Category: Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Don’t Blame Us for Your Kids Being So Stupid!

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Remember the good old days when teaching was a noble profession and teachers excelled at teaching children the 3 R’s: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic? In recent years, it seems that children are getting dumber and dumber. Well, it turns out that in Ontario, this isn’t possibly the fault of the teachers. Nope:

Four of Ontario’s largest school boards are suing the parent companies of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning, contributing to a mental health crisis and leaving educators to manage the fallout.

The Toronto District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board filed four separate but similar cases in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice on Wednesday.

The lawsuits claim the social media platforms are negligently designed for compulsive use and have rewired the way children think, behave and learn, leaving teachers and schools to deal with the consequences.

Interesting take. One can only wonder how so many students have successfully learned:

  • How to be a good communist.
  • That all white people carry the stain of original sin.
  • That the Liberals and NDP are the benevolent angels and anyone else is a right-wing Nazi bigot.
  • That Mother Earth is soon to die any day now.
  • That Communist China are the U.S. Democrats are just swell and Trump is the Orange Hitler.

h/t James MacMaster

Trudeau vs. the Prosperity of Canadians

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Justin Trudeau has really wrecked Canada.  So much overspending in such a little time has severely damaged the fortunes from coast to coast:

Canada’s economic productivity has trailed the U.S. for decades. This isn’t news and has numerous possible causes. What is particularly troubling for all Canadians, though, is that the gap is getting wider.

According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, which was released last week, Canada’s labour productivity—that is, how much stuff each hour of work produces on average—fell for the fourth consecutive quarter. As a result, Canadian productivity is now about 2 percent lower at the beginning of 2023 than it was one year earlier. Worse, this has reversed several years of gains. We’re now back to mid-2017 levels.

Ontario Public Sector Workers: More Money for Me, More Taxes for Thee

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It appears that “conservative” Ontario Premier Doug Ford has caved and will be opening up taxpayer wallets to his unionized public sector workers:

An ill-fated attempt by Premier Doug Ford to cap the wages of public sector workers has been wiped off the books.

His government has followed through with a promise to repeal its controversial Bill 124 public sector wage restraint legislation, cementing a win for thousands of unionized workers.

Twice struck down by the courts as unconstitutional for restricting collective bargaining rights, the 2019 law limited pay increases for most public sector workers — including hospital nurses, teachers and civil servants — to one per cent annually for three years.

h/t James MacMaster

Chinada

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The corruption revelations are getting worse:

In September 2020, as Ontario’s real estate rocketed higher, a Toronto realtor with ties to Beijing claimed a fake Chinese income of $763,689 in order to secure HSBC mortgages for two properties, bringing her personal portfolio in Greater Toronto up to five homes.

What makes this realtor’s case politically explosive is not just that her network allegedly laundered money from China into Toronto real estate, nor the forged Chinese employment records they used to obtain massive mortgages from Canadian banks, or that they became Ontario landlords by leveraging criminal underground banks servicing Chinese diasporas in Vancouver and Toronto.

h/t James MacMaster

Vancouver, 2024 Edition

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A longtime Vancouver friend shared this story, adding “pretty constant now”:

Two suspects now face criminal charges after allegedly setting off bear spray inside the Kitsilano Arc’teryx store, grabbing $25,000 worth of jackets and clothing, and fleeing in a cab.

According to police, a man and a woman entered the store, located near West 4th and Arbutus in Vancouver, on Monday evening at around 6:30 p.m. Bear spray was used and, in the ensuing melee, the pair allegedly gathered $25,000 worth of Arc’teryx merchandise and fled the area after hailing a cab.

One wonders if they’re learning lessons from down the Left Coast in San Francisco, where most any criminal activity is tolerated.

Wee Foo Yoo: Ottawa insider warns about immigrant-investor programs

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Something fishy is going on in Juthin’s Corrupt Canada:

After initially transferring their money out of their country of origin, typically somewhere in East Asia, Hiebert wrote, most purchased a house “along with a Mercedes, Audi or whatever. And then life is lived quite simply, on a small budget and with little owing in terms of income tax. The kids get to go to UBC or SFU while paying domestic fees, which is a big bonus.

h/t James MacMaster

Canada’s Crazy Housing Bubble

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Inflation has been a big problem the world over the past few years. But nowhere is it so apparent as in Canada’s housing market:

New data from the world’s largest central bank serves a reminder of just how batsh*t crazy Canada’s real estate bubble is. Housing bubble experts from the US Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Dallas Fed) released its latest update of global home prices in Q3 2023. Most G7 countries moved in a similar fashion, rising with 2020 rate cuts and have shown recent moderation. However, zooming out reveals Canada’s real estate bubble is nothing like any other G7 country. It puts the peaks seen in US and Japanese bubbles to shame, predating its recent population boom narrative.

h/t David Murrell

The Pronoun Game

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Via the CBC, a tale of pronouns, vomiting, and very niche woe:

Again, as so often, one has to ask – exactly which player in this drama is doing the misgendering? The unnamed presenter who sees a young woman named Julia and refers to her as she; or the young woman named Julia who expects to be perceived as something other than she is? Indeed, as something that doesn’t exist.

The kind of young woman who tells us, with an air of triumph, “I had been thinking about my pronouns daily for over two years.”

As one does, when one’s mental wellbeing is not at all in question.

 

Grifters Gonna Grift

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At Montreal’s Concordia University, even light is being “decolonised.” By people with salaries and lots of taxpayer subsidy:

The assembled scholars boast that they are “not seeking to improve scientific ‘truth’” and that the purpose of their intellectual toil is “not to find new or better explanations of light.” As if such gifts were theirs to give, or a remotely plausible outcome. Instead, they are vexed by the “social power relations” of scientific enquiry, its objectivity and usefulness, and the fact that the quantifiable and demonstrable tends to trump mythology and the adorable ramblings of one’s Very Indigenous Grandpa.

Apparently, this preference for things that actually work is terribly unfair, an affront to “social equity,” resulting in the “marginalisation” of those whose self-esteem is grounded in the obsolete and inadequate, and hence the imperative to “decolonise” All The Things.

Oh, there’s more.

We Are Improving You Via This Medium

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Viewers of pallor will doubtless be entranced by 20-minute episodes titled Colonialism and Privilege, and stern lectures – delivered by the host, Lido Pimienta, and two giant, talking testicles – on just how bigoted and generally awful their collective ancestors were, and how this historical beastliness is, “like, affecting all of us, all of the time, on every level.”

On fully intersectional Canadian television.

The Strange Politics Around Canada’s Milk Production

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Here’s a bizarre story about nervous nuns, cute cows, and the byzantine way Canadian governments manage milk production:

As inflation soars, dairy farmers say price increases are necessary to cover ballooning costs.

But industry advocates argue that no other industry is able to pass on its cost increases directly on to the consumer. Canada’s controversial supply-management system protects dairy, poultry and egg farmers from international competition by regulating supply and imposing massive border tariffs on imports.

Supply management also forces farmers to pay millions in marketing costs to provincial milk boards. This week, a portion of that money found its way to the upper right-hand corner of the Maple Leaf’s jerseys as the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) became the NHL team’s first sweater branding partner. DFO refuse to say how much the deal cost.

h/t James MacMaster

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