Trudeau’s Jamaica vacation cost far more than same trip the year before

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s controversial vacation to Jamaica last Christmas cost Canadian taxpayers far more than his trip to the same destination a year earlier, CBC News has learned.

According to the government’s answer to questions posed by Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, tabled this week, Trudeau’s 10-day vacation with his family to Prospect Estate near Ocho Rios cost taxpayers $230,442, a 42 per cent increase over the $162,000 cost of a similar trip over the Christmas holidays in 2022-23.

Now he’ll have to raise the carbon tax!

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Have we run out of Milk & Cookies? Police calling on federal government to consider car theft a ‘national crisis’

Police are calling on the federal government to create a “national action plan” to combat auto theft as it becomes increasingly violent, raising concerns at the Annual Auto Theft Summit in Peel Region.

“The nature of these auto thefts is, as we have seen now, shifting to things like home invasions, carjackings and the use of illegal firearms,” said Nishan Duraiappah, Chief of Police of Peel Regional Police.

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Trudeau government calls in the RCMP over suspected fraud worth $5 million on federal contracts

OTTAWA—The federal government has referred three cases of suspected subcontractor fraud to the RCMP following an internal review that found nearly $5 million in illegitimate payments on federal contracts from 2018 to 2022.

“We need to do better when it comes to ensuring the integrity and the reputation of our procurement system,” Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters at a press conference Wednesday.

Ottawa should move to Haiti.

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NY reparations panel members should resign over ‘disturbing’ antisemitic and anti-police views

Two appointees to a new state committee considering paying reparations should resign for making “disturbing” antisemitic and anti-police remarks, New York Republicans said Wednesday.

GOP members of the state Senate called for Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors to step down from New York’s nine-member “commission to study reparations and racial justice,” which they were appointed to by state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx).

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Canada slips to 15th place in annual World Happiness Report

Canada has slipped to 15th place in the annual World Happiness Report(opens in a new tab).

Down from 13th place last year, Canada now sits behind countries like Costa Rica, Kuwait and Austria.

“What’s happened in Canada and the United States is that over the past few years, those under 30 have become much less happy than they were 10 or a dozen years ago,” Canadian economist and World Happiness Report founding editor John Helliwell told CTV News Channel on Wednesday.

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Activism doc ‘Christspiracy’ is furiously condemned for comparing the slaughter of animals for food to the HOLOCAUST

The slaughter of livestock is compared to the Holocaust in a shocking new documentary – which also claims Jesus Christ was crucified for condemning the killing of animals for food in a secret 2,000-year coverup.

Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret, the follow up to Seaspiracy and Cowspiracy, documents a wealth of somewhat bizarre claims in an attempt to lay bare the cruelty humans inflict on animals in the name of religion, as filmmakers Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters hunt out an ethical or spiritual way to kill.

A child forced to slaughter a young deer as part of a Christian initiation, the mass sacrifice of cows at a Hindu festival in Nepal, and prisoners tasked with killing 3,000 cows a day are just some of the uncomfortable scenes that feature.

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STILL??? Housefather still ‘thinking’ on Liberal future as eyes turn to Israel arms exports

Liberal MPs say that they hope their Montreal colleague Anthony Housefather stays in caucus after he said he was “reflecting” on his future with the party following a debate and vote on a non-binding NDP motion over recognizing Palestinian statehood.

That comes as Canada’s foreign minister faces questions over the country’s arms exports to Israel.

“I am going to be thinking for a while,” Housefather said in a text message to Global News on his future with the party.

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