How did Canada’s young people become its unhappiest generation?

Only four countries have seen a worse decline — Jordan, Venezuela, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

VANCOUVER — As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25.

He and his high school friends would be starting families. They’d be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably.

Now 27, he’s back living with his parents in Kitchener, Ont., driven out of Toronto by high rent and other costs.

“I think back then, in that generation, it was definitely a lot easier,” Sharma said of the path to adulthood for his parents, who moved to Canada from India about 30 years ago.


They’d probably be happier if you interviewed Canadians and not foreigners for this article.

Funny how mass immigration isn’t mentioned as if a generation’s problems appeared from nowhere.

I have faith young people are smart enough to recognize gaslighting. AKA Liberal Party Media/Academic propaganda.

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Employers worry about cheap foreign labour shortages after Ford government cuts sketchy immigrant work program

Employers of immigrant skilled trades workers are concerned for their businesses after the Ford government cut part of an immigrant work program over fraud concerns.

Nasir Ali, owner of Insultech Ltd: Mechanical Insulation and Firestopping and Arafco Mechanical Services Ltd — located in Brampton and Mississauga — believes “the main issue is not for these workers, the issue is for the business owners.”

“I had 47 guys, now I have only 32 guys, so how can we manage the jobs,” said Ali. “I have a chance to get more projects, but I refuse it because we don’t have enough manpower.”


Everywhere you look we’re being scammed by foreigners.

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Jamie Sarkonak: When your food bank donations subsidize fraud and video games

Food banks are struggling, but it’s hard to feel charitable when some people treat them like an immigration perk

The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and “we don’t know how we’re going to keep up.”

On the other hand, food bank abuse seems to be a recurring problem. What’s being done to prevent it from happening? It’s not all that clear.


From Grok – What percentage of foodbank users in the GTA are not Canadian citizens?

43% of food bank users in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are not Canadian citizens, according to the most recent data from the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Who’s Hungry Report 2024. This report, based on surveys of over 1,300 clients across 79 food banks in Toronto (a core part of the GTA) and intake data from the city’s Link2Feed system, covers the period from April 2023 to March 2024. It shows that among all surveyed clients, 57% are Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, while the remaining 43% include temporary residents (22%, such as international students and work visa holders), refugee claimants (12%), those under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program (6%), and undocumented individuals (1%).

This figure reflects a slight increase in non-citizens compared to 2023 (when 49% were non-citizens). Among new clients—those visiting for the first time, who make up 57% of total visits—the share is higher at 73%, with 80% of them being newcomers to Canada (less than 5 years in the country). Overall visits reached a record 3.49 million, up 38% from the previous year, highlighting rising food insecurity amid economic pressures like housing costs and inflation.

For context, this aligns with national trends from Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2024, where 34% of clients nationwide are recent newcomers (in Canada 10 years or less), but GTA data shows a higher concentration of non-citizens due to the region’s diverse immigrant population.


Like locusts.

Donations subsidize the ruin of our society.

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‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H1-B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive

H1-B candidates head for Canada

Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract highly-skilled researchers from around the world, including H1-B visa holders in the United States who are coming under growing pressure because of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and cuts to research funding.

The Canadian government on Tuesday said it would spend more than $1 billion over the next few years to attract and retain scientists from around the world, including those at major hospitals and universities.

It also said that in coming months it would create an “accelerated pathway” for U.S. H1-B visa holders. H1-B visas are issued to highly skilled people working for American companies and are concentrated in major industries that compete for global talent, such as technology and medicine.


H1-B visas in the USA are just another way to hire cheap labour and otherwise skirt immigration scrutiny.

Imagine bragging about this – The University of Toronto, Canada’s top academic institution and one of the world’s highest-ranked universities, lured several top humanities and social sciences professors from Ivy League schools during the year.

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Liberal Party opened the door to more than a million foreign students working in Canada without ever examining how the move would affect young Canadians

Ottawa says it opened the door to more than a million foreign students working in Canada without ever examining how the move would affect young Canadians trying to find jobs.

Blacklocks’ Reporter says the immigration department now acknowledges it relied on a single survey sent only to foreign students, even as unemployment for Canadian students climbed above 16% in several provinces.


We need recall legislation. (Incognito)

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How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

Migrant Horde El Paso Texas

The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.

In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.

Mr. Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely than President Donald J. Trump, who generated widespread backlash by separating migrant children from their parents.

But Mr. Biden was now president-elect, and his positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings, experts advising his transition team warned in a Zoom briefing in the final weeks of 2020, according to people with direct knowledge of that briefing. That jump, they said, could provoke a political crisis.

“Chaos” was the word the advisers had used in a memo during the campaign.


“Chaos” was the plan as it is in Canada.

