OTTAWA – Canada’s economy shed a net 2,800 jobs in July, as gains in full-time work were offset by part-time job losses, while the unemployment rate remained at a 30-month high of 6.4 per cent, data showed on Friday.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a net gain of 22,500 jobs and the unemployment rate to rise to 6.5 per cent from 6.4 per cent in June. An increase in the unemployment rate was expected due to rapid population growth which the labor market was not able to absorb.
As far as breaches of the peace go, Dominic Cardy’s effort last week looked pretty tame. The former New Brunswick cabinet minister and current independent MLA was in Toronto with his wife when he noticed the ruckus from hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters thronging the city’s Yonge and Dundas intersection.
Mr. Cardy said in an interview that he then decided to exercise his own right to free expression by launching a one-man counterprotest, striding into the crowd and shouting “Free Palestine, from Hamas.”
And for that, he was arrested for breach of the peace by police, handcuffed, jailed for two hours and then released.
Toronto police arresting politician Dominic Cardy with force. Dominic Cardy was chanting “Free Gaza From Hamas ” towards the pro Hamas gangs who took over Dundas and Yonge Street yesterday. The pro Hamas gangs had no permit to block the streets and the police turned a blind… pic.twitter.com/VrNQR974xb
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) August 2, 2024
We have an antisemitism Czar. Her name is Deb. Deb is concerned at the silence she is hearing. Over the years I attended many pro-Israel protests and it resulted in myself and allies being labeled Islamophobes and racists by members of the Jewish community and other of our so called leaders in government and the press. Some of those accusers made careers virtue signaling their anti-racism and became proponents of DEI and CRT. The White working class was demonized as innately racist and deserving of humiliating re-education efforts.
This demonization was supported by our elites who used it to silence dissent and steamroll the mass immigration of incompatible cultures as they reworked Canada’s demographic into the malevolent multicultural nightmare we find ourselves facing today.
On Oct 7 our accusers were among those who sent out cries for help. Now Deb wonders where everybody is.
I agree with the excellent points that Kevin Lynch and Ian Thompson make here:
“Being against antisemitism is not good enough for non-jews — we need to speak out loudly and frequently. We need to push back against disinformation and separate the lies from the facts. We need to…— Deborah Lyons (@DeborahLyonsSE) August 7, 2024
Deb needs to watch this.
A non-citizen has been fined for attempting to vote in Canada’s 2021 federal election, after an investigation determined he had made false claims about applying for a special ballot by mail.
Qinan Feng was fined $1,250 for attempting to vote in the 2021 federal election even though he was ineligible to do so. The fine also includes penalties for providing false and misleading information to the RCMP, Elections Canada, and other officials about what happened, according to a notice of violation issued by the Commissioner of Canada Elections on Aug. 7.
Residents of six mobile-home parks on P.E.I. are worried about how a large buyout of properties across the country will impact them — and a U.S. watchdog group says the change in ownership could mean higher fees.
Last month, the Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust — or CAPREIT — announced it was selling the six parks on the Island as part of a $740 million deal with TPG Real Estate, a private-equity company based in the U.S.
The sale involves 12,138 residential lots for manufactured mini-homes or mobile homes spread across 75 sites throughout Canada.
This is the world we live in, corporations profiting from the housing shortage caused by Trudeau’s mass immigration scam.
What will become of the Trailer Park boys?
Canada’s economy has been outperformed by many of its peer countries before the COVID-19 crash of 2020, due to lags in key sectors such as business investment, says a public policy think tank.
The Fraser Institute released a new study on Aug. 7 which compares Canada to other developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
“It may be tempting for policymakers to blame Canada’s poor economic performance on the COVID pandemic and all the disruptions it caused, but the truth is Canada has been underperforming its international peers in important ways for many years,” said in a statement Jason Clemens, executive vice president of the Fraser Institute.
A former Canadian UN official who currently works as a North Korea expert is being detained in Switzerland over espionage suspicions, according to media reports Thursday.
