Less than half of one percent of the total permanent residents admitted to Canada since 2015 have been through the federal government’s Federal Skilled Trades Program.
According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) quarterly update of permanent residents admitted to Canada, between 2015 and 2023, the total number of people admitted to the country based on their skilled trade qualifications was just 9,924.
Yahya Sinwar, the new head of Hamas, tossed yet another wrench into Gaza cease-fire talks with an rumored demand for a “don’t kill me” clause in any deal with Israel.
The mastermind of the Oct. 7 atrocities reportedly wants Jerusalem to guarantee his safety — permanently.
Never mind his years of tough talk that it would be an honor to die fighting Israel, nor his opposition to any cease-fire before his recent rise to head the terror group.
A month after kicking him down the White House stairs, Democrats welcomed Joe Biden to the stage of their Chicago convention, the better to profess how much they well and truly love him.
“We started out … with President Biden, who we all love, we all adore, we look forward to seeing him tonight,” convention chairperson Minyon Moore burbled Monday, the first day of the Democrat gathering, as delegates and party elders waited for the sitting president to speak his piece and get it done with.
Crime bosses are behind a wave of youths being hired for attacks in Denmark and Norway, with fears the trend could spread further
When the Oresund Bridge across the strait between Denmark and Sweden opened in 2,000 it was hailed as a symbol of Nordic comity and the gradual evaporation of Europe’s internal borders.
It spawned an immensely popular crime drama, The Bridge, in which the icy Swedish detective Saga Noren and Martin Rohde, her more emotionally intelligent Danish counterpart, combine the stronger points of their respective national stereotypes.
Forget just being a sanctuary city, Toronto is now officially advocating for citizenship for all illegal immigrants.
Sorry, let me put that in the terms that our better thans at City Hall would find acceptable – undocumented residents.
It’s just a fancy way to say that someone came here, or stayed here, against the rules.
Fans and viewers had a collective meltdown after pop star Beyoncé was a no-show at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) following multiple news reports that the Grammy-winner would perform on Thursday night. “Fucking liars,” one fan reacted, accusing the convention and or news outlets of lying “to get people to watch.”
A union leader in Ontario says he rejects a call for his resignation from a national position over a video he shared on social media.
Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario and a general vice-president of CUPE’s national executive board, issued a statement on Thursday following a vote by the board asking him to resign. The video that Hahn reposted on Facebook has caused discord in the union and has been called hurtful by several Jewish CUPE members.
Philadelphia: 2024
Devils advocate, cyclists are f’ing annoying though. Especially when they ride against traffic. pic.twitter.com/Qxa2gVkiQr
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) August 23, 2024
62-year-old white man in Staten Island is hunted down and beaten by a mob of black teens.
This is a violent hate crime.
Will there be national outrage?
Or will this be shamelessly ignored by the media because it doesn’t fit their narrative?pic.twitter.com/SRogZFJjGT
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 23, 2024
h/t Mauser and kiki9
A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male.
The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination – which refers to when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute – and ordered the app to pay her A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs.
Too many Kangaroo Kicks to the head?
Standing by a lectern with a sign that read “Bring Home Our Jobs,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had words for both the government and for businesses that he implied were abusing Canada’s temporary foreign workers program.
“Trudeau has destroyed our entire immigration system,” he said, referring to the massive expansion of workers applying under the low-wage labour market impact assessment (LMIA) stream.
After the Kremlin-backed Wagner mercenary group suffered its recent and heaviest African defeat when dozens of Russians were killed in an ambush in July, Ukraine’s military intelligence service was quick to claim some credit.
That boast now looks closer to a symbolic defeat for Kyiv after the juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger wrote to the United Nations Security Council demanding it denounce Ukraine’s alleged support of rebel groups in the Sahel region of west Africa where Wagner is deployed.
Global News’ collaborative investigation into billions of dollars in federal contracts awarded to Indigenous-owned enterprises began in late 2022, when a journalist noticed that some suppliers of personal protective equipment did not disclose a connection to a First Nation, Métis or Inuit community on their websites.
Vast sums of public funds are in play.
The scope is insane.
Afghanistan’s Taliban has banned women from looking at men and speaking loudly in public and inside their homes.
In a 114-page document of new orders seen by The Telegraph, the regime announced strict measures governing everyday life for Afghan citizens.
“It is forbidden for adult women to look at strange men,” according to one of the new rules.
UK police valiantly take down an elderly disabled woman.pic.twitter.com/Aul8IVByku
— David Kurten (@davidkurten) August 23, 2024
As Sikh activist Satinder Pal Singh Raju and two associates drove along northern California’s I-505 freeway earlier this month, a white car sped up behind them, then swerved into the lane to their left.
That’s when someone in the other vehicle started shooting, a hail of bullets striking Raju’s pickup truck but miraculously touching no one inside.
