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.

#Trudeau
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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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Ontario Liberal leader distances herself from Trudeau

Bonnie Crombie, Ontario’s Liberal leader, distanced herself from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of the federal party’s byelection loss on Monday.

I probably speak to the prime minister less than once a year. I think the bigger friend is Doug Ford, is the closer friend of Justin Trudeau. You see them in photographs and in meetings together.

Sit back and watch Trudeau turn into an untouchable.

#Trudeau
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💊$4M worth of prenoscription opioids disappeared from an Ontario pharmacy

The loss of more than 245,000 hydromorphone tablets, all eight milligrams and sold under the brand-name Dilaudid, was reported to Health Canada in May 2023 by a pharmacy in Ontario. Whether they disappeared from the pharmacy itself, or even whether they made it there at all, is not known.

They would be worth about $4 million if sold on the street.

Does anyone doubt that they ended up on the streets?

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🦷Smith tells Trudeau Alberta will opt out of federal dental plan

Alberta is opting out of the federal dental plan, the premier told the Canadian government. In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Danielle Smith said the Canadian Dental Care Plan infringes on provincial jurisdiction.

If a new health program was to be developed by the federal government, it should be done in full collaboration with provinces and territories, and discussions should have occurred before these intentions are announced. Unfortunately, this did not occur.

#Alberta #healthcare
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🏠💰Average down payment gift for first-time homebuyers soars into six digits

Family gifts to provide or enhance a down payment have kept getting larger and more common among young homebuyers, according to a new analysis by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

The study, which represents an update from a 2021 report, found that nearly a third of first-time buyers now rely on such financial aid, with the size of their average parental cash injection now past the six-figure mark. And a growing share of existing homeowners are also tapping their parents’ purse to be able to upsize to a larger property.

#housing
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💸🌱When asked if the Liberal government is ready to listen to Canadians and repeal the carbon tax, Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault says it will continue with the tax so people can get more money.

This concept was flawed from the start.

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