Canada

Freeland says G20 cannot function with Russia at the table

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday said that it was impossible to collaborate with Russia in the G20, a group of countries that meets to discuss ways to foster global economic growth, as long as Moscow is waging war in Ukraine.

“The G20 can’t function effectively with Russia at the table,” Freeland said in a joint news conference with Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko in Washington, where G20 countries held talks on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Canadians more open to cutting ties with monarchy, but still support Queen: poll

Canadians are growing more open to severing ties with the British monarchy, a new poll suggests, despite an ongoing affection for Queen Elizabeth herself.

The new Angus Reid poll — released Thursday on the Queen’s 96th birthday — found while 51 per cent of Canadians are against continuing as a constitutional monarchy, nearly two-thirds still view Elizabeth favourably.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trudeau Hold-Out On Covid Regulations An Assault On Democracy

This week, a federal judge in the United States struck down a national mask mandate on planes and mass transit. In response, seven of America’s largest airlines have repealed rules that customers and staff must wear face coverings.

In the United Kingdom, managing COVID-19 is now an exercise in personal responsibility. In the city of London, few outward signs remain of the global pandemic that disrupted the world for more than two years. No mask mandate is effect for most public spaces. At the end of April, testing for the general public will come to an end.

“To me, COVID is over, I’m happy to say,” said a mother of three.

“There’s a freedom that people were waiting for here and now that it’s here, everyone’s sort of forgotten about COVID.”

Back in Canada, PM Justin Trudeau and half-Saudi Transport Minister Omar Alghabra have reiterated that masks are still required on all flights that arrive in or depart from Canada.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Five Year Investigation of Barry Sherman Murder Delivers Not A Single Suspect

As calendars reached 2022, mystery surrounding the deaths of Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman entered its fifth year without a single suspect being identified. Although devoid of potential suspects, additional information on the case was presented by Canadian media in early 2021.

Barry Sherman, founder of Canadian pharma giant Apotex, and his wife Honey Sherman, were found dead in the basement area of their home in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017. Their deaths were determined by investigators to be caused by ligature neck compressions, a type of strangulation.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Freeland, allies walk out of G20 meeting over Russian participation

Queen of Ukraine!

Canadian officials, including Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, joined allies in staging a walkout of a G20 meeting in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday in protest of Russia’s involvement.

At Wednesday’s G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting, Freeland said she and “a number of our democratic partners” got up and left the meeting when Russia sought to intervene.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?

Surging gas prices, Ukraine war pushed inflation to 6.7% in March

Statistics Canada says the annual rate of inflation hit 6.7 per cent in March, the fastest year-over-year increase in the consumer price index since January 1991.

The increase compared with gain of 5.7 per cent in February.

Fuelling much of the increase in March were higher prices at the pumps as gasoline prices rose 39.8 per cent compared with the same month one year earlier.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Municipal politicians continue their war to keep housing prices high

Canada’s municipal politicians have spent a generation blocking the construction of new homes, contributing to a catastrophic housing shortage that has rendered homeownership unaffordable for many Canadians. There has been growing political momentum to disempower municipal politicians so they can stop sabotaging younger Canadians’ futures — but these politicians are now fighting back, eager to protect the powers that they have so irresponsibly abused.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy

A new newsletter! And a $15 billion mystery

After all the dust settled from Chrystia Freeland’s latest federal budget, I still had questions about the Canada Growth Fund.

Described (on Page 60 of the budget document) as a means “to attract substantial private sector investment” to “help meet important national economic policy goals,” the Canada Growth Fund was announced as something that would be “initially capitalized at $15 billion over the next five years.”

Fifteen billion is big. The budget’s entire chapter on housing, for instance, allocates a total of $10.1 billion in new spending over five years. The military gets a total of $9.4 billion in new spending. Health care, $7.1 billion. But the Canada Growth Fund (let’s just call it the Fund) is bigger than all of those. And for each dollar of the $15 billion it will spend, it will “aim to attract at least three dollars of private capital.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Judge chides Quebec dad for taking son, 10, to ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

A Quebec judge has ordered a father to stop taking his 10-year-old son to anti-mandate protests after he brought him to the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa during one weekend in February.

The court also intervened in another parental dispute involving the same child — in that case, his vaccination status was at issue — and ruled that the boy can get the COVID-19 vaccine as requested by his mother, against his father’s wishes.

… “The remarks made by the participants are hardly laudatory against the government and… there is a serious risk that it can degenerate quickly,” wrote Superior Court Justice Nathalie Pelletier in her judgment.

Ottawa convoy organizer Pat King charged with perjury, obstruction of justice

Ottawa convoy protest organizer Pat King is now facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges as he tries to secure his release from jail.

King was arrested on Feb. 18 on charges related to his involvement in the three-week protest against COVID-19 restrictions that overran the streets of Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Rex Murphy: You could drive an 18-wheeler through our Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The year 2022 is not a good one for celebrating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We mark the 40th anniversary of that celebrated instrument this week. Over the years it has been held up as the very jewel of the Canadian Constitution. The one great bulwark for every single citizen’s civic integrity. The very banner of Canadian democracy. The text of our liberties. A great, invulnerable wall against the encroachments of government on the day-to-day lives of Canadians.

Canada’s Magna Carta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada