Trudeau Liberals exceed immigration goals, increase to 500,000 by 2025

Trudeau's immigration minister said that Ottawa was planning to welcome 431,645 new immigrants, a goal that has been reached, surpassing the previous year's record of more than 401,000.

Canada set a new immigration record for 2022, welcoming more than 430,000 newcomers into the country, Trudeau's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Sean Fraser, said on Tuesday.

Ottawa intended to welcome 431,645, a goal that has been reached, surpassing the previous year's record of more than 401,000 immigrants.

"Today marks an important milestone for Canada, setting a new record for newcomers welcomed in a single year," Fraser said. "It is a testament to the strength and resilience of our country and its people."

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) processed approximately 5.2 million permanent residency applications in 2022, more than double the number from 2021.

Canada's goal for 2023 is 465,000 immigrants, increasing to 485,000 in 2024, then 500,000 in 2025, with an emphasis to be placed on skilled workers.

To help facilitate this steady increase, the Trudeau government's fall budget committed an additional $50 million to the IRCC for the 2022-23 fiscal year in order to "address ongoing application backlogs, speed up processing, and allow skilled newcomers to fill critical labour gaps faster."

"Newcomers play an essential role in filling labour shortages, bringing new perspectives and talents to our communities, and enriching our society as a whole," Fraser said. "I am excited to see what the future holds and look forward to another historic year in 2023 as we continue to welcome newcomers."

The Liberals cited immigration as the reason for Canada having "experienced one of the fastest recoveries from the pandemic," adding that the acute labour shortages the country is facing will be helped by immigration.

"We know there is over a million jobs in Canada that remain unfilled, so we need immigrants, skilled immigrants, to come in and help us fill those unfilled jobs and help us grow our economy," Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen told Global News. "In addition to that, the irony is we actually need more people, skilled immigrants, to also help us in the building trades and the construction sector of our economy."

"We need those workers to actually come in and help us build the housing that Canadians need," he added.

https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-liberals-exceed-immigration-goals-increase-to-500000-by-2025

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Members Of Congress Beat the S&P 500 Again – “Unusual Trades Resulting In Huge Gains”

It is time to ban stock trading for members of Congress.

Despite the market having the worst year since 2008, Members of Congress once again beat the market.

The S&P 500 was down 18% in 2022. Democrats were only down 1.76% and Republicans were up .389% on the year.

Unusual Whales.org:

Well the Pelosi family had a greatly reduced trading year in 2022. In 2021 and 2020, they flourished, with huge outsized returns. We wrote entire reports on her trading style, as well as created a series of free ETFs to follow her moves.

Pelosi had a terrible year with options, where her deep ITM call strategy for her tech plays really did not work out in 2022. She exercised most of her plays that expired at a loss, and immediately sold those stocks. You can see her active options positions (down 99%) as well as the ones she exercised below:

Pelosi also added a 50k interest in an LLC called REOF LLC, bringing the total REOF investment to around 350k. Ultimately, Pelosi’s strategies worked well in 2020-2021, but failed as interest rates rose.

Is this corruption?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/corruption-members-congress-beat-sp-500-many-made-unusual-trades-resulting-huge-gains/

NY woman sues Rudy Giuliani for $3.1M claiming he demanded sexual favors, created ‘toxic’ work environment

A New York woman filed a $3.1 million lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, claiming he demanded sexual favors and created a “toxic” work environment before firing her and stiffing her for work she’d already done, new court papers show.

Noelle Dunphy, 43, claims she worked for the former mayor as “an off-the-books, secret employee” doing business development work from 2019 through 2021, when Giuliani allegedly “sexually harassed [her] and demanded sexual favors,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court summons from Tuesday.

“Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former US Attorney, once hailed as ‘America’s Mayor,’ is a sexual predator and abuser,” Dunphy’s filing alleges.

Dunphy – who is representing herself in the lawsuit – described a “toxic and sexually-hostile work environment” replete with derogatory comments toward women, minorities and anyone “suspected of ‘disloyalty,'” the court papers claim.

“Giuliani frequently made racist, bigoted, and/or anti-Semitic remarks, as well as anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman remarks, often during confused and hostile alcohol-laced tirades,” the documents claim.

Dunphy says when she started working for Giuliani, his “publicly-documented abuse of alcohol worsened” because of his expensive and bitter divorce from Judith Giuliani, and “mounting” political and legal controversies during and after his time working for former President Donald Trump, the court papers allege.

Dunphy says Giuliani forced her to receive “deferred compensation” and be a secret employee – while none of his male employees were subjected “to this arrangement,” the filing claims.

Dunphy’s summons doesn’t specify whether she succumbed to Giuliani’s alleged sexual advances but she told the Daily Beast: “It began with Rudy as my boss and lawyer and later turned romantic.”

