Advocates call on federal government to fund housing for so called foreign students

Minister, advocates say they fear international students will be blamed for housing crisis

Immigration Minister Marc Miller and student advocates across the country say they worry about immigrants and international students being singled out for blame because of the housing crisis.

“It’s one of my fears,” Miller said in a recent interview with CBC News. “I do worry about the stigmatization of particularly people of diversity that come to this country to make it better, and that includes international students.”

So why did you invite so many Miller? Everyone knows the foreign student scam is just a way to purchase Canadian citizenship.

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Canadian Population Growth Requires 50k New Jobs Per Month: Stat Can

Canada’s population boom led to a talent windfall, but the country has no idea how to use it. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data revealed much better-than-expected job gains in August 2023. However, those job gains failed to keep up with the population growth, ultimately softening the labor market. It may get a lot worse soon, with Stat Can estimating Canada needs to add about 50k jobs per month to maintain the strength of the current market. That would imply a near-record needs to be hit every single month.

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Conrad Black: Steven Guilbeault’s destructive crusade against Canadian prosperity

Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Steven Guilbeault, has been an activist all of his conscient life.

He co-founded an organization that rejoiced in the name Action for Solidarity, Equity, Environment and Development. In 2001, when he was in his early 30s, he scaled the CN Tower like Spiderman to an altitude of 340 metres and unfurled a banner proclaiming “Canada and Bush — Climate Killers.”

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China threatens ‘consequences’ over Canadian inquiry into alleged meddling

China is warning of “consequences” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government unless it stops spreading “lies and false information” about alleged interference in Canadian affairs.

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa issued a stern statement on Friday, a day after Canada announced a public inquiry into meddling by China, Russia and other state and non-state actors in Canadian national elections in 2019 and 2021.

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Frustrated Liberals say Pierre Poilievre is crushing them — and some of them are blaming Justin Trudeau

They are frustrated. Many are discouraged. Others are angry. Morale in the Liberal caucus is as bleak as Grit MPs report ever seeing it.

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hears them out — and his backbench musters up the courage to speak, MPs predict “sparks will fly” when the Liberal caucus meets in London, Ont., next week.

“We don’t feel that we have a partner in the Prime Minister’s Office that is doing what it needs to be doing to help us at this time,” said one of more than a dozen MPs who spoke to the Star for this column. Some MPs requested anonymity to speak candidly, others spoke on-the-record. On or off the record, they all believe change is drastically needed.


This is one of the more bizarre Star/LPC propaganda pieces in a while. Liberal MP’s say they’ve taken the pulse of the people and housing and the cost of living are the issues that matter but the PM isn’t doing enough to communicate the LPC’s concern and solutions to these matters.

Oddly none of the MP’s or the Star columnist mention Trudeau and his corporate cronies are the single greatest creators of the housing crisis with their heinous mass immigration policy. But they have convinced themselves of Justin’s fine environmental stewardship failing to admit  the damage Trudeau’s eco-policy has done to people’s pocketbooks by throttling the oil industry and imposing carbon taxes that are magically supposed to change the weather, fight forest fires and offset China’s use of coal.

Maybe they’re speaking in code or like zombie sycophants are so deeply in Junior’s thrall that reality cannot penetrate.

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Guilbeault crashes Conservative convention as Poilievre finds firmer footing in Quebec

QUEBEC CITY – Fresh from a visit to Beijing, Liberal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault appeared at the doorstep of Quebec City’s convention centre on Friday to crash the Conservative party’s national convention and call leader Pierre Poilievre a climate denier.

“Frankly, it’s very easy to attack Pierre Poilievre on the environment,” Guilbeault said, adding that Poilievre is “someone who claims to be a political leader in 2023 who does not even believe in climate change, who does not believe that we should be doing anything about climate change”.

I’m betting Guilbeault got instructions from Xi.

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Trudeau says he will testify with ‘enthusiasm’ if called as a witness at foreign interference inquiry

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he will “willingly” testify before the public inquiry into foreign election interference if he’s asked.

