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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Canada: Girding Ourselves For More of the Disastrous Same

"We must condemn Hamas, and more importantly the terror sponsors in Tehran who initiated the attacks, the horrific attacks, of October 7."
"We need to defeat the terrorists so that all the people of the world can live in peace."
"We need to get back to the Canadian tradition, which is that when people come to this country, they leave foreign conflicts behind."
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
 
"People come from countries from around the world and they care deeply about where they come from and they should be able to do so."
"[Poilievre's treatment of Palestinians is] disgusting."
"[Carney is wrong for not repeating that Israel is committing a] genocide [in Gaza]."
"[An NDP government would] recognize the state of Palestine, impose sanctions on key figures in the Netanyahu regime [and] immediately impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel."
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh 

"[A  Liberal government calls for an] immediate ceasefire, [the] return of all the  hostages [and a two-state solution]."
"[We have to be] clear-eyed about the fundamental risk of Iran and do everything with our international partners to check it."
"[We note the] horrifying rise in hate, and hate-related crimes [of Islamophobia and antisemitism]."
Liberal leader Mark Carney
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in his concession speech that he intends to stay on as the head of his party. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

These were the positions directly impacting Canada's relations with the State of Israel following the Palestinian Hamas terror group's invasion of Israel on 7 October 2023, stated almost two years later by the competing political parties in Canada during the election campaign that culminated in the vote on April 28, 2025 that resulted in a fourth term of government office for the Liberal party. A Canadian vote that relegated the NDP to 'observer' status in the House of Commons when the vote count left it decimated and without official party status.
 
The only political party in Canada that defended the security and equality of Canadian Jews -- in a country so infiltrated by Palestinian and Muslim immigration, refugees and migrants that the country's Jewish population status has been violated by mobs of Hamas-sympathizing, Israel-hating, Jewish-demonizing rioters allowed to commit criminal offences that would never be tolerated by any level of government other than for Muslim groups, toward whom any criticism is immediately labeled 'Islamophobic' -- has been the Conservative party. 
 
To the great disappointment of the over four million Canadian voters that placed their trust in the Conservative party led by Pierre Poilievre, the Liberal party once again prevailed, to form a fourth consecutive government. To continue its ruinous governance of a once-great nation that has for the past ten years of government incompetence descended into economic insecurity, insufferable population density through runaway immigration policies, crime-ridden streets, identity politics leading to group alienation, provincial inequities, a faltering health-care system, and a housing crisis.
 
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The platform of this 'new' Liberal government will be administered by the 'old' Cabinet minus the previous failed prime minister, which rubber-stamped every nation-crumbling initiative undertaken by the Justin Trudeau Liberal government. Where the green agenda of the previous Liberal government will now be resurrected on steroids by the new Liberal government, alienating Western Canada in its insistence that natural resources such as energy extraction will continue to be blocked, pipelines west-to-east, and exports abroad will be truncated, despite election promises to the contrary.
 
Crime in Canada has surged in the past decade under Liberal rule with dipping incarceration rates and a trend of rising crime. Asylum claims with foreign nationals requesting entry to Canada as refugees are surging, an increase of 1,700 percent from 2015 to 2025. Health care in Canada has been abysmal, with thousands of Canadians dying thanks to an incapacity in the health system for timely treatment; people dying while on wait lists for medical procedures necessary to sustain life.
 
Canada is drowning under a tsunami of national debt. The total sovereign debt stands at $1.4 trillion dollars. New debt has piled up since 2015 at a rate that eclipses anything in Canada's past. The federal public service, while delivering less service to the public than ever before, swelled to 367,722 from the 2015 total of 257,034 employees, a 43 percent increase. The recruitment crisis in the Canadian military has resulted in half of the military's ships, aircraft and vehicles are unusable, due to insufficient personnel to maintain them.
 
Runaway immigration has given us a population of 41.5 million, substantially increased from 2015's 34.8 million. Leading to critical shortages of doctors and adequate housing, while straining all public social services. Canada has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, 1.25 children per woman, similar to that of South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan. Life expectancy in Canada has diminished; where the trend up to 2015 was longer lifespans, the past ten years has seen a reversal. 
 
Canadian per capita wages over the last ten years have fallen. The per capita GDP in 2015 was $43,594 according to the World Bank. In the last ten years the per capita GDP has stagnated; as of 2023 it was $44,468. Ten long, weary, disruptive, disappointing, disorienting years of Liberal governance has given Canada a faltering economy, a worsening of crime, pathetic public services, poor affordability levels, refugee backlogs and identity politics. And here we are, starting in on another four years of the same.
 
