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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

A majority of Canadians support more oil production: poll

By
Noah Jarvis
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A majority of Canadians want to see oil exports increase and for Canadian energy to displace sources from less responsible nations. 

A Leger poll commissioned by the Modern Miracle Network found that 67% of Canadians support the oil industry developing technologies to lower emissions in the production of oil.

60% of Canadians also said they want to see more oil exported –  a 7% increase in support from when Leger asked the same question in October 2021. 

Most notably, the sentiment has grown the most amongst women (8%), Ontarians (11%) and Atlantic Canadians (12%) when compared to nine months ago.

The executive director of the Modern Miracle Network Michael Binnion expressed delight over the shifting sentiment, saying that Canadians are coming to realize that our carbon technology is the way forward in reducing global emissions without damaging the national economy.

“Carbon tech represents a made-in-Canada solution to our global emissions problem without significant societal disruption – something we’ve advocated for seven years,” says Binnion.

“The public, and slowly the government, are coming to embrace this innovative approach to fighting climate change.”

The Trudeau government has pursued hostile policies toward the energy industry with legislation such as Bill C-48, which barred oil tankers from loading along the coast of British Columbia and Bill C-69, which allows the government to axe resource development projects.

Binnion says that “(E)nergy is not a partisan issue – it’s a national issue that is ultimately about Canadian society. We are particularly proud to see Canadians’ support for our industry’s contribution to the nation, and the planet, despite the narrative used by some politicians and media.”

Organizations supporting Canada’s energy sector have campaigned for awareness of the industry’s innovations in reducing the carbon output during oil and natural gas production and the potential for the lower carbon content of natural gas to displace the higher emitting coal. 

Conservative leadership candidates have been quick to show their support for Canada’s energy industry, pledging to repeal Trudeau-era legislation if elected prime minister.

Jean Charest promised to repeal both Bill C-69 and Bill C-48, pledged to pass a Critical Infrastructure Protection Act to ensure “projects are built without interference” and to finish incomplete pipeline projects like Keystone XL.

Roman Baber’s campaign platform pledges to repeal Bill C-69 and negotiate the construction of Energy East, Trans Mountain, Northern Gateway and the Keystone XL pipelines. 

Pierre Poilievre also says that he would repeal both Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 and replace the legislation with “a regulatory regime that truly protects the environment, consults First Nations and is able to render quick decisions on whether new projects will be approved.”

Scott Aitchison and Leslyn Lewis have made no specific promises to repeal legislation but have both promised to deviate from the Trudeau government’s policies. 

Over 45,000 more federal workers receiving six-figure salary than before the pandemic

By
Andrew Kozak
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Government documents acquired by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) reveal that 114,443 employees received a salary of more than $100,000 in 2021. The number of employees receiving six-figure salaries increased by 45,426 during the pandemic.

The CTF is calling on the federal government to release a sunshine list similar to the Ontario government’s, in which salaries of public sector employees are publicly disclosed.

“We’re not all in this together,” said Federal Director of the CTF Franco Terrazzano. 

“It’s not fair to ask the Canadians who lost their job or took a pay cut during the pandemic to pay higher taxes so the federal government can add thousands of highly paid bureaucrats.”

The number of employees that should be included in a federal sunshine list disclosing salaries of more than $100,000 annually is illustrated in the table below.

There were 312,825 government employees who received a pay raise during the pandemic, according to an access to information request filed by the CTF. 

According to the think tank Secondstreet.org, the federal government has no records of its employees ever receiving a cut in their pay. The government added 19,151 extra employees from March 2020 to March 2021.

As government-enforced lockdowns forced Canadians out of work, members of parliament took three pay raises during the pandemic, ranging from an extra $10,600 for backbench MPs to over $21,000 for the Prime Minister as compared to pre-pandemic levels. 

“Taxpayers deserve to know that 45,000 more federal bureaucrats are receiving a six-figure salary than before the pandemic,” said Terrazzano. 

