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| 2026-02-26 | 0 |
The Liberals are brilliant thieves. They’ve managed to pull off over a decade of self-funded corruption. They use taxpayer money to buy media, influence institutions, and protect themselves from accountability. Canadians are literally paying for their own political manipulation.
Liberals = the most corrupt government in Canadian history (33 listed below and counting):
Green Slush Fund (SDTC) – $1B+ in questionable clean-tech grants
SNC-Lavalin Affair – Political interference in criminal prosecution
ArriveCAN App – ~$60M for a basic travel app
WE Charity Scandal – ~$912M contract to connected insiders
Phoenix Pay System – $3.5B+ and still failing
McKinsey Consulting Contracts – $500M+ outsourced policy work
Foreign Interference Scandal – Intelligence warnings ignored
Organized Crime & B.C. Money Laundering – Triad-linked casino and real estate laundering
Fentanyl & Opioid Crisis – Border failures and weak enforcement
Aga Khan Vacation Ethics Breach – Illegal luxury trip
Randy Boissonnault Scandal – Business ties and lobbying questions
Investing in Canada Plan – ~$92B in poorly tracked infrastructure spending
PMO / Telford Staff Scandals – Obstruction and document withholding
Bill Morneau Controversies – WE ties, pension conflicts
Paul Chiang Controversy – Foreign interference allegations
Unlawful Emergencies Act Use (Trucker Convoy) – Bank accounts frozen, later ruled illegal
Firearms Buyback Fiasco – Projected $2B–$6B and counting
Mark Carney / Brookfield Conflicts – Offshore tax structures, revolving-door politics
Chrystia Freeland Ukraine Funding Controversy – Oversight concerns
Baylis Medical Ventilator Contract – ~$237M contract awarded to a firm owned by a former Liberal MP for COVID-19 equipment.
Mary Ng Ethics Breach – Multiple government contracts directed to a close personal friend and media personality.
Dominic LeBlanc Ethics Breach – Awarding a lucrative Arctic surf clam license to a company linked to his wife’s family.
NSICOP "Traitor" MP Allegations – National intelligence reports of sitting MPs "wittingly" collaborating with foreign hostile states.
Admiral Mark Norman Prosecution – A failed $50M legal battle involving alleged political interference in a naval procurement contract.
Han Dong Controversy – Resignation from caucus following allegations of CCP involvement in his nomination and conduct.
Governor General Expense Scandals – ~$1.3M in luxury travel, high-end catering, and secretive villa renovations under Payette and Simon.
PBO Carbon Tax Gag Order – Government blocking the Budget Officer from releasing internal data showing the tax’s true economic hit.
GC Strategies $250M Windfall – Total federal contracts awarded to the two-person ArriveCAN firm since 2015 across multiple departments.
Public Health Agency (PHAC) Missing Data – Intentional destruction of emails and documents related to the Winnipeg Lab security breach.
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) RCMP Probe – Formal criminal investigation into 186 cases of alleged conflicts and $390M in funding.
"The Other Randy" Business Scandal – Investigation into text messages suggesting a Cabinet Minister remained active in private business.
COVID-19 Quarantine Hotel Fiasco – Billions spent on mandatory hotel stays marked by reports of safety failures and lack of oversight.
Parliamentary Witness Coaching Scandal – $263,000 in taxpayer funds spent to "coach" government employees and witnesses on how to spin answers at committee.
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The Liberal performance review: rushed programs, no transparency, friends get paid, costs explode, and no one is held accountable. Over a decade, this government has burned through $100B+ in waste, failed programs, insider contracts, and ethics breaches—with zero consequences—all on the backs of taxpayers while they get rich.
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| 2026-01-27 | 0 |
This all makes me very sad within the last 10 years because it's not what I grew up with and loved 😢
I grew up with multiculturalism enriching my childhood. Learning from different cultures at friends dinners and other different friends houses and attending eastern-themed event from all different parts of the East. There was so much to learn just in my own country from other people from other countries it was fascinating !!!
I got to take part in different ceremonies and watch different people celebrate the same sort idea about something in much different ways, I loved it.