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Canada election: Liberals secure fourth term in office in unexpected Mark Carney victory – video
 
 

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

"Like-Minded Allies" Canada/China

"In the time of growing uncertainty and Trump's tariffs threatening our economy and our sovereignty, it's more important [than] ever to protect and strengthen partnership with key trading partners such as Europe and China."
"The blend of tradition and innovation is something that I admire. Deepening our partnership with like-minded allies such as China present opportunities for shared prosperity and supports Canadians' role as a constructive and engaged player in the global economy."
"[The] Chinese community needs a strong voice to fight for them."
Majid Jowhari, Liberal MP Richmond Hill South
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Liberal candidate Majid Jowhari puts a lawn sign into the ground of a supporter in Richmond Hill in 2021. (Credit: National Post file)

The Richmond Hill riding outside and just north of the Greater Toronto area, is 32.6 percent Chinese-Canadian.Their Member of Parliament, Majid Jowhari has represented the riding since 2015, and ran to preserve his seat in the 2025 federal election, held yesterday. In a video posted the day before the vote, published by a Chinese-language media outlet, Jowhari described a need for Canada to deepen its trade ties with China, particularly at a time when Canada is under threat of steep tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. 

This Liberal was actually trumpeting the prevailing and longstanding line of thought of the Liberal Party executive, from past prime minister Jean Chretien, to recently-departed Justin Trudeau, and the freshly-re-elected new prime minister of Canada, former international banker Mark Carney, all of whom have vigorously pumped for trade relations with China. Despite China's reputation as a hawkish burglar of other nations' science, technology, military and business trade secrets and its well-recognized habit of infiltrating foreign countries at every level, engaged in cyber-theft and stealth sabotage.
 
The candidate boasted of his frequent visits to China, his campaign to advocate against anti-Asian racism and his work in Parliament to regularize relations between Canada and China. "The Liberal party needs a voice to help strengthen the partnership between Canada, Chinese-Canadians and China. I am Majid Jowhari and I can be that voice. Please vote for Majid Jowhari on April 28. Thank you", his campaign message concluded.
 
Canadian national security agencies consider China to represent the most serious and sophisticated threat actor against Canada. The federal election monitoring task force warned on two occasions during this election campaign that the People's Republic of China was in all likelihood behind influence campaigns in Canada. And it has proven to have been, for years. Members of the task force of the Security Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) on Monday revealed that the PRC appears to be behind a transnational repression operation to undermine a Toronto-area Conservative candidate who happens to be a vocal critic of the Chinese regime.
 
The electoral interference watchdog revealed that the PRC was behind an information manipulation campaign on WeChat to influence positive opinion of Liberal leader Mark Carney. Liberal candidates have been revealed for their proximity to individuals suspected of ties to the Chinese government. The head of two organizations the RCMP tagged with operating a  secret Chinese police station, was invited by a Montreal area Liberal candidate to attend an election gathering. The PRC produced a "wanted" poster of a Toronto-area Conservative candidate, Joe Tay.
 
Another Toronto-area Liberal candidate attended a massive by-invitation military parade and show of martial power in Beijing that saw Peter Yuen Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville attend the event, invited by a Chinese agency dedicated to influence ethnic Chinese in foreign  countries. He had replaced Paul Chiang following confirmation by the RCMP it was investigating comments made to Chinese media relating to Tay, the  Conservative candidate. Suggesting the crowd at an event could claim a bounty by turning Tay over to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. 

As it happens, Chinese-Canadian voters in the swath just north of the Greater Toronto area took it in their hands to cross the wishes of the Chinese government, voting out the Liberal candidates and bringing in their Conservative alternatives, foiling the work of the Liberals to represent Chinese interests, and voting for the Conservative candidates, directly opposing the Chinese election interference in Canada's affairs.
 
Jowhari was challenged for the seat by Conservative candidate and corporate lawyer Vincent Ho. Tellingly, Jowhari was co-chair of Parliament's Canada-China legislative association, as an 'advocate for the local Chinese-Canadian community'. That community chose to replace Jowhari, and vote in his stead for Conservative Vincent Ho, the new Member of Parliament for Richmond Hill South. In fact, the entire region, rejected their Liberal candidates and but for two seats that remained Liberal, all others switched to the Conservatives, no friends of China.
 
