In this much, Mark Carney is different from his predecessor. He thinks Canada is a country with a defining identity.
Regardless of what so many Albertans may feel about independence for Alberta or Saskatchewan today, Justin Trudeau’s cringeworthy New York Times interview ten years ago left us, well… cringing. Canada, he said, was the world’s “first post-national state,” and seemed pleased with the thought. He added for good measure, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
Canada is no longer the world-leading developed country it once was.
We still talk like one, and identify as one. But when you look at how long it takes to build a subway, what it costs to add a housing unit, or how little economic progress we’ve made per person over the last decade, the truth is obvious: we are in decline. The systems that once delivered rising prosperity no longer function in practice—they now produce delay, contradiction, and paralysis.
By all accounts, King Charles III’s major address on Tuesday in Ottawa was meant to be a rebuke to Donald Trump and all his taunts about Canada becoming a 51st state if it had to depend on money from the U.S. in order to survive. Yet when Charles finally delivered his highly anticipated address, he ended up undercutting Canadian sovereignty more than supporting it.
Ottawa Police said they arrested 11 protesters outside of the CANSEC military trade show Wednesday morning.
The Ottawa Police Service’s public order unit cleared demonstrators around 10:30 a.m. after the police liaison team “made numerous attempts to have the protestors cooperate,” OPS wrote on the social media site X.
Palestinian protesters are now fighting with police on Uplands Drive near the Ottawa Airport. pic.twitter.com/Ym4lEmRL6F
— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) May 28, 2025
OTTAWA PRO PALESTINE activists have shut down uplands Dr in Ottawa and filled the street with fake blood. Blocking the CANSEC event pic.twitter.com/3VyUkNsEAN
— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) May 28, 2025
Pictured: Justin Trudeau wears trainers to King’s speech
Justin Trudeau wore a pair of green trainers for the King’s speech at the state opening of Canada’s parliament in Ottawa.
The former Canadian prime minister chaperoned his mother, Margaret, into the Senate chamber for the historic speech, while dressed in a navy suit and a pair of the turquoise and orange Adidas Gazelles.
The boards around the Sir John A. Macdonald statue at the foot of the Queen’s Park estate in downtown Toronto are set to come down, roughly half a decade after he was first covered up.
During a summer of protests in 2020, a box was placed around the iconic statue of Canada’s first prime minister — a move Ontario’s then-speaker said was to protect it from vandals.
Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered sanctuary to 400 ostriches facing death in Canada due to bird flu.
Dr. Oz, the Trump appointed director of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, have intervened to rescue the flightless birds after authorities in British Columbia pledged to cull them amid an outbreak of avian flu.
A number of red lights are flashing across the dashboard of Canada’s consumer credit market, according to an analysis released Tuesday by Equifax.
On everything from credit cards to mortgages, a growing share of borrowers is increasingly struggling to make their monthly debt payments, the numbers suggest. The report, which records data from the first three months of 2025, offers a gauge of the financial health of Canadian borrowers amid sputtering economic growth, rising unemployment and stubborn inflation.
Signs of strain are particularly acute among young people and those living in Ontario, with missed payments rising even as many consumers are cutting back on spending, the data suggest.
In the recent federal election, the Liberals and Conservatives both campaigned on lowering income taxes to ease the burden on working- and middle-class Canadians. Sure enough, an income tax cut is planned for July 1st.
This focus on tax cuts raises the question: how much of a burden are income taxes on the typical Canadian?
The “typical Canadian”—defined as the median income earner—is currently taxed at an average of just over 17 percent (federal plus provincial). The upcoming tax cut will decrease that by about half a percentage point, bringing it to just under 17 percent.
OTTAWA – When representatives of NATO nations meet in The Hague late next month, they’re expected to dramatically hike the alliance’s defence spending target for members — the one Canada is failing to hit already.
At the last NATO summit in Washington last year, allies lined up to call out Canada for failing to meet the alliance defence spending target of two per cent of national GDP.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the NATO summit next month, he’ll likely be under pressure to commit to a new defence spending target of five per cent of national GDP.
I see a real possibility of the US asserting control over “our Arctic” for national security reasons as I suspect Canada to remain lackadaisical about defense matters.
Who knows, maybe even NATO will tire of us.
More than 8,000 Hudson’s Bay employees will be out of work by June 1 as Canada’s oldest company closes its doors following the completion of its liquidation sale.
Hudson’s Bay filed a motion on Monday stating that it will have terminated 8,347 employees, or 89 percent of its workforce, by June 1, most of whom work in retail stores that are set to shutter on that day.
Elections Canada is doing a really good job of sullying its own reputation. The bizarre nature of recounts happening in this last election is making them look like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
We have ridings won by hundreds of votes by one side flipping to the other, leads reduced to a handful of votes and one riding won by a single vote, but some ballots weren’t counted.
What we have witnessed in Canada and other Western democracies over the last year and a half is the rapid establishment of social licence.
Social licence for the type of violent extremism that resulted in the assassination of two Israeli embassy diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, in Washington last week. Social licence for the open celebration and justification of the murders – from extremist voices, yes, but also from academics, influencers and a former Green Party candidate in the recent Canadian election – by people convinced that emptying a gun into two people on an American sidewalk is a defensible form of “resistance” against the actions of a foreign government half a world away.
Nathan Prier, president of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, one of the federal government’s largest unions, said earlier this week that Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali and the rest of the Carney cabinet must make regaining the trust of federal civil servants one of the Liberal government’s highest priorities.
