The chair of Canada Post’s board says the organization’s financial situation is unsustainable.
“The board and senior management recognize that Canada Post is at a critical juncture,” said André Hudon at its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
“Significant change is urgently needed to preserve Canada Post’s delivery network, which is vital because it’s the only delivery network built to serve all Canadians.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter to his NDP counterpart asking Jagmeet Singh to pull his party’s support for the Liberal government so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.
“Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition. No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” Poilievre wrote in his letter.
“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as “Sell-Out Singh,'” Poilievre said.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc defended Canada’s national security system after it was revealed an alleged ISIS terrorist was granted Canadian citizenship just before being arrested for plotting a terror attack in the Greater Toronto Area.
The suspect, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, was initially allowed into Canada on a visitor visa in 2018 and subsequently gained refugee status, permanent residency, and finally citizenship.
A newly disclosed memo from then-RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says current and former Mounties were among supporters of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The document, dated April 26, 2022 and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, said Lucki tried to find Convoy sympathizers within the force.
Canada’s federal police service is issuing a warning about online extremist groups targeting Canadian youth.
Referring to these groups as ideologically motivated violent extremist (IMVE) entities, police warned they’re actively targeting online youth in the country with the goal of convincing the children to record or livestream acts of self-harm, suicide, animal torture or child sexual abuse material.
He became a Canadian citizen in May 2024, after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service screened him and “returned a favorable recommendation,” according to the timeline tabled by Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Many of us have been alarmed at the deterioration of the United States’ foreign relations with our allies under the tenure of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our relationship with Israel has been strained to near the breaking point and our European allies seem to be unsure of how much they can rely on us. Taiwan is constantly looking over its shoulder, wary of a sudden attack by mainland China and what we might do about it in response. Now we can add another country to the list and it’s one much closer to home.
After receiving the backroom blessing of Democratic Party powerbrokers, Kamala Harris quickly closed the presidential polling gap — though without granting a single interview. “Unburdened by what has been,” to quote the new Democratic nominee, many voters enthusiastically support her candidacy simply because she is not Donald Trump. But what she stands for should be of intense interest, not only to American voters, but to America’s allies and rivals around the world. For Canadians, the many parallels between Harris and Justin Trudeau are uncanny.
Since it’s become a fun-filled dodge for Canada’s public sector union leaders to use their soapboxes to play Model United Nations instead of doing their actual jobs, some members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have stepped up to add a dash of foreign policy to their union’s agenda.
In a recent national poll, more than half of responding Americans believe that China is deliberately exporting fentanyl to the United States for the purpose of harming, or even destabilizing our nation.
Were that true, some might reasonably describe that strategy as an act of war.
For China, it would be historic payback time.
Having lost a generation, a nation, and an empire to opium introduced by Imperial Britain during the 1800s, no one knows better than the Chinese that a drug scourge can bring a country literally to its knees.
An international manhunt for one of Canada’s most wanted men – suspected of a bodybuilder’s murder – has ended at a four-storey block of flats in Luton.
Adrian Gordon, 24, went on the run after the murder in May, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warning the public he was ‘armed, violent and dangerous’.
He was suspected of first degree murder in regard to killing champion bodybuilder Jesse Tubbs, 30, who was found shot in a drugs hotspot.
Given how dismal most of world history is, many people understandably romanticize their ancestors while governments peddle insolent propaganda. But why would Canada, so blessed by history and geography, have grafted onto a past as discouraging, as it is false?
As a long-retired school administrator, over the years I observed that most parents shared one objective: to make sure their children had the best chance for a meaningful life. Perhaps that meant focusing on certain math courses that were prerequisites for other programs. Often it meant ensuring a level of French proficiency that would, they expected, afford their child a level playing field. Parents would camp out in wintery conditions to enrol their youngsters in a highly regarded French immersion school.
Pierre Poilievre’s overheated insults. Canadians of all stripes being nasty to each other online. It’s past time for all of us to heed Jack Layton
Thirteen years ago this week, former NDP leader Jack Layton took his final breath on earth. Before leaving, he drafted a letter to Canadians with words we should revisit as we enter the end stage of this federal Parliament.
For those who don’t remember, Layton closed his letter with an appeal: “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.”
Canada and other countries that are laggards when it comes to military spending should hit the NATO-imposed target of spending two per cent of GDP “as rapidly as humanly possible,” U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser told reporters on the sidelines of the Liberal cabinet retreat in Halifax on Sunday.
Asked by CBC News if he’s satisfied with Canada’s recently announced plan to hit that spending target in eight years’ time, Jake Sullivan said the Biden administration has pushed NATO countries to meet the spending threshold, and while some have complied, “there is still a set of countries that hasn’t — Canada is one of them.”
