For the year 2024, Ms. Elghawaby claimed $54,459.77 to cover the costs of 31 trips, mainly to attend symposia and conferences on issues related to Islamophobia.
A sign that this amount is high, it exceeds the sums claimed during the same period by the CEO of the Alto high-speed train project, the spendthrift Martin Imbleau ($47,114).
In fact, even Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, has called for less travel spending in 2024 ($54,236).
A pro-Palestinian group’s planned “Danforth takeover” Tuesday near eight TTC subway stations is a “threat to critical city infrastructure,” a Toronto city councillor said.
Councillor James Pasternak, who represents the York Centre ward, expressed his concerns Monday about the protest in a statement to media, calling on Toronto Police and the TTC to “ensure safe public access to all subway stations and City of Toronto infrastructure.
But it's their "charter right" to shut down public transit and put us all in danger — just ask the police or Olivia Chow, right, @fancypants_s ? https://t.co/d0bNS1ux2N
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 12, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
President Donald Trump has just made clear that there will be consequences for those countries that now propose to recognize a “Palestinian” state. He has said that it will be difficult to make a deal on reducing tariffs on Canadian goods after Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada would at the UN General Assembly meeting in September announce its support for a “Palestinian” state.
Do you think Liz Truss is right about Carney? pic.twitter.com/3qVjKW7WtO
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) August 11, 2025
The defamatory non-stop claim that Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, committed genocide against indigenous people, including Indian Residential School children, is the most scurrilous slur hurled against him by his critics. Accordingly, it is necessary to examine this claim using the gold standard for doing so: the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Convention lists five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” any one of which constitutes genocide.
… The no longer Great and no longer White North last week appointed a new president of the Public Health Agency of Canada. One of the direst threats to public health is childhood obesity. So, naturally, Ottawa chose Nancy Hamzawi (cq), an overweight, physically unfit Muslim woman, to lead the fight against it.
A recent survey suggests many Canadians are open to the idea of serving their country in some way, even if it’s mandatory. However, many aren’t keen on the idea of military service, favouring alternative civilian areas like public health or environmental support.
The Angus Reid survey, released Sunday, found that Canadians are in favour of the idea of mandatory civilian service, which would entail one year of time donated for those younger than 30 years of age.
In recent years, Germany, France, Norway and other countries have followed this model of service, the survey says
They won. Few if any will fight for what remains of the Canada we knew.
There’s been very little publicly shared about the progress of Ottawa-Washington trade talks, but what little has been revealed in recent weeks hasn’t been very positive.
Publicly, the cabinet has said the trade talks with the Trump administration are moving along positively, while at the same time stressing that they need to keep the discussions to the negotiating table and that they can’t disclose much more.
But from what can be gathered from public records, whether it’s the state of communication between the two leaders or messaging around the need to accelerate internal efforts to build resilience, it appears Canada isn’t on the verge of a breakthrough.
If housing costs too much, there must not be enough supply. That’s Ottawa’s simple take on the affordable housing crisis in Canada. And their simple solution? Impose policy, including the housing accelerator fund, to get rid of zoning prohibitions and accelerate the building of new homes within existing urban footprints.
But, asks Patrick Condon, professor of urban design at the University of British Columbia: What if the feds are wrong?
Road trips to the US decreased for a seventh straight month as Canadians ramped up their American boycott.
Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the neighboring US slumped 36.9% in July from a year ago, Statistics Canada data showed Monday.
Return trips by air from the US also slid 25.8%, while those from other countries grew 5.9% as Canadians traveled elsewhere.
More than a year after announcing a new immigration stream that would have granted permanent residency to low-wage workers already in Canada, the federal government has yet to move ahead on formally launching the program – suggesting that Ottawa could be backing away from the plan altogether.
The plan targeting low-wage workers was informally announced in April 2024, through the Canada Gazette. Consultations were set to begin last year on amending immigration laws to admit a “new permanent economic class of workers in TEER 4 and TEER 5 jobs.”
Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is a feature not a bug. Yes they are out to get you.
Despite adding long-term care beds, retirement homes and student dormitories to its housing statistics, the Ford government fell tens of thousands of units short of its goal last year.
New data released by the province this month confirms that even with its modified definitions of new housing, Ontario achieved less than 80 per cent of its self-imposed 125,000-unit target for 2024.
Why is that idiot at Queen’s Park still wanting to import the 3rd world? Oh right his cronies love their slaves.
Western Canada sits on extraordinary economic potential that remains artificially constrained by federal policies designed to redistribute wealth eastward. Recent polling suggests Saskatchewan has overtaken Alberta in its appetite for independence — a shift that highlights growing frustration with a system that penalizes success. The economic fundamentals show that Alberta and Saskatchewan together would create one of the world’s most economically self-sufficient nations.
Canada, a country with a smaller population than California, features the second-largest land mass in the world, thousands of kilometres of coastal shoreline, water, and natural resources in abundance, and a huge arctic geography where, for over a century, there was minimal predatory interest from other countries. But most Canadians live and earn a living within a few hundred kilometres of the U.S. border. We’ve enjoyed easy prosperity doing business directly or indirectly with Americans, to whom we’ve defaulted to do the heavy lifting on defence and security.
Will an Alberta separation referendum spark a massive unity rally, or a mighty pan-Canadian caravan converging on Calgary or Edmonton? After all, that’s what happened in 1995, when Quebecers looked like they were voting to leave Canada and thousands flocked to Montreal’s Place du Canada for a “Great Love-in.”
Albertans aren’t holding their breath. Clearly Central Canada views Quebec’s possible separation as an existential threat, while the West’s concerns are mere “grievances.” Those of us born and raised “back east,” but transplanted West, who’ve lived both sides of the divide, experiencing firsthand the disparate treatment of the two regions, can perhaps help explain it.
Nearly half of Canadians want the federal government to cut the governor general’s budget, according to new polling released by Leger and highlighted by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
The poll found that 49% of respondents support reducing spending on the ceremonial office, while only 13% want it increased. When excluding those unsure, nearly 60% favour a cut.
