Category: English

Stricter rules for House of Commons guests to avoid further embarrassment

OTTAWA – The Speaker of the House of Commons, Greg Fergus, is implementing the guidelines for the “evaluation” of possible guests at the House of Commons: a measure that will be taken to avoid further embarrassment after, in recent months, parliamentarians made a standing ovation for the Ukrainian “veteran” Yaroslav Hunka, only discovering later that in his youth he had fought for a division of the Nazi “SS”.  (more…)

Hammering Away at Housing Affordability: Recommendations from the Senate

Senator Loffreda writes about Canada’s housing affordability crisis and shares some of the recommendations from a report that the Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy recently published on the matter. 

“People who live without a house are not homeless because of their ancestry or because of mental health or addictions or because they live in poverty.  They are homeless because there is not enough affordable housing in their community.” 

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Dundas Square, 3 million dollars to change a name. Iacobelli writes to Nunziata and the Councillor advocates for residents of York – South Weston

TORONTO – “Toronto’s city council has made the stupid and tax payer wasteful decision to change the name of Dundas Square. It will cost at least 3 million dollars, when the city is already in debt. Of course, by then, the figure will surely be much higher. But that doesn’t faze the city councillors. The important thing is to make woke decisions and to virtue signal…”: Lou Iacobelli wrote this letter on the blog “Everyday For Life Canada”, explaining that “the name Dundas was taken from the 18 century Scottish politician Henry Dundas. Who was Henry Dundas you ask? The man was an abolitionist who actually worked to end the slave trade and actually helped to bring an end to slavery. But not fast enough, for the comfortable and woke of today who just want to send out the right moral signals. Toronto’s politically correct elites will not let history, facts or truth get in the way of their progressive narrative…”. 

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City of Toronto receives $471 million from the Government of Canada to create 11,780 new affordable homes

TORONTO – 471 million dollars from the Government of Canada to the City of Toronto to create 11,780 new homes: the funding was announced today by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Olivia Chow, together with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and the Ministers of Housing, Sean Fraser, at a joint press conference held at 1555-1575 Queen St. E., a Toronto Community Housing site under revitalization where new affordable RGI (Rent-Geared-to-Income) housing will be created (in the pic above, from Twitter X – @MayorOliviaChow). (more…)