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Conservative Vincent Ho is the new MP for Richmond Hill South 

"[The People's Republic of China is the] main perpetrator [of clandestine and illegal influence operations in Canada]." 
"The PRC uses a range of tolls, including Canada-based proxies. These tools include the monitoring of diaspora communities and transnational repression; activities meant to impact the outcome of Canadian democratic processes [including providing financial support to preferred candidates]; and clandestinely shaping narratives in support of PRC strategic interests."
"[The Chinese government also exerts significant control on the Chinese-language traditional and social media platforms and uses the influence to promote] pro-PRC narratives, spread disinformation and suppress anti-China content."
Foreign Interference enquiry head Marie-Josee Hogue

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Monday, April 28, 2025

The Islamic Republican Guard Corps Amateur Handling of Explosives

"Two conservative [Iranian] newspapers have suggested a possible link between the port explosion and the nuclear talks."
"Jomhuri-ye Eslami daily on April 28, 2025, wrote, “The coincidence of the explosion at Shahid Rajaei Port with one of the most sensitive periods of negotiations between Iran and the United States in Oman cannot be unrelated to the positive developments that have emerged in our country’s foreign policy”."
"Established and supported by the office of Supreme Leader, the paper accused Israel of seeking to derail the negotiations but also questioned who would take responsibility for the incident, warning that blame likely would be evaded, as usual."
"In an editorial, the Sobh-e No daily also noted that although the cause of the blast remains officially undetermined, its timing—alongside nuclear talks and heightened Israeli threats—raises the possibility of targeted sabotage."
Mardo Soghom, Middle East Forum
The explosion at the Bandar Abbas port happened during U.S.-Iran nuclear talks.

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"The fire was reportedly the result of improper handing of a shipment of solid fuel intended for use in Iranian ballistic missiles."
"[The port took in a shipment of] sodium perchlorate rocket fuel."
Private security firm Ambrey 

"Our security forces are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
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The massive explosion and fire Saturday in southern Iran that has destroyed a major part of Iranian shipping has been linked to a shipment of a chemical that is used in in the manufacture of missile propellant. The blast killed 70 people, while more than ten times that number were injured. The Shahid Rajaci port will be out of business for a very long time. While reaction to the blast and fire has been restrained in the sense that there have been no official statements suggesting this was the result of an attack, the thought is there, albeit for the present, submerged.
 
The expression of the country's foreign minister was as close a warning in its reminder of previous Israeli attacks on Iranian weapons facilities and the assassinations of some of the country's top nuclear scientists  as it's likely to be, at this stage. Few details have emerged on what caused the blaze close to Bandar Abbas, a conflagration that burned into Saturday night, when other containers began exploding, adding fuel to the fire.
 
The fuel in question formed part of a shipment from China shipped in two vessels to Iran back in January. The chemicals were meant to be used to replenish Iran's missile stocks, depleted through its direct attacks on Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. One of the vessels is believed to have carried the chemical in the area back in March, according to ship-tracking data. Iran has held back from acknowledging taking possession of the shipment. 

What is puzzling, given the obvious danger of storing and stocking such flammable explosives is why the chemicals would not have been moved out of the port. The situation resembles the Beirut port blast that took place in 2020 when that explosion, the result of  the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed over 200 people, injuring more than 6,000. Suspicion would, of course, naturally fall on Israel which has targeted Iranian missile sites where industrial mixers to create solid fuel are used by Tehran.
 
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"Get back, get back! Tell the gas [truck] to go!"
"Tell him to go, it's going to blow up!"
"Oh God, this is blowing up!"
Everybody evacuate!
"Get back! Get back!" 
Reddish-black smoke was seen rising at Shahid Rajaei on social media footage Saturday from the fire, immediately prior to the explosion. The state-run IRNA news agency stated that the Customs Administration of Iran cast blame on a "stockpile of hazardous goods and chemical material stored in the port area", which caused the blast. A surveillance video distributed by the Fars news agency is that of a small fire appearing among containers, and alerted workers moving away from the area in a panic, before a huge explosion erupted. 
"[Prior to the blast there had been a] failure to observe safety principles [according to state-affiliated outlet Mehr News]."
"Determining the definitive cause of this incident requires a complete and comprehensive investigation of its various aspects, which, due to expert requirements, requires technical and laboratory processes."
"[There were] discrepancies [in a statement given to the committee which did not elaborate on what these might be or their source]."
Iranian Investigating Committee
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Trump's Legacy of U.S. Expansion

 "You've talked about acquiring Greenland, taking control of the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st State."
"Maybe you're trolling a little bit on that one. I don't know."
"Well, do you want to grow the American empire?"
'100 Days Interview', Eric Cortellessa
 
"Actually, no, I'm not."
"I think Canada, what you said that, 'Well, that one, I might be trolling'. But I'm really not trolling."
Canada is an interesting case. We lose $200 to $250 billion a year supporting Canada. And I asked a man who I called Governor Trudeau, I said: Why? Why do you think we're losing so much money supporting you?"
"Do you think that's right? Do you think that's appropriate for another country to make it possible, for a country to sustain, and he was unable to give me an answer, but it costs us over $200 billion a year to take care of Canada?"
"We're taking care of their military. We're taking care of every aspect of their lives, and we don't need them to make cars for us ... We want to make our own cars."
"We don't need their lumber. We don't need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state."
U.S. President Donald Trump
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"It's possible [Trump] was referring to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which in 2024, amounted to $63 billion for goods."
"But that number still is far short of $200 billion."
Time magazine
Time noted that the U.S. Department of Defense requested a budget of $849 billion for the 2025 fiscal year, checking back on the subject of "taking care of their military". The U.S., the magazine pointed out, is responsible for 60 percent of the cost of the radar system of the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), at a cost of $20 billion. 
 