“Willingly and with very much enthusiasm,” Trudeau told reporters at a news conference in Singapore.

“I think it’s important for Canadians to know exactly everything this government has been doing in regards to foreign interference and to talk frankly about the challenges that we continue to face in our democracies around the world.”

Just don’t ask him about China.

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Ex-military general says Canada being destroyed by ‘woke movement’

Retired lieutenant general Michel Maisonneuve and his wife, Barbara, took the stage on Thursday at the Conservative Party convention, with the couple deriding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s so-called “woke agenda.”

“Our country has been led by a government that has been focused on virtue signalling,” Maisonneuve told the crowd in Quebec City. “Apologizing for who we are and how we came to be.”

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Head of CCP Department Now Designated a Spy Agency Met With Canadian Ministers in 2018

The former head of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) department responsible for engaging with foreign political parties met with multiple federal cabinet ministers and the national security adviser to the prime minister during a 2018 visit to Canada. This CCP department was recently designated an “intelligence service” by a German federal intelligence agency.

The International Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, also known as the International Liaison Department (ILD), operates “de facto as an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China and is therefore part of the Chinese intelligence apparatus,” says a “Safety Notice for Politics and Administration” in German.

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The bottom has suddenly fallen out of Liberal support. Why?

A wise old pollster once put it to me this way: “When people have decided to get rid of a government,” he said, “it doesn’t matter who the other guys are.”

Somewhere along the way this summer, large numbers of Canadians appear to have suddenly decided they want to get rid of this government. The top-line numbers are arresting enough. Four recent polls, by Angus Reid, Abacus, Leger and Mainstreet, put the Conservatives ahead by between 11 and 14 points. As late as June, the Tory lead was five points or less.

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Canada added 40,000 jobs in August — but it added 100,000 more people, too

Vicious idiots run Canada

Canada’s economy added 40,000 jobs last month, about twice as many as expected, but also only about half as many as would be needed to keep up with population growth.

Statistics Canada reported Friday that while the economy added jobs, the country also added about 103,000 new people. So despite the mini-surge, the employment rate — the percentage of adults who are actively in the workforce — actually declined by 0.1 percentage points, to 61.9 per cent.

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Justin Trudeau hammered by devastating polls just before Parliament set to reconvene

With only a week to go before Parliament reconvenes, a pair of devastating polls are showing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with near-unprecedented rates of disapproval.

Younger people, who were key to Trudeau’s 2015 election victory, have now broken for the Conservatives at rates that haven’t been seen since the 1980s. A new Abacus Data survey found that Millennials were nearly twice as likely to vote Conservative as Liberal. And the Tories even led among the younger Generation Z; Canadians aged 18 to 27 favoured the Conservatives at a rate of 32 per cent against 24 per cent for the Liberals.

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Jesse Kline: A Liberal national housing strategy is a monstrously terrible idea

In case you hadn’t heard, Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis, and by golly the federal government must do something about it! At least, that’s the prevailing opinion of the liberal chattering classes, who are demanding a national strategy to increase the supply of houses, rental units and Soviet-style co-operative housing.

For the past couple years, the Trudeau Liberals have at least been pretending to address the issue, in the typical “we’ll add a heap of regulations and throw a bunch of money at the problem so it looks like we’re taking it seriously” sort of way.

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Quebec Court of Appeal Judge Marie-Josée Hogue to lead foreign interference inquiry

Justice Marie-Josée Hogue of the Quebec Court of Appeal will chair a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced Thursday.

Hogue’s first report is due Feb. 29 and her mandate will focus on alleged acts of interference by China and other states, including Russia, he said.

Former governor general David Johnston was tasked with looking into allegations that China tried to meddle in the past two federal elections. He resigned from the position in June, saying his role had become too muddled in political controversy for him to continue.

I have zero faith in this farce, it’s like asking Al Capone to investigate bootlegging.

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