Canadian businessman Frank Stronach charged in sex assault probe

Well-known Canadian businessman Frank Stronach has been arrested and charged in a sexual assault investigation, according to Peel Regional Police.

Police said Stronach, 91, of Aurora, Ont., was arrested in Peel Region, west of Toronto, on Friday and charged with five offences, including rape, indecent assault on a female, two counts of sexual assault and forcible confinement.

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🚶A third of B.C. residents are considering leaving the province: poll

One-in-three British Columbians are seriously considering leaving the province for more affordable housing, according to a new survey.

Angus Reid Institute conducted the study and found that half of 18- to 34-year-olds and more than two-in-five 35- to 54-year-olds say they are seriously thinking of leaving the province because of the cost of housing.

Vancouver, Burnaby, Victoria, and Kelowna all rank among the 12 most expensive cities to rent in Canada, while purchase prices follow a similar trend, according to the Angus Reid Institute.

#BritishColumbia
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🇨🇦🇫🇷🗳 After the European Parliamentary elections, in which right-wing parties performed well, Trudeau gave a speech about being alarmed by the growing right-wing sentiment.

Trudeau is right to be worried, because he's next.

#Trudeau #France
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💰Ottawa to give Quebec $750 million for surge in temporary immigrants

Ottawa says it will give Quebec $750 million to help pay for a surge in temporary immigrants to the province, while committing to process asylum claims more quickly and better distribute would-be refugees across the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier François Legault met in Quebec City in response to the premier's demands that Ottawa reduce the number of temporary immigrants in the province and pay the costs linked to housing and caring for them and their children.

Legault had been asking Ottawa for $1 billion to cover costs incurred from 2021 to 2023.

#Quebec #immigration
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Trudeau gets booed after gaslighting people on inflation and carbon tax, laughs like a retard. Watch for free.

#Trudeau
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Alberta appeals to Ottawa for more support on immigration amid continuing population boom

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters Monday that the province continues to see strong population growth with as many as 20 per cent of those new to Canada choosing to live in Alberta.

She added that the federal government could do more to help those persons as well as the provincial government defray the costs of settling in a new home.

#Alberta #immigration
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🔎Federal parties agree to ask commissioner to investigate treason allegations in watchdog report

The federal government is calling on Justice Marie-Josée Hogue to investigate allegations of treason by current and former parliamentarians contained in last week’s alarming report from a national security committee.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told MPs on Monday that the Liberals would be supporting a motion brought forward by the Bloc Québécois to expand the Hogue Commission’s terms of reference “to allow it to investigate Canada’s federal democratic institutions,” including former and current MPs and senators.

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💰'Frustrated' B.C. premier says Quebec gets immigration money 'at the expense' of Western Canada

Federal immigration money is being “showered down” on Ontario and Quebec “at the expense” of Western Canada, British Columbia Premier David Eby said.

Eby said that Ottawa’s offer of $750 million to Quebec to help pay for a surge in temporary residents there is frustrating, and B.C. should also get a share.

According to Eby, there are 10,000 people coming to British Columbia every 37 days, refugees have to stay in homeless shelters and international students don’t have support.

#BritishColumbia #immigration
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Liberal plan passes with backing of other parties

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party opposed the Liberals' plan to increase Canada's capital gains inclusion rate on Tuesday, in a vote that still passed with the backing of the NDP and Bloc Quebecois.

The motion, paving the way for the Liberals to advance legislation to change Canada's tax laws accordingly, cleared the House of Commons by a vote of 208 to 118.

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Marc Miller defends $750M in immigration funding for Quebec, says B.C. premier was 'confused'

B.C. Premier David Eby was "confused" about the facts when he criticized the federal government this week for giving Quebec $750 million to manage asylum seekers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday.

I think perhaps there is some confusion on the premier's behalf as to what this money was for. The suggestion was it was for temporary residents. That is absolutely not the case.

