Your middle-of-the-week cry in the dark ...
What do you do when the economy is in a shambles and your best-laid plans are unworkable in ANY universe?
Why - if you're a Liberal - you double down on them:
The motion by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to have Ottawa extend its carbon price pause to all forms of home heating has been defeated as the Bloc Quebecois joined the Liberals to vote down the motion.
The non-binding motion, which meant it would not need to be acted on by the government, had the support of the NDP, but still failed to get a majority with 135 voting in favour while 186 voted against.
Ideally, there should be a repeal of this living tax but seeing as the country-destroying Liberals, their lying outliers and the province of Quebec can't even play chicken with a non-binding motion, this burden isn't going anywhere.
Continue voting for this, Canadians.
It's going to be a cold winter.
Also - no, not even you will get passed this, NDP:
New Democrats yesterday introduced a Commons motion to lift the GST on home heating. Critics noted the Party six years ago voted against a similar bill to remove the GST on the carbon tax: “All of us opposition parties should not only be in opposition but in proposition.”
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Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday he won't stop working directly with municipalities to build more homes faster — even if that upsets premiers who say Ottawa is engaging in jurisdictional creep.
Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill, Fraser said the federal government's Housing Accelerator Fund, which gives money to towns and cities that commit to reducing red tape, has seen some early success and eventually will help to facilitate the construction of tens of thousands of new homes.
Canadians want to see progress, not a fractious debate over whether Ottawa should be cutting cheques directly to municipalities, Fraser said.
Canadians don't want your Hamas-supporters here because - despite being too cowardly (like their elected officials) and ovine to state the truth - they know damn well that they are one Thanksgiving week-end away from being beheaded themselves.
Besides, it's not like you ever do anything right or anything that you promise to do.
Also:
Immigrants to Canada are increasingly leaving this country for opportunities elsewhere, according to a studyconducted by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Conference Board of Canada.
In fact, the number of immigrants who left Canada rose by 31 per cent above the national average in 2017 and 2019.
Factors that influence onward migration include economic integration, a sense of belonging, racism, homeownership, or a lack thereof, and economic opportunities in other countries, the report revealed.
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Nearly 900,000 English Québecers and those speaking a foreign language left the province since 1966, Statistics Canada said yesterday. The migration could have been larger but there were comparatively few English-speaking people in the province to begin with, analysts said: “We count 672,903 English speakers and 220,448 people who had a non-official language as a mother tongue such as Greek or Italian who left Québec.”
Also:
A chill has settled over Canada’s housing market and the big fear of any downturn is that heavily indebted homeowners will be forced to sell, fuelling a downward spiral.
Capital Economics says it is now seeing signs that those risks are rising.
The focus of the economists’ concern is mortgages refinanced with non-bank lenders.
Chartered banks must ensure that borrowers meet mortgage stress tests, but alternative lenders are less regulated.
Statistics Canada data show that the share of non-bank mortgages in the second quarter was no higher than in late 2021, before the Bank of Canada began raising interest rates, said Capital. The share of non-bank mortgages in arrears was also well within normal ranges.
But Capital says a closer look shows reason for concern. Recent data show a big rise in the number of insured mortgages being refinanced with non-bank lenders for the first time.
This is significant because homebuyers need default insurance in Canada when their loan-to-value ratio is more than 80 per cent, and it often means they have stretched their finances to purchase the home.
“These borrowers are therefore more likely to fall afoul of the stress tests when mortgage rates rise,” said Stephen Brown, Capital’s deputy chief North America economist.
“The rise in insured mortgage refinancing with alternative lenders suggests many borrowers are no longer able to pass the stress tests at their original provider.”
Enjoy the decline:
Canada has a productivity problem.
This isn’t news, points out BMO chief economist Douglas Porter. Canada has lagged the United States for decades, but in recent years this underperformance has reached the point where productivity in this country is actually declining — and it’s dragging real GDP per capita down with it.
This is not just some obscure statistic.