"Do you want to be  remembered as a president who expanded American territory?", Cortellessa asked Trump, who responded "Wouldn't mind"
 
Trouble is, Canadians WOULD mind, when it comes to their sovereignty and respect for a country called Canada, proud of its culture, its tradition, its heritage, its population and its values, some of which mesh with that of its neighbour, but many of which definitely do not. Becoming a part of the United States has never been an issue that Canada and Canadians found attractive, and the banter turning to economic threats to coerce the country to think otherwise have failed to find favour in Canada. In fact, the threat has impacted the federal election campaign that concludes tomorrow.
 
"We can no longer afford to have our economic success depend on such an unreliable partner. There's one person and that person is called President Trump. He's openly taking aim at Ontario's economy, threatening tariffs, disrupting supply chains, putting all of us at risk", stated Ontario Premier Doug Ford during a speech at the Public Policy forum's 2025 Canada Growth Summit in Toronto. 

"He actually wants to destroy our economy. It's not just words. He wants to do it. He wants to destroy our auto sector. He wants to destroy our manufacturing sector. He wants to try to take over Canada, and I can tell you: Canada is not for sale. We will never ever be the 51st state."
 
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to media at Queen’s Park in Toronto, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Photo by Laura Proctor /The Canadian Press
"Sometimes I think the cheese slips off the cracker with this guy."
"He wakes up in the morning ... and even his people around him are not too sure what he's going to do or what he's going to say."
"And it's pretty scary that, you know, one sentence out of the most powerful person in the world can change markets."
"It's about certainty. And he's created uncertainty around the world."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

"We Will Pursue Them to the Ends of the Earth"

 

"Those behind this heinous act will be brought to justice."
"Our resolve to fight terrorism is unshakable and it will get even stronger." 
"India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers."
"We will pursue them to the ends of the earth."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan after Kashmir attack – video

"We will not only reach those who have perpetrated this incident but also those who, sitting behind the scenes, have conspired to commit such acts on the soil of India."
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
 
"We cannot get over the fact that such an incident has occurred, and that too in the place we call heaven on earth."
"Tourists have been coming to Kashmir since the last three or four decades and they have never been touched."
Akib Chaya, hotel owner, member, Kashmir Chamber of Commerce
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"[Attempts to link Pakistan to the Pahalgam attack are] frivolous [Islamabad will respond to any Indian action]."
"Any threat to Pakistan’s sovereignty and to the security of its people will be met with firm reciprocal measures in all domains."
Pakistan statement
"Clear evidence of cross-border complicity" has been presented by Indian investigators in the wake of the gruesome attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir when gunmen opened fire in a deadly attack that saw 26 innocent people die. A group called the Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the attack. Indian officials identify it as a proxy for the Lashkar-e-Taiba based in Pakistan. For its part, Islamabad has vehemently denied any involvement, denying that India has in fact any proof of their accusations against Pakistan. 

The Kashmir attack represented the most deadly assault in years in the restive region, an attack that targeted civilians. The region has seen more than its share of anti-India attacks in the past thirty years. Indians are shocked and outraged at the deadly event, raising calls that their country take action against Pakistan. The initial claim for the attack was a terrorist group previously unheard of, that called itself the Kashmir Resistance. Pakistan's instant reaction was that there was no involvement on its part.
 
India's "belligerent measures" were condemned by Pakistan's National Security Committee. Claiming that while Pakistan remained committed to peace, it would never permit anyone to "transgress its sovereignty, security, dignity and inalienable rights". At a time when it was a Pakistani 'resistance' group that mounted the deadly attack, so in essence, Pakistan is condemning India for reacting to the transgression of ITS sovereignty, security, dignity and inalienable rights. How that makes sense is debatable. 

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The most immediate reaction was that of India, followed by Pakistan, cancelling visas for their nationals to enter the others' countries. New Delhi has been 'warned' by Islamabad for suspending a water-sharing treaty in the aftermath of the tragedy. All visas issued to Pakistani nationals were to be revoked effective Sunday; and all Pakistanis in India at the present time given notice they must leave before the expiration of their visas based on a revised timeline.
 
