When it comes to improving their standard of living, young Canadians are facing an uphill battle. A new report, published by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), highlights the difficulties younger Canadians in many provinces are facing in achieving higher earnings and a better standard of living than their parents. The report highlights the range of factors contributing to these barriers to social and income mobility, pointing to housing and high youth unemployment.
Here we go again. According to a poll by Research Co., nearly three-quarters of Canadians — 72% — believe childhood vaccinations should be mandatory in their province. That’s up five points from last year. To many, this seems a mark of progress: more public trust in science, more protection for the vulnerable. But before congratulating ourselves on our civic virtue, we ought to ask a harder question: what kind of society are we becoming when we endorse the state’s right to inject anybody – even children whose parents object — against their will?
In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades. It gave the world a permanent suffix for scandal and became the ultimate symbol of abuse of power, a crisis so severe that it culminated in the only resignation of a U.S. president to preempt removal from office.
The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man.
The fact is, his language is far more deliberate and far more calculating than what often appears to be “top of the mind” or extemporaneous. So when he told Hamas that if they did not come to the peace table, he would give Israel a free hand to “finish the job,” the remaining leaders of that terrorist organization had to consider that Trump was telling them the game was up.
BREAKING: Israeli parliament breaks out in cheers of "TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP"
Netanyahu: "Donald Trump is the GREATEST friend that the State of Israel has EVER had in the White House." pic.twitter.com/BzqnRq2CBH
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) October 13, 2025
A for effort but peace never lasts when Islam is involved.
It would be ‘idiotic’ for any party to topple government on budget vote only seven months after election, say some Liberal MPs
Barely seven months after the last federal election, it would be politically unwise for any party to topple Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government over its first budget, say Liberal MPs.
“It would be idiotic for any party to try to bring down the government at this stage,” said Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont.), in an interview with The Hill Times.
IN HIS Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli says that the rulers of a republic must uphold the foundations of the official religion, for it enables them to keep the populace devout and united. He advises encouraging anything that reinforces that religion, even if false, since such fabrications inspire confidence. In ancient Rome, every form of superstition served as an instrument of manipulation and deceit in the hands of those in power. In other words, Machiavelli concluded that ideology – what the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser called the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence – is a strategic device to preserve order and impose obedience upon any human agglomeration. These days, ‘far right’ is one of the most conspicuous terms of abuse among a vast array of fallacies specifically designed to lure the uneducated.
They’re home. After 738 days in hellish captivity, the last living Israeli hostages are free. After more than two years in the cruel bondage of that army of anti-Semites, they have tasted liberty again. Twenty souls returned to their families, and to a nation that prayed for their release. When they are ready they will tell of the horrors they endured in Hamas’s tunnels, those dank lairs of Jew hatred. But for now, in Israel and those parts of the civilised world not yet lost to Israelophobia, the emotion people will be feeling is joy.
Food delivery couriers and their e-bikes are fixtures in many neighbourhoods. From midday on, they gather on streets dense with restaurants. All this waiting time is unpaid. And even when orders do come in, couriers often spend more uncompensated time waiting for them, says Émile Baril, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration and Society at Concordia University in Montreal.
Pigs like this deliver food in the GTA
A Door Dash driver was fined $500 and banned from the delivery service after spitting in a Whitby man’s order even after receiving a tip.
The driver also had kids in his car with no seatbelt on. pic.twitter.com/UmYbEth1hk
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) September 28, 2024
A Palestinian man who raped a 13-year-old boy before beating him to death with an iron bar is among the prisoners to be freed by Israel under the hostage deal.
Ahmed Mahmed Jameel Shahada was put behind bards in 1989 after luring teenager Oren Bahrami to a monastery in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, before raping him and beating him to death.
Oren’s parents, from south of Tel Aviv, reported him missing in April 1989. Detectives working on the case initially suspected he had been kidnapped by terrorists, after finding his abandoned bike in a Jaffa port.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama has come under sharp criticism after describing Hungary and Poland as being “on the leading edge of confronting autocracy”—in what can only be described as a thinly veiled attack on conservative governments in Central Europe.
Canada’s top science advisor says years of mockery and skepticism around UFOs have made Canadians reluctant to report unusual aerial sightings.
Dr. Mona Nemer, the federal government’s $393,000-a-year science advisor, said in an internal memo that using the term “unidentified aerial phenomenon” instead of “UFO” could help reduce stigma and encourage credible research.
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TORONTO—For many decades, Canada attempted to escape restrictive American trade and other economic initiatives designed to advantage the United States by claiming a “special relationship” which, we argued, should mean an exemption for Canada. Reaction to the Donald Trump shock shows the idea isn’t dead.
One can’t help feeling, after watching Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump exchange pleasantries at the White House last week, that Canada is still relying on “special relationship” arguments to win exemptions from American protectionism, even if this means bowing too readily to their demands and offering “rewards” in exchange for special treatment. But when we argue “special relationship,” we are reduced to pleading.
I get the impression that Carney wants the distance between Canada and the US increased as it will create lucrative opportunities for his pals.
There is a lot of rejoicing in America, Israel, and among normal people around the world about the peace deal in Gaza, but the Palestinian terrorist-huggers are heartbroken. And, of course, they should be. This isn’t really a peace deal. This is an utter capitulation, a total surrender by the losers of Hamas who have completely and utterly failed. They started a war and got their asses kicked, yet again. Their fight from the sewers, where they hid behind women and children, was not an example of brave resistance as they steadfastly endured victimhood. Every single misery that the Palestinians have suffered over the last two years was utterly deserved – in fact, they deserved much, much worse.