I learned at least half of my best exterior Plastering tricks from people that had thick accents from all over the East and I'm better plasterer because of it.
I learned cooking recipes in the kitchen that I probably never would have stumbled across randomly. I was shown in person all the nuances to certain ways different cultures cooked - like how amazing is that!!
There are maybe only a few tricks that I was able to show in return but I always tried to do my best ! The amount of community an alternate types of activities or interesting festivals that without multiculturalism would not even exist .
When I was young everybody new integrated into the neighborhood unit first got to know the neighbourhood we're introduced the community center and then obviously people have their own separate areas that they prefer. We first became one, one by one, and meet each other and try to have some fun together that's the whole point!
Community or block parties when I was a kid had all of our parents looks like representatives from different countries, that's the way it used to be anyway.... where did it all go?
I stopped seeing this type of beautiful multi-ethnic Harmony roughly 10 years ago. Not only that when I try to be a part of new things I am literally turned away or shunned in some weird way I don't know why... I can't even believe how I'm treated.
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| 2025-08-26 | 0 |
I am a muslim and a naturalized citizen and a pious person, but I don't know what those guys tried to achieve by praying in the middle of the block...Believe me - this is just a show off...
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| 2025-03-04 | 0 |
The same person who blocks peoples bank accounts talking about familys suffering! Less than half an ounce of fentnol siezed he says,So thats its getting through in high numbers!
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| 2025-03-04 | 0 |
From the same person who blocked his Canadians finances and banking systems of those who stood againt your bulling of truckers. You are safe at your southern border because of the USA. Im speaking to one Canadian, to you Trudeau. You are on your way out, true Canadians have tasted you and quiet frankly spit you out. Go ahead and put on blackface and feel better.
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| 2025-03-04 | 0 |
Inflation is to the roof, Make food and housing affordable, please people just help impeach him, he is golfing while the american people are struggling everyday.... He is just trying to pass stupid laws that keep getting blocked by courts, Come on Trump supporters try helping fix it by calling your local office and impeach him, I bet anyone else is better than Trump, we know the country needs changes but we are still the biggest economy of the world the richest country, Why do we have to feel like is normal not to have affordable food and housing?? The basics of life... All the immigrants are gone, They even left by their own will, and Some Americans left to other countries, Mexico, Europe, Asia..... What do you guys want?? Having an empty country once was the biggest economy of the world?? Is just crazy even a blind person can see he is destroying the whole country..... He is not even a good business person we all know he didn't payed taxes, he went bankrupt so many times he knows how to scam people, Saying the USA government doesn't work because he feels like it, Just travel people so you can see the difference between usa government and other governments around the world........
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| 2025-02-23 | 0 |
If you ever want to see what insanity is and if you ever want to teach your children what insanity is all they have to do is be showed the politicians of New York City that put criminals above the peace and safety of their own citizens that paid their salaries for years whenever you see Insanity like this and things that don't make no common sense whatsoever you know that you have people elected in office that have been turned over to a reprobate mind this is God's punishment against those people read the first chapter of Romans and you will see why now once God turns a person over to a reprobate mind it's impossible for that person or persons to say or do anything that even makes common sense they are not their own they are possessed with Insanity that blocks them from ever being able to say or do anything of Common Sense people really don't realize just how much they need to fear and honor God and keep his Commandments the invisible world of angels the invisible world the spirit world of God that rules and Reigns over all people just don't realize what they are fighting against when they don't submit themselves to God and be obedient to his word remember when it comes voting Tom in 4 years that it was the destructive Democrats that did all this and created all this mess it wasn't the Republicans who fought against it every step of the way
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| 2025-01-27 | 0 |
Trump is crazy, this and much more will get worse and worse, why doesn't he start deporting Melania and J.D Vance's wife also? LOL, ALL countries should block all these flights, the Colombian president is right, give each person a dignified process before sending them back, if it was your father, friend, niece, uncle, acqaintance etc. would you want them suddenly deported??!??
