Canadians unmoved by employer labour shortage claims tied to foreign worker program

Canadians are showing little sympathy for employers who claim they cannot find workers and must turn to foreign labour, according to new federal research that suggests public sentiment on immigration is hardening.

A 2025 annual tracking study commissioned by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada found focus group participants were largely unconvinced by arguments that lowering immigration levels would hurt businesses dependent on migrant workers.

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When the English were the boat people

THE British artist Ford Madox Brown was born in 1821 in Calais. The Madox Brown family moved back and forth between the Continent and Kent several times.

Ford Madox Brown finally settled in London in 1844. The Last of England was completed in 1855. It depicts an imagined scene in which a husband and wife gaze aft from a boat. The coast behind them is Kent, as denoted by the white cliffs. The faces are those of Madox Brown and his second wife, Emma Hill.

The boat on which the couple sail is named the Eldorado. El Dorado is a mythical city of gold situated somewhere in South America.

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NDP leadership candidates look inward as their party crumbles around them

Politics is a business of addition but this week New Democrat leadership candidates demonstrated they’re focused on subtraction.

Gone are the prospects of forming a government. Former leader Jack Layton’s 2011 orange wave, with 103 seats and a presence in every region of the country, may go down as the unfulfilled beachhead.

The biggest hurdle — obvious to anyone watching the NDP leadership debate Thursday or its more disastrous fall debate — is the painful to inadequate level of French the candidates demonstrated.

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Why Randy Fine Is Right – And Why His Critics Are Avoiding the Real Issue

The backlash against Congressman Randy Fine for speaking plainly about Islam exposes the West’s central contradiction. Politicians routinely claim they oppose sharia, yet condemn anyone who actually recognizes what sharia is.

Mr. Fine wrote on X: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

This followed a post by the leader of one of the key Islamic groups that supported the new Mayor of New York City. She wrote: “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”

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Barbara Kay: Liberal MP’s divorce bill would keep kids isolated from parents

Now in its second reading, Bill C-223 , an Act to amend the Divorce Act, also known as the “Keeping Children Safe Act,” is a private member’s bill tabled by Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner. Endorsed by a slew of feminist organizations , C-223 seeks to end “parental alienation” as a legal consideration in family court. Far from keeping children safe, the bill, if passed, will put many children in jeopardy, while keeping their alienating parents safe.

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SLOBODIAN: ‘If that means millions go, then millions go’ — the British MP declaring war on mass immigration, woke ideology, and radical Islam

Britain is a tragic shadow of its former greatness. The longtime powerhouse with a proud, distinct identity is in many respects unrecognizable today.

Politicians have steered it headlong towards cultural obliteration through mass immigration. Additionally, there’s the indignity of forced woke ideology, shut-up tactics disguised as political correctness, Marxist-style oppression, and extensive state surveillance.

The Brits are in deep trouble.

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Bell: Danielle Smith a Nazi — Rachel Notley and Lukaszuk should be denounced

A year ago, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was called a traitor.

Now Smith is compared to Hitler’s Nazis.

And she is not compared to the Nazis by the usual unhinged social media bottom feeder.

No.

Smith is slimed by the former premier of Alberta. That’s Rachel Notley.

Smith is also slimed by the former deputy premier of Alberta. That’s Thomas Lukaszuk.

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‘A reminder of how careless I was’: from cringe cartoons to cancelled rockstars, the tattoos fans regret

On 20 February 2012, Coté Arias met Morrissey at a fan meet-up in Santiago, Chile. The former Smiths frontman signed her forearm in spiky capitalised lettering, which Coté later had traced permanently on to her skin with ink. Her years-long plan for the tattoo, which had started with her founding Morrissey’s Chilean fanclub, had worked. “Morrissey had such an impact on me growing up,” she says. “I struggled with shyness and lacked confidence for much of my life, and his lyrics helped me feel seen while transitioning into adulthood.”

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MORGAN: Incompetent civil service bureaucrats bear some responsibility for the immigration crisis

From crumbling healthcare to the housing crisis, Canada’s refusal to control its borders is a recipe for social collapse and the bureaucracy is to blame.

Mass immigration is threatening the social and economic well-being of the entire Western world. One needs only to look at the catastrophes in Europe, as decades of unchecked immigration have led to entire sections of cities becoming unhabitable to locally born citizens, while race riots and demonstrations choke cities regularly. Integration has become nearly impossible as migrants cluster into introverted communities of their own and refuse to adapt to cultural norms within the democracies they entered.

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Mar-a-Lago shotgun-wielding madman ID’d as North Carolina golf course artist

Austin Tucker Martin wannabe Trump Assassin

The crazed gunman who was shot dead after trying to enter Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a gas can has been identified as a North Carolina artist who was reported missing by his mom.

Austin Tucker Martin, 21, of Cameron, North Carolina, was killed by law enforcement in the early hours of Sunday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.

He was reported missing by his family to authorities on Saturday.


One weird kid.

h/t PA Cat

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Sharan Kaur: Why moderates are fleeing the CPC, and what it says about Poilievre

The walls of Parliament shook this week with yet another floor-crossing of Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus. This wasn’t just a procedural shift in the halls of Parliament, it is a stark symbol of a new, unsettling reality in Conservative politics.

While floor-crossing is a historical reality and, let’s be honest, Liberals have crossed to the Conservatives before, the difference here is the context. The toxic reaction surrounding this crossing exposes a genuine bottom of the barrel moment for the political discourse, particularly within the Conservative movement.


I do not think it honest to declare yourself a moderate and a conservative after a decade of the LPC’s corrosive rule.

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Lepanto’s Legacy: The Fight for Western Survival

Our Lady of the Rosary and the Battle of Lepanto

Lessons from Lepanto: confronting Islamism, authoritarianism, and the crisis of Western resolve.

On October 7th 1571, two great fleets collided off the coast of western Greece in one of history’s greatest naval battles –and one of the most consequential for the history of what we once were pleased to call “Western Civilization.” As part of its ongoing campaign to claim Europe for Islam, the Ottoman Empire assembled a huge fleet of war galleys, intending to wrest control of the Adriatic Sea — and ultimately, the entire Mediterranean — from the several Christian powers, notably Venice and Spain.

To counter this threat, Pope Pius V called into existence the “Holy League,” a coalition based upon the combined naval resources of Venice and Spain. Under the leadership of Don John of Austria, the illegitimate half-brother of King Phillip II of Spain, the fleet of the Holy League won a resounding victory, known to history as the Battle of Lepanto.

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Fat Signing Bonuses, and Concierge Service, for Family Doctors

Health care was looking grimmer by the day back in 2023 in a rural corner of western Canada.

Family doctors had retired or moved, starting a chain reaction that cut in half the number serving the 12,000 residents of the Alberta town of Stettler and its surrounding county, also called Stettler.

People with preventable problems, but without family doctors, sought help in the town hospital’s emergency room. Then the emergency room began shutting down on some days because of a doctor shortage, forcing the unlucky to drive 50 miles to the nearest city.

About 450 people came to a hastily called meeting at the hockey arena.

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Trans shooter epidemic unmasked? Poll uncovers potential link to ongoing attacks

In less than two weeks, two deadly shootings — both allegedly by transgender-identifying biological males. One was a school rampage in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that killed eight people, and the other a targeted family attack during a youth hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where two of the alleged shooter’s family members were left dead.

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