Good luck with that
"...They simply took our mine. Our partner is the Chinese government in Xinjiang and so we have been asking for Canadian government help for the last while but we have not got any,” Ms. Chong said.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-gold-mining-junior-accuses-china-of-stealing-the-firm/
Why students, waiters, self claimed Asian millionaires, knowledgeable day traders basically the whole spectrum, throw money down the drain in order to stick it to a hedge fund? Meanwhile making insiders hugely rich beyond their beliefs and real traders busy and richer?
"...The initial Canadian appointees generally maintained this standard: Vincent Massey was a well-regarded minister to Washington and high commissioner in London and trustee of the National and Tate Galleries; Georges Vanier was a distinguished and gallant general and a highly respected ambassador to France. Roland Michener was a much-admired speaker of the House of Commons, Jules Leger was a very capable senior diplomat. Since then the only occupant of the appropriate stature to be the de facto chief of state of the G-7 country Canada has become was the gracious and elegant former speaker of the House and cabinet minister Jeanne Sauve...."
So many questions
Which hotels? Are they key Liberal donors?
Why just the Caribbean and Mexico? Because it is only aimed at March Break? Why not Florida?
Who actually cancelled travel - airlines or government ?
What about those that have received permanent residency or visas and are expected to fly to Canada - their country of employment, values, economic, educational, lawful freedom? Do they have the funds to do this? Do they get a free pass?
What happens when the airlines begin to approach CCAA after this ? Are the climate change Liberals going to bail out one of most the polluting industries to save jobs? That didnt happen with the oil and gas industry.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadian-heritage-minister-top-bureaucrats-deny-cozy-relationship-between-department-and-facebook-canada
"...The study was requested by opposition parties following media reports that Facebook’s Canadian Head of Policy Kevin Chan had emailed a senior official at Canadian Heritage in early 2020 inquiring about a “promising senior analyst” within the public service that Facebook could hire.
A copy of the emails was obtained via access to information and first reported by Toronto Star.
In his message to heritage department official Owen Ripley, Chan, who previously held top senior advisory roles in the federal government, said that the web giant was offering a “challenging,” “fascinating” and lucrative job within Facebook’s public policy team.
You do not sound like you think this is a grave matter. Do you not find it to be a preoccupying situation?
Chan added that he was open to hiring public servants who took a temporary leave of absence from their department to come work for Facebook. That means that they could later return to their public sector jobs if the department allowed it..."
Europe finding out first the limits of "new" and "renewable" forms of energy.
"...Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is preparing a budget she says will be “the most significant one of our lifetimes.” The plan, she says, is “going to be about jobs. It’s going to be about growth. It’s going to be about the middle class. It is going to be about healing the wounds of COVID. It is going to be about building a Canadian economy which is more innovative, more competitive, greener, more sustainable.”
Okay, it’s going to be about everything. Freeland and her boss evidently still see their job as reinventing Canada along the same lines as when they came to office. A day after Freeland spoke, Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos revealed possible legal changes to force more diversity, inclusion and accessibility in public service hiring. Not to disparage diversity and inclusivity, but the Liberals’ compulsion to place bureaucratic parameters ahead of experience, expertise and merit sounds an awful lot like what weakened the Public Health Agency. Would the crisis have been better handled had the doctors, scientists and researchers been displaced by a more diversified brand of bureaucrats?..."
As unemployment rates have a .magical calculation that economists and those around a water cooler like to fester about, it is a calculation that relies on fixed inputs such as a given population of those SEEKING work (which must be able to be tracked and measured, that is a Canadian, a resident, a permanent resident most likely on the CRA tax paying list as one way) and the jobs created for that group.
If another supply of "untracked" labour is able to suddenly appear and legally work in Canada thanks to such new policies as these, then should the unemployment rate be adjusted higher for those jobs filled that are not against those who were part of the fixed "seeking work" group?
In other words, if one job is filled by an individual that is a new entrant and not part of any statistics or a fixed "seeking work" group should that not be negatively reflected in the unemployment rate somehow?
