The de minimis exemption that allowed low-value packages to be shipped duty-free to the United States is now a thing of the past as an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump went into effect Friday.
Under an executive order signed by Trump in July, packages valued at or under US$800 sent to the U.S. from outside of its postal network will now face “all applicable duties” starting Aug. 29, the White House said.
Quebec is once again pushing the boundaries of the debate over religion in the public square. The Legault government is introducing legislation to ban “street prayers” — a move that, depending on your view, is either overdue or overreach.
This isn’t an abstract issue. For months, Muslim Montrealers have gathered outside the Notre Dame Basilica in Old Montreal to take part in prayers. On the other side of the cobblestone streets, non-Muslims have begun gathering in protest, waving Quebec’s fleur-de-lis flag, arguing that faith belongs behind closed doors. Each time the gatherings grew larger, more confrontational, and more symbolic of a clash between identity and expression.
This cult has to be curbed.
Titles like The Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Perks of Being a Wallflower are to be pulled from library shelves at Edmonton public schools come fall, according to a document shared with CBC News.
An internally distributed list obtained by CBC News shows more than 200 books deemed sexually explicit are slated for removal from library shelves for students in kindergarten to Grade 12. It comes after a policy from Alberta’s education minister outlines new rules governing books in school libraries as of Oct. 1.
I do not approve of removing Atwood’s screed, but for a minute it felt good to imagine a world absent those feminist Handmaid’s idiots.
Funny that these berobed twits tolerate Islam imposing the niqab on women.
Spirits maker Diageo will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some bottling volume to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.
The facility, which bottles Crown Royal products, will close in February in a move aimed at improving its North American supply chain.
H/T Mauser
American journalist James O’Keefe travelled to Nova Scotia to attempt to receive a fine for defying the province’s ban on hiking in the woods, but was ultimately not charged.
TORONTO—The Carney government has big plans for a new and, it says, a more prosperous Canadian economy—but much of what it hopes to accomplish will take years before we see a material difference. In the meantime, support for big change may whither unless immediate threats are not addressed.
Two big challenges require careful monitoring. One is the rise of unemployment and the fall in opportunities for younger Canadians. The other is the huge volume of household mortgages that must be renewed this year or next, with higher interest rates and hence higher repayment levels, and at a time when the economy faces the prospect of higher unemployment and weaker wage gains to offset higher mortgage payments. Young home-owners who were first-time buyers at the height of the real estate bubble when mortgage rates were especially low are also especially vulnerable.
Carney won’t do squat. Mass immigration will leave us all impoverished and that’s what he and his cronies want – easy pickings.
Amid growing criticisms that Canada dropped the ball on exporting its natural gas to Europe, the Polish ambassador to Canada said in a recent interview that plenty of Canadian gas is indeed finding its way to Europe — but via the United States at a markup.
“Remember; some of the LNG that’s coming from the United States to Europe, to Poland, is also Canadian … but it’s being sold for a much higher price,” Witold Dzielski told CBC after being asked whether there was Polish demand for Canadian LNG.
When two months of no rain had reduced Nova Scotia to a “tinder box” as Premier Tim Houston put it, he ordered people to stay out of the woods.
Many people accepted the measure, which came into effect in the first week of August, as a necessary way to reduce the risk of a stray spark igniting a blaze that wouldn’t be controlled. Others were furious.
“People are effectively prohibited from entering nature for the rest of the summer,” read one angry post on Facebook that has been interacted with hundreds of times. But the poster, who has tens of thousands of followers, didn’t seem to be in any danger of going anywhere near a Nova Scotian forest, permitted or no.
The corrupt Liberal Party lies about everything and their abuse of the Covid ‘crisis’ kiboshed all faith in government. Don’t blame citizens.
A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to illegally photographing classified U.S. defence facilities at the Space Force military base in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Xiao Guang Pan, 71, of Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful photographing of military installations without authorization on three separate days in early January.
A government committee’s 50 recommendations to Quebec, including extending the province’s religious symbols ban to subsidized daycares and requiring people to uncover their faces when receiving public services, are drawing criticism from some community leaders.
“We really have to ask some serious questions about the legitimacy of this report,” said Stephen Brown, president of the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
He said the nearly 300-page report released on Tuesday offering recommendations to strengthen secularism in Quebec is not suggesting that the government “proceed in the spectrum of neutrality.”
That is one very demanding death cult.
OTTAWA — Nearly six in 10 Canadians feel their country is more dangerous than five years ago, before Russia invaded Ukraine, India was linked to the murder of a Sikh-Canadian and Canada reckoned with the scourge of foreign interference.
In fact, only a paltry three per cent of Canadians believe Canada is a safer place now than it was five years, according to a January Ekos poll done on behalf of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and recently published online.
Funny how the Hamas support rallies don’t merit a mention.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says temporary foreign workers are taking jobs from young Canadians while youth unemployment is high.
Poilievre made the comment today during a press conference in Charlottetown, several days after the government released mid-year immigration data.
On Monday, Poilievre said on social media the government had exceeded caps it set for temporary worker visas, and accused the government of being “out of control” on immigration.
It's time to start NAMING AND SHAMING businesses like @TimHortons that hire foreigners for entry-level jobs that could easily be done by young Canadians.
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— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) August 27, 2025
The United States Department of Energy recently published a report, which essentially summarizes the U.S. government’s rejection of the 30-year-old, United Nations-centric, climate-alarmed consensus worldview.
Carney and his whole family are eco-nuts, especially when there’s profit to be had.
Profit that always translates to your loss without discernible benefit to anything or anyone beyond the connected.
As Mark Carney visited Germany and Latvia on Tuesday, his point man on Canada-U.S. relations was in Washington trying to mend fences.
It’s a tall task even after last week’s decision to put the elbows down and rescind Canada’s counter-tariffs on American goods outside of the steel, aluminum and auto sectors. Carney still needs to change up his team.
Specifically, as I’ve said before, Ambassador Kirsten Hillman has to be replaced because source after source continues to describe her as an impediment.
