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Sean Maxwell retweeted
STILL MISSING in #Elora.
STILL MISSING. Yupa, a cream & grey short-hair male cat, went missing in the Beatty Line N & Wellington Rd 18 area of #CentreWellington. He was spotted downtown #Elora on Aug 11. If you have any info about him please contact Taylor via facebook.com/groups/12826161… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
STILL MISSING in #Guelph.
MISSING. Floki, a cream & brown short-hair neutered male cat, was last seen Sept 30. He normally roams Stuart St btwn Palmer St & Lemon St & sometimes close to Eramosa Rd in #Guelph. If you have any info please contact Natasha via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
MISSING. Friendly, a 14 yr old grey tabby short-hair cat was reported missing near Grange St & William St in #Guelph on Oct 26. Please keep an eye out & do not chase. Any info contact Amy via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
MISSING. Bluey, a grey & yellow cockatiel with red cheeks & white patch on wings, lives on Alma St & was last seen on an apartment building on Bagot St in #Guelph on Oct 25. If you spot him or have any info please contact his family via petfbi.org/api/view/824433/w… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
🇨🇦 LEST WE FORGET
October 26, 1917 — Canadians Begin Their Assault at Passchendaele
Into the mud, under fire, and against overwhelming conditions.
On this day in 1917, Canadian soldiers began their offensive at Passchendaele, Belgium, in what would become one of the most gruelling chapters of Canada’s First World War history.
After months of fighting, the battlefield had been reduced to a devastated landscape of flooded shell craters, shattered trees, barbed wire, and seemingly endless mud. The ground was so treacherous that simply moving forward, carrying supplies, or evacuating the wounded could become a life-threatening ordeal.
Under Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, the Canadian Corps had spent days preparing for the assault, improving roads, positioning artillery, and planning a series of limited advances.
On the morning of October 26, the 3rd and 4th Canadian Divisions went forward.
The 3rd Division advanced toward Bellevue Spur, encountering fierce German resistance from fortified positions. To the south, the 4th Division fought toward the higher ground leading to Passchendaele.
Progress was painfully slow. Soldiers struggled through deep mud while exposed to machine-gun fire, artillery bombardment, and counterattacks. Some units secured their initial objectives, while others faced intense fighting for every stretch of ground.
The human cost was devastating. Over the first three days of the offensive, approximately 2,500 Canadians were killed or wounded, a sobering indication of the price being paid for every advance.
For those on the battlefield, October 26 was not a moment of celebration. It was a day of extraordinary hardship, courage, and loss.
Today, 109 years later, we remember the Canadians who advanced into those terrible conditions, those who never returned, and those who carried the memories of Passchendaele for the rest of their lives.
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget #CanadianHistory #WWI
Sean Maxwell retweeted
FIRST READING: Fifteen days, fifteen identity-based criminal sentences nationalpost.com/opinion/fir…
Sean Maxwell retweeted
MISSING. Rat, a black short-hair female cat with a small white patch on her stomach, was last seen on First Line in #Elora on Oct 19. Ear tipped & microchipped. If you have any info about her contact Zahra via facebook.com/groups/sebunyan… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
STILL MISSING in #Guelph.
MISSING. 2 yr old black short-hair neutered male cat last seen near Eastview Rd & Summit Ridge Dr in #Guelph on the morning of Oct 18. If you have any info about him please contact Corina via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”
Rudyard Kipling
Why should I stockpile and what will I need? bbc.in/4yESD4t
Sean Maxwell retweeted
What fascinates me about the immigration debate in Canada is the lack of outrage from the 'Left'. The results are in; the evidence is clear. The policy was extremely regressive.
Corporations Won; Workers Lost.
Unions, Academics, Students, Commies. Where are you? Are you not vexed that this government is set to put Workers through the meat grinder again?
The Canadian government's mass immigration policies of the last 10 years were highly regressive. Having seemingly learned nothing, they are dead set on turning back on the taps rather than letting the country heal.
On cue, the media has begun parroting the government's narrative and gaslighting anyone who disagrees. This suggests that they remain blissfully unaware that the Bank of Canada has written extensively about how (mass) immigration has negatively affected housing, rents, inflation, labour supply, wages, and productivity. So I've compiled an inexhaustive list to help these folks.
🏘️- Monetary Policy Report, October 2023
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▶️"The strength in rent and other housing costs is partly due to strong housing demand, which is supported by rapid population growth, and a structural lack of housing supply"
🏘️- Staff Analytical Note, December 2023
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▶️"The rise in immigration is nonetheless contributing to pressures in inflation components linked to house prices, given that it is adding more to housing demand than to housing supply in the context of structural imbalances in the Canadian housing market."
