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Canada’s Population Passes 41 Million Later This Week
March 25, 2024 by Brian Wang

Canada’s population will reach 41.0 million by the end of this week [about March 31, 2024]. Statistics Canada’s real-time tracker has the population at 40.98 million.

Poland’s national statistics agency reports 37.7 million people. The UN numbers for Canada and Poland are off by 2-3 million for each country. The UN overestimates Poland and underestimates Canada.

It took 26 years to go from 30 to 40 million. Canada reached 40.0 million on June 16, 2023.

Canada passed 39.0 million in August, 2022.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/c ... -week.html

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NDP kills deal that propped up Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, putting his minority government at risk

Sept. 4, 2024



OTTAWA—New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh is ripping up his 2022 deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to support the Liberal government— a move that immediately makes for a more unstable minority Parliament and could create the conditions for a snap election call.

It does not automatically trigger an election because the 24 NDP members of Parliament could continue to support the 154-member minority Liberal government on a vote-by-vote basis — which is exactly what the Liberals are counting on — rather than automatically moving to declare lost confidence in Trudeau.

The collapse of the agreement does, however, mean Singh could introduce a non-confidence vote or vote for any such motion the Conservatives or Bloc Québécois could present, potentially plunging the country into a federal campaign — which the Conservatives immediately demanded.

In a recorded video statement released Wednesday on social media, Singh said he is cancelling the “supply and confidence agreement” 10 months early because the Liberals cannot be trusted to fight or win what he says is a battle “for the future of the middle class.”

Singh said the governing Liberals have proved they “will always cave to corporate greed,” and “don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” adding the Liberals are “careering towards irrelevancy.”

https://www.thestar.com/politics/ndp-ki ... 56dc6.html

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I think an election will be called next year and the conservatives will have a majority government. LGBT rights are completely fucked in canada.

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I think an election will be called next year and the conservatives will have a majority government. LGBT rights are completely fucked in canada.

Not as much as farther south.

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Bloc Ahead in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun Byelection: Poll
by Michel Saba
September 12, 2024

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(City News Everywhere) The Liberal stronghold of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun might fall next Monday, as a recent poll by Mainstreet Research reveals that Bloc Québécois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauvé is leading in voter intentions for the riding, where a byelection is set to take place with national significance.

The poll shows 29.6 per cent support for the Bloc candidate. The Liberal Party of Canada candidate, Laura Palestini, is in second with 24.1 per cent, and the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate, Craig Sauvé, has 23.0 per cent support. The Conservative Party of Canada candidate, Louis Ialenti, is trailing with 7.3 per cent.

“I’m cautiously optimistic,” said BQ candidate Sauvé to CityNews.

The poll, conducted from Saturday to Monday using automated calls with 443 adults residing in the riding, has a margin of error of 4.7 per cent, 19 times out of 20. It confirms that the Bloc Québécois maintains its lead, even though another poll by the same firm on September 3 and 4 showed 30.7 per cent for the Bloc candidate, 23.3 per cent for the Liberal, 19.4 per cent for the NDP, and 8.1 per cent for the Conservative. The Canadian Press had access to this poll, which had not been made public.

“The size of the heart of this man is incredible,” said Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet to CityNews. “The conviction with which he walks the streets and speaks to people is absolutely incredible and this is why I agreed rapidly with him being candidate, and this is why I believe he’s got very good chances to be the next MP for this riding.”

Read more here: https://montreal.citynews.ca/2024/09/1 ... lection/

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Inflation cools sharply to 2% in August, hitting Bank of Canada’s target

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/i ... r-AA1qHXLM

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Trudeau Survives Attempt to Force Snap Election by Poilievre

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tr ... r-AA1rcIS7

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