As the cost of living continues to squeeze households, gas prices remain a major concern for many Canadians, even after Ottawa scrapped the federal consumer carbon tax last year.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says drivers are still paying more at the pump because of a separate federal climate policy introduced in 2023, known as the Clean Fuel Regulations.
At gas stations across Calgary, drivers said rising prices are adding to their financial strain.
Donald Trump has vowed to “100%” follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on European countries who oppose his demand to take control of Greenland.
European allies have rallied around Greenland’s sovereignty. Denmark’s foreign minister emphasised the US president cannot threaten his way to ownership of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper reiterated the UK’s position that the future of Greenland is for “Greenlanders and for the Danes alone” to decide.
The previous column laid out the formation, governance, and current divisions in Canada and the lack of a common purpose. The US has survived national challenges described therein mostly because of the strength of its institutions.
One of the risks of Canada as a nation, and reasons for Quebec and/or Alberta to withdraw, is the paucity of institutions reflecting a common purpose; and are seen as fair to all Canadians.
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Food prices in Canada rose 6.2% year over year in December, with grocery store prices up 5.0% and restaurant prices jumping 8.5%. That alone would be troubling. What makes it more alarming is that inflation came in well above expectations, pushing Canada to its highest food inflation rate since August 2023.
White leftist women reacted to the shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer (ICE) last week with screaming, tantrums, and public meltdowns. What’s more, they’re stepping up their harassment of ICE officers who are only carrying out their lawful duties.
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🚨 BREAKING: A group of liberal white women (mostly) have taken over a Target in St. Paul DEMANDING Target stop letting ICE and Border Patrol agents use their bathrooms
I kid you not.
We live in freaking clown world 🤡🤣 pic.twitter.com/iv12xBvDEu
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 19, 2026
Liberals have created a ‘Minneapolis Autonomous Zone,’ a community-organized protest space in a residential neighborhood
They built a wall to block the road so that ICE cannot enter
The “we want open borders” people are now constructing borders… pic.twitter.com/yzsTB9qav3
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 12, 2026
OTTAWA — A high-level Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessment in June 2019 concluded that Beijing, jolted by Canada’s detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, launched a “calibrated and multi-faceted pressure campaign” that blended trade coercion — including curtailing canola imports — with the detention of Canadians and clandestine interference surrounding the 2019 federal election, aiming to exert “personalized political pressure on Canada’s leadership,” with the Ministry of State Security driving the response and CSIS collection further establishing that President Xi Jinping received reports “directly from the MSS.”
SO FAREWELL then, Chief Constable Craig Guildford, slithering off meekly into shameful early retirement. Enjoy counting your 30 pieces of pension silver.
I doubt that Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans will care much after Guildford banned them from attending a Europa Cup match against Aston Villa. Actually, they should have a whip-round for the bloke, because I can’t find flights/connections that take less than 15 hours each way and don’t cost a week’s wage. For a grotty November night in Birmingham? When your team lost 2-0? A result for the fans, I’d say.
A generational civil liberties victory has been upheld. On Jan. 16, the Federal Court of Appeal held that the Trudeau government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act in 2022 in response to the Freedom Convoy.
The unanimous judgment, which upheld the lower court’s decision in 2024, is meticulous, devastating, and leaves little room for doubt. Future governments facing political turmoil have been put on clear notice: they cannot casually reach for emergency powers to solve a domestic protest.
History repeats itself…again, and again, and again.
As we saw yesterday, a sea of anti-ICE agitators disrupted a church service somewhere in Minnesota, apparently feeling justified because as they believed, the pastor of the church was somehow moonlighting as an ICE field office director.
pic.twitter.com/l6RQH4Amxw DOJ readies rare Ku Klux Klan Act charges against Don Lemon for allegedly conspiring to intimidate and disrupt church worshippers.
— GenX Bro (@MrMakiri) January 19, 2026
Don Lemon had foreknowledge of the church invasion protest that left kids in tears. He must be investigated over when he knew this and if he planned this in any way with the group.