“I can’t stay silent any longer,” she told the outlet.

Giuliani eventually lost interest in Dunphy, shifting his “desire” to another employee — and fired Dunphy in 2021 “not on the basis of any legitimate reason, and without issuing the compensation for work already done,” the filing claims.

She also claims she wasn’t offered severance and wasn’t reimbursed for work expenses, the summons alleges.

Later, when she asked for Giuliani’s help in finding a new job, he “became spiteful” and “demanded that [she] remain silent about all associations” with him, the court papers allege.

Giuliani allegedly threatened Dunphy that if she didn’t stay quiet, he’d use his private investigators and connections to Trump to “retaliate in other ways,” the summons claims.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/ny-woman-sues-rudy-giuliani-for-3-1m-claiming-he-demanded-sexual-favors-created-toxic-work-environment/

https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/ny-woman-sues-rudy-giuliani-for-3-1m-claiming-he-demanded-sexual-favors-created-toxic-work-environment/

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ISIS wife who returned to Australia granted bail after being charged with terror offence

A woman charged with a terrorism offence over her time in Syria has been granted bail by a NSW court.

Key points:

A defence lawyer said there was "no evidence" Mariam Raad was an ongoing threat to people

Ms Raad's children are "particularly reliant on their mother" the court heard

She was warned not to breach strict bail conditions again

Mariam Raad faced Griffith Local Court this morning charged with entering or remaining in an area controlled by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in 2014.

She returned to Australia in October last year.

The 31-year-old applied for bail based on "exceptional circumstances", telling the court she and her children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because of their time in Syria.

Ms Raad's defence lawyer argued there was "no evidence" she was an ongoing threat to people, and had strong ties to her community in Young.

The court heard her children "suffered various ailments" resulting from "poor nutrition" while living in Syria and they are "particularly reliant on their mother".

The registrar granted her bail under strict conditions and warned that if she breached any of those she would be arrested again and said, in that instance, her chances of getting bail would be "very slim".

Ms Raad is expected to appear in court again in March.

Four Australian women and 13 children were repatriated from the Syrian Al Roj camp to Sydney in October last year.

At the time, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said the repatriation was informed by national security advice, considering "the range of security, community and welfare factors in making the decision to repatriate".

The women were all married or related to IS fighters who are now dead or in jail.

Ms Raad's husband is believed to have died in 2018.

Ms Raad was charged after a joint investigation between NSW Police and the Australian Federal Police that began when she entered Syria and continued after her return.

The agencies allegedly used newly obtained evidence to charge her.

There are still around 40 Australia women and children in Syrian displaced persons camps, yet to be repatriated.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-06/isis-wife-who-returned-to-australia-granted-bail/101831554

We received about 20 inches of snow this week. So……….

8:00 am: I made a snowman.

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified women everywhere.

8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snowmen instead.

8:22 - The transgender man.. women… person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and are not used to decorate snow figures.

8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:30 - I used food coloring to make one of the snow couple a different color and be more racially inclusive.

8:37 - Then accused of using a black face on the snowperson.

8:39 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be completely covered.

8:40 - The police arrived saying someone had been offended.

8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43 - The 'council on equality' officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45 - TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now a sexist.

9:00 - I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe, and sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding that I be arrested.

9:45 - The boss called and fired me because of the negative association with work that had been all over social media.

10:00 - I cry into my drink because all I wanted to do was build a snowman…

Moral: There ain't no moral to this story. It is what this world has become because of a bunch of snowflakes.

Dead marine life washes onto south coast beaches near mouth of flooding River Murray

Dead octopuses, sea cucumbers and other marine life has washed up on South Australia's south coast, not far from the mouth of the River Murray.

Key points:

High flows are heading towards the end of the River Murray at the south coast

Dead marine animals have been found on beaches around Port Elliot

An expert says it could be linked with more fresh water entering the ocean

Experts are investigating whether the deaths are connected with the high flows from the Murray that have started to cause flooding in the Lower Lakes.

The water off south coast towns near the Murray Mouth has been brown for at least two weeks but what Port Elliot resident and surfer Nisa Schebella described as "carnage" occurred yesterday.

"It's heartbreaking," Ms Schebella said.

Hundreds of sea cucumbers and other creatures could be seen dead at Chicken Run, Fisherman Bay and Basham Beach, just east of the main town of Port Elliot.

Sea slugs, seahorses and some fish were also among the casualties.

"It's pretty unpleasant, that's for sure," Ms Schebella said.

Department of Primary Industries and Regions fisheries officers have visited the site to collect samples for diagnostic testing to rule out infectious or notifiable diseases.

