The last time Canada published a national security strategy, Facebook had just launched and TV sitcom “Friends” was airing its final episode.
The year was 2004 and Paul Martin was prime minister. The world had been shaken a few years earlier by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and authorities were taking stock of the SARS outbreak.
The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party has opened up a bigger lead among voters on the question of who would be the best economic manager, underscoring the political challenges faced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
About 30 per cent of respondents in a recent Nanos Research Group survey for Bloomberg say they trust Pierre Poilievre the most among national party leaders to support economic growth. That’s a gap of more than 10 points over Trudeau, who’s the first choice of just 19 per cent.
For Americans, the good news from the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. is that President Joe Biden managed to read a stirring speech from a teleprompter without too much stammering or gargling noises. While the threat of Donald Trump’s return to the White House looms darkly over the 75-year-old transatlantic alliance — Trump isn’t NATO’s biggest fan — for the moment, at least, the United States is NATO’s bedrock power. That’s all to the good.
A total of 54% of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes to reduce the deficit, according to a poll conducted by Leger on behalf of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano said the poll results are clear that the majority of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes.
IGNACE, ONTARIO — A northwestern Ontario town has formally decided it is willing to become the site of a deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization plans to select a site this year where millions of bundles of used nuclear fuel will be placed in a network of underground rooms connected by cavernous tunnels.
The lack of business investment in information technologies and research and development, compared to the U.S., is lowering the productivity of Canadian workers and suppressing our standard of living, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“The underinvestment in key technologies is showing up in Canada’s productivity numbers which are essential for improved living standards,” Steven Globerman writes in a report by the fiscally conservative think tank, titled “Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades.”
Why invest in productivity enhancing technologies when the government allows its corporate cronies to import cheap foreign labour by the shitload?
Hell Trudeau will even silence critics of the wage depressing mass immigration scam by smearing them as racist on behalf of our Captains of Industry!
On her fridge door, along with numerous family pictures, Danielle Brandt has a handwritten quote by Dr. John Trainer: “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
A proud Calgary mother of three boys (Aiden, 10, Theodore, 4, and Silas, 2), Mrs. Brandt is a homemaker. Her husband, Adam Brandt, is the breadwinner. At the core of their parenting philosophy is the belief that strong families make strong societies, Mrs. Brandt says.
I bet Trudeau denounces her as a racist.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged another $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine in a one-on-one conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C.
The funding announcement Wednesday comes amidst pressure from American politicians who are publicly critical of Canada for falling short of its defence spending commitments.
The way Trudeau looks at Zelensky is sick. Just beaming at him like he’s in love. @fancypants_s https://t.co/adlxg9Bt03
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 11, 2024
H/T Patti Jo
OTTAWA – A group of agencies that certify Kosher meat are in court today to ask for an injunction against Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidelines for the ritual slaughter of animals.
Kosher meat calls for animals to be slaughtered without first being stunned.
While the Kosher method of slaughtering animal for meat is allowed in Canada, the food inspection agency posted guidelines in 2021 outlining how abattoirs must determine if an animal is unconscious and can no longer feel pain.
I can’t see a ban on Kosher slaughter as imminent given no politician will call for the end of halal slaughter.
Canadian men are increasingly less likely than women to support left-of-centre parties like the Liberal/NDP partnership in Ottawa and the New Democrats in Alberta.
We’re unlikely to agree on the exact reasons for this trend, but I’ll suggest we can agree it’s happening. The Trudeau/Singh movement in Ottawa has lost support of both men and women, but men in particular have turned against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the fall of 2018.
Whether it’s hiring an antisemite to design anti-racism training or feting a former Nazi in the House, this government seems unable to perform a simple Google search
It’s not an accident. It may in fact be deliberate and they just hope no one catches them.
No Islamist should ever be appointed to serve in a sensitive position.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says it’s “obvious” Justin Trudeau should “pass the torch,” and if she were in the Liberal party she’d be pulling him aside saying, “prime minister, with all due respect, don’t you think it’s time?”
Following a press conference Tuesday, where May’s unofficial co-leader, Jonathan Pedneault, resigned, the long-time head of the Green Party was confronted by questions about her own leadership. But she dismissed a complaint she isn’t making room for the next generation of Green leadership. She suggests she’ll pick her heir, and will guide the party into the next campaign — her fifth in 15 years.
An “angry, cranky” Green MP @ElizabethMay vows to lead @CanadianGreens in another election to show voters how they “f—ked this planet.”https://t.co/7RMOY0FDXy #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/rjXWbhLCOw
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) July 10, 2024
The University of Toronto quietly granted amnesty to the pro-Palestinian protesters who set up camp for over two months on campus in exchange for a peaceful end to the occupation, the Star has learned.
A two-page agreement, signed by Sandy Welsh, vice-provost of students, and Kelly Hannah-Moffat, vice-president of people strategy, equity and culture, as well as four representatives of the protesters, promises that no one will face legal or academic sanctions for the protest. The agreement is dated 2:30 p.m. on July 3, hours before the court-imposed deadline to evacuate the camp.
A new report says the average asking rent for a home in Canada reached $2,185 in June, up seven percent compared with a year ago despite representing the slowest annual rate of growth in 13 months.
The report by Urbanation and Rentals.ca, which analyzes monthly listings from the latter’s network, says average asking rents decreased 0.8 percent from May—the largest month-over-month decline since early 2021 and atypical compared with usual monthly increases this time of year.
An Israeli defence contractor is taking the Canadian government to court after the company says it was taken out of the running for a multimillion-dollar military equipment contract without explanation.
Elbit Security Systems Ltd. says in an application filed in Federal Court last month that Public Services and Procurement Canada has refused to explain its “purported disqualification” from a contract for hand-held laser rangefinders for the Canadian Armed Forces.
