A report from the Department of Social Development shows the cost of living has overtaken years of progress in lowering poverty rates, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
The department counted a half million Canadians who fell into poverty due to inflation in a December 11 briefing report.
“Future increases in the rate of poverty could stall progress towards reaching the 2030 poverty reduction target of a 50% reduction in poverty versus 2015 levels,” said the federal report.
For all of British Columbia’s environmentalist tendencies, it has struggled to preserve one of its most endangered species: the northern spotted owl. The stable part of that population, a total of 30 members, lives in a captive breeding program in Langley. Only three are now known to be living in the wild.
The owls are low on the priority list of our otherwise aggressive Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was recently found by a federal court judge to have broken the law by failing to protect them with haste.
‘People are voting based on their social identity. It’s become them versus us,’ says Greg Lyle, a pollster and former Conservative party activist in the 1990s.
The quickest way to get a start in politics in Canada is to appeal to members of an affiliated ethnic or religious group to take over a nomination battle or leadership convention, specialists say.
It’s not a new political strategy, but more and more it’s becoming the technique for scrambling to the top in Canadian politics.
The National Post’s Tristin Hopper did a fine job this week explaining the migraine-inducing politics behind whether or not an opposition leader ought to read the un-redacted National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report that apparently implicates more than zero parliamentarians in wilful collusion with foreign influences. The conundrum, in a nutshell, is that once you’ve read it, you’re sworn to secrecy about its contents.
Global study ranks two Canadian cities high on list of most expensive places to buy a home
As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.
A study by Demographia, which examines international housing affordability, has deemed Vancouver and Toronto as “impossibly unaffordable.”
David MacDonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says the findings of the study aren’t surprising.
The revelation this week that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax will cost the Canadian economy $25 billion in lost Gross Domestic Product growth by 2030 shows that the tax is a failure – by the government’s own standards.
News that the government’s figures confirm a 1% reduction in GDP over the next six years – a calculation the Liberals tried for weeks to hide from Canadians – has been greeted with something of a ho-hum. The attitude of a lot of observers has been, “It’s only 1%.” When the government was covering up its study, the assumption was that it must be really bad. One per cent seems tiddly.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly insists there are no “traitors” in the Liberal caucus, after a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) alleged there are MPs and senators who are “semi-witting or witting participants” in foreign interference efforts.
“Listen, if that was the case, they would be out of the Liberal caucus, and they should be out of every single party,” Joly told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday.
This from the woman who didn’t know her boss sent a Canadian navy vessel to celebrate his Dad’s country Cuba.
Vote Intention: Conservatives lead by 20 over the Liberals
If an election were held today, 42% of committed voters would vote Conservatives with the Liberals at 22%, the NDP at 19% and the Greens at 5%. The BQ continues to hold 38% in Quebec.
Canadians — and Liberals — split on giving the undocumented status: immigration minister
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government is continuing to investigate options for giving status to some undocumented people in Canada — but he doesn’t see consensus on the issue in the country or in the government caucus.
In an interview airing Saturday on CBC’s The House, Miller spoke positively about the idea but cautioned that the ongoing debate over the prospect prompted him to “reflect” on taking any action.
“I think from a humanitarian perspective it makes sense. From an economic perspective, it makes sense,” he told host Catherine Cullen.
How about thinking of your own citizens from a ‘humanitarian perspective’ for a change asshat?
FASANO, ITALY – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has concerns with how conclusions were gathered in a spy watchdog report.
Speaking after the conclusion of the G7 summit in Italy, Trudeau told reporters that he has concerns with the way the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians came to its conclusions that some parliamentarians were “semi-witting or witting” participants in efforts of foreign states to meddle in Canadian politics.
“We made clear some concerns we had with the way that NSCIOP did, drew conclusions,” he said. “I think that is an important part of the process.”
It’s a fascinating political petri dish under the microscope by parties, pollsters and pundits alike.
Candidates and campaign volunteers will tell you what really matters to voters in the Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection is: housing, the high cost of groceries and staples, or how to tackle acts of rising antisemitism in a midtown riding that has the fifth largest Jewish population in the country.
But ask voters on the street, and they’ll tell you what really matters is Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre.
They’re trying to spin that a win for the Libs in next week’s byelection is simultaneously a national endorsement of the worst Prime Minister ever and a repudiation of Poilievre.
But it’s an ultra safe riding in the heart of Canada’s most progressively stupid city.
The only story will be a loss for Junior’s candidate.
The federal government has mandated that all new light-duty vehicles be electric by 2035. Achieving that goal would require vastly more electrical generation capacity and an enormous expansion of charging stations.
A Fraser Institute study published in March found that handling the higher load would require either 13 large new gas plants or the equivalent of 10 new mega-dams the size of B.C.’s $16-billion hydro Site C. Just one problem: almost all viable hydro sites have already been dammed. Plus, it took 10 years to get environmental approval for Site C and another 10 to build it.
To fight globalism, we need more sovereignty — strong nations. Nations that are great again.
National leaders need to be far enough away that they can’t stick their snouts in your business, but close enough that we can give them a good ass-kicking. All the globalist pretensions from a world government presuppose the idea that they would do it better. Governing is like driving. We always think we drive better than the guy next to us. And they think that, being rich or powerful, they know better how to decide — from Washington, from Geneva, or from Brussels — what a farmer from Illinois, a car mechanic from Berlin, or a cattle farmer from Almeria needs and wants for his life. Why? For the same reason you think you drive better than everyone else — because everyone else is an idiot.
In Justin Trudeau’s paranoid Ottawa, insiders say treason allegations are being carelessly tossed around
By Justin Ling Contributor
Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of documents and a plan to defect. When he finally got an audience with the RCMP, he revealed the most extensive espionage and influence campaign Canada had ever seen.
Gouzenko’s defection spurred a series of investigations, a public inquiry, and a media frenzy. Revelations of how Moscow sought to steal secrets and infiltrate Ottawa gripped the nation and woke Ottawa up to new realities of the Cold War.
The gall.
Now that the shouting is over, you have to ask yourself what was the Trudeau government thinking when it decided to attack the credibility of Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux on the economic cost of carbon pricing?