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| 2024-12-28 | 0 |
AS I AM SAYING RAMAN DUA IS ONLY AND ONLY FRAUD PERSON SINCE 12 YEARS AS I HAVE CHECKED THE STATUS OF RAMAN DUA 5 PAISE KI AUKAAT NHI HAI GHATIA AADMI KI AFTER READING MY MESSAGES ON MANY APPS BLOCKED ME IMMEDIATELY AFTER READING MY MESSAGES I WILL NOT STOP SAYING RAMAN DUA IS ONLY AND ONLY FRAUD PERSON UNDERSTAND
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| 2024-11-11 | 0 |
What most MAGA supporters don't realize is that we're currently living in Trump's economy. The reality is that while he wasn't in office, he used the House as his own personal veto to block any substantial legislature from passing under Biden/Harris, so it makes them look incompetent. The economy bottoms out, countries go to war, the border explodes. I won't say it's all Trump's fault, however. As with the border, just like when Trump wanted to get rid of Obamacare but didn't have anything to replace it, Biden removed Trump's border policies with nothing to replace it. At least Trump didn't get rid of Obamacare without having something to replace it. Just too many mistakes on Democrats part, and too much interference from Trump from the outside. Now Trump will have unchecked power, just one step closer to a dictatorship.
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| 2024-10-25 | 0 |
AS I AM SAYING RIGHT ABOUT RAMAN DUA SINCE 11 YEARS I WILL ALWAYS SAYS RAMAN DUA IS ONLY DITCHER AND CHEATER AS RAMAN DUA HAS DONE DHOKEBAJJI WITH ME I WILL NOT STOP SAYING RAMAN DUA IS ONLY AND ONLY MAHA CHOR PERSON AFTER READING MY MESSAGES ON MANY APPS BLOCKED ME IMMEDIATELY NOT READY TO REPLY AFTER READING MY MESSAGES I WILL NOT STOP SAYING RAMAN DUA IS ONLY AND ONLY FRAUD PERSON UNDERSTAND
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| 2024-09-03 | 0 |
Bye bye??? THey will create a voted block ? from ANy deserving person from their country ! You have a country !! We have a country too. Who wants to welcome people home who starts large protest from being welcomed to better their life/education??? \n\nWhy not protesting in your country of origin about this?\n\nDon't do that .... not good for you !\n\nWe dont have HOUSES NOW!!! Wake up ... we don't have absorption capacity \nEVEN FOR STUDENTS NOW ...\n\nI repeat: **We don't have houses for OurFOUNDERS DECENTS so there isn't more for foreigners ??? Makes sense ?no? ?\ninfrastructure aren't there
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| 2024-08-31 | 0 |
If Canada is blocking unskilled sikhs going to Canada, then I fully support it. These people, are supporting anti India groups for their personal reasons. They are economic refugees pretending to be political ones.
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| 2024-08-15 | 0 |
We had not communicated in a long time BUT... I think you were surprized how much you enjoyed to exploration of Russia a few years ago but quality of life was very good then but even better now, but retaining the unmatched access to culture, very low cost of living much lower crime rate than Canada/US/Europe, and cost of living about 1/10th of Canada, great health and easy to get a residency and citizenship due to being from Ukraine originally. For your travels, it is a little more complicated due to US sanctions but from here in St Petersburg it is really easy to travel by bus to Estonia and fly anywhere in the world. Estonia is the cheapest cost of living in the Baltic. I have flown to California several times using that route and to London the flight is $50 euros. \nAlthough you explored a lot here there is so much more to see and experience.\nThere is no doubt the western countries that relied on cheap labor and resources from colonies are all in a downward spiral and the east is rising. All the BRICS countries have positive growth in quality life and economic growth and a total of 108 countries have either applied or expressed serious interest in joining the largest trade block in history while the US empire fades at an accellerating rate. I would not go back the the crime, homelessness, anger, poverty of the US but have family business to take care of every 4-5 years. The decline is not a temporary downturn, the banking collaps that is accelerating now and impossible to pay back debt, it is really sad to see how the US is turning out. When growing up in California we had everything , really the golden state but is a wreck now. The politics is corrupt and owned by the employers of lobbyists.\nIf you come here to St Petersburg I have extra room in the city center with a Metro across the street and walking distance to more culture beautiful parks and zero hassles or conflict on the streets The crime rate is so low I can't even remember anything significant in the last 10 years, walking anywhere in the city of 7 mil would be safe at 3am. And as your remember everyone get a long, I have not seen a fight in 24 years and two teens in a young persons under 21 dance club\nThink about it, you know you really enjoyed it when you were here.\nGood luck is whatever you choice
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| 2024-08-04 | 0 |
BJP supporters project Modi as supreme leader of world. Big shame on Modi for not blocking these illegals at India airport which could be done easily. Worst prime minister in entire history and this was not the case before 2014. Trump is the right person to stop this invasion.
