🪖Trudeau headed to Washington for NATO summit. What to expect

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the NATO military alliance.

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🏠Nearly 40% of new Canadians are considering moving due to housing costs

According to the poll, 28 per cent of Canadians overall are considering leaving the province that they reside in due to soaring housing costs. Most live in either Ontario (39 per cent) or British Columbia (36 per cent), where high housing costs have persisted for longer compared to other regions.

Across Canada, 42 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are considering moving from their current province. According to the poll, renters are more likely to consider moving than those who own their dwellings with or without a mortgage.

#housing
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💸Gold stolen in Toronto airport heist now likely overseas, police admit

Peel Regional Police have quietly conceded that millions in gold stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport in April 2023 was likely quickly smuggled out of Canada to the Middle East or South Asia.

We believe a large portion has gone overseas to markets that are flush with gold. That would be Dubai, or India, where you can take gold with serial numbers on it and they will still honour it and melt it down…. And we believe that happened very shortly after the incident.

lead investigator Det. Sgt. Mike Mavity told members of the Peel Police Service Board during a June 21 meeting.

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🪖🇨🇦🇺🇸U.S. plans to press Canada, other NATO allies at summit to meet 2% spending targe

Michael Carpenter, a White House national-security official, said Monday that alliance members will hold countries’ “feet to the fire” if they have not yet fulfilled their decade-old pledge to spend 2 per cent of GDP on the military.

Another U.S. diplomatic official said there has been debate in the administration over how aggressively President Joe Biden should press the issue with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Part of the discussion is whether to shame Canada publicly or keep it private, the source said.

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🚫💰Saskatchewan wins injunction to block CRA from collecting carbon tax

The Saskatchewan Party says its application for a court injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting the federal carbon tax from the province has succeeded.

The court ruled in our favour, blocking the federal government from unconstitutionally garnishing money, pending the full hearing and determination of the continuation of the injunction by the Federal Court.

Bronwyn Eyre, the provincial justice minister and attorney general said Monday.

Eyre said garnishing a provincial bank account violates Section 126 of Canada’s constitution. The issue will now go a full hearing.

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Trudeau on his way to get spanked at the NATO summit.

By the way, who's he waving at?

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✈️ Canada’s ambassador for climate change racks up travel expenses

Canada’s ambassador for climate change has charged $254,000 in travel expenses in less than two years on the job.

🌍According to Blacklock’s Reporter, from day one Catherine Stewart went on international trips including to Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Bali, Beijing, Bern, Brasilia, Brussels, Cairo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Florence, Geneva and Helsinki. She also visited Istanbul, Kinshasa, Leipzig, Lisbon, London, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New York City, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Sharm El-Sheikh, Vienna, Washington and Zurich.

Expenses included business class airfare, and she travelled by air even when train service was available.

This is what climate emergency looks like!

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At the Calgary Stampede

People are heartbroken that Trudeau didn't make it this year.

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🍗KFC Canada is going viral after customers are realizing the popular fried chicken chain has been serving halal meat for the past two months.

#BoycottKFC is trending on social media with screenshots of a statement by KFC Canada dated May 8 detailing plans to introduce inclusive menu options.

The American fast food chain collaborated with its KFC Canada Muslim team to include halal menu options as of May 15 across all KFC Canada stores in Ontario, except Thunder Bay and Ottawa.

Additionally, the restaurant has discontinued pork products at all locations except those co-branded with Taco Bell.

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💸 Trudeau’s ‘thought crimes’ bill would create $200 million in new bureaucracy

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievere says he would repeal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, after learning it would cost an additional $200 million for government employees to monitor alleged "hate crime offenses" according to the latest report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

Half of them no doubt being 'hate messages' criticizing Trudeau.

The bill has passed first reading in the House of Commons but could potentially die on the order paper before the next federal election, slated for October 2025.

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Streaming giants file court challenge against CRTC over forced subsidy of legacy media

A group of U.S. streaming companies have asked a Canadian court to halt their financial obligations under the Online Streaming Act, which would force them to fork over 5% of Canadian sales to support Canadian news broadcasting.

The request was made by the Motion Picture Association Canada, an industry group representing major American companies who produce and distribute content in Canada, specifically Netflix, Walt Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Global.

What's really striking is that no matter how inconvenient it is for big corporations, they still won't leave the Canadian market. Watching the battle unfold.

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🪖Justin Trudeau called out by Americans over failure to hit NATO spending target

Discussions continued Tuesday over how Canada could demonstrate a timeline to hit the higher defence spending target — something that would require Ottawa to devote billions of extra dollars to the military.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Canada’s failure to hit the NATO target came up in meetings Trudeau held Monday and Tuesday with American politicians, and that the government was aware that Canada is being “called out” for falling short.

The spanking continues. The US needs Canadian tax dollars to fuel the military industrial complex or it will all collapse. Canada can barely support its own army, what more do you want?

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🎓Canada to stop processing study permits for colleges, universities that fail to track international students

The federal government plans to suspend processing of study permits from post-secondary students if the schools fail to keep track of international students’ enrolment.

The proposed regulations would compel colleges and universities to report to the federal Immigration Department whether a student is attending school and complying with all study permit requirements.

#immigration
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🪖Canada confirms plan to replace submarine fleet at NATO summit

Canada definitely plans to move forward with the purchase of new submarines, the federal government announced on the margins of the NATO Summit on Wednesday.

A senior government official, speaking on background, said they could not confirm how much the plan will cost, how many boats will be purchased or when they will arrive.

The submarine construction program will be separate from the National Shipbuilding Strategy because no shipyards in Canada currently have the capacity or technology to build sophisticated sub-surface vessels.

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⚛️🗑Ignace council votes in favour of potential nuclear waste repository

The northwestern Ontario township of Ignace is one step closer to hosting a $26-billion deep geological repository (DGR) for nuclear waste.

At a special meeting held Wednesday, Ignace council voted in favour of a recommendation by the township's willingness committee to continue with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's (NWMO) site selection process.

The vote does not guarantee the repository will be located in the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation-Ignace area, however. The final decision rests with the NWMO, which is also considering South Bruce in southern Ontario for the site. An announcement is expected later this year.

#Ontario #energy
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