The group, and I mean every single member of it, MUST be arrested over it.pic.twitter.com/qOQYI4iw1M
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 19, 2026
Don Lemon on church members upset that he stormed their church: "They're entitled, white supremacists" pic.twitter.com/aMlXYBugwB
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 19, 2026
Video proves Don Lemon was embedded with anti-ICE agitators before they stormed church — despite claiming ‘no affiliations’
Leftist American former Yale professor Jason Stanley is revered in the bowels of leftist academia. He once felt protected at Yale, until Trump retaliated against the Marxist takeover of campuses. Now he’s escaped to Canada to his safe space at the University of Toronto, where he’s on a roll. “Yale professor who fled US because of Trump is now scolding Canadians who still want to visit or move to America,” by Alexa Cimino, Daily Mail, January 14, 2026…
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🚨NEW
Steve Bannon: “You’re seeing a rapid shift in Canada.
25% of Canada’s population is foreign born. These people are hostile to the US.
Canada could be the next Ukraine.”
I live here – and, I think he’s right. 😥 pic.twitter.com/o8mPNv5KH6
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 18, 2026
Shamima Begum and other ISIS detainees could be freed from detention in Syria amid fierce fighting nearby, it is feared.
Ms Begum, 26, who was stripped of her British citizenship after leaving London to join the terror group in 2015, is currently held at al-Roj – a filthy, violent camp in north-east Syria.
The facility is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who also oversee several other camps housing more than 9,000 ISIS fighters and around 40,000 women and children.
I now feel what earlier generations of Jews felt – a sense of belonging to a marginalised and constantly imperiled people. During Hanukkah, I went to as many public lightings as possible, my small act of defiance. But many others stayed away, particularly after the Bondi Beach attack in Australia.
Following the dramatic Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and competition host Morocco, clashes broke out in several European cities late Sunday evening after the game ended with Senegal’s 1–0 victory in overtime. Unrest was reported in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, with riot police intervening in multiple locations.
Every time Morocco plays in the Africa Cup, Brussels and Antwerp burn. Win or lose, the result is the same: guns, explosions, car wrecks and attacks on police and firemen. pic.twitter.com/3ys2qytJSc
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) January 19, 2026
🚨PARIS ERUPTS INTO WARZONE
Following the victory of Senegal in a controversial Africa Cup final thousands of migrants took to the streets to cause havoc
Europeans shouldn't be living like this
Send them all home https://t.co/1QOsNF2X19 pic.twitter.com/cCpRPbBmxA
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) January 19, 2026
Last night, Belgium erupted into chaos.
After Morocco lost a football match, migrant riots flooded the streets with vandalism and violence.
After Senegal’s controversial Africa Cup final win, thousands took over public spaces and trashed cities.This isn’t sport. It’s… pic.twitter.com/rN7iOfH82f
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) January 19, 2026
The Carney government’s renewed commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions (NZE) by 2050, aided by the Alberta government, in the Canada-Alberta MOU could cost about $2.1 trillion in lost economic activity from business-as-usual (BAU) between 2025 and 2050 and lead to 351,000 lost jobs from BAU by 2050. These are among key insights based on my analysis of data drawn from a 2024 custom research project by Navius Research using its highly regarded gTech/IESD model.
Policy goals, such as Canada NZE 2050, need to be backed up with rigorous modeling and impact analysis. Unfortunately, the federal government does not appear to have provided sufficient updated information on Canada NZE 2050 to allow citizens to fully assess its economic and fiscal impact. I believe that the analysis presented here helps fill that critical void.
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PA Cat says Hi to everyone! Her computer died but a new one is on the way hence her absence from the Blog.
She has also seen her specialist and things are looking better than initially feared.
It is hoped a combo of physio and cortisone will keep her ambulatory and allow her to avoid surgery.
A 3 Mos. follow up is scheduled.
Xavier Cugat’s Mom is out of hospital as well and making progress.
Hooray!
