The North Korean assault on his paratroopers’ positions had been intense and lasted for hours. Kim Jong-un’s men fired accurately, moved fast, looked after their wounded and refused to give up long after it should have been clear they had lost the battle.
Major Anton of Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade was relieved that Pyongyang’s infantry had not had Russian support. Combined with artillery, attack drones and tanks, they would have been a formidable fighting force.
First Uyghur refugee arrives under Canadian effort to resettle persecuted minority groups from China
A Uyghur woman is the first refugee from China’s persecuted minority groups to arrive in Canada under a federal government resettlement effort launched in 2023.
The Canadian government has committed to bring in Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities who have fled repression in China. This follows from a February, 2023, vote in the House of Commons where MPs voted unanimously in favour of Motion M-62, which called on Ottawa to accept 10,000 Uyghurs and other minorities, and a February, 2021, vote where MPs also backed a declaration that Beijing’s treatment of these people amounted to genocide.
I bet our China class told the boys “here’s a sure fire way to suck up to Xi”. So Justin said to Xi “You got a Muslim problem? Ship em’ to Canada we ALWAYS need more stabby Muslims.”
h/t Patti Jo
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada’s commitment to Ukraine has been an important contribution to NATO’s strength at a time when the United States has been “unable to step up” on aid to the embattled country.
Freeland was responding to a question about Canada’s efforts to meet NATO’s military spending target for member nations — two per cent of GDP — in an interview airing Saturday on CBC’s The House.
Asked whether Canada would increase spending in the forthcoming April 16 federal budget, Freeland declined to give an answer either way. She told host Catherine Cullen that Canada’s per capita commitments to Ukraine — which she called “NATO’s most pressing challenge” — had been very significant.
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has published a new anti-racism strategic plan that doubles down on “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives and funding for left-wing organizations.
The plan, published on the Government of Ontario’s website on Aug. 24, commits millions of dollars towards anti-racist initiatives and highlights several recent anti-racist policies implemented by Ford’s PCs.
Dougie is showing us all how the UNIPARTY works.
OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration system is broken, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre charged Tuesday, as he sidestepped questions about whether he would change current targets.
Appearing before reporters on Parliament Hill, Poilievre criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent comments on housing and pledged to speed up entry for immigrants skilled in the building trades.
In 2014, Justin Trudeau wrote an op-ed arguing that the Stephen Harper government should dramatically scale back the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program.
His reasoning was sound – both in moral terms and in economic terms. He wrote: “I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers.” He also pointed out that large numbers of TFWs “drives down wages.”
We might have expected, therefore, that things would change under his leadership. And indeed, they have. Between 2015 and 2022 the number of TFWs in Canada doubled!
The TFW program was reviled even by the press when its toxic excesses were revealed during Harper’s government.
It says something about our news media and Canada’s so called “opposition parties” that a problem can get worse and receive less attention.
Many cities in Canada are facing a housing and homeless crisis. Whether it be Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto, homeless tent encampments have become a depressingly common sight. For the most part, politicians seem either uninterested or unwilling to act unless forced to do so. After years of inaction, Vancouver’s tent city was only finally removed after a fed-up populous ejected the former mayor and council and swept Ken Sim and his ABC party to power with mandate to change something, anything, about the declining state of the city.
The housing situation calls for a march on Ottawa.
The mass immigration policy favoured by the corporate class and implemented by their lackey pols in the Liberal, NDP & Conservative UNIPARTY is impoverishing Canadians.
Demand created from a record influx of immigrants could be one factor keeping inflation higher for longer than anticipated, some economists say, though Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem doesn’t appear overly worried about it.
Sticky inflation prompted the Bank of Canada on July 12 to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to five per cent — the highest level since 2001. Though the inflation rate has fallen off its peak of 8.1 per cent last summer to 3.4 per cent in May, prices of more than half the goods in the consumer price index, such as meat, bread, coffee and rent, continue to rise, Macklem said in a press conference following the decision.
The news that Ontario’s population grew by just over 500,000 in the last 12 months is a bit alarming, given that the number is equal to Canada’s entire annual immigration target. Ontario’s total is about double its typical population growth.
