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TD Bank donated $500,000 for child gender transitions

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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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One of Canada’s most prominent banks is funding child gender transitions after donating $500,000 to the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program. 

As first reported by Breitbart, the funding which was first quietly announced in May will go towards providing nearly 30 kids under the age of 18 “gender affirmation” services such as medical transitions and more. 

“The Pediatric Gender Diversity Program aims to provide medical and mental health services to trans and gender diverse youth as part of a comprehensive program that includes adolescent medicine, psychology, psychiatry, endocrinology, speech-language pathology, and social work,” TD Bank explains. 

Transgender individuals require endocrinologists to administer hormone treatments such as puberty blockers, testerone injections and more. Related treatments often affect permanent changes to a person’s biology and physical appearance. 

“We provide information, options and care to youth who are experiencing gender dysphoria – this refers to the distress that a young person who is gender diverse may experience living in a body that doesn’t align with their gender identity,” said McMaster Children’s Hospital pediatrician Dr. Rosheen Grady. 

“Adolescence is a point where we can intervene to really help support youths be their healthiest selves.” 

Child gender transitions have become a controversial issue with proponents of the practice advocating that some kids are mature enough to make the life-changing decision themselves. 

Several clinics throughout Ontario currently provide medical transition support for kids under the age of 18. 

Provincial laws also don’t have an age of consent required for gender reassignment surgery or other services. 

“There is no general age of consent to treatment or counselling; instead, the issue depends on whether the young person is capable of consenting,” writes the Canadian Mental Health Association.

As exclusively reported by True North in June, some transgender people like mental health nurse Aaron Kimberly are driven into gender transitions based on misinformation. 

“You would think that today’s gender revolution would make things easier on kids like me, who are now often identified as trans. In fact, I did transition when I was 33 and, though it did help me feel more congruent, that decision was largely based on misinformation,” wrote Kimberly in an op-ed. 

Ratio’d | Xi Jinping HUMILIATES Justin Trudeau

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Harrison Faulkner
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Justin Trudeau got humiliated yesterday by Chinese president Xi Jinping for apparently “leaking” the informal chat between the two leaders to Canadian journalists. Trudeau’s reaction to Xi’s lecturing has broken the internet – for all the wrong reasons.

Earlier this month, Global News reported that the Chinese Communist Party has been meddling in Canadian elections and covertly funded 11 federal candidates in the 2019 election. It’s alleged that the CCP has planted agents in the offices of MPs. What is behind Trudeau’s apparent weakness towards China’s influence?

Harrison Faulkner breaks down the world’s reactions to the dressing down of Trudeau from Xi and how Trudeau’s bought-and-paid-for legacy media propagandists are now desperately trying to clean up the mess.

Mississauga food bank reports 60% spike in clients

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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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At a time of surging grocery prices, more Canadians than ever are resorting to food banks in order to have their basic necessities met. 

According to the Mississauga Food Bank, 30,000 people are accessing the service this year. Prior to the pandemic the food bank only served 19,000 clients which amounts to a 60% increase. 

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie has announced further support for the organization via a holiday food drive. The drive hopes to raise $1,700,000 for the food bank and 450,000 pounds of food by Jan. 6. 

“Many of our City’s residents continue to struggle to put food on their table, and that need becomes acutely felt during the holiday season. Your gift will help ensure that those who are struggling with inflation and food insecurity will be able to enjoy a family meal this holiday season,” said Crombie in a press release. 

“For nearly a decade, Mississaugans have come together to support our community and neighbours in need through my annual food drives, helping to raise over $2.5 million and over 1.9 million pounds of food. This year, more than ever, I am asking for your support and generosity as our community continues to grapple with the impact of the pandemic.”

According to Crombie, 45% of food bank users reported having to skip at least one meal every single month to make ends meet. 

“This should not be accepted as the norm for anybody in our community. As we come together with our loved ones, we reflect on how fortunate we are to gather around a table full of food, and how we must also help those who are struggling to do so this holiday season,” said Crombie. 

According to a recent national report by Food Banks Canada, 15% more Canadians across the country have visited a food bank compared to 2021. A total of 1.5 million visits took place this year across 4,750 different food banks. 

“There has likely never been a more difficult time for food banks in Canada. Across the country, more people are turning to food banks than ever before in our history. Many people are visiting for the first time, making the difficult choice to ask for help because their money simply isn’t stretching far enough to cover their expenses,” said Food Banks Canada CEO Kirstin Beardsley and Board Chair John Bayliss.

