Canada has always been an outlier on immigration. That was true long before the Trudeau government. Compared to other rich countries, we had a relatively wide and open door. But around the door were walls, which were also higher than those in Europe or the United States.
Canadians were always concerned about controlling the border, yet very welcoming of immigrants. That sounds like a contradiction. It isn’t. Walls don’t block a door, they support it. No walls? No door.
By 2021, Ryan Fehr had grown tired of renting.
Fehr, 40 and a single dad, had just broken up with his girlfriend. He found there was no limit on how much landlords could raise the rent in Calgary, and he yearned to put down some roots in a house, especially for his then-two-year-old son, whom he had with his previous partner. It was also the middle of a pandemic. House prices were falling. Fehr felt he had a shot at earning his place in the vaunted club of homeownership.
Dozens of foreign workers protesting changes in P.E.I.’s immigration strategy have entered the fourth day of a hunger strike in downtown Charlottetown.
The provincial government is cutting back on the number of workers it is nominating for immigration this year, from about 2,100 to about 1,600 — with a big drop in the number of hospitality workers in particular. More than 800 were nominated last year, and the plan is to nominate just 200 this year.
This year, several articles in mainstream papers have sounded the alarm that the global human fertility rate will soon cross below the point needed to keep the population constant. Anxiety that our species is about to die out seems a bit premature, given that we’re still predicted to add another three billion to the world population before levelling off. Furthermore, these reports always gloss over a key outlier because it undermines the case for our imminent extinction: Africa.
A leading reason that continental Europe is shifting to the political right is popular concern about mass immigration. So I’m putting Europeans and their short-sighted representatives on notice: you folks haven’t seen anything yet.
Crossing the Rio Grande is not the only danger for people trying to reach America. Once they’re in sight of the brutal ‘coyote’ gangs they become walking ransom — at any age
On the edge of the United States, Paola and Vera stood with their daughters in the dried-out riverbed of the Rio Grande, looking up at the clouds of concertina wire that blocked their way.
Less than ten feet above them, on the other side of the wire, stood a soldier from the Texas National Guard, rifle slung across his body, drinking what looked like a Coca-Cola.
Plan to let undocumented migrants stay in Canada to be examined by PM, ministers
The federal cabinet could discuss plans as early as next week to provide a path to citizenship for thousands of migrants living in Canada without valid documents, including rejected asylum seekers, so they can remain here legally.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller is preparing a plan for discussion by cabinet before Parliament breaks for its summer recess within weeks.
It would propose that people living in Canada without legal status – including former international students whose study permits have expired – have a chance to apply to regularize their position and gain permanent residence.
This says Trudeau wants to cause as much harm as possible before he gets the boot.
Former general criticizes Canada’s failure to combat antisemitism
VICTORIA, Canada – Canada is failing not just its Jewish community but all of its citizens by fostering hate and violent rhetoric through the inaction of the country’s leadership, former Canadian Armed Forces chief of the Defense Staff Gen. (ret.) Rick Hillier told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Monday.
The ex-head of the Canadian military said he didn’t go far enough in a May 1 National Post article warning that Ottawa has deserted its Jewish citizens as antisemitism proliferates across the northern country’s cities and academic campuses.
“We didn’t just fail, and are not just failing 400,000 Jewish Canadians; we’re failing 41 million people. And to me, that’s bloody unacceptable,” said Hillier.
Islam, the Left and the DEI/CRT Cabal are the prime movers of anti-semitism in Canada. The people responsible for allowing the mass import of Muslims will never admit to having made a mistake and this being Canada they will get off Scott-Free.
Nor will they face consequences for the anti-White racism that is the core of their deranged beliefs.
They likely still think it’s a good idea. When they find a way to blame it on White People they’ll speak up.
They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Is this type of unfettered foreign influence acceptable to Canadians? Is our Conservative Leader owned by Israel? To what extent do Christian Zionists control the #CPC?
Pierre Poilievre’s Incoming War On Support For Palestine https://t.co/nYvONcu8zt
Some great research and…
— Frank Penkala (@leasedirect) May 23, 2024
I would like some clarification on which victims the MP is referring to. Jews and Whites or only Jews for being classed as White?
