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01 Canadian Cancer Society apologizes for not calling cervix “front hole” in non-binary disclaimer
On a web page dedicated to cervical cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society is apologizing for referring to the cervix by its technical name rather than euphemisms such as “front hole.”
Trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people face significant barriers to accessing healthcare and are less likely than cisgender people to be screened for cancer.
What kind of a hole is Trudeau? Do we need a disclamer for that?
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02 🇨🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸Israel denies link to Islamophobic campaign in Canada that Meta says originated there
The Israeli government is being accused in published reports of involvement in an operation aimed at reducing support for Palestinians in Canada that was flagged by artificial intelligence researchers.
#Israel #Palestine
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03 🏠 70 per cent of new housing demand in Ontario last year came from newcomers
Some 70 per cent of the demand for housing in Ontario over the last year came from newcomers to Canada, an analysis of data from expert Mike Moffatt shows, raising questions about how governments are preparing to accommodate surging population growth as the country grapples with an affordability crisis largely driven by rising home prices.
#Ontario
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04 🇨🇦Chrystia Freeland dismisses a new report showing Canadians are paying more because of the Liberals' carbon tax, saying it's "been a great week for Canada" because the Edmonton Oilers are in the Stanley Cup finals
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05 🚫Liberals blocking access to 1,000-plus documents, says intel-oversight panel reviewing foreign interference
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) said that it is still fighting the Liberal government to obtain all the documents it requires to fulfill its mandate as an intelligence agency watchdog.
The committee noted that despite being granted access to four documents covered by cabinet confidence last year as part of its review of foreign interference in Canada, it was blocked from accessing hundreds of others.
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06 🚙 Insurance claims for Toronto auto thefts up 561 per cent since 2018 as claims in Ontario surpass $1 billion
Insurance claims due to auto theft have skyrocketed in the Greater Toronto Area and across Ontario over the past few years, new data shows.
Auto theft claims in Toronto jumped from a little over $56 million in 2018 to nearly $372 million in 2023, an increase of 561 per cent.
That closely matches the increase across the province, with auto theft claims topping $1 billion in Ontario last year for the first time, a 524 per cent increase compared to five years ago.
#Ontario
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07 🏦 Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 4.75%
The Bank of Canada has lowered its key interest rate to 4.75 per cent, marking the bank's first rate cut since March 2020.
Economists were largely expecting the move. The inflation rate has moved closer to the bank's two per cent goal in recent months, coming in at 2.7 per cent in April, with the bank's preferred core measures of inflation also easing throughout the spring.
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08 🌱❌Ottawa declines to release secret internal analysis of economic effects of carbon pricing
The Liberal government is declining to release its internal analysis of the economic impacts of carbon pricing and refusing to say why it is keeping the data secret, even as it criticizes the federal budget watchdog for an error in its analysis of the policy.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux disclosed to a House of Commons committee on Monday that the government has internal analysis of the economic impacts of its consumer and industrial carbon pricing programs that it is keeping under wraps.
He said the federal government’s findings are largely in line with those of his office: that there is overall a net negative impact from the pricing regimes.
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09 📉🇨🇦🇺🇸Canadian economy underperforms US, largest gap on record
Canadian per-capita real GDP falling significantly short of the U.S. since 2019, with a gap growing 10% by Q1. The gap is now the widest on record, going back to at least 1965, the earliest data readily available.
Economic performance has generally been in sync between the two countries in the past because of their close relationship, along with inflation trends. But more recently, the Canadian economy has started to severely and persistently underperform.
#US
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10 ❌Government won't commit to releasing names of MPs who allegedly conspired with foreign actors
Senior cabinet ministers wouldn't say Tuesday if the government is prepared to release the names of parliamentarians who are alleged to have conspired with foreign governments and to have consciously shared sensitive information with their agents — conduct that one expert says could amount to treason.
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11 💰Foreign streamers must pay into fund to boost Canadian content
Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system, the country's telecoms regulator said on Tuesday.
The money will be used to boost funding for local and Indigenous broadcasting, officials from CRTC said in a briefing.
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12 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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13 🌪A tornado was spotted in central Alberta Monday
#Alberta
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14 🏠 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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15 ❗️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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16 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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17 📉 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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18 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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19 🏳️🌈🚫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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20 🇨🇦🇺🇸 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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21 💸 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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22 💸 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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23 💸 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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24 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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25 💰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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26 NEW - Canadian MP Laurel Collins almost has an emotional breakdown and claims "climate emergencies are not gender neutral."