“Taxpayers can’t afford the ballooning bureaucracy and that means the government should stop hiring so many highly paid bureaucrats.”

Government spending continues to increase even as 59% of Canadians believe the country is already in the midst of an economic recession, a poll released last month shows. Many economists are also predicting a recession could come as soon as early next year. 

The current inflation rate is sitting at 8.1% and the national debt at over $1 trillion.

Nurses are fleeing Canada to find work in America

By
Noah Jarvis
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Canadian nurses fed-up with working conditions and limits on pay increases are fleeing to the U.S. in search of higher paying and more fulfilling work. 

In response to a request for comment from the Toronto Sun, the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (WeRPN) said that they recognize that nurses are leaving Canada for greener pastures in the U.S.

“We know how many are working in the province. But for the ones that have left, there’s no reporting requirement that insists that they let us know where they’ve gone to seek work,” said WeRPN CEO Dianne Martin.

While WeRPN is aware of the trend, nurses fleeing to the U.S. for employment is not a statistic that is tracked, so it is unknown just how many nurses are doing this. However, there are countless testimonies of Canadian nurses who have fled to the US in recent months.

Linda Li, who used to work in Mississauga as a nurse and left the country to work at Houston Methodist Hospital, says she was considering the move due to Canada’s high cost of living and that the pandemic drove her over the edge.

“I was thinking about this since even before the pandemic because the cost of living was relatively high,” said Li. 

“As a millennial, you can’t afford to buy (a home) unless it’s deep suburbs.”

In the same WeRPN study, an astonishing 91% of registered nurses say they are not fairly compensated for their work, with 47% saying they are considering leaving the profession.

Justine Cole, who has worked as an Ontario nurse for over a decade, says she is in the process of receiving an American visa to work in Michigan. 

She has been looking for employment there because of the ease of getting a nursing license and the employment incentives the hospitals offer, including a $15,000 signing bonus.

“I finally got to the point where I said ‘I’m going to go to the States.’ The incentives in the States are so crazy,” said Cole.

“They — as well — are desperate for nurses. And they’re willing to do anything. It’s a big opportunity. There’s literally nothing to keep me here.”

An August study from WeRPN found that 66% of registered nurses say nurse-to-patient ratios have increased, and 68% say they do not have adequate time to care for all patients.

Multiple emergency rooms and intensive care units across Ontario have been forced to temporarily shut down for weekends because of significant staffing shortages. 

While varying across Canada, average health care waiting times for medically necessary treatment has increased to an average of 25.6 weeks between referral and treatment. 

Despite the health care crisis, many Ontario hospitals are keeping their vaccine mandate in place.

During the pandemic, thousands of health care workers across Canada faced discipline or were fired for being unvaccinated. An article published in the peer-reviewed periodical of the Canadian Medical Association Journal states that health care workers were among the “most likely” to express vaccine hesitancy at the beginning of the pandemic.

Constitutional group demands full disclosure of Emergencies Act evidence

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) challenged the Trudeau government’s secrecy around the invocation of the Emergencies Act in the Federal Court of Canada on Monday.

CCF lawyers are demanding that the federal government release unredacted documents from cabinet and incident response meetings prior to the Act’s use in February to quash the peaceful Freedom Convoy.

“If the government made better decisions about what record to put before this court — a proper record — then we would not be here,” said lawyer Sujit Choudhry. 

“We are here because the government has left us no choice to try and get the truth.”

The CCF is joined by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in challenging the use of the unprecedented emergency powers. 

Legal groups are arguing that Ottawa already had the powers in place to deal with the convoy protests and that resorting to such measures was an overreach.

“There’s no evidence that they wouldn’t have been legally effective in addressing the border blockades and the Ottawa protest,” Choudhry told the National Post. 

The Liberal government has repeatedly resorted to cabinet confidence to avoid revealing the details of their response to the convoy.

After facing pressure from the public, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waived cabinet confidence on the release of a set of documents Ottawa relied on to justify invoking the Act. 