Other measures were also announced, including reducing the number of diplomatic staff, closing the sole land border crossing between the two nations, and suspending a crucial water-sharing agreement. Pakistan, in retaliation has closed its airspace for all Indian-owned or -operated airlines, as well as suspending all trade with India. Included in that suspension is trade to and from any third country. There were hints by government authorities representing both sides that matters could escalate militarily.
 
Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir as their territory entirely, even as each administers a part of the disputed Kashmir. Clashes between the two countries' military break out occasionally and then die down almost spontaneously. Kashmiri separatists out of Pakistan mount terrorist raids of much smaller dimensions from time to time in a never-ending commitment to bring terror to Indian Kashmir. These are Islamist death squads brewed in Pakistan in reflection of the culture of war and confrontation between the two competitors for Kashmiri exclusive entitlement.
 
For the present, a number of Pakistani diplomats were ordered to leave New Delhi, while Indian diplomats were summarily recalled from Pakistan leaving diplomatic missions in each of the countries with reduced staff from May 1 forward. Indian citizens were advised not to travel to Pakistan by India's foreign ministry, which has also urged those of its citizens currently in Pakistan to depart for India.
 
The landmark water-sharing treaty in place between the two countries despite two wars and a major border skirmish, has now been suspended indefinitely, with Pakistan angrily responding to warn that any Indian attempt to stop or divert the flow of water would be considered an "act of war", to be met with "full force across the complete spectrum" of Pakistan's national power.
 
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"We very much appeal to both the governments … to exercise maximum restraint, and to ensure that the situation and the developments we’ve seen do not deteriorate any further."
"Any issues between Pakistan and India, we believe, can be and should be resolved peacefully through meaningful mutual engagement."
UN spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric
 
"There are many imponderables Modi must deal with, including the significant capabilities of the Pakistan army."
"But given the horrific nature of the attack and the outrage that has convulsed the nation – the victims came from 15 states across India – the PM may have no option but to explore some major risks."
C Raja Mohan, veteran analyst, Indian Express
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Friday, April 25, 2025

Mark Carney -- a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

"People correct course either by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and it looks to me like we've chosen the severe pain route [in the outcome to the federal election]."
"All you have to do is read his [Mark Carney's] book, but people don't, of course, because it's a book."
"Either he's decided that every single thing he's ever believed was wrong right to the core [or he's a] wolf in sheep's clothing." 
Jordan Peterson
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 Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has made no secret of his disdain for former prime minister Justin Trudeau, describing him as a 'narcissistic pretender' who brought ruin to Canada in the decade that Canadians were foolish enough to vote him into office and consecutively cast their vote for him again and again; gluttons for punishment. And should Canadians vote for  his successor, Mark Carney, there will be no relief from all the Liberal-mandated ills that have beset Canada's economy, its culture, its cohesiveness, its values and its laws, nor relief from basic unaffordability of housing, food and other necessities of life, much less continued reliance on a universal medical system that is hobbling toward dysfunction.
 
While tying Canadian industry and the handling of Canada's vast energy stores to hamper the economy and discourage investment to a green strategy, the Liberal solution has been to bring in more 'foreign assets' in the guise of immigration, refugee intake and migrant acceptance from sources that have brought unrest and instability to those areas of the world where all too many of those refugees, migrants and emigrants derive from. Already scarce social services from emergency housing to food banks, to hospital services and employment sourcing have been strained further by the Liberal government's embrace of unbridled numbers of temporary foreign workers and foreign students in Canadian universities.
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Canada’s housing crisis
The average house price in Canada when Trudeau took over in November 2015 was 446,000 Canadian Dollars. Nine years later they stood at 732k after peaking at 834k in March 2022.

 
 In an interview with U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan, Dr. Petersen warned that should Canadians choose to elect Mark Carney as the next leader of Canada in the 2025 election, a mere few days into the future, they will have unwisely chosen a path of "severe pain". In his opinion, and that of a good many other Canadians, a Carney government would continue -- and in a more accelerated manner -- the economic decline that his predecessor set a course on for Canada's future. And along with that economic collapse would tag along an increase in social disorientation and disorder.
 
Disorder exemplified by the anti-Israel demonstrations and blockades that the Liberal government has been complicit in ensuring has become a regular feature in Canadian cities, particularly Toronto. The viral raging mobs of keffiyeh-clad, masked antisemitic psychopaths who speak of Palestinian terrorists as 'freedom fighters' and rejoice at the October 7, 2023 massacre of over 1,200 Israeli men, women and children -- many of whom were gang-raped and mutilated before they were finally murdered -- as a celebratory event.
 
