This has, so far, been a year of hard lessons. Spiraling inflation has given households an expensive economic refresher course. A land war in Europe has offered an unwelcome reminder of old geopolitical and military truths. But arguably the most important lesson of 2022 concerns the point at which these economic, military and geopolitical considerations converge: energy.
One hotel room cost $6,000 per night and the total cost of hotels for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral is more than many Canadians spent for their house, according to bills paid by the federal government.
Everyone knew the bill for the Canadian delegation attending the Queen’s funeral last month would be steep, but the king’s ransom paid out is still shocking.
Canada’s competition watchdog is launching a study of the grocery industry to examine whether the highly concentrated sector is contributing to rising food costs.
“With inflation on the rise, Canadian consumers have seen their purchasing power decline,” the Competition Bureau said in a news release Monday.
“This is especially true when buying groceries. In fact, grocery prices in Canada are increasing at the fastest rate seen in 40 years.”
The government is largely responsible for inflation, are they suggesting we should trust the Liberals to investigate themselves?
Ottawa police knew ‘Freedom Convoy’ participants could get guns as deputy chief defends his force’s response, inquiry hears
OTTAWA — An Ottawa police “threat assessment” of the approaching “Freedom Convoy” last winter flagged how some unnamed participants had access to guns and that weapons had been seized from travelling protesters in “two cases at least,” according to a document tabled at the Emergencies Act inquiry.
And yet, Ottawa Police Deputy Chief Steve Bell defended the local law enforcement agency’s preparations for the convoy protests in testimony Monday, saying that despite Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) intelligence that the protest convoy travelling across Canada to Ottawa could stay for a long time, the local police could not have predicted the demonstration would turn into a “violent” and “traumatic” occupation around Parliament Hill.
The Canadian military will replace over the next two to four years some of the equipment it sent to Ukraine but could face a problem acquiring replacements for the howitzers it donated.
The Canadian Army donated four M777 howitzers to Ukraine’s military and those guns have proven effective on the battlefield in that country’s war with Russia.
A pandemic-fuelled hiring spree has grown the federal civil service by more than 35,000 people since April 2020, according to a CBC News analysis, helping add billions to Ottawa’s payroll costs.
Figures supplied by the Treasury Board and other ministries and departments show the federal government added 19,151 jobs in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, and another 16,356 positions in fiscal 2022. All told, the feds now employ 335,957 people across the country: a 12 per cent increase from pre-COVID times, and the greatest number of public servants in Canadian history.
An additional 28,176 bureaucrats were on long-term leave in 2022, not receiving their full salaries, but many of whom remain eligible for taxpayer-funded top-ups, benefits, insurance and pension contributions.
As of this past Friday, the federal government has froze the sales, purchase, and transfer of handguns. Making it illegal to a buy a handgun of any kind, unless “exempted.”
The decision was made in Ottawa to help limit access to firearms, and combat gun violence across the country.
But one crime expert doesn’t believe the government addressed the actual issue of gun-related crimes, and in turn, targeted the wrong group.
“We don’t have law abiding licensed citizens going around shooting people, the criminality that’s out there is using illegal guns – and I don’t feel this was the right step,” said Karen Reid-Sidhu, executive director at the Surrey Crime Prevention Society.
Canada’s Emergencies Act is culturally and historically significant to the nation.
Its previous iteration, the War Measures Act, was invoked only three times.
Two of those were during the First and Second World Wars.
As the Canadian Armed Forces grapples with how to boost recruitment amid growing global dangers, a former chief of the defence staff is warning that the situation might be even worse than the top brass are letting on.
Current Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre has warned in recent weeks that, due to recruitment issues, Canada does not have the military “that we need” to tackle future threats — and that readiness within the CAF is “going down.”
Anand’s PR people must have dictated this article. It never mentions the CAF is now “Uber woke” and instead blames everything and anything including of course “right wing extremists” for the shortfall.
Never mentioned but reported elsewhere is that young white males, formerly the armed forces primary source of recruits, have ceased to sign up.
There’s nothing appealing about being sent to Club Ed for mispronouning a bitchy “superior” officer who’s complaining of PMS even though they have a penis said young white males everywhere.
…. Mr. Barton, who served as Canada’s ambassador to China until late 2021, does not come off well in the book. Indeed, most of the scandals that have haunted McKinsey in recent years originated during his tenure – from its work advising Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” OxyContin sales (for which it paid US$641-million last year to settle legal claims with several U.S. states) to the laying of criminal charges last month by South African authorities over McKinsey’s work for the country’s state-owned freight-rail operator.
Trudeau and Barton both enjoy the taste of Xi Jinping’s arse.
Someone forgot to tell Justin Trudeau that he can’t stop the signal. On Friday, October 21, the feeble Canadian Prime Minister announced that handgun ownership has been frozen. No further purchases, transfers or imports of handguns are allowed. At least under officially recognized government databases.
It’s workin great!
Six people charged in four separate shootings in Peel Region https://t.co/6Z63qT9jf2
— CP24 (@CP24) October 22, 2022
h/t Mauser
The rising cost of living isn’t an act of God or nature. Politicians are making it worse every day. You can find politicians who are making life more affordable for taxpayers. But those politicians don’t live in Ottawa.
Ottawa is raising gas taxes, payroll taxes and even alcohol taxes. Meanwhile, 51 other national governments are providing relief, according to a Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) report. That includes more than half of the G7 and G20 countries. Two-thirds of the countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development are also cutting taxes.
Russia has launched a “new massive strike” targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
He said the attacks were on a “very wide” scale, hitting Ukraine’s regions in the west, centre, south and east.
Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said.
But Mr Zelensky said most of the Russian missiles and drones were being shot down, and such strikes would not stop a Ukrainian military advance.
Freeland and Junior need to be told in no uncertain terms that support for Ukraine is contingent on dropping their economy destroying green-scam measures. The rising costs of fuel, heat and food will quickly erase whatever goodwill the public holds for Ukraine.
No one is buying the lie Freeland has been peddling that the Ukraine crisis has created an inexorable demand to abandon relatively cheap and plentiful fossil fuels for unsustainable faux-green solutions.
No one will long tolerate the needless suffering caused them by the Liberal Government’s childish environmental policy a scam now cynically imposed in the name of assisting Ukraine.
Freeland’s act of tearfully draping herself in the Ukraine flag is wearing thin.
I bet Freeland & Junior are wondering if they can convince the public to eat unrecyclable solar panels.
The Canada Border Services Agency has acknowledged it provided inaccurate information to Parliament and that it did not award $1.2-million in contract work to Canadian tech firm ThinkOn for the ArriveCan app.
The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that ThinkOn CEO Craig McLellan had written to the Canada Border Services Agency earlier in the week to express concern as to why his company was included in a list of 23 companies the agency said in a report to Parliament had worked on the ArriveCan app.
MONTREAL—Fiscal restraint is not a feature one usually associates with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
The prime minister’s 2015 campaign promise to run deficits is a commitment he has more than fulfilled over his past seven years in office.
But as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland prepares for her fall fiscal update, she has apparently decided the party is over.
