OTTAWA – Housing experts say the government’s current unfilled promises on housing won’t substantially cut the price of keeping a roof over Canadians’ heads and they will need new ideas to get the crisis under control.
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Jack Mintz: Carbon taxes make the Bank of Canada’s job harder
With July inflation ramping up again on Tuesday, it’s obvious the battle ain’t over yet. The headline inflation rate jumped to 3.3 per cent from last month’s 2.8 per cent. While mortgage costs and food are major contributors to our stubborn inflation, energy prices have risen 5.8 per cent in the past four months, thanks in part to the carbon tax hike last April 1.
As the world continues its march to net-zero emissions by 2050, an interesting debate is rearing its head as to whether the energy price inflation will affect monetary policy. That point was made last year by Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board: “As we build a more sustainable economy, we face a new age of energy inflation … that can be expected to lead to a prolonged period of upside pressure on inflation,” she warned
Ottawa Detective Disciplined for Probing COVID Vaccine Link to Infant Deaths Discussed Spike in Deaths With Chief, Hearing Told
OTTAWA—An audio recording played at the pre-trial for Helen Grus—an Ottawa Police Service (OPS) detective being charged with disorderly conduct for investigating the vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants—showed she sent two emails to then-Police Chief Peter Sloly to discuss a spike in infant deaths and a number of police officers with COVID-19 vaccine-related heart problems.
Guilbeault’s lunatic environmental policy will make sense once you realize who he is in bed with ….
ChiCom Useful Idiot Guilbeault urged to quit Chinese government advisory body chaired by senior member of Politburo
The federal Conservatives are calling on Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to resign his position on an advisory group to the Chinese government – a body chaired by a former chief of staff to President Xi Jinping – and to end Canadian funding to this organization that instructs Beijing on green development.
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development also promotes Beijing’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, a foreign-investment campaign that has been accused of ensnaring smaller nations in debt and then taking control of their infrastructure for China’s own strategic purposes.
HATE THE LIBERALS.
Tres Joly!
This woman needs a reality check! Instead of a “game plan” regarding the USA she might want to tell us ( the USA) about her game plan with the CCP. Her government has not gone far left or right, it appears it is leaning Communist. -Lthttps://t.co/asOSYWxJVn via @nationalpost
— Lt Steven Rogers (R-NJ) (@LtStevenRogers) August 17, 2023
Far Left Extremist Trudeau Government Worries US May Veer To Right Of Pol Pot
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada has been considering a “game plan” for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections.
“We are certainly working on scenarios,” Joly said in French during an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday.
Joly added that Ottawa’s close political and economic ties to the U.S. means that “we must certainly prepare several scenarios.”
The Biden Administration’s Disconcerting Bias Against Canadian Oil
As we dissect the Biden administration’s approach to pipeline projects, a perplexing pattern emerges: Are these strategies truly about pioneering “climate leadership,” or is there a veiled agenda against Canadian interests?
Consider a recent Frontier Centre for Public Policy study which spotlighted the Biden administration’s putting its moral and legal weight behind a small Maine town contesting a pipeline project. This project aimed to facilitate the flow of Canadian crude from the oilsands to an Atlantic seaport. While pipeline lawyers argued that a local ordinance could potentially breach the Constitution’s provision, which reserves such authority for Congress, the Biden administration’s legal eagles argued to the contrary, stating no federal laws or the Constitution were being violated.
3rd suspect, getaway vehicle involved in June killing of B.C. Sikh insurgent leader, police say
Homicide investigators say a third suspect was involved in the slaying of a Sikh leader outside a Surrey gurdwara in June.
The third suspect was seen in a silver 2000 Toyota Camry that was waiting on 121 Street for the other two suspects, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced at a news conference Wednesday.
Investigators had previously said they believed the two suspects met a getaway car after killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18.
A metaphor for a once able nation …
Sask. engineer slapped with an 18-month suspension after designing bridge that collapsed hours after opening
The association that regulates professional engineers in Saskatchewan has suspended Scott Gullacher for 18 months because he designed a bridge that collapsed just hours after it opened to the public.
Gullacher was responsible for the Dyck Memorial Bridge in the RM of Clayton, about 300 kilometres east of Saskatoon. It opened and collapsed on Sept. 14, 2018.
No one was injured when it fell into the river.
GOLDSTEIN: Even Harper and Freeland warned us about the WEF
The World Economic Forum is again in the news because of a Canadian Press wire story that appeared in many media outlets accusing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives of “embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.”
Two years after Kabul’s fall, Ottawa considering expansion of Afghan carpenter immigration program
Following months of pressure from refugee advocacy groups and opposition parties, the federal government says it is thinking about increasing the number of Afghans it can bring to Canada.
“It’s safe to say publicly that we will show some flexibility,” said Immigration Minister Marc Miller, referring to the goal the Liberal Party set during the last federal election campaign of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.
“There is some uncertainty in the number of people obviously that assisted Canada and clearly what their family members, who their family members are, and the level of risk that those people face in that country. And it’s not like Canada will hit a number and walk away from the table.”
Irving gets $463 million more from taxpayers for troubled warship program
Last week taxpayers gave almost half a billion dollars to a shipyard owned by one of Canada’s richest families.
The federal government’s news release on this new funding was barely reported on, having come in the middle of summer, when few are paying attention.
The payment of an extra $463 million to Irving Shipbuilding is to allow the firm to modernize its Halifax-area facilities so the company can build the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC).
Dollar store shopping guide a sign Satan rules Ottawa
As Canadians continue to feel the financial toll of inflation while grocery shopping, more are looking to their local discount store to find savings.
But while these stores are often stocked with cheap and ultra-processed food products, a Canadian registered dietitian says it is possible to get healthy foods at stores such as Dollarama, Dollar Tree and Great Canadian Dollar Store if you’re willing to plan ahead and do some extra label reading.
I have never seen a Dollar store fresh vegetable section have you?
h/t Mauser
Surge of refugee claimants overwhelming some Ottawa shelters
Ottawa homeless shelters are seeing a surge of asylum seekers showing up at their doors, raising fears that the refugee housing crisis overwhelming Toronto shelters could be spreading to the capital.
Peter Tilley, CEO of the Ottawa Mission, said a record number of migrants have come to the shelter on Waller Street in recent weeks.
Tilley was “floored” when he saw the data. Of 228 new intakes at the shelter since the beginning of June, 87 were newcomers. He said most of those were refugee claimants.
Cities should send them all to Ottawa.
China snubs Canada on its list of approved travel spots, setting back tourism’s post-COVID recovery
In an apparent snub, the Chinese government has left Canada off a list of countries approved as international travel destinations for tour groups — a decision that threatens to leave Canada’s travel industry at a competitive disadvantage as it continues its post-pandemic recovery.
In a media statement, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on August 10 that an additional 78 countries had been added to a list of destinations approved for group tours and package travel. Travel agents from mainland China work from this list when they promote and book foreign travel for Chinese nationals.
Poor Justin! h/t Shasta