Standing by the side of his RV in a bright blue T-shirt, Donald (Gator) Varnador proudly shows off his manicured garden.
“I hear people always talking about more affordable housing. Well, this is affordable housing.”
Gator, a senior, lives in the Riverbend Cottage and RV Resort just outside Parksville on Vancouver Island.
OTTAWA — On the eve of a major NATO summit, the federal budget watchdog says the government is overestimating defence spending and that Canada will be even further than expected from its 2 per cent military investment commitment by the end of the decade.
A year ago, the Liberal plan to fight the 2025 election was based on making Canadians fear Pierre Poilievre. Now, they can’t even get a large portion of the population to think about the Conservative Leader – because their feelings about Justin Trudeau get in the way.
The Liberals want to tell people that Mr. Poilievre is too right-wing, or bent on launching an era of austerity, or uninterested in climate change. They want to make people question whether a prime minister Poilievre is really what they want.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to accept the demand by some of his MPs for an in-person national caucus meeting to discuss the recent devastating Toronto-St. Paul’s, Ont., byelection loss, and the strategy going forward, but MPs and political insiders say that ducking the issue won’t help.
Queer rights are in danger in Canada. Pierre Poilievre owns some of the blame
For years, Ipsos has been asking individuals around the world for their opinions on Queer people. And for years, the pollster has found, those opinions have steadily improved. People had been growing more and more supportive of the LGBTQ community with each passing year, especially in Canada.
In 2011, more than six-in-ten Canadians said people should be open about their sexual orientation and gender identity; even more voiced support for anti-discrimination laws; more, still, endorsed Queer couples adopting children.
But this year, those trends suddenly reversed.
h/t DS
Canada faces an immigration crisis on multiple levels.
Years of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s endorsed over-immigration into Canada have pushed housing prices into the stratosphere, sent per capita income into a tailspin and precipitated a brain-drain to the U.S.
While skilled or semi-skilled Canadians are headed south, the millions of illegal aliens who have entered the U.S. in the last three years will head north should Donald Trump win the 2024 election.
Canada has been dodging its commitment to NATO for a decade. It may not be able to hold out for much longer.
Over the past several years, Ottawa has become an outlier among the 32-member alliance. It has failed to hit domestic military spending goals, has fallen short on benchmarks to fund new equipment and has no plans to get there.
Sidney Wood says he was evicted last month because he couldn’t pay his rent.
Wood, 41, couldn’t afford the $1,620 per month for a basement apartment in Edmonton that he shared with his two teenage children. Not after he and his wife separated in March, and not on his CPP disability income that he says is $1,403 per month.
So Wood, who is unable to work due to PTSD after 11 years as a correctional officer in a maximum security prison, had to move back to St. Theresa Point First Nation, an Oji-Cree reserve in Northern Manitoba. His children, who are 15 and 16, stayed in Edmonton with family.
A report by Treasury Board President Anita Anand’s department says government spokespeople must “correct” Canadians’ thinking, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The board had earlier championed 4,600 federal spokespeople as defenders of “the heart of our democracy.” On Tuesday, in its report, the treasury board did not comment on its claim.
In its monthly update on energy trends, Statistics Canada reported this week that this year, for the first time ever, Canada has become a net importer of electricity. The switchover in our electricity trade balance reveals the shortcomings of an energy strategy that now emphasizes decarbonization over energy security, leaving customers vulnerable to supply shortfalls and higher prices.
Somewhere in Ottawa, the soon retiring NDP MP Charlie Angus must be rubbing his hands in glee. Thanks to his mischief, the oil and gas sector’s biggest players have been squelched. Mission accomplished!
Not only has Angus figured out how to hijack parliamentary committees, routinely hauling energy company CEOs into Ottawa for public scoldings, his successful push for a new “greenwashing” rule in omnibus Bill C-59 has achieved his desired effect. Several blue-chip companies, including the Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies, have scrubbed all content from websites and social media.
Change. You capricious son of a bitch.
Sometimes it will sweep you to power atop a tidal wave of enthusiasm, applause, and anticipation. But just as easily, it can bury you beneath the hard clay of political history.
Statistics Canada’s June jobs report, released Friday, was dismal.
Nationwide, Canada lost – lost! – 1,400 jobs last month. Typically, healthy economies pick up jobs in the summer months. Seasonal increases occur in tourism, agriculture, forestry, construction and other industries.
But not in Liberal Canada where woke virtual signalling has displaced sound economic policy for the past nine years.
Whenever the federal Liberals finally decide to hold a national caucus meeting, here is the problem confronting them about the government of their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
On every one of the top issues Canadians say they are most concerned about, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a big lead over them.
In the last two weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been sent several messages, but judging by a press conference he gave a few days ago, they are falling on deaf ears.
The first message was sent by voters in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto—St. Paul’s. In an astonishing upset, the riding went to the Conservatives. Although byelections are often won by opposition parties, it’s telling that it has been over four decades since the Grits last lost a byelection in Toronto.