"Water samples have also been collected and will be tested to rule out harmful algae and also measure salinity," a spokesman for the department said.

SA Health said there was no evidence of increased microbial contamination, including E. coli, in floodwaters entering Goolwa or nearby beaches.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-06/carnage-of-dead-marine-life-on-beaches-near-murray-mouth/101831330

McCarthy Holdout Rep. Ralph Norman Says There Is Written Deal for Speakership

The breakthrough reports about a deal being on the table to secure McCarthy’s speakership come amid a long day of negotiations, concessions, and multiple failed Speaker votes.

The House on Thursday tried to elect a Speaker for a tenth time, with the 11th vote expected to fail as well.

McCarthy has already offered his conservative detractors several concessions, including:

One member motion to vacate, instead of five.

More House Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee.

Promises to hold votes on controversial term limit and border security bills.

The McCarthy-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and conservative activist group Club for Growth have also struck a deal that would prevent CLF from weighing in on any open-seat primaries in safe Republican districts.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/05/mccarthy-holdout-rep-ralph-norman-says-there-is-written-deal-for-speakership/

Congress Votes to Adjourn After 11th Failed Vote for Speaker – VOTE PASSES 219 to 213 – Will Reconvene Friday at Noon

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/update-congress-votes-adjourn-11th-failed-vote-speaker/

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Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp said on Thursday users of the messaging app will now be able to use proxy servers to access the service in countries where the app is blocked.

A proxy server is an intermediary between users and web services and acts as a web filter that allow netizens to circumvent restrictions and censorship.

WhatsApp said proxy support on the app is now officially available for users with the latest version.

Users in countries such as Iran and Syria have used virtual private network (VPN) services to navigate around internet censorship.

The messaging service said, “in case these shutdowns continue, we hope this solution helps people wherever there is a need for secure and reliable communication.”

WhatsApp “will do anything” within its technical capacity to keep the service accessible and that it was not blocking Iranian phone numbers, the messaging service had said in September.

Iran restricted access

https://middleeastnewsvideo.com/whatsapps-new-proxy-feature-allows-you-to-bypass-internet-shutdowns-video/

Former Judge Arrested for Bribery and Obstruction of Justice

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-judge-arrested-bribery-and-obstruction-justice

Film Producer Pleads Guilty To Bank Robbery

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/film-producer-pleads-guilty-bank-robbery

UN disbands mission probing Ukraine POW camp shelling

A lack of security guarantees has been cited as a reason for the move

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has decided to disband a fact-finding mission, which was expected to investigate a July strike on a detention center housing Ukrainian POWs in Donbass, his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told a news briefing on Thursday. The mission was called off due to a lack of security guarantees, he added.

The decision was taken “in the absence of conditions required to deploy the mission to the site,” Dujarric said. The spokesman noted that “for … a dangerous mission in what is an active war zone, we require clear safety and access guarantees from both sides. We did not feel we had received them.”

At the same time, he confirmed that the UN had a “political agreement” on the mission. Dujarric did not go into details on what specific guarantees were lacking. He also dodged a question about which of the two sides failed to provide the guarantees.

When asked about why the UN decided to scrap the mission altogether instead of postponing it, Dujarric said that one cannot keep its potential participants “on standby” for months. “It was clear to us that we should disband and let the people return to their daytime jobs.”

The mission was scheduled to be headed by the retired Brazilian general, Carlos dos Santos Cruz, who previously led a UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cruz was to be joined by the former Icelandic foreign minister, Ingibjorg Gisladottir, and Issoufou Yacouba, a high-ranking police officer from Niger, who served as a Police Commissioner with the UN stabilization mission in Mali.

The UN secretary general is ready to “re-constitute the mission extremely quickly, should the guarantees be given,” Dujarric said. Neither Kiev nor Moscow have commented on the development so far.

The July strike on a detention center housing Ukrainian POWs in Elenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic left 50 prisoners dead and another 73 injured. Moscow blamed the attack on the Ukrainian forces. Kiev denied the accusations, claiming that Russian troops had launched the strike to frame Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry then called on the UN and the International Red Cross Committee to launch an impartial investigation into the incident.

https://www.rt.com/russia/569455-un-disband-mission-pows-ukraine/

Developing: Wisconsin Gableman Election Fraud Team Member Comes Forward with Damaging Evidence from 2020 Presidential Election

In a rare show of courage, conviction and commitment, a Team Member from the 2020 Wisconsin Gableman Election Fraud Investigation, came forward this week and is naming names and releasing details involving the election fraud that clearly affected the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was appointed to investigate the 2020 Wisconsin Presidential Election by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), after the Speaker succumbed to public pressure in late summer 2021 and after many months of empty promises with no results to get to the bottom of the election that was supposedly decided by 20,682 votes resulting in the certification of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral college votes against President Trump.