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| 2024-08-04 | 0 |
I hope that Trump wins, but Harris winning and another 4 years of this might be more effective at changing minds. The biggest blackpill is that half the country is still asleep since the pandemic. 30 years ago, more of the adults in the country had children and tolerated this less. JD Vance is right about the voter block of childless cat ladies voting with their emotions is a dangerous thing. Too many voters have no more skin in the game than their personal ideology.
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| 2024-07-31 | 0 |
They block the person who is with him and make fun of him saying lone wolf
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| 2024-07-06 | 0 |
She's racist but knowing Indians, they can't park properly and always block people's driveways, i have had personal experience with this. And many of them are annoying and smell bad.
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| 2024-07-01 | 1 |
Immigrant here, brown as well, and a worker in the international educational industry. Pin points why Canada and even immigrants, including international students and temporary works dislike immigrants from Punjab:\n\n- They are rude. They have little to none concept of living in society. They are selfish, they are arrogant, and anyone who works in the serving/retail industry will they are the worst customers ever. \n\n- The level of entitlement is beyond absurd. When the leader of this protests in PEI was told “Canada needs doctors and nurses, not you (the guy graduated from a business program, and works at Tim Hortons still), he responded: “I don’t care what Canada needs, is what I need, for myself”, displaying what a great citizen he’d be.\n\n- They refuse to integrate. They left Punjab to pursue a better life, but they want to live like are still in Punjab. \n\n- They scam their way in. Banks in India will lend them money to come to Canada, they buy their IELTS results. 99.9% of all the students I dealt with who got caught cheating on their exams were from India.\n\n- The people we are receiving in Canada are members of a separatist movement. They have often blocked roads to protest against India, because they want Punjab to be separated from India, and turned into a new country called Khalistan. I highly doubt they would all move there if that actually happened.\n\n- Going back to the entitlement: They often abuse the human rights nature of Canada. They sued the government for the right to ride bikes without helmets, or to not be forced to used safety equipment in construction sites, and for the right to walk around carrying a dagger, because it’s a “religious item”. Canada also for some dumb reason accepts their arranged marriages as a real one. Any person from anywhere in the world has to undergo an invasive scrutiny of their relationship, being forced to provide private conversations, and witness. Punjab people need none of it, and Punjab fathers are selling their daughters to strange men, so the family can move to Canada together.\n\n- Statistics Canada often talk about how our population is aging: However, they do not disclose how many of these aging population is due to Indian nationals bringing their parents and grandparents with them. If we got a million Indian people in the past years, that would mean around extra 4 million people over 50 years old. That’s 10% of the entire population. \n\n- They are scammers. You said yourself: To be eligible for a mortgage , you need to make at least $250k per year. They are landing in Canada with no money, and buying houses right away, because they have a network of people forging financial documents, and the also have people infiltrated in banks to approve these processes. Not me saying, that was national news. \n\n- They are extremely racist. They will openly tell you they only rent/hire/do business with Punjab people. Now, even the buses are driven by Punjab people, is insane. And you can tell they are new comers, because some of them can barely speak English. But is a well-known fact: Once one of them is in, they will make sure to bring in as many of their countrymen as possible, and only them. The DEI department of my company approved a Punjab manager, and now more than half of the staff is Punjab. English is no longer spoken in the hallways. \n\nSo these are just few of the complaints I have about them. I moved to Canada for a better life, and I have fully adapted to this country, and I’m resentful that this government allowed these people to slowly turn Canada into India. I was sold the idea of diversity, and I fell for it. I’m the minority of the minorities. Despite being a full Canadian now, every single day I think more and more of just going home. I’m tired of Canada.
