Canada

After Decades of Atrophy, Canada Vows to Beef Up Its Military. Can It Deliver?

To help shift the country away from its dependence on the United States, Canada’s prime minister plans to spend billions to revitalize its military and meet a NATO spending goal.

At the end of World War II, Canada boasted one of the world’s largest navies, with 95,000 uniformed members and 434 ships.

The current Royal Canadian Navy is far less impressive — about 11,500 members and 40 vessels.

Only one of its four diesel submarines, which were bought secondhand from Britain in the 1990s, is operational. And Canada’s armed forces as a whole are about 16,000 people short of an approved head count of 101,500, including reserves.

Nope.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

The stars are aligned: now Canada must deliver on its natural resources

For too long, Canada has been a modest contributor on the global economic stage. But modesty is no longer a virtue in a world demanding bold leadership. While on the campaign trail, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to make Canada both the strongest economy in the G7 and an energy superpower. That ambitious goal is not only necessary, it is also within reach—if we are willing to unleash the full potential of Canada’s natural resources sector, including responsibly expanding our energy and critical minerals industries.

Not if Net-Zero Carney has his way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump, Carney Agree to Reach Deal Within 30 Days

BANFF, Alta.—Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump have committed to reaching a deal within 30 days, following a meeting on the first day of the G7 leaders’ summit in Kananaskis, Alta.

The new commitment came during discussions on a new economic and security relationship between both countries, along with talks on trade pressures and each side’s priorities, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout of the June 16 meeting.

Trump left rendering the G7 meaningless.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

European Union Leaders Say Canada Will Sign a Defence Procurement Pact This Month

Answers to Mrs. Hitler

European Union officials say Canada is likely to sign a defence procurement agreement with the continent when Prime Minister Mark Carney goes to Brussels later this month.

Carney is set to visit the administrative capital of the European Union on June 23 for the Canada-EU summit, where he will meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa.

At the G7 summit in Alberta on Sunday, both EU leaders said Canada’s involvement in Europe’s defence architecture is set to deepen.

I doubt Canada is able to contribute much if anything to the defense of Europe, even if we were so inclined which is very doubtful.

How many Muslims will rally to Finland’s defence? There is no Canada anymore.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Trump-Carney G7 meeting has not defused trade fears

Against the imposing backdrop of the Canadian Rockies, the leaders of the G7 are meeting in Kananaskis, Alberta to tackle a growing array of world problems: brutal conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, climate change, and the rise of AI. But perhaps the greatest challenge, with the most immediate impact on the global economy, is right there in the room with them: US President Donald Trump vows to continue his trade war against the same allied economies represented at the summit, as his counterparts seek ways to respond to his grievances and cut a deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ottawa told Trump that visa crackdown led to fewer Indians, Bangladeshis illegally crossing the border

Illegal aliens cross into US from Canada

Ottawa flagged to the incoming Trump administration that it had stopped more than 2,000 Indians and Bangladeshis from boarding flights to Canada, resulting in a drop in illegal border crossings to the U.S., internal government briefing documents show.

In an attempt to reassure President Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, that Canada is serious about clamping down on illegal crossings, Ottawa lauded investigations into visa fraud that targeted Indians and Bangladeshis.

How about just banning travel from those countries?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Doug Ford says U.S. governors agree Trump’s comments on Canada were ‘insulting’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his U.S counterparts are concerned about a drop in tourism from Canadians, telling him that President Donald Trump’s comments about making Canada the 51st state were insulting to Canada.

“Well, as we talk to the governors, a lot of governors are saying it’s insulting, it’s insulting to your closest friend and allies,” Ford told CNN in an interview Monday morning.

“We love the U.S. I love the U.S. Canadians love Americans. There’s one person that is causing this issue, and that’s President Trump. Hopefully he’ll take another avenue and start mending fences, because right now, as the governors told us here, they’ve seen a drastic decline in Canadian tourism.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Mark Carney’s first big test on the world stage

KANANASKIS, Alberta — In Canadian diplomatic circles, “Charlevoix” is shorthand for summit disaster. Avoiding a repeat of the 2018 summit that Donald Trump set ablaze is job one for Prime Minister Mark Carney this week as he hosts G7 leaders.

Carney came to power by campaigning openly against Trump’s belligerence. But now he has a direct line to the president, with whom he’s negotiating an economic and security deal.

Hanging out with Starmer is no measure of success.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

CHARLEBOIS: Summer is here, strawberries are, too … but so are the scams

When Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables reach the market — typically from June to October — prices in this category become much more stable.

Historically, during this window, price fluctuations are roughly half as volatile as they are during the rest of the year. The reason is straightforward: seasonal abundance and shorter supply chains anchored in domestic production.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Conrad Black: Let’s make a bonfire of Canada’s ghastly wokeness

It is irritating and distressing to see Canada robotically following the British and French and two other countries in imposing sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers over their comments related to the West Bank. It is also annoying that our new prime minister, who squeaked to a minority victory through a histrionic imposture of a modern Churchill against Donald Trump’s Hitler, trying to reconcile the extreme green zealotry of a lifetime with absolute commercial and political necessity, offers nonsense about “decarbonized” oil. Their Canadian and Britannic Majesties the King and Queen were recently dragooned into making a 24-hour visit to this realm to read the prime minister’s platitudinous throne speech, ritualistically beginning with what amounts to a false acknowledgment that we are occupiers of another people’s land. The king was allowed to present this fake confession of stealing the country from the then 200,000 indigenous people, almost all of them nomads, as “shared history as a nation,” (like the shared experiences of Poland, Germany, and the USSR from 1939 to 1945). We shout defiance at the Americans for reducing their trade deficit but prevail upon the King to tell us that we have no right to be here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Canada

MORGAN: Canada… what’s the point?

The entire point of a federation is to have a mutually beneficial relationship between relatively autonomous provinces. The central government is expected to stick to interprovincial and international issues, while provincial governments are supposed to be left to manage their own affairs. In Canada, that relationship has been turned on its head.

The federal government has inserted itself into provincial and even municipal jurisdictions, while it has refused to assert its genuine authority in facilitating interprovincial infrastructure and trade. This has led to a lopsided federation where provincial leaders are at each other’s throats while the federal government milks the division for political benefit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Thousands of protesters march through the streets of Montreal in support of Gaza

Several thousand demonstrators gathered on Saturday afternoon in the streets of the city centre to denounce the “numerous red lines crossed by Israel in Gaza.”

They were responding to a call from more than 50 organizations, which invited the public to dress in red and join a march denouncing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and calling on the Canadian government to increase pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reach a ceasefire.

Around 1:30 p.m., the protesters gathered at Norman-Bethune Square, near the Guy-Concordia Metro station. Escorted by Montreal police (SPVM) officers in cars and on motorcycles, they began marching east toward Place des Montréalaises, which was inaugurated last month near the city’s downtown core.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West