For many Canadians, an annual household income of $100,000 is necessary to feel comfortable, according to a new survey.
However, the amount required to feel at ease differs depending on age, the size of a given household, whether they own their home and where they live.
Last Sunday, 46-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi was shot to death in his Vaughan home just after midnight. The shooter was part of a band of armed, masked intruders seeking to rob the house.
Farooqi was protecting his family when he died, and his children are now left without a father, and his wife without a husband.
On the same day in Welland, 25-year-old Daniel Senecal is alleged to have broken into another home and sexually abused a toddler while the parents slept. He was known to the police.
No doubt many Canadians will be surprised to learn that, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada has already achieved, “the best trade deal of any country in the world” with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The reason, Carney said on Wednesday, is that. “We have a team, a very senior team, the clerk of the Privy Council is there in Washington as we speak, that is meeting with U.S. counterparts”, plus his own constructive conversations with Trump, including, the PM revealed, their latest “at length” talk on Monday which he described as a “good” conversation.
QUEBEC — Jean Charest says Canada will eventually thank U.S. President Donald Trump for providing the country with a much-needed economic shakeup.
The Quebec premier between 2003 and 2012 told business leaders in Quebec City on Tuesday that Trump is pulling Canada out of its “lethargy” and forcing its leaders to rethink the economy.
Charest is now a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s council on Canada-U.S. relations.
Crony Capitalism has taken a hit in the balls. But Canada being Canada they will remain an important part of our corrupt self serving political class.
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet behind closed doors Thursday.
Carney and his ministers are in the Greater Toronto Area for two days of meetings ahead of the fall parliamentary sitting. According to the list of guest speakers, the Liberal team is hearing from Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank that has shaped Republican administrations since the 1980s.
It’s the group that spearheaded Project 2025, a 900-page manifesto meant to usher in a new ultra-conservative administration supported by more than 100 like-minded organizations.
Remember this the next time the CBC cries “foreign interference” or some such nonsense when the Conservatives invite a US speaker.
I will share my prepared comment here: “I have reported for The Bureau a story based on a tape recording provided to me by a courageous Canadian from mainland China. This person shared a recording in which Senator Yuen Pau Woo was speaking to a group that included Premier David… https://t.co/m15PguR35k
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) September 3, 2025
It is hardly surprising, in the year 2025, to see a public figure strung up — figuratively, thank goodness — for something he didn’t quite say or mean. If cinema is “a machine that creates empathy,” as critic Roger Ebert once said, then social media is something like the opposite: a machine for grinding people into the radioactive dust of their own presumed worst intentions.
On Friday, Pierre Poilievre said he would change Canada’s self-defence laws so that “the use of force, including lethal force, is presumed reasonable against an individual who unlawfully enters a house and poses a threat to the safety of anyone inside.” It’s a reform that would nudge the needle to favour victims, but it probably wouldn’t change much.
Right now, the law of self-defence in Canada will absolve self-defenders who reasonably believe that force or the threat of force is being made against them, and who take defensive action that is found to be “reasonable in the circumstances.” This would include break-in victims.
Does anyone really know where Canada’s tariff negotiations with the U.S. are headed? Despite a steady cavalcade of ministerial visits to Washington and efforts by individual premiers to engage, it is difficult to know what is being discussed, or whether anything has been agreed or rejected. We have been treated instead to airy platitudes: Talks are “progressing” or meetings “have been constructive,” etc. Messaging to the U.S. media has been obsequious, not crisp lest anything strong trigger an outburst by the unpredictable president.
I bet he did – Carney says he spoke with Trump in ‘good’ conversation on trade, geopolitics
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke at length with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday night.
Mr. Carney told reporters Wednesday on his way into a two-day meeting with his cabinet that it was a “good” conversation that touched on a range of issues including trade, geopolitics and labour.
I don’t think there’s an upside here. My impression is Trump is more than happy to let Carney wither on the vine.
Watching Ontario Premier Doug Ford theatrically dump a bottle of Crown Royal was one of the most misguided political gestures we’ve seen in some time — at least since the beginning of Canada’s recent trade dispute with the United States.
BREAKING—Doug Ford dumped a bottle of Crown Royal in Kitchener to “punish” the CEO for moving jobs to the US.
Small problem, Doug
Crown Royal is made in Gimli, Manitoba by Canadians.Clown move, not Crown move.pic.twitter.com/N8997gTbyH
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) September 2, 2025
After several months of uncharacteristic jingoism, Canadians have come around to the idea that there are practical limits in politics, what with Prime Minister Mark Carney having recently removed certain retaliatory tariffs against the United States. In retrospect, it’s evident that for many Canadian voters, the emotional satisfaction of responding with “elbows up” rhetoric to what they perceived as U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-handedness took precedent over any analysis of their real interests in the matter.
You could see reality set in as commentators patiently explained that all this really was for the best. Of course, from the start, the odds that Carney would capitulate in this way might have been conservatively estimated at around 100 per cent.
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently walked a gauntlet of parked military gear while visiting Canadian and allied troops in Latvia.
All of it was spit and polish, some draped in camouflage and looking showroom ready, if not somewhat menacing.
It was an impressive, seemingly substantive, display of combat power.
Every week, for the last several months, Islamic afternoon prayers have been held outside Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. The prayers are hosted by the group Montreal4Palestine, which has used the space outside the church to protest Israel’s continuing war in Gaza.
It’s either a beautiful or egregiously provocative scene, depending on how you look at it. Beautiful for what it illustrates about the freedoms afforded to people in Canada: the ability to practice one’s religion outside the place of worship of another religion. Egregiously provocative for what one might infer about the motives of those who have chosen Notre-Dame at the site for their protest and prayers.
No matter how you slice it, it is an act of aggression by a cult that should never have been permitted entry to Canada.
Mark Carney’s been busy these past few months, hosting the G7, pursuing foreign trade pacts, and talking with Trump on the telephone. But instead of a reset, he’s had a summer of discontent, putting us back at square one with the Americans and facing a host of challenges for the fall.
Canada’s population has stopped growing.
That’s an important point to remember when you hear Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre complain that immigration is “out of control” and people are pouring into the country.
The Globe splits hairs to make it sound like Canada is short of unskilled 3rd World migrants from incompatible cultures.
The Globe is the mouthpiece of our Titans Of Industry. These Titans conspired with the LPC to flood Canada with mass immigration from incompatible cultures so they could profit from depressed wages and the ensuing shortages. Surprise, they want more slaves. https://t.co/TimdBYf1CI
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 2, 2025