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| 2024-06-02 | 0 |
So you can protest and block streets, roads and businesses. But you can’t speak your mind as one person as that’s harassment. No wonder you get people saying they can’t even say something in their own country!
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| 2024-05-05 | 0 |
28-year-old Female Sydneysider from Australia here. Apologise in advance for the long post and rambling.\n\n\nNot sure if it is just me, so please correct me if I am wrong. Just probably now too overly 'realistically too cynical'. So please take my input with a grain of salt.
For context’ sake, for most of my adulthood I have always been poor & I am born with special health needs (E.g. disabilities).
\n\n\nSometimes on forums we are often contrasted to Canada, for some reason. Both Canada and Australia have remarkably similar problems with a different coat of paint. Sydney, for instance, has always been high up in the list of the cities with the highest cost of living in the world. Usually within the top 10-20.
COVID-19 obviously made this issue clearer in some circumstances because we couldn't 'work' at all. Unless you were an essential service worker, to mentally block out personal and local difficulties.\n\n\nWe still have not recovered from that 2–3 years global shutdown. The only reason I was allowed to work for a period was because I work for the animal industry and aid in animal welfare.
I still lost my job due to COVID-19 regardless and knew I would never get a decent job again. Merely just the last poor sod on the boat to be thrown off.
Could not become a vet nurse despite working very hard. Just because no one wants to give me '2-years permanent paid experience’ to be taken seriously.
At the same time, way too many employers will happily take 2+ years of veterinary students volunteering at their vet clinic. With the vague promise of a permanent job.
Which, of course, never happens, then say we are being too demanding or spoilt for politely asking for said job.\n\n\nHow are we supposed to pay off our student debt if any financial service expects us to have a per meant job to pay anything off??
No, they do not want to train nor help you. They just want free labour, then kick you out once your time is up. All my jobs have been casual, and my animal industry has already become heavily casual based ages ago. Permanent job is like looking for a magical unicorn.\n\n\nSo, even if you and your relatives lived in the way outer suburbs of Sydney for decades, being typically considered roughly lower-middle socio-economic families.
The younger adults and kids all know and have been aware for years, they have no future at all due to having an inflated cost of living. Sugar-coating it, saying it might go in a positive direction, sounds like a blatant lie. We all know it is a lie.\n\n\nNowadays, in contrast to the late nineties and early 2000s when I was just a tiny naive kid that didn't know any better. There seems to be a more jarring split between the income brackets of what the country assumes who is poor, middle class or rich today.
\n\nBy today's standards, my family is no longer even considered close to the very lower end of the middle class if you were reaching hard. We are considered 'poor' just because my parents do not earn roughly $50,000 — $150,000 AUD a year on their own in 2023. When I worked, I usually earned $30,000-$35,000 AUD or less per year before COVID-19 happened.\n\n\n(Source — https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/middle-class-aussies-were-living-better-in-the-early-2000s-than-they-are-today/news-story/fe173db5bbe2b705a8d05df8c5cb14ee)\n\n\nLife is only comfortable living there if you're a selfish landlord, a nepo baby, new money or old money.\n\n\nI feel like most governments and other systems are only strictly being run by sociopathic narcissists that only want us to stay poor to remain in poor conditions to benefit off of. Wouldn’t want any kid to be born in a world where there are no safe guarantees for their future if their guardian unexpectedly passes away or can longer care for them.
When something does not change within roughly 5–10 years, it is more than simply just valid for us to feel like we cannot fix what has been broken.
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| 2024-04-19 | 0 |
Unbelievable patience shown by delivery person \nThis customer is so abusive , racist and uncivilized, block this customer for safety
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| 2024-02-09 | 0 |
Huh, try to block the borders of any country for 3 weeks and see if they just freeze your bank account. Like anywhere. I hear Honduras is a Utopia for Toronto Sun readers looking to enjoy personal freedom, low taxes and little government interference. Maybe that's a better fit for you.
