Nearly 40 percent of Canadian youth say unemployment is their top concern, according to a new poll.
The survey was conducted by the Angus Reid Institute. It found that nearly two in five of those between 18 years and 24 years (37 percent) said jobs and unemployment was the top issue facing the country.
That is up 9 percentage points from June (28 percent) and nearly double from Decemeber 2024 (18 percent).
So. Many. TikTok videos.
The unending barrage of grating, trendy music blares beside me. Surely this isn’t how I — or anyone — would choose to start their day.
It’s just after 7 a.m., and my bus seatmate is scrolling through TikTok on his phone. He’s swiping so quickly the music blurs into an incoherent spew. The sound fills the bus — no headphones, just raw speakers echoing through the entire ride.
Welcome to my first trip.
The 3rd World is complaining about Toronto’s 3rd world transit system.
Toronto police arrest 10 people at Christie Pits during duelling rallies
Toronto police say they arrested six people at Christie Pits Park where a large anti-immigration rally and counter demonstration took place Saturday afternoon.
Police said one man was arrested for assault at an ongoing demonstration in the Bloor Street West and Christie Street area at around 12:40 p.m. in a social media post. In an update posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, shortly after 3 p.m., Toronto Police Service said six people were arrested at the demonstration
The MSM version of today’s anti-immigration protest would have you believe that the pro-immigration counter rally was a spontaneous grass-roots assembly. It wasn’t & you can rest assured your tax dollars funded the so called counter protesters.
Check out Caryma Sa’d’s channel, she has more rally video and also provides excellent insight into the political connections of the astro-turfed protesters.
What a magnificent country we live in. https://t.co/8Aid1vL4V1
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 13, 2025
Canada First protester opens up as a veteran who lost his wife due to inadequate healthcare.
He resents being physically attacked and called a racist:
“I’m not saying stop immigrants from coming in, we can’t afford them now.”
Sep 13, 2025#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/aBAIZASA6s
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) September 13, 2025
I am at the Canada First, Remigration rally in Toronto with chants of “end mass immigration”, and “rest in peace Charlie Kirk”. Chants against mass immigration led by a black guy. pic.twitter.com/1aVzEgMmUN
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) September 13, 2025
Antifa counter protesters chase Canada First protesters down a side street near Christie Pits, chanting:
“Fascists go home!”
A couple of residents join in the shouting from their porch.
Sep 13, 2025#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/GqfEINMdXj
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) September 13, 2025
Popular support for more immigration has cratered. Politicians are taking note
Canada’s large immigrant population has long been regarded as a virtue — but new data suggests popular opinion on adding more newcomers has gone through a seismic shift after years of explosive growth.
For much of the last 25 years, immigration was something of a third rail in Canadian politics, with few elected officials publicly questioning its value. On that issue, too, there’s been a major about-face.
At the Liberal caucus retreat in Edmonton this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney put the immigration system on notice, saying recent levels have not been “sustainable” and a more “focused” approach is required. “It’s clear that we must improve our overall immigration policies,” he said.
Things are pretty bad when even the CBC is made to comment.
This is where mass immigration from incompatible cultures has brought us. Folks support the White guy not knowing if he is right or wrong. It doesn't matter he's one of the tribe just like BLM supports criminals or Muslims support terrorists no questions asked and I am OK WITH IT https://t.co/DVr8yGgT5G
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 11, 2025
A strong majority of Canadians feel they have the right to defend their home against intruders — and more than half say they don’t always feel safe in their neighbourhoods and that the justice system is working against their interests, new polling shows.
“I don’t think that’s a healthy sentiment in Canada if over half don’t really feel the justice system is working in their interest,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president, said Tuesday about the findings of a new national Postmedia-Leger poll.
Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation has mailed out suspension letters to truck drivers who the province believes “dishonestly” obtained their Class A licences during testing or training.
A spokesperson for the ministry told Newstalk 1010 that 185 drivers received the letter.
In a statement to CTV News, Dakota Brasier, a spokesperson for Ontario’s transportation minister, said the province has “zero tolerance for bad actors on our roads.”
Ford government declines to say if temporary foreign worker program should end
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says young people aren’t looking “hard enough” for work in the province and suggested unemployed people should consider “fast food” as a potential job choice.