“GDP per hour worked is the very fundamental building block of living standards, said Porter in a recent report. “Thus, the recent fall in productivity is stark evidence that Canadians on average are worse off than prior to the pandemic — it’s not just perception.”
Canada has fallen below, not only the United States, but also most of Western Europe and Australia on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ranking for productivity. And OECD data only go up until 2021, said Porter. Canadian productivity has fallen since then.
“The sustained decline in recent years is without precedent in the post-war era,” he said.
Over the past five years, productivity in Canada’s business sector has fallen 0.3 per cent, while it has grown 1.7 per cent in the U.S.
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Federal managers paid almost $700,000 to consultants for tips on how to save money on consultants. “This is about smarter not smaller government,” said Treasury Board President Anita Anand: “This is not about doing more with less.”
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Almost a quarter of the entire country would qualify for subsidies under a proposed federal dentacare program, far more than originally estimated, data show. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised free dentistry for lower income households under a 2022 agreement with New Democrats: “This is what working constructively is all about.”
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As the grocery code of conduct nears completion, the Canadian industry's biggest player is raising concerns the guidelines could add fuel to the food inflation fire.
Loblaw Companies Ltd. said it’s worried the code could "raise food prices for Canadians by more than $1 billion" in a letter sent to members of both the steering committee developing the code and the industry sub-committee on Nov. 1, and obtained by The Canadian Press.
The grocer cannot endorse the code in its current form, wrote chief financial officer Richard Dufresne in the letter, requesting a special meeting of the industry sub-committee to address Loblaw's concerns.
In a statement, Loblaw spokeswoman Catherine Thomas said the draft code has "a number of challenges," which the grocer believes could risk product availability and increasing food prices. The Loblaw statement also mentioned the potential "$1 billion in costs," which Thomas said refers to extra costs for Loblaw customers.
Loblaw isn’t the only grocer to express concern about the code. Walmart Canada spokeswoman Sarah Kennedy said in an email in late October that the company supports initiatives benefitting customers but it’s "conscious of adding unnecessary burdens that could increase the cost of food for Canadians, especially during inflationary times."
Grocers have been under pressure from the federal government to stabilize food prices after a run of high inflation and a series of interest rate hikes have eaten into household budgets.
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Federal departments are avoiding electric cars as too costly, says a federal report. The finding follows in-house research by the Department of Natural Resources that most drivers are also reluctant to buy zero emission vehicles: “Electric vehicles and the infrastructure obviously are an important part of addressing the climate crisis.”
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You don't even believe in Christmas and you wasted car payments on your cheap holidays to Cuba:
The high cost of living is dampening the holiday joy for many Canadians as they plan to cut spending on gifts and travel over the winter break, polling shows. Nearly 80 per cent of Canadians said in an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News that inflation and rising interest rates have had a “significant” impact on their holiday budgets.
That monument will never be built and we know why:
The Canadian government has quietly postponed the planned November unveiling of the controversial, $7.5-million Memorial to the Victims of Communism, now essentially completed at a fenced-off site along Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa.
A statement posted at a government website for the project on Oct. 18 said that “although the Memorial to the Victims of Communism – Canada, a Land of Refuge was scheduled to be inaugurated by the end of 2023, the Government of Canada is doing its due diligence to ensure all aspects of the memorial remain compatible with Canadian values on democracy and human rights.”
The statement from the Department of Canadian Heritage also indicated the Liberal government remains “committed to completing this project” which was initiated by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper in 2008 and originally expected to be in place more than a decade ago.
The long-delayed memorial “will be inaugurated in 2024, at a date to be selected in consultation with the main proponent of the project, Tribute to Liberty.”
The memorial has been the focus of multiple controversies over its exact purpose, location, size and cost over the last 15 years. The price tag for the project has ballooned to an estimated $7.5 million — including $6 million in public funds — from an original budget of $1.5 million funded entirely with private donations from Tribute to Liberty, the charitable organization the driving force behind the monument.