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| 2024-01-14 | 0 |
I'm using someone account. As male and business men in Canada since 1977 the problem is that British origin culture or its people, they want to turn anyone into slave. You ask for price and people say NO!!! Then they ask you> are you any good<? I mean, I done 250 homes in Vancouver BC and they still have doubts. After that they refuse to pay for services and so you work from hand to mouth. Even in the third world country, now, you make some of profit due to respect...Because they have to pay mortgage, people turn bitter and want to revenge on someone, or they are, or become> just mentally ill. When you are successful, due to your innovative methods, or providing for workers what they need, they cut you down saying > that you are propagating socialism in Canada, or will begin to block you, while using elite high tech mind controls... In my case they started to block my incoming business calls, because people I know for 30 years and I met in person in restaurants or while shopping, they just complained to me saying> I wanted to give you contract and I needed your reasonable services and tell me> why you are not unswerving my incoming cell phone calls? I mean, I sit in Starbucks in good reception zone and having two of cellphones and there is nothing....Maybe the other providers will not want to cross connect phone call to a Fido?
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| 2023-07-13 | 0 |
Listen... I'm all for helping out fellow human beings but it seems this person was blocking her way which you can see, and she explains that this isn't the first time he's done that! The fact he spoke to her in Indian just shows he is not culturally appropriated to our language or even laws for that matter! Never mind the fact he has packed up and moved his kids and wife assuming! We as long term citizens of our country need to tell our governments we need to focus on our own issues and not just let all these people in! Plus I looked up how much it was to study in India and let me say - it's a whole lot cheaper than it is in Canada, USA or Brittain as far as I'm concerned THEY are receiving money from outside sources to Spy and send info to others covertly! And I can smell a rat! Those people worship !multiple gods and are evil! They are not from Christian communities they are devil worshippers! They laugh and in their language talk to other Indians who love with us and call their big tech company's they work for! Spys! All of em!
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| 2023-05-14 | 0 |
Shes not lieying the banks in Canada block you as a black person even if you qualify. Most of their systems are like that
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| 2023-05-14 | 0 |
Maybe if border police had something to block them from coming in, like a fence, or a wall. Yeah! A wall. Weren’t we building a wall at the border? Who was the person that stopped construction on the wall? Hmm
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| 2023-02-27 | 3 |
Thank you for bringing up these points. I am surpriced you did not bring up the non-democrtic issues. Like how it is possible for the government to block someone with another political view to have access to their own bank accounts, even worse how they also block not only that person, but their family members accounts as well. And how the government intervene in funding in case the funding is for opposition causes, even foreign funding.
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| 2021-09-07 | 0 |
Canada is what you make of it. You can arrive rich and end up poor and you can arrive poor and end up rich. In between that, you can have a great life that balances your needs. I’ve seen immigrants succeed simply because they see the opportunity in front of them . They worked hard in their own counties to stay just above the poverty line ,but when they apply that same effort here it pays off ten times greater. I feel that compared to a lot of immigrants, natural born Canadians come across as spoiled and a little lazy…we are. We haven’t had to struggle the same way someone from a poorer country might have. I’ve talked to people who’ve worked ten to twelve hours a day just to stay afloat. If you did that here you could make plenty of money to live and have some left over. As far as owning a house goes,yes it’s expensive . I feel that homeownership in any country is relatively expensive. Here is a tip; use that soaring home prices to your advantage. Houses are expensive but you can make a lot of money buying and selling. I recommend putting together a buyers group and share the house for a few years, then sell at a profit, buy a bigger house or two smaller houses.try to buy the worst house in the best neighbourhood and fix it up slowly . That house could double in value in five or six years in the Toronto market. This is nothing new of course ,the people from India and China seem to do this a lot here ,it drives up prices and profits. On the downside to this ,you are now part of the problem. As the housing prices are driven up the non wealthy can no longer afford to own a house . They are at the mercy of high rents with no rewards of ownership. They are caught in a cycle of hard work and (relative)poverty. This could also be you if you can’t keep up the house payments and are forced to rent.