The reports were part of a joint investigation by German news outlet Der Spiegel, Swiss media outlet Tamedia and NK News, a U.S. news outlet providing analyses on North Korea. CTV News has not independently verified the story.
NK News names him as “Craig” that’s it.
North Korea expert, missing for months, detained in Switzerland for espionage
Friends grew concerned when Craig suddenly stopped responding to messages earlier this year. The North Korea expert and former U.N. official regularly traveled to China for his work as an environmental consultant, and some feared Beijing had detained him. Others suspected a health scare. His wife only told friends and family that he was OK but couldn’t be contacted.
Now it turns out that Craig, whom friends described as a kind and funny person with a deep interest in improving the lives of North Koreans, was in a Swiss prison the whole time.
Trudeau’s plan to reduce temporary immigration risks economic harm: business groups
Canada’s independent business advocate says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to reduce temporary immigration risks dire economic consequences, underscoring the pressures the government is facing as it tries to slow population growth.
Don’t know what they’re on about. Trudeau will do squat.
They were supposed to decrease the intake of phony foreign students yet somehow we’re on track to exceed 2023’s numbers.
I hope Poilievre is listening. Corporate carpetbaggers should not be in charge of immigration policy.
Taxpayers know we’re paying for too many paper pushers in the federal government.
A Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows a plurality of Canadians want to shrink Ottawa’s bureaucracy.
The poll shows 47% of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal bureaucrats. Less than three-in-10 Canadians want to maintain the current number of federal employees.
OTTAWA – After an independent review, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced Wednesday that Birju Dattani has agreed not to begin his appointment as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Thursday as planned.
Virani launched the investigation after Canadian Jewish organizations raised concerns about allegations surrounding Dattani’s past activities.
Dattani, the first Muslim and racialized person to be appointed to the role, has previously denied allegations that he made anti-Israel statements, including what Conservatives characterize as a “justification of terrorism.”
Canadian Imam Adnan Abyat: Jihad Is the Pinnacle of Islam; May Allah Curse the Jews – the Same People who Killed the Martyr and Jihadist Leader Haniyeh Tried to Kill the Prophet Muhammad Before #Canada #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/ZSI8JPDaaE
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 8, 2024
Unsealed documents reveal past of Edmonton terror convict
An Edmonton gas station employee convicted in the U.K. of a terrorism offence came to the attention of the RCMP after returning to Canada from Lebanon in 2017, records obtained by Global News reveal.
The unsealed court documents show that Khaled Hussein, sentenced to five years last week for joining extremist group Al-Muhajiroun in 2020, was born in Alberta but spent much of his life in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
At age seven, he moved with his family to Lebanon to learn Arabic and because “things were difficult for Muslims in Edmonton” following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, his mother wrote in a witness statement.
OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says federal departments are reviewing how two men with suspected links to a terrorist group abroad were allowed into Canada.
Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his son, Mostafa Eldidi, 26, were arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont., last week and face nine different terrorism charges, including conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
I bet that’ll be real thorough.
‘What is it about the make-up of our society?’ Deborah Lyons on antisemitism in Canada
Beats me man.
Why is there such a lack of great leadership in the world today? It used to be a cocktail of qualities that include honesty, integrity, passion, resilience, fortitude, self-belief and strong values.
Why do so many leaders do so badly? When compared to the greatest generation, most — if not all — seem like lightweights… Ambitious, self-effacing lightweights.
Justin Trudeau’s political prisoners have officially been exonerated. A jury in Lethbridge, Alberta found the remaining two defendants of the Coutts Four, Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert, not guilty. The men had been charged with conspiracy to murder charges as a result of their participation in the non-violent Truckers Freedom Convoy in February 2022, and they had been held in custody ever since, denied bail in spite of no history of violence or criminal records.
Their 30-month incarceration and subsequent legal victory are not just the tale of authoritarian overreach by the Trudeau administration. They tell the story of the wider political battle between the professional managerial class throughout the West and the working class over whom they rule—and the cost to four working-class men of fighting back.
