On April 27 last year, then prime minister Justin Trudeau posted a video on X boasting that, “We bet big on electric vehicles. Now that industry is betting on us.”
Fifteen months later, all bets are off.
Author: Blazingcatfur
California’s $20 minimum wage hike cost state 18,000 jobs, study shows
A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) this month found that California’s 2023 minimum wage hike cost the state thousands of jobs.
Researchers found that the state’s $20 minimum wage fast food hike has cost the fast-food sector 18,000 jobs since it went into effect in April 2024, representing a 3.2% decline in that sector compared to fast-food sectors in other parts of the country.
Robot win.
Canada condemns Hong Kong for issuing warrants to arrest some Canadians
The Canadian government released a statement Saturday condemning Hong Kong authorities who issued worldwide arrest warrants for pro-democracy activists — including some Canadians.
Hong Kong police announced rewards on Friday for information leading to the arrest of 19 overseas-based activists for their roles in what they called a subversive organization abroad, accusing them of violating a national security law imposed by Beijing.
We should send an angry note!
Snobby PBS-NPR Station Manager: Uninformed Conservatives ‘Don’t Listen or Watch’
The playbook for the PBS/NPR lobby in the defunding fight has been to send liberal journalists to talk with station managers in small communities in red states, as if that somehow represents the Eastern leftist elites that make the programming on “public” broadcasting. Politico’s “West Wing Playbook” column talked to Don Dunlap, a station manager in Corpus Christi, Texas. Both Texas Senators and the local congressman voting for defunding these “public” propaganda pushers.
U.S. politics threaten to complicate Canada’s co-hosting of 2026 World Cup
OTTAWA – With less than a year to go until the 2026 World Cup, political tensions and U.S. policy threaten to pose problems as Canada, the United States and Mexico prepare to co-host the tournament.
Next year’s FIFA World Cup will be the biggest ever, with the three countries hosting a record 48 teams. Between June 11 and July 19, they will play 104 matches, most of them in the U.S.
The World Cup will do what it does best, leave tax payers holding the bag.
Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War
President Trump said he reached a trade deal with the European Union late on Sunday, avoiding a trade war with the US’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.
BREAKING: President Trump lands EU trade deal:
– EU to purchase $750 billion in US and invest $600 billion in US
– EU to purchase a “vast amount” of military equipment
– EU opens up markets to US goods
– 15% reciprocal tariffsMassive!! pic.twitter.com/cheSWDIMSJ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 27, 2025
h/t DS
Bell: City of Calgary lays down the law to a 9-year-old boy having fun
It is a sunny day.
It is a warm and sunny day in the West Hillhurst neighbourhood when the City of Calgary peace officer knocks on the door of the house on the corner.
Nuvyn Peters is in trouble with the law.
Less than 24 hours earlier, she’d received a warning in the mailbox, an order on a pink slip of paper.
Survey: Britons Believe Islam Incompatible, Muslim Migration a Negative
Less than a quarter of Britons think Muslim migration is a net positive to the United Kingdom and a clear majority say Islam is not compatible with British values, a study finds.
Britons are sceptical on the contribution of Muslim-faith migrants to the United Kingdom compared to arrivals from other faith groups, a survey conducted by major pollster YouGov finds. Among the key findings are that 41 per cent of respondents say Muslim immigrants have a negative impact on the United Kingdom while only 24 per cent say they have an overall positive effect.
Trump’s tariffs are promoting free trade — in Canada
TORONTO — In 2024, the grand prize at the Canadian Whisky Awards went to Paradigm Spirits. Its entrant, made with Canadian corn, aged for 19 years in American oak barrels and blended with a splash of Spanish sherry, beat some 200 competitors to be crowned Whisky of the Year. A judge called it “remarkable.”
It was a break for Paradigm, which had opened in an old Kellogg’s factory in London, Ontario, just a few years earlier. The women-owned-and-operated distillery was soon inundated with messages from Canadians across the country eager to buy the award-winning spirit, co-founder Irma Joeveer said.
But there was a problem: Canada’s internal trade barriers. With few exceptions, alcohol producers in one Canadian province are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in another. Vintners in British Columbia, for instance, can often more easily sell their merlots to oenophiles in other countries than within their own.