After just a few months of investigating, Justice Gableman filed his historic Election Fraud Report to the Wisconsin State Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections on March 1, 2022, disclosing extensive election fraud details involving election officials with the assistance of Mark Zuckerberg’s non-profit CTCL.

In Justice Gableman’s opinion, this election fraud clearly affected the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election, supposedly decided by 20,682 votes, and recommended to the Republican-controlled Legislature that they needed to seriously consider reclaiming Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College Votes until it could be determined irrefutably that the election fraud did indeed affect the outcome of the election.

Things got messy with Speaker Vos (R-Rochester) involving his professional relationship with Justice Gableman and what direction the investigation should take regarding the public revelation of the election fraud details and any possible prosecutorial referrals for the known bad actors.

The messiness with Speaker Vos (R-Rochester) ended up with the firing of Justice Gableman just before the November 8, 2022, election.

On Tuesday, January 3rd, outside the offices of Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), a Gableman Investigation Team Member, finally decided it was time to go public to finally shine a light on what appears to be the cover-up of the documented election fraud by Speaker Vos (R-Rochester) that clearly affected the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin.

This Gableman Team Member went into great depth and detail in just a matter of a few minutes to get to the crux of the election fraud that without question affected the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election by naming names and asking Speaker Vos (R-Rochester) for the immediate release of the investigation details for the immediate prosecutorial referrals of the bad actors.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/developing-wisconsin-gableman-election-fraud-team-member-comes-forward-damaging-evidence-2020-presidential-election/

Joe Biden to Grant Mass Amnesty and Work Permits to 30,000 New Illegal Immigrants a Month – Stephen Miller Demands House GOP Open its Impeachment Inquiry

Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks on border security and enforcement.

Biden is already blaming Republicans for the failure of his amnesty-in-disguise “comprehensive immigration reform.”

More than 5 million illegal aliens have crossed the border since Joe Biden was installed in January 2021.

Biden announced a new app that illegals can use to seek asylum in the US.

“Through the CBP One app, we are also providing a new mechanism for noncitizens to schedule appointments to present themselves at ports of entry, facilitating safe and orderly arrivals. Initially this will be used for those seeking an exception from the Title 42 public health order. Once the Title 42 order is no longer in place, CBP One will be used to help ensure safe and orderly processing at ports of entry,” Homeland Security said in a statement.

Individuals who use the CBP One app will be able to schedule an appointment to present themselves at the following ports of entry:

Arizona: Nogales;

Texas: Brownsville, Hidalgo, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso (Paso Del Norte); and

California: Calexico and San Ysidro (Pedestrian West – El Chaparral).

Up to 30,000 asylum seekers per month from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Haiti will be admitted under Vice President Joe Biden’s new immigration plan, while the same number will be ‘rapidly’ deported back to Mexico for crossing the border illegally.

“DHS is establishing new parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, modeled on the successful processes for Venezuelans and Ukrainians, which combine safe, orderly, and lawful pathways to the United States, including authorization to work, with significant consequences for those who fail to use those pathways. We are also continuing the process with respect to Venezuelans,” according to the press release.

“Nationals from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua who do not avail themselves of this process, attempt to enter the United States without authorization, and cannot establish a legal basis to remain will be removed or returned to Mexico, which will accept returns of 30,000 individuals per month who fail to use these new pathways.”

“The expansion of the Venezuela process to Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua is contingent on the Government of Mexico’s willingness to accept the return or removal of nationals from those countries. It also is responsive to a request from the Government of Mexico to provide additional legal pathways for migrants, and it advances both countries’ interests in addressing the effects throughout the hemisphere of deteriorated conditions in these countries,” it added.

“Through a fully online process, individuals can seek advance authorization to travel to the United States and be considered, on a case-by-case basis, for a temporary grant of parole for up to two years, including employment authorization, provided that they: pass rigorous biometric and biographic national security and public safety screening and vetting; have a supporter in the United States who commits to providing financial and other support; and complete vaccinations and other public health requirements. Individuals who enter the United States, Mexico, or Panama without authorization following today’s announcement will generally be ineligible for these processes. These processes will allow up to 30,000 qualifying nationals per month from all four of these countries to reside legally in the United States for up to two years and to receive permission to work here, during that period,” DHS announced.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/joe-biden-grant-mass-amnesty-work-permits-30000-new-illegal-immigrants-month-stephen-miller-demands-house-gop-open-impeachment-inquiry/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/joe-biden-grant-mass-amnesty-work-permits-30000-new-illegal-immigrants-month-stephen-miller-demands-house-gop-open-impeachment-inquiry/