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Poilievre says parents should have final say about what is taught to children

Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre said parents should have the final say over what is taught to their kids in schools.

Poilievre’s comments come amid growing opposition to gender ideology teachings and Canadian premiers implementing new parental rights policies requiring that parents consent before children can change their name or pronoun at school.

In an interview, Poilievre was asked what he thought of the “Million Person March.” The event is a planned nationwide multi-faith and multi-ethnic protest against gender ideology teachings that will take place on Sept. 20.

“My view is that parents should be the final authority on the values and the lessons that are taught to children. I believe in parental rights, and parental rights come before the government’s rights,”
Poilievre responded.

#Poilievre

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A fight broke out at a Vancouver protest demanding the return of Covid masking

Why are masks still a thing?

#BritishColumbia

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🏠 Ottawa looking to drop 24 Sussex and build new home for PM elsewhere

The federal government is looking at dropping the dilapidated mansion at 24 Sussex in Ottawa as the prime minister's official residence and is considering several other sites in the city for a replacement, sources say.

The various federal agencies in charge of the PM's official residence have identified other plots of land where they could build an official residence that is larger, safer and more accessible than the one that served prime ministers from 1951 to 2015.

In the midst of a housing and cost-of-living crisis, the construction of a new official residence costing tens of millions of dollars would be a political headache for the federal government, which has been dithering over 24 Sussex's fate for years.

Plans to renovate 24 Sussex were made during Trudeau's first mandate but the government decided the price tag was too high and the potential for political controversy too great.

#Trudeau

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Conservative convention to join culture wars with debates on trans issues, vaccines and diversity training

Preventing children from having permanent gender-transitioning medical procedures and keeping people born male from participating in female sports are some of the sensitive cultural issues that Conservative party members have decided to debate and potentially vote on at their convention next month in Quebec City.

Other topics include affirming rights for those who refuse vaccines, pushing back against diversity training in workplaces, and requiring treatment for drug addicts.

Poilievre said he had not yet had a chance to study all the proposals his party’s delegates have brought forward. The leader decides official party policy and Poilievre can choose to accept or ignore resolutions that pass.

The convention kicks off on Sept. 7.

#Quebec

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A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures

Benjamin Tal, a leading economist, warned federal ministers at their cabinet retreat in Charlottetown last week that there are around one million more non-permanent residents living in Canada, including foreign students, than government estimates suggest.

He told the Liberal government that the undercounting in the official statistics means Canada is underestimating the number of new homes required to meet the country’s increasing housing needs.

Mr. Tal said in an interview that the government estimate of the number of non-permanent residents in the country in 2021 was around one million. But his analysis found there were closer to two million. The main reason for the discrepancy, he said, is that the government is not counting people who remain in the country after their visas expire.

Statistics Canada assumes that temporary resident visa holders, including international students, leave the country 30 days after their visas expire. He said a majority of temporary residents don’t leave in this timeframe, and many apply to extend their stays in Canada.

#housing

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Canada has changed its permanent residence selection process

The Canadian government has changed its immigration selection program as of June 28 for skilled workers, moving from a points-based system to prioritizing workers with experience in specific fields.

The federal government uses what they call the Express Entry system, where candidates are assigned a score based on factors such as age, language ability and education. The government then selected those with the highest scores to apply for permanent resident status. In the past, Ottawa would select a few thousand people with the highest scores every two weeks to apply for permanent residency.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is changing tack and applying a category-based approach to PR invitations, targeting candidates who they hope can fill specific jobs.

The federal government will be prioritizing candidates who can speak French and people with recent work experience in five fields: STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), health care, skilled trades, agriculture and transportation.

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🏠 Canada's landlords now asking a record-breaking average of $2,078 per month

The Canadian rental market has reached a new record, with the average asking rent surging to $2,078 in July.

This marks an 8.9 per cent annual increase, the most rapid growth seen in three months. This coincides with a 1.8 per cent rise in average asking rents in Canada from June, representing the most substantial month-over-month growth observed in the past eight months.

Several factors contributed to the recent surge in rental prices. These include post-secondary students rushing to secure leases before the fall term, a notable increase in the population, and a slowdown in home-buying activities, largely attributed to the Bank of Canada's decision to raise interest rates.

#housing

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🗳Liberals a distant third among younger voters

The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.

🔹The data shows the Liberals in a distant third place for 18-29 year olds with 15.97 per cent, compared to the Conservatives and the NDP with 39.21 per cent and 30.92 per cent respectively.

