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14% of Canadians struggling to heat, cool their homes: Statistics Canada

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

‘In 2023, 14 percent of Canadian households reported that they kept their dwelling at an unsafe or uncomfortable temperature for at least 1 month in the past 12 months because of unaffordable heating or cooling costs,’ StatsCan reported.

Statistics Canada has found that as energy costs continue to rise, some Canadians are unable to afford to properly heat or cool their homes. 

On October 30, Statistics Canada reported that many Canadians are keeping their homes at “unsafe or uncomfortable” temperatures as they are unable to pay energy bills amid Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ongoing energy regulations and taxes.

“In the face of rising energy prices, not all Canadian households are able to adequately heat and cool their dwellings, resulting in possible increased risk of climate-related morbidity and even death,” StatsCan wrote.   

“In 2023, 14 percent of Canadian households reported that they kept their dwelling at an unsafe or uncomfortable temperature for at least 1 month in the past 12 months because of unaffordable heating or cooling costs,” the report continued.  

The research found that over a quarter of households (26 percent) in 2023 did not use air conditioning. Similarly, 26 percent of Canadians do not have air conditioning or cooling equipment in their homes.   

36 percent of those who went without air conditioning lived in the lowest income bracket, while only 15 percent were in the highest income bracket.  

Furthermore, Canadians living in apartments are least likely to have air conditioning. Numbers revealed 38 percent of Canadians in low-rise apartments and 33 percent of Canadians in high-rise apartment do not use air conditioning.  

According to StatsCan, a lack of air condition can “lead to dangerous living conditions and has been linked to an increased risk of heat-related morbidity and mortality.” 

The report found that 2 percent of households were so affected by their home being too hot or too cold that a member of their household required medical care.  

As energy bills continue to rise, one in seven Canadians have been forced to go without necessities, such as food and medicine, to pay their energy bills. Additionally, about 8 percent revealed that they have had to go without necessities for at least three months.  

Research found that 27 percent of those who have had to sacrifice basic necessities to pay energy bills are single-parent families. Single parents are 1.5 times more likely to forfeit necessities than couples with children and 3 times more likely than couples without children.  

Additionally, some Canadians are unable to make their payments at all. In the past 12 months, 3 percent of households said their energy was disconnected or shut off, while one in ten reported that they could not pay their bill on time or at all. 

The StatsCan findings come amid ongoing debate over Trudeau’s carbon tax, which extends to many forms of home heating.  

Trudeau recently determined to suspend the carbon tax for home heating oil, a decision which has been criticized for benefiting Atlantic provinces, a historically Liberal stronghold, while leaving western and Conservative provinces literally out in the cold.    

As a result, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said his province will stop collecting a federal carbon tax on natural gas used to heat homes come January 1, 2024, unless it gets a similar tax break as the Atlantic Canadian provinces.   

However, Trudeau, along with other Liberal officials, have announced that no more concessions are to be made.  

“There will absolutely not be any other carve-outs or suspensions of the price on pollution,” Trudeau told reporters. “This is designed to phase out home heating oil, the way we made a decision to phase out coal… This is specifically about ending the use of home heating oil.”    

Trudeau’s statement was supported by both Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.    

Wilkinson dismissed Moe’s demand of further tax relief, saying, “There will be no more carve-outs coming.”    

“We expect him to comply with the laws of the land,” he added. “It is a requirement that they collect that or that it be collected in some way.”   

Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre condemned the rising energy costs citing the carbon tax as a driving factor and making reference to the StatsCan report.   

“Already, 14 percent of Canadians are living with unsafe temperatures in their homes. One in 10 have missed a heating bill in the last 12 months. Will he, before people go cold and hungry, axe the tax so that people can keep the heat on?” he asked in Parliament.  

Trudeau’s decision comes as Atlantic Liberals are beginning to vote alongside Conservatives to end the carbon tax. The Atlantic provinces have voted primarily Liberal since 2015, but recent polls reveal that many Canadians living there plan to vote Conservative.    

Trudeau’s carbon tax, framed as a way to reduce carbon emissions, has cost Canadians hundreds more annually despite rebates.     

The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer calculated the total carbon tax costs for fuel in 2023 minus the government rebates. The steepest increase is for Albertans, who will pay an average of $710 extra per household. Following Alberta is Ontario with a $478 increase.  

