GOLDSTEIN: Most of us pay more in carbon taxes than we get in rebates
Ever since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced his federal carbon tax, the Liberals have been dining out on their claim that 80% of Canadian households where it applies receive more in carbon tax rebates than they pay in carbon taxes.
“Our plan will … leave 8 out of 10 families better off …,” then environment minister Catherine McKenna tweeted on April 1, 2019 when Trudeau’s carbon tax came into effect.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are now jointly charged with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police.
Prominent organizers of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation of downtown Ottawa are facing new criminal charges.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are now jointly charged with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police.
Both were arrested on Feb. 17, a day before police began moving in to clear demonstrators from downtown Ottawa streets.
More… Ottawa police were not ready for number, behaviour of ‘Freedom Convoy’ participants occupying streets: Interim police chief
‘The hate, the disruptive behaviour, the intimidating behaviour, the noise pollution…’ was unexpected, said Interim Police Chief Steve Bell
BRUSSELS — Canada faces fresh pressure to increase its defence spending as the head of the NATO military alliance says leaders have agreed to present plans by June on investing billions of additional dollars into their respective militaries.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed the new pledge at the end of an extraordinary meeting in Brussels, where leaders from across the alliance had gathered for the second time in a month to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
While all NATO members pledged in 2014 to spend two per cent of their national gross domestic product in the next decade, Stoltenberg told reporters after the meeting that allies have now agreed to “redouble” those efforts.
If history is any guide, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got the better of the deal he made with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, ensuring the survival of his Liberal government until June 2025.
It’s not surprising since Trudeau, as PM and the senior partner in the negotiations, was playing from a position of strength.
Singh’s hand was much weaker — as the junior partner — and it showed in the final agreement.
Surging inflation has a growing number of Canadians concerned they won’t be able to stretch their dollars far enough to keep food on the table, according to the latest polling from Ipsos.
In a survey conducted exclusively for Global News from March 11-16, Ipsos found that six in 10 Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their families.
The new Liberal-NDP deal may be the best thing to happen to Conservatives in years –– just, perhaps, not certain Conservatives.
Leadership hopefuls eager to take over the country’s top job sooner rather than later got a rude wakeup call when news of a confidence and supply deal broke Monday night. The pact will, barring any surprises from either side, see the Liberals retain power until 2025 in exchange for passage of some NDP priorities.
After crowds cheered them on from overpasses and at truck stops from one end of the country to the other, the Freedom Convoy arrived at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29 to protest COVID vaccine mandates. Thousands of supporters joined them to wave Canadian flags, dance in the snow, play street hockey, and cheer speeches delivered from a flatbed truck. Kids played in a bouncy castle and on hay bales.
Liberal-NDP deal includes a push for 10 days of paid sick leave for federal workers
OTTAWA – The Liberal Party of Canada and the federal New Democratic Party signed an agreement to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power until 2025 in exchange for moving forward on a series of policies.
The “confidence and supply deal” would secure the NDP’s support for major legislation, such as budget bills and confidence votes, necessary for the minority Liberal government to stay in power until the next election in three years.
Many Canadians are happy to see provincial governments, and now even the federal government ending COVID-19 restrictions, mask mandates, and worst of all, COVID-19 vaccine mandates for certain occupations and activities, but is that really enough?
The fact that the government had the capability to mandate vaccines that did not stop the spread of the virus they were meant to fight is quite troubling. In some provinces like Ontario, they have still not scrapped the digital infrastructure for the mandates, making it so that businesses can still continue discriminating against customers based on vaccine status.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is tacitly endorsing discrimination, and even if you think businesses should be allowed to deny service to whomever they please (which is a fair argument), it is undeniable that nobody would care about vaccine status if the government did not tell them to care.
“The Biden administration has flirted with lifting oil sanctions on once-shunned Venezuela to temper surging oil prices, yet it appears unwilling to encourage investment in domestic energy production,” Fox News reported.
Meanwhile, Biden’s advisers “are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil,” Axios reported.
But one Canadian energy official last week expressed frustration with the Biden administration for not just turning to its neighbor to the north, which is among the world’s top oil producers.
PANDEMIC HIRING BOOM: Federal government added nearly 20,000 workers in a single year
The Trudeau administration spent so much money during the first year of the pandemic that it was easy to lose track of the profound growth taking place in the size of the federal government’s workforce.
Employment across the country jumped more than six per cent year over year to 319,600 for all departments and agencies, according to data compiled by Treasury Board. That’s an increase of nearly 20,000 between the first three months of 2020 and the same period last year.
20 thousand more Liberal party voters robbing us blind.
This has been a bad couple of weeks for the Trudeau government’s magic wand plans to save the planet.
What do I mean by “magic wand?” Those are “green” measures we are assured will prevent climate change without costing jobs, reducing our standard of living or even making us notice much of a change in our daily lives.
The government cited government-controlled CBC reports as part of their justification for imposing the act.
OTTAWA—For Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, there is one tool that’s not only paved the way for, but sustained, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: disinformation.
And she wants to position Canada as a leader in tackling misleading content online, starting with social media.
“Propaganda is not only happening in Russia, it’s happening in new virtual battlegrounds, which are our social media companies,” Joly said Friday in conversation with Janice Stein, founding director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
“So what Canada will be doing, and what I want to make sure that we push even more … is (that) social media companies need to do more to prevent propaganda, and to counter any forms of disinformation,” the minister added.
Disinformation? Would that include Freedolph’s successful effort to have the bought and paid for media white-wash her Nazi scarf photo-op?
The Star is on a roll today HMA is your friend.
