LILLEY: City Council adding unelected member based on race usurps democracy
The City of Toronto is looking to add a new councillor based entirely on race, and they may not even be elected.
An item added to the council agenda on Thursday morning looks to ask for “the creation of an Indigenous member of council.”
A fight is brewing in England over new sentencing guidelines that require judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity and faith before deciding whether to sentence them to jail. The guidelines, critics say, could lead to harsh punishments for Christians and white men, while women and ethnic minorities receive more leniency.
The fight began when the independent Sentencing Council for England and Wales released new guidelines this week ostensibly designed to counteract potential biases during the sentencing period. Under the new guidelines, set to take effect on April 1, it “will normally be considered necessary” for judges to obtain pre-sentencing reports for offenders to help determine their sentencing when the individual is from an ethnic, cultural, or faith minority.
Nothing undermines a society faster than the imposition of two tiered justice.
The Government of Canada is funding a Somali Center in Toronto to the tune of 20 MILLION dollars.
Meanwhile 80,000 people are homeless in the freezing cold in Ontario.
How do you feel about this? https://t.co/GfTbrEtUoC
— Bruce (@bruce_barrett) March 2, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Ford vows to lower alcohol prices after pandering at Sikh temple
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford has been busy attempting to appeal to all demographics ahead of Thursday’s election, from his go-to cheap alcohol campaign to worshiping at a Sikh temple.
Premier Ford on January 28 called a snap election, stating at the time he believed he would gain an even stronger mandate to square off with President Donald Trump in an imminent trade war.
Niwaas Long-Term Care, a not-for-profit organization, describes itself as “the first Sikh-Punjabi long-term care home in Ontario”. Its aim is to build a facility in Brampton that provides Sikh and Punjabi elders “with the medical care and support they need, in an environment that is familiar – with our food, our language, our culture and heritage”.
Cripes. What A Ho. h/t Patti Jo
From the article – Civil War Comes to the West
… What might be described as ‘intertribal conflict’ is by no means confined to the virtual spaces of the Internet; rather, it manifests also in physical fighting in a self-reinforcing feedback cycle. Many examples of this from recent headlines might be given. A good one though, is the city of Leicester in Britain, which over the last year has witnessed recurring violence between the local Hindu and Muslim populations, both sides animated by intercommunal tensions in distant south Asia. A Hindu mob marched through the Muslim part of town chanting ‘Death to Pakistan’.[xii]
What this reflects above all is the considerable irrelevance of Britishness as an aspect of the pre-political loyalty of significant fraction of two of the largest minorities in Britain. Who wants to fight whom and over what? The answer in this case to this good strategic question has very little to do with the nominal nationality of the people who have observably already begun to fight.
As tiny homes arrive in Hamilton, councillors ask why city bought made-in-China units for $35K each
When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company for a new outdoor shelter site last fall, they thought they were supporting a local, Indigenous-owned business that was one of the few capable of delivering on a short timeline.
What they didn’t know was MicroShelters was a new corporation that would go through an American company to order the tiny homes from China, staff said at a general issues committee meeting Wednesday.
“It was a very quick turnaround” to meet deadlines on the project, said Danielle Blake, the city’s manager of housing-focused street outreach.
Earlier this month an Ontario Liberal fundraiser, leader Bonnie Crombie charted out a plan to become more centrist and create distance between her party and their federal counterparts, who are struggling in the polls.
In a speech prepared for delivery at the Metro Convention Centre, Crombie said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “wrong” on the carbon tax.
As part of her speech, she made another remark that evening that later caught my ear and is garnering some traction on social media.
She asserted that if the results of the U.S. election teach us anything, it’s that “identity politics is dead and buried.”
It is odd to find myself in agreement with a Star editor but I believe Trudeau has poisoned the well in Canada with mass immigration from incompatible cultures.
Identity politics are sadly here to stay.
OTTAWA, Canada — A sensitive analysis from a key arm of the People’s Republic of China’s overseas influence operations, published just weeks after Canada’s 2021 federal election, reveals Beijing’s strategic interest in the comparative success of Chinese and Indian immigrant communities in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 votes, particularly the extraordinary influence wielded by Sikh leaders, who reportedly pressured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to amend an extremist threat report linked to the 1985 Air India bombing by warning that failure to comply would cost the Liberal Party financial backing and access to Sikh voters.
“Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him,” reads a Reuters headline from this week. In the piece, a range of Muslim Americans who voted for the President-elect lament that he has chosen several cabinet officials who favour a strong security relationship with Israel and who have downplayed the rights of the Palestinians.
In 1989, when reports surfaced that Ottawa had expelled Indian diplomats for spying, then foreign affairs minister Joe Clark did not hold a press conference to lecture the Indian government or express righteous indignation at its alleged Vienna Convention violations.
Instead, Mr. Clark rose in the House of Commons to respond to charges from the Liberal immigration critic Sergio Marchi that India’s government had engaged in “elaborate and covert operations … to discredit and destabilize the Canadian Sikh community” and manipulate Canadian officials. India had grown frustrated with Canada’s coddling of Sikh separatists and the RCMP’s botched investigation into the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight that originated in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has the names of Conservative parliamentarians who are involved in foreign interference.
In explosive testimony before the foreign interference inquiry today, Trudeau said he has instructed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to warn Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and protect the party’s integrity.
It is never wise to trust a word Trudeau says especially given he is desperate however it should not come as a surprise that all our mainstream parties have been infiltrated by spies.
“Multicult” has turned Canada into a nation of 5th Columns.
A woman in a hijab was confronted by a man “yelling derogatory comments” who later assaulted her and two bystanders, London police say – an incident that has unnerved local Muslim leaders and that investigators are treating as a possible hate crime.
London police say it was about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when the incident happened in the area of Berkshire Drive and Berkshire Place, a suburban neighbourhood near the intersection of Wonderland and Springbank roads.
Justin is getting smacked in the comments.
I’m angry to learn that women wearing hijabs were the target of a violent attack in London, and a mosque in Winnipeg was the target of hateful harassment.
Islamophobia kills. Whenever we see it, we’ll confront it — and we’ll work to keep our communities safe from it.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 27, 2024
Government MPs presented a motion to study Palestinian statehood at committee, sources say
Liberal MPs presented a motion to study a path toward recognizing Palestinian statehood on Thursday, CBC News has learned.
The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
The Liberals are being engulfed by diaspora politics and the post-nationalist experiment they brought upon Canada.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the final votes in Montreal’s LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection were counted. They revealed that the Bloc Québécois candidate had eked out a narrow victory, wrenching a previously thought safe seat from their Liberal rivals.
