Alberta’s opposition NDP picks ex-Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as leader

Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi will lead the opposition New Democratic Party in Canada’s oil-rich province Alberta, the party announced in a live-streamed meeting on Saturday.

Nenshi’s parents immigrated to Canada from Tanzania, and he was the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city.

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Maximum-security prison that held killers Magnotta, Pickton evacuated due to wildfires

A maximum-security prison in Quebec that has held notorious murderers including Luka Rocco Magnotta and Robert Pickton has been evacuated due to the intensification of nearby forest fires, Correctional Service Canada has confirmed.

A release issued Sunday says inmates at the Port-Cartier Institution were “successfully moved” to other secure federal correctional facilities after an evacuation order was issued for the City of Port-Cartier, Que., on Friday.

#Quebec #wildfires
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❌Canada Day parade in Montreal cancelled

The annual Canada Day parade in Montreal has been cancelled less than two weeks before the event, due to alleged bureaucratic issues between the organizer and the city.

The event’s organizer, Nicholas Cowen, claims “difficulties with local government leaders” were to blame when trying to coordinate the July 1 parade that’s been held since 1977.

#Quebec
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Ottawa split on plan to let undocumented migrants apply to stay in Canada

The proposal – which would include allowing rejected asylum claimants and former international students with expired study permits to apply to remain in Canada – was presented by Mr. Miller to cabinet before MPs began their summer recess.

But Mr. Miller said no conclusion about introducing a broad “regularization” program for migrants who have been in Canada for several years has yet been made and that discussions between ministers are continuing.

The country is being suffocated by migrants and the government is thinking of ways to allow more illegals to stay.

#immigration
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🖊Majority of millennials, Gen Z don't support Trudeau's internet regulation plans: poll

The poll, released Monday, finds that less than half of Canadians aged 18 to 39 say they “support the government’s new rules to regulate the web, podcasts, streaming and social media to restrict offensive speech and online harms.”

Only 44 per cent say they support the initiatives. The majority either disagree with the policies (39 per cent) or don’t know (16 per cent).

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⚡🗳Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the longtime federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul's

Don Stewart garnered 42.1% of the vote, beating Liberal candidate Leslie Church (40.5%).

#Ontario
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Boy, 14, charged with 1st-degree murder in Etobicoke mass shooting

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in a mass shooting that left two men dead and three others injured earlier this month, Toronto police say.

The accused has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

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📈Canada's population forecast to reach 63 million, as people over 85 set to triple

New projections by Statistics Canada suggest the nation's population could reach 63 million by 2073, with the number of people aged 85 or older set to triple.

The agency says migration will be the key driver of population increase under all scenarios.

There will be no other scenarios until the government stops treating immigrants as their dearest friends.

#immigration
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🇨🇦🇨🇳Canada expresses concern about Xinjiang rights to local leaders

Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

A 2022 report by the then U.N. human rights chief said China's treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, in the country's far west, could constitute crimes against humanity. Beijing denies the allegations.

Virtue signaling becomes the unofficial norm. Remember when Trudeau "educated" Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on LGBT rights?

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Trudeau on the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection results:

These are not easy times, and it is clear I, and my entire Liberal team, have much more work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians can see and feel. We’ll never stop working and fighting to make sure people have what they need to get through these tough times. My focus is on your success, and that’s where it’s going to stay.

Cope.

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💸📈Inflation ticked up to 2.9% in May

Canada's annual inflation rate edged up to 2.9 per cent in May — an increase from 2.7 per cent in April — mostly due to higher prices for services, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.

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RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says he hopes the names of MPs suspected of aiding foreign states aren’t disclosed because it could jeopardize international partnerships.

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🇨🇦🇭🇹Canada announces an additional $5.7 million in funding for Haiti

Today Melanie Joly announced that Canada will provide an additional $5.7 million for the security mission in Haiti. This is in addition to the $80.5 million announced in February of this year.

No better way to spend tax money than to waste it.

#Haiti
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Immigration Minister calls for ‘introspection’ after Liberal by-election defeat

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should remain at the helm of the Liberal party after a devastating loss in a key Toronto riding but he said a period of introspection will be important to go through.

I think a lot of us have to take a step back and give our heads a shake, screw it on a little better. Stop the navel gazing and get back on the horse and fight for Canadians.

Miller said.

Fight for Canadians or fight Canadians?

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🚙Nearly half of 124 arrested by Ontario carjacking task force were on bail

Nearly half of the 124 people arrested by Ontario’s carjacking task force were out on bail, police say, with many being released again after their latest arrest.

#Ontario
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Freeland says Trudeau will stay on as leader of the Liberals even though Liberals lost a 30-year stronghold riding in Toronto last night.

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🇨🇦🇮🇳🎓Hundreds of Indian foreign students queue up for a job at Tim Hortons

A video is going viral of the long queue of applicants outside a Tim Hortons outlet competing for part-time jobs.

#India #immigration
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🇨🇦🇦🇫Sajjan instructed special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs during fall of Kabul

Then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan instructed Canadian special forces to rescue about 225 Afghan Sikhs after the Taliban takeover in August, 2021, in an operation that three military sources say took resources away from getting Canadian citizens and Afghans linked to Canada on final evacuation flights out of Kabul.

Mr. Sajjan also relayed location information and other details about the Sikhs to the military as special operation forces worked to meet up with the group. The information was passed to him from a Canadian Sikh group that was in contact with these Afghan Sikhs.

The way it was presented to us at first was: If we can do this and pay attention to it, great, but not stopping doing everything else. But a day or so later, it came back to us as a firm order. Our leadership was furious. They were very upset.

said one source, a special forces officer.

Mr. Sajjan, now the Emergency Preparedness Minister.

#Afghanistan
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🇨🇦🇨🇳🚙🌱The number of electric cars sold in the EU and the US combined is not even half of what China sells.

Not wonder that the government is trying to prevent Chinese EVs from taking over the market.

#china #energy
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