Videos of massive crowds lining up for job fairs in the GTA and elsewhere in Ontario show just how tough the job market has become.
With minimal spots to fill and hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people competing for those few roles, it’s been a grind out there for prospective employees.
Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller warned last month that the increases in the number of asylum claims from international students is “alarming” and “totally unacceptable.”
Speaking ahead of cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill, Miller highlighted Toronto’s Seneca College, where asylum claims from international students increased from 300 in 2022 to almost 700 in 2023, and Kitchener’s Conestoga College, where claims jumped from 106 to 450 during that same period, reports The Canadian Press.
Corporate welfare costing taxpayers over $50 billion a year: Report
Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments spent $52 billion on corporate welfare in 2022 — the latest data available —according to a new study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday.
“These subsidies for businesses — also known as corporate welfare — come with huge costs to government budgets and taxpayers, while doing little if anything to stimulate economic growth,” said Tegan Hill, co-author of “The Cost of Business Subsidies in Canada: Updated Edition,” by the fiscally conservative think tank.
Frankly the Liberal party’s corporate cronies don’t just abuse Canada’s nation destroying mass immigration policy they dictate it.
…The ballooning labour force made for cheaper labour that encourages business to skimp on investment in technology and equipment – which leads to lower productivity.
Scotiabank senior vice-president and chief economist Jean-François Perrault notes that Canada already has a productivity problem and low business investment.
Corporate Canada sees that as a feature not a bug.
The Liberals have bundled their online harms laws into a single bill, but that wide-reaching legislation is really two very different frameworks that have been unwisely conjoined.
The first part, the one actually called the Online Harms Act, is indeed plausibly about online harms. It would create an infrastructure – including statutory responsibilities for social media platforms – that would limit loathsome digital acts such as cyberbullying and revenge porn.
Bernie Farber likes this law, so do the Islamists. Our freedom of speech is being sacrificed to identity politics.
Justice Minister Arif Virani is defending against criticism that the Liberals’ sweeping new online harms bill could have a chilling effect on free speech.
Virani says the legislation is not about censoring “insults launched from a smartphone” but instead giving victims and law enforcement more tools to respond to a rising tide of hate in Canada.
“We’re not talking about insulting, offensive remarks or bad jokes. We’re talking about things like calling for the extermination of a people,” the justice minister told host Mercedes Stephenson in an interview on The West Block.
This bad law grants totalitarian powers that will be used to silence dissent. Our right to freedom of speech should not be trampled to please Islamists or their useful idiots.
Just a day after the federal government announced a review of its program to support Indigenous contractors, CTV News has learned the CEO of a company that prompted the review is an employee of the Department of National Defence (DND).
David Yeo is the CEO of Dalian Enterprises, which received $7.9 million for its work on the ArriveCan app.
No one is surprised at Liberal party corruption, it’s expected in a banana republic.
“It’s hard not to feel disappointed in your government when every day there is a new scandal.”
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 17, 2013
A call to condemn the most recent arson attack on a Christian church — Feb. 9 at Blessed Sacrament Church in downtown Regina — failed to gain unanimous approval in the House of Commons.
On Feb. 12, Conservative MP Corey Tochor called for unanimous consent to condemn the arson at Blessed Sacrament. Members of the Liberal-NDP governing coalition responded with “no.” Speaker of the House of Commons Greg Fergus quickly stated, “there is no unanimous consent.”
The human-rights group Canadian Friends of Hong Kong says it won’t participate in Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference, citing what it calls grave concerns about the standing granted to three politicians with alleged ties to the Chinese government.
In January, an organization representing Uyghur Canadians announced it was withdrawing from the public inquiry over the same matter. The refusals to participate threaten to undermine the commission’s ability to hear from all vulnerable communities facing persecution from China.
If I have a serious health problem, like a chest pain, who do I reach out to? A physician? A clinic? A hospital emergency department? Or do I take my chest pain to a consulting firm that has no medical expertise? It’s not a trick question: with your life on the line, you go to the best as quickly as possible.
Every Liberal government comes with pre-loaded graft.
This week your tax dollars have been supporting 15 or so public servants who have travelled to Panama for a “Big Fear” health conference (not its real name) organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the risks of tobacco and nicotine.
Over 980,000 Canadian study permits were issued to foreign students in 2023, according to recently released records.
The information was released by the Department of Immigration in response to a request by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, who inquired how many students were studying at each institution in Canada, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Liberal, Bloc Québécois and NDP MPs suddenly suspended parliamentary hearings related to ArriveCan and contracting misconduct allegations Wednesday after reading what one Liberal described as a “scary” secret preliminary report by a federal investigator.
They say any further hearings could put at risk investigations by the Canada Border Services Agency, which produced the report, and the RCMP.
Parliament spent nearly $600,000 on luxury hotel rooms it didn’t use when nearly half of the listed delegates for a conference of European parliamentarians it hosted either didn’t show up or chose less expensive hotels.
Parliament expected 700 delegates to attend the annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly, which took place in Vancouver from June 30 to July 4. The conference is usually held in Europe, where most of its members are based.
Only 365 delegates ended up attending, and not all of them stayed at the hotels the government selected. That left taxpayers on the hook for 1,400 overnight stays worth $596,000 in total — an average of $425 a night.
Couldn’t they have RSVP’d delegates?
The federal government’s “first zero-carbon building” in the National Capital Region, which was built at Rideau Hall and cost Canadian taxpayers over $8 million, had nearly half a million dollars spent on architects’ fees, records indicate.
An Inquiry of Ministry document tabled in Parliament on Jan. 29 showed that 86 separate contracts were issued over 10 years for the construction of the solar-powered warehouse, also known as “the barn,” at the national historic site and the official residence and office of the Governor General.
Canada has reached the “Loot the treasury” phase of its descent into a 3rd World shitbox country.