Post-Graduate Work Permit (PGWP):
"...It will enable former international students to stay in Canada and continue to look for work. Unlike employer-specific work permits, where a foreign worker is bound to a single employer in Canada, open work permits allow foreign nationals to work for any employer they choose...."
Canada Immigration News: PGWP holders can now submit applications for new open work permits.
No wonder Justin does not want an election - his voters are not old enough to vote!
". And what happens to the cities they leave behind? Will they lean further left on the political spectrum?..."
"...We will have spent $1 trillion since 2019 and it’s not clear that we’ll be in a better position on the economic front,” said Robert Asselin, a vice-president at the Business Council of Canada and former Liberal advisor.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has repeatedly voiced plans to “build back better” coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, largely through increased spending on a raft of social, environmental, and industry programs.
Over the five years ending 2024, Ottawa is expected to add $1 trillion to the federal debt, well higher than the $685 billion that had been accumulated through its entire history until 2019..."
"...He immigrated to Canada with his fiance in 1988, at the age of 25.
They married here a year later and had two children, a daughter and then a son; his son had health issues since birth, he once told court in a plea for leniency. Both his parents and his in-laws followed him to Canada and they all lived together, according to court records..."
Update: another MP (Sangha) has been asked to leave
:...In a somewhat rambling interview with Y Media, a Punjabi-language news outlet, Sangha said he was “shocked” to hear that the minister was quitting at a relatively young age, and that the reason Bains offered for his decision “was difficult to digest for me.”
Sangha also said that he had felt pressure from the former minister and the minister’s father. Now that Bains was gone, “I am not a bounded Liberal any more,” he said in remarks the National Post had translated. Then the MP appeared to comment on Bains’ views about the Sikh question..."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s self-admitted and significant failures in judgment have led to a series of resignations possibly without precedent in the entire history of Westminster parliamentary democracies.
"...Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s self-admitted and significant failures in judgment have led to a series of resignations possibly without precedent in the entire history of Westminster parliamentary democracies..."
As the federal government increases the number of "immigrants" to +400,000 annually (which includes permanent residents, international students, work visas, spousal reunions, parents and grand parents reunifications...anything but new citizenships) and preaches that our economic recovery will rely on this, we are never told just how many are living in Canada - Canadian or not.
There is number around 36 million proud and happy passport holders (how many are Canadian beyond just paying taxes is unknown, how many are dual citizens is unknown) of which say almost 1% are living abroad in HongKong alone as ex-Pats.
However, no one in Canada really knows how many are living in its borders. The federal government will never tell you how many residents are in Canada (whether legally or illegally) in addition to its lucky citizens for political correctness fears of putting the spotlight on that number that Canadians deserve to know. It is information. Well, now we may know.
The rollout of vaccines calls for everyone in Canada to be vaccinated, citizen or not. And paid for by Canadian taxpayers.
Yes your vulnerable parents may be in line behind someone that has not paid a dime of tax or been in the country for less than a year.
With the amount of vaccinations doled out, and making some assumptions for those that will never have one, we can start to calculate and understand the actual population of Canada amd not just its passport holders.
I wondered how the photo op loving Justin complete with his everyone-must-admire-me attitude would fulfill the last outstanding one, and now we know.
As written previously on this forum, Pere Trudeau was known for: i) an underwhelming economic knowledge or care for it, ii) alienating the west though the Petro Canada formation and debacle, iii) deteriorating US relations (to the point Nixon is caught on tape referring to Pere as an "#ssh_le"), and finally, iv) cheekily did a pirouette behind the Queen's back that was caught by a photographer and she later saw his disrespectful attitude anyway.
Economic Recklessness: This time, Fils Trudeau straight out of the blocks paid little disregard for deficits even in non-depression times and ran on an election promise (yes a promise) of an annual $10 billion deficit. Here we are at least 45 x times that on annual basis.
Alienating the West: In crushing the oil and gas industry through various legal, approval and consultations means did not have one MP elected in the prairie provinces.
Annoying the US: Not just dealing with a volatile leader of the world's most powerful country but poking the eye of the beast by not only making inflammatory comments and reneging on things said as host of a world economic summit, Justin sends Freeland to say some of the most toxic messaging...on America's soil!
