A friendly breeze blows out of Ottawa these days, but there’s a chance it’s nothing more than wind.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is all about development, energy, pipelines — one big Canadian economy.
He speaks of Alberta’s energy industry with none of the contempt so common in the Justin Trudeau years.
OTTAWA — Focus groups struck to gauge public sentiment on the federal government’s immigration policy reacted negatively to high immigration quotas.
The public opinion panels, commissioned by the Privy Council Office and facilitated by Toronto pollster The Strategic Council showed most respondents reacted negatively to Canada’s mass immigration policies, according to reports published in Blacklock’s Reporter.
Canada’s demographic is being so drastically altered that soon all polls will support open borders and 3rd world immigration.
Kaboom. It’s loud, scary, and urgent. But it’s not the sound of new Canadian munitions going off as we ramp up to $150 billion a year in defence spending because they said so. It’s the federal budget detonating. And if anyone’s minded to call the bomb squad instead of waiting to be blown to insolvency come, now would be a good time. A really good time.
Prime Minister Mark Carney promised a swift, businesslike reboot of a Canadian economy battered by a decade of overspending and regulatory overreach. Yet just over two months into his term, his public statements are often hedged or shrouded in ambiguity and his policy direction remains unclear.
It appears Jersey Milk chocolate is gone after all — despite weeks of corporate denials.
Mondelez has now confirmed the product is being discontinued. While the company claims no jobs will be lost — a credible assertion given that Jersey Milk was produced alongside other brands like Caramilk and Mr. Big at the Gladstone plant in Toronto — the move reflects a broader strategic shift. This is less about nostalgia and more about economics: Jersey Milk had become a low-volume product that consumed relatively high production resources. In short, it no longer made financial sense.
OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration levels grew six times faster over the past decade than it did from the turn of the century, says a new Fraser Institute study.
The numbers, which include temporary foreign workers and international students, are contained in a new report entitled Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000–2024.
The Department of Immigration in a briefing note admits it never sought “comprehensive security screening” of suspected Egyptian terrorists.
Two Egyptian nationals were arrested in 2024 for plotting an attack on Toronto, and are in custody until their 2026 trial. Then-Immigration Minister Marc Miller at the time defended his department’s handling of the case.
It’s not the first time Ontario Premier Doug Ford has talked this way.
He’s done it before.
He’s done at times when he wants to make clear what he will do if push comes to shove.
What if Prime Minister Mark Carney ends up being more talk than walk?
Sure he won’t.
“I didn’t want to kill anybody,” Eric Nagler says. “And I was afraid if I did go in that, because I was a pacifist, I’d get sent to the front lines and shot. So anyway, I dodged the draft.”
Nagler, who is now 83, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. Like millions of young American men, he was draft-age when U.S. ground troops first set foot in Vietnam in 1965. “My brother came home from university one day and said that he was a conscientious objector and explained what that was,” Nagler says. “I thought it was a terrific idea.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will announce a 50 per cent tax on imported copper on Tuesday — adding to the growing list of punishing tariffs that are causing economic dislocation in Canada and around the world.
Trump said the tariffs are coming during a cabinet meeting at the White House.
Canada’s dairy farms are growing in size and shrinking in number, and the sector has failed to grow at the same rate as other large agricultural industries.
Yet dairy farmers are largely protected from international competition by a half-century old policy called supply management. And this policy – which sets a production quota and price point for dairy products – threatens to hurt other Canadian industries as U.S. President Donald Trump assails what he calls unfair protectionist measures and threatens to walk away from trade deals.
WASHINGTON — As U.S. President Donald Trump pursues his global trade war and talk of annexation, a new poll suggests the percentage of Canadians who view the United States as a top threat has tripled since 2019.
The survey by the Pew Research Center also suggests that 55 per cent of Canadians say the U.S. remains this country’s most important ally.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, who campaigned and won the recent federal election by promising to stand up for Canada, has so far acquiesced to United States President Donald Trump’s significant demands. Carney agreed to increase spending on our national defence to five per cent of our GDP, agreed to rescind our digital services tax on American tech giants, and seemed to suggest that Canada may take part in Trump’s Golden Dome, modelled after Israel’s Iron Dome. On the dome issue, Trump is now saying it would cost Canada $61-billion, or we can participate for free if we become America’s 51st state. Hopefully Carney is playing the long game here and will eventually fight back, but so far, at least publicly, he has not.
This is not standing up for Canada’s values.
What could he realistically do? Besides he and his cronies will profit deal or no deal, likely the most if Canada is broken up.
OTTAWA — The premiers of Alberta and Ontario both said at a meeting Monday that they are cautiously optimistic that Prime Minister Mark Carney will successfully get a new oil pipeline built in Canada. But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the planning should not be limited to just one.
Meeting with her Ontario counterpart in Calgary, Smith said Alberta crude oil should have access to a “growing share” of pipelines. “I’m of the view there’s probably room for more than one pipeline, probably several.”
Prosecution seeks life sentence on terrorism grounds for alleged mass killing threat in Montreal
A Crown prosecutor is now treating a man’s alleged threat of a mass killing in Montreal in May as a terrorist act and wants to secure a life sentence for the accused.
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, was arrested by the RCMP last month and charged with one count of uttering threats. According to the Mounties, he allegedly told an employee at a local homeless shelter in late May that he wanted to “commit an attack with the goal of killing a large number of people.”
