‘A new phenomenon’: Big investors eye Canada’s home market, ReMax president says

Investment firms have become the biggest new buyers of U.S. homes — a trend that could make home ownership more difficult for average families.

The idea of big investors buying single-family homes to rent them out is “just in its infancy” in Canada, but is worth watching, according to the president of one of this country’s largest real estate firms. Some advocacy groups fear families can’t compete against money managers with billions in assets.


Mmmmm … Regent Park was one of Canada’s largest social housing neighbourhoods. Now, a studio there costs more than $2,000 to rent

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Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Pretends Communist China Doesn’t Exist

Canada must put China ‘front and centre’ in Indo-Pacific strategy or it risks irrelevance, experts say

The federal government’s forthcoming Indo-Pacific strategy must explicitly recognize and respond to the security threat China poses to the region, experts say, otherwise Canada risks being regarded as irrelevant in a part of the world that is expected to be a centre of economic growth for decades.

The Indo-Pacific region, which stretches from North America to India’s west coast, is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population, and it accounts for 60 per cent of global gross domestic product. About 60 per cent of world maritime trade passes through its oceans, a third of that through the South China Sea, where Beijing has made sweeping territorial claims.

… Two sources with knowledge of the strategy said the first draft, which was compiled by a team from Global Affairs, made no mention of China.

The strategy should have one goal – Make Communist China a pariah state.

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California to fund heroin injection sites in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco

The bill would authorize cities and counties to establish “safe consumption sites” where addicts could use illegal narcotics under supervision. Those accessing the “hygienic space supervised by trained staff” could consume pre-obtained drugs. Program staff would be trained to administer an “opioid antagonist” in the event of an overdose.

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Get Trump: The Signs and Portents

]In the 234-year span of our Constitutional government, no president has been subjected to organized persecution after leaving office. After Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, his political enemies seemed poised to pursue and possibly prosecute him, but President Ford stopped such moves by granting Mr. Nixon a “…full, free, and absolute pardon…for all offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed…”3 Democrats never forgave Mr. Ford for depriving them of the chance to dance on Mr. Nixon’s grave.

But (as they say) that was then and this is now. Today, a year and a half after Mr. Trump’s departure, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is conducting a jihad against the former president via televised hearings that ignore all conventional jurisprudential norms and conventions.

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Pierre Poilievre Dominates With Massive Lead In Number Of Donors, Crushing Huawei Charest

With the CPC releasing Q2 financial numbers, the information regarding the CPC leadership race is quite something.

Unsurprisingly, Pierre Poilievre led with over $4 million raised.

Charest was in second with nearly $1.4 million.

Leslyn Lewis raised over $700,000.
Roman Baber raised over $500,000.

And Scott Aitchison raised just over $360,000.

But the real shock was in total donors – a number more indicative of true support in the party.

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Massive hail storm smashes car’s window in Alberta

Horrific footage shows the moment when drivers on a major Canada highway were slammed with hail the size of golf balls on Monday.

Gibran Marquez was traveling on a central Alberta highway with two others when the trio had to pull over as their vehicle was hit with hail.

Marquez posted the video of the storm on Twitter that showed the passengers pulled over on the highway and ducking while chunks of hail break the car windows.

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Trudeau’s Gun Confiscation Mimics Fascist Policies Of 20th Century

In the years following World War I, the Weimar Republic passed strict gun control laws in an attempt to comply with the Versailles Treaty of 1919 – laws that required the surrender of all guns to government.

“The laws remained in effect until 1928, when the German parliament relaxed gun restrictions and put into effect a strict firearm-licensing scheme. These licensing regulations foreshadowed Adolph Hitler’s rise to power.”

In her 2011 book, Professor of Criminal Justice Dyan McGuire wrote that “it is frequently argued that these laws, which resulted in the confiscation of weapons not belonging to supporters of the Nazis, rendered disfavoured groups like the Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, Poles, and their potential allies defenseless.”

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In The Name Of Equity, The ACLU Supports Racial Discrimination In College Admissions

The ACLU reported that it had filed amicus curiae briefs in two cases before the United States Supreme Court, Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, both of which challenge whether or not higher education can legally consider race in its application approval process.

“Ending the consideration of race in college admissions would ignore the country’s ongoing challenge of racial inequality and threaten diversity and inclusion on campuses everywhere,” Sarah Hinger, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Program, said in a press release.

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Montreal police allegedly threatened to shut down kids’ lemonade stand and arrest mother

A Montreal mother claims police told her to take down a charity lemonade stand her kids had set up and threatened her with arrest.

