Have you been to Wasaga beach lately?
This local says a certain demographic keeps using beach one as their dumping ground. Literally.#TheyHaveToGoBack pic.twitter.com/CRHJCZr6sY
— LΞIGH (@LeighStewy) July 18, 2024
If a Liberal Party Canvasser shows up at your door throw feces at them.
h/t Patti Jo
Canadians now spend more of their incomes on housing than almost any other country in the world. Between 1980 and 2020, housing prices in Canada rose by 746 per cent, far outpacing the median household income, which grew by less than half of that. Then housing prices soared another 50 per cent during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the country’s fertility rate has been falling steadily, hitting historic lows in each of the past five years it was measured. As of the latest tally in 2022 – when inflation was red hot – Canada’s fertility rate fell to just 1.33 children per woman. For reference, a country requires a fertility rate of 2.1 to keep its population stable, without relying on immigration.
Toronto police have arrested two men they say have been targeting Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) clients and allegedly stealing their funds.
Authorities were notified of a robbery just before 12:30 p.m. on June 28 in the Wellesley Street and Jarvis Street area.
… Two 18-year-olds, identified as Wadia Khaled of Toronto and Fadel Yazbak of Mississauga, were arrested and charged with robbery with an offensive weapon, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and disguise with intent.
They’re probably released and conducting another robbery as you read this.
To boil down the economy of labor for his university students, Mikal Skuterud often poses them a basic question: Would they prefer to graduate when jobs are scarce or when workers are scarce?
They mostly vote for a time of worker scarcity. Workers can benefit in a vast job pool through employers’ competition to attract them — with better wages, for example — though this dynamic varies across industries, said Professor Skuterud, a labor economist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario who specializes in immigration.
“Labor economists tend to see labor shortages not as a first-order economic problem that governments need to solve,” he said.
Youth firearm arrests in Toronto have skyrocketed by 161 per cent over the past two years, new data shows, and police say the uptick is happening as gangs increasingly look to recruit young people.
From January 1 to July 7, 2022, there were 41 youth firearm arrests, while the same period this year saw 107, according to police data updated this week.
Meanwhile, the number of adult firearm arrests in the city has risen two cent over the last two years. In 2022, from Jan. 1 to July 7, there were 410 adult firearm arrests, while the same period this year saw 418.
London doctor’s ‘death to Israel’ post triggers backlash
A London doctor has sparked outrage over a social media post calling for “death to Israel,” with some pro-Israel supporters calling for her medical licence to be revoked.
Dr. Nahla Al Sarraj, now in post-graduate psychiatry studies at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine, in a video post on X spoke about the months-long conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and called for “death to Israel and death to Zionism.”
Self-proclaimed “civil rights” groups signed a letter suggesting a bill that keeps foreign nationals from registering to vote in U.S. elections is a racist attempt “to elicit irrational fear of the growing number of citizens of color.”
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights published the letter Tuesday, arguing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act – which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections – “seeks to intimidate members of immigrant communities and communities of color.”
Why else do you think we have open borders in the US and Canada.
The lack of business investment in information technologies and research and development, compared to the U.S., is lowering the productivity of Canadian workers and suppressing our standard of living, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“The underinvestment in key technologies is showing up in Canada’s productivity numbers which are essential for improved living standards,” Steven Globerman writes in a report by the fiscally conservative think tank, titled “Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades.”
Why invest in productivity enhancing technologies when the government allows its corporate cronies to import cheap foreign labour by the shitload?
Hell Trudeau will even silence critics of the wage depressing mass immigration scam by smearing them as racist on behalf of our Captains of Industry!
Justin Trudeau's model New Canadians out running some errands 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/yjFqrnK1Tk
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) July 10, 2024
h/t Mauser
Canada faces an immigration crisis on multiple levels.
Years of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s endorsed over-immigration into Canada have pushed housing prices into the stratosphere, sent per capita income into a tailspin and precipitated a brain-drain to the U.S.
While skilled or semi-skilled Canadians are headed south, the millions of illegal aliens who have entered the U.S. in the last three years will head north should Donald Trump win the 2024 election.
The young, middle-class families Toronto needs to function and thrive are packing up, leaving the city’s viability at risk.
A recent Angus Reid poll found that more than 40 per cent of Greater Toronto Area residents are “seriously thinking of leaving Ontario because of the cost of housing here.” Quality of life and other cost-of-living concerns were also cited as reasons to leave the province. Recent immigrants to Ontario expressed the highest desire to move. Many consider Alberta, with its high wages and relatively affordable housing, as a prime destination. Others said they were considering moving to the United States.
Immigrants who contributed to the high cost of housing now want to leave after the damage is done. Toronto is so diverse everyone hates each other.
Temporary residents and recent immigrants are driving up Canada’s unemployment rate, as record numbers of newcomers welcomed to the country to fill labor shortages are now struggling to find work.
The unemployment rate for temporary residents – including foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers – was 11% in June, according to Bloomberg calculations. Using comparable data, the unemployment rate for all workers was just 6.2% last month.
Immigrants who’ve landed in the last five years are also having a hard time finding a job, with their unemployment rate reaching 12.6% in June.
We are on track to beat Venezuela at being Venezuela.
Summer jobs could prove tough to come by for students, according to latest job stats
Five men are facing charges after an investigation into violent extortion incidents in Peel Region and the GTA https://t.co/nhBvqmtglW
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) July 6, 2024
According to a recent Statistics Canada report, Canada’s population has just hit the level it was previously expected to reach in 2028. That startling finding underscores the extraordinary growth of the country’s population since the pandemic, driven by record inflows of both permanent and “temporary” immigrants.
A rapidly expanding population can bring some benefits, notably by stimulating overall economic activity and providing additional workers. But it’s not an alloyed good. The number of Canadian residents is increasing faster than economic output (gross domestic product), which has translated into an unprecedented series of declines in per-person GDP over the last several quarters. Productivity is stagnant, as newcomers struggle to find their way in the economy and job market. In addition, a significant share of new immigrants don’t seek or obtain employment, dampening immigration’s contribution to the growth of economic output.
Ottawa is considering buying hotels to house the growing number of asylum seekers and to cut the cost of block-booking hotel rooms to accommodate them, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says.
The federal government has in the last few years taken out long leases on hotels to help provinces house thousands of refugee claimants. This year, Ottawa has been footing the bill for approximately 4,000 hotel rooms for 7,300 asylum seekers, many of whom have transferred from provincial shelters and churches, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
That’s a great idea.
Create a hotel room shortage that kills off tourism and business travel with jacked up rates while providing fake refugees shelter at the expense of our own homeless.
