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The Niagara Independent, October 20, 2023 – In an open letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this week, the Business Council of Canada took the extraordinary step to make a public plea to the federal government to resist making any new spending promises or dole out additional funding in the fall economic update, which is…
The Niagara Independent, October 13, 2023 – The world was witness to the horror that unfolded in Israel last weekend: music festival goers gunned down, grandmothers beaten and killed, women raped then paraded in front of jeering crowds, and parents and children executed in their homes. Unconscionably barbaric. Inhumane. The reverberations of this evil were…
The Niagara Independent, October 6, 2023 – Elianna Lev, reporter for Yahoo Canada News, caused quite a stir this week when she wrote a news article on the Toronto-based grocery chain Longo’s selling a pre-cooked Thanksgiving turkey for $119.99. Longo’s had other more economical pre-cooked meals like roasted porchetta for $59.99 or a roasted turkey…
The Niagara Independent, September 1, 2023 – As Canadians enter the holiday weekend, many are financially stressed and worried about what the fall will bring for their household. To put the lot of a working Canadian into proper perspective, here is a Labour Day 2023 snapshot – statistics and facts about personal finances, presented without…
The Niagara Independent, August 25, 2023 – With each new opinion poll revealing PM Justin Trudeau and his government falling further behind their opponents, the Liberals are countering with combative rhetoric that plays to their political base. This week the prime minister and a former cabinet minister were out front of the Liberals’ offensive using…
The Niagara Independent, August 18, 2023 – Canadians can be forgiven if they missed the latest news about the country’s state of economic and social affairs. Canada’s mainstream legacy media is paying little attention to hard news and instead pumping out opinion pieces on Justin Trudeau’s “substantial” cabinet shuffle, “surprised” marital breakup, or his “private”…
The Niagara Independent, August 4 & 11, 2023 – Now eight years into his tenure as Prime Minister, it has become abundantly clear that Justin Trudeau’s promise of “sunny days” has failed to materialize. An ever-growing number of Canadians are financially strained and finding themselves caught in impossible living situations. There are numerous economic reports…
The Niagara Independent, July 28, 2023 – Somehow, someway in the past few years, the proper respect for individuals making personal choices about sex has become a debate about what sexual conversations can be had with preadolescent children without their parents’ knowledge. Our “forward thinking” Canadian society has become transfixed with arguments about use of…
It is unsettling to consider why the Trudeau government has been so evasive on a review of the facts relating to the CCP’s activities in Canada. Last month I wrote two columns detailing specific reasons why Canadians must demand a thorough investigation of the seemingly tight relationship between the Trudeau government and the CCP. Links…
The Niagara Independent, July 21, 2023 – It is a summer scorcher: Sound of Freedom. One doesn’t have a pulse if unmoved by this “must-see” film. The movie deals with the uncomfortably disturbing subject matter of child sex trafficking for prostitution and pornography. Yet, it is not subject matter as it is the political spin…
The Niagara Independent, July 14, 2023 – Although it is not openly explained to Canadians, the Trudeau government is diligently introducing policies and programs authored by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF global initiatives are championed in Canada by PM Justin Trudeau who is a celebrated national figure by the Forum’s Chairman Klaus Schwab;…
The Niagara Independent, July 7, 2023 – With much of central Canada under a heat warning this week, many of us are now feeling the heat of the summer. However, it is more than the weather that is making Canadians uncomfortable. Many are stressed with the increasing pressures felt by the rising cost of living…
The Niagara Independent, June 30, 2023 – Many Canadians now appreciate the full context of Justin Trudeau’s comment back in 2015, when he surmised that Canada would become the “first post-national state.” Having just become Prime Minister of the country, Trudeau stated in that often-quoted New York Times interview, “There is no core identity, no…
The Niagara Independent, June 16 & 23, 2023 – A week has passed since the PM’s special rapporteur David Johnston exited from the growing controversies swirling around the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence within Canada. What began with serious questions about the CCP’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections has morphed into a…
The Niagara Independent, June 9, 2023 – Earlier this week, on June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre provided yet another example of the stark contrast between the federal Liberals’ and Conservatives’ approach to foreign policy with China. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was silent on the occasion: a dark day in which armed…
The Niagara Independent, June 2, 2023 – It has been another incredible week in the Nation’s Capital with many twists to the story line of Parliament’s attempts to uncover facts about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence within Canada. Despite a cacophony of demands for an independent public inquiry into the tangled affairs of the…
The Niagara Independent, May 26, 2023 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur David Johnston issued his preliminary report this week and concluded that there is no need for a formal public inquiry into foreign interference. With his report, the PM’s longtime family friend has punted aside the substantive issues relating to the Chinese Communist…
The Niagara Independent, April 21, 2023 – This week 155,000 federal public servants went out on strike for unrealistic wage increases and to further feather their nest of entitlements. For the many Canadians who are presently struggling through serious economic and standard of living challenges, the bureaucrats’ strike is incredibly tone deaf and out-of-touch with…
The Niagara Independent, April 14, 2023 – It has been another week that has felt like the country has been written into a Far Side comic strip. With each news headline, Justin Trudeau and his senior-most ministers challenge Canadians’ willing suspension of disbelief. With its latest crisis involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) piled onto…
The Niagara Independent, April 7, 2023 –Can you hear that endless laughter from behind the closed doors of the Prime Minister’s Office? If anything, the past few weeks have proven that PM Justin Trudeau and his political operatives take Canadians for fools. Their audacious announcements and admissions are outrageous. “Canadians won’t criticize a former GG,…