CALGARY— Newly-elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was offered advice last week by one of his predecessors, Tony Blair, who noted the difference between being the Great Persuader and the Great Chief Executive.
In a column in the London Sunday Times , Blair said the former is about speeches, slogans and the performative arts of a campaign, while the latter is all about policy and delivery. “Guess which is harder?” he asked rhetorically.
Canadians are losing their trust in the media. According to a report from the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, overall trust in the media among the Canadian population has fallen from 55 percent in 2016 to 40 percent in 2023. Among English-speaking Canadians, trust in the news is even lower with just 37 percent saying they trust the media in 2023.
…On Monday, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said in widely reported remarks that it is “shameful” Canada still hasn’t hit the two-per-cent target.
He accused Canada of “riding America’s coattails” — an echo of criticism by former president Donald Trump, whose tenure in the White House was coloured by his declarations that America’s allies were free-riding under the U.S. security umbrella.
The Quebec RCMP is actively investigating allegations of criminal activity related to foreign interference by the China Communist Party (CCP).
Authorities on Tuesday launched a public “awareness campaign” and are “seeking public assistance in connection with Chinese foreign interference in Quebec.”
The Trudeau compromised RCMP is investigating Trudeau’s boss XI in Quebec. Sure that really inspires confidence.
A growing number of Canadians are struggling financially, with nearly half stressed by housing costs and other living expenses, according to a recent survey.
One-in-three Canadians (32 percent) now fall into the “struggling” category, up from one-quarter two years ago, said the Angus Reid Institute (ARI) in its July 9 report. In addition, the number of Canadians in the “comfortable” category has decreased to 23 percent, down from 29 percent in 2022.
As Chinese companies test their autonomous vehicles on American roads, concerns are growing about the vast amounts of data these “rolling surveillance devices” are collecting and the potential national security implications.
h/t XC
Canada is a cheapskate. We’re that friend who always “forgets” their wallet when they join you for dinner, who never splits the bill evenly because they “only had an appetizer,” who never treats their pals to a round but always drinks when someone else buys. Most us have had friends like this, and after a while, you stop inviting them out, leaving them to stare at the walls of their studio apartments alone.
TORONTO – A new survey says Canadians are feeling less optimistic about their finances, with respondents worried about inflation, income levels and a potential recession at the midpoint of the year.
TransUnion’s Canada consumer pulse study for the second quarter of 2024 found 57 per cent of Canadian households said their incomes are not keeping up with the current inflation rate, while 38 per cent expect payments for bills and loans to increase over the next three months.
The Privy Council Office (PCO) says it did not search the aliases Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, used to make controversial social media posts.
A spokesperson for the PCO said in a statement to CBC News on Monday that “an administrative oversight resulted in the aliases not being searched by PCO.”
In June, Dattani was named the CHRC’s chief commissioner, making him the first Muslim or racialized person to head the organization.
Entirely possible they didn’t search because that would have been “racist”.
The city is gripped in an opioid crisis worse than America’s. Locals say overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe
“Hailey, are you okay? You have to communicate with me,” says Larry.
“Yes, I feel fine,” she replies.
“Okay, hold still.”
Eyes wide and hands trembling, Larry, 32, flicks the syringe’s needle before crouching over his friend and injecting a mixture of fentanyl and benzodiazepines into a prominent vein in her neck.
Car theft and drugs just two of the categories putting Canada on the world stage.
Logan LaFarniere woke up one October morning in 2022 to an empty driveway.
His brand new Ram Rebel truck, which he’d bought a year and a half ago, was missing. His security camera captured two hooded men breaking into the pickup in the dead of night outside of his Milton, Ontario home, and driving it away with ease.
A few months later, that very same truck appeared on a website of vehicles for sale in Ghana, an ocean and some 8,500km away.
A large majority of Canadians have been exposed to Russian false narratives about the war in Ukraine — and people who support the Conservative Party are more susceptible to believing Kremlin disinformation, according to a new report.
A survey from DisinfoWatch, part of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute think tank, found that 71 per cent of Canadians polled have heard at least one Russian false narrative and that a substantial portion “believe them to be true or are unsure of their falsehood.”
h/t Mauser
Housing Minister Sean Fraser in his housing design plans has done away with detached single family homes and determined Canadians will live in townhouses and walk-up apartments.
The department has released its Housing Design Catalogue for builders and designers, per Blacklock’s Reporter. No designs for detached single family homes are welcome.
There is an almost constant debate in many Western countries about term limits for elected politicians. In general, these discussions are more frequent in non-parliamentary countries, where the executive does not sit in the legislature and many legislative districts tend to retain the same representative, or at least the same party, for many elections.
In the parliamentary system, the government almost automatically changes when the composition of parliament changes, and the phenomenon of a long and unbroken incumbency of the head of the government is comparatively rare. If Justin Trudeau leads the Liberal Party in the next election next year, he will be seeking to become the first Canadian federal politician to win four consecutive elections since Wilfrid Laurier succeeded in doing that in 1908.
The daughter of acclaimed Canadian author Alice Munro, who died in May, has written about the sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her stepfather and the pain it caused when her mother remained with him.
Andrea Robin Skinner, Ms. Munro’s daughter, wrote in the Toronto Star on Sunday that in the summer of 1976, when she was nine years old, her stepfather Gerald Fremlin “climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me.”
Read the Star piece, it’s a good thing Alice doesn’t live here anymore.