“Arc of Memory” is a four-metre high, 21-metre-long sculptural installation, made from 4,000 bronze rods mounted on 365 steel fins in two sections or “wings”. Each of the 365 fins points at a unique angle of the sun every hour of every day. According to an official description of the project, “the memorial would be split in the middle at winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, inviting visitors to step through in a metaphorical journey from darkness and oppression to lightness and liberty.”
Canadians already live in a communist country.
What more can they learn?
Consider that social conservatism (and not even BINDING social conservatism at that - way to virtue-signal) is the taboo that dare not tweet its name:
A premier trying to set a wider public agenda faced a crowd demanding abolition of diversity offices in universities, banning race as a factor in admissions, ending transfer of transgender convicts to women’s prisons, purging school libraries, the right to approve changes to kids’ pronouns, freedom of doctors to ignore their professional associations, the right to keep guns, and a great deal more.
Mr. Braid has done a fine job listing the things Canadians abhor (how dare people object weeding books for the pure fun of censorship?!) but he is only putting in ink what will shame future generations.
But Prince Edward Island doesn't have hundreds of trained nurses native to the island.
Health P.E.I. has hired nearly 300 nurses and hundreds more care support workers since the start of 2023, according to the Department of Health and Wellness.
In a news release Monday, the department said the hirings will help Prince Edward Island address staffing shortages, alleviate workloads experienced by staff, and improve patient care.
Later in the day, the province said about 100 registered nurses had retired or stopped working on the Island in the past year, compared to the 201 RNs hired in the past 10 months.
The total number of full-time, part-time, and casual nurses and care support workers hired so far this year is up slightly over last year, by about 75. For context, the health system's latest annual report said 1,862 people were working in such positions in the province. ...
Ah, of course:
International recruitment missions have also been part of the effort, with 26 nurses offered employment during a mission to Dubai earlier this year, and 31 offered employment during a mission to Singapore last month.
"These individuals are in various stages of immigration and are expected to start arriving in the province early next year," the provincial news release said.
Another mission to Dubai is being planned for early next year.
Canada will not train or keep trained professionals in the country.
Perhaps the taxpayer should be asking why.
Also - what can go wrong?:
Registered nurses in Ontario will soon be able to independently prescribe some medications like birth control, the province's health minister announced Monday.
Beginning in January 2024, nurses will be able to take additional training and certification courses that will allow them to prescribe things like birth control, drugs for smoking cessation and travel medications to treat or prevent things like malaria and traveller's diarrhea, according to a news release.
Nurses will also be able to prescribe flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines.
Those certification courses are being developed and will require approval from the Council of the College of Nurses of Ontario.
What they really mean is that Canadians have to get used to the idea of killing the mentally ill:
With the deadline for opening assisted suicide to Canadians with a mental illness only a short five months away, a fresh clash has erupted within psychiatry. Both sides accuse the other of bad science, misinformation and unsupported claims. Seven of 17 chairs of psychiatry have written to federal Health Minister Mark Holland and Justice Minister Arif Virani urging the Trudeau government to once again hold off expanding MAID for mental illness. Those who oppose any further delays are being labelled ideological expansion activists; those pushing for the planned expansion to be paused indefinitely are being accused of over-stating how treatable some mental illnesses are.
A law enforcement team, whose mission is to help put wanted people behind bars and cut their social benefits, is now up and running.
The warrant intelligence team, the genesis of which mainly stemmed from the 2022 mass stabbing in James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, Sask., will work with government ministries and Crown corporations to find "prolific violent offenders" with outstanding arrest warrants and, if appropriate, suspend services such as income support or social housing.
Taxpayers "shouldn't be paying for somebody to be in breach of their parole. They shouldn't be paying for their housing. They shouldn't be paying for their day-to-day living when they actually should be behind bars," Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Minister Paul Merriman told reporters Monday.
Also - how much money do you need to trample grandmothers, anyway?:
The RCMP’s ability to fight organized crime, terrorism, espionage and foreign interference and other serious federal crimes, is significantly lacking the needed money, resources and focus, according to a new Parliamentary report.
