Statistics Canada has a talent for reporting deaths with numbing precision, but in such a way that makes it hard to know what’s really going on. Perhaps it’s just me but for example, if 16,043 people out of 334,623 are recorded as having died of unspecified ‘unknown causes,’ I’m sure they’re right. But take a look at the chart below.
H/T XC
The relative peace we have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War has never been as challenged as it is today, and Canada, once a reasonably formidable player on the international stage, has no role in shaping the world’s uncertain future. Our military and diplomatic capabilities have been permitted to diminish, and major voices in both defence and business have taken to warning the rest of us of the consequences.
Perrin Beatty, former minister of national defence and current CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, decried the woeful state of Canada’s presence on the world stage last weekend in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This was not Beatty’s first public plea to end the government’s complacency and take defence seriously. In 1987, as minister of defence, he tabled a white paper proposing to rearm the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), increase funding and add nuclear submarines to the fleet. His idea was good then and it is good now.
Move over Toronto Police riot, homicide or traffic squads and make room for the coffee squad.
These coffee cops are getting all the headlines today.
Assisting Hamas supporters to intimidate residents by blocking Avenue Road & making Jews hostage in their own homes kept tensions low says TPS spokesperson. Oh and the coffee tasted better too. #Toronto #DerSturmer #Israel #cdnpoli #Gaza #Hamas https://t.co/oTpXMHEF1N
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 7, 2024
Toronto Police Kowtow to Hamas supporters: When you apply the law selectively or not at all in favour of Hamas supporters over everyone else then you lose the consent to be governed. #Toronto #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Hamas https://t.co/GGjY02t8it
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 6, 2024
This is a sick joke.
A call for the House of Commons to vote no confidence in the Liberal government is now the most-signed e-petition ever to be launched in Canada — another sign of the increasing popularity of online petitions.
The petition was put forward by a Peterborough, Ont. resident and sponsored by Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri. It calls on the House of Commons to initiate a vote of non-confidence in the Liberal government, defeat it and hold an election within 45 days.
Even as the minister responsible admitted there aren’t enough competitive options for mobile service in Canada, another federal official said consumers can and should search for other service providers when faced with price increases.
That message — from Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada — came just hours after the Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Canadians “still pay too much and see too little competition” for cellular services.
This is yet another fabulous deal negotiated by Frankie Champagne.
Dustin Duncan has retained a personal lawyer for the first time in his nearly 18-year political career. The Saskatchewan cabinet minister in charge of Crown corporations said he’s prepared to go to prison, or what he had called “carbon jail” – the most unlikely and extreme outcome in his government’s fight against Ottawa and the current unfairness of its carbon pricing policy for home heating.
Mr. Duncan said he would still rather it didn’t come to all that. He and his boss, Premier Scott Moe, aren’t energy outlaws, as of now.
“Nobody is breaking the law yet,” Mr. Duncan said in an interview with The Globe this week.
Friendship between nations is based on shared values and mutual interests. But a friend that fails to show up when it matters is no friend at all.
This is the situation that the United States finds itself in with the Trudeau government in Canada. In March 2023, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Ottawa and issued a joint statement in which they stated that both leaders’ “highest priority is to protect our citizens and our sovereign territory.” They named specific areas of cooperation, such as in combating violent extremism and cybersecurity.
If the absurd ruling stands, she could potentially be deported back to Russia, where she faces an 8-year prison sentence.
h/t XC
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to allow the state of Florida to import prescription drugs from Canada, breaking a years-long logjam in a U.S. quest to access cheaper drugs from north of the border and heightening fears about the risk of drug shortages in Canada.
On Friday, the FDA released a decision saying Florida could “import certain prescription drugs from Canada if (it) will significantly reduce the cost to the American consumer without imposing additional risk to public health and safety.”
“It’s about time that the FDA put patients over politics and the interests of Floridians over Big Pharma,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Friday’s return home from his Christmas vacation in Jamaica didn’t go smoothly for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: The CC-144 Challenger business jet that took him there on Boxing Day broke down, requiring the RCAF to dispatch a rescue plane to get the relatively new aircraft back in the sky.
It was the second time in nearly four months that a breakdown prompted the Royal Canadian Air Force to dispatch rescue aircraft to bring home Canada’s prime minister from an overseas visit.
Make him take a bus next time.
h/t DS
Job growth stalled in December as the total number of jobs in Canada was virtually unchanged for the month and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 per cent for the final month of the year.
Statistics Canada said Friday in its monthly labour force survey that the economy added a total of 100 jobs in the final month of 2023.
I bet they were civil service jobs too.
For Jews throughout the world, Oct. 7 is a demarcation in our collective calendar. It marks a day of pure evil.
… She assured me repeatedly that the call was being made out of concern for my safety. But what about our collective safety as Jews, I asked her, in the wake of repeated and ugly encounters with the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel crowds whose hatred of Israel was well beyond that particular border, and was increasingly being activated against local Jewish businesses and individuals?
The constable asked me for my plan. When I said I planned to walk back and forth across a crosswalk to delay this cavalcade, I was told that it is illegal to block roadways.
When I pointed out that over the past months Victoria roadways were blocked on a weekly basis, she replied, “We can’t arrest 500 people.”
She’s had her moment of clarity.
The police will not protect you if you attend a counter protest. You will be treated as a public nuisance and told to move along for your own safety.
Florida’s Surgeon General is warning against using mRNA COVID-19 vaccines amid concern about potential links to cancer, citing a Canadian study that found the presence of DNA fragments within Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo said the Canadian pre-print study discovered “billions to hundreds of billions” of DNA molecules per vaccine dose, which exceeds the guidelines set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
h/t Mauser
The federal Liberal government’s approach to energy policy has created problematic regional divisions across Canada. It’s time for the East to reject these crass politics and show greater support for the West.
