The bread price scandal, which has been unravelling since 2001, continues to leave a sour taste in the mouths of Canadians.
Despite the recent announcement that Loblaw and George Weston Limited will settle a class-action lawsuit by compensating Canadians approximately $500 million, the matter remains unresolved.
Five years after Montreal city hall removed a crucifix, it has reopened an image of a woman with a hijab, prompting criticism from some, and support from others.
Visitors to city call now encounter the message “Bienvenue à L’Hotel de Ville de Montréal“ in an image two metres high. The picture includes a sketch of a young man wearing a hoodie and ballcap, a woman wearing a hijab, and a male senior citizen.
Canadians are watching the U.S. election campaign with more than their usual mix of trepidation and fascination, as it careens from a near-miss assassination attempt on one candidate to an unprecedented step-aside from the other.
Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either ‘”bad news” or “terrible news” for Canada, according to a poll of 1,435 adults conducted by the Angus Reid Institute.
(The online poll was conducted over the four days following the shooting in Butler, Pa., and has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.)
Supreme Court rules Ontario and Ottawa made a ‘mockery’ of First Nations treaty, orders them to negotiate settlement in multibillion-dollar lawsuit
OTTAWA—The governments of Canada and Ontario “dishonourably breached” their promises to the Anishinaabe of the upper Great Lakes by freezing annual treaty payments at $4 a person for 150 years, and it’s up to both parties to come to an agreement on how much is owed, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.
In a landmark ruling, Canada’s highest court slammed the Crown’s approach to the Robinson Treaties, forcing the governments of Canada and Ontario to negotiate an agreement with the beneficiaries of the Robinson-Superior treaty, who are seeking $126 billion in compensation, within six months.
The Canadian Revenue Agency notified the Jewish National Fund Canada that it was revoking the organization’s charitable status because the government body did find its original 1967 main charitable object unacceptable, the JNF said in a statement and newsletter on Thursday.
JNF Canada national president Nathan Disenhouse and CEO Lance Davis announced in a statement dated Wednesday and published Thursday that they had launched a legal challenge against CRA with the Federal Court of Appeal.
h/t DM
Canada is one of the worst performing advanced economies when it comes to GDP growth per person, a new study suggests.
Canada had the third-lowest growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per person from 2014 to 2022, coming 28th out of 30 other countries, according to a report published by the Fraser Institute.
“In terms of GDP per person, a broad measure of living standards, Canada’s performance has weakened substantially in recent years,” Fraser Institute director Alex Whalen said in a July 23 press release.
Canada’s electric vehicle transition is a matter of much debate, but the gears of industry and policy are already in motion to roll the vehicles out en masse.
Even if a new government were to reverse the federal mandate of all zero-emission sales for light-duty vehicles by 2035, many provinces have their own mandates in place.
The scandal surrounding Canada’s Kamloops Indian Residential School (1890-1969, British Columbia) is an ultracautionary tale about the damage inflicted by self-interested politicians and activists, backed by a media that toes the line. The 2021 scandal sprang from the alleged discovery of 215 graves of indigenous children. They were said to have died under suspicious circumstances at the Catholic-run school and then buried in unmarked graves behind the facility. Kamloops was one of the largest schools in the residential system through which indigenous children were culturally deprogrammed and indoctrinated to mold them into “proper” Canadians.
h/t DS
Last month’s British election catalyzed a debate about the advantages and drawbacks of a policy of national service for young people. In particular, the British Conservative Party proposed twelve months of mandatory service for 18-year-old Britons in the military or other public institutions. A previous Hub article in favour of compulsory service provoked a similar debate.
Not sure that providing military training for imported 5th Columnists is such a great idea.
Once upon a time, this country shipped oil, gas, lumber, cars and fish to the world.
That seems to have changed.
Now, the latest commodity we’re exporting seems to be terrorism.
In 1960 Trudeau (a known Marxist sympathizer) was invited by Beijing to undertake a Potemkin Village tour of a China wracked by the worst famine in human history. Trudeau not only wrote an entire book saying it wasn't happening, but said claims to the contrary were racist. https://t.co/V21WFdYTBN pic.twitter.com/lMPM6v5uYP
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) July 24, 2024
h/t Patti Jo and Mauser
Chinese media has reported Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly was severely “reprimanded” during her unannounced three-day visit to China on request of Beijing.
Joly told the Globe and Mail it was she who was “stern” with her Chinese counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and said she “raised very firmly” the matter of Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
Canada’s acceptance of Palestinian refugees from Gaza is setting off alarm bells south of the border.
In a letter Wednesday to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, United States Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern over the program, which he warned could lead to an increased risk of allowing individuals with ties to terror groups easy access to the United States.
h/t DS
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals started the summer recess with their lowest share of committed voters since they were elected in 2015. They trailed the Conservatives in all age groups, with men and women, and in all provinces but Québec. A month later and things remain much the same.
An analyst and an assistant coach with Canada Soccer are being removed from the Canadian Olympic Team and “sent home immediately” from the prelude to this year’s Paris games, according to the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC).
“The COC is in contact with the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and in contact with FIFA. Canada Soccer has been transparent and cooperative throughout the process,” a statement issued Wednesday by the COC reads, adding that further action may be taken as review of the incident continues.
