this country to visit has led to some unexpected consequences.

Newly obtained documents show that a striking percentage of people who took advantage of the expedited visitor visas that the program offered have now applied to stay here — as asylum seekers.

It’s a situation, some say, that reflects among other things the pent-up demand for asylum created during the pandemic, when the border was closed.

Just another loophole created by the Trudeau government to flood the country.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Danielle Smith is the antidote to Trudeau’s DEI agenda in universities

The Liberal government has infused its social policy goals into funding for academic research for years — but to many progressives, that’s all fine and good. The real problem, they’ll tell you, is the premier who noticed it: Danielle Smith.

To push back at the federal encroachment into all things provincial — universities, yes, but also municipalities, health, schools, pharmacare and daycare — Smith’s government has tabled Bill 18, the provincial priorities act. The law would make the provincial government the final authority on all agreements between “provincial entities” and the feds.

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Budget 2024 failed to spark ‘political reboot’ for Liberals, polling suggests

The 2024 federal budget failed to spark a much-needed rebound in the polls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trailing Liberal party, according to new Ipsos polling released Tuesday.

Canadian reaction to the Liberal government’s latest spending plans shows an historic challenge ahead of the governing party as it tries to keep the reins of government out of the Conservative party’s hands in the next election, according to one pollster.

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The Liberal’s immigration policies have accomplished the opposite of what was intended

… But many are simply seeking to stay here while their claim works its way through a system that is already so overwhelmed some claimants are living in homeless shelters or on the street and it can take several years before the Immigration and Refugee Board reaches a final decision on an application.

The worst thing about all this? The Liberals’ immigration policies have accomplished the very opposite of what they intended: They have undermined support for immigration.


I prefer to think of it as Canadians waking up to the Big Lie of immigration policy in Canada.

Immigration policy was never designed to benefit Canadians.

It was designed to benefit the corporate class and the political class at our expense.

We will continue to pay dearly for sleepwalking through our nations destruction and must remain on guard against those who lie about mass immigration’s alleged benefits.

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Peter Menzies: Increasing Numbers of Canadians No Longer Recognize Their Country

Sure, some of this is natural.

As people age, they tend to worry that the values they lived by are no longer being upheld. Civilization, as the saying goes, is thousands of years old but never more than one generation deep—and that becomes more of a concern as people enter the contemplative phase of their lives.

Trudeau has turned Toronto into a 3rd World shithole.

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Singh says NDP still hasn’t decided whether to support Liberals’ new budget

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party still hasn’t decided whether it will vote in favour of the federal budget introduced last week.

The New Democrats have an agreement in place to back the governing Liberal Party on confidence and budgetary votes in exchange for movement on key policy priorities.

The agreement is set to last until June of next year, but Singh has been coy on whether he supports the Liberals’ most recent budget.

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How Justin Trudeau sparked a tech bro revolt

At a conference hosted by Canadian tech giant Shopify in 2018 , Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a moment to marvel at the unlikely success of two men who started out as snowboarders.

Trudeau, the former snowboarding instructor, was sharing the stage with Shopify founder Tobias Lütke, whose multi-billion dollar company had its beginnings as an online snowboard shop.

As they chuckled at their humble beginnings, the two snowboarders agreed that Canada had all the raw materials for a vibrant, entrepreneurial economy if it could only just get out of its own way and, Trudeau said, show “ a little more swagger .”

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FIRST READING: Canadians are so fed up, they’re abandoning political sacred cows

It’s been among the most volatile and untouchable third rails in Canadian politics: The adoption, at any level, of a private health-care system.

In the last federal election, a Conservative statement about “public-private synergies” was all it took for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to brand it as a right-wing assault on the “public, universal health-care system.”

But a new Ipsos report shows that “two tier health care” is not the threat it once was.

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Spike in international student asylum claims an abuse of study permits, experts warn

Asylum claims by international students have risen more than 1,500 per cent in the past five years, figures obtained by The Globe and Mail show, as experts warn that the study-permit system is being exploited as a way to enter and remain in Canada.

The sharp increase is particularly acute at colleges, where claims at some schools have climbed in excess of 4,000 per cent since 2018. Students at major universities, however, tend to lodge fewer claims than at colleges, the figures show.

It’s an abuse of Canadians by the Liberal government.

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The Freedom to Hate

In 2006, at the University of Toronto, my late friend and the brilliant writer and orator Christopher Hitchens gave a speech whose eloquence I could never pretend to emulate, defending the argument that the freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate. At the time, he was castigating the Canadian Government for its legislation regarding hate speech.

Alas, once again the Government has introduced legislation to curb free speech in the name of safety, but this time in even more insidious ways. Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, purports to keep Canadians safe online, but does so by regulating speech that “foments hatred” via civil penalties within a human rights framework that invites abuse.

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Orwell’s Thought Police looks weak next to Trudeau

You’d assume the reaction to Scotland’s new hate crime laws would make other authoritarian governments hesitate before introducing similar legislation. Humza Yousaf has become a laughing stock and his approval ratings have fallen by fifteen points. But apparently not. The new Irish Taoiseach, Simon Harris, is determined to railroad through the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Bill, Donald Tusk’s government in Poland wants to introduce a new law that would make it a criminal offense to “defame” a member of the LGBT community and Justin Trudeau is pressing ahead with an Online Harms Bill that makes our Britain’s Online Safety Act seem like the First Amendment. It’s as if all these “liberal” leaders are saying: “You think Humza Yousaf is the West’s foremost opponent of free speech? Hold my beer.”

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