CBC is telling Canadians to joyfully celebrate Canada Day 2024
This stands in stark contrast to how they were telling Canadians to celebrate — or rather, how not to celebrate — Canada Day 2021. Canadians were told in 2021 that they must be ashamed of their past, and our “dark history” as evidenced by the “remains” of 215 children who had been “discovered” at Kamloops.
Hundreds rallied in northwest Winnipeg to call on the federal and provincial governments to allow more international workers to remain in Manitoba.
Protesters gathered at the city’s Adsum Park in The Maples on Sunday afternoon to demand that more people get their expiring work permits extended, among other things.
The federal government announced late last year it would stop offering an 18-month extension to post-graduate work permits, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students can’t find jobs? Gee how did that happen?
Especially difficult summer ahead for young people looking for jobs, economist says
Isabelle Burzese started looking for a summer job in February. Now, after finishing her first year of studies at Concordia University in Montreal, she’s back home with her family and she’s still looking. With expenses piling up, her search is becoming more and more urgent.
“I’m not looking to get a job for spending money or money to have fun, even though I would love to,” the 18-year-old from Toronto says. “It’s really for tuition and rent and groceries and things like that for next year.”
Do not believe a word that the business community or the government says about the need for mass immigration to offset labour shortages. They are evil liars.
Canadian international student goes to Tim Hortons job fair
finds 100 other international students there pic.twitter.com/JK50WqqrzJ
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 24, 2024
Trudeau says he is ‘committed’ to staying as PM after byelection loss
Justin Trudeau says Monday he is “committed” to staying on as prime minister after the Liberals’ shocking Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection loss exactly one week ago.
“There’s always going to be lots of reflection after a tough loss, but there’s also so much to do,” Trudeau told CBC’s Heather Hiscox, answering questions about his future for the first time since the upset.
Before last week’s vote, a Conservative candidate hadn’t been competitive in the federal riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s since the 1980s. The party hadn’t won a seat in urban Toronto since the 2011 federal election.
He knows he's toast. Have you ever seen him avoid looking into the camera so much while babbling? pic.twitter.com/RAuPNvUo1w
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 1, 2024
The federal government’s refusal to allow prisoners to use the internet effectively blocks access to post-secondary education behind bars, a new lawsuit alleges.
Noting how colleges and universities that once offered paper correspondence programs have shifted almost entirely online, the lawsuit by the John Howard Society and a prisoner serving a life sentence argues that the Correctional Service of Canada’s internet ban — and “woefully inadequate” access to computers in general — infringes prisoners’ “fundamental right to freedom of expression,” which includes the right to receive information.
I guess porn is considered “education” by some.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office declined to comment Sunday on a letter signed by several MPs calling for an immediate in-person national caucus meeting to discuss the party’s surprising by-election loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s.
A small group of MPs sent the letter to Liberal caucus chair Brenda Shanahan on Friday requesting the immediate meeting to discuss what they call the “extremely concerning” by-election results.
HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE!
Enjoy the lovely weather and your loved ones.
Me an Xavier are eyeing a can of tuna to celebrate lunch. He’s very impatient.
He has made a bed out of this scratching post thingamabob while he awaits a tuna sandwich. Well my tuna sandwich.
There is much that is good in our nation but we must rid ourselves of you know who.
Thank you all!
Newfoundland’s Unknown Soldier has been entombed at the National War Memorial following a solemn ceremony decades in the making in downtown St. John’s.
The Unknown Soldier arrived at the stage in front of the National War Memorial and, accompanied by the sound of bagpipes, pallbearers took the casket from the hearse and made their way up the steps of the memorial.
“No one can have greater love than to lay down their life for their country. We gather today to bear witness to the end of a pilgrimage which has brought the earthly remains of this Newfoundlander and Labradorian from Europe to this, his final resting place, at this National War Memorial,” said Canadian Armed Forces chaplain Lt.-Col. Shawn Samson.
The Unknown Soldier is lowered into his final resting place pic.twitter.com/xZ2H1FO3cx
— VOCM News (@VOCMNEWS) July 1, 2024
Years ago, at a Canada Day celebration on Parliament Hill, one of the marquee moments was reserved for the unveiling of a new stamp.
As the crowd cheered for the giant postage stamp being displayed on centre stage, a reporter colleague turned to me and said: “Is this not the perfect Canada moment — cheering for a stamp?”
Times change. Today we’d cheer stamping on Trudeau.
A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society.
Only 10 per cent of transactions in Canada today are done using cash, according to Carlos Castiblanco, an economist with the group Option Consommateurs.
“There is a need to protect cash right now before more merchants start refusing [it],” Castiblanco recently told CBC Radio’s Ontario Today.
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests Canadians’ sense of national pride is lower than it was a few years ago.
Polling firm Leger asked 1,600 people how they’re feeling about being Canadian ahead of Canada Day.
The results suggest the vast majority of respondents — 76 per cent — would call themselves proud Canadians.
But 45 per cent of survey participants said they were feeling less proud than they did five years ago.
Appointments of judges, arbitrators and, for today’s purpose, human rights commissioners, have real-life consequences. After all, the people who decide things matter.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) already had considerable power before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new Online Harms Act, amending the Canadian Human Rights Act, made it the arbiter of complaints about online hate speech. Of course, what constitutes “hate speech” remains open for debate.
For more than a century, Canada and the United States have been justifiably proud of sharing the “world’s longest undefended border,” nearly 9,000 kilometres from ocean to ocean maintained largely by the deep trust between the two countries. The white marble Peace Arch, erected in 1921 astride the boundary line between B.C. and Washington State, has been an international symbol of that co-operation and trust.
Until last month.
Two women were verbally assaulted with sexually degrading comments and homophobic slurs because they are gay and physically attacked by a group of middle eastern cowardly scum.
MSM is silent, Justin Trudeau is silent, politicians are silent, even all these Pride orgs are silent.… pic.twitter.com/3SMxJqyXxe
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) June 30, 2024
Canada is experiencing a crisis of unaffordable housing. One recent survey concluded that housing in Greater Vancouver was “impossibly unaffordable.” Another survey found that only 23% of British Columbian renters pay less than 30% of their income on rent, almost half spend 31%-49%, and 25% spend more than half of their income on rent.
That raises the question of what is affordable housing.