At the same time, the Ford government has declined to take a position on whether the federal government should eliminate the temporary foreign worker program, which other Canadian premiers have suggested is one of the root causes of the country’s employment woes.
Day 16 of posting https://t.co/oTQc8H47EL data!
Toronto Unemployment: 8.9%
Ontario Youth Unemployed: 206,000But a Tim Hortons in the area wants to fill a job with a temp foreign worker for $56,500/yr and @LenaMetlegeDiab is going to let them!
Canadian jobs to Canadians! pic.twitter.com/SLlt9M7Y3c
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) September 10, 2025
The Conservatives are right: The Temporary Foreign Worker program mostly should not exist.
But the Conservatives are also missing something: the Temporary Foreign Worker program, or TFW, is only a small part − in fact the smallest part – of Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs.
A fresh Abacus Data poll reveals a nation divided over the fate of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
With 44 percent of Canadians supporting its elimination compared with 30 percent firmly opposed and 18 percent neutral or undecided, the proposal is proving to be more than a policy debate.
The bottom line for me is that Corporate Canada and the LPC cannot be trusted to act in our best interests.
They conspired to flood Canada with unskilled immigrants from incompatible cultures without a thought to the harm this would cause to the social and economic well being of Canadians.
Their greed driven actions created a vote bloc to harvest and a false boost in GDP for the LPC to brag about while simultaneously providing the leverage necessary for the business class to depress wages and profit from the shortages that resulted.
You and your children can’t find a job? Fck you!
You and your children can’t afford rent never mind a mortgage? Fck you!
You and your children can’t find a doctor? Fck you!
You and your children threatened by migrant crime? Fck you!
Homeless shelters and foodbanks overrun by the LPC’s migrant hordes? Fck you!
And the topper? If you complain you’re a racist. Fck you!
This is the way it is. They do not care about me, they do not care about you. They are not to trusted.
Death to all Tyrants and the TFW.
The Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory.
For many protesters in York and Leeds, waving the national flag is not a mark of extremism. They simply want to keep their communities safe
York has long been defined by postcard charm. Cobbled streets, medieval walls, a bustling university and steady tourist influx made it a place associated with heritage and Harry Potter, not hard politics. But York has now become a battle ground for Britain’s growing migration debate, overwriting the city’s storybook image. What was once a byword for stability now reads as a warning: Middle England is learning the politics of confrontation.
The “immigrants are taking our jobs” line used to be dismissed as a xenophobic trope, stigmatized in Canadian politics with such intensity that it lulled the population into a decade-plus sleep even as wages stagnated. But it’s turned out to be completely true — and only the Conservatives are coming up with solutions to the problem.
On Wednesday, Pierre Poilievre and immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner announced their proposal to scrap the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program, which in 2023 authorized nearly 240,000 foreigners to work in Canada. This, we’re told, is only the beginning: Rempel Garner promises that more proposals are in the works.
In a surprise statement, Premier David Eby called for the end of Canada’s temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — blaming Ottawa’s flawed immigration policies for filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
“The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed,” Eby said during an unrelated announcement in Surrey, B.C., Thursday.
“We can’t have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks. We can’t have an immigration system that outpaces our ability to build schools and housing. And we can’t have an immigration program that results in high youth unemployment.
Doug Ford loves the TFW program. Corporate welfare is the God Given right of the ruling class in Dougie’s world.
Today, the federal Conservatives announced their intention, should they form government, to abolish the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). They also challenged the governing Liberals to do so immediately. We believe that this is a much-needed change of policy, for the simple reason that Canadian jobs should go to Canadians.
Yet abolishing the TFWP would only be a step in the right direction because it’s not the only immigration stream that allows foreign nationals access to our labour market in large numbers. It’s not the only stream that prices young Canadians out of the job market, suppresses wages, and is rife with abuse. The spirit of reform must ultimately extend more broadly.
LILLEY: Carney says no to scrapping TFWs but program must change
… When the Liberals implemented the changes that effectively took the guardrails off the TFW program, Canada’s national unemployment rate stood at 5.1%. That unemployment rate has steadily increased as the Liberals in Ottawa put the TFW program on steroids, opened up work permits for international students and brought in more than 190,000 asylum seekers last year, most of whom were granted work permits in short order.