And:
Internal government documents from 2019 put the cost of a government mandatory gun buyback at nearly $2 billion, despite assurances during the last federal election that expropriating so-called “assault rifles” from licensed Canadian firearms owners would only cost between $400 million and $600 million.
Vaguely related - this nutcase was saluted:
Hale, a transgender 28-year-old man going by the name “Aiden” Hale, entered The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Green Hills, Tennessee – killing six, before being shot and killed by responding officers.
The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
Audrey Hale: “Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm ready...I hope my victims aren't.”
Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”• Hale: There were several times I could have been caught especially b---ack in the summer of 2021.
Hale: “It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. Its gunna go quick.”
Liberal voters blocks and the Liberals are horrified that Israel will not lay down and die:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in Canada Wednesday, saying attacks against Jewish people and businesses, do not belong in Canada.
Oh, but they do, Justin.
Starting with your father who used to ride around Montreal frightening the Jewish population there to your applauding a Ukrainian Nazi this past September.
Did you withdraw from the UN? No.
Did you send aid to Hamas? Yes.
Did you refuse to take in the Hamas members coming our way? No.
Did you accuse Israel of being responsible for bombing a hospital when, in fact, it was Hamas? Yes.
Did you order the RCMP to act as they did when you wanted the convoy shut down and stop these street-blocking parades of Jew-hatred? No.
But you did stand there and lecture and accuse Canadians of antisemitism instead of your Islamofascist voters blocks.
What a sanctimonious fruit-loop you are.
Pathetic.
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Thousands in Toronto took to the streets on Saturday to march in pro-Palestinian rallies in hopes of a ceasefire, as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.
In clips shared to social media, protesters can be seen marching while chanting demands like "free, free Palestine." Demonstrators holding Palestinian flags and handmade signs eventually made their way to the U.S. Consulate on University Avenue near Queen Street.
One clip posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, by the Palestinian Youth Movement called on Toronto mayor Olivia Chow to reflect on her past comments regarding prior rallies and the war.
"We will not move from the streets of Toronto until Olivia Chow apologizes for dehumanizing comments about our protests, and until she calls for a ceasefire!" the group wrote in their post, which included a video where protesters call for "shame."
(Sidebar: Olivia Chow is too moderate for these guys. Let that sink in.)
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Canadian politicians across the political spectrum are condemning the display of a Nazi swastika symbol on Parliament Hill Saturday, during a pro-Palestinian march and rally in the capital.
Oh! Tell that lie about censorship being the only way to stop the anti-semitism you're not at all stopping at the moment!
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Hamas terrorists have no intention of putting a “pause” on their rocket attacks, so Israel is being asked to unilaterally put a hold on its ground invasion and bombing campaign. We’ve been down this road before.
In the immediate aftermath of the brutal murder, dismemberment and rape of 1,400 Israelis, which included the killing of children and babies, and the kidnapping of hundreds more, on Oct. 7, calls for a ceasefire began when Israel had barely fired a single shot in retaliation, mostly from the left.
Demanding Israel agree to such terms, which would in effect mean denying its right to self-defence, wasn’t just holding the Jewish state to a double standard compared to its authoritarian neighbours, but to an unreasonable standard compared to every other country in the world. But, sure, antisemitism has nothing to do with it.
In case we were threatened or fooled into forgetting:
Benny Schechter, also volunteering for Zaka, arrived the day before from the Golan Heights. “Some of the bodies are in a very bad state,” he says. “They weren’t just shot dead. Some are very hard to identify because they were burned. In some cases, you find the body and head separately. There were body parts found in the trees. It’s a cruelty that is very hard to describe. I told the family I would stay here all of Shabbat to continue working.”
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Among them are two widely circulated videos that have raised concerns about sexual assault against women. In one video, a woman is shown being hauled out of a jeep full of terrorists, the seat of her pants stained red with blood. In another video, a naked woman is lying face down in the back of a truck, her legs bent at unnatural angles, as terrorists celebrate around her body.
