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The National Post's Tristin Hopper tells us that the last decade has been bad for Canada — that if we'd stuck to the trends from 2015, thousands killed by crime, drugs and health-care shortages would still be alive, and we'd also be richer.
"In sum," Hopper writes, "the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been."
Hopper then breaks down numbers since the Liberals took power 10 years ago — crime "up everywhere, and for everything", prisons emptying in tandem with spiking crime, asylum claims "through the roof", average housing costs growing by $43 for every day of the last decade, growing healthcare wait times, a failure to keep up with other countries on GDP growth. The problem also extends to the military, where recruitment has "plummeted to historical lows."
"The recruitment crisis," Hopper adds, "is so acute that up to half of the ships, aircraft and vehicles in Canadian military fleets cannot be used because there is no one around to fix them. As one example, as of last count, only 45.7 per cent of the Royal Canadian Navy fleet was considered 'serviceable to meet training and readiness requirements in support of concurrent operations.' "
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These federal candidates are battling for their lives. And they're still campaigning Four Quebec MPs are running for office shortly after receiving cancer diagnoses — balancing two different fights, with two different purposes.
"Running in a six-week federal election campaign is a sprint that can feel like a marathon," writes the National Post's Antoine Trepanier. "But these four brave MPs are also fighting for their lives, literally, undergoing exhausting chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgery."
Those four — Liberal Alexandra Mendes, Conservatives Jacques Gourde and Luc Berthold and Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure — say they're receiving support within their parties as they run for office.
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Trump tariffs stack the odds against a forestry industry already struggling to survive Canadian lumber is growing faster than it can be cut, but those who work in the industry can be forgiven if they spend a lot of time worrying about the future. Regulatory barriers and tangles in B.C. have created big headaches, and the threat of Trump tariffs add massive uncertainty for those who work in forests across the country. “If tariffs come onto our products, no question, it is going to hit us hard, and every one of us is concerned, but it is not all about Trump,” Lemare Group president Eric Dutcyvich, from Port McNeill, B.C., tells the Financial Post's Joe O'Connor. "What is damaging the industry — today — is instability and policy.” Read more here |
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Federal election 2025: Ring of Fire as Canada's front line vs. Trump
The Ring of Fire — a mineral-rich area in northern Ontario — is attracting attention of late from politicians vowing to expedite mining as a bulwark against an unpredictable Trump administration.
Doug Ford's government calls it "the front line in Canada's battle against President Trump's economic threats," and the Sudbury Star's Jim Moodie notes that the area "spans 5,000 square kilometres and contains reserves of chromite, copper, cobalt, nickel and platinum." Others caution against moving too fast and without due process, noting environmental concerns and the rights of First Nations in the area. Read the story here |
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