Last May, it was looking likely that Donald Trump was poised to win the presidential election this fall. After June’s debate exposed President Joe Biden as a dotard with advanced cognitive decline, Trump’s electoral victory was all but assured. With the failed assassination attempt on Trump last weekend, Trump’s victory is now virtually inevitable assuming some lunatic doesn’t manage to kill him before this fall.
The toxic effects of the Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel have spilled over into Canada in the form of a sharp intensification of antisemitic incidents.
As Deborah Lyons, Canada’s former ambassador to Israel and now its special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, said recently, “It’s clear from the data we’re seeing, particularly coming from police units across Canada, that there’s a huge increase in antisemitism in terms of hate crimes happening. I would say the level of antisemitism now in Canada is at an all-time high. It’s unprecedented.”
Maybe we shouldn’t have imported an Islamist 5th Column after all!
Maybe we shouldn’t have allowed our universities to become racist Marxist shitholes!
Maybe we shouldn’t have declared open season on White People under the guise of DEI and CRT!
Perrin Beatty was Canada’s defence minister at a key moment, and later served briefly as foreign minister. He understands better than most what Canada’s lack of military readiness means, and says politicians of all stripes should shake any comfortable assumptions about the world.
“We’re living at the most dangerous time in the world, in my lifetime,” says Beatty, who notes Canadians don’t live in a “fire-proof house.”
All those 3rd Worlders our elites let in?
Ready made 5th columnists at worst or having no loyalty other than to their “home country” will be completely unwilling to defend Canada for any reason.
China and India have been accused of exploiting the opaque nomination contests of Canadian political parties to meddle in elections.
It is the “Wild West” of Canada’s political system, a “critical gap” in its democracy. But Canadian political leaders — and some foreign nations — are big fans.
Canadian elections have long rested on what many experts say is an undemocratic foundation: opaque nomination races in which political parties select their candidates for general contests in a process mystifying to most Canadians.
Party bosses enjoy an unshakable grip. Money flows, often unaccounted for. Rules tend to be lax, with no impartial judge in sight.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies could be thrown into chaos if former president Donald Trump wins the U.S. election on Nov. 5 and makes good on two things he promised in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.
h/t DS
Long seen as punching below its weight, Canada, the world’s second-largest country by area and one of its seven wealthiest economies, said it would meet its NATO pledge to significantly bolster its military spending by 2032.
But everything about the commitment, which NATO is pushing all alliance members to make, is fraught.
Some have criticized the timeline as too protracted, though it is actually compressed if seen through the lens of the slow pace of global military hardware production.
On the day of the invasion, Hassan Husseini reacted to a social media post by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) that denounced Canadians celebrating the atrocities by responding: “It is called liberation of stolen land, stupid!!!”
OTTAWA — Elections Canada is suggesting possible changes to protect the political nomination process from foreign meddling, including barring non-citizens from helping choose candidates, requiring parties to publish contest rules and explicitly outlawing practices such as voting more than once.
The federal elections agency outlines the proposed moves in a discussion guide intended to help chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault draft final recommendations to be submitted later this year to a commission of inquiry on foreign interference.
Chinese international students passing on Canada: ‘Monotonous’ and unaffordable
When 19-year-old Ricky Liu was applying for universities in the fall of 2022, one thing occupied his mind: how to score a seat at a top-ranked institution. Both Chinese and Western universities courted Liu, a dual citizen of mainland China and Hong Kong: he was fluent in multiple languages, scored high grades in STEM and humanities courses, and showed leadership through his extracurricular activities in sports and music.
J.D. Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was as comforting and familiar as chicken soup for many Canadians.
Donald Trump’s new running mate touched on many of the same notes that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting: championing the working class, domestic production and legal immigration; maligning elites, wasteful spending, unaffordable housing and unfair Chinese trading practices.
If Canada was a deserving ally under the Liberals why did Trudeau send Joly to kiss China’s ass?
It wasn’t how the emergency doctors ranked each statement — from “never” to “every day” — in the burnout inventory that alarmed Dr. Kerstin de Wit and her research team.
It was the doctors’ responses, in a final, optional, open-ended question: “Is there anything you would like to tell us about your experiences?”
“This is awful. Worst in 20 years. With no light; just darkness,” one remarked.
The evidentiary portion of Calgary terrorism suspect Jamal Borhot’s lengthy trial concluded Thursday without the accused testifying in the case.
But defence lawyer Pawel Milczarek said he didn’t put his client on the witness stand because of the vagueness of the Crown’s case against him.
“Every time the defence has asked for the Crown to formally outline its position about what it is alleging Mr. Borhot did or what activity of Islamic State he allegedly enhanced over this period of 11 months, they have refused,” Milczarek said outside court, reading from a prepared statement.
New rules could increase competition, but might not lower prices
Canada’s grocery code of conduct cleared a major hurdle this week with news that all major grocery retailers will sign on.
The code has been years in the making, coming after a period of tense relations between retailers and suppliers.
A major point of contention has been fees that retailers have charged to keep suppliers’ products in stock and to promote them.
They used to be called “Listing fees” for instance a cookie maker would pay to have its products featured at eye level within easy reach on store shelves relegating the competition to less desirable spots below or high up.
Competition we were told in school would lead to innovation and lower prices.
But in Canada’s Potemkin economy the consumer always pays more for less.
I have a Farmboy literally 5oo yards from my place. It should be renamed Gouger Mart.
I use it for basics when it makes sense but repeatedly have had to have my bill corrected to include unapplied but advertised discounts.
That’s a merchandising disconnect likely due to the foreign student labour they employ.
It’s embarrassing to hold up a line and bring it to their attention but typically the dollar amount is greater than 5 bucks and I see no reason to make Sobey’s richer.
I will say they do fix it promptly when it’s brought to their attention and often offer a further discount.
The most striking thing about walking the floor of the Republican National Convention (RNC) is seeing just how much this is Donald Trump’s party.
You can read about how that’s the case, you can listen to pundits say it — but to see it up close is something different. There is no ideology the 56,000 people here subscribe to, they don’t even describe themselves as conservatives.
They are “patriots,” they tell me at length — and they are convinced Donald Trump is the sole politician who is willing to “fight” for them. That’s the exact language they use over and over again when you ask why they’re at the RNC; why they support Trump — he is the guy who will “fight for us,” is what they tell me over and over again.
Our media reserves its adulation for Justin Trudeau because President Trump is icky and his followers are ickier.
Canadian grandparents are being looked upon to help financially support adult children and grandchildren, according to an RBC survey.
The July 17 survey found that 21 percent of those aged 55 and older are supporting at least one adult child who is over 25 years of age. Thirty percent said they have provided money to grandchildren.
