Liberal Minority Government 2021 - ????

[Haggis]

I assume they heard that the next Cabinet meeting is in Nanaimo, for some reason, and are in fear for their lives

Statistics show violent crime severity up 44 per cent in Nanaimo

Nanaimo climbs up crime severity index, but underlying factors can skew the numbers

www.nanaimobulletin.com

That article is from over two years and two gun bans ago. I'm sure Nanaimo is much safer now.

 

[daftandbarmy]

That article is from over two years and two gun bans ago. I'm sure Nanaimo is much safer now.

Of course it is

Nanaimo's crime severity among Canada's 10 worst, but situation improving​

Nanaimo’s crime rate has dropped, but the city's crime severity index is still in Canada’s top 10.

According to Statistics Canada data released last month, Nanaimo’s crime severity index fell two per cent in 2023 compared to 2022 and the city's crime rate overall went down nine per cent.

The crime rate, which excludes traffic offences, is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 population. Nanaimo in 2023 tallied 10,200 crimes.

Crime severity indexes are drawn from criminal code incidents reported by police departments across the country. They are meant as a representation of the seriousness of crimes committed, with violent crimes and child sex abuse cases, for example, ranking higher on the scale.

But in spite of lowered crime incident and severity figures, StatsCan still pegged Nanaimo as Canada’s sixth-worst municipality for crime severity after Kamloops, with the country's highest crime severity index of 165.3, followed by Chilliwack at 156.2; Red Deer, Alta., 146.3, and Lethbridge, Alta. and Winnipeg, which tied at 129.1. Nanaimo is followed by Kelowna with a CSI of 118.6, Regina at 111.6, Abbotsford-Mission, 107.6 and Edmonton, 105.

Nanaimo's crime severity among Canada's 10 worst, but situation improving

Crime rate and crime severity index were both down from previous year

www.vicnews.com

 

[Rifleman62]

Beware the ides Idiots of September.

 

[QV]

Bloc leader hits back at Danielle Smith as they trade shots over Liberal-Bloc deal

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet engaged in a war of words over a possible Bloc-Liberal deal.

nationalpost.com

Yves-Francois Blanchet is absolutely right here.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Interesting stats from Angus Reid ....

The Missing Political Middle: One-third of Canadians say they feel like ‘orphans’ as parties move farther apart -

Half of Canadians believe no federal political party ‘really represents’ their views September 12, 2024 – ‘Extremism’ and ‘polarization’ have become common terms framing the discussion of Canada’s political scene. As federal political parties take turns labelling the other as extremists, there...

angusreid.org

Highlights

 

[Halifax Tar]

So I guess JT now wants to move thousands of immigrants out of Que and Ont too BC, Alberta, NB and NS.

The NS Premier:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1834336299479707863

Incase the link doesn't work:

Nova Scotians are caring, compassionate people, but we will not be taken advantage of by the federal government.

The reality is that our population is growing from immigration, migration and retention. Our immigration growth is strategic - focused on filling shortages in healthcare and trades. We have to stick to this focused plan, aimed to fill strategic vacancies and we ask that the federal government respect our plan.

It is simply unacceptable for the Trudeau government to try to force thousands of asylum seekers on our Province at this time. Nova Scotia simply does not have the capacity to accept thousands of asylum seekers. We cannot let the failure of federal policies derail our plan and we have communicated to Trudeau’s cabinet that any attempt to ship asylum seekers to Nova Scotia will be challenged.

We are calling on the Trudeau government to drop the idea, listen to Nova Scotians and let us focus on our strategic and sustainable plan that is attracting the professionals our province needs.

Not sue what he can do to stop it. But here is hoping the sitting Gov falls before they can do more damage to Canada.

And

'EI kind of folks': Cape Breton MP criticized for comment about Atlantic Canadians

Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste is taking some heat for a remark about Atlantic Canadians.

atlantic.ctvnews.ca

With politicians like this, who needs enemies ?

 

[Rifleman62]

All the interviews I have seen of Liberal MPs/Cabinet Ministers commenting during/after Nanaimo meeting, indicates that they have no clue the circumstances of the taxpayers who are their employers.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Interesting stats from Angus Reid ....

The who-has-moved-left-or-right-more question isn't meaningfully answered by simply asking people what they observe, because there are no independent reference points. I am confident that the perception of conservatives moving right is as wrong here as it is in the US - if you're a progressive rapidly moving left but you flatter yourself you're a centrist and you're unaware of your own velocity, it just looks like conservatives are moving right. Frame of reference matters.

The independent reference points are specific policies and issues. For example, conservatives have moved left on same-sex marriage and improved respect of rights for all persons - not all, but not none. Drill down into issues of the past few decades and mostly the same phenomenon will be observed: progressive-initiated changes are implemented with resistance from conservatives; conservatives hopefully manage to work out some of the kinks over time (there are always going to be some); but, gradually, the change is almost always accepted to some degree. Progressives and conservatives are both moving left, but at different velocities. It's the progressives who are moving with more speed.

Obviously the true "centre of mass" must move left. But after a while, we should expect the gap to widen enough that the population of true centrists is much smaller than either the mass of progressives or mass of conservatives, each clustered around some "average". We're already past that point, which is why centrism has little traction. I doubt there are any satisfactory solutions which involve one group imposing its values on the other.

[Add: rather than "left" and "right" we could just substitute "the general direction progressives want to move", and "the general direction progressives do not want to move".]