Irritating the Queen: This was the last shoe to drop and it was appearing like it would never happen, nor ever expected to happen. But the resignation of a Governor General is yet another black eye on Justin. How can such simple and appropriate due diligence on an individual of such symbolic and historical importance be so fallible? The question must be asked, how long did the Liberals actually take to vet her? Yes there are politically correct parameters and agendas to satisfy (it is an appointment after all). Not entirely his own doing, like his blackface episodes, but it has happened under his watch - irritated the Queen. You don't have to watch all four lengthy seasons of The Crown to know, like many of her family members over time, Justin has fallen out of her favour.
It is now complete.
Another black eye for Justin
It seems lately either admonishing significant Canadian history, figures/leaders and events, or Canadians consumed by democratic events of other countries while, perhaps the worst, Canadian apathy of its own definitive institutions is increasing. Quite scary really.
"...simply due to the chronic civic illiteracy of Canadians, many of whom no doubt responded to the breaking news of Payette’s resignation as governor general by asking who Payette is and what’s a governor general..."
The gall of a pharma company to develop a vaccine then turn around and dictate tax policies
We are not receiving Pfizer vaccines in Canada for a while
Global News: Pfizer pushes Liberals to include corporate tax breaks in next federal budget.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7589873/pfizer-canada-tax-breaks/
Previously our Minisyer of Imagination on his way out the door left with some kind and encouraging words that Canada is a "deficit of talent" and there are 220,000 tech jobs unfilled in Canada. In a world of 8.6% unemployment and job losses in the millions for 2020, its impossible this is true.
As such, even if it were true, then the following and above mentioned data demonstrates that Canada's Express Entry program matching labour needs to quicker permanent residency is mathematically a fail.
"...Under the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan, Canada aims to welcome an average of 110,000 immigrants under Express Entry per year. IRCC uses Express Entry to manage skilled worker applications for the following three programs: Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, and Canadian Experience Class....
.. Canada issued 108,350 ITAs last year "
Canada Immigration News: Express Entry: Canada holds 3rd draw of 2021.
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/01/express-entry-canada-holds-3rd-draw-of-2021-0116861.html
A chronic situation of thousands and thousands of unfilled (Tech) jobs In Canada. How can this be? The sources of these ludicrous claims are never mentioned but these nefarious numbers, usually around the 50,000 mark, have now grown to a "220 000" claim (in a world of 8.5% pandemic unemployment?) just as a new and aggressive increase to immigration numbers has been announced by the Liberals. That and the always proportionately growing aging population and the pension benefits required to be paid. If these numbers are true then how has an institution, Canada's most sacred, that has attracted, recruited and allowed so many millions of entrants into Canada to address these issues, missed the mark and failed so miserably?
"...“If you look at the last five years, Toronto and Vancouver have recruited more technology workers than San Francisco, and Seattle combined.”
...“Canada has a massive deficit of talent there’s about 220,000 positions that are currently not filled in tech, because we just don’t have the domestic capacity.”
The Liberals' scare mongering tactics over a political leader that will no longer exist in two days, is a chronic lame duck approach that unfortunately Canadian apathy will buy
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/no-place-for-far-right-in-conservative-party-otoole
These smaller gestures are not helpful for Canada nor the Trudeau government. No back bone whatsoever.
How China’s Flagship Belt and Road Project Stalled Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-01-14/how-china-s-flagship-belt-and-road-project-stalled-out-video"
Unemployment at 8.5% (November, arguably 10.9%), only 62,000 jobs created (November), travel restricted to only if essential and...
"...The latest Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) data shows that the country welcomed 15,300 new permanent residents this past November. While this figure is an improvement from previous months, immigration to Canada remains low due to the pandemic.
In a given month, Canada usually welcomes around 25,000-35,000 new immigrants. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen this figure fall significantly since Canada imposed travel restrictions in March 2020.
In the first 11 months of 2020, Canada welcomed 174,000 immigrants. On the balance of probabilities, Canada’s intake for all of 2020 will be below 200,000 new immigrants which would be the first time this has happened since 1999. By way of comparison, Canada welcomed over 341,000 new immigrants in 2019...."
