Canada’s Job Market Is Booming If You Ignore Population Revisions

Canada’s Job Market Is Booming If You Ignore Population Revisions

Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.

Share

Montrealer charged for alleged death threats against Mark Carney

Montrealer charged for alleged death threats against Mark Carney

A Montreal man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats towards Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Marc Porlier, 51, appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Aug. 8.

He was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm to a person under section 264.1 of the Criminal Code, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Share

Feds announce $100M program to cover 50% of shipping steel in Canada by rail and water

Feds announce $100M program to cover 50% of shipping steel in Canada by rail and water

The federal government is pumping $100 million into Canada’s steel industry with a new program that will pay for half the costs of transporting Canadian-made steel by ship or by rail within the country.

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon made the announcement Monday in Hamilton, where he said the Commodities Sectoral Support Program is a direct response to U.S. tariffs being slapped on Canadian goods.

The U.S. currently has imposed anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper, and derivative products.

Share

Making concessions to get a trade deal when the public’s in a fighting mood

Making concessions to get a trade deal when the public’s in a fighting mood

Mark Carney has always faced a conundrum when it comes to making a trade deal with Donald Trump. There’s pressure to get a deal, but it would require concessions that come at a political cost.

Now that squeeze is even tighter. At a critical time.

Canada and the United States are talking about a deal again, after a long period when there weren’t really any serious negotiations going on.


Fighting mood? For what exactly?

The Liberal’s ruinous reign of harm?

The good old days were in fact very very bad days for Canadians starting with Trudeau.

Share

Carney vacations in Tuscany while Trump’s 50% tariff deadline looms

Carney vacations in Tuscany while Trump’s 50% tariff deadline looms

OTTAWA — With the Trump Administration’s deadline to slap Canada with 50% tariffs looming a little over a week away, Prime Minister Mark Carney is spending the week in Italy on vacation.

In a note sent to the Parliamentary Press Gallery on Saturday, the PMO announced that Carney will be “on a reduced schedule in the week of Aug. 10, and that Carney will be in Italy “for personal commitments until Aug. 17.”

Share

Ottawa commissions project to track ‘news deserts’ in Canada

Ottawa commissions project to track ‘news deserts’ in Canada

OTTAWA – The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage.

“Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory — a multi-phase, multi-year project that will ultimately measure the extent and spread of news deserts and areas of news poverty in Canada,” the department said in a December memo to the culture minister.


Location scouting for paid media?

Share

Canada will build at speeds not seen in generations – unless, of course, there’s a byelection

Canada will build at speeds not seen in generations – unless, of course, there’s a byelection

The proposed expansion of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport was a test case for Prime Minister Mark Carney – and a fairly straightforward one, too.

Here was an infrastructure project that did not involve multiple jurisdictions, competing provincial interests, or Indigenous land claims (though in late May, the Haudenosaunee Development Institute asked to be formally consulted on the plans). The federal government didn’t even need to initiate development plans: This was Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s baby. All Ottawa needed to do, really, was stand back and let it happen.

Share

The DEI Era isn’t over. It just changed Prime Ministers.

The DEI Era isn’t over. It just changed Prime Ministers.

This is not a piece about culture war theatre. It’s only about who gets hired to do publicly funded research in this country, and if your instinct is to write that off as coded hostility to diversity, you’re not engaging with the argument, you’re dodging it and you might as well move on because this is going to be a series.

Share

The 24 hours that could change Canada’s economic trajectory

The 24 hours that could change Canada’s economic trajectory

Less than six weeks from now, Canada will have 24 hours to try to sway a captive audience of the world’s financial power brokers that the country is ripe for more investment.

The inaugural Canada Investment Summit, scheduled for Sept. 14 and 15 in Toronto, will be a rare moment for Canada. Led by Prime Minister Mark Carney and two of the country’s largest pension funds, it is expected to draw the kind of crowd that normally only gathers en masse in Davos, Switzerland or Los Angeles.

Share

Open Border Extremists at CBC equate desire for immigration reform with “hate crime”

Open Border Extremists at CBC equate desire for immigration reform with “hate crime”

Hamilton anti-racism groups give tips on how to avoid unwittingly renting venues to groups deemed extremist

An organization calling for the deportation of immigrants says it’s hosting a conference in the Hamilton area on Aug. 29, prompting local anti-racism groups to take action.

In an open letter, several organizations, including the Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Centre (HARRC) and Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI), are urging businesses and institutions not to rent space to Dominion Society of Canada and other such groups.

The letter also shares tips to help venues avoid unwittingly letting extremist groups book their events.

The CBC is a far left extremist group and their message is clear you are to be demonized for your beliefs. Frank discussion of immigration reform marks you as a forever guilty racist oppressor and any attempt to stand up and protect your own best interests is a hate crime.

Share

SNOBELEN: Mark Carney following mistakes with tough-guy promises

SNOBELEN: Mark Carney following mistakes with tough-guy promises

When the Liberal party selected Mark Carney as its new leader (and our new prime minister), I thought it could get interesting. Carney was a well-respected, international bureaucrat. He was obviously comfortable in the rarified air of global hobnobbing.

But Carney was a political neophyte and politics is a retail business. Could a guy at ease attending cocktail parties be equally comfortable with farmers, welders and the people toiling at workstations far below the executive suite?

Share

Accused NATO Spy Photographed Justin Trudeau Speaking at a Toronto Gala in July 2014, Years Before Entering Government

Accused NATO Spy Photographed Justin Trudeau Speaking at a Toronto Gala in July 2014, Years Before Entering Government

OTTAWA — On July 14, 2014, a Facebook account belonging to Biwei Zhang, the woman now accused of spying inside NATO’s military command and of membership in a criminal organization, published a photograph of Justin Trudeau speaking from a stage at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, in a ballroom holding several hundred guests seated at banquet tables, phones raised toward the podium.


One thing is certain. Trudeau never had Canada’s best interests at heart. Neither does Carney.

Share

GUNTER: Liberal refugee claimant policy burdens Canada’s health care

GUNTER: Liberal refugee claimant policy burdens Canada’s health care

That didn’t take long.

Back in May, as part of a promise in the last federal budget to lower the cost of providing health care for unproven refugee claimants and asylum seekers, the federal government announced that newcomers awaiting hearings on their permanent residency would be required to pay 30% of their health care costs and four dollars on all prescriptions.

Share

Alcohol, dairy and autos: What is and isn’t on the table in Canada-U.S. trade negotiations

Alcohol, dairy and autos: What is and isn’t on the table in Canada-U.S. trade negotiations

OTTAWA — The day after extensive trade talks between Canada and U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., details are emerging of where the give and take may be in ongoing negotiations.

Multiple industry sources tell CTV News they are cautiously optimistic that progress is being made toward a comprehensive bilateral agreement outside of the U.S. and Canada’s formal trilateral deal with Mexico.

But, they’re also warning against expectations that a deal will be made by a looming Aug. 19 deadline.

Share