… Sikhs are most likely to support opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, at 54% followed by Christians and Hindus at 53% each.
Muslims were least likely, at 15% followed by Jewish people at 42%.
Ironically, the number of Jews and Muslims who would vote Liberal was almost similar, at 33% and 31%, respectively. But Muslims were more than twice as likely of all religious groups to support the NDP, at 41% compared to 20% for Sikhs and Jews.
Muslims and Jews for Junior?
When war erupted in Gaza, some TMU law students signed an incendiary petition criticizing Israel. Then came the backlash – and an existential crisis about their school’s mission
When a new law school in Toronto opened its doors in September, 2020, its brochure promised an unapologetically “progressive” legal education.
Ryerson Law, as it was then called, embraced diversity, equity and inclusion. Technology would be central. The curriculum included professional placements, so students would graduate ready to be working lawyers. At its core, this new school – soon to be renamed the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University – promised to change the status quo.
“We are ready to engage with the most challenging legal issues of our time,” dean Donna Young, the only Black woman leading one of Canada’s 24 law schools, said at the launch ceremony.
A DEI law school is a dubious law school.
Royal Rumble at ridgeway plaza in Mississauga 😳 pic.twitter.com/gGDjBb3LTI
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 16, 2024
Global study ranks two Canadian cities high on list of most expensive places to buy a home
As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.
A study by Demographia, which examines international housing affordability, has deemed Vancouver and Toronto as “impossibly unaffordable.”
David MacDonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says the findings of the study aren’t surprising.
For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight
Dmytro lives a simple life in Winnipeg — baking bread at a supermarket or playing volleyball with fellow Ukrainians.
Dmytro, who is non-binary and uses the pronoun they, says they feel safe in a country that accepts them as they are. But they know it’s different in Ukraine.
“You’re going to be looked upon as a person who is weak, a person who is afraid, the person who is working [for] their enemy,” said Dmytro, a tall, slim 20-something with a mop of brown hair.
Dmytro needs to be put on the next plane to Kyiv.
The average age of a Ukraine soldier is 43.
Ukraine’s young men of fighting age have said nyet to the defense of their homeland but Trudeau continues to dump billions on Zelensky who more and more seems bent on prolonging the war beyond reason.
Much as I wish to continue my support for Ukraine there is a clear need for sober review.
Though to be honest I would not fight with Trudeau as PM.
It is Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who shouts
“Slava Ukraini!”
While at the peace Summit for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/5KIYMVcDfE— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) June 15, 2024
Vote Intention: Conservatives lead by 20 over the Liberals
If an election were held today, 42% of committed voters would vote Conservatives with the Liberals at 22%, the NDP at 19% and the Greens at 5%. The BQ continues to hold 38% in Quebec.
It’s a fascinating political petri dish under the microscope by parties, pollsters and pundits alike.
Candidates and campaign volunteers will tell you what really matters to voters in the Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection is: housing, the high cost of groceries and staples, or how to tackle acts of rising antisemitism in a midtown riding that has the fifth largest Jewish population in the country.
But ask voters on the street, and they’ll tell you what really matters is Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre.
They’re trying to spin that a win for the Libs in next week’s byelection is simultaneously a national endorsement of the worst Prime Minister ever and a repudiation of Poilievre.
But it’s an ultra safe riding in the heart of Canada’s most progressively stupid city.
The only story will be a loss for Junior’s candidate.
The federal government has mandated that all new light-duty vehicles be electric by 2035. Achieving that goal would require vastly more electrical generation capacity and an enormous expansion of charging stations.
A Fraser Institute study published in March found that handling the higher load would require either 13 large new gas plants or the equivalent of 10 new mega-dams the size of B.C.’s $16-billion hydro Site C. Just one problem: almost all viable hydro sites have already been dammed. Plus, it took 10 years to get environmental approval for Site C and another 10 to build it.
In Justin Trudeau’s paranoid Ottawa, insiders say treason allegations are being carelessly tossed around
By Justin Ling Contributor
Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of documents and a plan to defect. When he finally got an audience with the RCMP, he revealed the most extensive espionage and influence campaign Canada had ever seen.
Gouzenko’s defection spurred a series of investigations, a public inquiry, and a media frenzy. Revelations of how Moscow sought to steal secrets and infiltrate Ottawa gripped the nation and woke Ottawa up to new realities of the Cold War.
The gall.
Now that the shouting is over, you have to ask yourself what was the Trudeau government thinking when it decided to attack the credibility of Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux on the economic cost of carbon pricing?
In the early hours of October 7, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) switchboards lit up across America, coordinating a lightning PR response to Hamas’s invasion of Israel.
The group’s “Day of Resistance Toolkit” distributed to its chapters called the slaughter “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.” The toolkit contained information for walkouts on campuses across the U.S. and Canada and templates for a graphic featuring a hang glider, a novel weapon used by Hamas fighters penetrating the Israeli border on the day of the invasion.
Americans should consider their own flawed system before pontificating about Canada’s.
… Canada does indeed have a system of government-run universal healthcare, but it’s not at all what these uninformed American commenters envision. Arguably, two decades ago Canada’s health care system was better than America’s. Back then Canada had better morbidity and mortality statistics, better accessibility, and much cheaper drugs at less overall cost than America. That is why the American Left advocated that that was the system that the United States should adopt.
That was then. That ship sailed long ago.
That’s an interesting breakdown by party from the Angus Reid Poll which found only a 29% favorability rating for Israel.
As the controversy over foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes continues to grip Ottawa, a look back at a similar episode in Canadian history may offer some useful perspective. It has been almost 80 years since cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko left the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a sheaf of secret documents that revealed an extensive Soviet espionage operation in Canada, while also implicating a British scientist and a highly ranked official in the U.S. State Department in spying.
OTTAWA – Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh is not willing to break ranks with the minority Liberal government, even after criticizing the prime minister for failing to protect Canada’s democracy.
Singh says the evidence shows Justin Trudeau is willing to accept some level of foreign interference, which weakens democracy and undermines the confidence of Canadians.
#SelloutSingh says Justin Trudeau is undermining our democracy by not acting on foreign interference — and tonight he will vote confidence eight times in Trudeau’s government.
Stay tuned to watch him vote over and over again to keep the Liberals in power. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/66X8woDZOD
— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) June 13, 2024