It’s a dip for the Liberals, who were at 26.8 per cent at the beginning of August for the same age group. And it’s a boost for the Conservatives, who are up from 29.3 per cent at the beginning of the month.

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📈Food insecurity among Canadian school-age children jumps by nearly 30%

As kids across the country get ready to return to school next week, a stark report released on Tuesday shows an alarming number are in crisis.

The annual report by Children First Canada looks at the emotional, physical and mental well-being of kids across the country and comes as Canada dropped from 48th place in 2022 to 81st among 193 countries on the global KidsRight Index.

Based on research from the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto and McGill University, as well as existing data and interviews with youth, parents and other subject matter experts, the study shows a 29 per cent increase in food insecurity among school-age children. Poverty rates, racism, depression and violence have increased substantially as well.

Findings from the latest release from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey, indicate that one in four children in this country were in homes without sufficient access to food due to financial challenges last year.

So, about 1.8 million children under the age of 18 were impacted by food insecurity, a noticeable jump from the 1.4 million total the year prior.

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Calgary Police dismantle large homeless encampment

Crews continued to clean up a large homeless encampment hidden in a forested stretch of Crown land in the city’s southeast on Wednesday, a process that police say could reach into the weekend.

At least a dozen people lived in the area, located in a tree-filled area a short walk off of Deerfoot Trail near the Glenmore Trail turnoff. Folks have been living in the camp for about a year, but over the past couple of days, officers issued trespass notices — and a handful of tickets to those who wouldn’t leave — and everyone had vacated by Wednesday morning.

Ennoscriptd “Operation Encampment,” the process of disestablishing the entrenched camp began Monday. CPS worked alongside city bylaw officers, conservation officers and medical personnel, and outreach teams with Alpha House were on site to provide supports to people living in the camp.

Calgary has been previously named one of the most expensive cities in Canada.

#Alberta

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Life expectancy for men in B.C. drops to lowest in a decade

For the second year in a row, life expectancy for Canadians fell in 2021 from 81.7 years to 81.6 years, Statistics Canada reports.

The increase in mortality across Canada is entirely attributable to deaths among males, according to new data about life expectancy and deaths.

In B.C., the picture is a little more nuanced. Life expectancy at birth for males has been fluctuating in recent years. But in 2021, it was at the lowest it has been in a decade.

From 2009 to 2011, the life expectancy for males in B.C. was 80.07 years. A decade later, that figure dropped to 79.55. The change appears slight, but it takes a significant number of men dying earlier in order to shift an average. Meanwhile, the life expectancy for females in B.C. has increased from 84.2 to 84.7 years in the same decade.

#BritishColumbia

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Ontario housing minister broke ethics rules in Greenbelt land swap: integrity commissioner

Ontario’s integrity commissioner has found that Housing Minister Steve Clark broke ethics rules for his role in the Ford government’s Greenbelt land swap.

In a blistering 166-page report, J. David Wake said the way the province went about removing 7,400 acres from the Greenbelt was “marked by misinterpretation, unnecessary hastiness and deception.”

The integrity commissioner’s report suggests Ryan Amato, Clark’s recently resigned chief of staff, spearheaded the process. The responsibility for that, the integrity commissioner suggested, landed at the minister’s door.

Wake found Amato had been “operating largely alone and undirected. Wake also said during the inquiry, his staff received evidence from 61 witnesses and Minister Clark.

It was determined that Minister Clark breached sections 2 and 3(2) of the Member’s Integrity Act.

#Ontario #housing

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🏠 Canadians buying homes with family, friends to break into market

In the report released Thursday, Royal LePage says an online survey by Leger of more than 500 respondents in August showed six per cent of homeowners currently co-own their property with someone other than their spouse or significant other.

🔹Of that group, 89 per cent said they co-own with family while seven per cent co-own with friends. More than half of co-owners do so with a parent or parent-in-law.

Only 44 per cent of respondents from this group said they live with all other co-owners named in the deed.

Royal LePage says 76 per cent of survey respondents cited affordability concerns as the major motivating factor for those purchasing property with another party.

#housing

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No human remains found in excavation of Manitoba church basement

After two years of speculations about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human remains.

Minegoziibe Anishinabe, a group of indigenous people also known as Pine Creek First Nation, excavated 14 sites in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church near the Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba during four weeks this summer.

The anomalies were first detected using ground-penetrating radar, but on Aug. 18, Chief Derek Nepinak of remote Pine Creek Indian Reserve said no remains were found.

