Feds fear Netflix, Spotify price hikes, order review of CRTC rules
OTTAWA — Fearing the move could trigger a massive price spike, the federal government is directing Canada’s broadcast regulator to review its contentious plan to regulate and tax foreign streaming platforms.
Canada’s Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller made the announcement on Wednesday, a reaction to the contentious May 21 decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions (CRTC) requiring streaming giants such as Spotify and Netflix to spend some of their Canadian-sourced revenue to acquire or produce Canadian programming.
German Court Punishes Facebook Insult With €2,000 Fine
Germany’s controversial Section 188 of the Criminal Code has come under renewed scrutiny after courts imposed substantial fines on citizens for insulting Chancellor Friedrich Merz online.
According to prosecutors in Heilbronn, a Facebook user was ordered to pay a fine of more than 2,000 euros after referring to Merz as “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) in a comment posted under a police announcement about the chancellor’s visit to the city last year.
Mainstream Canadian media ignoring Britain’s ‘George Floyd moment’
The cases of George Floyd and Henry Nowak occurred in different countries, under different circumstances, and generated vastly different levels of media attention.
An examination of Canadian media coverage suggests that Floyd’s death received significantly more attention from major news outlets than the case involving Nowak.
LILLEY: Senate’s mistaken attempt to criminalize residential school denialism
Even as Canada comes to terms with the fact that not everything we’ve been told about residential schools is true, some people want to criminalize asking questions about it. On Monday, the Senate’s human rights committee voted for an amendment making it a criminal offence to engage in what they called “residential school denialism.”
Kelly McParland: The Carney paradox — as Canada swirls down the drain, his popularity goes through the roof
Something weird is happening in the fevered little beaver brains of the Canadian collective. The world is going to pot, yet here we are feeling more chipper than we have in years.
Oil costs a fortune, no one can afford houses and don’t even get me started about health care. Food costs are through the roof. Tech bosses are blithely unleashing algorithms hardly anyone understands and apparently no one can control.
‘Jews are eating kids’
A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate targeted a Jewish rider on a Big Apple subway Sunday, shouting in the packed train car “Jews are eating kids,” according to the victim and shocking video.
The suspect was shouting her furious rhetoric against Jewish people on a C train around 2:15 p.m., the victim, a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, told The Post.
"It's okay for her to eat kids, but I can't choke her down?"
This is how blood libel becomes violence against Jews. People genuinely feel that attacking Jews is not just their right, but righteous.
This woman is claiming she can smell the dead children on a Jewish woman's… pic.twitter.com/PaUkhkIB6E
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 3, 2026
Fresh Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine’s Energy Giant
A major corruption scandal has once again engulfed Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-owned energy giant, after anti-corruption investigators uncovered an alleged embezzlement scheme involving nearly UAH170 million (€3.3 million) during the construction of critical infrastructure at the Tashlyk hydroelectric power plant.
The case was exposed by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), the same Western-backed agencies that previously uncovered an alleged $100 million extortion operation at Energoatom linked to businessman Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
U.S. tells Canada, Europe to boost NATO air and naval forces as Washington steps back
BRUSSELS/BERLIN – The U.S. expects European NATO allies and Canada to swiftly increase the number of manned and unmanned aircraft and ships they contribute to the alliance’s defence plans as Washington steps back in these areas, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.
The statement by U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander and the head of U.S. forces in Europe, followed a decision by the Trump administration to shrink the pool of U.S. military capabilities available to NATO in a crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO and told its European members they will have to take over primary responsibility for the conventional defence of the continent.
Jesse Kline: It’s simple. Islamic extremism is behind all the Jew hate
Canada has an antisemitism problem, but listening to our politicians, government agencies and some in the media, it’s easy to get the impression that no one really knows where the hatred is coming from or who is committing attacks against Jews.
In his much-discussed speech Monday at a Toronto synagogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney called out Jew-hate as a “crisis” that is testing the very “nature” of our country. He tacitly admitted that some immigrants are bringing old-world hatreds with them when he said, “When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story. You leave behind your wars and your animosities.”
Islamic extremism is enthusiastically supported by our so called “elites” in government, the academy, the justice system, the media, policing and unions.
I won’t even hazard a guess on how much our political class spends on KY Jelly per Islamist vote.
h/t Patti Jo
WTF?
Not to nitpick, but you probably say these things everyday without realizing they are racist.
Stop saying them. Words matter. pic.twitter.com/3q3Q9uzk00
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 3, 2026
WTF?
This is insane. But it's racist to deny a non-white person a driver's license for any reason now. So we're safe from racism but will probably be killed by an unqualified driver who can't speak or read English. Welcome to Canada, get me the hell out of here. @fancypants_s https://t.co/jvt7Q4hHBn
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) June 3, 2026
One Minister, Two Mandates: Marc Miller’s Antisemitism Council and the “Palestine Uprooted” Exhibit His Portfolio Funds
OTTAWA — On the evening of June 1, at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Prime Minister Mark Carney told an audience of Jewish leaders something no Canadian prime minister had said so plainly: that the country’s “civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians.” Antisemitism, he said, had surged to levels not seen since the postwar period.
To mark the moment, he unveiled the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, with the former senator Marc Gold, a past chair of the Jewish Federations of Canada, among its members.
Within a single day the gesture was already coming apart.
Jewish groups dismiss as ineffectual the appointment of @CdnHeritage committee to investigate anti-Semitism. “Canada is not facing an anti-Semitism awareness problem. The country has been poisoned with Jew hatred and we need a remedy.”
— Simon Wolle, @bnaibrithcanada… pic.twitter.com/CurX8z60Vx— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) June 3, 2026
Miller is a stupid magnet.
Carney says Trump’s 10% forced labour tariffs ‘not a surprise’ to him
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he isn’t surprised by the Trump administration’s plan to slap import levies on goods allegedly made with forced labour.
A report released from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office on Tuesday listed dozens of countries, including Canada, as having varying degrees of ineffective enforcement rules around goods made with forced labour.
The report accused Canada and a handful of other countries of failing to “effectively enforce” import bans on such items. As a result, the U.S. government will hit goods not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement with a 10 per cent levy.
America: A Nation Committed to Freedom
Much is being made of the recent launch pad explosion of Blue Origin’s massive rocket, an event that to some suggests we may have lost our way in seeking the high ground of space.
Those who believe this have forgotten their American history. Our nation’s first response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik success in the 1950s was Vanguard, which promptly fell back on the pad after launch and exploded in a fireball.
Yet we would go on to be the only nation to land men on the Moon. Repeatedly.
CHARLEBOIS: The Canada Royal Milk story Ottawa doesn’t want to explain
Canadians pay a premium for dairy products because they have been told that supply management protects Canadian farmers, strengthens domestic production, and safeguards our food sovereignty. Whether one supports the system or not, that has always been the bargain: Consumers pay more in exchange for stability, predictability, and a secure domestic food supply.
That is why newly released government records related to Canada Royal Milk in Kingston, Ont. deserve far more attention than they have received.