You’ll need much more than the minimum wage to make ends meet across the province — but it’s especially bad in the GTA, a new report has found.
Workers in Toronto need to make $26 an hour — nearly $9 more than current the minimum wage — to make a living, the Ontario Living Wage Network (OLWN) reported.
While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.
Democrat mega-donor Alex Soros has hailed the reported decision by outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike targets within Russia.
Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House comes with a sobering reminder of his February statement encouraging Russia to target NATO allies whose national defence spending does not meet NATO’s 2-per-cent guideline. Mr. Trump’s statement underscores the urgent need for Ottawa to take a stronger, more independent role in global defence. This direction should reflect Canadian values, bolster the economy, reassure our allies, and build essential capabilities to address both conventional and unconventional threats.
Which Canadians? Not the NDP, not the LPC.
Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.
Two cables in the Baltic – one between Finland and Germany, the other between Sweden and Lithuania – were severed on Sunday and Monday, raising suspicions of a malicious attack, though authorities initially declined to speculate.
“No one believes that the cables were accidentally damaged. I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage by accident,” the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said in Brussels on Tuesday.
In a contest for which liberal-minded policy project has gone most disastrously wrong, there would have to be big money on immigration.
There are rivals, of course. The massive debts racked up to finance heavy spending on well-meaning initiatives is one, but voters don’t care much about debt until it sparks a crisis. The climate war is another, except most people view it as a worthy goal, they just don’t want to pay for it.
The House Oversight Committee is preparing for what will likely be a tense hearing on Tuesday with the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell. The hearing was called after it was disclosed that a FEMA employee told her colleagues canvassing victims of hurricanes Milton and Helene to avoid homes with signs in support of President Trump in Florida.
The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more transmissible among people, early data shows – a warning of what the virus can do that is especially worrisome in countries such as the US where some H5N1 cases are not being detected.
The US “absolutely” is not testing and monitoring bird flu cases enough, which means scientists could miss mutated cases like these, said Richard Webby, a virologist at St Jude children’s research hospital’s department of infectious diseases.
Europe’s battery strategy is disintegrating, a prime exhibit of hubris and inflated rhetoric.
Its flagship Northvolt gigafactory in northern Sweden has run out of money and is talking solemnly to creditors. The Swedish press reports that it may seek bankruptcy protection within days.
More than half of the EU’s big battery projects face delay or cancellation. Europe still relies almost entirely on China, Korea and Japan for cathode and anode material, electrolytes and polyolefin separators, the real value in the lithium-ion supply chain.
There’s always value in watching what’s going on in other countries to learn something about what is happening in your own.
As someone fascinated by British politics, I’ve been closely watching the political developments in the United Kingdom over the past year, particularly Labour’s 2024 electoral victory.
He won’t differ much on immigration from Trudeau, the numbers may come down but the pattern won’t change as Canada becomes the 3rd world.
He will play identity politics, just more discreetly.
Will he defund CBC? A little maybe but my guess is he will leave it mostly intact. He’ll still campaign on defunding of course.
Will he continue to fund the news media? Yes.
Will he end affirmative action hiring that legalizes discrimination against whites and especially white males? Not likely.
Will he do a DOGE on our massive public service vote bank? Not if he can swing it to his favour.
He won’t be Justin Trudeau and for most that’s all they need.
LeBlanc yesterday bends over backwards defending the US legal system on immigration. Rosie asks about the 'moral' argument.
The moral thing to do was never invite millions in originally when the system couldn't handle it.
In fact, the moral thing to do is get the message out… pic.twitter.com/kUneUxQCOo
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 18, 2024
A federal lawsuit challenging vaccine mandates initiated by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been thrown out by a judge presiding over the case.
The legal action sought $1 million in damages for each of the 330 plaintiffs. Together, they claimed the 2021 vaccine mandates violated their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
UK Farmer “we’ve had rain everyday for the last 9 months – i genuinely believe this is manipulated by man, I don’t believe this is natural at all”
The Farmers know. Clearly. pic.twitter.com/aH1GdyZ0LT
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) November 19, 2024
h/t Mauser
