Loblaw Companies on Thursday forecast annual earnings above analysts’ expectations, after the Canadian retailer’s fourth-quarter results beat estimates, helped by strength in its pharmacy business and as demand held up for groceries.
The company says it earned a profit available to common shareholders of $529 million. Its fourth-quarter revenue rose about 10 per cent to $14.01 billion, topping estimates of $13.75 billion.
One industry expert put it bluntly: “This is what collusion looks like”
Nearly three quarters of Canadians would like to see Ukraine win the war but only about a third think Canada should provide more military equipment
An overwhelming majority of Canadians support Ukraine in its war against Russia, but there’s some skepticism about what — if anything — Canada should do more of in order to support its ally, according to a new poll.
Trudeau can’t be bothered to maintain Canada’s army so the US is dreaming we’ll meet treaty obligations – U.S. ‘remains hopeful’ Canada will hit NATO defence spending target: ambassador
Trudeau used tax payer money to burnish his image when he bought Ukraine an air-defense system, one that our own troops have been denied for years. How soon before the cupboard is bare for everyone?
More… Ukrainians who fled to Canada are building armoured vehicles to help war effort
The most recent reports have revealed just how extensive China’s activities have become, and exposed the Trudeau government’s astonishing reluctance to treat them with the seriousness they deserve
Once established, it can take a long time to escape a bad reputation, as Canada has when it comes to China.
It’s been decades in the making, with successive prime ministers seized by the perceived gains to be had from the world’s most populous market. The current prime minister famously expressed his enthusiasm for the one-party state’s “basic dictatorship.”
Political spin on election interference helps China undermine democracies: Trudeau
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says members of Parliament who put a political spin on foreign election interference are helping China undermine Canadians’ confidence in their democracy.
He says playing “political games” to get a partisan advantage will undermine people’s trust in their institutions, and will only assist the efforts of countries like Russia and China that attempt to make democracies unstable.
He told reporters today that Canadians must have trust in the electoral process, regardless of which political party is in power, and parties must work together on the issue.
We now know the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found there was an organized Chinese-government effort to interfere in Canada’s election in 2021. What we don’t know is whether anything has been done with that information.
It’s not a question of exposing CSIS’s spy-versus-spy world of clandestine surveillance and neutralizing threats with shadowy techniques.
The LPC is in Cahoots with the ChiComs no bones about it.
… Among the allegations were that if O’Toole formed government, he’d ban the popular social messaging app WeChat, and that his hawkish stance on the Chinese government would lead to an increase
in anti-Asian racism in Canada, accusing him of mirroring then-U.S. president Donald Trump who referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.”
“O’Toole is like former US President Trump 2.0, completely inheriting his mantle,” reads one posting included in the memo.
“In fact, there are already signs that O’Toole is ‘on par’ with Trump.”
Trump? I wish!
More evidence that the LPC is a subsidiary of the CCP.
The Canadian military found and retrieved Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic this past fall, a development whose public exposure adds another item to a list of pressing concerns about Beijing’s interventions in Canadian affairs, including interference in recent federal elections.
The buoys were spotted by the Canadian Armed Forces as part of Operation Limpid, a continuing effort to provide early detection of threats to Canada’s security. Earlier this month, the North American Aerospace Defence Command shot down a different Chinese surveillance device: a high-altitude balloon that traversed North America before it was destroyed.
The LPC and the corporate class must be getting greased pretty good by the ChiComs and Canada’s China class.
Junior seems always willing to kowtow to Beijing in order not to offend the CCP’s embedded 5th column.
There has to be a reason for it. What do they have on Junior & Co?
OTTAWA – An accused extremist recruiter is returning to the Ontario Superior Court on Thursday and is expected to plead guilty to terrorism offences, eight years after he was first charged.
Awso Peshdary’s criminal trial had been on hold pending a decision in Federal Court, where his lawyers were arguing that charges should be dropped because Canada’s spy agency was authorized to surveil him based on misleading information.
That name goes way back, back to the days of Project Samosa and the Blood Libel MasterCard.
Canadians in every corner of this country need to be alarmed by the latest evidence that China has criminally interfered with, and attempted to influence the results of, Canada’s last two federal elections in 2019 and 2021.
But perhaps equally concerning is the Canadian government’s languid response to these shocking reports – compiled by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), but revealed in The Globe and Mail – which detail an extensive scheme meant to corrupt our elections and determine which political party forms Canada’s federal government, as well as the kind of power the elected government would be allowed to wield.
I would not be at all surprised if the ChiComs had dirt on Junior.
Oh no you don’t, Prime Minister.
Bombshell revelations that suggest Chinese agents actively, fraudulently and successfully manipulated Canada’s electoral integrity in the last two federal elections cannot be dismissed with the standard Justin Trudeau nothing-to-see-here shrug.
The allegations, based on top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reports viewed by the Globe, are too insidious, too detailed and too important to ignore.
The Conservatives are wooing ethnic-minority Canadians and newcomers to try to broaden their support in urban and suburban seats they need to win the next election, as a new poll shows the Tories have nibbled away at the Liberals’ lead among racialized voters since Pierre Poilievre became leader.
The strategy, echoing an approach by former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, is being backed by more advertising in ethnic-minority media and a ramping up of engagement at community events by Mr. Poilievre and his front bench.
Whether under an LPC-NDP or CPC government mass immigration is still mass immigration.
It will still degrade the historic bonds that unite us.
Your standard of living will continue its rapid decline.
Immigration policy is called the 3rd Rail of Canadian Politics for a reason – you’re being screwed and they don’t want you talking about it.
The Uniparty could save themselves some money by creating interchangeable election signage – “A Smaller piece of the pie for you” is a perfect truth in advertising slogan.
Gas prices were the biggest month-to-month Consumer Price Index report, the agency said, up 4.7 per cent from December.
Food prices rose at a slightly higher rate than in December, up 10.4 per cent in January compared with 10.1 per cent the month before.
Apparently the Canadian government is justified in taking drastic measures to combat threats to national security or someone’s “self-realization” from, say, a truck horn. But if a totalitarian tyranny attempts to fiddle our elections, well, all good clean fun.
At any rate, the prime minister declares himself thoroughly vindicated by the Rouleau report. But while he now claims to realize he shouldn’t have been so mean about his loser nutbar hate-filled domestic critics, he sees nozink, nozink when it comes to China’s efforts to undermine our democracy. And woe betide anyone who attempts to brief him.
The interest in balloons, other than the party and clown varieties, has recently reached levels perhaps not seen in Canada since the 19th century.
It all began, of course, with a giant Chinese surveillance balloon that floated above British Columbia before drifting around the United States and ultimately being blown up by the United States Air Force over the Atlantic. Since then, three other objects have met a similar fate including one brought down over Yukon and another shot down above Lake Huron.
‘Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive’
For decades, wild pigs have been antagonizing flora and fauna in the US: gobbling up crops, spreading disease and even killing deer and elk.
Now, as fears over the potential of the pig impact in the US grow, North America is also facing a new swine-related threat, as a Canadian “super pig”, a giant, “incredibly intelligent, highly elusive” beast capable of surviving cold climates by tunneling under snow, is poised to infiltrate the north of the country.
