OTTAWA — Canadian taxpayers paid nearly $2 million to produce scores of government podcasts that few Canadians are tuning in for.
Information unearthed in government documents reveals the costs of these broadcasts produced by various government departments and agencies — some of which eat up hours of employee resources and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create.
Actress Rosie O’Donnell has claimed she is on the verge of taking pills as she continues to worry that former President Donald Trump will beat Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election.
The 62-year-old comedian shared her thoughts on the election in a lengthy rant posted to TikTok on Tuesday, in which she referred to the former president as an ‘orange dumpster fire’ and a ‘hate-rally manager.’
Canada will need a profound shift in political priorities if the country is to ramp up spending to meet its international security obligations.
New projections released by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer reveal the massive spending gap Canada needs to overcome in order to meet its military commitment to its NATO allies.
According to estimates by the PBO, the federal government needs to double the amount it currently spends on the military under its two-per-cent-of-GDP NATO obligation.
President Biden’s recent remark labeling Trump supporters as “garbage” has rocked the 2024 race, and pollster Frank Luntz told CNN on Wednesday it could hand Donald Trump the election.
“The Harris campaign is trying to downplay the effect of those comments. Of course they are,” CNN’s Brianna Keilar noted on Wednesday. “But I wonder if you think that those comments are going to move voters.”
As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country’s future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away.
“We hope that the woman, Kamala Harris, will win and support us,” she says.
A Russian bomb had shattered her shop windows – a common occurrence in the city of Zaporizhzhia. There’s a 10-metre (32ft) wide crater in the middle of the road.
“Of course we are worried about the outcome [of the election],” she adds. “We want to defeat the enemy!”
A dozen Ontario mayors are asking Premier Doug Ford to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give authorities and police more power to break up homeless encampments and force more people into mandatory drug and mental-health treatment.
The demand, made in a letter dated Thursday, was signed by Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, both of whom have championed the idea of mandatory treatment in recent weeks, as well as Mayor Paul Lefebvre of Sudbury and Mayor Drew Dilkens of Windsor. But absent are signatures from the mayors of the province’s largest cities: Toronto, Ottawa and Mississauga.
And where is Chairman Chow?
He swears, he bakes, he calls other men “dude” – but the most surprising revelation of the Joe Rogan/JD Vance interview was JD’s reaction to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He said he rushed home, gathered his kids, “loaded all my guns, and stood like a sentry at our front door”. The Republican vice-presidential nominee is what Sarah Palin might call a “Papa Grizzly”.
The three hour-plus, freewheeling conversation with Rogan will not shift a single vote in this election, but it might set the scene for the next.
I think it may sway a few votes as people want better than Kamala as VP.
Joe Rogan and JD Vance dunking on Kamala’s meaningless word salads is HILARIOUS!
No wonder Kamala was scared to go on. He wasn’t going to let her filibuster with her nonsense. pic.twitter.com/waJ16hUfUN
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 31, 2024
Temporary residents will face tougher odds of becoming permanent residents after the federal government cut immigration rates for the next three years, raising the ire of foreign students and workers who have spent considerable time and money in pursuit of building their lives in Canada.
Many chose Canada as a destination because it offers pathways to permanent residency for those with a Canadian education and work experience. But as the temporary resident population has soared in recent years, the competition for PR status has become stiffer – and now there are fewer spots available.
We need to take our country back.
One of the most ridiculous refrains I hear from gun control advocates is how we supposedly know that gun control works.
Every study they cite has massive problems, but they still cite them. However, three men in California were arrested for basically making gun control look bad.
OTTAWA — Right-leaning parties west of Ontario have been left with just a handful of urban seats after October’s provincial elections, but pundits say this won’t necessarily slow down Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s momentum in major cities, so long as he stays focused on the issues affecting urbanites.
“My sense, from people I talk to, is that the Conservatives are still in pretty good shape here,” said Matt Spoke, a Toronto-based real estate investor and tech entrepreneur.
If I were the Kamala Harris campaign and the liberal media, I’d be drinking heavily. The vice president’s DC rally, which should have been a media bonanza, for better or worse, got torpedoed when Joe Biden decided to attack Trump supporters, describing them as garbage. The media kicked it into high gear to clean up the mess for two reasons: one, it’s an objectively bad statement and pure accelerant to the GOP base, and two, it smothers their ‘Trump’s MSG rally was a Nazi event’ narrative. Yet, it all fell apart because a comedian’s word isn’t as relevant or powerful as Joe Biden’s.
Trick Or Thief In Markham , Same Woman Raids All The Candy For Halloween pic.twitter.com/t01kYCWku0
— RealTorontoNews (@RealTorontoNewz) November 1, 2024
H/T CLINK9 & Patti Jo
Mounties in British Columbia have discovered the “largest and most sophisticated” drug-production laboratory in Canadian history, federal investigators announced Thursday, describing the facility as a “super lab” operated by international organized criminals.
The facility, located east of Kamloops in the rural community of Falkland, was capable of producing several kilograms of methamphetamine, fentanyl and MDMA per week, David Teboul, an assistant commissioner with the federal RCMP in the Pacific region, announced at a news conference in Surrey.
BC RCMP announce bust of largest drug “superlab” in Canadian history.
Officers seized a 1/2 tonne of hard drugs, 89 firearms, $500,000 in cash, and an unprecedented amount of precursor chemicals. #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/EOkN8dKq0Z
— Jarryd Jäger (@JarrydJaeger) October 31, 2024
I smell diversity.
The director of the longest-running election betting market in modern US politics used to work in a relatively sleepy field, presiding over what he called a “connoisseurs’ market”, where bets were capped at $500 (£388) and no-one made much money.
But the world Thomas Gruca, a marketing professor at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, now operates in has changed dramatically.
In the last few weeks, as the US barrels towards a presidential election that most pundits and polls say is too close to call, a new crop of companies has exploded on to the scene.
OTTAWA — Less than half of Canadians think the federal government is doing enough to combat Canada’s ongoing affordability crisis, new polling suggests.
The spark*insights poll, conducted on behalf of Restaurants Canada, found that 57% of respondents said the Liberals aren’t making affordability enough of a priority — and that’s prompted the food service advocacy group to call on the federal government to dial back payroll taxes by 2% in the coming fall federal economic statement.
The threat of 3rd world staff contaminating the food is enough to keep me home.
I will never patronize Tim Horton’s for their abuse of the foreign workers program.
Cost is certainly a factor exacerbated by the demand for ever greater tips for ever declining service.
Overall Canadian restaurants are sketchy places that pose too great a risk to patronize.