Prince Edward Island households will pay an extra $465, Nova Scotia $431, Saskatchewan $410, Manitoba $386, and Newfoundland and Labrador $347.   

The increased costs are only expected to rise, as a recent report revealed that a carbon tax of more than $350 per tonne is needed to reach Trudeau’s net-zero goals by 2050.      

Currently, Canadians living in provinces under the federal carbon pricing scheme pay $65 per tonne, but the Trudeau government has a goal of $170 per tonne by 2030.

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Firm tied to voter registration ‘scheme’ goes dark

Published on November 2, 2024

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From left, Lancaster County Commissioner Alice Yoder, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, Commissioners Ray D’Agostino and Josh Parsons. The officials held a press conference on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, to discuss voter registration fraud detected in the county.

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Everybody Votes runs an office in Lancaster County, where election workers recently found suspicious registration forms among a batch of 2,500 applications delivered last week. Investigators there said at least 60% of those reviewed were fraudulent.

The media and consulting firm linked to fraudulent voter registration forms in Pennsylvania earlier this week has gone dark as of Saturday.

Field and Media Corps – the website and social media accounts of which are now defunct – is an Arizona-based company that contracts with Everybody Votes to run a canvassing operation in Pennsylvania and other states that target low-income minority residents unregistered to vote.

The Monroe County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Wednesday that 30 registration forms contained fraudulent information, including an application submitted on behalf of a dead resident.

Everybody Votes runs an office in Lancaster County, where election workers recently found suspicious registration forms among a batch of 2,500 applications delivered last week. Investigators there said at least 60% of those reviewed were fraudulent. So far, the campaign has not been tied directly to the investigation.

Not so in nearby York County, where law enforcement continues reviewing another delivery from the operation leading up to the Oct. 22 deadline to register.

On Wednesday, the America First Policy Institute, a conservative-leaning research nonprofit,  demanded a federal investigation into the company.

“Where there’s fire, there’s fire,” said Hogan Gidley, vice chairman of the institute’s Center for Election Integrity. “Thousands of instances of reported voter registration fraud have now been confirmed throughout Pennsylvania.”

He described Field and Media Corps, established in 2017, as a “high-powered left-wing organization” that may have launched similar “schemes” across the country that require state-level investigations.

“Submitting fraudulent registrations right at the voter deadline to overwhelm election officials is exactly the kind of scheme that the Department of Justice should be using their force and resources to stop,” he said.

Evidence also exists that Everybody Votes is linked to a left-wing super political action committee intent on expanding registration numbers for Democrats in battleground states.

According to public tax records shared with The Center Square, The Voter Registration Project, also known as Everybody Votes, describes itself as a public charity that helps low-income minority citizens register to vote and provides technical assistance to voter registration drives.

The organization reported $45.8 million in total revenues in 2022, a “substantial portion of which comes from a governmental unit or the general public.”

A 2023 report from Capital Research Center, a conservative nonprofit, says left-wing donors together raised $190 million for the campaign to register 5.1 million voters across the country – all in violation of federal law that bars 501(c)(3) from engaging in such activity.

The strategy, detailed in a 2019 leaked memo from Mind the Gap, the liberal super PAC in question, entices investors by promising a more cost-effective strategy to boost vote counts for Democrats – namely through voter registration drives.

The group pointed to its direct role in flipping the U.S. House blue in 2018 as “proof of concept.”

Detailed further in the report are signed tax forms from donors that link their grants to the Voter Registration Project in direct support of Mind the Gap. The Capital Research Center estimates President Joe Biden collected between 1 million and 2.7 million swing state votes in the 2020 election as a result.

Biden defeated then-incumbent President Donald Trump 306-232 in electoral college votes; the popular vote was Biden 81.2 million to 74.2 million.

Francisco Heredia, who runs Field and Media Corps, told Votebeat earlier this week he’d not heard from county officials in Pennsylvania, but would cooperate with the investigation. He said the company trains workers how to legally complete registration forms and has no tolerance for fraud.