🏘️ - Speech by Toni Gravelle, December 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2023/12/econ…
▶️"When a country’s population is growing quickly, the supply of housing also needs to increase to avoid a worsening in affordability. Shortly after immigration began ramping up in 2015, Canada’s vacancy rate—a measure of how many apartments and houses there are available to rent or buy—started to fall."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, January 2024
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▶️"A larger increase in newcomers than in the past is adding pressure to the structural supply constraint in housing. This has helped to push the overall housing vacancy rate to record lows, which has underpinned house prices and led to higher rents (Chart 3-A)."
🏘️ - Staff Analytical Note, April 2024
🔗 bankofcanada.ca/2024/04/staf…
▶️"Meanwhile, the composition of immigrants coming to Canada has changed considerably since 2015. Historically, growth of the immigrant population in Canada came mostly from permanent residents....While the wages of the earlier immigrants are closer to those of Canadian-born workers and have been increasing over time, those of non-permanent residents are much lower and have fallen over this period. Because real hourly wages are typically correlated with labour productivity, this piece of evidence is consistent with non-permanent residents working in less productive occupations."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, July 2024
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▶️"The increase in housing demand from newcomers is being felt across all types of housing, but the largest initial impact tends to be in rental markets. This is because most newcomers start out as renters."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
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▶️"if newcomers’ conditional wages reflect their labour productivity, the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socio-economic characteristics as in the past."
▶️"However, this gain has been particularly acute for certain industries such as accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade. Labour productivity in these industries—which are comprised of a sizable share of lower-skilled occupations—is lower than the average in the business sector."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2025/06/staf…
▶️"Youth—individuals 15–24 years of age—represent a significant portion of the overall increase in unemployment since the start of 2023. This is a larger share than during other periods of rising unemployment (Chart 5). This is partly due to the high number of immigrants, who are generally younger than the rest of the population."
👨🌾 - Speech by Nicolas Vincent, May 2026
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▶️“The labour market is particularly challenging for young people”: The 2022–24 influx of young newcomers “intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs”. Youth unemployment has risen above 14%, and he expects it may normalize now that immigration has been cut.
🏘️ - Staff Article, September 2026
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2026/09/spar…
▶️"Strong population growth drove asking rents higher in recent years"
Sean Maxwell retweeted
STILL MISSING. Buddy Grey, an indoor light grey tabby short-hair male cat, was last seen by Bishop Ct & Coventry Dr in #Guelph on June 27. May have been taken in by someone. Any info please contact Tammy via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
MISSING. Buddy, a light grey tabby short-haired male cat, was last seen in the area where Stone Rd & College Ave wrap around & meet in #Guelph on June 27. Skittish - please do not chase. If you spot him or have any info contact Kyle via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
MISSING. 2 yr old black short-hair neutered male cat last seen near Eastview Rd & Summit Ridge Dr in #Guelph on the morning of Oct 18. If you have any info about him please contact Corina via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
I’ve increasingly come to worry about the rise of “judicial nihilism” (for lack of a better term) in Canada.
We have a justice system that spends enormous energy considering the personal circumstances of offenders, their rights, identities, mental health, and prospects for rehabilitation. Yet it seems unconcerned with the victims whose lives have been destroyed, or the public that must live with the consequences when dangerous individuals repeatedly reoffend.
I think we need to take judicial reform more seriously, rather than dismissing concerns about overreach and malfeasance as conservative fearmongering.
The more I look at recent cases (many highlighted by @sarkonakj) the more concerned I become that our institutions are losing sight of some basic moral values in justice.
I’ve been thinking about the
principles that should guide us to a more liberal, rules-based approach to criminal justice (I’ll admit that this is hardly new thinking, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen them laid out):
1. Justice should begin with victims, whose suffering should never become secondary to the circumstances of offenders.
2. Protecting the public from dangerous individuals must be a central responsibility of sentencing, and we should lean towards caution.
3. Punishment must be a meaningful deterrent and reflect the gravity of crimes. Some crimes warrant permanent imprisonment (if not capital punishment). Some crimes are so heinous that the mere prospect of rehabilitation should not be considered.
4. Repeat offenders should face dramatically greater consequences, including long-term incarceration or asylum to protect society. Nobody with dozens of separate criminal convictions should be roaming freely.
5. Mental illness should determine treatment and facility type, not reduce punishment. The bar for criminal non-responsibility should also be much higher than it is today.
6. Sentencing must apply to those convicted equally, based on actions and responsibility, not race, religion, cultural identity, immigration status etc. The rule of law should be non-discriminatory, the right time to address the “root causes” of crime and pursue social justice is before crime is committed.
