An anti-incumbency fatigue of the kind exhibited by voters in the British parliamentary election and then in France is unmistakably present in Canada. People are angry and poised for change.
If the byelection results in Toronto-St. Paul’s and a string of pollster predictions are a good guide, a change of guard looks all but certain for Ottawa in October 2025.
Canada has set ambitious post-pandemic tourism targets and has a new strategy to meet them, but experts say geopolitical challenges, cost of travel in the country and climate change will make those goals difficult to achieve.
Canada’s goal is to get back into the top 10 tourist destinations in the world, after falling to 13th in 2021 on the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index. Canada was 11th on the 2024 index, but the federal government has set a goal of seventh by 2030.
When I moved to Canada from Maryland in 2016, I was in desperate need of a job while I pursued my theatre degree at the University of Ottawa. Lucky me: a call centre was steps from campus — in fact, I could see the drab office building from my dorm room window.
On my first day, my trainer told me this particular call centre focused on “market research” — a fancy phrase for surveys. Those initial few weeks on the phone, I called Canadians on behalf of organizations like Statistics Canada, asking how they felt about everything from their garbage collection to their single-use coffee makers. The gig was mind-numbingly boring, a test of my capacity to sit still for eight hours a day.
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The segment I posted yesterday was edited to exclude the reference to the antisemitism of Canada and Europe.
I maintain my belief that the “silence” of previously reliable support noted by the Jewish community stems at least in part from the foolish embrace of racist policies like DEI and CRT by Jewish leadership.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is the first from the Jewish community to speak out about the folly of that choice that I am aware of.
I don’t believe she has a Canadian counterpart but I would love to be introduced to one if such a person exists.
As she notes of America’s leadership I suspect our Swells are wondering why the Trannies and BLM get a spot on the DEI hierarchy of victimhood and they don’t.
It’s a coveted designation as it allows “Open Season On Whitey” without repercussions.
She is not wrong in her assessment of Canada given our streets are daily given over to the Muslim mob and their useful idiots on the left.
How many of you have been labelled “islamophobes” or “racists” or “white supremacists” by the so called “anti-racists”, “Thought leaders” and journalists of the Jewish community and their allies?
Over the years all those types have taken their shots at me for having the audacity to speak out against Islam and mass immigration.
Both defence lawyers in the Coutts border blockade trial said they believe the Crown overcharged their clients and a legal expert agrees with them.
Following the late-night Friday acquittal of her client Chris Carbert, on charges of conspiracy to murder RCMP officers, counsel Katherin Beyak said the jury got it right.
“The jury put in a lot of hard work and came to the right decision on the (conspiracy to commit) murder charge,” said Beyak. “I think it was an overcharge to begin with and I’m glad they came back with the verdict they did.”
The Jasper fires are a disaster: Tens of thousands of acres of woods burned, lives disrupted (although thankfully no lives lost), and buildings destroyed.
But as one seasoned observer was quoted, fires are a necessary part of the ecology. And true enough, within days, new green growth was spotted amongst the ashes.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Ottawa to acknowledge Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the victor of the July 28 presidential election in that country—a stance similar to what the United States has taken.
OTTAWA—Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris.
Two very different presidential hopefuls are clashing in a contest with big stakes.
Any shift in policy from Ottawa’s biggest ally and most important trading partner will impact Canadians — regardless of who wins the race for the White House in November.
But how would the election of either affect Canada?
Canada is now suffering through its worst economy in 40 years. The cause is largely the Trudeau government’s obsession with woke causes and virtue signalling over economic policy and fiscal management.
It’s not all their fault.
For instance, they didn’t start the pandemic. And Canada’s economy wasn’t the only one in the developed world to take a hit during COVID.
You simply cannot believe a word the Trudeau scammers say on any matter.
It is really not that long ago that a certain German Chancellor declared that he wanted to exterminate the Jews.
The threat was not taken seriously. Many thought Adolf Hitler was merely playing to an uneducated, roguish domestic audience. Not only did the Allied powers brush it off, but many Jews did as well, remaining in Germany and western Europe early on, even as their properties were expropriated and they were subjected to increasing indignities.
There is a very real fear and presentiment across the land that the country is disintegrating, Many Canadians now feel, whether implicitly or overtly, that Canada is on the cusp, teetering on the verge of collapse and dissolution. The National Post reports that “A majority of Canadians looking at the country they see around them say everything seems to be broken. Concerned about rising costs, the state of health care, affordable housing, jobs and more, half of us are also angry about the way Canada is being run.” Similarly, an Ipsos poll found that 7 in 10 Canadians agree that “Canada is broken.” As Lee Harding writes in the Western Standard, our rulers “in our own capital city [are] full of self-aggrandizement, handing out contracts to their friends, serving foreign interests, burying us in public debt, and laying heavy taxes on people.” Sounds like it could be the U.S. under Biden and Harris.
h/t Ingenui
The Canadian Medical Association has called for a ban on payments for procedures long covered by public systems and is warning about contracting services out.
With perhaps 6.5 million Canadians finding themselves without a personal doctor and with seemingly endless waiting times becoming almost a norm for some medical procedures, private medicine is increasingly being pitched as a solution for those and other problems in Canada’s public health system.
Personal insolvencies are at a four-year high in Canada as consumers struggle with lingering inflation, high interest rates and debt they can no longer handle.
The Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP) report for the second quarter shows a rise of 12.4 per cent in insolvencies compared to the year prior.
And the numbers for business are even worse with insolvencies spiking 41.4 per cent year-over-year.
A former New Brunswick cabinet minister says he was arrested by Toronto police and accused of disturbing the peace after chanting “Free Palestine – from Hamas” during a pro-Palestine protest.
Dominic Cardy was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2018 and was the province’s minister of education and early childhood development until he resigned in 2022. He currently sits as an Independent.
How to get arrested by police in Toronto.
Block streets. Protest. No permit. Call for genocide of Jews
This is fine. No issue.Yell "Free Gaza from Hamas." Equals forcefully arrest and removal as seem with New Brunswick MLA Dominic Cardy.#cdnpoli
pic.twitter.com/uZhmYzGZ33— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) August 2, 2024
Canada faces a significantly larger issue with shipwrecks and abandoned boats than previously thought, according to the Coast Guard.
Blacklock’s Reporter says cabinet has proposed a special tax on all boats, from cabin cruisers to tugs, to help fund clean-up efforts.
