Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently identified his country’s greatest threat: people freely speaking their mind. A new online harms law, if passed, could potentially enable judges to put people under house arrest if they’re viewed as likely to commit a hate offence.
You read this right. No actual crime would be required for this type of punishment.
“Remembering the Canada I grew up in, and the slightly older Canada that persisted in the stories of my teachers and older relatives, reminds me of a poignant passage from George Orwell’s 1984. Winston Smith, desperate to confirm his hazy memories of what life was like before the Revolution, visits a pub to seek out an old prole who might help him remember.”
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government announced several changes designed to reduce gridlock on provincial roads and highways, I described it in a Post column as a strategy to “tackle the long-running war on the car.” It also led to a competing and far noisier narrative: the battle for the bike, courtesy of the political left.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party forms government, it will scrap the federal sales tax on new homes sold for less than $1 million and push provinces do to the same.
Poilievre makes the case for the cut in a six-minute video published online today, arguing governments are partly to blame for high home prices because they’re charging too much in sales taxes.
AXE THE SALES TAX ON HOMES
You will pay no GST on new homes of under $1 million, saving up to $50,000.
Check it out pic.twitter.com/hskePpygOK
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 28, 2024
At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada.
Imposters used the company’s confidential credentials to get unauthorized access into hundreds of Canadians’ personal CRA accounts, change direct deposit information, submit false returns and pocket more than $6 million in bogus refunds from the public purse, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada has found.
… In the end, the public was never alerted to the scheme.
… In a statement, H&R Block said there is no evidence the breach came from it.
h/t Patti Jo
We are living in one of the most complex, dangerous, and unpredictable times in human history. We are witnessing increasing global instability and a broader range of threats, now state-on-state as well as from non-state actors. The world will not become less complex or more predictable. Only a few years ago, no one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe, or the bloody attack by Hamas on Israel and its justified response. The only way for Canada to manage these new complexities, each seemingly more challenging than the preceding one, is to be better prepared to meet them. Unfortunately, our military is woefully unprepared, even though national security and the defence of democratic values are more important than ever.
In the 1940s, there were around 20,000 Jews still living in Lebanon. Just 20 years later, in the span of one generation, that number dropped to around 3,000. Gad Saad is among those statistics—born in Lebanon in 1964 into one of the last Jewish families to remain in the country.
But the nation that was once called the Paris of the Middle East began to turn when he was a child. He remembers being at school one day when a fellow student told the class he wanted to be a Jew killer when he grew up. The rest of the kids laughed. By 1975, Lebanon had descended into a brutal civil war, and Gad remembers death awaiting him every millisecond of the day. He spent his childhood years mindful of which streets had snipers when he went outside to play. But even then his family thought, This will pass. That is until someone showed up at their home to kill them—at which point the Saad family fled to rebuild their life in Canada. Gad went on to become a professor of marketing and evolutionary behavioral sciences at Concordia University in Montreal.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a podcast that he thinks about the angry messages some Canadians send his way and what impacts they — and his job overall — will have on his children.
Trudeau appeared on an episode of Inside the Village that was released Friday. On top of discussing his children, the prime minister also spoke about what comes next for him and his embattled Liberal Party and the recently announced cuts to immigration targets.
Sorry Justin but you don’t get to play victim you self-centered prick.
The Liberals’ hunger for eco-activists’ approval has left them ‘tone-deaf to what is happening in the real lives of real people,’ says Alberta’s premier
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting for his political life but that hasn’t dampened his government’s zeal to push forward yet another scheme to slay climate change. In what appears to be an unprecedented move of economic self-sabotage by a national government, Trudeau aims to impose a ceiling on oil and gas emissions in Canada.
What happens in a country without cultural conservatism? Look no further than Canada, where the national identity is disintegrating.
In 2015, soon after taking office, the new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gushed to a fawning New York Times that, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values – openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other – but there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
This was Trudeau’s plan – destroying Canada was his WEF Wet Dream.
Anyone advocating for mass immigration, multiculturalism, or diversity should be in shackles.
h/t Patti Jo
‘It’s going to be a free-for-all’: What a Donald Trump victory means for Canada
Canadians, brace for impact if Donald Trump is elected president on Nov. 5.
Forget the long-standing Ottawa-Washington friendship, the trade and security alliances, the integrated economy connecting businesses with consumers on both sides of the border.
With the radical Republican candidate, nothing is sacred. Everything is renegotiable. This is the dark art of Donald Trump’s deal.
Holy shlit. This is the line in NYC nearly 12 hours before Trump’s speech: pic.twitter.com/5eZhx7bgzO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 27, 2024
Before considering immigrating to Canada, your first step should be understanding the cultural differences between Canadians and Ukrainians.
You will find a few basic descriptions, such as: “Canadians are friendly, ready to help, and open.” “In the U.S., people say ‘I’, but in Canada, we say, ‘We!’”
All these things are true, but there is also an “but.”
OTTAWA — Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he believes there is “religious infiltration” and “Islamist infiltration” in Quebec schools in the wake of a sprawling controversy about a Montreal school where teachers were accused of creating a climate of terror.
According to the separatist leader, the inaction of teachers, unions and school boards in the face of acts of indoctrination of children in classrooms should lead to a tightening of secularism in the province.
“The Bedford affair is now a national debate on welcoming immigrants to Quebec and the place of religion in schools”
The debate should be about the sinister act of our elites to import the supremacist cult of Islam to Canada.
Family and intimate partner violence in Canada is rising and while women and girls remain the primary victims, the number of cases where men and boys are the victims appears to also be growing, new data shows.
Police-reported family violence rose by 17 per cent and intimate partner violence by 13 per cent from 2018 to 2023, according to a Statistics Canada report published Thursday.
The Ontario government will effectively bar international students from attending medical schools beginning in the fall of 2026, while also covering tuition for more than 1,000 students who commit to becoming a family doctor in the province.
Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Friday upcoming legislation will ensure at least 95 per cent of medical school spots will be reserved for residents of Ontario. The remaining five per cent will be for students from elsewhere in Canada.
The change will only represent a small shift in enrolment, as roughly 88 per cent of all medical school spots in Ontario are already held by residents of the province, a health ministry official said.
h/t DS
