Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

In a 2022 news conference, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there wasn’t a clear business case for building liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to export to Europe. This past week, Mark Carney suggested in a media interview that the first thing European authorities are interested in when they sit down with Canada is not our energy. He went on to say that energy is something Canada raises as being part of the solution in respect to nuclear and LNG.


Carney will talk big but nothing will get done.

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Ontario Liberal Party stands by results in Scarborough Southwest nomination, as Erskine-Smith weighs options

Ontario Liberal Party stands by results in Scarborough Southwest nomination, as Erskine-Smith weighs options

The Ontario Liberal Party is standing by the results of its nomination contest in Scarborough Southwest as losing candidate Nate Erskine-Smith met with his team to discuss next steps after raising concerns about the race.

On Saturday, Liberal members in the east Toronto riding chose businessman Ahsanul Hafiz as their next provincial candidate in a yet-to-be-announced by-election, beating Mr. Erskine-Smith in a close contest. The nomination was seen as a critical step in Mr. Erskine-Smith’s plan to run for leader of the Ontario Liberal party. He is currently a federal MP for the neighbouring riding of Beaches-East York.


I am lovin it. The pandering pol got what he deserved.

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Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has committed $180 million in taxpayer money to a World Bank climate initiative aimed at accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy and addressing “gender equality gaps” in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

According to the federal government’s grants and contributions website, the funding was provided to the World Bank through the “World Bank Clean Energy and SIDS Resilience Facility (CESR).”

(Incognito)

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‘Pathetic’: How the people behind Canada’s Afghan war memorial lost many vets

‘Pathetic’: How the people behind Canada’s Afghan war memorial lost many vets

Canada’s proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it’s designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war.

Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan in Lebreton Flats, near Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum, last Monday. But some vets felt overlooked in a ceremony that focused on the project and not the onetime warriors, and showcased an Indigenous-inspired “Medicine Wheel” design.

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Carney government discussed media blacklist at closed-door meeting, records show

Carney government discussed media blacklist at closed-door meeting, records show

Staff inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Privy Council Office took part in a confidential federal meeting to discuss which reporters should receive government accreditation and which could be denied access, according to Access To Information records released this week.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the March 10 meeting, involving officials from the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, Treasury Board, Canada Revenue Agency and the immigration department, focused on creating a more unified federal media accreditation system amid growing concerns over independent journalism and alternative media outlets.

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Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

OTTAWA – More Canadians now say economic growth should be a bigger priority in Canada’s energy policy than protecting the environment, a new Angus Reid Institute report suggests.

The pollster released a report today that suggests 61 per cent of Canadians now see economic growth as the biggest priority in energy policy.

That’s a shift in public opinion since seven years ago, when the same question had 55 per cent of Canadians saying that the environment should be the top priority in energy policy.


And Carney is just the man to lie to your face about it.

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Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow

Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow

On May 31, 2001, a former Pakistan army captain named Tahawwur Hussain Rana swore the oath of citizenship in front of an Ottawa judge, who anointed him a Canadian.

But he is a fraudulent Canadian, according to hundreds of pages of government documents obtained by Global News that allege he obtained his citizenship through “deception.”

The documents show that an RCMP investigation uncovered considerable evidence that Rana lied on his citizen application form by claiming he resided in Canada, when he did not.

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Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?

Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?

I spent last weekend crossing half the globe with Prime Minister Mark Carney, to spend a few hours with European leaders in Yerevan, the stunning Armenian capital, before crossing all the way back to Ottawa.

Mr. Carney was the first non-European leader to be invited to a meeting of the European Political Community, a grouping that brings together the 27 European Union member states with allies and neighbors, including Britain and Turkey, as well as aspiring members such as Ukraine and Albania.

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Canadian home ownership for young families falls to lowest level since postwar era

Canadian home ownership for young families falls to lowest level since postwar era

Young Canadians are buying homes at the lowest rates seen since the postwar period, according to new Statistics Canada data that adds to growing concerns over affordability, declining optimism and widening generational inequality.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the report found millennials are significantly less likely to own homes than previous generations were at the same age, reinforcing fears that the traditional middle-class path to ownership is slipping out of reach.

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Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney’s foreign policy

Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney’s foreign policy

Last week I reviewed mainly the domestic record of the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney over the past 13 months, although, as was mentioned, the principal point that Canadians seem to hold in his favour is the foreign policy perception of his ability ”to stand up to Trump.” Few could forget how Carney, with the connivance of the anti-conservative national political media, represented his campaign as a Churchillian finest hour of national defence against a belligerent America. That burlesque has ended and Carney must now face the question of how to deal with the United States, a subject that our longest-serving prime minister, W.L. Mackenzie King, described to General de Gaulle in 1945 as “an overwhelming contiguity.”

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Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.

“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

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Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies were in a frenzy of conspiracy theories Friday after former President Barack Obama greeted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a think-tank event in Toronto.

A video, posted by Carney on X, shows him shaking hands with the former president, before Obama also greets the prime minister’s wife, Diana Fox Carney. Obama was in town to deliver a keynote address at a gala for Canada 2020, a progressive think-tank that advocates for inclusivity. Obama and Carney have known each other on a professional level since at least 2008, when he was the U.S. president and the PM served as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

The Independent can be as bad as the Guardian.

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Statscan sold early hate crime report to Heritage for $72K as questions raised over omitted antisemitism data

Statscan sold early hate crime report to Heritage for $72K as questions raised over omitted antisemitism data

Statistics Canada sold an advance copy of a national hate crimes report to the Department of Canadian Heritage for $72,000, granting officials early access for “feedback.”

Blacklock’s Reporter says the confidential agreement between Statistics Canada and Department of Canadian Heritage allowed a designated official in Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s department to review the report Police-Reported Hate Crimes In Canada prior to its public release.

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Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada’s shameful international student boom

Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada’s shameful international student boom

For years, the stories of the overseas sacrifices that were made to fuel Ontario’s international student boom have been told.

Families in poor countries that sold their few worldly possessions, sometimes the actual farm, to pay the steep college tuition costs for foreign students in the land of milk and honey. Often, they found the education and opportunity were not at all what they expected.

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An army of 3rd World mercenaries …

An army of 3rd World mercenaries …

The following BBC piece reads like a CAF PR Handout

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