Battered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Ontario’s struggling auto, steel and aluminum companies are receiving $1 billion in support loans from Premier Doug Ford.
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said Wednesday that funds from the first phase of the province’s $5 billion “Protect Ontario Account” would soon flow to eligible employers.
Who ultimately pays for this “corporate salvation”?
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced this week that it had canceled its invitation to screen a documentary about the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, due to ostensible copyright concerns stemming from the fact that the filmmakers did not receive permission from the Hamas terrorists whose clips are featured in the film.
Qualification for tax payer subsidies in the arts must require that you hold far left extremist views. Just like joining the Nazi Party was a means to career advancement.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) August 13, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The summer bromance between Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney will continue next week in Ottawa.
“So Monday, I’m going up to have a one-on-one meeting with the prime minister,” the premier told reporters Tuesday in Windsor.
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war on Canada, Ford said he would be appealing to Carney to lower taxes to “create the environment” to help people and businesses weather the tariff storm.
I’m sure Ford will be a big help.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the U.S. is in the process of designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Speaking to Sid Rosenburg of “Sid and Friends in the Morning,” Rubio was asked about the support that New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is getting from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Trump has many valid reasons to distrust Canada’s ruling class and certainly its Islamist compromised Liberal Party, in fact he has almost as many reasons as Canadians do.
Canada, under Mark Carney, continues to play small ball while the United States under Donald Trump keeps trying to score home runs. If this were a baseball game, we would have pulled the pitcher by now and tried to figure out which other players we could replace.
While Canada got hit with more tariffs on Friday night, China received a 90-day extension on more tariffs on Monday.
Since June, Bick’s pickles have been disappearing from some Canadian grocery shelves, caught in the crossfire of a tariff dispute that is exposing deep flaws in Ottawa’s trade strategy. The story of Bick’s is a telling case study in how well-intentioned policies can backfire, punishing consumers and domestic suppliers alike.
BEIJING/SINGAPORE — China on Tuesday announced preliminary anti-dumping duties on Canadian canola imports, a fresh escalation in the year-long trade dispute that began with Ottawa’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports last August.
The provisional rate will be set at 75.8 per cent, effective from Thursday, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
ICE November canola futures RSX5 fell 6.5 per cent to a four-month low after the announcement.
“This really came as a surprise and a shock,” said trader Tony Tryhuk of RBC Dominion Securities.
The federal Conservative party has joined the chorus of voices calling for the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang to be added to Canada’s list of terrorist organizations.
The gang is suspected to be behind the surge of extortion threats in B.C., Alberta and Ontario that have terrified the South Asian community.
Ethnic pandering.
Three Canadian provinces have outlawed woodland access due to concerns over wildfire risk and are now threatening massive fines or jail for Canadians who violate the lockdown and who go out into nature.
The restrictions in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland are prompting calls of warning as well as acts of civil disobedience from Canadians who view the bans as a tyrannical attempt to restrict the movements of the populace, using climate change as justification.
For the year 2024, Ms. Elghawaby claimed $54,459.77 to cover the costs of 31 trips, mainly to attend symposia and conferences on issues related to Islamophobia.
A sign that this amount is high, it exceeds the sums claimed during the same period by the CEO of the Alto high-speed train project, the spendthrift Martin Imbleau ($47,114).
In fact, even Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, has called for less travel spending in 2024 ($54,236).
A pro-Palestinian group’s planned “Danforth takeover” Tuesday near eight TTC subway stations is a “threat to critical city infrastructure,” a Toronto city councillor said.
Councillor James Pasternak, who represents the York Centre ward, expressed his concerns Monday about the protest in a statement to media, calling on Toronto Police and the TTC to “ensure safe public access to all subway stations and City of Toronto infrastructure.
But it's their "charter right" to shut down public transit and put us all in danger — just ask the police or Olivia Chow, right, @fancypants_s ? https://t.co/d0bNS1ux2N
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 12, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
President Donald Trump has just made clear that there will be consequences for those countries that now propose to recognize a “Palestinian” state. He has said that it will be difficult to make a deal on reducing tariffs on Canadian goods after Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada would at the UN General Assembly meeting in September announce its support for a “Palestinian” state.
Do you think Liz Truss is right about Carney? pic.twitter.com/3qVjKW7WtO
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) August 11, 2025
The defamatory non-stop claim that Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, committed genocide against indigenous people, including Indian Residential School children, is the most scurrilous slur hurled against him by his critics. Accordingly, it is necessary to examine this claim using the gold standard for doing so: the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Convention lists five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” any one of which constitutes genocide.
… The no longer Great and no longer White North last week appointed a new president of the Public Health Agency of Canada. One of the direst threats to public health is childhood obesity. So, naturally, Ottawa chose Nancy Hamzawi (cq), an overweight, physically unfit Muslim woman, to lead the fight against it.
A recent survey suggests many Canadians are open to the idea of serving their country in some way, even if it’s mandatory. However, many aren’t keen on the idea of military service, favouring alternative civilian areas like public health or environmental support.
The Angus Reid survey, released Sunday, found that Canadians are in favour of the idea of mandatory civilian service, which would entail one year of time donated for those younger than 30 years of age.
In recent years, Germany, France, Norway and other countries have followed this model of service, the survey says
They won. Few if any will fight for what remains of the Canada we knew.