Ayana Massa told Global News her two young sons, 11-year-old Ness and 8-year-old Ariel, have been selling lemonade to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

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Biden appoints FEMA monkeypox czar, as New York, Illinois, and California declare emergencies

Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Robert Fenton as the White House National Monkeypox Response Coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the Deputy Coordinator.

Since May 18, the number of cases of monkeypox has gone from 1 to 5,811 in the United States. Alaska has one confirmed case. Nearly all cases are among gay men having sex with multiple partners and spreading the disease among the gay community.

Zero deaths in the US but at least we have another crisis.

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Canada’s Government Is Now Coming For The Farmers

With all of the protests taking place around the world these days, some people may have overlooked what’s been going on in the Netherlands. Dutch farmers there have been in open revolt since the government ordered them to slash their use of nitrogen and other fertilizers and reduce their herds of livestock, all in the name of climate change. This has led to parades of tractors tying up the highway for miles, dumping loads of fertilizer on the roads, and setting fire to bails of hay. This must have looked like a dandy idea to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because he’s preparing to do the same thing to farmers in his country. What could possibly go wrong?

The Genocide That Wasn’t in Canada’s Residential Schools

There has been much recent discussion about the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It found that 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their homes and forced to attend schools that would assimilate them into the dominant culture.

It was the Canadian government that made the decision to suppress the culture of Indigenous persons, sending children to residential schools operated by the government, Catholic religious orders, and Protestant denominations.

The majority of the schools were not run by Catholics.

The Chinese Government’s Continued Assault On Canadian Freedoms Requires Action

The growing transnational repression by the Chinese Communist Party – including the criminal harassment and intimidation of Canadians – is on the rise, and it highlights the dangers of indifference and inaction regarding such practices. Tolerance has allowed such internal repression to metastasize into external hostility, and what the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has described as the “aggressive targeting” of Canadians by Chinese intelligence services, on Canadian soil.

‘Major Problems Down The Road’: Biden Drains Petroleum Reserves Of Crucial Type Of Crude

President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) is emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) of a crucial kind of oil that domestic refiners can easily process, which could cause oil prices to skyrocket, experts told the DCNF.

American refiners prefer medium-sour crude as they can easily process it into gasoline and other fuel products, accordingto Bloomberg. The DOE released 4.6 million barrels of medium-sour crude oil from the SPR in late July, meaning that the reserve now has more light-sweet crude than sour — 235 million barrels to 234.9 million — which could raise fuel costs, experts say.

“It is going to cause major problems down the road,” Tracy Shuchart, a partner at Intelligence Quarterly, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Germany Firing Up 21 Coal Plants As Putin Tightens The Natural Gas Noose

The last coal pits around Bexbach closed a decade ago, leaving the power plant puffing plumes of pollutants as a relic of a dying regional industry.

But now plant equipment is being repaired, contractors have come out of retirement, and manager Michael Lux is faced with a novel prospect: expanding the head count.

Inside Liz Cheney’s Coordinated Effort To Prevent Troop Deployment Before Jan. 6

Days before the Capitol riot provoked a years-long effort to impeach, prosecute, and politically malign former President Donald Trump, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney coordinated efforts to deter the very actions she now claims haunt the former president.

Cheney has blamed Trump for not ordering the National Guard to defend the Capitol complex, even though multiple sources confirm that he authorized their deployment days prior to the Jan. 6 rally at the White House and riot at the Capitol. Security officials in charge of the Capitol declined to call up troops to protect it, government records show.

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Taliban under scrutiny as US kills al-Qaida leader in Kabul

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safe house intensified global scrutiny Tuesday of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and further undermined their efforts to secure international recognition and desperately needed aid.

The Taliban had promised in the 2020 Doha Agreement on the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that they would not harbor al-Qaida members. Nearly a year after the U.S. military’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, al-Zawahri’s killing raises questions about the involvement of Taliban leaders in sheltering a mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and one of America’s most-wanted fugitives.

Fearless prediction … Biden paid the Taliban for al-Zawahri

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Jaffa: When Outnumbered Christian Warriors Defeated Muslim Hordes

Today in history, a small band of Christian warriors defeated a massive horde of Muslims.

On July 27, 1192, Saladin, the great sultan-hero of Islam, surrounded and besieged the tiny Christian-held town of Jaffa. According to contemporary chronicles, the Muslims numbered as much as 20,000 and “covered the face of the earth like locusts.”

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