A new poll has found that nearly 60 per cent of Canadians are having a hard time providing enough food for their families.
The poll from the Angus Reid Institute, released on Friday, shows that 57 per cent of Canadians reported having a difficult time feeding their family recently, an increase from 36 per cent when the question was last asked in 2019.
Inflation plays a role in this figure, the report indicates, as Canadians are dealing with the highest level of inflation in 30 years.
With Canada’s inflation rate in December rising by 4.8% on a year-over-year basis to a 30-year-high, you can bet if Prime Minister Trudeau wasn’t thinking about inflation during the federal election campaign, he’s thinking about it now.
Sometimes the best questions are the ones not being asked.
In the Canadian political arena there are a couple or more in that category.
I’ll go to the biggest one right off the bat: Why and how has the “goal” of getting to net-zero emissions become such a doctrine?
Truckers opposed to federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates are preparing to converge on Ottawa in a protest expected to draw a convoy of at least 1600 rigs, according to organizers.
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— Andy Lee (@Hannah_Bananaz) January 19, 2022
The Consumer Price Index increased at an annual pace of 4.8 per cent in December, as food and energy led to the cost of living going up at its fastest rate since 1991.
Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that grocery prices increased by 5.7 per cent, the biggest annual gain since 2011.
The increase in the inflation rate was in line with expectations. For comparison purposes, the United States currently has an inflation rate of seven per cent, its highest since 1982.
It has been a decade since the Canadian Forces suffered its last enemy-inflicted combat casualty in the Afghan war.
Aside from limited engagements in Iraq and Mali, Canada’s military has largely stayed out of harm’s way in the past 10 years.
Liberals move to ‘modernize’ CBC, making public broadcaster less reliant on advertising
A year after CBC president Catherine Tait defended the public broadcaster’s foray into sponsored content in front of the country’s broadcast regulator, the Liberal government has set its sights on moving the CBC away from the advertising business.
The Liberals have promised $400 million over four years to make the CBC less reliant on advertising, and are aiming to ensure the public broadcaster’s programming is more distinct from its private sector competition.
It was In the late summer of 2019 when I broke the story of then-Liberal MP Adam Vaughan sniffing out the idea of taxing the capital gains earned when you sell your home.
He vehemently denied it, of course, although he finally had to admit the idea came from a blue-skying of possible new policies.
OTTAWA — Newly released documents show the Finance Department last year warned that the pace of price increases could gain speed, even as the Liberal government and central bank maintained that inflationary pressures were temporary.
In a briefing note to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland from the spring, officials outlined “the case for runaway inflation” as part of a larger review of consumer prices.
Solar-powered homes, electric tractors and hydrogen-cell trucking fleets: Canada has big net-zero ambitions, but getting there will require trillions of dollars in investment and will likely fuel hotter inflation for years to come, economists said.
One way or another, he’s going to wreck the economy.
This is the most dishonest and disgusting letter of inaccurate statements I’ve ever read from a politician. It’s criminal what is about to be unleashed on Canadians…. https://t.co/DNoCwjlpJD
— KlownReport (Prime Instigator of Canada) (@KlownReport) January 15, 2022
Canada plans to start turning away unvaccinated U.S. truckers at the border this weekend, a move that threatens to upend the flow of everything from food to auto parts to building supplies between two of the world’s largest trading partners.
B.C., or Before COVID, if you were searching for pure rhapsody in political circles, then you had little to explore. Head to any high-toned Liberal gathering, one of their festal summits where the glories and landmarks of Liberal tenure were, almost liturgically, being celebrated, and inevitably some chosen hero of the Liberal moment would expatiate on the monumental achievements of 1982.
While it’s a terrible idea, if federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos actually believes millions of Canadians should be vaccinated against their will, then the Trudeau government can do it under the Emergencies Act.
