In a bid to turn the immigration system into more of a conveyor belt for industry, people who want to come to Canada will soon even be able to register online profiles with the government listing their skills and abilities in what will amount to a kind of mail-order worker service.
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RIP Pat Fucking Martin, the most honest politician on Twitter
As of this morning, you tweeps won’t have Pat Fucking Martin to kick around anymore. The foul-mouthed NDP MP quit Twitter after his latest anti-government tirade in which he called the Conservatives “rat faced whores.”
This is the lamest fight in parliamentary history
Earlier today, there was a BRAWL in the House of Commons. Can you believe it? Our elected Members of Parliament came to fisticuffs! It was basically the opening scene of Gangs of New York.
Bizarro government rejects gas-drilling project, unnerves environmentalists everywhere
Last week, many Canadians found themselves confused at events in Ottawa, prompting more than one concerned citizen to question whether they had awoken in a Bizarro Canada: A terrifying country where all Albertans were vegan, where Newfoundlanders spoke intelligible English, and where the Conservative government actually gave two shits about the environment.
Humanity’s bear problem continues unabated as grizzly attacks elderly couple in B.C.
The Bear Problem reared its ugly, rotten head again this week. An elderly couple were out walking near Kimberly, British Columbia, when they were savagely attacked by a mother bear as the cubs looked eagerly on and cheered the violence.
TransCanada’s 650-km pipeline could get built without any environmental review thanks to the omnibus bill
Shovels are itching to plow hard into the virgin earth of northern British Columbia, and it looks like there won’t be any pesky federal environmental assessment to slow these mothers down.
New poll shows federal parties pretty much exactly where they were last time
A new poll by Abacus Data shows the federal Conservatives leading the NDP and Liberals with 36 per cent support among decided voters. The NDP sits at 29 per cent and the Liberals at 22.
Canada’s lakes and rivers to become more industry-friendly as feds remove water protection from law
If the Conservative government has its way, only specific lakes and rivers in Canada will continue to enjoy federal protection. It is also changing the Navigable Waters Protection Act to the Navigation Protection Act, because it’s not the water we’re protecting but the rights of oil tankers to navigate them.
Modern Robin Hoods smuggling cheap illegal cheese into Canada
The Niagara region of Ontario is awash in cheese — illegal cheese smuggled across the border from the United States. And those willing to act as mules and drive cases of cheese into the country can make as much as $2,000 per trip.
The Wheat Board finally dies for the free market
To celebrate this latest free-market triumph and mark the end of the socialist experiment in bureaucracy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper travelled to Kindersely, SK, where he pardoned a group of farmers convicted of ignoring the Canadian Wheat Board Act. That is, to pardon a group of convicted criminals.
A $16 glass of orange juice is bad, but being shitty to poor countries is worse
So, we’re dropping the “latte loving leftist” attack now, right? I mean, after a Conservative cabinet minister supposedly married to the idea of fiscal restraint and good-old, main street Canadian values spends $16 on a glass of orange juice, we’ve pretty much incinerated the idea that only latte-loving, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberals are elitists.