Dairy farmers pushed record-breaking price hike for milk even higher

A record-breaking price hike for milk announced by the Canadian Dairy Commission would have been lower if the country’s dairy farmers hadn’t intervened.

The commission announced in October it would be raising the price paid to farmers for milk next year by 8.4 per cent. Internal records obtained by Global News show the increase would have been less if the normal method for setting prices was used.

“The (commission’s) process ignores impacts on Canadian retailers, restaurants and families,” Michelle Wasylyshen, national spokesperson for the Retail Council of Canada, said.

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Canadians increasingly impatient with climate-change deniers

The past couple of years have provided many examples of extreme weather events that, according to scientists, were exacerbated by climate change.

These events, which used to be featured in the back pages of newspapers or during the final moments of newscasts, are now in Canada. British Columbians endured an extreme heat wave in July, which has been followed this month by heavy rainfall and severe flooding.

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Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull says Huawei 5G would leave Canada’s networks vulnerable to China

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who banned China’s Huawei Technologies from providing equipment for his country’s 5G wireless networks, says Canadians should ask themselves a question as they ponder whether to do the same: are they comfortable with leaving a vital piece of infrastructure vulnerable to the Chinese government?

decision on whether to formally ban Shenzhen-based Huawei from Canada’s 5G networks – and presumably from successor networks still in development, such as 6G – is expected soon from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.

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Cost of living tops pandemic as key issue for Canadians ahead of Parliament’s return: Ipsos

As Parliament prepares to spring back into action on Monday, Canadians have one thing at the top of their mind: the rising cost of living.

That’s the latest from a new Ipsos poll, which found concerns about rising price tags on essentials like groceries and gas are now outranking issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, health care and housing as Canadians’ top concern.

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Trudeau’s Internet Censorship A “Great Leap Forward” In Erosion Of Democracy

Former Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commissioner Timothy Denton has some very direct words for Canadians regarding our Liberal Government’s proposed Internet Censorship legislation.

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WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya, records show

Marc and Craig Kielburger’s WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found.

Slick marketing videos, congratulatory social media posts and crowdfunding websites across the internet tell the story of two brothers on a mission to change the world, but under closer scrutiny those digital crumbs lead down a trail of contradictions and deception.

“I don’t know how they thought they could get away with it for so long,” said a former WE employee. CBC agreed to conceal their identity because they were concerned about legal reprisals from the charity for speaking out.

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Canada’s annual inflation rate hits 4.7% in October, fastest pace in nearly 19 years

Canadian inflation accelerated in October to its quickest pace in nearly 19 years, leaving households to pay sharply more for gasoline, new vehicles and meat products.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.7 per cent in October from a year earlier, up from 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. It was the seventh consecutive month that inflation has exceeded the Bank of Canada’s target range of 1 per cent to 3 per cent.

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GOLDSTEIN: Economic freedom falling across Canada — report

Economic freedom is on the decline across Canada, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

The fiscally-conservative think tank said that based on the latest available data from 2019 — the year before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit — all 10 Canadian provinces were far down the list of economic freedom when compared with 51 U.S. and 31 Mexican states.

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Conservatives demanding documents be released over ‘troubling’ claims Clerk of House favoured Liberals

The Conservatives are calling on the Liberals to release emails and text messages between the party and the Clerk of the House of Commons, Charles Robert, following allegations he crossed a line and broke the cardinal rule of his job by acting partisan.

Robert’s job description is to advise the Speaker and all MPs on parliamentary procedure “regardless of party affiliation” and “with impartiality and discretion.”

But CBC News reported last week that Robert is facing claims he made partisan comments and shared confidential information with the Liberals that could have given the party a strategic advantage over the opposition in the House.

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GOLDSTEIN: COP26 should be last UN gabfest on climate change

It’s time to put the United Nations’ annual global gabfest on climate change out of its misery and ours.

The latest one in Glasgow — formally known as COP26 because it’s the 26th meeting of the UN’s Conference of the Parties on climate change since the first, COP 1, was held in Berlin in 1995 — went into overtime.

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