One thing about Trump – you can never call him all bad.
Thank You For Flying EasyJet I’ll Be Your Crazy Muslim Today: Allahu Ackbar! Death To America! Death To Trump! We’re Going To Bomb The Plane!!
This is the terrifying moment a man stood up on a packed flight and told passengers he had a bomb.
Police have arrested a 41-year-old man after a disturbance on a 7am easyJet flight from Luton to Glasgow.
Videos of the incident were posted online and are now being assessed by counter terrorism police officers.
BREAKING: A man was taken down by passengers on an easyJet flight after yelling, “I’ve got a bomb!”
The jet was flying from London to Glasgow when the pilots declared an emergency. pic.twitter.com/wFKxoyf0nQ
— Robbie Harvey (@therobbieharvey) July 27, 2025
#WATCH: As a Man threatening to bomb plane while shouting Death to Trump on a easy jet flight
Watch the terrifying moment a man stood up on a packed easyJet flight and claimed he had a bomb. The incident occurred aboard Flight EZY609 from Luton to… pic.twitter.com/MNFQAxuZJh
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) July 27, 2025
Disruptive ‘scam’ or legitimate protest? Here’s why Pierre Poilievre’s byelection ballot will have dozens of candidates
OTTAWA—One candidate is a 22-year-old university student living four hours north of Toronto.
Another is a Montreal-area teacher and tour guide with a fondness for dinosaurs.
A third lives in Nebraska, working in IT.
Which countries recognize Palestinian statehood?
… France will be the 148th country to officially recognize the Palestinian territories as a state. Just under half of these nations did this formally after November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially declared Palestine an independent state. Endorsements came from communist states such as the Soviet Union and China, as well as nonaligned countries Yugoslavia and India.
Epping anti-migrant protests is heating up
Epping protests LIVE: Police in riot gear as anti-migrant protest and counter-demo erupt outside Bell Hotel
BREAKING: Thousands are gathering in Epping once again to demand the closure of the Bell hotel
The people of Epping are indomitable. pic.twitter.com/H4Pw4fZVun
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) July 27, 2025
BREAKING: Large crowds of local citizens rally outside a migrant hotel in Epping demanding an end to migrant hotels.
Local Citizens begin to sing “sweet Caroline” by Neil diamond, demonstrating a peaceful movement.
The British people are uniting pic.twitter.com/bhWzpvZOIE
— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) July 27, 2025
h/t Patthedog
China’s record purchases of Canadian crude could be a harbinger of more deals to come
China is now importing record amounts of Canadian oil after slashing U.S. oil purchases by roughly 90 per cent.
As a result, imports of Canadian crude have surged, reaching a record 7.3 million barrels in March. This massive boon comes as Canadian negotiators are racing against the clock to make a trade deal with the White House.
The expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline has enabled China and other East Asian importers to access Canada’s vast crude reserves, which are relatively cheap and suitable for China’s advanced refineries that process dense, high-sulfur crude.
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? … How about acting like a responsible corporate citizen rather than a caricature of rapacious capitalism?
They gathered in a conference room for the weekly management meeting, even though there was hardly anyone left to manage. Chad Hartmann, the president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, pushed a few empty chairs to the side of the room and then passed around a sheet totaling the latest production numbers. “Take a deep breath and brace yourselves,” he said.
For more than a decade, Glenn Valley’s production reports had told a story of steady ascendance — new hires, new manufacturing lines, new sales records for one of the fastest-growing meatpacking companies in the Midwest. But, in a matter of weeks, production had plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew was in the process of being deported, the director of human resources had stopped coming to work, and more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska.
Hartmann, 52, folded the printed sheet into tiny squares and waited out the silence.
The Liberal Government recently introduced a path to citizenship for “construction laborers” working illegally in Canada.
What they really did was reward the criminal construction firms that broke the law by knowingly exploiting the illegals at the expense of Canadians.
The Star like the NYTimes pretends these firms are some kind hero: Canada to grant legal status for thousands of undocumented construction workers