As context, at its peak last spring, the COVID-19 economic shutdown directly affected 5.5 million Canadian workers (3 million who had lost their jobs and 2.5 million who were employed but had experienced COVID-related absences from work)
The Globe and Mail: 'The pandemic showed us how boring retirement can be'.
As an adult spending most of my working career in finance as well as having been a Star Wars loving child, I never contemplated these two concepts joining in same sentence
https://financialpost.com/investing/cathie-woods-vision-for-space-etf-sends-whole-industry-soaring
The Globe and Mail: ETFs are healthier retirement options, so why don’t more advisers use them?.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/article-etfs-are-healthier-retirement-options-so-why-dont-more-advisers-use/
Canada Immigration News: Should I enter the Express Entry pool if I have a low CRS?.
Canada intentionally looking for ways to lower the bar for sub-par permanent resident candidates in quest for 400,000 annually (110,000 Express entry candidates)
"...Therefore even if your CRS score [Comprehensive Ranking System based on factors that include age, education, skilled work experience and proficiency in English or French] is not high enough for federal immigration programs, it does not mean that it will not be enough for you to be invited by one of Canada’s provinces, which can then lead to the issuance of a Canadian permanent resident visa..."
During an international stand off between two Canadians held against their will and an extradition case here in Canada, how is this allowed?
The Globe and Mail: BlackBerry sells 90 patents to Huawei, covering key smartphone technology advances.
Your "transparent" Liberals
"...Information requests were denied, documents blacked out, questions were stonewalled, and when none of that had the desired effect of making the issue go away, the prime minister prorogued Parliament, killing off unfinished business and shutting down committees, using the COVID-19 crisis as cover to stifle inquisitors. Once Parliament eventually reconvened he dangled the threat of an election if opposition members renewed their search for answers..."
So much for being independent of the federal government now. What a brazen coincidence. Liberals have just added a $35 billion vote buying machine...on top of hundreds of billions they have already borrowed and spent. Upcoming election? What upcoming election?
"...His comments come after the CIB underwent a policy change late last year that eliminated a requirement for the bank to secure approval directly from Finance Canada before it could invest in individual projects. One senior government official confirmed to the National Post that the federal government will now approve CIB investments on a broader sectoral level rather than project-by-project. It comes after a sustained push by board members of the bank — including former chairman and now Deputy Finance Minister Michael Sabia — to streamline the approval process and funnel money to projects quicker...."
After sporadic appearances in the public eye with that startled look upon his face fulfilling a very over rated role, especially during economic armageddon of a pamdemic and addictice reliance on public debt, his record and description of his role was admitted for him. Let's see what scandal awaits...
https://nationalpost.com/news/john-ivison-the-cabinet-shuffle-is-a-puzzle
Bains, Minister of Imagination, grew tired or suddenly realized he does nothing all day? Or getting ahead of some scandal?
Canadian Running Magazine: 8 simple rules for dating a runner.
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/8-simple-rules-for-dating-a-runner/
The government has provided this service. Of note based on the flight traffic to Calgary just after New Year's, mostly coming from Phoenix/Palm Springs/Hawaii/Mexico, the data sadly suggests an expected increasr in reported cases by January 15th for that city/Alberta.
Are these program exceptions factored into the newly increased 400,000 per year? Or additional?
"...Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has estimated that 52,000 graduates with expired or expiring PGWPs could benefit from this public policy.
...About half of 61,000 PGWP holders whose work permits had an expiry date between January and December 2020 have already become permanent residents or have an application for permanent residence in process, according to IRCC data...."
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/01/international-students-unable-to-meet-canadian-work-experience-requirement-get-another-chance-0116783.html#gs.plh4rw
As CTV reported, "....Statistics Canada said Friday the economy lost 63,000 jobs in December while the unemployment rate edged up to 8.6 per cent compared with 8.5 per cent in November...Had it included in the calculations Canadians who wanted to work last month but didn't search for a job, the unemployment rate would have been 10.9 per cent in December, unchanged from November..."