Does a province desperately short of housing and health-care services really need another 500,000 people? It’s time politicians took a serious look at that question.
John Ivison: As immigration doubts grow, Poilievre keeps the faith
In mid-May, Bloc Québecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet put his Conservative counterpart, Pierre Poilievre, in a ticklish spot.
The Bloc introduced a motion denouncing the goal of an organization called the Century Initiative — co-founded by former ambassador to China Dominic Barton — to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. It is a goal consistent with the federal government’s immigration intake targets, the motion said; a goal that would diminish the French language and Quebec’s political weight, as well as adversely impact housing and health-care availability.
Canada recently reached a milestone of 40 million people after growing by more than one million people in one year for the first time in 2022. But while we’re adding people at record levels, the same can’t be said about homes.
According to recent research, while the number of people Canada-wide has accelerated in recent years, the number of housing units completed has stagnated and even fallen to levels well below previous peaks. Specifically, from 1971 to 1980, Canada’s population grew by 283,737 people annually on average while an annual average of 226,524 housing units were completed.
“Generals always fight the last war” – Canada does not need mass immigration.
Canada on track for 100 million immigrants but public support can’t be taken for granted: Century Initiative CEO
The chief executive of the Century Initiative says Canada “has reached the point of no return” when it comes to welcoming more immigrants, as its modelling shows Canada is on track to more than double its population to at least 100 million by the turn of the century.
But Lisa Lalande warned that existing high levels of public support for increasing immigration cannot be taken for granted.
“If public opinion shifts on immigration, policy will shift, and ultimately that will be detrimental to the future of the country,” she said in an interview.
China Pimp Dominic Barton founded this scam. Believe nothing they say. – Dominic Barton’s disturbing McKinsey legacy propping up China
Lie: “She says Canada has “reached the point of no return” when it comes to increasing the population, and immigration is a way to plug job shortages, including in health care and retail.” – StatCan report casts clouds on claims of a widespread labour shortage in Canada
Lie – “But Ms. Lalande says it’s wrong to blame the growing number of immigrants for the shortage of affordable housing and the rising cost of living, claims which have crept into the public narrative in recent weeks during the debate on immigration in Quebec.” – Trudeau’s immigration policy worsening housing affordability crisis: Rosenberg
This is the Great Replacement. Endorsed by Canada’s UNIPARTY.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre risks losing the backing of trucker convoy supporters for criticizing a controversial German politician considered a folk hero of the movement, says one of the organizers of a lunch with the politician attended by three Tory MPs.
“There’s a sense of betrayal and we feel used by Mr. Poilievre, to take the freedom convoy, freedom movement and use them for his own benefit,” Bethan Nodwell said in an interview on Thursday.
She said Mr. Poilievre has disrespected a “celebrated folk hero” cherished by convoy supporters, last week describing Christine Anderson’s views as “vile” and unwelcome in Canada. (link fixed)
But we’re the bad people for questioning immigration policy!
DOCUMENTS: Thousands of foreigners flagged as security risks received immigration dep’t permits anyway, auditors disclose. https://t.co/keyB4ElVVr #cdnpoli @SeanFraserMP @CitImmCanada @CanBorder pic.twitter.com/pBTfCsDmB5
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) March 3, 2023
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – Two Conservative members of Parliament are remaining tight-lipped about whether they regret meeting with a German politician, which is something Pierre Poilievre has said they do.
Neither Leslyn Lewis nor Dean Allison have responded to direct questions about whether they agree with the Conservative leader’s characterization of their feelings about their choice to take part in a recent luncheon with Christine Anderson.
With Vancouver and Toronto vacancy rates at 0.9 and 1.7 per cent respectively, and rental prices surging, seniors, students, new immigrants, single parents and people with disabilities — those on modest or fixed incomes — are being priced out of their communities.
Ren Thomas, associate professor of planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, warns it’s a real loss for our biggest cities.
“You need that diversity — and that’s what makes our big cities great is we have there, you know, different people in different jobs,” said Thomas.