7. Parliament needs to figure out how to reclaim its authority, with courts exercising much greater restraint in constitutional interpretations.
8. Judicial “independence” must be balanced with meaningful accountability for serious failures and overreach. The judiciary is not supreme to legislature.
I worry that too many political leaders have become uncomfortable defending the very concepts of order, punishment and personal responsibility, as though doing so is somehow incompatible with liberal moral values.
They aren’t.
A liberal democracy has two fundamental obligations. To protect people from the arbitrary exercise of government power, and to protect them from the violence and predation of others.
We cannot fulfill one by neglecting the other. They are together the necessary preconditions for liberty.
When the public sees rulings that seem fundamentally disconnected from shared expectations of right and wrong, it erodes trust in the system.
Order and public safety are necessary conditions for freedom.
The freedom to walk down the street, take public transit, operate a business or simply live peacefully in your own home means little if the government cannot protect you from disorder, violence and criminality. It’s often those with the fewest resources who suffer most when that protection fails.
If we want Canadians to have faith in the rule of law, they need to believe that it applies equally, that serious wrongdoing carries serious consequences, that dangerous people will not repeatedly be allowed to victimize others, and that the system will not be careless with the lives and suffering of victims.
“Arnold and Joanne De Jong were in their seventies when three men they had once hired to clean their gutters came back to their Abbotsford home in the middle of the night in May 2022 and murdered them. Arnold was suffocated, his head wrapped in duct tape. Joanne was beaten, and her throat was cut. The killers left with the couple’s cheques, credit cards, and a power washer. The trial judge found they planned to murder the De Jongs because they knew they would be recognized in the course of their robbery.
On Monday, the De Jongs’ daughters came to court expecting to watch those men receive justice in sentencing. Instead, they heard the judge declare that the law denying multiple murderers any chance at early parole violates the Charter’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The cruelty, apparently, lies in making men who suffocated an old man with duct tape and bludgeoned his wife wait 25 years before asking to go free. Sentencing has been pushed to 2027.
Canadians settled this question a long time ago, and we settled it twice. A Liberal government in 1997 and a Conservative government in 2011, elected by different voters with different priorities, each concluded that people who kill more than once should be offered no early exit. That is what a free people does with its moral convictions: it argues about them, elects representatives who share them, and writes them into law. One judge has now informed Canadians that the answer they reached together, through two elected Parliaments, isn’t allowed.”
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I don’t think there is any issue I’ve become more conservative on more than the sickness in our judicial system, even as I’ve become more left than I used to on economics/role of government.
It feels like several times a week there is another story that represents a deep miscarriage of justice, ill consideration for victims, or neglects society’s need for and equally applied rule of law or real punishment as a deterrence to crime. I fear there is not enough recourse to judges who reinterpret the constitution to ideological ends better left to the actual legislature.
This story honestly makes me sick and it saddens me that there are no practical accountability options for the judiciary in a case like this.
@stevestaley
thehub.ca/2026/10/21/how-can…
Sean Maxwell retweeted
Migrant workers brutally killed two elderly British Columbians who employed them and now we are being told that it's against their Charter rights to jail them for 25 years without a shot at parole. What a disgrace.
Murder parole rules ‘unconstitutional’, B.C. judge rules
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Sean Maxwell retweeted
Indoor cat MISSING. Brown tabby short-hair neutered male cat last seen at Borland Dr & Gibbs Cres in #Guelph's Clairfields neighbourhood on Oct 16. Please check yard, garage etc if you live in area. Do not chase. Any info contact Selina via facebook.com/groups/guelphfu… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
STILL MISSING. Lily, a young brown tabby short-haired female cat, was last seen in the Sideroad 24 & 4th Line area of #Hillsburgh on Aug 27. May have been taken in by someone. If you have any info about her please contact Jay via facebook.com/groups/10986728… or let us know.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
There is a reason why you do not hear the term "Opioid Epidemic" often in Europe and it's weird Americans cannot connect the dots.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
.@NigelBiggar .@History_Reclaim .@robert_lyman I learned yesterday that there is a phrase in Brazilian Portuguese, "Para ingles ver". Colloquially, it means 'just for show'. Literally, however, it says, 'for the English to see'. It refers back to the 19th century, when the British were pressing Brazil to abolish slave-trading and the Brazilians were just pretending to.
Sean Maxwell retweeted
This post perfectly captures the depressing state of Canadian conservatism.
A contributor with the most conservative mainstream news outlet doesn't understand the War of 1812, our connection to Britain and Canadian history in general.
What are we even conserving at this point? The GDP? What is conservatism at this point? To just making Canada and our history more American?
It's so unbelievably exhausting and depressing.
