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Racist Canada should just let everyone in to please the Star

Canada’s immigration approach is becoming more exclusionary. It’s not the direction we should be heading

In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only to be cast aside once their labour was no longer needed.

The centenary was a moment of reflection. But since then, Canada has become more restrictive, not less. Rising immigration refusal rates, while not racially explicit, are carrying the pattern of exclusion forward.

About the “author” – Yvonne Su is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Canada’s trade strategy suffers from delusions of friendship

Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently declared on CNN that in Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump is the “most disliked politician in the world . . . because he has attacked his closest family member.” In January, just before Mark Carney announced his leadership bid for the Liberal Party, he appeared on The Daily Show and told Americans that Canada and the United States could be “friends with benefits.” Are prominent U.S. leaders making time for media appearances to defend Canada as their “closest family member”?

Believing that trading partners are family, or friends even, betrays our leaders’ wide-eyed view of the world that not even historical precedent appears able to shake. It has invited complacency and deepens the damaging economic consequences when trade relationships evolve or break apart.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike

A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced Tuesday.

CUPE, which represents more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, said that after nine hours of talks with the assistance of the chief mediator appointed by the federal government, the deal struck will be presented to its membership, who will have an opportunity to ratify it.

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Amy Hamm: B.C. judge goes to great lengths to protect hospital that fired unvaccinated doctor

Earlier this month, the B.C. Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision of British Columbia’s Hospital Appeal Board that resulted in Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak being suspended, and effectively fired, for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Szezepaniak argued that she should not have been disciplined for refusing to follow Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry’s October 2021 public health order (PHO), which required all doctors and nurses working in hospitals to be vaccinated.

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John Carpay: Who Guards Our Freedoms Better, Judges or Politicians?

In whom do you have more faith, judges or politicians? For many Canadians, this question is about which group they trust the least, and not about which group they trust the most. A person’s answer to this question will largely determine whether she or he likes or dislikes Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly known as the “notwithstanding clause.”

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Civil Forfeiture Case Reveals B.C. Fentanyl Network Tied to Chinese Precursor Shift

VANCOUVER — A new civil forfeiture case in British Columbia has surfaced extraordinary details about a clandestine fentanyl production network that investigators say operated with academic-level expertise, imported laboratory equipment from overseas, and, significantly, relied predominantly on 4-Piperidone, a precursor chemical that Chinese suppliers moved to after the U.S. government cracked down on previous analogs.

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Poilievre should ‘put partisan stripes aside’ and work with Carney amid Trump threat: Ford

“Let’s put our political stripes aside and start working together collectively on large infrastructure projects, on other areas that he can cooperate with the government,” he added, on his way out of a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Carney, Ford shift focus to what ‘we can control’ amid U.S. trade uncertainty

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford put the focus on making Canada globally competitive rather than securing a trade deal with the United States as they met in Ottawa on Monday.

Carney and Ford were meeting on Parliament Hill as trade talks with the United States show little signs of progressing.

Ford was asked by reporters after the meeting Monday what he felt the chances were for a tariff-free deal with the United States, but he said U.S. President Donald Trump’s behaviour was “unpredictable.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ottawa-imposed ‘airport rent’ is driving up cost of plane tickets, think tank finds

OTTAWA — A leading free-market think tank is calling on Ottawa to stop playing landlord to major airports, arguing that exorbitant land rental fees are driving up the cost of domestic air travel.

“Using airports as cash cows instead of treating them as critical infrastructure hurts families, workers, and patients who depend on reliable air service for treatment access,” says Samantha Dagres, the communications manager at the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).

They really do not want you to travel.

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Send them back … TDS Afflicted Drama Queens Flee Trump For Canada

Moving to Canada no easy road for these people fleeing Trump’s America for political reasons

Robert Apgar-Taylor vividly remembers the day he and his husband, Robert Taylor, crossed the border into Canada, fleeing the changing political climate in their native United States in hopes of a safer life in Canada.

“We took a picture at the border. It was winter,” said Apgar-Taylor. “We wore our plaid shirts and hats, and showed our immigration papers with the moving truck behind us. We were so excited.”

To avoid confusion, this story refers to Apbar-Taylor’s husband as Rob.

We’re not exactly getting America’s best and brightest.

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Half of young Canadians spending more than 50% of earnings on rent

Roughly half of young renters and a third of tenants at all ages are spending the majority of their after-tax income on rent, according to a new report.

Experts say the survey, which was published by Rentals.ca this week, shows that the adage of limiting your rental expenses to one-third of your income is simply no longer possible for many Canadians – a situation that could threaten the ability of renters to adequately save for retirement.

I find it sickening that the Globe which advocates for continued mass immigration pretends to give a damn about anyone squeezed out of housing by corporate Canada’s imported scabs.

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Family paid smugglers to reunite after separation by CBSA at Quebec border

A Haitian family was separated at the Quebec-U.S. border this spring due to what an immigration lawyer calls a “legal glitch” some fear could become a wider problem as more migrants flee the United States into Canada.

The family attempted to enter Canada at the official land crossing in Lacolle, Que., in March, according to immigration documents.

They are not in danger in the United States, we have no obligation to accept any of them.

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Waning cross-border travel hurting Canada’s already beleaguered duty-free industry

John Slipp took over his father’s duty-free store in 1994, which had been started more than a decade earlier.

This month, he closed the Woodstock Duty Free Shop Inc. as lower traffic at the U.S.-Canada border dealt the final blow to a business already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, at 59, Slipp says he will have to find another source of income and is advocating for more government support for stores like his.

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Canada’s Real Estate Economy, Fueled by Mass Immigration and Offshore Cash, Is Unsustainable, Mayor Brad West Warns

British Columbia, and much of the country, is confronting the consequences of an economic model that was never built to last. For years, we have been told a comforting story about growth — that as long as cranes dot the skyline and property values climb, prosperity will follow. But beneath that veneer lies a stark truth: our economy is not driven by value-added manufacturing, groundbreaking technology, innovation, or by unlocking our vast natural resource potential. It is built almost entirely on real estate and relentless population growth driven by mass immigration. And it relies on the building and selling of homes to the next wave of newcomers.

This is not diversification. This is dependency. And like all dependencies, it eventually demands a price.

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Christine Van Geyn: Letting safety override freedom makes us all ‘pre-criminals’

In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, set in 2054, crime has been eliminated thanks to psychics who predict wrongdoing before it happens. “Pre-criminals” are arrested for “Pre-crimes” they haven’t committed. But the visions are flawed and open to manipulation. The dark side of “pre-crime” is totalitarianism disguised as public safety. The film is a timeless warning about the tension between liberty and security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada