Niagara_Independent – By George Journal

A Canadian Christmas Carol

cgacomm@gmail.comDecember 13, 2025December 20, 2025012 mins

A Christmas story by Chris George With apologies to Charles Dickens and the wondrous legacy of The Christmas Carol, here is a modern day story of the spirit Jacob Marley, who last evening visited a weary Canadian — a cynical soul who has lost all hope for his nation and its promise. As Marley successfully illuminated the crevices of Ebenezer Scrooge’s heart of stone, he appears this Christmas Eve to forewarn our Canadian (let’s call him Canuck) that there needs to be a spiritual reawakening to appreciate and ensure all that is possible for…

Deconstructing Canada (6-part series)

cgacomm@gmail.comMay 15, 2024September 13, 202412 mins

Deconstructing Canada Justin Trudeau’s eight-year record Robbing From Future Canadians Trudeau’s perversion of justice Trudeau’s degradation of Parliament Sabotaging natural resources development This nation is now “irrelevant” in world affairs This six-part series originally ran in The Niagara Independent, November – December 2023. Chris George is an advocate, government relations advisor, and writer/copy editor….

Access to primary care is a priority concern for Canadians

cgacomm@gmail.comMarch 3, 2024September 13, 2024015 mins

The Niagara Independent, March 1, 2024 – On a personal note I am pleased to be at the keyboard today pounding out my weekly federal news column for the Niagara Independent. On Sunday I was hospitalized with a gallbladder attack complicated by pancreatitis when a wayward stone(s) lodged in my pancreas. It has been a…

Liberal-NDP electoral reform legislation for the 2025 election – watch for it

cgacomm@gmail.comFebruary 25, 2024September 12, 2024013 mins

The Niagara Independent, February 23, 2024 – The next federal election in October 2025 (should the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply deal hold) may feature increased use of mail-in ballots, a three-day voting period, and the ability to vote at any polling place. The political backrooms of the Liberals and NDPs are currently negotiating these measures behind closed doors….

Another scandal – perhaps “the last nail in the coffin”

cgacomm@gmail.comFebruary 18, 2024September 13, 2024017 mins

The Niagara Independent, February 16, 2024 – “…this is probably some of the worst financial record-keeping that I’ve seen… Overall, this audit shows a glaring disregard for basic management and contracting practices throughout ArriveCan’s development and implementation,” observed Auditor General Karen Hogan at a Monday press conference. Hogan was reporting on her audit of the ArriveCan…

The latest political numbers out of Ottawa

cgacomm@gmail.comFebruary 11, 2024September 13, 2024013 mins

The Niagara Independent, February 9, 2024 – “A week is a long time in politics,” observed former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. For Canadians, there are 88 weeks before the next federal election, scheduled for October 20, 2025. That’s a very long time given the latest political numbers out of Ottawa. On Feb. 4, a national…

Liberals putting lipstick on “a very ugly carbon tax pig”

cgacomm@gmail.comFebruary 3, 2024September 12, 2024014 mins

The Niagara Independent, February 2, 2024 – The Liberal government is looking to rebrand the carbon tax, wanting to enhance the promotion of their quarterly rebate cheques. They want to re-explain the significance of their “carbon pricing system” because, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confessed, the Liberals are losing the communications battle on the…

The WEF casts a long shadow across Canada

cgacomm@gmail.comJanuary 28, 2024May 18, 2025012 mins

The Niagara Independent, January 26, 2024 – Last week 3,000 business, academic and government leaders met at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) international conference in the ski resort town of Davos Switzerland. There were over 100 governments and more than 1,000 global companies in attendance, as were the leading technocrats from the United Nations (UN),…

Trudeau government’s policies exacerbating Canadians’ affordability crisis

cgacomm@gmail.comJanuary 21, 2024May 18, 2025014 mins

The Niagara Independent, January 19, 2024 – After eight years of the Trudeau Liberal government managing the Canadian economy, Canadians are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis. While this crisis is being felt by citizens in countries around the world, the Trudeau government’s policies are exacerbating the tight financial situation most Canadians find themselves…

