Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday the lack of a federal budget sends “a bad signal” to investors and credit rating agencies.
Poilievre told a press conference on Parliament Hill that he wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to “steal his ideas” and offered to help him draft a budget.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney should “take a page from the Chrétien government’s 1994 program review” and cut tens of thousands of bureaucrat jobs, argued the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) in a new paper published on Thursday.
The economic think tank found that a program review like the one from 30 years ago would result in the elimination of about 64,000 federal government jobs. This would lead to a return to the pre-Justin Trudeau government per capita size of the bureaucracy and a permanent reduction in public spending of nearly $10 billion a year by 2029, MEI experts say.
Equalization has become a payoff system for keeping Quebec in Canada; and for some, an irritant that could drive Alberta out
Premier Danielle Smith raises hell with Ottawa over provincial grievances, to the joy of many Albertans and the discomfort of others.
Here’s one mammoth, nation-wrecking gripe:
Quebec has received $129.9 billion in equalization payments in the past 10 years.
Chinese money-launderers allegedly made six-figure deposits at Chase, Bank of America and Citibank branches across Los Angeles County
On a hazy Southern California morning, undercover police officers watched Jiayong Yu step out of a Range Rover in a strip-mall parking lot and walk into a Chase bank with a black-leather backpack full of cash.
At the teller window, Yu pulled out stacks of bills and waited while a woman fed them into a cash-counting machine. After Yu left, an officer asked the teller if he had deposited more than $10,000, the threshold requiring banks to flag transactions to federal regulators.
More like $100,000, the teller said. By then, Yu was already on his way to Chase and Bank of America branches in Claremont, Calif., about 35 miles away.
Federal authorities allege that Yu worked for an underground banking network that bought dollars at a discount from Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and sold them at a premium, largely to Chinese nationals in the U.S.
Yemeni terror suspect placed under house arrest at Toronto mosque
A Yemeni arrested as he was allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a Middle East terrorist group has been released on bail to live under house arrest at a Toronto mosque.
A copy of an Ontario judge’s release order obtained by Global News shows Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee was ordered to “reside at the mosque” in Toronto’s North York district.
While the recent federal election was mainly a contest between the Liberals and Conservatives, most Canadians say they don’t think the country would be better off with a two-party system, a new poll suggests. Meanwhile, most NDP and Bloc Québécois supporters say they don’t want an election in the next two years.
Nearly half of Canadians say they don’t favour the idea of two parties dominating the political landscape in Canada, while just over 21 percent say the country would benefit from it, according to a recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies. Nearly 30 percent said they didn’t know.
Canada intends to expand its military training regime in the Arctic, deploying a variety of forces in the region for up to 10 months a year, starting this year, the military’s operations commander says.
Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin says the military’s signature Far North exercise — Operation Nanook — will see additional elements created, resulting in a greater, consistent presence in a region that is increasingly the focus of geopolitical rivalry.
The plan, says one defence expert, is an unprecedented opportunity for the Liberal government to not only demonstrate Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, but to rally NATO allies behind the country.
BREAKING: A powerful Muslim organization in Canada — that has yet to condemn October 7 — has presented government with "The Nakba Bill."
This is model legislation for Parliament. The organization says they’re optimistic it will pass.
Here are a few points the Bill includes:… pic.twitter.com/QiWMlAa1jX
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) May 15, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly constituted cabinet met for the first time Wednesday on Parliament Hill as the government grapples with a whole host of challenges it will be charged with fixing.
The new ministry has three distinct challenges, among others, bubbling up on its watch: a U.S. trade war that’s already having an impact on Canada’s sluggish economy, persistent consumer affordability challenges and restlessness in Western Canada over the future of natural resources development.
Given Liberal Party policy has created or at the least made these challenges worse should make for some interesting double-speak.
In an earlier life, as a newly appointed member of the National Energy Board, I participated in a conversation about pipeline regulation with citizens affected by pipelines and hence, by their regulation. I was as thrilled by the opportunity, as I was to visit a part of the country new to me.
That is when I was educated about two important aspects of the legal process.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is opposed to Alberta sovereignty but understands the frustration in the province that is driving the possibility.
He spoke about the issue Tuesday as he commented on the new federal cabinet announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“I’m against separation. I’m a born and raised Albertan. I love Canada. I think we need to unite this country,” Mr. Poilievre said.
Canada facing high youth suicide rates, child mortality, new report finds
Progress to improve child and youth well-being in Canada is lagging compared to other high-income countries, according to a new UNICEF report.
It ranks Canada closer to the bottom than the top of the list when it comes to adolescent suicide rates, child mortality and competence in social skills.
“All orders of government in Canada have an opportunity to concretely address the downward trends we see in this Report Card — and frankly, an obligation to,” Sevaun Palvetzian, president and CEO of UNICEF Canada, said in a statement to the Star.
Liberal governments will do that to ya.
Carney says Canadians ‘weren’t impressed’ by U.K.’s offer of second state visit to Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians “weren’t impressed” when the U.K. decided to offer U.S. President Donald Trump an unprecedented second state visit while he was threatening Canada’s sovereignty.
“To be frank, they weren’t impressed by that gesture, quite simply, given the circumstance,” Carney told British news channel Sky News in an interview posted online Wednesday.
“It was at a time when we were being quite clear, some of us were being quite clear, about the issues around sovereignty.”
That was a stupid move by Carney.
MARKHAM — A controversial diaspora pressure group with ties to Chinese consular circles in Toronto is demanding that Pierre Poilievre step down, following an election marked by Beijing’s attacks on Conservative candidates, and renewing the same type of challenge it posed to former leader Erin O’Toole, which first drew national security attention after the 2021 federal contest.
h/t Mauser
We must face an uncomfortable truth: Canada’s automotive and EV manufacturing strategy, touted as a generational opportunity to drive economic growth, jobs and environmental leadership, has failed quickly and dramatically.
The federal and Quebec governments made a bad $4.6-billion dollar bet on Northvolt, a Swedish EV battery manufacturer, which has entered bankruptcy less than two years since a $7-billion investment announcement. The $270-million invested by Quebec in Northvolt’s parent company in Sweden is now “lost,” confirmed the provincial government in March.
