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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Canadian Medical Association Journal recognizes people who are ‘greysexual’

By
Quinn Patrick
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The latest sexual orientation to be recognized by the Canadian Medical Association Journal is ‘greysexuality,’ a relatively new subset of asexuality.

Originally published on Dec. 4, the paper featured in Canada’s top medical journal discussed greysexuality as defined as someone who is “experiencing sexual attraction rarely or under specific circumstances.”

Demisexual and greysexual people can still “engage in sex and experience romantic attraction,” according to the article, which was co-authored by Stella A. Schneckenburger, Michelle W.Y. Tam and Lori E. Ross

The term was part of an article on asexuality, which is an umbrella term for those who only form a sexual attraction to someone after their emotional needs are met or for those who are greysexual.

It was referenced from another article in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, according to the National Post. 

Furthermore, the article outlines the struggles of asexual people, with researchers writing that they can experience mental stress and a sense of stigma from discrimination.

“Asexual people also have unique physical and sexual health needs, such as navigating arousal without attraction and learning to set boundaries in relationships,” writes the article.

It goes on to say that many asexual people may avoid medical care because they have previously reported being treated as if they had a disorder in certain healthcare settings. 

The article urges healthcare providers to exercise more inclusive language when dealing with asexual patients to avoid further stigmatizing them. 

“Using ‘if’ rather than ‘when’ for questions about sex … allow patients to self-identify (and) avoid assuming lack of sex is problematic,” wrote the authors of the paper, suggesting alternative ways to provide better healthcare for asexual people.

The article also advised doctors to do more than simply providing asexual patients with basic healthcare, asking them to take a more proactive role in offering them support. 

“Connect patients to asexual communities; ensure approaches are asexual-specific rather than generalized to the entire LGBTQIA2S+ community,” writes the article.

Earlier this year, an Ipsos poll found that 1% of the population identifies as asexual, after surveying 30 countries. 

“Ridiculous” federal incentive to reduce cow burps will likely cause beef prices to rise

By
Isaac Lamoureux
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The federal government unveils a new climate policy incentivizing farmers to reduce how much their cows burp. 

Revealed at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle protocol will encourage beef cattle farms to reduce methane emissions by improving animal diets to make the cows less gassy.

In 2021, agriculture was responsible for 31% of Canada’s total methane emissions, mostly from enteric fermentation produced by beef and dairy cattle, the federal government says. Methane is released into the air when cows burp. 

If successful in reducing their cow burps, farmers will have an opportunity to generate credits that they can sell to other companies who need to reduce emissions but haven’t yet accomplished doing so. 

“It’s the latest in a series of climate change announcements made by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault at the global climate conference, and just like the others, it will cost you,” wrote Brian Lilley of the Toronto Sun. 

The protocol necessitates costly changes in cattle diets and management, an expense that will inevitably be passed down to beef consumers, Lilley argued.

Several methods exist to reduce methane emissions through dietary changes in cattle, yet each comes with an added cost.

For instance, substituting hay with corn silage in cattle’s diets diminishes methane emissions. Similarly, incorporating specific varieties of seaweed or chemical additives into their feed can yield the same effect. 

However, it’s important to note that all these alternatives bear a higher cost than conventional feeding practices. The cost increase will affect farmers and consumers. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith labelled the new initiative “completely ridiculous.”

“How is going after ranchers and dairy farmers a priority of this federal government?” asked Smith in a post to X (formerly Twitter). 

Lilley brought up an irony that this change would counter the trend in the beef industry over the last several years that has seen consumers pay more for grass-fed beef, which is lower in saturated fats, has more Omega 3 fatty acids, and higher levels of other nutrients.

“Now, the government wants us to eat less of that kind of beef for the health of the planet,” he said. 

Canadians are already struggling with costs at the grocery stores, with many turning to dollar stores instead, as previously reported by True North. The impending increase in beef prices, resulting from the new climate policy, is poised to disproportionately impact those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.

