Month: January 2023

Feds Will Keep Budget Promises Despite Economic Uncertainty, Says Minister

The federal government will keep policy promises made in their most recent budget despite growing economic uncertainty, says Tourism Minister and Associate Finance Minister Randy Boissonnault. He also noted that Ottawa will be taking another “deep dive” look into the country’s economic outlook this year. Boissonnault spoke to reporters on Jan. 24 from Hamilton, Ont., where he…


Fiscal Room Tightening as Economy Teeters, Associate Finance Minister Says

Canada’s associate finance minister says it’s going to be a “turbulent” year for the economy, but Randy Boissonault insists the government still has some spending room for big priorities including a new health-care deal with the provinces. Boissonnault was speaking before the cabinet meets on the second of a three-day cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ont….


Apple Can’t Kick the iSlavery Habit in China

Commentary The history of Apple’s success is so inextricably linked to China that we should start thinking of it as a Chinese rather than an American company. Apple’s leading design engineers, marketing gurus, and what could be called addiction specialists (who impede Apple users from using other brands through hardware and software incompatibilities) rule from…


Border Agency Pledges to Deport 219% More Illegal Foreigners in 2023

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is targeting a 219 percent increase in the deportation of illegal foreigners from Canadian soil this year, a memo from the agency says. “The performance objective for total removals in fiscal year 2022 to 2023 is set at 16,312, which represents a 219 percent increase of the prior year’s…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Josh Stirling: Dissecting Excess Death Data and How Insurance Industry’s Trillions Could Be Deployed to Help the Vaccine-Injured

“The more doses on average you have in a region within the United States, the bigger increase in mortality that region has had in 2022 when compared to 2021,” said Josh Stirling, an insurance research analyst who has been dissecting alarming trends in life insurance, mortality and disability data over the past couple of years….


Film Review: ‘Bezos: the Beginning’: Rise of a Likeable Capitalist

R | 1h 51min | Drama, biography | January 24, 2023 All bookstores have a unique advantage in the retail world. Thanks to a policy adopted during the Great Depression, all book retailers can return any unsold books to publishers for full credit (in rare cases, some minor penalties might apply). Admittedly, Amazon.com developed into a challenge few booksellers, including executives of…


State Department Issues Travel Warning to Popular Tourist Destination

The U.S. State Department on Monday issued a travel warning for American citizens visiting tourist areas in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo due to “recent incidents involving taxi and Uber drivers.” The “security alert” said that American citizens should be wary of “application-based transportation services in Mexico,” the State Department wrote. Quintana Roo encompasses Cancun…


Why California’s Public Schools Are Failing | Anonymous School Teacher

“It’s a very helpless feeling. And it’s really bizarre. It’s really awkward to have a child punk you on [a] middle school campus … It’s just mayhem. It’s why teachers want to give up.” Siyamak sits down with a whistleblower from a public school in California to talk about the lack of discipline in the…


The Progressive Scottish Gender Bill

Commentary It’s often difficult to distinguish the cunning from the stupidity, the foolishness from the evil, of the political class. In Scotland, a bill has been passed to make it easier for 16-year-olds to change their gender on official documents and to be recognized as their chosen gender (the word sex has, of course, been…


Georgia Judge Hears Arguments on Releasing Report on Alleged Election Interference by Trump

A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, hears arguments at 12:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 24 on whether the final report from a special grand jury investigating alleged election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies should be made public. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …