OTTAWA – The Opposition Conservatives are vowing a future Pierre Poilievre-led government would remove the man the Liberals just appointed to lead the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Birju Dattani is to take over as the chief commissioner next month for a five-year term but Melissa Lantsman, one the party’s deputy leaders, says in a statement that Conservatives would rescind that appointment.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Israel’s president to avoid accelerating the conflict with Lebanese Hezbollah, citing concern for civilians already at risk from the Islamist terrorist group’s rockets.
In a July 4 call with President of Israel Isaac Herzog, Mr. Trudeau “voiced Canada’s concerns over further escalation along Israel’s northern border, which Hezbollah continues to bombard with rockets,” according to a readout provided by his office.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to do two terrible things in one fell swoop: Raise costs for Canadians at a time they can least afford it and risk a trade war with the United States.
The Trudeau government pushed its new Digital Services Tax (DST) through Parliament before quitting for the summer.
Tracy Polewczuk has spina bifida, a birth defect that can cause weak bones. Two years ago, she was in an accident and broke her leg. The injury never properly healed.
She says she lives in constant pain and relies on daily home care visits from the Pointe-Claire CLSC, but recently, she says the care has been getting worse.
“They don’t bother asking like they know your name, but they don’t address you. It’s just so impersonal, and they don’t care,” Polewczuk said in a recent interview. “You get up when they tell you to. You go to bed when they tell you. You do what they tell you to. That’s it. You have zero control over your life.”
Still reeling from the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election disaster, Justin Trudeau was asked why he should not take this as his cue to step down. Voters had been unwilling to let any of his recent predecessors stay on past nine or 10 years. Why did he think he was any different?
In answer he referred, not to the by-election result, or his party’s low standing in the polls, or his own unpopularity, but rather to “a challenge faced by democracies all around the world right now.” He cited the elections in France and the United States. In “any democracy around the world,” he said, “we are seeing increasing challenges to people’s well-beings, greater anxieties, an erosion of democratic principles and rights.”
Our friend Barry Bussey absolutely nails it…
Like so many other Members of Parliament – Marc Garneau lacked the integrity and courage to stand up to wrongdoing during his tenure.
Garneau's party loyalties overrode his duty to Canadians – so like a coward he waited until his… https://t.co/46qYCRZ4PB
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) July 5, 2024
The federal government now says Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, did disclose the alias he used to make controversial social media posts — after it initially claimed that information was never shared before he was hired.
Justice Minister Arif Virani’s spokesperson confirms that Dattani did pass on the alias to “public servants as part of the security assessment of Mr. Dattani.” The minister’s press secretary, Chantalle Aubertin, added that the name was not provided to Virani’s office.
Gee, he’s almost over qualified.
We are a 3rd world shithole.
OTTAWA—The Conservative party massively outspent the Liberal party on advertising in 2023, raising questions about how the embattled Trudeau Liberals have responded as they slide in the polls and whether the party should shift its strategy in the aftermath of a shocking Toronto byelection loss last week.
Newly released financial statements show the Conservative Party spent $8.5 million to get its message out last year — more than 20 times as much as the governing Liberals, who spent just over $380,000 on advertising.
They treat government as a giant propaganda apparatus.
“What stands between us and mayhem is 4,600 gov’t spokespeople who want to – quote – ‘correct facts’…
They don’t even find this ridiculous or creepy.”PODCAST: Report @TBS_Canada says communications staff are defenders of “the heart of our democracy.”https://t.co/z58dtDxywX pic.twitter.com/W5NoabLbek
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) July 4, 2024
Anna Smith would like to start a family.
But she would also like more space for a baby, as the 27-year-old and her partner currently live in a 500-square-foot apartment in Toronto’s east end for $1,550 per month. Like many Canadians in their 20s and 30s, she says she’s realizing she can’t have both.
So Smith, a University of Toronto graduate student, has been delaying having children for two years now, a decision she calls “just heartbreaking.”
Trudeau found a way to kill babies without conceiving!
The Ontario government is throwing the beleaguered journalism industry a financial lifeline.
In memos to government agencies, boards and commissions including the LCBO and Metrolinx, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has mandated that the organizations must spend at least 25 per cent of their advertising budget with Ontario-based news organizations.
It seems all but certain that the Conservative Party will face a historic wipeout in the coming UK General Election. While we often see comparisons with New Labour’s landslide in 1997, which pushed the Tories out of power for 13 years, there is an even more striking precedent – namely, the fate that befell their Canadian counterparts just over 30 years ago.
On June 20, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees voted 15-7 to add the term “anti-Palestinian racism” to its anti-racism strategy. As a result, a new working group will be established to create a stand-alone strategy to address anti-Palestinian racism and discrimination in schools, and the board will introduce a “professional learning series” on the topic. While on its face this development might seem righteous and well-intentioned, for many in the Jewish community, highlighting anti-Palestinian racism raises red flags. In light of these dynamics and the potential risks, we need to start having more challenging conversations about anti-Palestinian racism, even if those conversations are uncomfortable.
Canadian employers are reportedly hesitant to hire outspoken Muslim advocates for “Palestinian human rights,” according to a recent report to Parliament by Amira Elghawaby, the cabinet’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia.
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is denouncing posters erected in Montreal that show the flag of Nazi Germany and equate Zionism to terrorism.
The posters also target Housefather directly, describing him as a neo-Nazi and calling for him to “get out of Canada.”
Housefather denounced the posters on social media Tuesday evening. In an interview Wednesday, he described them as “plain antisemitism.”
Housefather’s party has actively courted the Islamist antisemites and their useful idiots.
All our mainstream parties are guilty of coddling them.
Anyone in any party who thought importing Islamists was good for Canada should be Jailed.
It’s like asking the Waffen SS to settle here in WW II.
Before I answer the question, “Should Conservative supporters be hoping for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation?” I have a question for federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
