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Toronto traffic and congestion causing some to consider relocating, poll shows
by Lucas Casaletto, City News – July 16, 2024
A new survey commissioned by the Toronto Region Board of Trade indicates that a majority of Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) residents believe there is a traffic and congestion crisis, and some have considered relocating as a result.
The results pointed to a significant majority (86 per cent) of GTHA residents agreeing (45 per cent strongly and 41 per cent somewhat) that there is currently a traffic and congestion crisis. A similar majority believes that traffic and congestion negatively impact the GTA economy (85 per cent).
Other findings include locals feeling that traffic and congestion pose serious problems for their households (63 per cent, including 24 per cent strongly and 38 per cent somewhat agreeing) and often cause them to be late (58 per cent, including 21 per cent, strongly and 37 per cent somewhat agreeing).
The most significant impact of traffic is extended and unpredictable journey times (61 per cent), GTHA residents said.
The 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard placed Toronto as the 17th most congested city in the world, behind gridlocked behemoths like New York, Mexico City, London, Paris and Chicago, which made up the top five spots. Montreal was ranked 30th and the second Canadian city after Toronto.
GTHA residents support 24-hour road and public transit construction, survey shows
The GTHA residents surveyed in the online Ipsos poll attribute the cause of traffic and congestion to excessive construction or mismanagement thereof (68 per cent), followed by an excess of cars and trucks on the road (57 per cent).
Due to traffic and congestion in Toronto, half (53 per cent) of residents have considered relocating outside the region. Sixty-two per cent of those surveyed indicate they are reluctant to commute to work, and half (49 per cent) accept traffic and congestion as a part of living in a large city.
Canadian Woman Accused Of “Racism” After Witnessing Indians Defecating In “Poop Holes” On Ontario Beach
The Publica Team
- July 18, 2024
A Canadian woman in Ontario is facing accusations of “racism” after documenting her concerns about South Asians openly defecating in the sand at her local beach.
Last week, TikToker @itsnattylxnn2.0 posted a video discussing a number of incidents she had witnessed in her small Ontario home of Wasaga Beach. With a population of just 52,000 people, the idyllic community is situated on the Nottawasaga River, and is home to the world’s longest freshwater beach.
But while @itsnattylxnn2.0 is a permanent resident in the community, the town boasts a bustling tourist industry during the summer as people flock from out of town to enjoy the sandy shores. @itsnattylxnn2.0 says the problem emerged after she observed Indian families visiting the beach.
On July 7, the mother of three uploaded a video noting that she used to live at a property that backed onto the national park where the main beach area was located, and that she witnessed large Indian families digging holes in the sand to defecate in while visiting. After the holes were dug, tents were popped over the hole to act as a rudimentary outhouse.
“They did it off my back yard. There were three different families of maybe 25, 30 people that came for barbecues who would set up right on the fence of my back yard. I saw them digging the hole. I saw them placing a tent [over the hole]. When they left, there was poop,” @itsnattylxnn2.0 says in the video. “I have had to yell at people for shitting on the border of my property line. And yes, it was Indian families.”
Two days later, @itsnattylxnn2.0 posted a follow-up video responding to some comments she had received dismissing the open defecation as a cultural difference.
“We are not back home. We are in Canada. As a local, I refuse to let my kids dig in the sand on Beach One,” she said. In another video posted that day, @itsnattylxnn2.0 announced she was going to begin a series exposing those defecating on the beach.
As @itsnattylxnn2.0 continued her commentary on the issue, noting that many Canadians had reached out to her with similar stories.
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“I’m not a racist. I’ll never be racist. But what I am is a good person. Because you guys need to know what you are running into when you come to Wasaga Beach. And it’s not locals doing it. It is people from out of town. It is immigrants that think it is okay to dig a hole, pop a squat, and bury their poop where kids play in the sand,” she said.
As @itsnattylxnn2.0 continued her videos on the subject, more detractors began pouring into her comment section, accusing her of spreading racism against Indians.
