Canada’s Great Depression

When there is talk of The Great Depression, the United States and its Dust Bowl often takes centre stage but there were many other places impacted by the depression, and few were affected as severely as Canada.

In this episode, I am going to look at how Canada was impacted by The Great Depression. This is a large topic, so I am going to be taking more of a broad view of how the country was impacted as a whole, with looks at the provinces as well.

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Truckers, airlines push back on Trudeau government’s new border rules

Truck drivers and the country’s major airlines joined with the official Opposition Saturday to criticize the Trudeau’s government’s new public health rules that will apply to international travellers, rules that were announced Friday.

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Canada in discussions with ‘closest partners’ on possible Bullshit “Diplomatic” Olympic boycott

TORONTO — Canada will continue to discuss with its partners a potential diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, a foreign affairs spokesperson says, amid the recent disappearance of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.

“Canada remains deeply disturbed by the troubling reports of human rights violations in China,” said Syrine Khoury, press secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, in a statement to CTVNews.ca.

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Sex misconduct crisis hurting military recruitment, morale: Defence Minister Anand

As new defence minister, Anita Anand says ‘culture change’ in the military is her first order of business

HALIFAX — The sexual misconduct crisis afflicting Canada’s military is hurting recruitment and morale in the ranks, Anita Anand said Friday as she used one of her first public addresses as Canada’s new defence minister to lay out her priorities for the position.

Recruit more trannies!

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Rex Murphy: Toronto school board’s profoundly ignorant rejection of book club event with Nobel Prize winner

Nadia Murad at the age of 14 was kidnapped by ISIS, the vicious terrorist mob, and was taken into sex slavery

Nadia Murad at the age of 14 was kidnapped by ISIS, the vicious terrorist mob, and was taken into sex slavery. From that pit of hell, she incredibly found the personal resources to escape, champion the cause of brutalized young women everywhere, and ascend to the heights of the world’s high honour, the Nobel Prize. This information has been a click away on any laptop for three years. Yet the TDSB was intent on keeping students in its jurisdiction from exposure to such a true heroine. The equity department was concerned she would stoke Islamophobia!

In a sane world the TDSB would be scrapped and rebuilt after the loons had been cleared out.

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Canada open to ramping up record immigration, new minister says

Sean Fraser, who was appointed to the post in October after Trudeau’s Liberals won re-election, said the government is on track to exceed its goal of offering permanent residency to 401,000 people this year. Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, Fraser said he’s even prepared to increase immigrant targets — currently set at 411,000 for next year — if he deems additional newcomers are needed to fill labor shortages.

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Politicians are ignoring Canada’s inflation crisis

Canada’s inflation rate has risen to a 20-year high, affecting the price of everything from to groceries are families and small businesses are already grappling with the pandemic’s financial toll. Despite this, Justin Trudeau infamously said he doesn’t think about monetary policy, and the government’s response has been virtually non-existent.

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Trudeau claims moral victory despite Biden’s refusal to budge on $12,500 EV tax incentive

Trudeau left behind an American administration determined to focus its efforts on selling American-made cars and trucks built with U.S. union labour

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to claim a moral victory Thursday after his day at the White House did little to defuse an escalating continental dispute over President Joe Biden’s plans to encourage Americans to buy more electric vehicles.

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Toronto cop accused of leaking address to son who used it to track and murder Liberian warlord in London, Ont.

Slain warlord in happier times.

A man charged in the death of an alleged Liberian war criminal was given the dead man’s address in London by his father, a veteran Toronto police officer who lied to get the information, according to allegations outlined in police documents.

I hope this doesn’t negatively impact Toronto’s reputation for diversity.

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Free speech or hate speech? Port Colborne resident ordered to remove vulgar banner

The owner of a home in Port Colborne has been ordered to remove a vulgar banner hanging in front of the residence.

The banner, which reads “F-CK TRUDEAU” in a comic sans font, uses a maple leaf symbol to replace a single letter in the profanity. A small sticker on the front door displays the same message.

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Trudeau goes to Washington, and finds that Canada is mostly an afterthought for the U.S.

The helicopter buzzing overhead was just one sign during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to Washington of a tough new reality Canadians face.

Trudeau’s failure to persuade Americans to ease up on Canada in a landmark electric-vehicle plan capped a visit that served a long, loud wake-up call to this new reality.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump’s protectionist impulses were no aberration: this era is vastly different from the one that produced the 1965 Auto Pact and spurred decades of Canada-U.S. economic integration.

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