Last week, Justin Trudeau announced a $221 million initiative to assist black entrepreneurs and start-ups. There was no similar program announced for other races.
Critics argued that Trudeau’s initiative was actually racist and that he was patronizing black Canadians. Sure enough, Trudeau’s defenders came out in full force to defend the Prime Minister.
True North’s Leo Knight says despite what Trudeau thinks of Canada, we are the least racist country in the world.
What’s worse than the carbon tax?
A second carbon tax!
Reports indicate that the Trudeau government is planning a new carbon tax in the upcoming throne speech.
True North’s Anthony Furey asks is this really the right time to force another devastating tax on Canadians?
Gun owners from across Canada are marching on Parliament Hill right now as part of a demonstration to stand up for lawful gun ownership in the face of the Liberal government’s ongoing gun grabs.
True North’s Andrew Lawton, a licensed gun owner himself, is covering the event live from Ottawa. He caught up with Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights chief executive officer Rod Giltaca ahead of the event to discuss the march and what the CCFR wants to achieve by it.
A new Ipsos poll found that Quebecers prefer oil sourced in Western Canada over other parts of the world.
The online survey, which was conducted at the behest of the Montreal Economic Institute, surveyed 1,150 Canadians aged 18 years or older.
Its results found that 71% of Quebecers preferred to import oil into the province from Western Canada.
Meanwhile, only 8% said they would like to see it sourced in the United States, while another 6% opted for another country. 16% of those surveyed said they didn’t know.
“Western oil and developing their own resources are both more popular this year among Quebecers,” said MEI’s Senior Associate Researcher, Germain Belzile.
“But while Quebecers are frankly very open to the development of their oil resources, the province’s political parties don’t feel the same enthusiasm. There’s a disconnect.”
Despite the support among the province’s general population for Canadian sourced oil, Quebec politicians have made it harder for oil to be transported from the West.
In 2017, Quebec had a hand in cancelling the proposed Energy East pipeline which would have resulted in approximately 1.1 million barrels of crude oil travelling out of Alberta per day.
A landmark ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court came down against the Cambie clinic, a private Vancouver surgery centre seeking to overturn several government restrictions on private healthcare facilities. The court found that even though patients suffer under the universal system due to long wait times, it’s more important to preserve the government’s monopoly on healthcare than it is to allow patients to seek private alternatives. True North’s Andrew Lawton was joined by Canadian Constitution Foundation executive director Joanne Baron to discuss to decision and the case’s next steps.
Watch the full episode of The Andrew Lawton Show here.
In a now-deleted tweet, Global News radio host Charles Adler, linked US President Donald Trump to the “worst elements of human nature” unleashed during the 9/11 terror attacks.
“This is September 11th. I can tell you now what I chose not to speak into a microphone 19 years ago today. Felt in my bones that the worst elements of human nature were being unleashed. Will always believe Trumpism emerged from the darkest ashes of America’s darkest day,” tweeted Adler on the morning of September 11, 2020.
Adler has since taken down the tweet after he says he decided “not to conflate 9/11 with today’s politics.”
On September 11th, 2019, al-Qaeda conducted four separate terror attacks on American soil, leading to the deaths of 2,977 people and injuring 25,000 others.
Earlier today, President Trump paid his respects to the victims of the horrific attack.
“The only thing that stood between the enemy and a deadly strike at the heart of American democracy was the courage and resolve of 40 men and women – the amazing passengers and crew of Flight 93,” Trump said addressing one of the planes which was headed for Washington D.C. until passengers and crew intervened to prevent another attack.
“Earlier today I tweeted a message about the worst elements in human nature being unleashed by Sept 11th.I don’t think there would be a #Trump Presidency had it not been for the attack 19 yrs ago today, followed by long wars in Afghanistan/Iraq & the accompanying #Islamophobia,” tweeted Adler later that day.
In a long Twitter thread posted only a few days earlier, Adler described how he abandoned his label as a conservative.
“These listeners reminded me that I never defined myself as a conservative until others chose to brand me. They reminded me that from my very first talk show in Calgary in 1990 many of my views were definitely not conservative & others were traditional/conservative-not liberal,” wrote Adler on September 5.