The Public Order Emergency Commission set up to investigate the use of the law stated in a press release on the matter that it was the fourth case since Confederation where a public inquiry has been given access to cabinet secrets. 

“This exceptional step recognizes the fundamental importance of the Commission’s work and how critical these documents are in inquiring into why the Government declared a public order emergency,” said Commission counsel co-lead Shantona Chaudhury and Jeffrey Leon. 

“On behalf of Commissioner (Paul) Rouleau, we took the position that Cabinet documents must be released to facilitate the Commission’s examination and assessment of the basis for the Government’s decision to declare the emergency and fulfil the Commission’s mandate.”

Following the invocation of the never-before-used act, a number of claims repeated by the Trudeau government have been debunked – including the fact that no police force requested the federal government to invoke the act. 

Alberta Chief Firearms Officer says Trudeau’s handgun import ban won’t reduce crime

By
Rachel Parker
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Alberta Chief Firearms Officer Teri Bryant says the Trudeau government’s ban on importing legal handguns will have no impact on crime. 

The federal government announced Friday handguns for the civilian market will be barred from importation as of August 19, a directive issued without the oversight of Parliament. 

The decision will not impact crime because Ottawa is banning the importation of restricted firearms which can be sold to restricted possession and acquisition license holders “which are the most carefully vetted and screened segment of Canadian society,” Bryant said.

“You’re talking about banning the import of things for use by people who are the most law-abiding, and that can’t possibly have any effect on people who are criminally misusing firearms,” Bryant said in an interview with True North. 

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said the government is moving forward with the importation ban before Parliament resumes in late September using regulatory measures. The new regulations will effectively “speed up” the planned ban announced in May, the ministers said. 

The Alberta government can’t overrule Ottawa’s ban, but it can advocate against it and assist legal firearms owners and those who participate in sport shooting, Bryant said.

The firearms officer said staff is currently helping the backlog of gun ownership transfers normally done in Miramichi, New Brunswick. 

“It’s not work we normally do, but Miramichi has proven incapable of responding to the enormous volume of purchases that have been stimulated by the announcement of a pending freeze on transfers of handguns,” Bryant said.

In May, the Trudeau Liberals tabled Bill C-21, which would implement further restrictions to the legal access of handguns in Canada. The bill would effectively stop the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns in Canada.

The Liberals announced Friday’s ban because C-21 resulted in an “uptick” of guns being purchased in Canada, Joly said.

Bryant said the federal government is implementing a slow motion effort to phase-out shooting sports. Without handgun sales, no one can enter hand and target shooting, and it will eventually be illegal for older generations to pass their handguns to future generations, Bryant said.

Meanwhile, there’s been a sharp uptick in older Canadians transferring their restricted firearms to younger family members to escape the confiscation for at least a generation, Bryant said.

“It’s really shameful that we have to resort to this kind of thing to protect our property and our property rights from our own federal government that should be protecting us, not trying to confiscate our property.”

Bryant said Friday’s order continues a pattern from Ottawa, which is “attempting to eliminate firearms ownership of all kinds, one slice at a time.” The Chief Firearms Officer invited any ministers responsible for the ban to spend a weekend with Bryant at shooting events and see the people they’re impacting.

“They will see that these are not the people that they should be worried about.”

At least 14 current and former law enforcement officers expressed doubts that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun bans and restrictions would combat illegal crime.

President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Adam Palmer said people can’t be naive to the realities of organized crime and smuggling.

“There will always be an influx of guns from the United States into Canada… Heroin is illegal in Canada, too, but we have heroin in Canada,” Palmer said in August 2019. 

72% of farmers say crop yield will plummet under Trudeau’s emissions scheme

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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In a recent poll, 72% of farmers said that crop yields and food production will plummet should the Trudeau government’s 30% fertilizer emission targets be implemented. 

Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) policy analyst Taylor Brown has called Nitrogen an “essential element” for the success of Canada’s agricultural sector. 

