Danielle Kubes: Government cannot spend its way out of the fertility crisis

Michelle Sabari always wanted to have six children. She started dating her husband in university and told him her plan — and he was game. By age 30, they were both finally done with school, had jobs and felt stable enough to start a family. Three kids came in four years, and they took a pause to regain their footing. But she didn’t feel “done” — not even close.


The comments on the Tweet are as you’d expect …

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WTF?

The U.S. is declaring war on Canada’s very identity

This explains such a stupid column: Samira Mohyeddin is a Toronto-based journalist and the 2024-2025 inaugural journalism fellow at the University of Toronto’s Women and Gender Studies Institute.

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Do You Know Why the Beatified MS-13 ‘Maryland Father’ Was ‘Mistakenly’ Deported?

MS 13 DACA Dreamer

It’s worth reminding readers of the reasons the man being described as the innocent “Maryland father” was “mistakenly” deported from Los Estados Unidos.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is now cooling his heels in the most famous El Salvadoran prison in the world. He’s gotten more love from America’s left than, say, the 14-year-old girl MS-13 hacked up with machetes in 2019 in Maryland. It’s strange, isn’t it? Ariana Funes-Diaz was hacked with a machete and hit with a baseball bat, and her lifeless and bloodied body was left in a ditch, but nobody seems to remember or care.

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Would a Mark Carney win push Western separatism into the mainstream?

Earlier this month, former Reform Party leader Preston Manning sparked controversy with a Globe and Mail op-ed warning that electing a Liberal government headed by Mark Carney would pose a serious threat to Canada’s national unity.

“Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession—a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it,” he wrote. “The next prime minister of Canada, if it remains Mark Carney, would then be identified in the history books, tragically and needlessly, as the last prime minister of a united Canada.”

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Three ways this Canada-U.S. dispute will end

You’d have to squint till your eyeballs ache, but there is a foreseeable scenario where Canada and the U.S. build a closer relationship out of this ugly moment.

This outcome is far from certain — hence the squinting.

But one influential figure in Washington professes to see it. Donald Trump’s first-term trade czar predicted the optimistic scenario last week in Ottawa, speaking behind closed doors.

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If black actors can play white people, why not the other way round?

Since the summer of Black Lives Matter, a peculiar double standard has emerged in casting

Congratulations to Ncuti Gatwa, the star of Doctor Who, on landing an exciting new role. He’s been cast in Born with Teeth, a Royal Shakespeare Company play about the relationship between the Bard and his fellow Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Mr Gatwa says the play is “like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I’ve ever seen before”.

I can well believe it. Not least because Mr Gatwa is to play Marlowe. Who, like most people in England in the early 1590s, was white.

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Housing Crisis Will Persist: Canada Population Growth Likely to Be Higher Than Liberal Gov’t Forecast

Canada’s new immigration curbs have slowed increases in population, but government projections of near-zero growth over the next two years are likely “off the mark,” said an economist with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

“The housing crisis of the last decade was in many ways a planning issue as under-counting of population growth has resulted in a suboptimal increase in housing supply,” he said in the report. “We fear that we are in a process of repeating past mistakes.”

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Diane Francis: Stop complaining and cut a deal with Trump

In this federal election, it’s important for Canadians to remember that geography is destiny. Like it or not, Canada is tethered to the United States, and the next prime minister will have to sit down and cut a deal with the protectionist and erratic U.S. President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately, Liberal Leader Mark Carney fails to fully grasp the situation. Despite agreeing to negotiate with Trump after the election, he pronounced the old U.S.-Canada relationship “over,” and made state visits to London and Paris in the apparent belief that the 27 squabbling members of the European Union can replace America as Canada’s economic partner.


China is the enemy the US hopes to defeat.

Given that Carney, the LPC and the China class have chosen to side with the ChiComs I doubt that Trump will offer favourable terms.

h/t Linda1000

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What’s Going on Near Plano, TX? Former Detective Introduces Us to ‘EPIC City’

We have heard it time and again: America is a nation of immigrants. We pride ourselves on the fact that millions of people from all over the world have seen America, as Ronald Reagan said, as the “shining city on a hill,” the place where they could find a better life for themselves and their families. But something is happening. The immigrants of the last century came to America because they wanted to assimilate into American culture. They wanted to become Americans. Now, there is no such intention. And in one case, isolation, not assimilation, appears to be the goal.

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Honda considering Canadian production move to U.S. in response to tariffs: report

UPDATE: Honda not considering moving auto production out of Canada says Ford, feds (I’m not believing this)

Honda to build $15 billion EV assembly plant and battery complex in Ontario Government incentives expected to total $5 billion, split evenly between Ottawa and the province

Honda is considering shifting some Canadian automotive production to the U.S. in response to new tariffs, according to a report by Japan’s Nikkei financial newspaper.

The company is looking to shift enough Canadian CR-V and Civic production to the U.S. so that it can meet 90 per cent of U.S. sales with vehicles produced there, up from its current level of about 70 per cent, the report said.

The U.S. imposed 25 per cent tariffs on all imported vehicles in early April, including ones produced in Canada despite the free trade deal, significantly raising costs for all importers.


Are Carney’s and the Liberal Party’s ties to China going to kibosh any hope of good deal?

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Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funding after university rejects demands

The Trump administration has said it is freezing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in federal funds for Harvard University, hours after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House.

The White House sent a list of demands to Harvard last week which it said were designed to fight antisemitism on campus. They included changes to hiring, admissions and teaching.

Since Donald Trump was re-elected, his government has tried to reshape elite universities by threatening to withhold federal funds, mostly spent on research.

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