It's official: Canadians who support increasing immigration levels are in the *extreme* minority.
New polling from @leger360 reveals 65% of Canadians believe there are "too many" immigrants.
Only 3% say "not enough."
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Breaking this down by region, age, and gender.... the consensus is strong across the board.
Men and women largely agree, as does every province. Seniors are just slightly more inclined to agree than younger generations.
Rural voters are more likely to oppose immigration than urban or suburban voters.
.@theJagmeetSingh's @NDP is the only party whose voters don't overwhelmingly think immigration levels are too high.
In contrast, @PierrePoilievre's @CPC_HQ voters are most likely to believe immigration is too high, followed closely by @MaximeBernier's @peoplespca.
It's important to note that the small sample size for PPC voters (just 38) in this poll is almost certainly skewing the results—in reality, the PPC is solidly to the right of the CPC.
78% of Canadians agree that ''Current immigration rates are contributing to the housing availability and affordability crisis''
76% agree that ''Current immigration rates are contributing to stresses on health care services''
72% agree that ''Canada's immigration policy is too generous''
a mere 26% agree that ''The Canadian government does a good and thorough job checking the background of immigrants coming to Canada''
41% of Canadians support taking in more Gazan refugees.
43% of Canadians oppose taking in more Gazan refugees
30% of Canadians agree that ''Canadian companies should continue to be allowed to use the TFW program to bring in low wage/low-skill employees''
Ackman won’t be fighting this war. Your sons will.
He cloaks his warmongering in faux humanitarianism, pretending to back the Iranian people’s fight to “take their country back.” But we’ve seen this script before—almost word for word. George W. Bush said the same about Afghanistan: “We are helping the Afghan people take back their country.” In 2003, it was Iraq. That war killed 200,000 civilians. Days before the invasion, Dick Cheney assured Americans, “We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
Cheney's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, parroted the same line: “The [Iraqi] people want to be free… people will rejoice.”
During Covid, I wrote about what I saw as the greatest threat to freedom: authoritarian laws disguised as public safety.
Today, a far more coordinated and dangerous threat has emerged: Zionism.
The Israel Lobby has launched an assault against the First Amendment.
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America was born from a boycott.
When the Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, they weren’t just protesting a tax — they were asserting the freedom to dissent. That’s your birthright as an American citizen: the freedom to speak, to believe, to dissent, and to decide for yourself what you will and won’t support with your own money.
Texas — which I always imagined was the freest state — is one of the most egregious examples. In May 2017, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law prohibiting state agencies from contracting with, or investing in, companies that boycott Israel.
In Texas you can boycott California, Canada, Cambodia or Palestine; but if you boycott Israel for any reason whatsoever, or no reason at all, it’s a hate crime.
still thinking about this dead Hezbollah guy who looked exactly like me
I did some research and found that my he was an heir to the Nasrallah clan. The Nasrallahs are believed to be direct descendants of Muhammad. While many Muslims claim the prophet's lineage, the Nasrallahs actually carry the L859 haplogroup marker.
Seth Smith was a double major in economics and history at @UCBerkeley. He was only 19 but a third-year student, scheduled to graduate next spring at the age of 20... he must have been very smart. He was a beautiful and brilliant young guy who had everything going for him. His dream was to attend graduate school at the London School of Economics.
At ~10 pm on June 15th, 2020 — almost exactly two years ago — Seth went out for a walk. On this walk he was shot in the back of the head, execution-style. His body was found half an hour later by a man walking his dog, sprawled on his back with one of his earbuds still in his ear, indicating he was listening to music. Here is a picture of the bus stop where Seth’s body was found.