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I swear Todd is the only mainstream reporter in Canada who reports on immigration, other than feel-good stories. And while the Vancouver Sun is part of the Postmedia chain his columns almost never wind up being exported to other papers. Guess it just doesn't fit the narrative. A big jump in the number of guest workers is hurting low-wage employees and others across Canada, according to economists. The number of non-permanent foreign workers arriving in Canada each year has doubled in the past decade, escalating particularly after the federal Liberal government was elected in 2015. Partly as a result of the increasing flow of guest workers, UBC economist David Green and Carleton University’s Christopher Worswick say in a paper that new immigrants are doing “worse and worse” in regards to earned incomes. And it’s Canada’s low-wage workers who are suffering the most. Even though businesses frequently lobby politicians to allow more guest employees, Green says the latest hikes are putting downward pressure on wages and threatening respect for workers. They’re exacerbating the kind of scenario, he said, that lead to the rise of Donald Trump and Britain’s Brexit movement. Saying it’s “truly dumb” for the federal government to continue boosting low-skilled guest workers in the country, Green emphasized the vast majority of Canadians don’t appear to be aware of the labour-market shift. “It’s totally under the radar.” https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-dramatic-jump-in-guest-workers-hurts-canadians-low-wage-earners

There are, of course, those who say Yaniv should be ignored, because, after all, any group has bad apples. This ignores that Yaniv is the product of a near hysterical demand for instant recognition of anyone who calls themselves transgendered which ignores all the warnings which have occurred about what might happen. The frenzied demand for recognition in all cases without question completely ignores scientific and psychological evidence, and is carried out without regard to who might be harmed. That Yaniv is not “representative” of trans people is surely true. Since I became interested in the malign consequences of gender self-ID laws, I’ve gotten to know quite a few trans people, and some have become good friends. But again, Yaniv’s atypicality is irrelevant. These cases concern not only a male who seeks to coerce women into handling male genitals, but laws that can be leveraged to facilitate that coercion. It is quite correct that there are horrible people in every subgroup, male and female, straight and gay, cis and trans. But Yaniv’s behaviour doesn’t stand in isolation from the politics of gender: Yaniv’s behaviour has been enabled by trans-rights activists in two separate ways. The first relates to the fact that gender self-ID has been a central demand of trans-rights activists for years, and that is precisely the policy that Yaniv is applying to further a human-rights case. These same activists cannot now wash their hands of the issue. The second is that any woman who has tried to point out the obvious risks of allowing biological males to present themselves as women at will has been mobbed, deplatformed and defamed as a bigot. Meetings to discuss safety worries related to gender self-ID have attracted violent protests and been shut down. Women have been doxxed, had their jobs threatened and been kicked off Twitter for such word crimes as referring to Jessica/Jonathan Yaniv as “he.” These include Canada’s own Meghan Murphy and Lindsay Shepherd. Yaniv’s demands flow logically from the claim that “trans women are women, period”—that in literally no circumstance is it acceptable to distinguish between males and females, provided the males self-identify as women. And as with any form of logical argumentation, a false premise will lead to a false—and in some cases dangerous—result. https://quillette.com/2019/07/25/a-canadian-human-rights-spectacle-exposes-the-risks-of-unfettered-gender-self-id/

Rep. Omar should be investigated for income tax and immigration fraud.

Probably not one, since they've told us his identity.

Chief statistician resigns over Trudeau government’s failure to 'protect the independence' of StatsCan.

Lol.

Snopes is to facts what SPLC is to justice.

Not at all? What do you think of Sadiq Khan's comments? Disgusting? Because I find my comments disgusting, but it was in a provoking way to make you realize that Muslims are as worse as White Supremacists. We must crush both of them, by force if necessary. But don't underplay Muslim terrorism.

Nope. You still haven't commented on my reply. I must have missed that part of the article that said that. Can you show me? Also, mortgages and all other loans come with a risk. Areas with a high default rate are a greater risk. And the areas that you're talking about had "Christains, Jews, etc...." so they're not even an example Smart racists vote for the Dems. Their policies keep blacks in poverty. You missed the point, intentionally. The Dems' holier-than-thou party line is bunk, and highly insulting. He said he had bone spurs. Millions of people "dodged" in the same ways. Back to the topic at hand, Snopes is complete crap, as per my comments in the OP and subsequent posts which substantiated them. Deal with it.

Ah...but you haven't learned the language of the virtue signalling world: to criticize the South Americans, Africans and Central Asians for breeding like rats is racist, and geez, avoiding racist buzzwords and topics is SO much more important than the survival of our species.