“While the government of Canada’s objective is to set a national target to reduce emissions, the primary method to achieve this is not to establish a mandatory reduction in fertilizer use,” said Brown. 

“Coupled with rising costs and labour shortages, they are wondering how they’re going to continue saving the world.”

Canadian farmers have also had to deal with the pressure of increasing yields to offset the supply chain issues caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Fertilizer Canada has warned that such an emission reduction will cost farmers $48 billion in income. 

As exclusively reported by True North, farmer groups have warned that similar protests as those in the Netherlands could arrive in Canada should the government move forward by targeting the agriculture industry. 

“We have talked to other producer groups, we’re very concerned about exactly that same scenario. And will we go to these lengths like what’s happening in the Netherlands? I don’t know,” President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Gunter Jochum told True North. 

“But, you know, all I can say is, if you push farmers back right up against the wall where their livelihood is at stake and it’s a direct result of government overreach and non science based policies, then, who knows what could happen?” 

In April, Agriculture Canada put out a report labeling Canadian farmers as being among the worst emissions offenders in the world. 

The report accused cereal farmers of having “one of the highest levels of emissions intensity” among exporting countries. 

Jochum and other farmers groups have challenged the government on their claims, saying that Canadian farmers have some of the best practices when it comes to fertilizer use. 

Unvaccinated people ineligible for Globe and Mail columnist position

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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The Globe and Mail is looking to hire a new columnist, but the unvaccinated need not apply. 

A job advertisement posted by the legacy media outlet says it is looking for “a passionate writer and thinker to join the Opinion team, one who can bring unique perspectives to our readers through their columns and essays.”

However, that “passionate writer and thinker” must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or have a valid exemption “based on one or more of the protected grounds in the Human Rights Code.”

“All offers of employment with The Globe and Mail are conditional upon the candidate being Fully Vaccinated. To be Fully Vaccinated is defined as someone who has received the full series of a vaccine or a combination of vaccines accepted by the Government of Canada,” reads the job posting.

“To prove they are Fully Vaccinated, all new hires will be required to provide evidence by emailing a copy of their vaccine dose administration receipt(s) to Human Resources prior to their start date.”

For applicants with an exemption, the outlet says they will have to “provide their request for accommodation to Human Resources for approval.”

While the Globe and Mail appears to be singling out individuals by their vaccine status, the job posting states that the outlet “is dedicated to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.” 

“We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all groups, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, age, and physical ability.”

True North reached out to The Globe and Mail for comment, but they did not respond in time for publication.

The outlet has published articles that have singled out unvaccinated Canadians and have even claimed there would be “consequences” for those who made a personal medical decision.

The Globe’s editorial board also wrote an article in November titled “The pandemic is, more than ever, a pandemic of the unvaccinated” and one in February titled “What’s blocking Canada’s exit from the pandemic? The unvaccinated.”

Many employers in Canada, including the federal government, have dropped their vaccine mandates, however, public health officials have not ruled out returning to stricter measures. 

Some health officials have even suggested expanding the definition of fully vaccinated to include more than two vaccines. 

CBC blasted for depicting white voters and Conservative voters as hateful

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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CBC’s Ombudsman Jack Nagler criticized the state broadcaster for publishing a commentary by an Elections Canada worker which painted elderly white voters and Conservative voters as hateful and racist. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Nagler ordered the CBC to review its editorial practices as a result of the incident. 

“It was not okay to publish a headline that declared political parties and by inference their voters as ‘hating’ people,” said Nagler. 

Nagler found that the commentary was in breach of the CBC’s Journalistic Standards And Practices by being “neither fair nor precise enough to be considered accurate.”

“Declaring a politician to be hateful should be based on their policies and their actions not just the colour of their lawn signs,” Nagler argued. 

The decision was regarding an op-ed published in the fall written by Zeeha Rehman, an Elections Canada worker for the 2021 federal election. In the opinion piece Rehman argued that Conservative voters “hate people like me.” 