Responding to @itsnattylxnn2.0, another creator, @Maryam, accused her of being a “colonizer” trying to impose her views of hygiene on other cultures. But @itsnattylxnn2.0 quickly dispelled that accusation, noting that she was of Indigenous Canadian heritage.
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@itsnattylxnn2.0 noted that some commenters, seemingly of Indian origin, had begun bullying and threatening her for her videos, with some even insulting her for being a single mother.
One Indian commenter claimed that he anticipated that @itsnattylxnn2.0 was going to falsify or “edit” videos to “fit her narrative.” But the issue of South Asians using beaches to defecate is not new and has a well-documented history.
In 2020, the Globe and Mail reported that tensions were beginning to rise in Ontario beach communities as locals expressed outrage at the massive uptick in public defecation happening on their shores. One community, St. Catharines, went so far as to vote to refuse beach access to anyone not from the immediate Niagara region.
While the Globe and Mail does not name the ethnicity of those suspected of public defecation, a cursory glance at message boards and subreddits dedicated to those communities all name South Asian immigrants as the perpetrators.
Open defecation is a known issue in India, and was so widespread that the United Nations launched a “poo in loo” campaign in 2013. The campaign featured an animated poop and catchy music encouraging Indians to “take their poo to the loo.”
As a result of the negative attention open defecation was causing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to build hundreds of millions of toilets in the country in an effort to quash open defecation once and for all. But while Modi declared India “open defecation free” in 2019, the practice is still widespread, with beaches being a particular hotspot.
DARK DAYS IN GERMANY. EVER DARKER. BANNING OF MEDIA OUTLET CRITICAL OF GOVERNMENT.
Jul 17, 2024
A German friend sends me posts, asks me to delete the emails as soon as I’ve read them. She holds that it’s too dangerous to have evidence anywhere of her having passed on such information (though nothing we send is private anyway). She has good reason to be afraid of the German government – “her” government.
What is going on?
I have just received this information.
THERE IS A BAN ON THE FIRST MEDIA OUTLET CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNMENT. EMPLOYEES ARE BANNED FROM WORKING THERE.
Special program on the Compact ban: Now it’s getting dangerous for everyone!
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser issued a ban against the company, Compact, on June 5. But Jürgen Elsässer and the Compact employees only found out about this today, July 16, when special forces occupied the building at 6am. Scandalous: this was preceded by no court proceedings, no hearings, no witness interrogations! Nancy Faeser goes it alone and bans the first media outlet critical of the government in Germany. In the special broadcast, AUF1 shows a document from the Frankfurt Administrative Court, a secret document from the Brandenburg Police Headquarters and publishes how Compact employees are now banned from working for Compact by decree.
➡️ Watch and share the special broadcast here: https://auf1.tv/auf1-spezial/sondersendung-zum-compact-verbot-jetzt-wird-es-fuer-alle-brandgefaehrlich
What is covered in the special broadcast?
In this special broadcast, Stefan Magnet and Martin Müller-Mertens uncover the background to the Compact ban. They make secret information public that, according to Faeser, should have remained classified. And they analyze what comes next. It’s going to be very dangerous. For alternative media, for everyone in Germany, but also for Nancy Faeser and the regime. Because Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in particular has taken a very high risk with today’s breach of taboo.
➡️ Watch and share the special broadcast here: https://auf1.tv/auf1-spezial/sondersendung-zum-compact-verbot-jetzt-wird-es-fuer-alle-brandgefaehrlich
Posted July 17, 2024
In the photo of Stefan Magnet and Martin Müller-Mertens accompanying the article, the two men look very very serious. They have good reason for this. As the words say, blazing across the image: NOW IT’S GETTING BURNING DANGEROUS.