Carbon tax will cost farmer $136,000 per year by 2030

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Some Canadian farmers will have to pay upwards of $136,000 a year by 2030 should the Liberal government continue to raise the carbon tax. 

Western Canadian Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum told the House of Commons agriculture committee on Nov. 2 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax and fertilizer emissions reduction scheme will hurt the viability of Canada’s farming industry. 

“The government wants to increase the [carbon] tax, which would cost my farm a whopping $136,000 per year by 2030. This will jeopardize the viability and sustainability of my farm,” Jochum told parliamentarians. 

With support from the NDP, the Liberal government raised the carbon tax on Canadians by 25% to $50 per tonne this year despite an imminent recession. By 2030, the Liberals hope to raise the carbon tax to $170 per tonne. 

On Trudeau’s 30% fertilizer reduction target first announced in 2020, Jochum explained that while a reduction up to 15% was possible using existing efficiency methods, the remaining cut would have to come from reduced fertilizer use. 

“The government has stated that it’s a voluntary goal. However, they have also said that not meeting this target is not an option. Various scientists have stated that achieving this goal utilizing efficiency methods currently available to farmers will not be possible. At best, a 14% to 15% reduction may be possible. The other 15% to 16% will have to come from reduced fertilizer use,” said Jochum. 

“Will the proposed emission cut reduce greenhouse gases? Maybe in Canada, but internationally, it will only work out to approximately 0.0028% of total greenhouse gases. Is this even worth it?” 

President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) Raymond Orb also told the committee that farmers would have to go into debt in order to acquire the technology necessary to achieve the policy goal.

“I think right now the whole point is that farmers broadly don’t have that technology available. It’s very expensive. To ask us farmers to take on more debt because of a federal government policy that tells us, on the one hand, that we need to produce more food, and then we’re told we need to reduce our emissions,” said Orb. 

“We’re not sure how we can do that with the adaptation and the equipment that we have on our farms now. That’s a concern we have.”

SARM recently raised a motion to lobby Ottawa to reconsider it’s fertilizer emission plan citing “detrimental effects” to Canada’s food production ability. 

“The Federal Government is planning to reduce fertilizer emissions by 30% by 2030 for Canadian agri-businesses,” the motion reads. 

“Saskatchewan is an agriculturally based province, and such a reduction will have a major impact on food production and farm viability.”

The government of Saskatchewan has also taken measures to avoid federal meddling when it comes to agriculture policies by introducing the Saskatchewan First Act. According to the province’s Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre, her government is concerned about “possible mandates” when it comes to fertilizer use. 

FUREY: Xi’s just upset Trudeau doesn’t follow the notorious Document No. 9

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Anthony Furey
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There’s a lot of interesting commentary doing the rounds on what was really behind the caught-on-camera dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and China’s authoritarian leader Xi Jinping.

But I think most of it is missing one key point. And that relates to a key document Xi produced soon after becoming paramount leader almost 10 years ago.

First, to recap: While mingling at a G20 event in Bali Indonesia, Xi took issue with Trudeau for disclosing the contents of a 10 minute private discussion between them.

What got out was that Trudeau brought up a number of issues with Xi, including the thorny matter of China’s human rights record and Trudeau’s personal obsession, climate change. Xi says that fails to tell the full story and shouldn’t have been made public.

“Everything we discussed has been leaked to the papers and that is not appropriate,” Xi told Trudeau via a translator. The body language in the video is telling. Xi is dismissive of Trudeau and clearly not impressed. He did not smile.

Yet Trudeau pushed back, albeit with some pretty canned talking points. “In Canada we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have,” he said. “We will continue to look to work constructively together but there will be things we disagree on.”

Xi then waves Trudeau off and says it’s up to the Canadian leader to “create the conditions”, presumably for a constructive relationship. Then Trudeau walks off, looking – as one reader described it to me in an email – as if he’s trying to find the bathroom.

There’s a lot that can be said from a domestic perspective on this, much of it having to do with Trudeau continuing to look like he’s being pushed around by China. After all, as China expert Charles Burton told the CBC, there’s no way Xi Jinping would treat the American president like this, or perhaps even any other G7 leader.

But let’s instead look at this through the lens of China. 

Back in 2013, Xi pushed a now infamous paper known as Document Number 9 among senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party. Its main goal was to get everyone acquainted with the seven “nos” – the seven things that the CCP just weren’t going to have anything to do with. This included freedom of the press.

