🦌Parks Canada to spend $12M on B.C. deer cull, while Canadian hunters say they'd do it for free

Parks Canada has earmarked $12 million to fund a multi-phase “Fur to Forest” program, which employs non-Canadian helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to eradicate an invasive herd of European fallow deer from Sidney Island. That’s nearly double the $6 million the program was initially forecast to cost.

The program sparked controversy upon its launch in December, particularly in light of the fact local efforts by private hunters have kept the animals’ numbers in check. Locals told reporters last year those efforts resulted in the removal of nearly 2,000 deer, and at no cost to taxpayers.

#BritishColumbia
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💳 Rising number of Canadians only making minimum payment on credit cards

A TransUnion report published Tuesday said the number of Canadians paying only the minimum monthly amount on their credit card rose eight basis points to 1.3 per cent in the first quarter compared with last year.

Total consumer debt in Canada was $2.38-trillion in the first quarter, compared with $2.32-trillion in the same quarter last year, and down only slightly from a record $2.4-trillion in the fourth quarter.

The report said 31.8 million Canadians had one or more credit products in the first quarter, up 3.75 per cent year-over-year.

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Canada could face two more decades of stagnant growth, report warns

The study from Canadian financial firm Omnigence warns that Canada is headed for a “protracted bout of stagflation” in which the country will continue to suffer low growth and higher inflation.

Canada is expected to have the lowest real growth rate among countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development over the next three years.

But hey, people are really woried about the climate crisis.

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⁉️Did you know that there are so many things Trudeau loves more than Canada?

One is 'protecting' LGBTQ+ kids rights.

Keep your kids away from Trudeau.

#Trudeau
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✏️Nearly half of Canadians think Trudeau is staying on for selfish reasons: poll

Nearly half of Canadians think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is staying on as Liberal leader, despite his party lagging far behind Conservatives in polls, simply because he likes being prime minister, according to a new survey.

#Trudeau
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🚶Emigration from Canada to the U.S. hits a 10-year high as tens of thousands head south

The American Community Survey says the number of people moving from Canada to the U.S. hit 126,340 in 2022. That's an increase of nearly 70 per cent over the 75,752 people who made the move in 2012.

Of the 126,340 who emigrated from Canada to the U.S. that year, 53,311 were born in Canada, 42,595 were Americans who left here for their native land, and 30,434 were foreign-born immigrants to Canada who decided to move to the U.S. instead.

#US
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💸CBC executives, managers were paid almost $15M in bonuses

Federal documents show that CBC executives and managers in the 2023-24 fiscal year ending March 31 gave themselves $14.9 million in bonuses.

And who's funding CBC?

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NEW - Canadian MP Laurel Collins almost has an emotional breakdown and claims "climate emergencies are not gender neutral."

@disclosetv

💰Canadian economic growth slower than expected in Q1

Canadian economic growth came in slower than expected for the first quarter, strengthening the case for a possible interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada next week.

Statistics Canada said Friday the economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.7 per cent in the first three months of the year. It also revised its reading for growth in the fourth quarter of 2023 downward.

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Bloc tables bill that would make it impossible for judges to throw out delayed violent crime cases

The Bloc Québécois is proposing to use the notwithstanding clause to make it impossible for judges to throw out cases of violent and serious crimes like murder and sexual assault because of excessive delays in getting them to trial.

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💸 Nearly half a billion spent on visa-exampt asylum claims

Canada has spent nearly half a billion dollars over the last five years processing asylum claims from people who arrived in the country without a visa, a new report from the parliamentary budget officer has found.

The PBO estimates the federal government is spending $455 million processing these claims. The average cost is $16,500, but it ranged between $9,055 and $40,814.

#immigration
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💸 Federal government posts $50.9 billion deficit for 2023-24 fiscal year

The federal government ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with a deficit of $50.9 billion.

The result for the April-to-March period compared with a deficit of $41.3 billion reported for the same stretch of its 2022-23 fiscal year.

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canada's 'super pigs' are most likely to invade the US

Researchers say Canadian super pigs, a cross of between domestic pigs and wild boars, could invade the US. They can withstand more cold than wild hogs, which already cause billions in damage in the South.

A study found that northeastern Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and western parts of Minnesota are the areas in the US most vulnerable to super pig occupation.

Not exactly the power we wanted, but OK.

#US
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🏳️‍🌈🚫Blockade briefly stops Pride Parade in downtown Winnipeg

Winnipeg Pride Parade was briefly blocked by other members of LGBT community.

A group of protesters says they are demanding that Pride Winnipeg end its “complicity with genocide, divest from corporate pinkwashing, remove police from Pride, and centre QTBIPOC leadership.”

The protesters are calling on the organization to return to the political roots of Pride, adding that there’s been previous calls for accountability by Black and Indigenous peoples.

Friendly fire. Let them fight.

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B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton dies following prison attack

Convicted B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton has died in hospital.

Following an attack on May 19 by another inmate in Québec’s maximum security Port-Cartier Institution, CityNews has confirmed that Pickton has died from his injuries. He was 74 years old.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of the murders of six women. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years, the maximum sentence for second-degree murder in Canada.

#BritishColumbia #Quebec
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📉 Poll finds declining Canadian support for LGBTQ2 rights and visibility

A new poll has found declining support for LGBTQ2 in Canada.

While 49 per cent of respondents agreed with people being open about their sexual orientation or gender identity, it is a decline of 12 points from 2021.

The poll found support for LGBTQ2 people showing affection in public (kissing or holding hands) at 40 per cent, down eight points from 2021.

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Canada landed 121,620 new permanent residents in first quarter

In the first quarter of 2024, Canada welcomed 121,620 new permanent residents, of whom 52,720 came to Ontario and only 17,745 to British Columbia.

#Ontario #BritishColumbia
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❗️Some parliamentarians collaborated with China and India to further their own interests, report says

Canadian intelligence services have gathered information indicating some federal politicians are collaborating with foreign governments to advance their own interests, a new report says.

Unfortunately, the committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, ‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) said in a report. It did not indicate whether these people are MPs or senators or both.

The body declined to name the politicians.

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🏠 Trudeau ridiculed over “housing design catalogue” aimed at helping home shortage

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was mocked for his announcement of a “housing design catalogue” when asked what his government was doing to fix Canada’s housing crisis.

While exchanging barbs with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about broken promises regarding housing, Trudeau responded that among the things his government was doing to fix the shortage was launching a housing design catalogue.

#Trudeau #Poilievre #housing
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🌪A tornado was spotted in central Alberta Monday

#Alberta
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Top Canadian scientist alleges in leaked emails he was barred from studying mystery brain illness

A leading federal scientist in Canada has alleged he was barred from investigating a mystery brain illness in the province of New Brunswick and said he fears more than 200 people affected by the condition are experiencing unexplained neurological decline.

The allegations, made in leaked emails to a colleague seen by the Guardian, have emerged two years after the eastern province closed its investigation into a possible “cluster” of cases.

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