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The attempt to claim Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau are cut from the same political cloth has been a significant feature of the Conservative campaign. But it also raises questions about just how fair such comparisons are, and if they're an effective political tool against the Liberal leader. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
 
In his conversation with Joe Rogan throughout the 190-minute podcast, the subject of Canadian politics loomed large. In mentioning that he had read through Mark Carney's 2021 book, Values: Building a Better World for All, Dr. Peterson points out that the former Bank of Canada/Bank of England governor spells out his values, all of them twin to Trudeau's, only somewhat more vehemently and utterly determined. Dementedly green and decidedly devoted to DEI. And, like Trudeau, a faux feminist.
 
Mr. Carney is more, much more than all that. He is also a consummate manipulator, a man so convinced of his own entitlements and intellectual brilliance that he demonstrates  his impatience with anyone who might question the correctness of his views and values. Much less his loose ethics. Such as his doctoral thesis plagued with plagiarism in full view. His denials when faced with evidence that as head of  Brookfield Management, he was involved in tax avoidance, in moving its head office to the U.S., and in sum total working against Canada's best interests in loyalty to Brookfield shareholders.
"Your children and grandchildren see Carney as he is: not as the warm-milk and grandfatherly-advice 1940s Jimmy Stewart banker who will stand up to the mad Yankee mob."
"We look at Carney and we don't pay any attention to politics and we certainly don't read his goddamned book, and so we see someone who looks like a banker from the 1990s, when everything was just fine in Canada and Canadians were just as rich as Americans and the whole country was stable and peaceful." 
Jordan Peterson
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Canada’s unemployment rate
Canada’s unemployment rating has been steadily increasing since 2022, with 6.8 per cent of the population now unemployed. It brings the total number of unemployed people in Canada to 1.5 million – a figure that’s increased by 22 per cent since 2023.

In an April opinion piece column he wrote for the National Post , Dr. Peterson spoke of his disillusionment with Canadian voters, reflected in the 2025 general election. Where, the Trudeau decade failures, the ethical lapses, the Liberal entitlements, grandstanding and fabrications had finally penetrated the voters' consciousness, leading to a general rejection and a wholesale switch to the opposition Conservative Party under its leader, Pierre Poilievre. Yet when Mark Carney was exchanged for the disgraced Trudeau, voters pivoted back to the Liberals, despite that Carney's agenda is that of Trudeau's, on steroids. 
"Spiralling housing prices, a lot of social instability in Canada, especially since Oct. 7; all my Jewish friends in Toronto are terrified."
"That’s not fun. I don’t like seeing that. It’s awful."
"And all those psychopaths who have been parading around their moral virtue since October 7, they’re plenty emboldened. Plenty."
Jordan Peterson 
Canadians -- before it is too late -- have to wake to the substance that submitting to the feckless reality of voting a Liberal government back into power will sink us completely. The current misery we're mired in -- growing unemployment, homelessness, Food Bank use, soaring crime rates, dysfunctional, interfering government, a Third Column of terrorist sympathizers owning Canadian streets, defying Canadian laws, threatening Canadian Jews, burning the Canadian flag, abandoning our allies, is set to continue and to intensify. 

There is a solution, a way to return Canada to its former proud status as a nation of clear morals, and laws that will be upheld rather than countenance their being flouted by those unwilling to share our values and our culture. A political party that has refused to pander to the vote-gathering impetus that infuses the Liberal party. The Conservative Party of Canada under its leader Pierre Poilievre spells it out: the issue of rampant crime will be addressed, the economy will be liberated from the straitjacket the Liberals have shoved it into, our immigration system will undergo the cautionary ratings that have been abandoned.
 
Canada and Canadians desperately need liberation from the clutches of the Liberal party. And the time is now! Grasp the opportunity that April 28th represents! Bring in a government prepared and determined to remedy all the restraints, constraints and burdens imposed on Canada by the Liberal government. Restore our trust in our politicians who really do care about the country we are loyal to, the country that is now barely recognizable as Canada.
 
