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The soy-boy grifting scandal that will not die:
We Charity for years received piecemeal contracts and grants that ran to $1.4 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to newly-released briefing notes. Staff paid We Charity organizers from Nairobi to Los Angeles: ‘Nine small initiatives totaling $1.3 million included activities in Kenya, India, Sri Lanka and Canada.’
It's just your money:
Taxpayers have a “very low” probability of seeing millions used to finance a foreign loan program, records show. A total $64,292,000 was termed repayable though there is little chance it will be ever be repaid, officials admitted: “The likelihood of the department being reimbursed is very low.”
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The Bank of Canada has increased its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point, taking a larger than expected hike to tame decades-high levels of inflation.
The central bank’s key interest rate now sits at 2.5 per cent, a drastic shift from the 0.25 per cent rate seen at the start of the year.
The Bank of Canada also signalled that interest rates would need to keep rising before the end of the current cycle.
Also - who did you vote for, Canada?:
Canadian food suppliers are once again issuing notices to grocery retailers informing them of upcoming price hikes.
The letters signal more price increases will hit grocery stores this fall in a year that has already seen nearly double digit increases in food costs.
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Some Canadians are scaling back spending on basic life necessities such as food, utilities and housing as the cost of living continues to surge, the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index survey has revealed.
Twenty-seven per cent of respondents said they’ve cut back on essentials, while 37 per cent said they've chosen to buy cheaper versions of their everyday purchases, the data showed. Nearly half (46 per cent) have cut back on non-essential items, including travelling, dining out and entertainment.
Six in ten reported they were already feeling the impact of higher interest rates – a seven-point jump in the index compared to last quarter. The survey was conducted by Ipsos on behalf of MNP LTD.
“No matter where Canadians turn, there is no reprieve; housing is more expensive, driving a car is more expensive, food is more expensive,” Grant Bazian, president of MNP, a large debt consulting agency in Canada, said in a press release on Monday.
“Right now, many Canadian households are trying to adjust their budgets, cutting costs where they can in order to keep up with their monthly bills. But as the cost of living continues to rise – it’s likely to get worse before it gets better – households will have to make increasingly difficult choices about what to cut, and could find themselves piling on debt to make ends meet.”
And - the elites will always have steak:
Conservative Party of Canada MP and leadership candidate Dr. Leslyn Lewis blasted the current cancel-culture crusade against red meat through pushing bugs as a source of food.
“Mega corporations shouldn’t be buying up all our farmland. Governments shouldn’t be interfering in how we farm. Bugs are not beef. Let’s stand up for farmers and protect our food security,” Lewis tweeted Saturday in reference to a report about a government-subsidized cricket farm being opened in Canada.
Canada’s federal government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has contributed $8.5 million to a London, Ontario cricket farm, run by the Aspire Food Group.
The cricket farm recently came online and when fully operational will be able to make 13 million kilograms of crickets for “human and pet consumption.”
Let's make Justin eat the bugs.
HA!:
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s promise to travel by train across Canada to talk to people about emissions was derailed by the lack of rail routes available to cross the country.
Why would Justin care? The Russians aren't trying to kill him (that anyone knows of):
Two government officials told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday that Global Affairs Canada granted the German industrial giant Siemens Energy an exemption under Canada’s Russia sanctions for two years. This allows the company to send turbines from Nord Stream 1, a pipeline majority-owned by Russian state controlled Gazprom, to Siemens Canada’s facilities in Montreal for regular repair and maintenance.
One of the officials stressed that the arrangement with Siemens allows the Canadian government to revoke the sanctions-relief permits at any time. The Globe is not identifying the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Russia last month cited the delayed return of the turbine equipment, which Siemens Energy had been servicing in Canada, as the reason it decided to reduce the flow of natural gas through Nord Stream 1. The pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany, was operating at 40-per-cent capacity.
Separately on Tuesday, the Ukrainian World Congress, an advocacy group for the Ukrainian community whose head office is in Toronto, filed a legal challenge of the government’s decision in Federal Court. The application for a judicial review of the permit to circumvent sanctions is asking the court to suspend and ultimately quash it. The permit is “unreasonable, unjustifiable, and contrary to the stated purpose of Canada’s sanction regime,” the legal application said.
I would worry more about what Justin is doing in Canada than how he screwed over Zelensky.