Despite the shocking and awful events in Washington just passed, ironically after four years of benefitting from all his tweets, re-Tweets, likes, angry emojis, shares, podcasts, vlogs and clicks to add more and more subscribers or people to platforms, social media (including this) now kicks to the curb the one that helped to solidify their presence in the 21st century. After data breaches, accomplices of political interference, spreaders/enablers of misinformation, and privacy issues over the years, social media now have their moment to "appear just".
Big deal. And besides, should not be a surprise. Mostly liberal, Biden fans running these platforms anyway.
CTV: The list of most expensive places in Ontario for car insurance has been revealed.
https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/this-spread-investment-strategy-can-help-homeowners-put-their-dormant-home-equity-to-work
"...If you’re looking for an example of green and clean energy policy in action, let’s take a walk around British Columbia’s massive $10-12-billion hydro dam project. Officially described as the “Site C Clean Energy Project” by its developer, B.C. Hydro, the project on the Peace River — some 1,185 kilometres by flying crow north of downtown Vancouver — is unfortunately a little messy and unstable at the moment, so watch your footing, and your wallet.
The worst numbers in the study: the net present value of the electricity produced from Site C is estimated at $2.76-billion against an estimated total cost of $10.7-billion,..."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/patrice-dutil-the-democrat-how-i-see-sir-john-a-macdonald
Not a perfect, squeaky clean record but these points are rarely discussed
"...As prime minister of Canada, he won the first election of 1867 and was re-elected in 1872, 1878, 1882, 1887 and 1891
...He stabilized the banking system, he legislated the legalization of trade unions, he investigated the abuses of workers by industry...he argued vehemently that women and Indigenous Canadians (even those who had been involved in the uprisings led by Louis Riel) be allowed to vote. He was turned down on the last two, but never stopped advocating for it. He ensured that a national enfranchisement law be enshrined so that the right to vote was uniform across the country.
...Macdonald won the support of the people all through his 47-year political career, and when he died in 1891 he was as most popular as he had ever been... That’s why statues in his honour were erected in Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and Hamilton within years of his passing. He was the peoples’ favourite.
...He was not a dictator or a bully; he knew too well that those tactics would not cut the mustard in this country. That makes Macdonald singularly different from the people who destroyed or damaged the statues that were erected in his honour. He spoke for people: English or French; Catholic or Protestant (that win in 1861 was mostly because Kingston Catholics rallied to him); Easterner and Westerner; rich or poor..."
"...It is difficult to believe we could have experienced such human misery and see the Nasdaq soar 44 per cent in 2020 and the S&P 500 by 16 per cent.
The Nasdaq has now enjoyed a 94-per-cent two-year surge, something that last happened in 1998-99. Take that for what it’s worth, but do remember that 2000 ushered in a completely different environment altogether and the same commentary then is in vogue today, which includes all the reasons why we are in a new era and stock prices can never go down.
As was the case then, memories are very short. This is the most speculative and momentum-driven market on record. Tesla Inc. rose 743 per cent in 2020. Bitcoin soared 305 per cent. More than 200 special-purpose acquisitions companies (SPACs) raised more than US$80 billion. This is pure speculation
Your friendly neighbourhood NDP
https://financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-re-politicizing-cpp-would-be-a-disaster
"...The bill would prevent CPP from investing in Canada’s largest exporting industry, as well as in the 10 biggest companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange, he added. “The NDP considers (corporate) profits unethical.… Excluding profitable companies from the pension plan’s portfolio guarantees the impoverishment of Canada’s pensioners.”..."
Up until now, it appears Canada was giving vacation pay to some
"...The Canada Recovery sickness benefit was launched in the fall to help Canadians who are unable to work because they must quarantine during the pandemic. It pays $500 per week to a maximum of two weeks.
But Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said the government is “actively looking at all options” in the face of questions over whether Canadians who have travelled abroad should be allowed to collect the money..."
As Brookfield Asset Management (BAM:TSX) is now ready to pull the trigger after Brookfield Property Partners has already hit its pandemic peak of $21.70 at the end of March, yet steadily decreased over the last month. Then, COINCIDENTALLY the BAM announcement of taking BAM private. US$2.00 of premium missing.
