Rents Are Soaring in Canada as Surge of People Goes Undercounted

Canada’s explosive population growth from immigration is causing rents to surge in its biggest cities. And there’s another problem: The country isn’t even properly counting the number of people who need homes.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government plans to welcome 465,000 new permanent residents this year, and increase the annual target to half a million by 2025. But those often-cited numbers understate the pressure on the country’s limited supply of housing —because they don’t include a wave of foreign students, temporary workers and others with non-permanent visas.

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Canada’s worker ‘shortage’ is an illusion, and bringing in cheap labour doesn’t help

… Rather than not enough workers, the issue is that the prices of the goods and services that workers produce have increased faster than their wages, motivating businesses to hire more workers and sell more.

Canada’s current tight labour markets overwhelmingly reflect increases in the demand for workers, not a decline in their numbers. And the solution is not to satiate that demand with cheap labour, which undermines labour productivity and average economic living standards in the population.


The CPC lost my vote because they refuse to speak out on the mass immigration scandal.

They want bodies to feed the greed of the corporate class and they don’t care where they come from or how damaging the impact is on you and your family.

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We’re At The Point Of No Return.

The Trudeau government is actively obstructing efforts to shine a public light on Beijing’s interference at the core of Canada’s democratic processes. Why?

Here’s how bad it’s got. It was just another day in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “post-national” state, and the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs collapsed in chaos on Tuesday after the Liberals moved to hobble the committee’s ability to elicit documents related to Beijing’s clandestine interference in the 2021 federal election.

It was ugly. Here’s how ugly.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino have more than once insinuated that alarms about Beijing’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections are a ploy in a Trump-style strategy to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of democratic election outcomes. That should show you just how badly Team Trudeau wants us all to shut up about what Beijing has been up to in Canada, and to stop asking how much Trudeau and his ministers know about it.

Something is terribly rotten within the Liberal Party.

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Chrystia Freeland wags finger at founders of naughty ChiCom bank operating in Canada

Chrystia Freeland rings national security alarm about founders of Canadian bank with suspected ties to China

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is raising national-security concerns about Wealth One Bank of Canada, telling three of its founding shareholders that they could be susceptible to Chinese government coercion, according to two sources.

The shareholders are also facing allegations from other Canadian financial institutions that they have engaged in money laundering, according to a letter sent by Ms. Freeland to the three individuals late last year.

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Terry Glavin: Trudeau’s naive foreign policy shredded by reality of Ukraine invasion

With Vladimir Putin’s ghastly war of conquest in Ukraine approaching its first anniversary and Canada’s assistance to the gallant Ukrainian resistance marking a rare point of national pride, here’s something about how much the world has changed lately that’s both disturbing and darkly amusing.

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Loblaw earns $529M in Q4 profits as Canadians continue to be hit with higher food prices

Loblaw Companies on Thursday forecast annual earnings above analysts’ expectations, after the Canadian retailer’s fourth-quarter results beat estimates, helped by strength in its pharmacy business and as demand held up for groceries.

The company says it earned a profit available to common shareholders of $529 million. Its fourth-quarter revenue rose about 10 per cent to $14.01 billion, topping estimates of $13.75 billion.


One industry expert put it bluntly: “This is what collusion looks like”

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After years of cozying up to China, Trudeau impotent in face of election interference

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

The most recent reports have revealed just how extensive China’s activities have become, and exposed the Trudeau government’s astonishing reluctance to treat them with the seriousness they deserve

Once established, it can take a long time to escape a bad reputation, as Canada has when it comes to China.

It’s been decades in the making, with successive prime ministers seized by the perceived gains to be had from the world’s most populous market. The current prime minister famously expressed his enthusiasm for the one-party state’s “basic dictatorship.”

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Ottawa’s ‘Sustainable Jobs’ Plan Pilloried as Imposing Top-Down Planning, Stifling Free Market

In efforts to reach net zero by 2050, Ottawa’s strategy to transform the workforce toward “sustainable jobs”—”green” jobs in a low-carbon economy—sparked extensive criticism from analysts due to its top-down approach and departure from traditional market-based economics.

On Feb. 17—the Friday before a long weekend and overshadowed by the verdict on the government’s use of the Emergencies Act—the feds released its interim Sustainable Jobs Plan for 2023 to 2025.

The government deems a job to be sustainable, if it is “compatible with Canada’s path to a net-zero emissions and climate resilient future.”

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Is Pierre Poilievre taking a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook? Justin Trudeau seems to think so

The “Canada is broken” rhetoric from the Conservatives in Canada is out of Donald Trump’s failed political playbook, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday evening.

“There’s an ease out there in political circles” with saying “oh, everything’s broken. It’s all broken. It’s we have to change and start over,” he said at a gathering of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters in Vaughan.

Bad news for Justin and his media lackeys: Canada is broken and playing the Trump card is pathetic.

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Trudeau launches lame attack on Opposition after being caught out on suspicious lack of response to ChiCom election interference & espionage activities

Political spin on election interference helps China undermine democracies: Trudeau

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says members of Parliament who put a political spin on foreign election interference are helping China undermine Canadians’ confidence in their democracy.

He says playing “political games” to get a partisan advantage will undermine people’s trust in their institutions, and will only assist the efforts of countries like Russia and China that attempt to make democracies unstable.

He told reporters today that Canadians must have trust in the electoral process, regardless of which political party is in power, and parties must work together on the issue.

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Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have entitlement problems. Big ones

There is an old saying in politics that governments defeat themselves.

They are often brought down by arrogance, carelessness and the lack of a meaningful agenda. Voters resent governments that begin taking their power for granted.

We may be seeing this now with the federal Liberals in their almost allergic reaction to accountability. The lack of respect they routinely demonstrate toward a public whose trust they promised not to betray is beyond disappointing.

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CSIS found specific Chinese interference in Canada’s election. What happened next?

We now know the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found there was an organized Chinese-government effort to interfere in Canada’s election in 2021. What we don’t know is whether anything has been done with that information.

It’s not a question of exposing CSIS’s spy-versus-spy world of clandestine surveillance and neutralizing threats with shadowy techniques.

The LPC is in Cahoots with the ChiComs no bones about it.

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