Here’s how author Elizabeth Economy describes it in her book The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State: “The document painted the [Chinese Communist Party] as in the midst of an intense struggle with Western liberal values that had begun to take hold in certain sectors of Chinese society. These values included constitutionalism, universal values, civil society, neoliberalism and market economics, freedom of the press, reassessing China’s history, and suggesting that China’s reform and opening up should be evaluated according to Western standards.”

Economy continues: “Over time, Document 9 has become known as advancing the seven no’s or seven perils: universal values, press freedom, civil society, citizens’ rights, the party’s historical aberrations, the “privileged capitalistic class”, and the independence of the judiciary.”

The idea of a foreign press is just not something that Xi appreciates and perhaps doesn’t even fully grasp. This notion of media getting leaks either directly from government or ferreting out the info from a source is deeply ingrained in Western newsgathering. It’s just how things work.

Whereas in China, it’s the opposite. It is absolutely not how things work and Xi still seems to find this hard to compute. If something makes it to the press, it’s seen as a government plot because that’s exactly what it would be in China.

In hindsight, the 1990s notion that China would slowly become more like the West and embrace our values of openness has proven both naive and incredibly condescending.

What’s happening instead is that China, under Xi, is holding even more steadfast to values that conflict with ours and is even looking down at us for not becoming more like them (even though we arguably are inching more in their direction in some respects, but that’s a conversation for another day).

That’s really what Trudeau got in trouble in Bali: for violating one of the seven nos. 

The Daily Brief | Will Bill C-11 regulate user-generated content?

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Anthony Furey
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The waters have been further muddied when it comes to what the government’s controversial Bill C-11, dubbed Trudeau’s online censorship bill, will actually be doing. The Chair of the CRTC Ian Scott is now walking back comments he made about the bill and what powers CRTC will have as a result.

Plus, research from Leger found that half of Canadians believe Ottawa plans on admitting too many immigrants into the country.

And the latest from the Emergencies Act hearings.

These stories and more on The Daily Brief with Anthony Furey and Jasmine Moulton!

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Day 24 Recap of Emergencies Act hearings |StatsCan data shows blockades didn’t hurt Canadian trade

By
Harrison Faulkner
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On day 24 of the Emergencies Act hearings, internal Statistics Canada documents released revealed that border blockades “had little impact” on Canadian trade in the month February. 

The document, which was produced in April by Statistics Canada, suggests that despite the blockades at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Coutts, Alberta, Emerson, Manitoba, and the Pacific Highway in British Columbia, the impact to Canada’s trade imports and exports was minimal.

The document reads: “Overall, the blocked border crossings appear to have had little impact on the aggregate values of Canadian imports and exports.”

The document also states that although traffic activity at the blocked border crossings decreased by 8.8% compared to February 2021 data, increased trade activity was observed at other crossings.

Government officials have previously testified that the impact to trade, particularly at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, was of serious concern for the government of Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Ontario Premier Doug Ford in a readout of a conversation on February 9 that the protesters at the Ambassador Bridge were “barricading the Ontario economy and doing millions of damage a day.”

Testifying prior to the two officials from Transport Canada was President of the Canadian Customs and Border Service Agency John Ossowski. 

Ossowski said that despite being involved in internal cabinet meetings with law enforcement agencies and privy to the Incidence Response Group meetings, he could not recall if any law enforcement agency advised the government that a national security threat existed from the Freedom Convoy as defined by Section 2 of the CSIS Act.

Convoy lawyer Miller asked Ossowski, “(The cabinet) have been stating in public that law enforcement agencies advised them that the threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act was met. What law enforcement agency advised them of that to your knowledge?”

“I’m not aware of who may have provided that advice,” Ossowski responded.

Despite prior evidence heard by the Commission that no intelligence has been provided to indicate that unlawful activity was taking place throughout the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, Keenen – while describing his communication to cabinet ministers – said that the “rapidly escalating scale of unlawful activity” was cause for “a lot of anxiety”.

What happens next?

Hearings resume tomorrow at 9:30 am ET.

Senior national defense staff and Trudeau’s national security advisor are scheduled to testify this week. 

True North will continue to bring you daily coverage of the ongoing Public Order Emergency Commission. 

Premier Smith says Notley has ‘no realistic plan’ to improve healthcare

By
Rachel Parker
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office says NDP leader Rachel Notley has “no realistic plan” to improve healthcare. 