“Some of my listeners offered me some tough love, tole [sic] me that I can’t just call myself liberal because I feel insulted by stupid conspiracy theories promoted by some Conservatives and the pro Trump attitudes of same…”
Netflix Canada has refused to remove the film “Cuties” from its platform despite criticisms that the film promotes pedophilia and sexualizes 11-year-old girls.
Since the film was released on the streaming platform, audiences on social media have reacted with disgust and outrage over its depiction of underaged children.
According to an IMDB parental warning, scenes in the film include 11 year old girls dancing “suggestively in front of a live adult audience. The girls repeatedly move their bums while standing and lying down. They slap themselves on their bums from the back and from the front.”
“An 11 year old girl finds a condom on the ground outside and blows it up. The girl then puts it under her shirt to pretend it’s a breast. The other girls scream and yell at her about how gross it is to touch the condom,” writes IMDB.
Another scene involves an 11-year-old girl taking photographs of her genital area and publishing the photograph online.
Meanwhile, Netflix claims otherwise, saying that the film is “a social commentary against the sexualization of young children.”
“It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up — and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie,” the company told Variety.
Since the film’s release, calls have emerged to have it removed from the popular streaming service.
One change.org petition has been signed over 169,000 times at the time of this article’s publication calling for a boycott of Netflix.
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The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled against a private surgical clinic in Vancouver, arguing that even though patients are suffering at the hands of Canada’s public healthcare system, the government still has the right to prevent them from seeking private alternatives.
True North’s Andrew Lawton speaks to Canadian Constitution Foundation executive director Joanna Baron about the 800-plus page ruling and the quest to bring it to the Supreme Court of Canada next.
Also, the Oscars overseers are prioritizing wokeness over quality while Netflix creepily sexualizes children in ‘Cuties’. Plus, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault admits – again – he wants to regulate free speech on the internet.
A former Liberal MP has been charged by the RCMP with criminal fraud and breach of trust.
Charges against disgraced parliamentarian Raj Grewal were announced on Friday.
Grewal is accused of using his position of authority to solicit millions of dollars worth of loans without disclosing his actions to the federal ethics commissioner. It is also alleged that Grewal used his constituency office’s budget for his own personal gain.
Grewal, who was elected as the MP for Brampton East, resigned from the Liberal caucus in 2018 as investigators began to look into his financial conduct.
At the time of his resignation, Grewal was alleged to have spent millions gambling at a number of casinos.
He is currently facing one count of fraud over $5,000 and four counts of breach of trust.
Grewal is due to appear in court on October 6.
Grewal is not the first Liberal MP to face criminal charges in recent memory.
Earlier this year, Marwan Tabbara was quietly arrested over assault, breaking and entering, and criminal harassment charges.
There was no media fanfare shortly after his arrest on April 9th and reports of the incident did not emerge until June 5th.
Tabbara has since been removed from the Liberal caucus and currently sits as an independent MP.
The average federal employee received $115,000 in wages and benefits in 2019 according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.
Originally reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, the PBO released a report detailing how much federal employees cost the taxpayer on Thursday.
“In 2019 the average federal compensation per full-time equivalent (employee) was about $115,000,” including salary, bonuses and benefits.
“The government’s largest operating cost is its staff. Personnel spending accounts for roughly sixty percent of the federal government’s operating costs.”
The report revealed that between 2006 and 2019, federal labour costs increased by 3.5% annually on average, meanwhile the inflation rate during that same period was just 1.7%.
The total number of employees also increased from 335,000 to 369,000, an increase of around 10%.
“Over the past twelve years, growth in personnel spending was mainly due to higher spending per employee, not hiring growth,” said the report.
“Salaries and wages contributed the most to cost increases, but were not the fastest growing category.”
In 2015, it was estimated that government employees make between 18-37% more than private employees in similar positions. It was also found that government employees get more time off for personal reasons than private sector employees.
While the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing recession put millions of Canadians out of work and threatened thousands of businesses, the public sector has seen increased wages and benefits.
Between March and May, a quarter of federal employees took paid leaves which cost taxpayers $439.3 million.
In July, it was announced that 94,000 federal employees would receive a 6.64% pay hike through a new collective bargaining agreement.
In September, it was revealed that the CRA’s 29,000 employees would receive a 10% pay hike next year.
