In 1926, McGill University imposed a ban on Jewish students. Like other elite colleges at the time – including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the University of Toronto – the school viewed with suspicion the increasingly Jewish inflection of its student body. Raising the admission standards for Jewish applicants, McGill succeeded in dropping enrolment levels of Jews.
There’s not much doubt what was on the minds of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet when members met in Halifax this week — at least when it comes to policy and not their party’s dismal standing in the polls.
You could tell by who they brought in to speak to them. There was Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan and one of Donald Trump’s leading advisers on trade. There was Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, along with two former Canadian ambassadors and others deeply involved in cross-border issues.
OTTAWA — More than 200 Gazans have arrived in Canada under a special temporary residency program launched in January, according to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
“As of August 24, 2024, 209 people have arrived in Canada under the temporary public policy,” wrote IRCC spokesman Jeffrey MacDonald in an email to the National Post.
Massive lineup of employment seekers at Longo’s job fair
Hariharan Thirupal hopes the proverb is correct, and the early bird catches the worm.
Sudhi Govind Thekkeparambil Anil feels the same way.
The Conestoga College students arrived at the Doon Pioneer Park Community Centre at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, seven hours before a two-day in-person job fair to hire about 100 employees for Waterloo Region’s first Longo’s grocery store.
Trudeau is destroying your quality of life for future votes.
Foreign students keep coming to Conestoga College despite big visa rollback
h/t Patti Jo
The Egypt-born father and son accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Toronto on behalf of ISIS successfully passed through multiple immigration and security screening steps, a timeline of events released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) indicates.
The Epoch Times obtained the timeline from IRCC after it was provided to the House of Commons public safety committee on Aug. 28 for the testimony of Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc. The committee is studying the foiled alleged terrorist plot by the two men and seeks to understand how they were admitted to Canada.
Passenger trains. Freight trains. I’ve got to admit I like them.
They seem so Canadian. At least they used to. Trains no longer bring together people across this vast land like they did.
As kids, in addition to travelling through B.C. and Alberta by train, we would sometimes put coins on tracks and, after the lumbering beasts rolled over them, marvel how the flattened metal turned into something completely different. I only learned later our game was illegal. Sorry about that.
I did ride a freight through Alberta/BC and also took the passenger train back to TO from BC when a teen.
I hitched out west a couple of times. It was the thing to do.
The Liberal Party of Canada is facing a revolt by ministerial staffers, mostly of Arab and Muslim origin, over the Trudeau government’s handling of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally.
Fifty-two Arab and Muslim staffers working in the Liberal government signed a letter addressed to “the leader of the Liberal Party” that says they will not participate in its byelection campaign to hold on to the seat of LaSalle–Emard–Verdun, left vacant by the resignation of former Liberal justice minister David Lametti.
Referring to “the increasing push for Liberal staff members to phone bank and door knock,” the letter obtained by CBC News warns that “while many of us started our political careers in elections as volunteers, we can no longer in good conscience campaign for a party that excludes us and our values.”
“Death to Israel” = “Stance on Gaza”
This will not get better for the Jews.
Especially if European nations serve as a valid precedent.
Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, England etc all suffer for having allowed Muslims to settle.
Islam only ever brings blood.
Last week, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre sent out a tweet in honour of Black Ribbon Day, a European Union-originated day of “Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.” Because Poilievre is always heavily motivated by making exactly the right people lose their marbles, the text of the tweet read thus :
“On the 85th anniversary of Black Ribbon Day, we remember the victims of Soviet Socialism & National Socialism (Nazism). May we never forget the countless atrocities committed by these socialist ideologies, and may we honour those who fought to liberate Europe. Canada must always stand against socialism for freedom and democracy.”
OTTAWA — Canadians are split over the federal government’s plan to take in 5,000 Gazan refugees and doubtful that the newcomers are being thoroughly screened by government officials, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
Forty-two per cent of Canadians support the government’s decision to raise the cap on refugee admissions in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while 44 per cent oppose the action. Sixteen per cent say they don’t know enough about the policy to support or oppose it.
It was a bit of bad luck for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, having to hold their annual cabinet retreat on the heels of the wildly successful Democratic convention in the U.S.
The comparisons and the questions were going to be inevitable — why can’t the Trudeau Liberals do that kind of progressive political revival here in Canada?
As minister after minister explained, no one is talking about showing Trudeau the exit door, as the Democrats did with Joe Biden.
OTTAWA — A new poll shows the NDP sliding dramatically over the summer, while the Conservatives continue to hold onto their significant lead.
The Postmedia-Leger poll, found support for the New Democrats dropped five percentage points to 15 per cent in just over a month. The Conservatives enjoy 43 per cent support nationally, a full 18 percentage points ahead of the federal Liberals, who are at 25 per cent.
The chair of Canada Post’s board says the organization’s financial situation is unsustainable.
“The board and senior management recognize that Canada Post is at a critical juncture,” said André Hudon at its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
“Significant change is urgently needed to preserve Canada Post’s delivery network, which is vital because it’s the only delivery network built to serve all Canadians.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter to his NDP counterpart asking Jagmeet Singh to pull his party’s support for the Liberal government so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.
“Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition. No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” Poilievre wrote in his letter.
“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as “Sell-Out Singh,'” Poilievre said.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc defended Canada’s national security system after it was revealed an alleged ISIS terrorist was granted Canadian citizenship just before being arrested for plotting a terror attack in the Greater Toronto Area.
The suspect, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, was initially allowed into Canada on a visitor visa in 2018 and subsequently gained refugee status, permanent residency, and finally citizenship.
A newly disclosed memo from then-RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says current and former Mounties were among supporters of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The document, dated April 26, 2022 and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, said Lucki tried to find Convoy sympathizers within the force.
