🎓Foreign student clampdown on track to halve arrivals to Canada

If application numbers and approval rates seen in the first four months of this year remain constant throughout 2024, the number of approved study permits could drop to 229,000. That’s a 48 per cent drop from 436,678 permits approved last year.

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🏠 Average asking rents in Canada reach record $2,202 in May, says new report

A new report says the average asking rent for a home in Canada hit a record $2,202 in May, up 9.3 per cent compared with a year ago and 0.6 per cent from the previous month.

Based on the report, the average asking rent for a one-bedroom unit in Canada was $1,927 in May, up 10.7 per cent from a year ago, while the average asking price for a two-bedroom unit was $2,334, up 12.1 per cent.

#housing
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🇨🇦🇱🇧Canada reportedly preparing to evacuate 45,000 citizens from Lebanon amid war fears

Canada is preparing a massive evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon should a full-scale war break out between Israel and Hezbollah.

The report quotes from a conversation held Friday between Foreign Minister Israel Katz and his Canadian counterpart Mélanie Joly.

The report says the conversation was tense and that Joly told Katz that the Canadian military was drawing up plans to evacuate 45,000 people from Lebanon.

#Lebanon
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Foreign nationals can no longer apply for work permits at the U.S.-Canada border

Foreign nationals will no longer be able to apply for a Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) at the U.S.-Canada border, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Friday.

Miller said the move was being implemented to curtail something known as “flagpoling,” which is when some temporary residents of Canada bypass the normal wait times involved in applying for a work or study permit online by leaving the country and then immediately re-entering to receive same-day immigration services.

#US
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🩺 People are walking out of Quebec ERs before being treated, study confirms

The number of patients who left Quebec emergency rooms last year before being seen by medical personnel grew compared with five years earlier, a study by the Montreal Economic Institute has concluded.

The study found that during 11 months spanning 2023-2024, 3.2 million patients went to Quebec ERs, and 11.5 per cent of them — 376,460 people — left before they had been seen by a health care professional.

#Quebec #healthcare
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📹Apocalyptic footage from Victoria, BC.

Regret decriminalization yet?

#BritishColumbia
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Alberta’s opposition NDP picks ex-Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as leader

Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi will lead the opposition New Democratic Party in Canada’s oil-rich province Alberta, the party announced in a live-streamed meeting on Saturday.

Nenshi’s parents immigrated to Canada from Tanzania, and he was the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city.

#Alberta
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Maximum-security prison that held killers Magnotta, Pickton evacuated due to wildfires

A maximum-security prison in Quebec that has held notorious murderers including Luka Rocco Magnotta and Robert Pickton has been evacuated due to the intensification of nearby forest fires, Correctional Service Canada has confirmed.

A release issued Sunday says inmates at the Port-Cartier Institution were “successfully moved” to other secure federal correctional facilities after an evacuation order was issued for the City of Port-Cartier, Que., on Friday.

#Quebec #wildfires
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❌Canada Day parade in Montreal cancelled

The annual Canada Day parade in Montreal has been cancelled less than two weeks before the event, due to alleged bureaucratic issues between the organizer and the city.

The event’s organizer, Nicholas Cowen, claims “difficulties with local government leaders” were to blame when trying to coordinate the July 1 parade that’s been held since 1977.

#Quebec
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Ottawa split on plan to let undocumented migrants apply to stay in Canada

The proposal – which would include allowing rejected asylum claimants and former international students with expired study permits to apply to remain in Canada – was presented by Mr. Miller to cabinet before MPs began their summer recess.

But Mr. Miller said no conclusion about introducing a broad “regularization” program for migrants who have been in Canada for several years has yet been made and that discussions between ministers are continuing.

The country is being suffocated by migrants and the government is thinking of ways to allow more illegals to stay.

#immigration
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🖊Majority of millennials, Gen Z don't support Trudeau's internet regulation plans: poll

The poll, released Monday, finds that less than half of Canadians aged 18 to 39 say they “support the government’s new rules to regulate the web, podcasts, streaming and social media to restrict offensive speech and online harms.”

Only 44 per cent say they support the initiatives. The majority either disagree with the policies (39 per cent) or don’t know (16 per cent).

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⚡🗳Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the longtime federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul's

Don Stewart garnered 42.1% of the vote, beating Liberal candidate Leslie Church (40.5%).

#Ontario
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Boy, 14, charged with 1st-degree murder in Etobicoke mass shooting

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in a mass shooting that left two men dead and three others injured earlier this month, Toronto police say.

The accused has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

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📈Canada's population forecast to reach 63 million, as people over 85 set to triple

New projections by Statistics Canada suggest the nation's population could reach 63 million by 2073, with the number of people aged 85 or older set to triple.

The agency says migration will be the key driver of population increase under all scenarios.

There will be no other scenarios until the government stops treating immigrants as their dearest friends.

#immigration
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🇨🇦🇨🇳Canada expresses concern about Xinjiang rights to local leaders

Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

A 2022 report by the then U.N. human rights chief said China's treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, in the country's far west, could constitute crimes against humanity. Beijing denies the allegations.

Virtue signaling becomes the unofficial norm. Remember when Trudeau "educated" Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on LGBT rights?

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Trudeau on the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection results:

These are not easy times, and it is clear I, and my entire Liberal team, have much more work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians can see and feel. We’ll never stop working and fighting to make sure people have what they need to get through these tough times. My focus is on your success, and that’s where it’s going to stay.

Cope.

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💸📈Inflation ticked up to 2.9% in May

Canada's annual inflation rate edged up to 2.9 per cent in May — an increase from 2.7 per cent in April — mostly due to higher prices for services, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.

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RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says he hopes the names of MPs suspected of aiding foreign states aren’t disclosed because it could jeopardize international partnerships.

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🇨🇦🇭🇹Canada announces an additional $5.7 million in funding for Haiti

Today Melanie Joly announced that Canada will provide an additional $5.7 million for the security mission in Haiti. This is in addition to the $80.5 million announced in February of this year.

No better way to spend tax money than to waste it.

#Haiti
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