“The Trudeau government is out of touch with average Canadians and can’t see the impact their policies are having on day-to-day life. Increasing the cost of food in the name of saving the planet may sound good to academics building climate models but, politically, it will have a disastrous impact on Trudeau’s government,” wrote Lilley. According to the federal government’s press release, the final protocol is expected to be released in the summer of 2024. By this time, farmers will be able to register for Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System.

Ratio’d | ‘Frozen communist s***hole’: Joe Rogan blasts Trudeau’s Canada

By
Harrison Faulkner
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It has been a bad week for the pro-censorship legacy media press in Canada. First it began with Elon Musk noting the obvious – that freedom of speech doesn’t exist in Canada. Then Joe Rogan followed up by blasting Canada as a ‘frozen communist s***hole country’ and attacking Justin Trudeau…again. Following that, Tucker Carlson, one of Justin Trudeau’s harshest critics, interviewed another notable Trudeau critic, Alex Jones. To cap it all off, Elon Musk followed up Jones’ viral interview with Carlson by reinstating Jones’ account on X.

Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones and others have been some of the loudest voices against the Trudeau regime. All of them at one point or another have compared Justin Trudeau to some of the most evil dictators the world has ever seen. While these men represent free speech, Justin Trudeau has come to represent censorship. When the rest of the world is telling you that your country has a problem but the legacy media press who exist only because of government bailouts tell you there’s no problem, it may be time to listen to everyone else.

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Canadian rental prices soar as U.S. market shows decline, cost for roommates reach record high

By
Isaac Lamoureux
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Source: Flickr

Canada’s rental market continues to surge to new heights, as highlighted in the Rentals.ca December 2023 report. 

This upward trend starkly contrasts with the United States, where the rental market is experiencing a downturn, according to similar American data.  

Canada’s rental market has seen a significant rise, with average asking rents up 8.4% this year compared to last November. This compares to a 9.9% change year-over-year in October and 11.1% in September. 

“This is a result of Canada’s failure to build enough homes to keep up with population growth. Canada is currently building fewer homes than we built in the 70’s,” the Conservative Party of Canada said in a press release.

One-bedroom apartments have experienced the most considerable growth, with a 13.6% increase in annual rent, averaging $1,943 monthly. Apartments as a whole averaged $2,125 monthly, an increase of 11.2% from a year ago. 

Alberta leads in rental price increases with a 16.1% year-over-year growth. Quebec and Nova Scotia follow closely at 10.9% and 9.9%, with rents reaching $1,977 and $2,165, respectively.

Alberta’s rent has surged, in part, due to immigration. Premier Danielle Smith expects the province’s population to double by 2050. Between July 2022 and 2023, Alberta saw the highest net interprovincial gain ever recorded, with 56,245 more people moving to the province than leaving it.  

“Edmonton overtook Calgary as the leader in rent growth among Canada’s largest markets in November,” said the report. Rent in Edmonton has risen 11.9% since last year, and Calgary has risen 10.4%.

However, Canada’s most expensive places to live didn’t fare too poorly. Average asking rents in Vancouver have risen just 0.7% since last year. Toronto’s average apartment rents decreased annually for the second straight month, down 2.4% since last year. 

Giacomo Ladas, Rentals.ca communications director, explained that the deceleration in Toronto is partially because more people are choosing to live with a roommate to cut costs, according to CBC. 

The most expensive markets are in Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto.

That said, splitting the rent with a roommate still yields a costly arrangement.Average asking rents for shared accommodations in B.C., Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec grew 16.2% over the last year to a record high of $960.

“Nobody can afford this. Living with roommates is now the same cost as renting a one-bedroom in one of Canada’s ten biggest cities before Justin Trudeau was elected,” said Conservatives

Unlike Canada, The U.S. rental market is witnessing a downturn, with a 2.09% decrease in yearly asking rents as of November. Rents have decreased in six of the eleven months in 2023 in the U.S. Canada’s housing crisis is getting no better. As previously reported by True North, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s documentary-style video on X (formerly Twitter) has now received over 4.3M views.

