You must understand: there is nothing anyone can do.
I know, I know. It is shocking to learn that a number of MPs and senators have been acting, effectively, as agents of a foreign power, selling secrets and influence to countries such as China and India in exchange for money and political favours.
They come from as far afield as Comox, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Guelph, Ont.
Once strangers, these new Canadian Armed Forces recruits are now seldom more than a few metres from one another — eating, sleeping and exercising as a unit — all part of the bonding process designed to create the soldiers, sailors and airmen (and women) of tomorrow.
They’re among the first cohort to pass through Basic Military Qualification, or basic training, under new guidelines aimed at removing hurdles and boosting numbers — changes the Department of National Defence (DND) hopes will solve a personnel crisis that Defence Minister Bill Blair called a “death spiral” for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
It’s possible to be both astounded and completely unsurprised by the allegations that some members of Parliament have colluded with foreign states to serve both their own interests and those of governments like China and India.
For years now, Canada’s elite have been acting as if there is no real legitimate national interest. Imagine a new prime minister trying to invoke a Canadian version of JFK’s self-abnegating admonition to, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Young Canadians would say: “But I thought you told us we lived on stolen land?”
"Immigrants should only be allowed in Canada if they adopt Canadian values"
Agree: 65%
Disagree: 24%Research Co. / June 3, 2024 / n=1001 / Online
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) June 12, 2024
Some first-year students attending the University of Guelph may have trouble finding a place to stay during the semester.
The university recently announced that over 7,000 high school students across Ontario who had applied for programs at U of G have accepted offers of admission.
Canada is the only one of 32 member nations not to publicly release a plan to meet the target
One of the country’s leading business voices is warning that Canada faces “diplomatic isolation” if it’s not prepared to deliver a concrete plan next month to raise defence spending to meet NATO’s benchmark.
The Business Council of Canada — which has been wading more and more into the debate on national security lately — made the assessment in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The letter comes as both NATO defence ministers and G7 leaders prepare to gather at separate meetings in Europe, and as leaders of the NATO alliance nations get ready for a summit in Washington, D.C. next month.
We are a Clown State.
The stakes are high in a looming June 24 federal byelection in a long-held Liberal riding in Toronto, and if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party shows signs of slipping, it could spark a bigger conversation, pollster Nik Nanos(opens in a new tab) says.
“I think a lot of people are going to be reading the entrails on this because we are getting closer to the election. Byelections are sometimes referendums on the government of the day,” Nanos said on the latest episode of CTV News’ Trend Line.
“If it’s close, that’ll create for some … nervous Nellies in the Liberal caucus, and it’s going to be interesting to see what happens.”
It’s an ultra safe seat and Toronto voters are ideological nitwits.
If Greater Toronto is still ahead of the national curve, Canada may be in trouble. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the unemployment rate climbed sharply in May. Rising unemployment is a national trend, but the rapid pace at which it’s climbing can be attributed to Greater Toronto, home to a third of the increased unemployment in the past year. It’s a general trend across Southern Ontario, which has gone from the driver of the national economy to a major drag.
Conservatives lead Liberals by 12 points – Inflation and jobs/the economy top concerns (Nanos)
Ontarians are under extreme financial strain as more mortgages come up for renewal at higher interest rates while unemployment creeps up, according to a new report by credit reporting agency Equifax.
In Ontario, the total mortgage balance reaching “severe delinquency” — 90 days or more without payment — exceeded $1 billion for the first time in the first quarter of 2024. That’s double the level recorded before the pandemic, the report stated.
As if there are not enough problems with the exorbitant cost of housing, now we must face up to how it contributes to poor health.
Overcrowding within houses and apartments helps spread disease, according to studies in the U.S., Britain and Australia.
Overcrowding, which is calculated on the number of people living together per square foot, could be at its worst in almost a century in English-speaking countries.
The RCMP is warning of a growing number of cases of public speech that could incite hatred and is asking whether it has the legal tools to counter the trend.
RCMP Chief Superintendent Karine Gagné told Radio-Canada that while she wouldn’t comment directly on the case of controversial imam Adil Charkaoui — who gave a speech in Arabic in Montreal late last year in which he called on Allah to “kill the enemies of the people of Gaza” — she believes it may be time to revisit Canada’s laws on hate speech, which date from the early 2000s.
Following an RCMP investigation, prosecutors in Quebec chose not to charge Charkaoui.
The shocking report released by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) last week is the stuff of democratic nightmares. In brief, the committee reported that when it comes to foreign interference, the call is coming from inside the houses: several parliamentarians may be working with foreign governments in ways that undermine Canada’s national security and democratic institutions. Notably, these parliamentarians may have unknowingly received donations from foreign governments, while at least one is alleged to have passed confidential information to foreign agents.
Amid record-breaking levels of antisemitism across the Toronto District School Board, activists are demanding the definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” be included in the district’s anti-racism strategy because they fear it might hamper students’ ability to speak about Israel and Palestine.
At a board meeting on June 5 , the TDSB released the strategy Combating Hate and Racism: Student Learning Strategy Update 2024 , prominently featuring the term “anti-Palestinian racism.”
A vote to adopt it was scheduled for June 11, but concerned parent Aaron Kucharczuk said the TDSB has postponed the motion because it coincides with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Dozens of delegates critical of the new policy have requested to speak before the board to share their concerns about it.
The Liberals’ grip on big-city voters will be tested in two weeks when a byelection takes place in a Toronto riding the party has held since 1993.
Liberal candidate Leslie Church, a former chief of staff for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, will fend off Tory candidate Don Stewart, who works in the financial sector.
I don't feel safe due to the mass importing of pre-civilisational barbarians from cultures which hate women, Christians, and Jews. My child and other children have been accosted at the local park which my property taxes pay for. I had a long conversation with a beat cop about the…
— Natasha Montreal Live Free or Die (@NatashaMontreal) June 10, 2024
I am sorry your wife has to deal with this too. It's not my genuine truth, it's the truth. My culture is incompatible with the culture of men who are raised to hate women and to treat white women in particular as unpaid prostitutes. This conversation needs to be had.
— Natasha Montreal Live Free or Die (@NatashaMontreal) June 10, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
