Homelessness Explodes In Canada As Rents, Housing Prices Soar

Canada is gripped by a surge in homelessness that has seen tens of thousands of people priced out of rental and real estate markets and left to live in the streets of the wealthy nation.

Researchers warn government data is vastly underestimating the number of homeless across the country, as the social ill spreads from major cities to small towns.

In Quebec, one in two homeless people can be found in rural parts of the eastern province, instead of mainly in Montreal as had been the case in the past, according to a new report published in September.

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Trudeau lied about how much Montana holiday cost taxpayers

Trudeau’s Montana holiday cost taxpayers much more than reported

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Easter weekend vacation in Montana cost taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars, CBC News has learned — far more than the sum reported to Parliament.

The price tag for the April 6-10 trip comes to more than $228,839 once the costs carried by the Canadian Armed Forces, the Privy Council Office and the RCMP are included.

That sum does not include the regular salaries of the RCMP officers tasked with protecting the prime minister, the Royal Canadian Air Force aircrew or the Privy Council official who normally accompanies the prime minister with the equipment needed to communicate securely.

Junior is a compulsive liar.

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Defence cost-cutting jeopardizing Canada’s armed forces

In last year’s budget, the federal Liberals promised to “carry out a swift defence policy review to equip Canada for a world that has become more dangerous.”

Apparently, in its “swift” review, the Trudeau government discovered the world was less dangerous, not more. How else to explain this week’s news the Liberals have ordered our armed forces to cut nearly $1 billion from its overall budget?

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CSIS Warned PM’s Adviser of Beijing’s Targeting of MPs, Contradicting Adviser’s, Special Rapporteur’s Accounts

A second national security adviser to the prime minister got a warning in 2021 from the nation’s spy agency that Beijing was targeting MPs, a classified document obtained by The Epoch Times shows, but he didn’t brief it up. Additionally, this detail was not included in the special rapporteur’s report on foreign interference.

The Epoch Times has obtained, through the access to information regime, a partly redacted Top Secret limited distribution briefing note the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) sent to a handful of government officials in May 2021, advising them it would conduct defensive briefings with the targeted MPs.

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Worried about grocery prices? Wait till we get compulsory carbon accounting

If the federal government is worried about grocery prices now, wait until the global sustainability and climate-related financial disclosures of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) come to Canada.

Among other things, these standards mandate the use of intrusive, burdensome, and expensive CO2 emissions accounting across a company’s entire value chain. For grocery retailers this includes explaining and accounting for emissions in the production, transport, packaging, refrigeration, consumption and disposal of everything they sell. In other words, your grocery store will need to quantify all the emissions of that hamburger meat you bought: whether in producing it (including all steps from farm to processor), transporting it to the store, packaging and refrigerating it at the store, plus your travelling to and from the store, your refrigeration and eventually your cooking of the hamburger, and your disposal of the packaging and any waste of the food.

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Trudeau gov’t to investigate corruption in Trudeau gov’t green fund after receiving whistleblower complaint … 1 Billion dollar slush fund small by historic Liberal Party standards

Ottawa suspends $1B green fund after receiving whistleblower complaint

Franky “Bubbles” Champagne is on the case!

Ottawa has frozen the activities of a federal foundation that finances the development of green technologies after receiving a report that criticized its management of public funds.

Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC) is in the middle of a five-year agreement with the federal government to distribute $1 billion to small and medium businesses in the clean tech sector.

The decision to suspend the organization’s ability to distribute its funding was announced on Tuesday by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne.

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Canada Has Spent Over $23 Million on WEF Projects

Since November 2015, Canada’s federal government has sent nearly $23.5 million to projects involving the World Economic Forum (WEF), documents obtained by The Epoch Times show.

The numbers are contained in a 127-page response tabled in the House of Commons Sept. 18 to a question posed in June by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.

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Roxham Road is closed. So why are asylum claims still on the rise?

In March, Washington and Ottawa agreed to close Roxham Road, the small alley in Quebec through which thousands of asylum seekers have entered Canada from the United States, bypassing customs. Nearly 40,000 people entered Canada through Roxham Road in 2022; there were a record 91,710 claimants last year.

So despite the closing, why has Canada already processed more than 80,000 applications from asylum seekers so far this year?

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Governor General Spent Over $117,000 on Dry Cleaning Since 2018: Taxpayer’s Federation

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has spent over $117,000 on dry cleaning since 2018, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).

“When I spill half the Pizza Hut lunch buffet on my white work shirt, I don’t stick the company I work for with the dry-cleaning bill, and neither should the governor general,” said CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano in a release. “This is another perk the governor general enjoys that struggling Canadians can’t afford.”

How in Hell is that even possible? Who owns her preferred dry cleaner?

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Number of Canadians reporting financial stress jumps 20% in a year — report calls increase a ‘national emergency’

The number of Canadians who say they are unable to meet their financial obligations and are facing mounting financial stress has jumped significantly in the past year, according to a new survey from the National Payroll Institute, which is calling the situation a national emergency.

“A financial storm has picked up significant strength and it’s far more intense than initially predicted,” Peter Tzanetakis, the institute’s president, told the Star. “The key drivers of this financial stress have been increases in interest rates, inflation and the cost of living.”

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Diane Francis: India spat exposes holes in Canada’s immigration, criminal justice systems

The Liberal and NDP coalition have failed to protect Canada’s borders. The military has been neglected: there are only 300 full-time military personnel in Canada’s vast North, and the government is looking to further reduce the defence budget. But the gaping holes in the immigration system constitutes another security concern, and underlies the recent diplomatic spat with India.

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India tells Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats, report says, as diplomatic fight worsens

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct. 10, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Ties between India and Canada have deteriorated in recent weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of Sikh independence activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Nijjar, 45, had been wanted by India for years and was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., on June 18.

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Jesse Kline: Trudeau cuts defence spending to fund socialist pet projects

When politicians get in a room together, are they overwhelmed by the wafting scent of bulls–t, or do they simply become immune to it after awhile?

In July, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with their NATO allies in Vilnius, Lithuania, where they pledged their “enduring commitment to invest at least two per cent of our gross domestic product (GDP) annually on defence,” noting that, “in many cases, expenditure beyond two per cent of GDP will be needed in order to remedy existing shortfalls and meet the requirements across all domains arising from a more contested security order.”

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Trudeau’s in trouble: can he dig himself out before the next election?

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tackles simultaneous domestic and international crises, the government’s incumbency and longevity is both a blessing and curse, according to communications specialists.

When managing crises, “it’s really good to be government,” but “somewhat more difficult to be late government,” said Chad Rogers, a partner at Crestview Strategy.

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Stephen Moore: The malignant narcissism of Justin Trudeau

Last week, Canadian House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota invited a 98-year-old man named Yaroslav Hunka to attend a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Rota called Hunka a “Canadian hero,” and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cheered for Hunka alongside lawmakers. But Hunka, it turned out, had served in a Nazi unit during the Second World War, sparking outrage.

In response, Rota took “full responsibility,” apologized and then resigned on Tuesday. Trudeau called it “deeply embarrassing.” Trudeau then warned against “Russian propaganda and Russian disinformation.”

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