A profile by Charity Intelligence Canada pegs Egale’s government funding at around 69 per cent of their total revenue. For fiscal year 2023, they brought in $4.2 million in government funding versus just $1.5 million in donations.
Taxpayer funding is also paying the bills of Queer Momentum, the group led by trans activist Fae Johnstone. …
The federal government has awarded 10 grants to the NCCM since 2018. The two largest ones were nearly half a million dollars each. Women and Gender Equality Canada gave the group $471,842 in 2021 to “support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.” Canadian Heritage gave them $451,168 just this year for “engaging schools, parents and communities against Islamophobia.”
Earlier this year, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association released a guide to “anti-Palestinian racism” that, among other things, deemed it racist to link Palestinian politics to terrorism. The guide also wrote that “jihad” is a benign term misrepresented by Western media.
The entire guide was funded by government. Canadian Heritage paid $99,950 for it via its “Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program.” …
But the Canadian Climate Institute isn’t just funded by government, it was explicitly created by government to act as a “wholly independent” advocacy organization. The Canadian Climate Institute notes that it was birthed as a result of a call for proposals by Environment and Climate Change Canada seeking the creation of a non-profit “to help Canada move toward clean growth in all sectors and regions of the country.”
To this end, the institute received $500,000 in federal money in 2022, and $30 million in 2023. The latter payout was written up as a grant for an “expert engagement initiative on clean growth and climate change.”
An Alberta cabinet minister is calling on the federal government to clamp down on immigration abuses in the commercial trucking sector, warning that inaction is putting lives at risk.
Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen said the inevitability of trucks crossing provincial lines puts the onus on Ottawa to act on fly-by-night trucking companies that exploit badly trained foreign drivers.
“Fraudulent (trucking companies) doing bad things in other provinces and then moving to Alberta is, unfortunately, something that’s been happening,” Dreeshen told National Post.
Dreeshen had a busy 2025 tackling fraudulent activities in Alberta’s trucking sector, shutting down five substandard driver training schools and 13 so-called chameleon carriers, which are trucking companies that change identities to hide past safety violations.
A web search shows that at least eight of the 13 shuttered chameleon carriers have ownership ties to the South Asian community.
The Edmonton-based Indo Canadian Driver Training School Inc., was on a list of three of the shut-down schools shared with National Post. The other two schools can’t be named as they’re appealing the government’s decision.
Images of the Indigo actions on Dec. 21 prompted a lengthy social media post from former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who itemized five distinct laws that were being broken by the action.This included Criminal Code charges against mischief, “causing a disturbance” and “membership in an unlawful assembly,” as well as provincial laws regarding trespassing on private property.“If the authorities were the least bit serious about ‘zero tolerance’ for antisemitism, they would throw the book at these haters,” he wrote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of a “very severe response” should Iran take action against Israel, while emphasizing that the Jewish state is “not seeking confrontation.”
Speaking at a joint press conference in Jerusalem alongside the leaders of Greece and Cyprus, the premier said that Israel is aware of recent Iranian “exercises,” referring to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile drill which, according to Axios, Jerusalem has warned the Trump administration could be a cover for a strike against Israel.
“We are following this and we are making the necessary preparations,” said Netanyahu. “I want to make it clear to Iran here, any action against Israel will be met with a very severe response.”
Most Canadians will be inclined to wish others a Merry Christmas this season, but some of them will do so with the stress of the season hidden behind the festive greeting, a new survey has found.
Polling of 1,002 adults in Canada conducted by Research Co. found that 67 per cent of Canadians prefer Merry Christmas when giving and receiving the seasonal salutation.
That’s up five points from the firm’s same polling in 2024.
For 2025, almost as many are not sure or don’t care (16 per cent) as there are those who prefer the less denominational Happy Holidays (18 per cent), which saw a six-point drop from last year.
Across Canada, the traditional greeting is preferred by the majority of respondents. Regionally, Atlantic Canadians (77 per cent) and Albertans (72 per cent) voiced the strongest support, while the lowest (59 per cent) came in Quebec, where a quarter of respondents said they preferred the modern greeting.
More of those who voted for the Conservative Party of Canada in this year’s election (77 per cent) preferred Merry Christmas than did Liberal (63 per cent) or NDP (51 per cent) supporters.
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