University of Alberta removes Christmas tree after student request to light menorah

By
Quinn Patrick
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A law student at the University of Alberta who asked to display a menorah in a study space was not only denied, but her request resulted in the faculty removing Christmas trees as well.

On Tuesday, law student Rachel Cook spoke with the staff at law student services after she noticed several Christmas trees, garlands and other holiday decorations on display at a campus lounge. 

Cook, who is Jewish, offered to bring in an electric menorah to represent Hanukkah and supplement another menorah that was lit at the campus on Thursday, according to the National Post. 

Cook said the initial response to her offer was positive, however she later received an email from a vice dean who wanted to address Cook’s “concerns” about the existing decorations on campus. 

The vice dean offered Cook a bookable room where she could hold a lighting ceremony and display a menorah but said that the decorations that were already up in public spaces around campus were meant to be “non-denominational.”

Following the email, the Christmas trees were taken down, but the garlands, lights and decorative polar bears were kept on display. 

Cook said she never had any issue with the Christmas trees, noting that she had accepted a candy cane from the vice dean while he was dressed up as Santa in a previous exchange with him. 

She was shocked to learn that her request led to such an overreaction.   

“I got an email from the vice dean (telling me) ‘No trees either, we’re going to take all those down because of your concerns,’ ” she told the National Post. “That’s when I responded, ‘But I don’t have concerns, I actually find them quite pretty. I just wanted to display a menorah.’ ”

Cook said she was also confused as to how the faculty defined what a non-secular decoration was, as many of the other decorations remained on display, like the garlands. 

“They’ve decided now the secular line is that if it’s nature-themed and lying flat, that’s secular. But if it’s in tree form (it’s religious),” she said.

Cook believes that it was the faculty’s decision to take down the trees because they don’t want to display what they incorrectly may perceive to be an endorsement of Israel. 

“I have not talked to a single student on campus who has a problem with a menorah,” said Cook, adding that she suspects that the faculty felt it better to remove symbols with Christian connotations, instead of displaying a menorah. 

The faculty’s decision comes on the heels of Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek’s refusal to attend a Hanukkah ceremony at city hall. 

Gondek’s decision was based on the premise that the event had “been repositioned as an event to support Israel,” including its invasion of Gaza.

Several Jewish leaders condemned Gondek’s decision as well as certain government and opposition MPs.

Several weeks ago, the university also fired the head of its sexual assault centre, Samantha Pearson, after she used the organization’s name to endorse a letter denying several reports of sexual abuse perpetrated by Hamas members during the Oct. 7 attack.

Michael Brown, a spokesman for the University of Alberta, said that “some decorations were moved in order to maintain the intent of seasonal decorations in this shared space, which is to be secularly festive.”

“The faculty supports student groups and others who wish to hold celebration events that may be denominational, religious or spiritual with bookable spaces, including a room specifically designated for these purposes,” said Brown in a statement, according to the National Post. 

Speaker Greg Fergus apologizes during committee appearance for Liberal convention video

By
Isaac Lamoureux
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House Speaker Greg Fergus apologized to a committee of MPs for his participation in a video tribute shown at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention. 

Fergus appeared before the Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to answer questions about the controversial cameo. 

Also present for the five-hour committee hearing was Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser, the video’s subject, Simon Tunstall, the chief returning officer of the 2023 Liberal leadership election, and several House of Commons clerks.

Fergus reiterated several points previously reported by True North over the past week. Among these, he emphasized his lack of awareness that the video would be shown at a partisan event. 

“Regardless of it being aired privately or publicly, I should never have recorded it,” said Fergus. “I know I messed up, and I won’t do it again.”

Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, a former speaker of the House, had previously presented an analogy of a referee giving the opposing team a pep talk prior to the game while wearing his uniform, which would result in the other team not trusting his calls. 

