Ontario planning to remove HST on new homes for 1 year

The province is planning to temporarily remove Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) for buyers of new homes.

Premier Doug Ford announced the plan Wednesday at a news conference in Mississauga, saying the full 13 per cent tax will be removed for new homes valued up to $1 million from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

For homes valued up to $1.5 million the temporary measure would see them qualify for the maximum $130,000, decreasing proportionally to homes valued at $1.85 million, which would qualify for a $24,000 rebate, said the release.

Sounds like it will be a windfall for the rich.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

LILLEY: Numbers show Canada’s immigration system failing on all fronts

Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.

Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Army paratroopers ordered to Middle East as U.S. weighs next move in Iran conflict

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a couple thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump weighs a significant escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and declines to rule out putting U.S. troops on Iranian soil.

U.S. officials approved written orders for soldiers from the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and the 82nd’s headquarters at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said two U.S. officials and a third person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Verbal orders previously had been approved, two people said. It is not yet clear whether they will deploy to Iran itself, officials said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government

OTTAWA — Right before Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in public services, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood at a national prayer breakfast and declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.

Carney a Christian? Please.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A ‘Wannabe Strongman’ Rises in Iran as Trump Seeks a Dealmaker

Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf

Iran’s combative Parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, is emerging as an unlikely figure in Washington’s search for a deal to halt a widening Middle East war.

Ghalibaf, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air-force commander and Tehran mayor, has denied any talks with the U.S. are under way. He has taunted President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and called the U.S.-Israeli air war with Iran a quagmire. He served in the Revolutionary Guard during Iran’s brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s and is known as a hard-liner’s hard-liner.

What is reportedly in Trump’s 15-point peace plan?

And ... Iran completely rejects Trump’s 15-point cease-fire plan — and makes wild demands instead

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Restoring sanity to MAID laws in Canada will protect them

The scale of growth of Canada’s assisted-dying industry has become an easy talking point for skeptics both in Canada and abroad. The New York Post, in typical tabloid fashion, announced that Canada will “soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold” of 100,000 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAID), noting the figure will surpass the number of Canadian deaths during the Second World War. Conservative MPs cited that figure in social-media posts, adding that what was once pegged as a “last resort” has metamorphosed into an entirely different operation. During a press conference announcing new restrictions on MAID in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith noted the pace of growth in MAID deaths in cautionary terms (up 64 per cent nationally between 2021 and 2024), saying these trends “should give anyone pause.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Jesse Kline: Anita Anand’s delusions

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand delivered a clear message at the Chatham House Global Trade Conference in London last week: “This is (Canada’s) moment to lead.” The only question is: who exactly is following?

Anand’s speech was billed as a means to “underscore Canada’s trade diversification efforts to strengthen economic security and resilience.” But it more closely resembled a marketing campaign to hype the speech Prime Minister Mark Carney gave at the World Economic Forum in January.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Supreme Court Seems Open to Trump Request to Block Asylum Seekers at Border

A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic on Tuesday to the idea that the Trump administration should be able to turn away asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

If the court backs the administration, it will allow President Trump to revive a policy first used in 2016, in which the government stopped asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where federal law would entitle them to try to claim asylum and receive protection from persecution.

Under federal law, any noncitizen who is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States” can apply for asylum. Migrants who announce their intention to do so are then referred for an interview to determine whether they have a credible fear of persecution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Minister pressed why just 1 Iranian official deported after 24 deemed part of terror group

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree faced pointed questions Tuesday about why the federal government has deported one Iranian official, despite longstanding concerns about how the regime operates in Canada and abroad.

Finding himself in the hot seat before a parliamentary committee, Anandasangaree said Canada is “aggressively trying to remove” members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a branch of Iran’s military that Canada listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2024 — but said due process has to be followed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Final humiliation for disgraced Black Lives Matter activist hailed as ‘Bostonian of the Year’ before her scams were unearthed

Monica Cannon-Grant BLM Grifter

A former Boston community organizer and Black Lives Matter activist has been ordered by a federal judge to repay more than $224,000 after pleading guilty to charges related to misusing money donated to her now-defunct charity.

Monica Cannon-Grant, who gained notoriety during the widespread BLM protests in 2020, will pay a sum of $224,063 to the government, according to an order from District Court Judge Angel Kelley.

The forfeiture amount was calculated based on funds the 44-year-old admitted to fraudulently obtaining.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Iran attacks US aircraft carrier

Iran launched a cruise missile attack on a US aircraft carrier despite Donald Trump’s claim that talks to end the conflict had begun.

The Iranian military claimed the strikes had forced the USS Abraham Lincoln to change its position in the Arabian Sea, and warned additional “powerful strikes” would follow once it entered range.

Earlier on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official confirmed that Iran had received a peace plan from the US via Pakistan.

The Trump administration is pushing for talks in Islamabad as early as Thursday, with JD Vance, the vice-president, set to lead negotiations.

More … Pakistan delivers US’s 15-point peace plan to Iran

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Air Canada CEO summoned to Ottawa over English-only condolence message after plane crash

Air Canada’s chief executive officer was summoned on Tuesday to explain himself before the Committee on Official Languages regarding his English-only message of condolence to the families of the pilots, including one from Quebec, who died on Sunday evening in the plane collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

The statement provoked the committee’s “strong indignation” and is “incompatible with the obligations set out in the Official Languages Act and the expectations of the Canadian public,” according to the motion tabled in the House and adopted almost immediately by a unanimous vote of MPs.

Get a life people!

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?