In May 2021, the leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced the discovery of a mass grave of more than 200 Indigenous children detected via ground-penetrating radar at a residential school in British Columbia. The radar found anomalies in the soil but no proof of actual human remains.

#Manitoba

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120 employees no longer with CRA after inappropriately claiming CERB, agency says

The Canada Revenue Agency has let go 120 employees who took advantage of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a CRA statement issued Friday morning, an internal review launched to identify any CRA employees who inappropriately claimed the benefit while employed at the department turned up 600 suspect cases.

Any CRA employees who improperly claimed benefits will be required to pay them back if they have not already done so, the statement said.

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Meta rejects Trudeau's proposals in online news dispute

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government released new details of a law that tries to force technology companies to pay news providers, but Meta Platforms Inc. said it will continue to block users in Canada from seeing news stories on Facebook.

Draft regulations published Friday say Meta and Alphabet Inc. would need to pay news outlets a minimum of 4% of their annual revenue in Canada in return for carrying links to news articles. That means the law compels Alphabet’s Google to pay about C$172 million ($127 million) annually to the news industry in Canada, while Meta’s Facebook would need to shell out C$62 million per year, according to the government’s estimates.

Facebook has already blocked users in Canada from posting or seeing links to news stories. A spokesperson for Meta said the draft rules will make no difference.

Alphabet has also threatened to cut off Google News links in Canada.

The law is expected to come into effect on Dec. 19.

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Canadian father jailed after ‘misgendering’ daughter lands win in appeal court

Robert Hoogland, a Canadian father who was thrown in jail after "misgendering" his teenage daughter, has scored a legal win in the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Now he won't have to spend any more time in prison, but will have to pay a $30,000 fine.

The story began in 2018 when Hoogland refused to consent to his daughter's medical transition. After legal dispute, the court said that the girl could be put testosterone and Hoogland was barred from publicly "misgendering" his daughter. This led to him receiving an actual sentence for committing "family violence."

Hoogland spent more than two (out of six) months behind bars before he managed to win in the appeals court.

This is an important victory. However, it is worth remembering that this situation should not have happened in the first place. Canada is taking things to the extreme.

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"Canada's woke nightmare"

The Telegraph recently released a short documentary on the current state of things in Canada.

The film looked at such pressing issues as drug addiction, gender ideology spreading like a virus, and medical assistance in dying (MAID).

What struck me most was an interview with a clinician who works in the field of assisted suicide. She used to perform abortions. But when mifepristone, used for medical abortion, became available in Canada in 2016, the need for surgical abortion was greatly reduced. That same year, the MAID program was introduced in Canada, so the clinician quickly found her new calling in the euthanasia industry. She is proud of her work because it reflects her belief in "bodily autonomy" and "social justice." This is the very real manifestation of the death cult.

The documentary also includes a bonus episode featuring Jordan Peterson, in which he talks about the narcissistic traits exhibited by Justin Trudeau.

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Ontario housing minister resigns amid Greenbelt land swap scandal

Housing Minister Steve Clark has resigned after Ontario’s integrity commissioner found he broke ethics rules for his role in the Ford government’s Greenbelt land swap scandal.

In a letter published on Monday morning, Clark said he felt his role in the Greenbelt decision and subsequent investigations were “a distraction” from the ministry’s work to solve the housing affordability crisis.

Integrity commissioner report blamed Clark for a lack of oversight over his chief of staff, who both the integrity commissioner and Ontario’s auditor general said spearheaded the removal of 7,400 acres of land from the Greenbelt.

#Ontario

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💉B.C. sets new record with 1,455 drug deaths in 1st 7 months of 2023

Another 198 British Columbians died from toxic drugs in July, according to data released by the B.C. Coroners Service, bringing the death toll in the first seven months of the year to 1,455.

The coroners service said the 1,455 deaths from January to July are the most ever reported in the first seven months of the year since a public health emergency over drug poisoning deaths in the province was declared in 2016.

It puts the province on pace to potentially exceed the 2,383 deaths recorded last year.

#BritishColumbia

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'Violent conflict' in Calgary involving 150 people may be linked to clashes within Eritrean community

Calgary police say they're investigating a "violent conflict" between two groups involving around 150 people Saturday night that may be linked to clashes within the Eritrean community.

Police responded to an incident in northeast Falconridge at around 5 p.m. Saturday after reports of two groups with opposing views engaged in violence. They said they believe up to 150 people were involved, and many were brandishing weapons.

Several people were taken to hospital by emergency medical services.

Last month there was violence at an Eritrean festival in Edmonton, and a similar clash in Toronto.

#Alberta

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