What is going on with appointing Charles Adler to the Senate? Do they really know the guy? Or do they know him only too well?
Here’s the Adler deal. The old blowhard having had the sense to get out of near-bankrupt Corus (in 2021) while the getting was good, will now be received into the Senate at the age of 69 with a $178,000 annual salary. That will take him comfortably over the next six years to mandatory retirement at 75. Thereafter, the genteel poverty of a Senate pension.
Who knew Canadians cared so much about the Senate? Congratulate an old friend on his appointment to the Upper House, as I did to veteran broadcaster and newly named Senator Charles Adler, and you unleash a volley of cheers — and a torrent of vitriol. The most recurrent slurs were “Liberal” and “hypocrite,” referencing Adler’s trenchant criticism of the Conservatives, anti-vaxxers, and the institution he is now joining. The implication is that appointees must curry favour with the prime minister, and that if you say a bad word about the Red Chamber, you shouldn’t accept an appointment there.
As the federal government mulls whether to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, some Canadians say they would jump at the chance to buy a cheaper EV manufactured in that country.
Ottawa held a month-long consultation in July on how to handle Beijing’s powerful presence in the EV sector. Tariffs are among the options on the table.
Michael Wawrykowicz, who lives in Edmonton, uses a small Mitsubishi EV he bought second-hand four years ago for short trips around the city.
Given this is the CBC, I suspect the article is a trial balloon sent up by the Trudeau gov’t.
Quebec is implementing a six-month freeze on the intake of new temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal starting in September, the province’s premier said Tuesday.
François Legault’s announcement comes as his government has been calling for a “significant and rapid” reduction in the number of temporary immigrants in Quebec. The total number across the province has doubled to 600,000 from 300,000 in just two years, he said.
Six decades is a better idea.
In 2006, I arrived in Canada from England on a temporary skilled visa, sent by the University of Manchester to Edmonton to advance my training in sports surgeries. Born and raised in India, I completed my medical education there before moving to the UK for postgraduate orthopedic surgery training, spending eight years refining my skills. As the immigration officer handed back my passport that day, his parting words — ”Hope you stay back in Canada” — felt like a personal promise of acceptance and opportunity, an invitation to make Canada home after completing advanced training.
Fast forward to 2024: I did stay in Canada, planted roots, developed a practice, raised a family, and poured my heart into the community in Alberta, which embraced me as their own.
OTTAWA — The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon to reconsider the appointment of veteran broadcaster Charles Adler to the Senate in light of comments he made about First Nations leaders in 1999.
That Trudeau government! They’re so weirdly racist!
h/t Mauser
Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks is pushing back against claims that the decriminalization of cocaine and opioids in BC is responsible for a recent surge in overdose deaths.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in a briefing note, her office stated it is “inaccurate to claim” that the policy change is the cause of the 16.5% increase in overdose fatalities reported during the decriminalization period.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the median family after-tax income in 2022 fell compared with 2021, after adjusted for inflation, with young people being the hardest hit.
The agency says the median family after-tax income of Canadians was $60,800 in 2022, up 2.5 per cent from 2021.
But after adjusting for an annual rate of inflation of 6.8 per cent, the figure was down four per cent from the previous year.
Liberal-appointed Sen. Charles Adler in a radio broadcast once called Indigenous people uncivilized “boneheads” who should “get a job.”
Adler’s remarks on Radio CJOB Winnipeg were so vulgar they prompted a formal complaint by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter show.
“Sugarcane” reviews are all over the press, all positive, and all are super spreaders of more deceptions about Indian Residential School history in Canada. National Geographic picked up this documentary for distribution after its win at the Sundance Film Festival. Carolyn Berstein, Executive Vice President of National Geographic Documentary Films said at the time: “National Geographic Documentary Films has a long track record of championing epic and important stories that awaken audiences and transcend their moment.”
According to a report in “Deadline” of Feb. 21, 2024, “Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures.”
Let’s awaken National Geographic’s factual brand and its audiences with some behind-the-scenes facts.
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent.
Joly is heading to Ivory Coast today before visiting South Africa for two days starting Wednesday.
Her office says the trip to Ivory Coast is aimed at exploring shared counterterrorism priorities and affirming Canada’s ties with both English- and French-speaking countries.
Every year at the Fraser Institute, we calculate the total tax bill — which includes income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, etc. — for the average Canadian family. This year we found the average family paid 43.0 per cent of its annual income in taxes in 2023. That is more than it spent on basic necessities such as food, clothing and housing combined, and significantly higher than the 33.5 per cent it paid in 1961.
Put differently, the average family’s tax bill has increased 2,705 per cent since 1961 — or 180.3 per cent after adjusting for inflation.
The Fraser Institute in The Star? Sign of the End Times!
h/t DS
In the past nine years, perhaps no policy has proven to be as harmful for the Canadian society and its economy than the Trudeau government’s immigration policy.
Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later the accumulative negatives outweigh the positives and the populous becomes agitated seeing the same faces providing the same excuses. American author Mark Twain summed up this phenomenon rather colourfully when he observed, “Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
A man is facing several charges after three officers were injured while assisting sheriffs with an eviction late week in Toronto’s west end, say police.
The incident happened last Friday in the Earlscourt neighbourhood, near Caledonia and Rogers roads.
Toronto police said they were called to that area at around noon for reports of a break-and-enter in progress.
On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody.@TPAReid @TPACallanan pic.twitter.com/ZohXhaYIEk
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) August 17, 2024
Charles Adler, a longtime radio and TV broadcaster, former newspaper columnist and my former colleague, is now Senator Charles Adler. The announcement of Adler’s appointment came from the PMO on Saturday, making it 82 people that Justin Trudeau has now appointed to the chamber of sober second thought.
