This week, Food Banks Canada graded the federal government a “D” for its efforts at addressing skyrocketing food insecurity and poverty among Canadians amidst a weakening economy. The 2025 Poverty Report Card indicates a growing number of employed Canadians are impoverished, and provides data that further suggests Canada may be veering into a recession, or already experiencing one.
Mark Carney’s $13 billion housing initiative highlights everything that’s wrong with the Canadian system and why things won’t be improving under the Carney government.
To begin with, it proves Carney’s claims that he will streamline the government and reduce the bureaucracy to be hollow. The Trudeau government nearly doubled the civil service over 10 years. Carney has implied the growth was unsustainable and that he will get the bloat under control. Then he announces a new agency which will employ hundreds if not thousands of new civil servants. Not one of which will swing a hammer to help build a home.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state on Sunday, just ahead of his arrival in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Carney said in a statement that the Netanyahu government’s expansionist policies forced him to reverse Canada’s longstanding policy of waiting for a two-state solution to be achieved via a negotiated settlement.
“The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established … It is in this context that Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel,” wrote Carney.
"Muslim values are Canadian values" – @MarkJCarney
"Canadian values are Muslim values." – said no Islamic country ever. pic.twitter.com/gjkr3v8PFN
— Rational Posts™ (@rationalposts) September 21, 2025
Last weekend, Ana Bailão, a longtime member of Toronto city council, took up her job as the first CEO of Build Canada Homes (BCH), the Carney government’s new bureaucracy tasked with doubling the number of homes built annually across the country.
Put aside for a minute the wisdom of appointing a longtime councillor from the city with the second-highest housing prices in the country, and forget for a second that Bailão chaired Toronto city council’s affordable housing committee during the years in which Toronto witnessed some of its worst inflation in housing prices.
Thousands rally in Toronto to ‘draw the line’ against PM Carney agenda
A large crowd of close to 2,000 people marched through downtown Toronto Saturday afternoon as part of Canada-wide protests calling on the new Liberal government to prioritize the climate, Indigenous rights, migrants and workers ahead of the fall budget.
Protesters’ concerns included Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for new fossil fuel projects, potential public service cuts as well as other issues like Indigenous rights, anti-war activism and more.
About 2,000 activists rallied in Toronto to protest Prime Minister Mark Carney’s policies on the climate, the war in Gaza, and migrant and Indigenous rights pic.twitter.com/AymxGnZ2cv
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2025
Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office released Sunday morning.
“Over many decades, Canada’s commitment to [a two-state solution] was premised on the expectation that this outcome would eventually be achieved as part of a negotiated settlement,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
However, that possibility “has been steadily and gravely eroded” by several developments, including the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli parliament’s resolution supporting annexation of the occupied West Bank and the Israeli government’s restrictions on humanitarian aid.
Since 1947, Canada has supported a two-state solution – Palestine and Israel living side by side in peace and security. Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of lasting peace in the Middle East. https://t.co/wyORqCiyib
— Prime Minister of Canada (@CanadianPM) September 21, 2025
Carney and the LPC will do anything for the Muslim vote.
I wonder how the Trump administration will take this?
More … UK, Canada and Australia recognize Palestinian state
Is the Carney government about to move forward with their gun confiscation program or is this simply a voluntary program to buy guns from legal owners? The real answer is it depends on who you talk to and perhaps what your political view of the situation is.
For the second time in a year, Chrystia Freeland has resigned. Less than a year ago, it was Freeland’s resignation as deputy prime minister that set in motion the eventual departure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And now, just a few months into the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney, she’s quitting again by abandoning her new post of minister of transport and internal trade.
‘Elbows up’ turned into giving Trump a belly rub. It might be the right tactic but it’s not what Canadians expected.
Who is Mark Carney?
Canadians are entering their sixth month of Carney as prime minister, but it’s the next few that will define who he and this government want to be. Come December, we’ll know who Carney is and where he wants to go.
Federal and provincial taxpayers are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the future of electric vehicle production in Canada.
At stake is the future of up to $52.5 billion the federal, Ontario and Quebec governments have earmarked since 2020 to create an EV vehicle and battery supply chain in Canada from scratch — $31.4 billion or 60% coming from the feds, $21.1 billion or 40% from the provinces.
SINGAPORE/BEIJING/CANBERRA, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Chinese state trading firm COFCO has bought up to nine 60,000-metric-ton cargoes of Australian canola, three trade sources told Reuters, after Beijing last month imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of the oilseed from traditional supplier Canada.
The purchases amount to around 540,000 tons, equivalent to about 8% of China’s total canola imports last year.
Globe Editorial – The necessary pain of ending the TFW dodge
If the postings on the government of Canada’s job bank site are to be believed, hardly anyone in this country wants to work, whatever the wage. Never mind rising unemployment, particularly among young Canadians. Good help, it seems, remains impossible to find.
Companies seeking permission to hire a temporary foreign worker must first prove that they could not find a Canadian willing to do that work. As of Thursday, there were 4,594 positions listed. The type of positions, and pay, vary wildly, everything from a psychiatrist position in Ottawa paying (at least) $450,000 a year to a slew of minimum-wage jobs in agriculture and food service.
About time. And I doubt that the corporate class will “suffer” much at all when the scam is gone.
Boo Hoo! The Liberals will lose a GDP dodge and the affinity vote bloc harvest.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and Mexico are entering a “new era of co-operation” after announcing a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during a visit to Mexico City.
Carney stood alongside Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Thursday, pledging closer ties in trade, energy, and security as both countries seek to make North America “the most competitive, dynamic, and resilient economic region in the world.”
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OTTAWA — Canadian automakers are warning they could be on the hook for billions of dollars in credit purchases if Canada’s electric vehicle mandate is enforced as written, and sales don’t ramp up.
Automakers already have deals lined up with companies like Tesla to buy credits to close expected gaps between sales and the targets set by the EV mandate. That could end up costing the industry more than $3 billion by 2030, Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association president Brian Kingston told the House of Commons international trade committee on Thursday.
Legal manoeuvres in the Supreme Court of Canada may soon land the country in another constitutional crisis. Earlier this week, the Carney government, through Attorney General Sean Fraser, filed an intervention in the upcoming appeal on Quebec’s secularism legislation (Bill 21) at the Supreme Court.
Crucially, however, the federal government is not contesting the secularism law itself. Instead, it is urging the judges to impose novel restrictions on the use of the notwithstanding clause, which permits legislatures to shield laws from judicial review for a renewable period of five years. This legal argument, if accepted, would undo a key component of Canada’s constitutional settlement and further subordinate parliamentary government to adventurous exercises of judicial power.
