Canada is seeing a sharp increase in asylum-seekers entering through a border crossing between New York and the province of Quebec, as President Donald Trump’s policies drive away migrants and even some U.S. citizens.
Canadian officials have received more than 5,500 asylum claims since the beginning of July at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing, south of Montreal. That’s a 263% increase from the same period last year, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency.
The leaders of Canada and Mexico, the United States’ two largest trading partners, will meet on Thursday — without their U.S. counterpart — after eight months of chaotic trade talks and threats of tariffs.
The talks, between Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, are expected to focus on trade, as well as investments in areas like mining, agriculture and natural gas.
Both leaders will also discuss preserving their free trade partnership with the United States, which has so far limited the effect of President Trump’s tariffs on their economies. On Tuesday, the three countries opened public consultations on the trade pact, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement, or the U.S.M.C.A., the first step in a review of the agreement.
Management professor Sylvain Charlebois says Canadian truckers are the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the state of the country’s economy.
Many of those working in the industry for decades say their trucking volume is getting lighter lately, the routes shorter, and their pay interval longer, according to the Dalhousie University professor. They are getting paid every 60 to 90 days, rather than every 30 days, which has occurred during previous economic downturns, Charlebois said.
“For many years, I’ve always believed that they’re able to foresee changes in economic cycles, and that they’re able to foresee exactly what’s going to happen with the economy,” Charlebois said in an interview with The Epoch Times.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/lJeRYKCi3o
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 18, 2025
There must come a day when the demons who did this to Canada are held accountable.
h/t Patti Jo
Canada’s recognition of Palestine will be a ‘step-by-step process,’ Anita Anand says
OTTAWA—Canada will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations later this month, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says, but will hold off fully normalizing diplomatic relations until there is real democratic progress from the Palestinian Authority.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state in July, on the conditions that the Palestinian Authority commit to governance reforms, hold general elections in 2026 and demilitarize. He also said Hamas cannot be part of any future Palestinian government.
The Palestinian Authority, which controls the government in the West Bank, has promised elections but no dates have been set, and it has not yet met any of the other conditions.
Heartening to see the adults in the room are easing into their embrace of a murder cult.
People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier has criticized the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as Canada’s new Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, arguing that Ottawa has already spent too much supporting the war-torn country.
In a post on X, Bernier claimed that Canada has committed $22 billion to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, alleging that such funding has “unnecessarily prolonged the war” and “destroyed Ukraine.”
Ukraine has a corruption problem and forever wars are grifter nirvana. Look no further than Afghanistan.
When your fighting age men flee the country in droves it’s time to seek peace.
I fully expect to see Zelensky bugging out via helicopter one day with Freeland clinging to the struts.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When it comes to Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, things have been eerily quiet in Washington, D.C. recently.
Much of the focus in Washington has been on trade with the United Kingdom and U.S. President Donald Trump’s historic second state visit there this week. The trip promises plenty of royal pageantry that British leaders hope will persuade the American leader to lower tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
The KGB once lauded Chrystia Freeland as someone who was “inventive” in achieving her goals.
The ex-Soviet spy agency’s insightful analysis is in need of an update to include the fact that she never achieved her ultimate goal of becoming prime minister despite an artful public letter that slipped a stiletto between the shoulder blades of Justin Trudeau.
She was an accomplice not a victim and deserves no praise.
She wanted to succeed Junior as leader.
In pursuing that wish dream she robbed Canada of a unifying moment.
Voting the Trudeau gov’t out of office was what virtually all Canadians dreamed of.
OTTAWA — On the same day the prime minister is set to meet Saskatchewan’s premier after his trade mission to China, Canada’s industry minister said opening the Canadian market to Chinese-made EVs isn’t off the table.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning outside of the Liberal cabinet meeting, Melanie Joly said loosening Canada’s restrictions to China’s electric vehicles has not been ruled out to ease punishing tariffs on Canadian canola.
Flooding the market with cheap Chinese EV’s to keep a Canola market open? What could go wrong?
I mean besides Trump eviscerating what’s left of Canada’s auto industry.
Who wins?
The so-called buy Canadian movement gained momentum when Donald Trump suggested, half in jest but with a tone of menace, that Canada could one day become America’s “51st state.”
The remark struck a nerve. Canadians reacted with indignation and pride, choosing to affirm their sovereignty not only through political rhetoric but also through their wallets. Many began rejecting U.S. products and looking more deliberately at what it meant to support Canadian ones.
Though involvement has diminished in recent decades, Canada has traditionally portrayed itself and operated as a peacekeeping nation since the Second World War.
Whether due to the Canadian Forces’ efforts in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, or even going back to Lester B. Pearson’s instrumental and Nobel Peace Prize-winning role in de-escalating the 1956 Suez Crisis, the peacekeeper role became a core component of Canadians’ self-image.
I don’t expect much by way of civic mindedness, patriotism or empathy from a generation of young people whose dreams have been crushed by the evil actions of Canada’s Liberal government and our Corporate Welfare parasites: Think runaway immigration is being fixed? Think again: Full Comment podcast
In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated, I was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House across the Resolute Desk from the President of the United States. Although I have known him for more than 25 years and have generally been in touch with him throughout that period, I had not seen him in person for some years. I have written approximately two million words about him, almost all of it reasonably or unambiguously favourable, though not uncritically so, mainly on U.S. Internet sites, as well as a book that was appreciative of him though no hagiography, (A President Like no Other).
No shortage of the demon possessed …
This TikToker is openly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Initially, I might have overlooked it, but people pointed out that she appears to be wearing scrubs in other videos, suggesting she works in the medical field. Someone who celebrates the death of another… pic.twitter.com/fnKR7EXtoq
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) September 15, 2025
Photos of a Muslim woman in which she is not wearing a hijab are not intimate images, a B.C. tribunal has ruled.
The Civil Resolution Tribunal published its decision on the case Friday, dismissing a claim for damages under B.C.’s Intimate Images Protection Act. The legislation allows people to seek up to $5,000 in compensation from individuals who share or threaten to share their intimate images without consent.
The woman, whose identity is anonymized under a publication ban, told the tribunal photos of her without her hijab were shared with court officials, some of whom were male, by her ex-husband in the course of a family law proceeding.
Canadian households are once again piling on debt faster than their incomes can keep up—if they ever stopped. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data show the household debt-to-income (DTI) ratio climbed for a third straight quarter in Q2 2025. It’s still below the 2021 peak, but that drop has less to do with deleveraging and more to do with population growth inflating the income side of the equation.
