Just one click away, and Canadians are able to get an inside peek into what the feds are spending their hard-earned taxpayer cash on.
However, few have the desire to search endlessly on the feds website, so instead the Western Standard has done this for readers — scoping out the feds’ Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program (CAHAP) Projects, which the feds claim are aimed at “building on Canada’s strength as a diverse and inclusive society.”
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There’s little doubt that the world around us has been getting nuttier in recent years and so have its inhabitants. Researchers say mental illness has been on the rise for decades, but the stress and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic drove many more people — especially the young — around the bend. And now the surge in mental health issues is evolving in the U.S. into a political movement.
Rafał came to England for an easy life. He was in his late twenties, his parents had just died, and he had little to keep him in Poland. So when his sister suggested he join her, he upped sticks from Kielce, an elegant old town not far from Kraków. His first port of call was Great Yarmouth. It was 2007, three years since the European Union had expanded to the east, granting the right to live and work in the UK to millions more people.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s had it with months dedicated to various causes, arguing there are too many and that it’s becoming difficult to keep track of them.
Speaking at a press conference on June 19, the opposition leader said, “I think there are so many months now that are dedicated to so many causes it’s kind of getting hard to keep track of which month is for what cause or for what group.”
Outgoing Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith is considering running for Toronto city council, and has discussed the possibility with Mayor Olivia Chow.
Erskine-Smith has represented the federal riding of Beaches-East York since 2015, but is stepping down when Parliament rises this week. He announced his resignation in May after narrowly losing the nomination for the Ontario Liberals in an upcoming byelection in Scarborough Southwest, a result that dealt a blow to his plans to run for leader of the provincial party.
He’s determined to wring every last ounce of value from his Mohammed wardrobe.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced on Friday $100 million in federal funding to support Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
She unveiled the funding in Paris, where Western leaders are meeting to discuss mounting challenges preventing a future two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Anand’s office says the funding will go to United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and others to address what it calls a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and rising violence in the West Bank by extremist Israeli settlers.
Why must Carney’s Muslim values always cost the tax payer so much?
On June 8, Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre, Yvan Baker, introduced a private member’s bill to declare July of every year as “Somali Heritage Month.”
It should be noted that Toronto’s Etobicoke is home to a large, heavily concentrated Somali population. In June 2024, Baker gathered with “members and leaders of the Somali-Canadian community” to raise the Somali flag at City Hall to “celebrate Somalia’s Independence Day.”
The mess that was the Ontario Liberal nomination race in Scarborough Southwest can’t simply be swept under the rug. The party is facing serious allegations of wrongdoing in the vote that happened over the weekend, and those must be answered, not ignored.
Nate Erskine-Smith, who lost by 19 votes to Ahsanul Hafiz, has claimed that there were 34 more ballots counted than there were recorded voters. He also said there were “repeated and serious inconsistencies with respect to proof of identification” and said there were “problematic actions in the voting area.”
Nothing will be done, the Liberals are as corrupt as the Muslims.
Besides Mohammed Erskine-Smith is only upset because he lost.
TORONTO — A quarter of Ontario’s private trucking schools offering mandatory entry-level training for commercial drivers have never been inspected by the provincial government, Auditor General Shelley Spence said Tuesday, raising concerns about oversight and road safety in the sector.
Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has filed a notice of appeal to the provincial Liberals, challenging the result of a nomination race that he lost.
Erskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection ahead of an intended bid for the leadership of the party.
He lost Saturday to Ahsanul Hafiz by a slim margin then cast doubt on the process, suggesting there were voter ID issues.
The Ontario Liberal Party is standing by the results of its nomination contest in Scarborough Southwest as losing candidate Nate Erskine-Smith met with his team to discuss next steps after raising concerns about the race.
On Saturday, Liberal members in the east Toronto riding chose businessman Ahsanul Hafiz as their next provincial candidate in a yet-to-be-announced by-election, beating Mr. Erskine-Smith in a close contest. The nomination was seen as a critical step in Mr. Erskine-Smith’s plan to run for leader of the Ontario Liberal party. He is currently a federal MP for the neighbouring riding of Beaches-East York.
I am lovin it. The pandering pol got what he deserved.
Can we talk about the crazy way that we let our political parties select their candidates and leaders.
Over the weekend, the Ontario Liberal Party held a nomination race to select their candidate for the upcoming provincial byelection in Scarborough Southwest. Ahsanul Hafiz took 718 votes on the third ballot to defeat current Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who received 699 votes.
In December 2021, Everton Downey stabbed his girlfriend Melissa Blimkie 15 times in a stairwell at a shopping mall in Burnaby. She died. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder. In February, the British Columbia Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison, the minimum sentence set out in the Criminal Code. The Crown sought no chance for parole for at least 15 years. But Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes decided on 12 years instead, in part because of “mitigating circumstances of his background,” as described in his Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). The time to parole was reduced because of Downey’s experience of being Black.
I have an urgent request for Prime Minister Mark Carney: please come to Vaughan, Ont., to meet with our Jewish community.
As Vaughan’s mayor, I want you to know that Jews here feel angry, scared, defiant, tired, shocked and beleaguered. Who can blame them? I’ve lived my entire life in this country, but I have never before witnessed the shocking levels of antisemitism and Jew hatred we now see so regularly. I never imagined I would. Not here. Not in Canada.
Del Duca is lying.
He supported the Liberal Party and that means he supported their immigration policy that opened the floodgates to incompatible cultures like Islam.
I have no doubt he would smear anyone who opposed the death cult as an Islamophobe and a racist.
I hate that these pols are trying to wash their hands of responsibility.
Canadian immigration officials are investigating hundreds of foreign citizens identified by B.C.’s anti-extortion unit, according to new figures released to Global News.
The Canada Border Services Agency said it had launched probes into 296 people who were “brought to our attention by B.C Extortion Task Force partner agencies as persons of interest.”
The latest statistics, which are as of Feb. 4, represent a sharp increase from just a month ago, when the task force said that just over 100 CBSA investigations were underway.