“On Election Day I greeted people who voted for parties that hate people like me. Elections provide numerical evidence of the rise of right-wing politics and that should worry us all,” wrote Rehman.

“During the first hour of my shift an elderly white woman came in with a walker. After she left I couldn’t help but wonder whether, despite our pleasant interaction, she was one of the people who hate people like me.”

“It was jarring to realize that many of the people who had seemingly been nice to me throughout the day had chosen to vote for the Conservative Party,” she continued. 

The network received a flood of complaints after the story was published. 

“This piece was not up to our usual standards,” said CBC managing director Andree Lau in response to the complaints. “We took corrective action right away.”

The piece was eventually republished in November with alterations. 

In a different decision in March regarding a viewer’s complaint that a CBC radio program discriminated against people of British descent, CBC director Treena Wood claimed that racism against white people “doesn’t exist.”

“The common and accepted sociological understanding of racism is that so-called “reverse racism” against privileged groups, especially white people, doesn’t exist. Racism must involve a privileged group showing prejudice against a historically underprivileged group,” claimed Wood.

Fighting Trudeau’s travel mandate in court Part. 2

By
Rupa Subramanya
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On Part 2 of this special two-part episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa, Shaun Rickard, Karl Harrison and Sam Presvelos continue their conversation about their ongoing court challenge of Justin Trudeau’s travel mandate.

Last week, Rupa broke a bombshell story that proves the vaccine mandate imposed on Canadians was not based on science as the government claimed, but rather on politics.

An ongoing court challenge to the travel vaccine mandate has exposed the inner working of Covid Recovery – a government coordinated panel that was tasked with implementing the mandate. Not only did Rupa’s report highlight the fact that not a single member of the Covid Recovery panel have a science or medical degree, but the group was panicking to have scientific and medical justification for the mandate they imposed on Canadians that was never given to them.

Tune into the Rupa Subramanya Show now!

Read Rupa’s article in Bari Weiss’ Common Sense.

Watch Part 1 of this interview here.

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Liberal MP blasted for posing with anti-Semitic banner in Mississauga

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The human rights group Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) called out Liberal MP Iqra Khalid for posing in a photograph with boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) protestors and a banner falsely accusing Israel of genocide. 

FSWC said it was “shocked and disturbed” to see Khalid along with Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie supporting the message at the event hosted by the Canadian Palestinian Professional Foundation at Our Lady Queen Croatia Park.


One of the Palestinian activists in the photo can be seen carrying a banner that reads “Palestinian holocaust made by the zionists.” 

The photo was first shared by the Twitter account Canadian Defenders 4 Human Rights.

“Thank you Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie for supporting the Palestinian Canadian community and to condemn the most recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. Also thank you MP Iqra Khalid for your support & committing to always stand for Palestinian human rights & justice,” the accompanying tweet read. 

Khalid has accused the Israeli government in the past of a “blatant disregard for human life” and alleged “forced evictions” of Palestinian people. 

True North reached out to Khalid for comment but did not receive a response by the given deadline. 

In a statement on the matter Mayor Crombie wrote that the photograph was taken without her knowledge and she did not agree with the messaging. 

“The statement issued by the Canadian Defenders for Human Rights on social media does not accurately reflect my views,” wrote Crombie.

“The photo taken of me was done without my knowledge or consent and I certainly take exception to the sign displayed in the background and its message. Any comparison to the Holocaust diminishes the memory of the victims of that tragedy in human history.”

The BDS movement has been cited for being anti-Semitic. In 2020, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US government was cracking down on any organization involved in the campaign. 

“We will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful BDS conduct and withdraw US government support for such groups,” said Pompeo at the time. 

“We want to stand with all other nations that recognize the BDS movement for the cancer that it is.”

During the Freedom Convoy protests, the Liberal government claimed that the presence of a few extremist flags was evidence that the peaceful protestors were radical despite the fact that organizers denounced their presence. 

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