Argus is a communist. I'm gobsmacked. Who knew? I thought Argus paid more in taxes than anyone around here even earns.

Cite? Conservatives are also free to not use Google to search for things if they feel they're providing an inaccurate representation of the internet. I suspect infowars is shot at SEO though.

You can demonstrate this bias to yourself by doing identical searches in Google and Duck...very revealing.

Recall when conservatives lol'ed and made references to commies and lazy slackers when the left used to voice its concerns about falling wages and accommodating productivity. Interestingly enough I work for a company that hires many foreign workers every year and we all just got a raise in pay. Lots of talk about companies paying living wages which are pegged at $21.50 hereabouts too.

To take your line one step further: when Mr. and Mrs. Yuppie sell off the Escalade or F350, they think they have "done their part". The damage started the day they BOUGHT it, but will continue until the vehicle is crushed. All they ever accomplish is passing the buck along to someone else while signalling their virtuous liberalism.

Ever wonder how the media earns it's pay off... well...

Let’s be honest. A sizeable number of Brits don’t like hearing too many non-English speakers and people who look very different from them around, especially if their cultural values are substantially different (the latter problem being a legitimate concern). Such people and values were entering Britain before the EU. What changed was 9/11 and recent waves of migration. Britain’s membership in the EU might have been impacted a bit more by the waves of migration than it would have outside the EU, but not necessarily. Look how many refugees Canada accepted. Also, is it worth throwing out EU membership because of the impacts of those waves of migration? Have borders really been a problem for the island nation of Great Britain? A post-Brexit Britain would need a border in Ireland. Is that an improvement? Remember the “troubles” in Ireland? I would say that an outward looking Britain that engages more with Europe and sees more roast beef Brits traveling Europe and learning other languages looks better on the country than a retreat to an older British identity that’s a bit drab by comparison.

Sure, you can find anything by Google. It's all out there, if you bother to do a search. But searching takes effort, and I want to be spoon-fed my infotainment. Recalling the conversation we had earlier in this thread, you agreed that "good news" cannot stay afloat in our media for long, because the media is not really committed to telling the news. It is a corporation seeking to make the top dollar and increase its viewership. Thank you for not blocking me "yet". May I say it is truly a privilege to get a response from someone as magnanimous as you.

If we’d stop importing more cheap low skilled workers, businesses would have to compete for workers already here, by increasing wages and benefits. What a concept! We wouldn’t need the mandatory minimum wage increases decreed by governments because the market would take care of it. But for some reason, the federal government keeps flooding the supply of labour, negating businesses having to compete much at all for new workers. It’s almost as though our prime minister has no real background in economics. Oh wait. Never mind.

Trump tweets: CNN anchor cries LOOOOL

Trump has brought back some pride in NASA which was sorely needed. I recall the NASA for Trump signs at his Florida rallies. Doubt THOSE were officially sanctioned at the time...heh.

Are we getting hordes of Russian immigrants? No. We are getting hordes of Chinese immigrants and I'm a little leery of that since the Chinese have a history of resisting assimilation. But that might have been because they weren't welcomed in greater society. They do not, as far as I know, hold our own culture and values in contempt, nor regard us as morally defective because we do not think and worship as they do. They probably do actually think we're kind of lazy and that we don't put enough effort into raising our children properly, but I can live with that. Most of the Chinese put tremendous importance on education, and their kids generally go to university. That means getting out in the world and eventual integration. They do not expect their daughters to stay cloistered so as to pop out babies and mind them, nor do they appear determined to send their sons back home for a proper wife, nor wish our laws could be changed to suit their backward religious beliefs. The Indians are broken into multiple religions. I am somewhat leery about them, too, though they do tend to integrate better than the others. Sikhs have caused our worst ever terrorist incident and there is still far too much interest in violence in that community. They also can have backward values, though these seem based on culture not religion, so will eventually evaporate. Same for the Hindus, who, for the most part, seem far less religious than the other two groups. The Muslims seem to be addicted to the idea of being part of a world-wide community of Islam. Far too many would welcome the thought of a theocracy, esp a world-wide Muslim theocracy, or "caliphate", which makes them dangerously prone to seduction by extremists bent on using violence to further those goals.

Politics and the fight for World Economical dominance of course is making this a joke. No foreign country should be dictating to us in Canada what or especially how we fight any impacts on the climate. We do have alot of forests that use C02 and our fresh water reserves are second to none. We use clean technology in the production of fuel. We are leaders in the Tech advances of that. We share the information so others can use it which is contributing more than any nation on earth. We do not need to punish our own people as the Liberals are doing. Time for them to go.