Ontario investigating recruiter in Alberta who helps supply low-wage foreign workers to Canadian Tire stores

Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is investigating the Alberta-based recruiter who was involved in bringing in scores of temporary foreign workers to staff low-wage jobs at Canadian Tire stores across Canada.

A ministry spokesperson told The Globe and Mail in an e-mail that it is conducting an open investigation into Allison Jones, the owner of a recruiting agency and an immigration consulting agency in St. Albert, outside of Edmonton. It did not provide any additional details about the probe.

Ms. Jones is a popular recruiter among franchisees of the Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons chains, helping franchise owners fill low-wage positions in their outlets with labour from abroad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada on ‘clear path’ to reach NATO’s 2% target, Trudeau says

Canada is on a “clear path” to hit NATO’s defence spending target over the coming years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as pressure ramps up on Ottawa in the wake of the U.S. election.

Addressing the annual NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Montreal on Monday, Trudeau said Canada has so far made sure that its investments in targeted NATO spending “are as concrete as possible,” but added that more needs to be done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, NATO

WENZEL: Note to Democrat losers… Canada’s closed

Every USA election cycle, there is a predictable chorus of celebrities vowing to pack up and relocate to Canada. If their candidate loses, they’ll board the first flight, ticket in hand, maple leaves in their eyes. It’s an old refrain, and by now, the polite Canadian in me wishes to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.” There’s no reason to uproot your Hollywood lives. We’re very happy here! And to be honest, Canada is closed. We’ve already let enough ‘bad actors’ into our country the past few years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The Capitol Hill GOP Is – As Usual – The Weakest Link

Too bad Trump can’t be the dictator on Day One that the commies claimed he would be because the Republicans in Congress seem committed to making things much more difficult than they have to be. They need to get on board or get out of the way. We’ve lost one nominee already, and they are showing that familiar wobbliness that they always get about Pete Hegseth and several others. They have announced no clear plans for the first hundred days, and when someone does not tell you the plan, you can assume that there is no plan. Plus, they seem to be going back to their old habits of selecting congressional leadership not based on core attributes like merit, loyalty and lib owning. Trump 2.0 is focused and eager to keep his promises and make America great again. The GOP Congress seems far too focused on business as usual.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Montreal rabbi says police told him to move away from pro-Palestinian protesters

A local rabbi is speaking out after he says police asked him to leave the site of a pro-Palestinian protest in downtown Montreal, saying his presence was a provocation.

Adam Scheier, the head of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, said Sunday he was asked to move away from an area where protesters were marching downtown, for fear that his presence, as a person wearing a Jewish skullcap or kippah, could provoke violence. Neither Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante nor the Montreal police have commented on the event.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico

Donald Trump has levelled his most severe threat against Canada in years, warning that on his very first day on office he might impose punishing economic sanctions across North America.

The U.S. president-elect threatened Monday evening to slap a 25 per cent import tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, 2025, his inauguration day.

He delivered the warning via his social media platform Truth Social, in a post that began with a complaint about migration and drugs spilling across both the northern and southern border into the U.S. Then he foreshadowed a damaging import fee that would drive up costs for Canadian and Mexican exporters, making their products less attractive while also potentially raising costs for American consumers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Can Musk Dismantle the Deep State? This isn’t rocket science … it’s far more complicated.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal last Wednesday to outline what they styled “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government.” DOGE is, of course, an acronym for the prospective Department of Government Efficiency whose mission will be to reduce the size of the administrative state and strip its unelected bureaucrats of the enormous power they unlawfully wield over the American people. Musk and Ramaswamy explain that President-elect Trump has asked them to take on this task and why: “The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

DEI Corrupts Education Research

Government agencies should choose which research projects to fund based on merit, not ideology. But my investigation into U.S. Department of Education grants reveals that administrators prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) when evaluating grant applications. In some cases, reviewers considered the racial make-up of research personnel when assessing applicants’ qualifications.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

What happened when a city started accepting – not evicting – homeless camps

As cities across North America grapple with homelessness, one Canadian city has taken a different approach by regulating tent encampments instead of banning them, as it tries to tackle what one official calls the issue “of the decade”.

Andrew Goodsell has called his small orange tent on a grassy patch in downtown Halifax home for almost a year.

In late October, on a park bench outside his makeshift dwelling, the 38-year-old described life at the homeless encampment where he lives with about a dozen or so others as “depressing”.

Honest but otherwise known as washing your hands of it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Why Palestinians Will Not Have New Leaders

Palestinian leaders have a long history of cracking down on their political rivals and opponents. For the past three decades, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have systematically targeted political activists, journalists, social media users, students, professors and human rights activists as part of an ongoing campaign to silence critics and deter others from speaking out against the lack of democracy and freedom of speech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Canadian Neurosurgeons Seek Six Patients for Musk’s Neuralink Brain Study

TORONTO—Canadian neurosurgeons in partnership with Elon Musk’s Neuralink have regulatory approval to recruit six patients with paralysis willing to have a thousand electrode contacts in their brains.

The trial, called CAN-PRIME, has started recruiting patients for a study that will test the safety and efficacy of a device that allows people to move cursors with their minds, a surgeon leading the trial said.

Neuralink announced regulator Health Canada’s approval this week. Neuralink has implanted two such devices in patients in the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inScience

Putin is harnessing AI against us, minister tells Nato

Cyberwarfare is now a “daily reality” for Britain’s national security, Pat McFadden will warn on Monday as he announces a new laboratory to protect the country from Russian attempts to “weaponise” artificial intelligence.

The Cabinet Office minister will use a speech at Nato’s cybersecurity conference in London to announce a new laboratory for AI security research. An initial £8 million of government funding will bring together Britain’s intelligence agencies, world-leading academics and the tech industry to develop new cyber defences to protect Britain’s national infrastructure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"