When he assumed the speaker’s chair, Fergus said he spoke of the role being like a referee. 

“I think one thing Canadians know well is that referees make mistakes. They are human. But unlike a referee after a game, I’m here to admit that. I blew that call. But I’m also telling you that I will do better,” said Fergus.

Fergus said he would implement a more rigorous communication protocol to ensure this never happens again. He said that he will rely heavily on the services of the House administration to review requests like the video tribute. 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet both condemned Fergus and called for his resignation. 

“He cannot stay,” Blanchet told reporters. “It should be fixed as soon as possible for it not to become a distraction in Parliament.”

Fergus initially apologized last Monday while in Washington, D.C. During this trip, Poilievre called for his resignation on X (formerly Twitter).

“All neutrality is gone. He must resign,” Poilievre said. 

Despite the criticism, some members of the government, including House Leader Karina Gould, have supported Fergus, advocating for moving past the incident following his apology. 

“When I took on this role two months ago, I said words and symbols matter. I told you how respect would be at the heart of how I would take on this role. Respect for people. Respect for decorum. Respect for the institution of Parliament. These values continue to be important to me, but it’s fair to say, like anyone taking on a new post, I’m learning on the job,” said Fergus.

Northwest Territories premier requests full exemption from carbon tax

By
Quinn Patrick
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The Northwest Territories’ newly elected premier, R.J. Simpson, is the latest premier to demand a blanket exemption from Ottawa’s carbon tax.

“I mean, ideally, a complete exemption for the territory is what we would hope for,” said Simpson in a Sunday interview with CBC’s Rosemary Barton. “The costs are already high — higher costs are not the solution up here.”

Federal carbon pricing requires provinces and territories to set up their own collection system if they don’t want to use the system already in place by the Trudeau government. 

Simpson’s government chose to create its own carbon pricing system, meaning if it wishes to make an exemption on home oil heating, it will be required to create its own processes regarding changes. 

Initially, the territory had revised its process to stop issuing rebates on home heating fuels in April, however the territory’s legislature dissolved in October for an election. 

During that same time period, the federal government announced that it would grant an exemption on home heating oil, while the legislature was out.

Following Simpsons’ election win, he stated that the carbon tax simply “doesn’t work” for the people of his territory. 

“Here in the Northwest Territories, the cost of living is high. The cost of fuel, home heating, power — they’ve always been high. [If] high costs is what is going to get people to use green energy and green technology, we would have been doing that years ago,” said Simpson.

The Northwest Territories aren’t connected to southern power grids and suffer from a lack of the kind of infrastructure needed to implement new technologies. 

“Heat pumps don’t work up here in this climate,” said Simpsoon. 

Conventional air-source heat pumps tend to struggle in colder temperatures and are likely to stop working in the winter months.

“We all agree we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change is real, I can tell you we are being impacted here in the North more so than the rest of the country,” said Simpson, who also mentioned how he was forced out of his home for two months this year during the wildfires that spread across Yellowknife and several other communities.

Simpson said that many residents of the N.W.T. are already struggling with the cost of living as it is. 

“The prices in the rest of Canada are getting close to what they actually used to be here, so the prices are just getting higher and higher here,” he said.

So far, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied any further requests regarding exemptions on the federal carbon tax, despite many premiers’ requests that Ottawa extend the carve out exemption to all forms of home heating. 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been adamant that if elected, his government would end the carbon tax. 

Recently, the Conservative party introduced a bill to give an exemption to certain farmers and to create a new exemption for First Nations. 

“You will have no rest until the tax is gone,” said Poilievre last week in Parliament.

Simpson said that his territory will require further help from Ottawa when it comes to issues of the infrastructure necessary to make the appropriate changes on home heating.

“The fact is, we need major infrastructure upgrades and we can’t afford those ourselves, as a territory,” said Simpson. “It’s just not sustainable.”