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The number one issue for Canadians in 2024: The unaffordable cost of living

cgacomm@gmail.comJanuary 14, 2024February 3, 2024014 mins

The Niagara Independent, January 12, 2024 – Canadians enter this year with a high level of anxiety and mounting financial strain that many have never experienced. There is a pervasive worry about the unaffordable cost of living. The bromides offered by PM Justin Trudeau and the governing Liberals provide no relief for individuals and families…

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Trudeau’s and Poilievre’s mudslinging to be caked on in 2024

cgacomm@gmail.comJanuary 7, 2024February 3, 2024015 mins

The Niagara Independent, January 5, 2024 – Canadians enter the new year in an anxious mood, many wondering about their personal finances and a growing number worrying about the state of their country. From the year-end interviews of Canada’s federal political leaders one thing is certain: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre…

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This nation is now “irrelevant” in world affairs: Deconstructing Canada (part 6)

cgacomm@gmail.comDecember 24, 2023December 26, 2023015 mins

The Niagara Independent, December 22, 2023 – Canada has seemingly become a personification of its Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. It is insufferably egotistical with its virtual signaling and boastful bromides such as “The world needs more Canada.” Collectively, Canadians are blissfully naïve about global affairs and, at the same time, are accepting of the government’s…

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Sabotaging natural resources development: Deconstructing Canada (part 5)

cgacomm@gmail.comDecember 17, 2023December 17, 2023016 mins

The Niagara Independent, December 15, 2023 – To understand the Trudeau government’s natural resources development approach, one must first know that Justin Trudeau and a core group of his ministers and senior staff are champions of an evolving global order fixated on managing the economies of countries with a stated quest to address climate change….

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Trudeau’s degradation of Parliament: Deconstructing Canada (part 4)

cgacomm@gmail.comDecember 10, 2023December 17, 2023013 mins

The Niagara Independent, December 8, 2023 – Through eight years, the governing Liberals have methodically undermined the authority of Parliament and strategically weakened the underpinnings of the country’s sovereignty. The Trudeau Liberals are operating today as if they are unaccountable to the Canadian citizenry; they are too intent on transforming Canada into a post-national state…

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Trudeau’s perversion of justice: Deconstructing Canada (part 3)

cgacomm@gmail.comDecember 3, 2023December 17, 2023014 mins

The Niagara Independent, December 1, 2023 – Justice in a post-national state is at the behest of the country’s Leader. Not that the country’s legal system has yet devolved into a totalitarian chokehold on justice, but unquestionably, in the last eight years, Canada has shifted from its foundational notions of “peace, order, and good government.”…

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Robbing From Future Canadians: Deconstructing Canada (part 2)

cgacomm@gmail.comNovember 26, 2023November 29, 2023011 mins

The Niagara Independent, November 24, 2023 – Perhaps there is no greater harm done by Justin Trudeau and his eight years as Prime Minister than robbing future generations of Canadians of their standard of living. The Trudeau government has spent senselessly, ladening Canadians with a debt load that will take decades to pay off. Trudeau’s…

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Justin Trudeau’s eight-year record: Deconstructing Canada (part 1)

cgacomm@gmail.comNovember 19, 2023November 29, 2023015 mins

The Niagara Independent, November 17, 2023 – Another miserable, embarrassing week for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. There was another poll, this one by Leger, that shows two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Trudeau and his government, and one in two Canadians want him to resign before the next election. One in five…

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Liberals’ carbon tax is an oppressive, ineffectual tax

cgacomm@gmail.comNovember 12, 2023November 19, 2023013 mins

The Niagara Independent, November 10, 2023 – If anything, the events of the past two weeks have revealed the Liberals’ carbon tax is a political ploy and not a tool to fight climate change as they claim it is. The carbon tax is simply another tax on Canadians, not “a price on pollution.” And this…

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There’s a lot to unpack with the Liberals’ immigration plans

cgacomm@gmail.comNovember 5, 2023November 6, 2023014 mins

The Niagara Independent, November 3, 2023 – Immigration Minister Marc Miller was centre stage in Ottawa this week announcing the government’s new immigration targets for the next three years. Miller’s revelation was that the new numbers are the old numbers – in the coming years, they will remain at the country’s current, historic high level. The…