It would be hard to find a civilization anywhere that has delivered more to its inhabitants than the modern West, from freedom of choice to prosperity to security to dazzling cultural opportunities, with Bach, hip-hop, and “Ghost Chickens in the Sky” all just a click away. But also hard to find one less self-assured and resolute mentally, morally, or militarily. What on Earth, or some other locale, has happened to us and what can we do about it?
OTTAWA—Canada’s EV-building strategy will cost Ottawa and provinces about $6 billion more than announced, the federal parliamentary budget watchdog says.
A new report released by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux says a total of $46.1 billion in government spending across the nascent EV supply chain has been announced. But the PBO estimates the total government support for capital and operating expenses to be up to $52.5 billion, which is $6.3 billion or 14 per cent higher than announced.
Families of patients in a Cold War-era mind-control experiment in Montreal are pressing forward after a recent setback in their class-action lawsuit.
Every weekend was an adventure for Julie Tanny when she was a young girl.
Her father, Charles, made sure of it, surprising his three children with trips and visits to the amusement park. His warmth radiated physically, too, when he would rub his children’s ice-cold feet back to life after a skate at their backyard rink in Montreal.
Do you hate the Jews?
I am sure your answer is, “Of course not. I don’t hate people and certainly not based merely on how they were born.”
Great. Here is the follow-up question.
Why is this such a shock to so many?
Food Banks Canada has released a new report that highlights hidden poverty levels and food insecurity.
The report published Tuesday says that millions more Canadians are struggling to make ends meet when it comes to basic household items compared to what the numbers are currently showing.
The data reveals that 25 per cent of Canadians are living at a poverty level living standard, meaning they can’t afford two or more household essentials.
More … New report says 1 in 4 Canadians may be living in poverty
OTTAWA — Canada’s budget watchdog said he is not “muzzled” by the federal government and that prior comments suggesting that was the case were limited to the economic analysis of the carbon tax that his office was forbidden to disclose.
Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux has been in the spotlight once again since he all but admitted that he was under a gag order to not talk about the government’s internal data on the carbon tax. Those numbers were finally publicly released last week.
There is an upcoming town hall in Calgary on June 17, 2024, called “An Injection of Truth,” organized by the constituency association of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard. Premier Danielle Smith has spoken in support of hearing dissenting voices related to the discrimination against the unvaccinated during COVID mandates.
But, recent media reports like that of Global News of May 19, 2023, cite various legal and health professionals who see this town hall as a dangerous platform because there is an alleged consensus on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Manitoba Islamic Association (MIA) said a Winnipeg resident who committed suicide by lighting himself on fire at the Waverley Grand Mosque was influenced to do it by the Israel-Hamas War.
When people die through their own choice, MIA Board members said it is easy for many to attribute causes to mental health.
Trudeau Says Concerns About Collusion Report Relate to Interpretation, Cites Singh and May Disagreement
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government’s concerns with some conclusions of a recent intelligence watchdog report on foreign collusion by parliamentarians are related to interpretation of the information, pointing to differing opinions among other party leaders who have read it in full.
“The government has already highlighted that there are a number of conclusions in the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians [NSICOP] report that we don’t entirely align with,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in a June 16 press conference in Switzerland where he was attending the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.
Gaslighting little twerp.
Trudeau says Canadians should be ‘wary’ of leaders who say foreign interference hasn’t touched their teams
In an apparent jab at NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians should be wary of political leaders who say their parties haven’t been compromised by foreign interference.
Last week — after reading the classified, unredacted version of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report — Singh suggested to reporters that he didn’t have to worry about members of his caucus.
In an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics on Monday, Trudeau questioned that assertion.
The federal and Saskatchewan governments are stepping in to prevent Canadian rare earth metals from falling into the hands of a Chinese buyer after facing backlash from critics who alleged that allowing the transaction to proceed was anathema to Canada’s critical minerals policy.
Australia-based Vital Metals Ltd. in December announced it was selling its stockpile of rare earths that were mined at the Nechalacho Project in the Northwest Territories to China’s Shenghe Resources Holding Co.,Ltd.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says it’s time for her fellow party leaders to sit down for “an adult conversation” about the foreign interference report released earlier this month that’s been dominating debate in Ottawa for the past two weeks.
“I think that conversation has to happen in a secure location where we all have top secret security clearance and can discuss things with each other without a media lens,” she said.
“I think when we do that, we will be able to continue the work that actually puts in place the kinds of protections we need.”
I’m starting to suspect she’s hiding something.
With shots fired at two Canadian Jewish schools in late May, and an anti-Israel tirade waged by a guest speaker reported at a Catholic school, where should Jewish students turn? Where are we safe?
On May 21, students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada.
It is long overdue that blame be placed on our mainstream political parties for their callous import of Islamists. Why were they so cruel to us?
OTTAWA – National Defence Minister Bill Blair’s office says sending a Canadian ship to Cuba, where it docked alongside some of Russia’s fleet, was a “carefully” planned move to increase its presence in the region.
Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement saying the visit to Havana’s port “was carefully and fulsomely planned,” and the minister authorized it on the advice of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command.
Next year, Grade 10 students in British Columbia will be required to learn about the Holocaust as part of their coursework to graduate. It is content the provincial government added to the mandatory curriculum last October, weeks after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel.
But internal communications among members of the BC Teachers’ Federation, as well as screenshots of deleted social-media posts obtained by The Globe and Mail, show deep division about the current conflict in the Middle East, with some Jewish teachers deeply offended by the actions of other teachers belonging to a social-justice group.
You knew that was coming.
‘People are voting based on their social identity. It’s become them versus us,’ says Greg Lyle, a pollster and former Conservative party activist in the 1990s.
The quickest way to get a start in politics in Canada is to appeal to members of an affiliated ethnic or religious group to take over a nomination battle or leadership convention, specialists say.
It’s not a new political strategy, but more and more it’s becoming the technique for scrambling to the top in Canadian politics.
