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March 03, 2024

As Canada maintains immigration at rates unseen in its history, an increasingly large share of those newcomers are finding that they hate it here, feel hoodwinked by the Canadian government and want to go home.

Amid statistics showing higher rates of outmigration and newcomer dissatisfaction, social media and immigrant forums are increasingly filled with warnings for foreigners to stay away.

This week, the website BlogTO published a series of interviews with recent immigrants who are desperate to leave.

“There is no living in this country; it’s just surviving,” said 39-year-old Raghunath Poshala. A Mexican immigrant told them he no longer sees Canada as a developed country. “I realized that Canada is a very poor country, too; it’s just that everyone is in debt,” he said.

Late last year, Bloomberg News interviewed a Ukrainian refugee who fled Russian shelling and missile attacks — only to find a Canada that was practically unliveable. “I’m tired all the ti...
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rising-numbers-of-new-immigrants-hate-it-in-canada-want-to-go-home

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Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It

While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen

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Some of these things I still miss

I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.

We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.

There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........

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