The Andrew Lawton Show | Almost 250k signatures for anti-Trudeau petition, but does it matter?

By
Andrew Lawton
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Source: Facebook

Nearly 250,000 people have signed a viral House of Commons petition calling for a vote of non-confidence in Justin Trudeau’s government. These petitions are non-binding, but they do reflect growing frustration with the Liberal government at a time when Trudeau’s poll numbers have been dwarfed by Pierre Poilievre’s. Did you sign the petition?

Also, after two months, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly finally condemned Hamas’ sexual violence against Israeli women and girls in its October 7th attacks. Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley joins to discuss how Trudeau’s “feminist” foreign policy is empty words.

Plus, Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on how the government managed to spend $200 million just to administer its carbon tax.

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Liberals unveil dental insurance for seniors and children

By
Quinn Patrick
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A new federal dental insurance plan is expected to be launched today by a number of government ministers, which will provide direct benefits to eligible Canadians, however the first claims won’t be processed until May 2024. 

The new program is a crucial matter in securing the Liberals’ supply-and-confidence deal with the NDP, which the Liberal’s are relying on to maintain their minority government until 2025.

“As minister of health, I’m deeply proud that Canada has one of the best health systems in the world,” said Minister of Health Mark Holland, during Monday’s press conference at Algonquin College. “But we know we can do better, we know we can have the best health care system in the world. “Today is a monumental step in that direction.” 

“Up to nine million Canadians today do not have dental insurance. This action today will help to get them the access they need to oral healthcare. Oral healthcare they need and deserve,” added Holland.

The Liberals assured the NDP that they would launch a dental insurance plan for seniors, people with disabilities and children under the age of 18 by next year.

The program will start being phased in slowly over the next year, said government officials during a briefing with the Canadian Press, prior to the announcement on Monday.

Canadian residents with a household income of under $90,000 who do not have private insurance will qualify for the new dental benefits.

Applicants who qualify over the age of 87 may begin to make their claims as early as next week, however they won’t be processed for months to come. 

According to the Toronto Star, NDP health critic Don Davies said his party is ecstatic to now have a solid program coming into effect by their party’s proposed deadline. 

“Far too many people have avoided getting the healthcare that they need, simply because it is far too expensive and that’s why this plan is essential. With the Canadian dental care plan, they won’t have to anymore,” said Holland.

“It’s going to help make life better for eligible Canadians because they won’t have to make the choice between paying their bills and getting the care that they absolutely need,” he added.

A new federal dental insurance plan is expected to be launched today by a number of government ministers, which will provide direct benefits to eligible Canadians, however the first claims won’t be processed until May 2024. 

The new program is a crucial matter in securing the Liberals’ supply-and-confidence deal with the NDP, which the Liberal’s are relying on to maintain their minority government until 2025.

The Liberals assured the NDP that they would launch a dental insurance plan for seniors, people with disabilities and children under the age of 18 by next year.

The program will start being phased in slowly over the next year, said government officials during a briefing with the Canadian Press, prior to the announcement on Monday.

Canadian residents with a household income of under $90,000 who do not have private insurance will qualify for the new dental benefits.

Applicants who qualify over the age of 87 may begin to make their claims as early as next week, however they won’t be processed for months to come. 

According to the Toronto Star, NDP health critic Don Davies said his party is ecstatic to now have a solid program coming into effect by their party’s proposed deadline. 

Several ministers are expected to outline the details later today. This is a developing story. 

The Daily Brief | How woke are the Canadian Armed Forces?

By
Andrew Lawton
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In a move to align with the Liberal government’s commitment to “inclusivity,” Canadian military bases are required to provide menstrual products, including tampons and pads, in men’s washrooms by December 15.

Plus, following a series of telephone town hall meetings, the Alberta Pension Plan Engagement Panel reports that approximately half of the participants oppose the proposed Alberta Pension Plan.

And Canadians can expect to see even less in their paycheques in 2024 due to new tax hikes.

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