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27 💸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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28 🚶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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29 ✏️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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30 ⁉️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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31 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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32 💳 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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33 🦌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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34 🏠Trudeau and Ford governments reach $357M deal in federal funds for affordable housing
Ottawa and Queen’s Park have reached a deal ensuring $357 million in federal funds will flow to the province to build affordable housing.
#Ontario #housing
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35 ⁉️Did you know that there are so many things Trudeau loves more than Canada?
One is celebrating other cultures instead of his own. This photo just screams: “I'm so liberal and open-minded, please vote for me.”
#Trudeau
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36 💸Tamara Lich reveals Ontario still withholding $5.5 million raised by Freedom Convoy
Freedom Convoy protestor Tamara Lich revealed in a recent interview that the Ontario government is still withholding funds sent by supporters of the 2022 protest to Give Send Go.
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37 B.C. First Nation now referring to 215 suspected graves as 'anomalies' instead of 'children'
Three years after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc first published the explosive news that they had uncovered the graves of 215 children, the First Nation is now officially referring to the 215 as “anomalies” rather than confirmed graves.
People would make up fewer stories if they actually had to answer for them.
#BritishColumbia
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38 🇨🇦🇨🇳 China can’t use Canada as trade path for cheap goods, Freeland says
Canada absolutely recognizes that China has an intentional, state-directed economic policy which is leading to overcapacity and oversupply in specific sectors. We cannot let Canadian industry be wiped out by Chinese oversupply and overcapacity.
Freeland told reporters.
She pointed out Canada also has a free trade agreement with every other Group of Seven country, and suggested China could try to exploit those connections.
Canada will not be a country through which there can be transshipment, and we’re very mindful of that.
Also Freeland: 💭Maybe if I blame it all on China, no one will notice that I'm doing a bad job.
#China
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39 🇨🇦🇮🇳🇺🇸 Undocumented Indian migrants chart new path to US via Canada
In fiscal year 2023, U.S. border agents encountered nearly 97,000 undocumented Indian migrants nationwide, including more than 30,000 at the northern border, according to data from the Customs and Border Patrol or CBP.
In recent months, the numbers have continued largely unabated. Between October 2023 and February 2024, nearly 14,000 Indians were encountered at the U.S.-Canada border.
#US #India
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40 Shrinkflation in Canada: 11 startling examples of how companies are selling less for the same price
Shrinkflation doesn't surprise me. I'd be concerned if the products started weighing more. That would mean they started adding bugs.
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On a web page dedicated to cervical cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society is apologizing for referring to the cervix by its technical name rather than euphemisms such as “front hole.”
OTTAWA – The Israeli government is being accused in published reports of involvement in an operation aimed at reducing support for Palestinians in Canada that was flagged by artificial intelligence researchers. Israel rejects the claim, being reported by the New York Times and Israeli newspaper Haaretz, that it’s behind the social-media influence campaign, in which researchers say North Americans are being targeted with Islamophobic content. Accounts bearing the name United Citizens for Canada posted content portraying Canadian Muslims as threatening Western values, and suggesting pro-Palestinian protesters in Canada were seeking to implement Shariah law. The Digital Forensic Research Lab, a […]
“If the federal government or the provinces encourages more international students, there’s nothing in place to really build more student residences or anything like that. Historically, we’ve treated these policies as really in isolation and that’s led to big growth in the population without resulted growth in the housing.”
OTTAWA – Two days after publishing an alarming report on foreign interference in Canada, an intelligence agency oversight committee says the federal government is trying to avoid disclosing information by “inappropriately” withholding over a thousand documents.
Insurance claims due to auto theft have skyrocketed in the Greater Toronto Area and across Ontario over the past few years, new data from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (ICB) shows.
The Bank of Canada has lowered its key interest rate to 4.75 per cent.
The Conservatives seized on Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux’s disclosure that the federal government has internal findings that it is keeping under wraps
Senior cabinet ministers wouldn't say Tuesday if the government is prepared to release the names of parliamentarians who are alleged to have conspired with foreign governments and to have consciously shared sensitive information with their agents — conduct that one expert says could amount to treason.