\nHow well you speak English is important but your native language is also useful here because Canada is half immigrants . As a Canadian that speaks only english (Irish descent)I have to say to all newcomers that I’m very impressed that you have learned a new language and that you may even speak more than two! Don’t be embarrassed about your abilities . I find that in my experience , Canadians do not look down on people just because they don’t know English. In fact ,I’ve known people that have lived here for decades and still know very little English. They are comfortable in their communities and they function just fine. Learn as much English as suits your needs and be proud of any gains you make.\nOutside of Toronto are other cities that you might consider when looking at southern Ontario.From my experience,most are generally the same, just not as big . There are large immigrant communities in London Ontario, Hamilton and just outside of Toronto where housing is just a little bit less expensive but the commute to work is probably longer. This is just my opinion but in the small towns there are less people of colour , (which is what people of no colour call everyone else . I wonder if I’m called a person of no colour in some other culture ? LoL ). That might make it harder for you to feel integrated ,if that’s what you want. I’m not saying that people from other cultures can’t make it in a small town , I’m just saying that it’s definitely not Toronto . Here, people of any nationality can feel like they have a place where they can belong . It seems that no matter where you are from ,there is a community already here that’s set up restaurants and stores and clothing shops and newcomer support systems. And if your from Portugal or China or India or Africa or the Middle East, there are large groups of your kin here that have established roots for generations and you probably know this already.\nToronto means meeting place and that becomes evident quickly. I was born here and it’s one of the things I love the most about my city. I’m not going to say that there isn’t systemic racism here ,the people of no colour still kind of keep the top position , but as we become a minority in a decade or so ,I hope that will shift to a broader spectrum. It’s certainly happening already. One good thing is that the police department tries to hire people of colour so that racialism may play a smaller role. We’re getting used to seeing our politicians more and more reflect their constituents.\nI have to talk about the weather. Because I’m from here I’m used to the extremes of minus thirty and plus thirty . Eventually you get used to it (somewhat). Dressing in the right clothes is important. Summer is easy , but winter is different. It’s trying to kill you. Spend the most that you can afford on winter cloths . If you can afford a quality parka you should get one. The hood can be drawn around the face and stay out of the wind.\nIf not ,think of layers with a outer layer that blocks the wind. We have things called long Johns that are basically full length thick cotton or nylon pants that go on under your pants and a pair of extra thick socks. Buy your boots to fit your thick socks. Try to get the best boots you can afford ,it’s something that you might spend a little extra for but never regret.\nAll in all we are a fairly organized and peaceful society. Most people are friendly and will give you a chance . We have a good social safety net here and you don’t have to be homeless or starving if you don’t want to. There are people and organizations set up to help ,that truly try to get people back on their feet. It’s a good investment that pays off in ways that matter for the quality of life in a big city. I’m not putting my American neighbours down when I say they do things differently. They have their ways ,we have ours. This is just something that we do because we’re trying to learn how to help those that society has discarded or can’t find their place. Sure we have one or two areas where the homeless have pitched tents and we have some resources for them if they want. Unfortunately The mayor recently forced a small camp to move from a very visible place to more scattered locations. There were social workers involved as well as protesters trying to protect them. I didn’t like that happening and I want to see even more resources dedicated to them ,but on the other hand ,we are trying to avoid something like what happens on the streets when it’s just ignored. When I see YouTube videos of the streets of Philadelphia I’m extremely saddened. I thank the lucky stars that I was born in Toronto Canada.\nFor all it’s pollution and expense and crowds ,I think it’s a great place to do almost anything your heart desires . For every ugly building there is a beautiful park ,for every honked horn there is a birds call , for every cold and dark day there is beautiful sunny one around the corner.
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| 2021-07-01 | 0 |
My crush Asher Azeem \nYour personality left beautiful feelings for me in my teen age when I watched you in your block buster drama Dhuwan great personality and great human being
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