Prominent Jewish group B’nai Brith Canada and a legal expert are questioning a Quebec judge’s claim that it is not a widely accepted fact that Nazi ideology led to the murder of Jews.
The link between Nazism and the Holocaust is so well-known that prosecutors don’t need to establish that fact in a courtroom, they say, in response to an unusual drama that played out in a Montreal courtroom last week.
“Any reasonable person would take as an undisputable fact that Nazi ideology led to the Holocaust,” Lisa Dufraimont, a professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, said in an interview Tuesday. “Entertaining arguments to the contrary is a kind of hairsplitting that goes beyond what is reasonable, it seems to me.”
Nazism (read: nationalist socialism) isn't the outlet for anti-Semitism but it is an historical one.
A judge in Quebec, however, is a symptom of what happens when you let an emotionally retarded elite assume power and be unaccountable to everyone.
As premiers gathered in British Columbia try again to make their case for a permanent increase in federal health transfers, they’re also waiting on $2 billion they were promised back in March to help clear surgical and diagnostic backlogs.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced the one-time top-up to “expedite” surgeries on March 25, and he and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced a bill in the House of Commons the same day to enable the funding.
“We appreciate that this is going to be a challenge,” Duclos said during the announcement. “However, we know that this level of support at this time will make a difference.”
But Bill C-17 wasn’t passed in the spring sitting. It’s sitting on the order paper at second-reading stage, having never been debated by MPs. The promised funding was instead packaged into the federal budget roughly two weeks later, and passed into law on June 23.
It's not like Gabriel Wortman erected a bouncy castle in Ottawa or anything:
A former neighbour of the man who carried out the 2020 Nova Scotia mass killing stood by her story on Tuesday that RCMP did “nothing” when she reported a violent domestic assault years before the rampage.
Brenda Forbes said, “You bet,” when she was asked at a public inquiry if she still holds that view, despite a differing story from the RCMP investigating officer at the time.
Forbes, a military veteran in her 60s, testified under oath at a public inquiry that she’d told two “young” constables about a violent assault by the killer against his spouse, Lisa Banfield, in the summer of 2013, and that she and her husband had seen weapons at the killer’s home.
In previous statements to media after the April 2020 murders of 22 people, Forbes had said the RCMP didn’t follow up after hearing her account when she met them at her workplace in Debert, N.S.
Forbes told the inquiry Tuesday that she’d been told about the assault by the killer’s uncle, Glynn Wortman. She said she’d called Glynn Wortman in front of the officers, put him on speakerphone, and that the uncle refused to speak directly to them because he feared Gabriel Wortman would kill him.
“Nothing was ever done. Nothing. Zip,” she testified on Tuesday.
The video, posted by the Austin American-Statesman on its website, shows the 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, crash his pickup truck and enter Robb Elementary School carrying a semi-automatic rifle. The sound of AR-15 gunfire is then heard for more than two minutes.
Police officers are seen arriving minutes later. They take cover at the end of a hallway leading to the two classrooms targeted by the shooter. Another 77 minutes go by before they storm the classrooms and exchange fire with him.
No, YOUR prime minister has not resigned nor fled the country:
Some Sri Lankans living in Canada are welcoming the promised resignations of that country’s embattled leaders, after protesters angered by economic collapse stormed the homes of the president and prime minister over the weekend.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe conceded on Saturday to demands from protesters to resign over corruption and mismanagement that has led to the country’s deepening crisis. Rajapaksa promised to step down Wednesday, while Wickremesinghe said he would leave once a new government is in place.
And why would (one would assume that they are) Canadian nationals care?
Also:
The president of Sri Lanka fled to the Maldives on a military jet amid mass protests across over his country's economic crisis that has led to shortages of food and fuel.
Sri Lanka's air force said in a Wednesday statement that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flew with his wife and two security personnel, the BBC reported. An immigration official told The Wall Street Journal that it was in a military plane.
There are no "trans-women". There are only men pretending to be women and wearing the sexual equivalent of blackface to mock how they think women look and act.
Women are being erased and the government of Canada (among others) is fine with it:
Transgender men have an unfair advantage in women’s competition, says a briefing note by the federal department that funds amateur sport. The Department of Canadian Heritage has sidestepped public comment on allowing biological men to compete as women: ‘Transwomen are physiologically stronger.’
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