Room and board for illegal immigrants is costing an average $224 per day, new data show. By comparison the federal minimum wage pays $138 per day, Employment Insurance a maximum $95 per day and Old Age Security $26 daily: "How long do people stay?" READ MORE
Federal agencies from the Privy Council to the RCMP have used Chinese surveillance cameras banned in the U.S. as a security risk. Widespread purchase of the equipment was uncovered by Bloc Québécois MP René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, Que.): 'We are removing these cameras.' READ MORE
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept Han Dong as the 2019 Liberal candidate in Don Valley North because he feared losing the Toronto riding, according to a China inquiry report. The Prime Minister knew at the time Dong was under surveillance over his contacts with the Chinese Consulate: "This is significant." READ MORE
Chinese agents were likely to blame for “troubling events” in at least three federal ridings, says the Commission on Foreign Interference. The conclusion in a 194-page Initial Report by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue contradicted two previous findings by Liberal appointees: "People are right to be worried." READ MORE
Higher stamp prices are inevitable due to another heavy operating loss at Canada Post, says the latest Annual Report from management. Stamp rates are up eight percent effective today to 99¢ for a domestic letter, $1.40 for U.S. mail and $2.92 overseas: "Competition has accelerated at a pace not seen in the company’s history." READ MORE
New Democrats had no comment after Independent MP Kevin Vuong (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.) said a Party organizer called him a “Zionist whore" on Twitter. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh earlier dropped two nominees over anti-Semitic outbursts, saying he found it a “challenge to vet candidates.” READ MORE
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: "On the way downtown a busy road alongside a golf course – I saw people swinging their clubs at that early morning hour; could not tell if these were freeloaders..." READ MORE
My father Stanley’s diary is among my most precious keepsakes. He wrote it secretly as a slave labourer in a Japanese POW camp near Kanchanaburi in Thailand, home of the actual bridge over the River Kwai. Dad never spoke of his experience but kept surreptitious notes. It was only after his passing in 1981 that I got to know my father better by reading his diary, and visiting the Thai jungle where he’d been tortured, and speaking to men who knew him. I think my father rationalized his experience. I lionized him as a survivor, a man who endured unthinkable suffering. Later in my life, when I faced difficulties, I’d pause and remind myself the challenges were small compared to what Stanley faced.