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Nearly 1,100 known, suspected terrorists apprehended at US northern border, equivalent to U.S. Army battalion

Published on September 1, 2024

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Canada officials express alarm about terrorism threats, Americans about impact on US

In addition to members of Congress expressing alarm about national security threats at the U.S.-Canada border, members of the Conservative Party of Canada are blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government for being responsible for creating them.

A Canadian House of Commons hearing was held Wednesday to investigate how the Trudeau government granted citizenship to a member of ISIS who allegedly plotted a terrorist attack against Canadians.

An Egyptian father and son were arrested last month for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in the Toronto area after the father was admitted into Canada in 2018 and granted citizenship in 2024. This was after in 2015 the father allegedly appeared in an ISIS propaganda video, which was shown during the hearing.

Canadian authorities claimed to have thoroughly vetted him before granting him citizenship in May 2024 even though he had aggravated assault charges on his record from 2015 “for the benefit of the Islamic State somewhere outside Canada,” according to the hearing.

Members of the Conservative Party blasted Trudeau and his government, arguing a member of ISIS should not “have been allowed into Canada, let alone granted Canadian citizenship. Canadians deserve to feel safe in their own communities.”

A senior official of the Canada Border Services Agency told MPs that CBSA officers “made the best decisions that we could at that moment in time based on the information we had. Can we do a better job of collectively gathering some of that information? I don’t know. We need to determine that,” CBC reported.

The father and his son, who is not a Canadian citizen, face nine charges, including conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit or at the direction of a terrorist group, ISIS.

The father, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, was granted a visitor visa by the Trudeau government in 2018. He later filed a refugee claim, which was granted. Next, he was granted permanent resident status in 2021 and citizenship in May 2024, according to the hearing.

“This was allowed to happen even though Eldidi is alleged to have appeared dismembering a prisoner in an ISIS video published in 2015,” the Conservative Party of Canada said.

Canadian authorities also claimed the video “wasn’t available to officials who were screening” him, CBC reported. Canada’s Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said there was “no way” Canadian officials could have known about the video.

The video was reportedly posted on Jihadology.net in June 2015, an American-based website that catalogues ISIS propaganda, according to information from the hearing.

In July, the pair were arrested only after French authorities alerted Canadians about alleged terrorist ties, first reported by Global News.

“If not for that late tip from a foreign government, it’s highly likely many innocent Canadians would be dead today,” the Conservative Party of Canada said. “Justin Trudeau has repeatedly claimed that his government has thorough screening at our borders, he has claimed he takes terrorism and national security seriously, but this foiled terror attack shows that this isn’t the case.”

The hearing was held one month after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested a Canadian woman on terrorism-related offenses. The arrest stemmed “from an ongoing criminal investigation regarding allegations that the individual left Canada and traveled to Syria in 2015 to join ISIS,” the RCMP said in statement.

It was also held after MPs demanded answers about the arrest of a reporter when asking a Canadian minister why the Iranian Islamist Revolutionary Guard Corps hadn’t been designated as a terrorist organization. RCMP security detail reportedly grabbed and arrested the individual; the RCMP officer was reportedly put “under review.”

The reporter “was arrested and accosted on trumped-up charges by the RCMP,” Marilyn Gladu, a Conservative MP, said, adding the Trudeau government “has created a climate where journalists can face criminal charges for demanding answers on critical subjects.”

IRGC is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces designated by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization.

Members of Congress have called on the Biden administration to strengthen the U.S.-Canada border after the Trudeau government expanded entry to Gazans after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, The Center Square reported. The majority of Gazans voted Hamas into power and violent attacks against Jews in America and threats of terrorism have increased. While the Canadian Consul General in New York Tom Clark told The Center Square the Canadian government has “taken every step to ensure the security of Canadians and Americans is in no way jeopardized,” several U.S. and Canadian officials disagree.

Members of Congress have called for stronger security measures after the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists, including an Iranian with terrorist ties, have been apprehended by U.S. officials at the northern border under the Biden and Trudeau administrations since fiscal 2021, The Center Square first reported.

They total nearly 1,100, slightly more than one U.S. Army battalion.

Americans have expressed concerns about why a record number on the U.S. terrorist watch list are in Canada, aren’t being stopped by Canadian authorities prior to attempting to enter the U.S. and question how many more entered the U.S. from Canada who evaded capture.

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