TORONTO – Some Canadian provinces are more “loved” than others by immigrants to Canada: it emerges from a new report by Statistics Canada, entitled “Provincial variation in the retention rates of immigrants, 2022”, which compared the percentages of immigrants present in the provinces one and five years after admission to Canada. The years examined are 2012 and 2016. (more…)
TORONTO – It’s a joke. On the one hand, the federal government has been pushing for months to convince large food distribution companies to adopt a “code of conduct” to regulate prices, threatening them with “penalizing measures”. On the other hand, the same food companies, in turn, declare: “I would gladly adopt the code of conduct, but all the other companies must also adopt it, otherwise nothing will be done”. And, of course, nothing changes. And prices continue to rise. (more…)
TORONTO – As often happens, Biblical passages become reference points as we grope in the dark for some explanation of why “things happen”, to justify our collective outrage or to “beg for common ground”. The headline is an appeal to act according to sense of “common decency” for the “common goo d”.
OTTAWA – NDP tries to stand up and to be counted: this seems to be the goal of the initiative by Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP, who sent all members an e-mail asking for support on a sort of “ultimatum” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: pharmacare by March 1st or everyone at home. Technical evidence of a crisis, in short, with Singh who, despite attacking Trudeau on a daily basis, continues to keep the Liberal minority government alive with the votes of the NDP, keeping his feet in two shoes: majority and opposition. (more…)
TORONTO – Who knows? February 8, 2024, may be the turning point in Israeli-US relations, The clues are in two press conference – one by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Tel Aviv, the other by President Joe Biden in Washington.
