California Homeless - Communist Chow - Trudeau Vacation

How big is California’s homelessness crisis? Inside the massive, statewide effort to find out

Thousands of volunteers fanned out across California this week, peering down alleyways, into parked cars and along creek beds in a mass effort to count the state’s homeless population.

The federally mandated census, done every two years and dubbed the point-in-time count, serves as the main framework Californians use to understand their state’s homelessness crisis. The data it produces influence everything from allocations of state funding, to local policy decisions, to the way politicians talk about homelessness in campaign speeches.

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/

Toronto's overlords pondering implementation of a rain tax

Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto’s municipal government, let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we?

For sheer gall, for its bottomless brazen brassiness, you can’t beat this one: a tax on rain. You almost have to admire the Bolsheviks who presently run Canada’s largest city, for their inventiveness and their total indifference to the taxpayer.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-torontos-overlords-pondering-implementation-of-a-rain-tax

Pro-Beijing groups claim credit for helping Olivia Chow win Toronto mayoralty. She says she was unaware

As Olivia Chow campaigned successfully to become Toronto’s new mayor, she received some unsolicited help from controversial sources.

Two prominent community groups aligned with the Chinese government — including one that allegedly hosted a Chinese police station in Ontario — “went all out” to support Chow’s push to be mayor, supplying numerous volunteers to the effort, a letter from one of the groups claims.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/pro-beijing-groups-claim-credit-for-helping-olivia-chow-win-toronto-mayoralty

Trudeau's free Jamaica vacation still cost taxpayers $230K

Government documents reveal the vacation bill came to $230,442. In comparison, a similar journey in 2022 came to $162,000

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-jamaica-vacation-cost

Trudeau’s latest Tofino vacation cost taxpayers $287,000

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vacation to Tofino, B.C., this August cost taxpayers at least $287,285, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

That brings the total cost for the three vacations Trudeau has taken this year to more than $678,000.

https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/trudeau%E2%80%99s-latest-tofino-vacation-cost-taxpayers-287,000

Brian Mulroney praises Trudeau's leadership, omits any mention of Poilievre

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is basking in the praise of Brian Mulroney after the former prime minister said "trash" talk against the Liberal leader will be forgotten in light of historic achievements.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/brian-mulroney-praises-trudeau-s-leadership-omits-any-mention-of-poilievre-1.6448422