Liberals' Immigration Exceptions: 400,000 is the New Annual Number, But Is It Much Higher? And in a Pandemic 8.6% Employment Rate (1.1 Million Lost Jobs)

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..."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canadian-economy-lost-63-000-jobs-in-dec-first-decline-since-april-1.5258622

After Four Years Benefitting From His Tweets, Re-Tweets, Likes, Shares and Clicks, Social Media Says Goodbye to the One That Solidified Their Presence in 21st Century

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. 

Auto Insurance in Ontario? You Do Not Want to Live in Brampton

CTV: The list of most expensive places in Ontario for car insurance has been revealed.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/the-list-of-most-expensive-places-in-ontario-for-car-insurance-has-been-revealed-1.5256422

The Sacred Institution of Immigration in Canada: A Diligent, Thorough Process Bringing in the Best and Brightest? Or....Lottery?

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lottery-immigration-parents-grandparents-sponsor-1.5860855

(Dormant) Equity in Your Home Built Up? TriDelta Recommending Unlocking Value Through LOC and Investing in Private Credit

 https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/this-spread-investment-strategy-can-help-homeowners-put-their-dormant-home-equity-to-work

The Cost and "Economics" of Green Energy: BC Hydro's Site C

"...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://financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-b-c-s-site-c-hydro-power-boondoggle-shows-real-cost-of-clean-energy

The Democratic Sir John A.

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..."