Canada

Joel Kotkin: Boomers have left the economy in tatters, driving youth to the right

Like counterparts around the world, Canada’s youth are struggling, victims of a weak economy and a rising cost of living crisis. Whereas boomers rode an unprecedented wave of prosperity and higher living standards, younger Canadians, particularly those under 30, are now more pessimistic about the future than older generations.

These realities suggest severe consequences for the rest of us, and for our future. Younger voters were once seen as the driver of a progressive takeover of all institutions. But today younger voters are, if anything, headed in different directions, with some, notably single women, headed to the left while men, in almost all countries, moving decisively to the right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, USA

Is a Canadian a Canadian if he first tortured prisoners for ISIS?

One of the quirky delights of the era of Late Liberalism is watching Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller play the hard-nosed mafia “cleaner” trying to create a semblance of order after a decade of flawed Liberal immigration policy. Miller has now been handed a case of high political temperature with the July arrests of accused father-and-son terrorists from Toronto who were supposedly preparing a murder rampage. The father, who obtained Canadian citizenship sometime after 2015, has been identified as having a documented background as a torturer for ISIS; the son is not a citizen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

‘Disgusted’ immigration minister looking into revoking citizenship of Toronto terror suspect

The federal government is looking at whether the citizenship of a man accused of planning a terror attack in Toronto should be revoked, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday.

“I’m as disgusted as any Canadian. But I have a responsibility to get to the bottom of it and I will,” he said during a morning news conference in Church Point, N.S.

“I’m also going to take the next step, which is to start the preliminary work with the evidence at hand to look at whether the individual in question’s citizenship should be revoked.”

Bullshit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The folly of Liberal immigration policy is now showing up in the job market

In late 2023, Immigration Minister Marc Miller revealed that his department was working on a “broad and comprehensive” plan to “regularize” the status of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who either came to Canada illegally or overstayed their visas.

The planned move to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants, many of whom had been working in Canada for years, drew praise from the New Democratic Party, on whose support the Liberal minority government has relied to stay in power.

Fortunately, Mr. Miller has now put that plan on ice. And none too soon, as the fallout from Ottawa’s short-sighted approach to immigration begins to show up in the labour market, with soaring unemployment among youth and newcomers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

13 pro-Palestinian protesters charged for blocking railway in Vancouver: police

VANCOUVER – Thirteen people have been charged with mischief over accusations they blocked the Vancouver Canadian National Railway line for hours during what police said was an unlawful protest last May.

The Vancouver Police Department says in a news release the BC Prosecution Service approved charges on Monday, following the police investigation into the pro-Palestinian protest on May 31.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

U.S. taking measures to deter benefit shoppers from Canada

U.S. speeding up asylum claim processing along the Canadian border

The U.S. government is moving to speed up asylum claim processing at its northern border in an attempt to deter migrants from illegally crossing over from Canada.

Washington is making two changes that fall under the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which calls for asylum seekers to apply for refugee status in the first of two countries they enter.

First, migrants looking to prove that they’re exempt from the STCA will have to provide their documents to U.S. border officials at the time of their screening. Migrants previously were allowed to postpone screenings to gather necessary documentation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, USA

John Ivison: Can the foundering federal Liberals pull a Kamala out of their hat?

The latest Canadian public opinion poll suggests there has been no impact from the seismic events taking place in U.S. politics and that the excitement generated by Kamala Harris has not rubbed off on voters north of the border.

Rather than any ripple effects reinvigorating Liberal support, the latest Abacus Data poll indicates the Conservatives are consolidating their 20-point lead , with the size of the party’s accessible voter pool increasing and leader Pierre Poilievre’s approval rating hitting new highs. As Abacus’ David Coletto and I discussed in June , 20-point comeback election wins are as rare as world-class Australian break-dancers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ontario’s ‘unofficial estimate’ of homeless population is 234,000: documents

The government of Ontario estimates nearly a quarter of a million people — roughly three of every 200 residents — are homeless, according to information contained in a housing ministry document.

The number is about nine times higher than the auditor general’s most recent estimate, and still likely drastically undercounts the true number of people experiencing homelessness in the province, experts say.

Imagine a quarter of a million people marching on Ottawa with blood in their eyes.

Heaven forbid that is Trudeau’s wretched fate!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, WTF?

A former Progressive Conservative who calls Pierre Poilievre ‘terrifying’ is launching a new Liberal Party squeals Star

A former Progressive Conservative who calls Pierre Poilievre ‘terrifying’ is launching a new political party

OTTAWA — A new political party will appear on the ballot in two upcoming by-elections as the Canadian Future Party seeks to introduce itself officially as a centrist option for voters it argues are growing weary of an increasingly polarized environment.

The party, approved by Elections Canada last month, will field candidates in the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun and Elmwood-Transcona races in September, which are being watched closely for what they might herald for the governing Liberals, Official Opposition Conservatives, and New Democrats.

Dominic Cardy? Never heard of him. So this was just a cheap publicity stunt to get his name in the news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Brampton man wants KFC to reconsider going halal in Ontario, eventually Canada

A Brampton resident has launched a Change.org petition urging KFC to reverse its decision to serve exclusively halal meat eventually in all of Canada.

Roop Sandhu says the policy — which the company announced in a memo to franchisees in May for Ontario (except Thunder Bay and Ottawa) with a plan to roll it out nationwide by year’s end — dismisses the dietary preferences of religious communities which prohibit the consumption of halal meat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada

LILLEY: Terror suspect let into Canada because security not a priority

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants you to know that his government is taking the case of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi very seriously. In case you’ve missed the news, Eldidi is the father part of the father-son duo facing charges after their arrest two weeks ago for what authorities said was a terror plot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The $22 Billion Plan to Turn a Defunct Airport Into a Small City

Canadian developer aims to preserve airport’s features, including hangars and a runway, to draw residents and businesses to the neighborhood

A planned community for about 55,000 residents in Toronto will include the usual playgrounds, bike paths and shops. It will also feature 11 airplane hangars and more than a mile of airport runway.

That is because the 30 billion Canadian dollar, equivalent to about $22 billion, development will be located at the city’s former Downsview Airport.

Airports have been repurposed as communities and parks before, but developers typically raze the original infrastructure and start from scratch. In this case, Northcrest Developments is betting that by preserving the airport’s main features it can enhance the community’s allure.

City subsidized Slum in 5 years time is my bet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada

Federal leaders won’t trust Canadians with the hard truth about defence spending

About $15-billion, a year: that is the amount that the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the federal government would have to invest to reach NATO’s defence spending requirement of 2 per cent of GDP.

It is a big number and a major challenge, one made harder in the context of a large federal budget deficit, an affordability crisis, and demands on Ottawa from premiers, interest groups and other Canadians to spend even larger sums in many other areas – not to mention those who want tax cuts. Compounding the problem is that Ottawa has spent 10 years trying to justify why it has not met this goal, rather than developing and executing a plan to get there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada