The Trudeau government’s climate change plan will cost Canadian workers $6,700 annually by 2030, cut national employment by 164,000 jobs and fail to achieve promised emission reduction targets, according to a new study by University of Guelph economist Ross McKitrick.
The Montreal offices of Liberal MP and federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller suffered what appeared to be thousands of dollars of damage after being vandalized on Thursday.
The St-Jacques St. office’s windows were smashed and covered with pink paint and vandals wrote: “Marc Miller Child Killer” in spray paint across the office’s facade.
Pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Minister Marc Miller's office in Montreal to protest against his support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/oXgItF2YQS
— V PALESTINE 🇵🇸 (@V_Palestine20) July 17, 2024
h/t Mauser
Isaac Newton said he lost money on the South Sea Bubble financial collapse because, although he could track the movement of stars, he could not calculate the madness of men.
In Canada, the legalization of cannabis in October 2018, unleashed a mania that has seen nearly 1,000 companies receive federal production licences and retailers open nearly 3,500 stores selling cannabis products across the country. It is a short street indeed that doesn’t have a pot shop on it.
The Cannabis Act was a cornerstone piece of legislation for the Trudeau government — a welcome end to 94 years of failed prohibition and an attempt to make Canada safer by closing down the black market in unregulated pot.
Have you been to Wasaga beach lately?
This local says a certain demographic keeps using beach one as their dumping ground. Literally.#TheyHaveToGoBack pic.twitter.com/CRHJCZr6sY
— LΞIGH (@LeighStewy) July 18, 2024
If a Liberal Party Canvasser shows up at your door throw feces at them.
h/t Patti Jo
I’ve lived in apartments in Toronto my whole life. I’ve been in my current apartment for nine years — and I’ve watched in horror as apartments around me doubled, then tripled in price. For the past five years, I’ve lived with the terrifying knowledge that if I had to move tomorrow, there would be nowhere for me to go. As a struggling creative and small business owner, even prices in Etobicoke and Scarborough are beyond my reach.
Canadians now spend more of their incomes on housing than almost any other country in the world. Between 1980 and 2020, housing prices in Canada rose by 746 per cent, far outpacing the median household income, which grew by less than half of that. Then housing prices soared another 50 per cent during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the country’s fertility rate has been falling steadily, hitting historic lows in each of the past five years it was measured. As of the latest tally in 2022 – when inflation was red hot – Canada’s fertility rate fell to just 1.33 children per woman. For reference, a country requires a fertility rate of 2.1 to keep its population stable, without relying on immigration.
The following are essential components of a racially fair Canada according to a pair of federally appointed brainstormers: dedicated Black courts and federal departments, racial “decarceration” targets … and, possibly, reparations for slavery.
These measures, numbering 114 in total, were recommended to the federal government by a steering group at the end of June to shape the Liberal government’s forthcoming Black Justice Strategy. It’s an initiative that will be sure to promote disorder and advance the well-being of a select few, if the guiding material is any indication.
Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan is resigning from cabinet, CBC News has learned.
O’Regan, 53, is stepping down for family reasons, sources said. The Newfoundland and Labrador MP is planning to stay on as a member of Parliament until the next federal election but won’t seek re-election, the sources added.
The government is expected to announce his replacement in cabinet on Friday.
A steady trickle.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau so far appears to have weathered the storm after the surprising June byelection upset in the longtime Liberal riding of Toronto–St. Paul’s. He has said he is committed to staying on as prime minister, and there are a number of factors working in his favour.
Back in the early 2000s, Paul Martin managed to displace Jean Chrétien as prime minister at a time when the Liberal Party had a comfortable majority in the House of Commons and had up to that point faced a fractured opposition.
HALIFAX — Ontario is asking the federal government to pay up and cover the costs of supporting and housing asylum-seekers, as Quebec’s premier said his province is willing to give up some funding so that other provinces can take in larger numbers.
Speaking at the final news conference at the Council of the Federation’s annual summer meeting — this year hosted by Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — Premier Doug Ford said Ontario spends $1 billion a year and that asylum-seekers are often left in limbo by the federal government.
While Justin Trudeau faced sharp scrutiny from world leaders and domestic analysts towards past and planned defence spending at the recent NATO summit, The Hub found that Canada’s spending on military equipment and national defence is far below previous projections, resulting in arguably the worst recent spending record of NATO members.
Who does Justin Trudeau listen to? Who can tap him on the shoulder and tell him it might be time to go? That’s a question that came up among Liberals this summer.
In the U.S., a similar question was asked, with more urgency, about President Joe Biden. His halting debate performance in June has many Democrats fearing that if he is the party’s candidate, he will hand the presidency to Donald Trump. A series of private delegations of Democrats have reportedly sought to give him that message.
It’s being called an act of diplomacy; it might better be described as covering your butt.
Justin Trudeau called Donald Trump on Sunday, the day after the attempted assassination on the former U.S. President. There was no readout provided of the call, which often happens when the PM makes an important call, just a short statement from Trudeau’s office.
Politics doesn’t have to be the cruellest game, but that’s usually the way it is played. Right now, for instance, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is definitely being played.
Three weeks ago, the political pressure was on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Would he quit after the Liberals lost the ultra-safe seat of Toronto-St. Paul’s? Former Liberal ministers openly called for new leadership as did one current backbencher, Wayne Long.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday she believes she has the prime minister’s confidence to remain in the job of finance minister.
But Freeland, in her first public comments since Justin Trudeau acknowledged he has talked to former central banker Mark Carney for years about entering politics, suggested it is up to Trudeau to address the questions about who serves in which roles within his cabinet.
