“These are mind-numbing, eye-popping prices that … is probably not sustainable for most Canadians on fixed incomes/middle class,” said Dan McTeague of Gas Wizard, also president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
“I think it’s fair to say most Canadians are taking a pounding on this and it’s not the ones who drive for kicks and giggles, it’s the ones that need this to get to work…. And it will be long term.”
For once, the Supreme Court’s Friday payload won’t have us all talking about scary political divisions and intra-justice sniping. The court delivered a 9-0 decision on the fate of Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code, which explicitly eliminated the defence of “automatism” for intoxicated persons who commit unlawful acts of violence. To go over the relevant history in as brisk a fashion as possible…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been eyeing a wealth tax to pay for his government’s spending spree. Heavily redacted documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation under an access to information request show the prime minister asked for analysis of a $60-billion wealth tax. With deficits looming to the far horizon, it must be a tempting cash grab.
This week, Canadians tuned into the Conservative Party’s boring and uneventful leadership debate. We don’t blame you if you tuned out of the debate, but you may have missed the media scrum with candidates after the debate, in which independent media journalists ran circles around so-called reporters from the legacy media. While the legacy media pushed their favourite pet cause – climate change – independent media asked candidates thorough questions to help Canadians get a better understanding of the candidates.
The Supreme Court of Canada issued a major decision on Friday allowing criminal defendants in cases involving assault — including sexual assault — to use a defence known as self-induced extreme intoxication.
Effectively, it means defendants who voluntarily consume intoxicating substances and then assault or interfere with the bodily integrity of another person can avoid conviction if they can prove they were too intoxicated to control their actions.
“It is disgraceful the way Big Oil is gouging Canadians at the pumps.
“Gas prices are up and Big Oil CEOs are bragging about record profits.
“Liberals and Conservatives have rigged the system.
“When you pay more – their well-connected friends make more.”
It would have been a strange tweet at any time, but from a (effectively) co-prime minister it strove for the bizarre.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s recent encounter with protesters at an Ontario election campaign stop, where he was verbally harassed, is casting a renewed spotlight on politicians’ security, with Singh telling CTV News that he’s witnessing a level of anger he hasn’t seen before.
“What I’m noticing is true is that there is more of a polarization and an aggression and an anger that I haven’t seen before,” he said while visiting a pro-choice counter protest to the March for Life demonstrations on Parliament Hill on Thursday.
Singh received a barrage of insults earlier in the week as he exited a rally for Ontario NDP candidate Jen Deck, who’s running in the Peterborough – Kawartha riding.
Politicians verbally assaulted in Public! Why it’s an insurrection! Jail the peasantry!
Reap what you sow commie.
During a SECU Committee meeting, Richard Fadden, the former Deputy Minister of National Defence and Security Advisor, said that Trudeau went too far with his rhetoric when he called Freedom Convoy supporters a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views” and that it was “not helpful.”
The announcement will confirm the Pope’s trip to Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit during the last week of July, according to confidential sources whom the CBC is not identifying because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Canada is boosting its role in NATO deterrence efforts in Latvia amid a major shift by the alliance to a more assertive defensive posture in the wake of Russian atrocities in Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Mariupol.
“When you have the truth on your side, you don’t need to keep coming up with a bunch of new and easily-discredited ‘justifications’ for your actions.
Unfortunately for the Trudeau government, the truth is against them.
Hence, they flail around attempting to explain why they were so eager to take away the rights and freedoms of Canadians and use authoritarian state power to try and quash dissent.”
Videos posted to social media show protesters approaching Singh and shouting profanity in his face as he left the event. Some followed Singh to his vehicle, where they continued to yell and hold up middle fingers just outside the passenger-side window.
It appears Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh has few fans in @CityPtbo Peterborough…Most shocking is that he looks surprised pic.twitter.com/CDpGiATL44
— 🇨🇦TraumaaaNurse (@TraumaaaNurse) May 11, 2022
Probably NDP voters.
According to Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, restaurant operators have begun alerting him to vegetable oil prices skyrocketing due to the low output of Ukrainian sunflower oil and Indonesia restricting exports of palm oil.
“I’m hearing from restaurant operators that they’re likely going to see prices triple by the end of this year when it comes to vegetable oil. Food service is a big deal when it comes to vegetable oil in Canada… so don’t be surprised if menu prices are impacted by that,” Charlebois told CTV News.
Biological men who identify as women are now officially allowed to transfer into women’s correctional institutions if they request to do so.
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) made the policy clear in a directive from the Commissioner on Wednesday that the transfers would take place regardless of the inmate’s anatomical sex.