“Jews have opted to become white in order to benefit from white supremacy.”
-Dismantling Racism, Global Affairs Canada.‘Dismantling Racism’ is a 100 page official Canadian government document meant to teach anti-racism.#Cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/oHUzAf1yr0
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) May 24, 2024
I get the impression that rather than abolish DEI the goal is to gain victimhood status. The ADL among other organizations is seeking such an accommodation in the US – See Jewish communal leaders still committed to DEI framework, despite widespread criticism
Are you suggesting that the Jewish community work with the DEI cabal to secure a spot on the victimhood hierarchy? So tell me who would that leave as the sole member of the oppressor class? Oh that's right "White People" my bad.
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) May 24, 2024
In a recent poll commissioned by CBC News, 54 per cent of Albertans said it’s been difficult to meet their monthly household expenses — marking the first time that a majority of people have felt that way over six years of similar polling.
Pollster Janet Brown has been asking Albertans a variety of questions about their personal experiences and political preferences, as part of regular polling commissioned by CBC News since 2018.
Calgary population surges by staggering 6%, Edmonton by 4.2% in latest StatsCan estimates
Calgary’s metro-area population grew by nearly 96,000 people last year — a staggering six per cent increase in the span of just 12 months — according to new estimates released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
Edmonton, meanwhile, added more than 63,000 people, marking a 4.2 per cent increase.
That’s the largest year-over-year increase for both cities in the modern StatsCan records, which date back to 2001.
In late April, near my home in Tampa, a woman from Guatemala and her four-year-old daughter were brutally killed with a knife and a shovel by the woman’s live-in boyfriend. The alleged killer, described in the press as “a Florida man,” apparently killed his girlfriend because she returned home late from an outing with friends.
A city in Maine is eyeing a new ordinance that would turn private homes, churches, and community centers into public shelters to accommodate migrants arriving from America’s border states, whom the city describe as “new Mainers.”
In just the last month, eight heinous crimes occurred that shouldn’t have happened — because they were committed by lawbreakers who wouldn’t even be in the country, if the Biden administration was doing its job of protecting the border.
Arrests of illegal immigrants in crimes ranging from sexual assaults to fatal car crashes have made news in their local communities but have gone COMPLETELY unreported by the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks.
U.S. President Joe Biden, in one of his regularly inept utterances, recently castigated Japan and other East Asian countries for being “xenophobic,” compared to the relatively immigrant-friendly United States. The president surely made no friends, but actually spoke something of the truth, or perhaps more of a half-truth.
As Biden suggests, western immigration receiving countries like the U.S., Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom have long benefited from mass migration. Canada, for example, ranks eighth among receiving countries, but has a considerably higher percentage of foreign born citizens than its much more populous neighbour.
French media outlet Atlantico recently discussed the European Union’s Asylum and Migration Pact wtih Rodrigo Ballester, head of the Centre for European Studies at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest and Ministerial Commissioner for Higher Education, and Philippe Moreau Defarges, professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and specialist in geopolitics. They provided an analysis about how the situations in the Netherlands and Poland are a prelude to a larger debate on migration that will take place in the new European Parliament after the elections.
The cost of renting a home increased by a staggering 30 per cent from mid-2021 to the start of this year, while wages rose by 17 per cent in the same period. Compare that with the record of the preceding decade, when rents rose by 26 per cent, just 1 per cent less than the increase in wages.
According to analysis by Capital Economics, rents in the 2021-24 period climbed 11 per cent higher than they would otherwise have done thanks to the unprecedented levels of immigration over which this government has presided. Andrew Wishart, who runs the housing service at Capital Economics, said: “This means rents are 11 per cent higher than would be explained by the usual relationship between pay and rent. The vast majority of that is because of higher net migration.”
Canadian jobs are being lost to temporary foreign workers because of a decision years ago by the federal government to drop the need for companies to consult unions before they can bring in people from abroad to fill vacancies, Ottawa is being warned.
Union leaders in the construction industry, a significantly unionized sector, say the change has meant that Canadians are being bypassed in favour of temporary foreign workers (TFWs). They also say it could lead to wage deflation.