[The funding is ] to compensate Quebec for two fiscal years of costs they've incurred for the disproportionate flow of asylum seekers. I think perhaps he was confused about what the money was for.

#immigration #Quebec #BritishColumbia
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Singh pledges to eject NDP members if they colluded with foreign governments

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will kick any MP who knowingly worked with a foreign government to undermine Canada out of his caucus.

He said he is planning to read a national-security watchdog report, released last week, that revealed some parliamentarians have been collaborating with foreign governments for their own benefit.

He promised to take action if New Democrat MPs turn up in the report. No names have yet been released.

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Toronto unemployment hits 317k people, more than all of Quebec

Over the past year, the unemployment rate in Torono climbed 1.0 point (+83.8k people) to 7.9% (317.2k people) as of May. About 1 in 3 of Canada’s unemployment gains over the past year is in the region, which now has more unemployed people than the whole province of Quebec (241.2k people).

#Ontario
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Marc Miller says he's tired of people 'blaming immigrants for absolutely everything'

Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday he was “quite tired of the fact that people are always blaming immigrants for absolutely everything,” after Quebec Premier François Legault attributed “100 per cent of the housing problem” to the increase in the number of people arriving on a temporary basis.

The increase in mortgages, in mortgage prices, has nothing to do with immigrants.

he said.

Is he saying it's all the government's fault?

#immigration
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Poilievre is the sole party leader forgoing access to classified report on foreign interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the only federal party leader foregoing access to a classified national security and intelligence watchdog’s report that says the country’s intelligence services believe some parliamentarians are “semi-witting or witting” participants in foreign-interference efforts.

Initially, Mr. Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet both rejected offers for the access to classified reports because they said it would muzzle their public efforts to hold the government to account. However, in the last week, top intelligence officials have said that secrecy rules would not prevent leaders from acting on the information they receive.

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🇨🇦🇮🇳Canada shares more information with India on Sikh murder case

Canada and India have increased their security exchanges in recent months over the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, including visits to India by senior Canadian officials to share a robust set of evidence on the case, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

But diplomatic relations between the two countries remain in a deep freeze ahead of the Group of Seven leaders summit in Italy this week, where both Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in attendance.

#India
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🎯Canadian media a target for foreign interference: national security committee chair

All forms of media, including mainstream media, are being subjected to interference by bad actors, Liberal MP David McGuinty said.

The media was singled out in a recent report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which McGuinty chairs. The document highlights how China and India are interfering with Canadian media content through direct engagement with journalists and media executives.

#China #India
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Damage done by 2024 wildfire season well below average so far, federal officials say

Canada's wildfire season is off to a slow start, with the number of hectares burned so far this year still below the ten-year average, senior government officials and ministers said in Ottawa Wednesday.

Last year at this time, almost three million hectares of forest had been destroyed by wildfires. Canada has lost just 500,000 hectares to fire so far this year.

#wildfires
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🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada to send around 2,000 decommissioned CRV7 rocket motors to Ukraine

The Liberal government says it will start shipping decommissioned CRV7 rocket motors to Ukraine. National Defence said in a press release Thursday Canada will send an “initial tranche” of around 2,000 rocket motors.

Canada will also donate 29 surplus Nanuk remote weapons systems and more than 130,000 rounds of surplus small-arms ammunition.

How much of it will be wasted?

#Ukraine
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🇨🇦🇺🇦🇷🇺 Canada contributing $5 billion to new G7 deal being finalized to help Ukraine using frozen Russian assets

I can never get enough hugs from you.

- Trudeau told Zelenskyy at G7.

#Ukraine #Russia
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💰The U.S., with Canada's support, has proposed using the interest on roughly 200 billion euros in frozen Russian assets held mostly in Europe to secure a $50 billion US bank loan for ongoing support for Ukraine.

Trudeau first made the pitch to use seized Russian Central Bank assets in February during a G7 call, the government said. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland last month encouraged G7 finance ministers in Italy to use the assets to help pay for Ukraine's recovery.

#Ukraine #Russia
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