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In the first home he and his colleagues entered "we see a pregnant lady lying on the floor, and then we turn her around and see that the stomach is cut open, wide open. The unborn baby, still connected with a umbilical cord, was stabbed with a knife. And the mother was shot in the head. And you use your imagination, trying to figure out what came first."
(Sidebar: in Canada, this will give you the Order of Canada.)
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An Israeli grandmother was murdered by Hamas terrorists with her killers posting it on her own Facebook account, her family has said.
Describing her as “pure and good”, the unnamed woman’s granddaughter Mor Bayder claimed the horrifying videos were shared publicly on social media, reportedly showing the elderly woman being slaughtered in her own home.
“A terrorist came home to her, killed her, took her phone, filmed the horror and published it on her Facebook wall,” Ms Bayder said. “This is how we found out.”
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A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revellers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”.
Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later, while others were taken to Gaza.
Another survivor returned to the scene later in the day to look for his friends spoke, of seeing cold and mutilated bodies, mainly of young women. He said he saw scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot at point-blank.
“I felt like they were shooting right above our heads,” another survivor told the Tablet. “I dove into a bush … It felt like the shooting was coming from 180 degrees, all around us. I understood we’re going to be there for at least a couple of hours. And I had nothing on me. And I was like, the only thing I want is a weapon. I want something to protect us.”
Also - but the name was changed and it was done for only one group:
According to a local newspaper, the director of the kindergarten, Linda Schichor, said that Anne Frank's story as a young Jewish victim of the Holocaust was something difficult to convey to children.
According to local media, the head of the kindergarten felt that parents with a migrant background did not understand the name. "We wanted something that had no political connotations", said Schichor.
The city's mayor, Andreas Bröhm, said that if parents and employees wanted other names that should outweigh political considerations.
Like the Mamoud Abbas Baby-Minding Centre?
What future? Isn't Gaza supposed to be flattened?:
The principles, which are anchored in the perspective of a two-state solution, include the end of Hamas rule over the densely populated enclave and the lifting of the strict blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt since 2007.
The European Union and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist organisation and have no formal contact with the group.
"Hamas has continued to build up its arsenal, while the economy of Gaza has collapsed, so it’s just the opposite of what we wanted. 70% of young people in Gaza are jobless. And this can only lead to more radicalisation," the president of the European Commission said on Monday morning during the annual conference of EU Ambassadors in Brussels.
What a pile of rubbish.
Gaza was handed over to Hamas in 2005. Everyone knew that Hamas was a terrorist organisation that uses hospitals and schools as weapons dumps and headquarters.
This is more of the same from Euro-elites who would like to see Israel disappear for good.
The U.S. announced a $553 million project Wednesday to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka's Port of Colombo as it competes with China in international development financing.
The project is billed as providing critical infrastructure for the South Asian nation with the potential to “transform Colombo into a world-class logistics hub at the intersection of major shipping routes and emerging markets," according to the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.
The DFC loan of $553 million for the West Container Terminal will “expand its shipping capacity, creating greater prosperity for Sri Lanka — without adding to sovereign debt — while at the same strengthening the position of our allies across the region,” said DFC Chief Executive Officer Scott Nathan.
The announcement comes as Sri Lanka is struggling to recover from a dire financial and economic crisis.
How fast can this be memory-holed?:
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says two people died in an explosion on Monday at Canada’s high commission in Nigeria.
Joly wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the fire is now out.
Sina Abioye, head of operations for the FCT Fire Service which responded to the emergency call, says the investigation is still ongoing.
He could not confirm how many people suffered injuries, nor at what time the fire took place
But I thought that the whole point of this financial blackhole of a conflict was democracy:
“Now is not the time for elections,” Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, trying to put to rest a growing debate amid Russia's grinding invasion.
"Now is the time for defence, for battle, on which the fate of the state and people depends, and not for farce, which only Russia expects from Ukraine," Zelenskyy said in a speech. "I think this is not the time for elections.
“We must come together, not divide ourselves, not disperse ourselves in quarrels or other priorities,” he added.
I'm sure that Putin is recording every word of this.
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