Speaking at the Rural Municipalities of Alberta fall convention on Nov. 8, Notley promised to restore stability to health care by undertaking the largest recruitment effort in the province’s history, if elected premier next year.

Becca Polak, press secretary for Smith, said the NDP watched surgery and other care “get longer for four straight years” while it was in government. 

“We promised Albertans a stronger publicly funded health system and we’re delivering on that promise, including building up our health care workforce. We have 1,800 more RNs working today than under the NDP in 2019, and we have more doctors than ever before, including a net gain of 176 physicians in the last 12 months,” Polak told True North.

“That’s our record, and we’ll be announcing a new action plan to improve access and increase recruitment and retention of health care workers in the coming days and weeks.”

Notley said the “chaos” in rural healthcare is the greatest challenge facing rural Alberta communities. The Opposition leader said Stettler, Consort, Sylvan Lake, Boyle, Elk Point, Fairview and Westlock have scheduled emergency room closures in the last six months over a lack of staff.

“If we don’t fix this, I fear this will threaten the overall sustainability of rural communities,” she said last week. “People will leave and communities will suffer.” 

The Primary Care Network says there are no doctors in Peace River currently accepting patients. The community is about five hours northwest of Edmonton. 

A June survey from the Alberta Medical Association found that 84% of respondents believe wait times in Alberta emergency departments are “fairly” or “very” long. Respondents reported waiting up to five hours for care.

The survey also found that rural sites, referring to those outside Calgary and Edmonton, saw the highest level of single visits to emergency departments at 45%.  

Notley said her recruitment strategy will be released in the coming weeks and include ideas to support family doctors, nurse practitioners, paramedics, dieticians, home care workers and mental health counsellors move to Alberta.

In her ministerial mandate letters, released this week and last, Smith told her ministers to prioritize better healthcare delivery by improving emergency medical services response times, decreasing surgical wait times and addressing staffing shortages.

“The challenges facing our healthcare system mean Albertans aren’t getting the necessary care they need when and where they need it,” she wrote.

“We will ensure all areas of the province receive prompt and efficient ambulance service. Our government will also make haste to bring substantive improvements to emergency room services and clear surgical backlogs.”

The Andrew Lawton Show | China is walking all over Canada and Trudeau

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Andrew Lawton
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China is operating overseas police stations, spending trillions on infrastructure in the developing world, infiltrating institutions, and influencing elections around the world. Canada is not immune from this, with numerous examples of Chinese espionage and influence from the last few years alone. This morning, Chairman Xi Jinping dressed down Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit and got only talking points in return. We need to take the China threat seriously, True North’s Andrew Lawton says. Conservative MP Garnett Genuis and former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu join the show to discuss how Canada can get tough on China. Also, the latest from the Public Order Emergency Commission’s ongoing hearings in Ottawa.



Half of Canadians think new Liberal immigration numbers too much: Leger poll

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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A Leger poll released on Tuesday found that nearly half of respondents thought the Liberal government’s recently unveiled plan to allow half a million immigrants into Canada per year was too ambitious. 

The online survey was conducted from Nov. 11 to Nov. 14 and included 1,537 Canadians over the age of 18.

Researchers found that 49% of Canadians said that Ottawa plans on admitting too many immigrants into the country.

The latest plan includes a goal to welcome 465,000 new immigrants by 2023 with that target raising to 485,000 the next year and to 500,000 by 2025. 

Additionally, Canadians were worried that such an intake would put excessive pressure on Canada’s already strained housing and healthcare situation. 

People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier took shots at the Liberal plan in response to the poll. 

“49% of Canadians think half a million new immigrants every year is “too many.” Woke journalists think that agreeing with half of Canadians makes us extremists,” tweeted Bernier. 

Bernier has been an ardent critic of what he deems excessive immigration to Canada. In his party’s platform, Bernier has proposed to reduce immigration levels down to between 100,000 and 150,000. 

On the other hand, the Conservatives have largely embraced the 500,000 target. However Conservative MP and immigration critic Tom Kmiec questioned whether the Liberals were able to pull it off. 

“Now they’re talking about trying to bring in a half a million immigrants,” said Kmiec. “I just don’t believe them that they’re going to be able to do it. And that’s completely unfair for people who are applying and hoping for a reasonable timeline to get a yes or no.”

The latest census found that nearly one in four people living in Canada were immigrants. 

“If these trends continue, based on Statistics Canada’s recent population projections, immigrants could represent from 29.1% to 34.0% of the population of Canada by 2041,” wrote Statistics Canada. 

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