No chance Housing Minister Sean Fraser will reach target of 3.9 million new housing starts by 2031, Residential Construction Council of Ontario tells Commons committee.
blacklocks.ca/no-chance-of-m… RESCON #cdnpoli #onpoli Olivia Chow

“I do not want their vote.”
IRCC Minister Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ tells Commons committee he wants no votes from friends of Israel who equate criticism with anti-Semitism.
blacklocks.ca/i-do-not-want-… #cdnpoli

Research Privy Council Office finds B.C. residents opposed short-lived cabinet experiment with decriminalization of cocaine & opioids. All residents surveyed,including recovered drug addicts, “believed this was a step in the wrong direction”
blacklocks.ca/100-opposed-sa… #cdnpoli Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס

Old Age Security cheques for Canadians living abroad cost taxpayers more than $686 million last year, up 11% from 2022. Payments went to 154,678 pensioners living in U.S., Mexico and overseas.
blacklocks.ca/686m-mailed-to… #cdnpoli

AUDIT Shared Services Canada: Federal agencies spent $253,832/month on unused government-issue cellphones assigned to employees working from home.
blacklocks.ca/91000-cellphon… #cdnpoli

Host Richard Syrett:
“ADM Environment Canada John Moffet admits carbon tax has no impact on most GHG emissions while Minister Steven Guilbeault claims emissions cut by a third. Do they compare notes?”

PODCAST: Blacklock’s and @Sauga960AM

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Good news.

“Having chosen to gaslight rather than listen to people who actually know what they are talking about, the Trudeau government’s Online News Act is now actively killing Canadian news media.”

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Pascale St-Onge Canadian Heritage #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

Canada’s IRB Canada Board has backlog of 180,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers asking to remain in Canada, officials disclosed Senate of Canada committee hearing.
“Good God,” said one senator.
blacklocks.ca/asylum-backlog… Senator Ratna Omidvar

Cabinet ministers have been “drinking wine and schnapps” with Jewish diplomats in Ottawa instead of condemning Israeli war crimes, Charlie Angus tells Commons.
blacklocks.ca/drink-schnapps… #cdnpoli

#Pharmacare bill is “like a burlap sack,” the “lowest common denominator with holes in it,” says 250,000-member Canadian Association of Retired Persons CARP.
blacklocks.ca/finds-holes-in… #cdnpoli

Commons today expected to pass ban on federally regulated employers’ use of replacement workers in case of strike or lockout. Bill then proceeds to Senate of Canada.
“It sends a powerful message”
— Kevin Lamoureux
blacklocks.ca/commons-to-pas… #cdnpoli

Lowering usury rates from 48 to 35% is insufficient, says Liberal-appointed senator.
“Most people say that’s still criminal.”
— Hassan Yussuff
blacklocks.ca/usury-rate-sti… #cdnpoli

Photo flashback. From the federal election campaign bus of 1993. Television cameramen carried the phones in their kit bags because they were heavy and considered to be equipment. #cdnpoli

When people tell you they think journalists should not be paid, believe them. They’re anti-copyright trolls supporting the government’s legal fight to weaken #cdnmedia paywalls.

Terence Corcoran Conrad Black Tristin Hopper CIPPIC Kevin Libin
Carson Jerema Michael Geist

May 25, 1832. Rideau Canal NHS, Parks Canada builder Colonel John By was celebrating his magnificent accomplishment by sailing from Kingston to ByTown (Ottawa). At the same moment England issued a memorandum recalling By because he’d overspent by 19%. He died 4 years later in disgrace, age 53.

This dude has 72K followers & not an ounce of integrity, directing users to pirate sources for books. That he’s comfortable openly doing this, & has a platform for doing so, tells us a lot about what’s ailing society.
⁦The Authors Guild⁩ ⁦Association of American Publishers⁩ ⁦if you can’t find John Degen, look in the lake

Universities are now a leading source of anti-Semitism professors tell Commons justice committee.
“It has reached crisis levels.”
— Cary Kogan Social Sciences Sociales
blacklocks.ca/campuses-lead-… Deidre Butler Jaime Kirzner-Roberts Melissa Lantsman Anthony Housefather #cdnpoli

No Canadian should lose workplace drug coverage under national #pharmacare plan, says Health Canada and PHAC Minister.
Remarks contradict insurers’ claims pharmacare Bill #C64 may disrupt coverage for millions.
blacklocks.ca/promises-drug-… #cdnpoli