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking during the English-language leaders’ debate on Thursday, says Liberal Leader Mark Carney is making the same promises as former leader Justin Trudeau. Carney responds by saying that both Trudeau and the carbon tax are gone. CBC News
 

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Dividing Canadians : The Liberal Legacy

"Make Palestine unavoidable this federal election."
"We are turning up the pressure and making it clear: Palestine must be at the forefront."
"Free Palestine National Day of Action."
"The resistance [Hamas] has set a new precedent for the Palestinian struggle."
Palestinian Youth Movement
 
"While Jewish Canadians live in fear, terror groups like Samidoun are free to fundraise and support organizations like Hamas and the [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] who seek to kill innocent Jews."
"We've seen what happens when these groups aren't taken seriously."
"The Jewish community feels understandably under siege as these hate marches and antisemitic outbursts have become an unfortunate part of Canadian life."
"Frankly, the Liberals have encouraged these divisions. We see what they do. They say one thing to one group, and then exactly the opposite to another group."
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
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Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during his election campaign tour, in British Columbia, April 6, 2025  (photo credit: REUTERS/JENNIFER GAUTHIER)

"Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney."
"But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state."
"Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
 
"If they [the Liberal government] took action, they would have listed them already."
"So, if burning a Canadian flag, if calling for the death of Canadians, if fomenting hate in this country, and most of all being a front for an already-listed terrorist organization is not enough to put them on the list, then what the hell is it going to take for them to ban them?"
Thornhill Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman
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Saturday’s pro-Palestinian protest included a march through Ottawa’s ByWard Market. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia

During this federal election culminating in an April 28 vote to determine the next prime minister of Canada, Palestinian groups have been busy honing their public relations skills, lobbying federal politicians, insisting that the issue of Israel in Gaza, following the unforgettable Palestinian Hamas terrorist invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, must become a primary issue. Not the savagery of Palestinian terrorists slaughtering Israeli civilians in an infamous day of sadistic mass rape, torture, and immolation of entire families in their homes, and the hostage-taking of innocents. 

Canada has undergone a steady infiltration of hostile Muslim immigrants, refugees and migrants over the past decade. Palestinian students at Canadian universities have entirely politicized Canadian academia, slandered a Canadian ally, threatened Jewish-Canadian students, damaged Canada's international reputation, destroyed university property, arranged for mass Muslim prayer sessions on major city roads and intersections, harassed and threatened Canadians in major Jewish city enclaves, and called for the destruction of Israel.
 
The Liberal-led government of Justin Trudeau invited and welcomed this infiltration as a humanitarian gesture. Canada's communities that have always been tolerant of one another and shared the experiences of Canadian culture, heritage, values, laws and neighbourliness will never be the same again. This is the legacy of the Trudeau government, alongside a decade of economic stagnation, unaffordability of housing and food, the degradation of the Canadian universal health system, all of which has led to distrust of government, as the provinces themselves cope with federal interference in provincial jurisdictions.
 
In the final days of the 2025 general election, it has been revealed that 300 federal candidates have signed on to an initiative with direct links to a radical anti-Israel group; to be anti-Israel in Canada is directly related to support for Hamas as a legitimate government whose role is to defy Israeli 'oppression' of Palestinians. It must be understood that by Israel defending itself against Palestinian deadly attacks against Israeli citizens, Israel is defined as an 'oppressor' of Palestinian self-realization.
 
In Canada the VotePalestine.ca website lists over 330 federal election candidates expressing their full endorsement of the "Palestinian Platform". A platform that demands Canada recognize Palestinian statehood under Hamas's continued governance. Canada, it demands, must sanction anything connected to Israel, including "cultural and academic exchanges". Canada must increase foreign aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which has been linked to Palestinian terrorism.
 
The Palestinian Youth Movement is one of the central organizers of anti-Israel blockades and street demonstrations that began throughout Canada on October 8, 2023 and has flourished ever since, making a hellscape of Canadian city streets, with no intervention from the federal government. Celebration of the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel is one of the hallmarks of PYM values. 'Victory' rallies were organized by PYM in a number of Canadian cities even as the attack was ongoing.

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Saturday’s protest included marching along Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia

Predictably, VotePalestine's supporters have been drawn primarily from candidates for the NDP and Green party. Along with these numbers some 18 Liberal candidates also signed on. Sitting Liberals listed by VotePalestine include Patrick Weiler, Chris Bittle, Shafqat Ali, Alexandra Mendes, Sameer Zuberi, Sean Casey, Salma Zahid and Adam van Koeverden. Salma Zahid is chair of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group which hosts extremists at Parliament Hill gatherings.
 
Nazih Khatatba, publisher of an Arabic-language newspaper that refers to the Holocaust as a 'hoax" was a featured speaker at one of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group's 2022 events. An event that was attended by Mahmoud Khalil, Montreal activist whose reaction to the October 7 attacks saw him publicly declare allegiance to Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif at an Ottawa rally.
 
In a mosque appearance in April, van Koeverden accused Israel of committing genocide, pledging to "make sure that Palestinian voices are heard in Ottawa by our leaders". Should he be re-elected he has made it clear that he intends to prioritize Palestinian issues. While Conservatives gave this issue wide berth, in recognition of its betrayal of Canadian values and system of justice, Nabila Ben Youssef of the Bloc Quebecois signed on. 

