Where’s the beef?
Certainly, there is none to find in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s nothingburger list of major projects. Surprisingly well received given none of the projects need federal involvement, this is one more step to deceptively finesse Canadians.
Hamburger helper. Instant ramen. Tuna noodle casserole.
We’re in the midst of a dinner throwback era, but unlike wide-legged jeans and the resurgence of DVDs, this trend has nothing do with nostalgia.
So-called “struggle meals” are trending right now as consumers grapple with the high price of food and seek affordable meal options. It’s a new term for an old solution — struggle meals are inexpensive and simple, often made from cheap items or what might already be in your pantry.
‘So consequential’: Ottawa faces lawsuit over newcomers’ rights to access immigration lawyers
A lawyers’ group says it is suing the federal government in a bid to boost legal protections for newcomers in “high-stakes” immigration and refugee cases.
The Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association (CILA) wants to force three federal departments to recognize the right for newcomers to have access to their lawyers in all stages of the visa application process. The non-profit organization named Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and Employment and Social Development Canada as defendants in Federal Court documents.
A majority of Canadians feel that the country does not need new immigrants and people are divided over whether newcomers should have to give up their customs, according to a new national poll.
The survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies found that 60 per cent of respondents disagreed that “Canada needs new immigrants,” with the highest levels of opposition found in Alberta (65 per cent), Ontario (63 per cent) and Quebec (61 per cent), followed by Manitoba and Saskatchewan (60 per cent), the Atlantic provinces (56 per cent) and British Columbia (48 per cent).
Ottawa is once again easing closer to Beijing, this time under the banner of climate policy. The suggestion is that Canada should welcome China’s pledges on carbon neutrality and treat them as an opportunity for common ground on net-zero emissions. On the surface, it looks pragmatic. In practice, it is naive. Canada risks mistaking performance for progress, applauding promises while ignoring the record of the world’s largest polluter, while granting Beijing the leverage it seeks through climate diplomacy.
To anyone who thought that the Liberals’ decision to postpone enforcement of their Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate by one year was part of a well-thought-out plan to get that disastrous program back on track, well, every day brings with it news that you were wrong. In fact, the whole project seems to be coming apart at the seams.
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With half a year having passed under Carney’s leadership, the Liberal government appears as directionless and inept as it ever was under Trudeau’s guidance. Liberal strategists successfully convinced Canadians that the trade war with the United States was such an urgent issue, it could only be managed under the brilliant guidance of the economic wizard, Mark Carney. Voters in Eastern Canada forgot about the decade of ineptitude under the Trudeau regime and kept the Liberals in power.
To say Carney has underperformed is an understatement.
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It’s Monday morning in Canada, and the swamp is alive and well. After seven years of stonewalling, weak investigations, and political cover for one of the most explosive scandals in recent history, the Trudeau machine just got what looks like its final shield. Ontario Crown prosecutors quietly stepped in to shut down Democracy Watch’s private prosecution against Justin Trudeau over the SNC-Lavalin affair—yes, the same SNC that got caught bribing Libyan officials and then rebranded itself “AtkinsRéalis” as if a name change erases corruption.
When Hamas leaders send you successive thank-you notes, you are not on the right side of history.
The gratitude of an Islamist death cult, committed in its founding charter to “annihilate” Israel, along with all Jews and infidels, should not be a source of pride for anyone, let alone the prime minister of Canada. But Mark Carney seems unperturbed.
Not long ago, Casey McLaughlin was executive director of the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, but earlier this month she found herself lining up with hundreds of others at a job fair in Ottawa, vying for a coveted position at a new Food Basics grocery store.
“I’m willing to go from being a boss to shelving vegetables because you have to pay the bills,” she said. “It’s really hard to find a job in Ottawa right now.”
Nafisa Ijie also attended the job fair at a hotel in Barrhaven, despite having a master’s degree and experience working as a business analyst in Nigeria and England.
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Canada had a shortage of Nigerian business analysts?
Toronto definitely needs more 3rd World!
WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/dVTakcydQe
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 29, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The Liberal Party of Canada, like all political parties, makes its share of mistakes. But there often seem to be moments where Liberals don’t learn any lessons from past political blunders. They go back to the well to find a single drop of water to help quench their thirst.
The most recent example? The Liberal gun ban and buyback plan to compensate gun owners who turn in banned firearms. Even the minister in charge seems to realize this program is badly flawed.
Parliament has resumed sitting, and with it the accompanying childish back-and-forth banter, which comically passes for political debate in 2025. But hidden beneath the bad theatre that Question Period offers, some serious work occasionally gets done.
In May, Prime Minister Mark Carney proudly announced a new bill to “deliver tax relief for Canadians by reducing the lowest marginal personal income tax rate from 15% to 14%, effective July 1, 2025.
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Just weeks before the federal government is set to table the budget, the country’s fiscal outlook has Canada “at the precipice,” according to interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques.
In the latest economic and fiscal outlook, Jacques estimates the Liberals will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion dollars last year. The interim PBO also projects that the federal debt-to-GDP ratio — one of the government’s fiscal anchors — will increase over the medium-term, and remain above its pre-pandemic level.
Gary Anandasangaree’s story begins in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, where he was born into a family marked by politics and conflict. His mother brought him to Canada in 1983 after anti-Tamil riots swept the country, while his father, V. Anandasangaree, remained behind as a prominent Tamil politician.
Four decades later, the boy who arrived as a refugee is now Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, overseeing one of Ottawa’s most politically fraught portfolios.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced recognition of Palestinian statehood — despite its fractured, corrupt leadership, lack of defined territory, and complicity in terror — he did so with technocratic calm. It was an act that exemplifies Hannah Arendt’s description of the banality of evil: policies couched in the ordinary language of progress and diplomacy, but amounting to profound moral abdication.
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