Head shaking emoji.
@Brookfield_BPY
@Brookfield_Prop
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/01/canada-immigration-a-preview-of-2021-0116663.html#gs.p50gzc
".. IRCC has confirmed that the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) lottery for the 2020 intake will occur in early 2021, most likely this month. Up to 10,000 applicants will be invited to submit sponsorship applications to bring their parents and grandparents to Canada. Sometime later this year, IRCC will open the 2021 PGP intake window, and will hold another lottery to invite up to 30,000 applicants to sponsor their parents and grandparents...."
@CitImmCanada
KISS continues to soldier in the world of rick with a recipe that has stood the tests of time. However, they are a shrinking breed
https://loudwire.com/kiss-world-record-pyro-gene-simmons-rock-is-dead/
"...For Simmons, one big difference he harped on was the ability of an artist to write their own songs and play their own instruments. "You know, the modern artists rely so much on technology. You may not be able to recognize the artist if they record themselves singing in the shower. You’d be shocked," explained the KISS icon, "And none of the rappers play instruments. Don’t write songs. They write words. But chords, melodies, harmonies and stuff. It doesn’t mean that rap isn’t important. It’s very important. But it ain’t the Beatles."..."
Canada continues to import covid 19
https://www.insauga.com/thirteen-flights-with-covid-19-reported-at-mississaugas-pearson-airport-over-past-week
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/01/canadas-population-growth-slows-to-a-standstill-following-reduced-immigration-in-2020-0116684.html#gs.p23c21
By the numbers (47,000). And nothing stopping someone who arrives in NL and all of a sudden wants to head to Toronto.
https://www.cicnews.com/2020/12/2020-was-a-big-year-for-canadas-pnps-1216644.html#gs.ozcru3
"...The PNP is an immigration program jointly administered by the federal, provincial and territorial governments. It offers Canadian provinces and territories the opportunity to create their own immigration streams to better meet their labour market needs and economic development objectives. The PNP also aims to spread the benefits of economic immigration more equitably across Canada.
The disproportionate number of immigrants going to Canada’s largest provinces, such as British Columbia, Ontario or Alberta, explains why the country introduced the PNP. One of the main objectives of the PNP is to encourage immigrants to settle in smaller provinces and move to less populated regions of the country..."
http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/we-re-33-tsx-ekes-out-gain-in-pandemic-ravaged-2020-1.1542686
"...Toronto’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index plunged 37 per cent from peak to trough, then clawed its way back to post a 2.17 per cent gain in 2020. That’s good for 33rd out of 92 major global indices, with the TSX sandwiched between Malaysia and Norway in terms of total 2020 returns, but badly lagging the 16 per cent return on the S&P 500 as surging tech stocks turbocharged the bounceback south of the border.
Here’s a look at how things played out on the TSX in the most tumultuous year in recent memory. Returns are as Dec. 30 closing levels.
Top Sectors:
Information Technology: +80.3 per cent
Materials: +19.5 per cent
Industrials: +15.3 per cent
Consumer Discretionary: +14.4 per cent
Utilities: +10.6 per cent
"...The National Airlines Council of Canada, which represents the country’s largest airlines, said Wednesday it had asked the government for months to introduce a co-ordinated testing regime in consultation with the industry.
The new testing requirement will only apply for air travellers, but Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet argued on Thursday that it should apply at all ports of entry...."
"...By 1885 Macdonald had accepted the reality of even his closest First Nations allies wishing to retain their Indian status. As he explained in the House of Commons on May 4, 1885, “They prefer to stick to the clan system, just as, until lately, in my own country, the Highlanders stuck to their clan system in the highland of Scotland. They desired not to be severed from their brethren.”
Macdonald’s outlook toward the First Nations was complex, and cannot be easily summarized. The contradictions of his policy included his ferocious repression of the Indigenous Peoples of the North West immediately after the unrest of 1885, while at the same time extending the federal franchise in central and eastern Canada to adult male status Indians who met the property requirement, without the loss of their Indian status..."