Posted July 17, 2024
| The Starmer era has begun. The flurry of early announcements inspires little confidence Sir Keir Starmer was as good as his word. No sooner had he and Yvette Cooper, his Home Secretary, got going in their new roles than the Rwanda scheme was no more. Over two years of parliamentary time, three acts of parliament and £270 million to the Rwanda government – not a penny of which will be returned (who can blame them?) and Rwanda was in the bin. Sir Keir can argue all he likes that it was all in the Labour manifesto and that he had been telling us for some time what he would do with the Tory scheme, if elected. But to chuck it on the first day in office, before even consulting the experts who have been dealing with the problem for six years – and without anything to put in its place, smacks of hubris. And, dare we say, uncharacteristically impulsive for an ultra-cautious lawyer. While we at MW have said from the outset that ‘Rwanda’ was not the complete answer to the problem, we did think it would discourage some migrants from attempting the illegal, and dangerous, Channel crossing. As it is, there is now nothing to prompt migrants or traffickers to stop and think. The boats will keep coming and the 600 migrants who made it over in the past week will be joined by many thousands more. Sadly, more will also lose their lives, as four wretched souls did on Friday. So, what now? Sir Keir has already said it will take time to smash the gangs. Yep, you can say that again Prime Minister. What’s more, you won’t, Prime Minister. The gangs will continue to flourish. The easy money to be made from an inexhaustible supply of people (mostly young men) will spawn more and more gangs by the time of the next election. Knowing that once in the UK you are here to stay – whatever the mode of travel – and speeding up the processing of asylum applications and quickly moving on those being housed in hotels will only incentivise those prepared to jump into small boats to get here. The numbers are limitless. All the traffickers will hear is ‘kerching’ as their bank balances overflow. Meanwhile, Neil Basu, the former Assistant Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Met, earmarked to head the new Border Security Command, turned down the invitation to apply for the job. We do wonder if Mr Basu cast an eye over what he would have been tasked to do and immediately saw that he was onto a hiding to nothing. So far (and we realise it has only been nine days since the election), it has all been about illegal immigration and asylum. We have heard little about legal migration. Early on in the election campaign, Yvette Cooper acknowledged that immigration was too high and should come down but she didn’t say how this would be done. There seems to be an expectation that it will happen without any government action, beyond improving the points-based system (PBS). It won’t and as we keep saying, the catastrophic levels of net migration will continue for the foreseeable future. Millions of people will be added to our population (20 million by the mid-2040s if net migration settles at around 600,000 per annum). Rachel Reeves’s house-building plans – in the unlikely event of their ever materialising – will still leave us significantly short of what is needed. Meanwhile, the nature of our society will change irreversibly. We will be writing a lot about legal migration and its consequences in the coming months. |
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| Two brilliant pieces by the ever-excellent Professor Matthew Goodwin. Here “If there is one issue that holds the potential to completely derail Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the new Labour government then it is immigration. And one person who has also recognised this is none other than Tony Blair. In the days since Labour’s election victory, Blair, the most successful leader in his party’s history, has already warned Labour to make sure it controls illegal migration, law and order, and avoid ‘any vulnerability on wokeism’.” And here. Matt ends this piece with these poignant words: “The unique, post-Brexit realignment that made the Tory majority in 2019 is now well and truly over and looks distinctly unlikely to reappear anytime soon. And the Tories have only themselves to blame …” This is precisely what we at MW warned Boris Johnson would happen if he didn’t deliver on immigration promises. |
| MIGRATION WATCH IN THE MEDIA |
| Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, spoke to Martin Daubney of GB News about the legacy of New Labour and Tony Blair’s impact on immigration policy: |
| Dr. Mike Jones, Executive Chairman of Migration Watch UK, spoke to Jacob Rees-Mogg of GB News about the futility of “smashing the gangs,” Keir Starmer’s plans for a centralised border control unit, and the importance of amending or abolishing the Human Rights Act: |
| MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD |
| Both legal and illegal immigration are completely out of control. The situation will get worse and affect every nook and cranny of our lives. The Keir Starmer era is underway, and the British public will not put up for long with more vacuous outpourings from the new leadership – “We will: smash the gangs; build more houses; sign agreements; process applicants quickly; get them out of hotels; remove those who don’t qualify (really?)… etc, etc. But will you reduce immigration and will you stop the boats, Prime Minister? Be warned Sir Keir, if you fail, we will do to you what we did to the Conservatives and vote you out of office in 2029. It’s how democracy works. If you feel as we do, please write to your new MP today. |
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