The report on the cost of the F-35 from the auditor general is more about incompetence than anything else. It’s also a worrying sign given that Prime Minister Mark Carney just pledged billions in new spending for the Canadian Armed Forces.
The headline from the audit is that the original cost projection to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets was $19 billion and now it’s $27.7 billion, a 46% increase.
The number of Canadians returning from travel to the U.S. by land and air continues to decline, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.
The data showed that return trips made by Canadians in May dropped for the fifth consecutive month compared with last year, with trips north by Americans also dropping.
The RCMP’s “structural investigation” into whether Canadian citizens serving with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza may have committed war crimes has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and its leaders, who accuse Ottawa of political targeting.
“It’s funny how law enforcement in our cities have watched tens of thousands of people illegally protest and harass Jews while the RCMP tells us they want to play global cop and pour resources into finding bogeyman crimes,” said Toronto-based Israel Ellis, whose son Eitan is an Israeli soldier guarding a humanitarian corridor in Gaza.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Canadian population has grown out of control and is calling on the Liberal government to further reduce immigration.
“We want severe limits on population growth to reverse the damage the Liberals did to our system,” Poilievre said during a press conference Tuesday in the foyer of the House of Commons.
“The population has been growing out of control, our border has been left wide open. This has caused the free flow of drugs, illegal migration, human trafficking and much worse.”
Why didn’t he say so before?
Pierre Poilievre figures he’s got Prime Minister Mark Carney’s number.
If an Albertan dials it, they will almost certainly not get what they want.
On Monday, Poilievre raises the curtain on who he believes is the real Mark Carney.
Canada’s automotive sector is cruising for a bruising or perhaps, steaming toward an automotive iceberg. Beyond the immediate threat of a 100% tariff on automobile exports, Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector suffers from declining production and a near total dependence on the United States.
Between 2014 and 2023, Canada’s automotive production fell from 2.4 million to 1.5 million units, while imports increased from $57 billion to $82 billion. Of the 1.5 million automobiles Canada produced in 2023, 88 per cent were exported to the US, leaving the industry highly vulnerable to a shift in American policy.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is to be applauded for laying out a bold and ambitious vision for Canada’s military.
For too long, Canada has neglected the men and women who serve our country and have allowed the equipment they rely on to protect us and others to badly deteriorate.
It’s just a promise at this point.
WASHINGTON — In recent interviews with Joe Rogan and Fox News, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Vancouver has become a global hub for fentanyl production and export—part of a transnational network linking Chinese Communist Party-associated suppliers and Mexican drug cartels, and exploiting systemic weaknesses in Canada’s border enforcement. “What they’re doing now … is they’re shipping that stuff not straight [into the United States],” Patel told Rogan, citing classified intelligence. “They’re having the Mexican cartels now make this fentanyl down in Mexico still, but instead of going right up the southern border and into America, they’re flying it into Vancouver. They’re taking the precursors up to Canada, manufacturing it up there, and doing their global distribution routes from up there because we’ve been so effective down south.”
The West has committed a grave philosophical error: we have come to view countries not as civilizations but as corporations, and citizenship not as a sacred bond but as a kind of customer loyalty program.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Canada, where national identity has been hollowed out and replaced with an abstract collection of economic indicators and talking points: growth is good, immigration is GDP, diversity is strength. The country, we are told, is “open for business,” but rarely do we hear what that business is for.
Canada will reach NATO’s defence spending benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP this fiscal year – five years earlier than planned.
That’s according to an announcement on Monday by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The move is timely and necessary in an unstable world.
Ottawa is upping this year’s budget for the Department of National Defence by $9.3-billion. That and existing spending from other departments will push defence-related expenditure to $62.7-billion for 2025-26 – 2 per cent of GDP, as per the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
More than two in five — or 44% — of men living in Canada will die prematurely from largely preventable causes, according to a new report.
More specifically, the Real Face of Men’s Health Report — released by men’s health charity Movember — finds that Canadian men are disproportionately impacted by suicide and the opioid crisis.
When it comes to supply management and trade policy, Canada seems trapped in a cycle of repeating the same costly mistakes.
Before Mark Carney’s arrival as prime minister, the previous Parliament adopted Bill C-282, introduced by the Bloc Quebecois. The bill granted blanket immunity to Canada’s supply-managed sectors — most notably dairy — against any future concessions in trade negotiations, regardless of the partner or economic context. It effectively locked in protectionism for a system that is already struggling to justify itself in the modern global economy.
Britain and other allies imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, on Tuesday over “their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities,” the U.K.’s foreign ministry said.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway joined Britain in freezing the assets and imposing travel bans on Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir — a West Bank settler — and Finance Minister Smotrich.
Fewer Americans are visiting Canada. Ad campaigns assure them they’re welcome here
Late last year, Dan Davis of Cleveland, Ohio, began planning a motorcycle trip with friends this summer that includes several days in Ontario.
But those plans became a little uncertain after U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January and imposed tariffs on Canada, sparking a trade war. That, coupled with Trump’s frequent threats to make Canada the 51st state, has sparked anger among many Canadians.
Davis noted that, in February, Canadians booed the U.S. national anthem at several NHL hockey games, and in March, the Canadian government ran a billboard campaign in a dozen U.S. states, including Ohio, declaring that Trump’s “tariffs are a tax.”
Long before the current tariff war many Canadians held America in open contempt, it is the cornerstone of their ‘nationalism’ .
There is no hypocrisy like a smug Canadian’s hypocrisy. Hey Americans give us your money while we spit on you!
OTTAWA — While the Tories support the PM’s plans to greatly bolster Canada’s defence spending, they still want figures in black and white.
Speaking to reporters ahead of Question Period on Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre renewed his calls for the Mark Carney Liberals to release a budget sooner rather than later.
He’s fading into the background. No wonder Carney wants a long summer break.
