
Roughly 6.6-million doses have been distributed to the provinces but not yet used, and there are an extra 13 million in Canada’s central vaccine inventory.

Roughly 6.6-million doses have been distributed to the provinces but not yet used, and there are an extra 13 million in Canada’s central vaccine inventory.

Canada’s inflation rate rose to a new 18-year high of 4.4 per cent in September, with higher prices for transportation, shelter and food contributing the most to the jump in the cost of living.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s can’t-delay campaign for historic change has produced a sloth-speed government with a cabinet yet to be named, an idled bureaucracy waiting for orders and no date for Parliament’s return in sight.

“A majority (55%) of Canadians believe Justin Trudeau should resign as the leader of the Liberal Party, and begin a process where a new leader can be chosen and who would replace the Prime Minister until the next election was called.”

If the recent election proved anything, it’s that Canadians’ self-image as being cosmopolitan is just that — a self-image unrooted in reality.

Conservative MPs took to social media this week to blast the Liberal government’s inaction on recent incursions into Taiwanese airspace by China.
Both MP Michael Chong and recently-elected MP Melissa Lantsman made separate statements on social media calling for immediate action to support the island nation.

It’s easy to go along with the trendy viewpoints when it seems like ‘others’ will deal with the cost. Now, that cost is going to hit all of us.

Union of BC Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called Trudeau’s move a “slap in the face” of residential school survivors.

Janet Clarkson knows what happens when Canadian voters have “unrealistic expectations” about a politician’s leadership in office: “They vote you out. Period. And that can happen to Prime Minister Trudeau in Monday’s election.”

On Thursday, the United States, U.K. and Australia announced the formation of a security pact to counter China’s growing ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region.
Much of the coverage has centred on a deal that would see the U.S. sell Australia the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.
But the pact covers far more than Aussie subs. It includes close co-operation on cyberintelligence, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and undersea surveillance. Since cyberspying and hacking are increasingly dangerous forms of state-to-state espionage, this three-way exchange is huge.
It’s also huge that Canada was not included — and it was no accident.

Canada caught off guard by new security pact between U.S., Australia and Britain
The Canadian government was surprised this week by the announcement of a new security pact between the United States, Britain and Australia, one that excluded Canada and is aimed at confronting China’s growing military and political influence in the Indo-Pacific region, according to senior government officials.
Three officials, representing Canada’s foreign affairs, intelligence and defence departments, told The Globe and Mail that Ottawa was not consulted about the pact, and had no idea the trilateral security announcement was coming until it was made on Wednesday by U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
This is bad. Canada must be so deeply infiltrated by Communist China our own allies no longer trust us.

Twenty years after 9/11, Canada’s main terrorist threat comes from “domestic, lone actors” incited online who use everyday objects as weapons, according to a declassified intelligence report.
The “secret” Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC) report obtained by Global News under the Access to Information Act shows how terrorism has evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Housing has been a hot topic in the campaign for Canada’s 44th parliament.
Every major party platform offers proposals for reining in what has become a nationwide affordability crisis. However, experts say the most effective potential solutions have either received scant attention from the federal platforms, or have failed to be included at all.

A rocky start in the polls for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals has been compounded with intense and vitriolic protests in different parts of Ontario.
The crowds, which have been seen holding signs protesting vaccines and COVID-19 measures have often spewed insults and obscenities towards Trudeau, Liberal supporters and media. At times, they’ve followed him along the campaign trail, but Trudeau said the constant pressure from the outspoken minority hasn’t changed his outlook.

The Liberal Party of Canada unleashed a trio of television ads Saturday attacking Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives using the trifecta of oft-tried Liberal wedge issues: abortion, gun control and two-tier health care.
h/t Marvin