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CURRIER: Canada lost track of 1 million people – and still has no plan

Immigration. That very word can spark a heated debate in Canada, and it frequently does. While it’s clear that Canada as a nation was built on immigration following early colonization, it has always remained a point of controversy. How many people should we allow in? Where should they come from? What is the criteria for allowing an immigrant to Canada and where will they live?

(Incognito)

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No One Want’s Your Stupid “National Immigration Month” How About “Remigration Month” Instead?

Senators say immigration bill meant to push back against rising ‘xenophobic rhetoric’

A Liberal-appointed group of senators says a seemingly harmless bill to mark Canada’s history of immigration is actually aimed at countering what they describe as growing “xenophobic rhetoric” in the national debate.

Blacklock’s Reporter says senators told the social affairs committee the proposal was timed to influence public discussion around annual immigration targets.

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Normal Americans Are The Ones Who Pay The Price For Biden’s Disastrous Immigration Policies

Americans are paying dearly for the Biden administration’s open-border policies that indiscriminately allowed rapists, murderers, and terrorists to walk right in. We’re paying the bill daily. Just ask the families of the two National Guard members that federal officials say were shot by an Afghan national in an ambush-style attack while they were helping protect the nation’s capital. 

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Canada must admit that Trump’s America is not a ‘safe’ place for refugees

Since its inception in 2004, the legitimacy of the Safe Third Country Agreement has always been predicated on the convenient fiction that the United States offers refugee claimants the same protections as Canada provides to asylum seekers who arrive in this country.

Even before Donald Trump became U.S. President for the first time in 2016, concerns about the treatment of those who claim refugee status in the U.S. cast long shadows over the bilateral agreement under which Canada turns back most asylum seekers from third countries who try to enter this country at the U.S. border. Successive governments in Ottawa have largely glossed over those concerns, reasoning that the U.S. refugee system, while imperfect, met minimum standards set out in international conventions.

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Rempel exposes Liberal immigration minister Lena Diab as a half-wit

‘You are a very bad minister,’ Conservative immigration critic says at tense committee meeting

Immigration Minister Lena Diab sparred with her Conservative critic at a tense House of Commons committee meeting Thursday as the two disagreed on everything from immigration levels and deporting non-citizen criminals to what kind of salad they prefer.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner put Diab in the hot seat throughout her two-hour committee appearance, grilling Diab about her file and accusing her of being “a very bad minister” when she struggled to give a clear answer on whether she will use powers under the government’s pending C-12 legislation to mass extend temporary visas.

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Immigration Minister warns foreign nationals to not abuse asylum system as U.S., U.K. tighten rules

Immigration Minister Lena Diab is warning foreign nationals against abusing Canada’s asylum system, as other G7 countries tighten their refugee rules.

Britain and the U.S. have recently restricted their asylum regimes, raising concerns among immigration experts that this could divert some refugee claimants to Canada.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced he is halting asylum applications, while the British government is planning to end automatic permanent residence for refugees, and would require them to reapply every two-and-a-half years to stay in the country. Britain plans to make refugees wait 20 years for permanent residence.

Canada is an easy mark and Diab is a liar.

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Crap Coffee Shop Tim Hortons lobbied MPs for more temporary foreign workers over last 18 months

I’ll be fine with a few less Tim Horton’s blighting the land.

For more than a year, Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons has been pushing the federal government to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers some of its franchisees can hire, CBC News has learned.

The requests occurred over at least 18 months, in writing and in lobbying meetings with officials and MPs, as Canadian views on immigration soured and Ottawa reduced various newcomer streams.


Tim Horton’s doesn’t meet the standard of pig’s swill.

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The myth of ‘jobs Americans won’t do’

Few slogans in American politics have been repeated as often—or accepted as readily—as the claim that “immigrants do the jobs Americans won’t do.” It is invoked to justify immigration policy, defend wage structures, and explain labor shortages. Yet the statement is misleading. Americans will do those jobs if survival demands it. Immigrants will avoid them if survival does not. The issue is not nationality or culture, but incentives and human nature.

The phrase suggests that American workers are lazy or entitled, unwilling to engage in hard labor, while immigrants are uniquely industrious. But history shows otherwise. Americans have long worked in agriculture, construction, hospitality, and service industries—the very jobs now said to be abandoned. What has changed is not willingness but the incentive structure.

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Nearly half of immigrants say temporary foreign workers fill the jobs Canadians don’t want: OMNI-Leger poll

Diana Donat looks at the construction site where her house once stood, across the street from her restaurant.

She’s not sure whether some of the construction workers she sees are here on temporary visas.

“I think some of them are. The ones that are helping the contractors.”


Bullshit. There is no labour shortage.

Canada’s business community simply prefers low wage foreign labour to employing citizens.

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