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

We Will Dance Again

 

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A timer keeps track of how long Israeli hostages have been held by Hamas, as part of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Toronto, Tuesday April 22, 2025. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

"This may be one of the most unique exhibits and experiences that you might find."
"The Nova Music Festival was the tip of the spear on October 7. Peace-loving people who came to dance from many nationalities, from many religions."
"It was not about being Jewish. It was not about the country of Israel."
Evan Zelikovitz, Canadian installation representative
 
"This is a journey from the light to the darkness and then light again."
"You can touch things. Everything that you'll see inside is real, from the toilets to the tents to the signs and the bar."
"People [were] murdered literally inside. It's a very important thing that the world must know that this cannot happen again."
"As we say, 'We will dance again'. It's not just a sentence or a slogan. It's our way of life."
Shani Ivgi, festival survivor
 
"The exhibit starts from the light to the darkness and to the light again."
"We are here  to show the healing. This is my healing; to share my story, my way."
"It was the best festival that I was at."
"I [am] just waiting there. Bleeding. I called my mom and said, 'I love you, but I think I'm going to die."
Michal Ohana, Nova Festival survivor
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The Nova Music Festival Exhibition is in Toronto until June 8. Photo by HANDOUT /NOVA EXHIBITION HANDOUT

 Opened today in Toronto, an installation produced to honour victims and survivors of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, will remain in place for a six-week period. It can be seen at 1381 Castlefield Avenue until June 8. The exhibition recreates the landscape of a music concert that Hamas terrorists attacked, raping, mutilating, hunting people down and mercilessly killing them, while taking a smaller number hostage into Gaza, to be used as pawns in demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
 
Of the 3000 men and women in attendance at the festival, close to 400 individuals were murdered that day, while another 44 were abducted, to be taken into the tunnel system in Gaza as prisoners to be shackled, abused and starved. The exhibition's first appearance was last year, in Tel Aviv. It is now appearing in international venues to ensure that what happened that day is fully understood as "the largest massacre in music history".
 
Items taken from the ruins of the Nova Music Festival are featured at the installation. Ordinary things that people take with them to be useful when they travel to such events in anticipation of meeting with other young people to enjoy comradeship and the music that entrances the hearer and romanticizes life. There are hammocks, shoes, water bottles, cellphone cases, cigarettes and a wide array of personal belongings of people who had gone to the festival with light hearts and the anticipation of a happy reunion with friends.
 
Screens placed throughout the installation replay defining moments of the atrocities carried out on that fateful day. Among them the kidnapping of Noa Argamani as she called out desperately for help, and the unforgettable savagery on display with the parading through Gaza on the back of a truck of the dead body of Shani Louk, to the loud acclaim of ordinary Palestinians who took pleasure in abusing her corpse.
 
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Conservatives honour their memories by standing with the Jewish people in saying Never Again and calling for the release of all hostages taken by Hamas and the return of the remains of Judith Weinstein to Canada. Am Yisrael Chai.  Pierre Poilievre
 
Shani Ivgi was a festival worker and like everyone else at the event, was surprised when rocket sirens sounded in the early morning hours of October 7, to warn of incoming rocket fire. Along with others she fled to a nearby bomb shelter. A sense of impending danger and fear of close spaces led her to leave the shelter. Minutes later, Hamas terrorists arrived and slaughtered all those who sought haven in the bomb shelter. Ivgi was able to return to her car and drove back to central Israel,but not quite without incident since her car was hit by a barrage of rifle fire from the terrorists. 

She was present at the exhibition installations in Miami, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. Another festival survivor said the installation mirrors the emotions of that fateful day. Living in Portugal, Michal Ohana was invited by Israeli friends to attend the Nova Music Festival. She recalls partying through the night before the Hamas attack. She wound up hiding under an Israeli tank for several hours in the wake of the terrorist attack. She had been shot in the leg. She was eventually rescued by Israeli soldiers and taken to a hospital where her older sister happened to be giving birth. "For me, this day is like two miracles. I stayed alive, and I have a new nephew", she said.
 
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Nova Music Festival survivor Michal Ohana signs a wall and photo of her friend and hostage Elkana Bohbot at the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Toronto, Tuesday April 22, 2025. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post
 
"We are not just a tragic story."
"I have a lot of friends who were murdered. I have one family member who was murdered, and still, life is stronger."
"I know that we've been through so much darkness and we saw so much darkness in our eyes ... "
"Only light can win the darkness. And this is our values."
Shani Ivgi
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The Nova Exhibition in Toronto remembers one of the most depraved atrocities committed against the Jewish people on October 7, 2023. 378 festival attendees were brutally murdered at the hands of the genocidal death cult Hamas.  Pierre Poilievre, X
 


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