NEMETH: Carney’s European embrace — sovereignty for sale, red tape for all

NEMETH: Carney’s European embrace — sovereignty for sale, red tape for all

Prime Minister Mark Carney made history last week as the first non-European leader invited to the European Political Community summit. His remarks were a familiar rehash of the bromides he delivered at Davos earlier this year: a world in “rupture,” the need to rebuild the international order “out of Europe,” and solemn warnings against a “transactional, insular, and brutal world.” He pushed for deeper integration in critical minerals, supply chains, and defence, as well as a new strategic partnership. Yet behind the lofty rhetoric lies a troubling reality. Carney claims to be guided by “pragmatism,” but his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper European Union (EU) alignment risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for a mountain of red tape and romantic symbolism.

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Liberals restore bill containing incoming Uber Woke GG’s recommendation for Canada’s military

Liberals restore bill containing incoming Uber Woke  GG’s recommendation for Canada’s military

On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.

The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.

The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.

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Trump officials believe Canada ‘slow-walking’ trade talks: Quebec CUSMA envoy

Trump officials believe Canada ‘slow-walking’ trade talks: Quebec CUSMA envoy

Canada needs to act quickly to push back on a growing belief in Washington that it’s dragging its feet on trade talks, according to the Quebec government’s representative in those negotiations.

Louise Blais, who was appointed last month as Quebec’s envoy for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement review, said that “an impression has set in, in D.C. — for right or wrong — that Canada is looking elsewhere, and that we’re slow-walking this.”

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Ottawa quietly pulled $3M from homeless veterans program despite rising demand

Ottawa quietly pulled $3M from homeless veterans program despite rising demand

The federal government quietly transferred more than $3 million away from a homelessness program for veterans after officials claimed they could not find enough former military members eligible to receive the funding.

Blacklock’s Reporter says internal records obtained through Access to Information show Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department moved the money while warning the decision could spark backlash from veterans groups and housing advocates.

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Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

WASHINGTON — For nearly four decades, I have advocated for justice and human rights for the Uyghur people in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression. Its record of gross human rights violations is well documented, despite an extensive propaganda apparatus designed to obscure it. China’s use of economic leverage to expand its political influence is also widely recognized, with overt examples across the globe. What is often less visible is the breadth and depth of what the CCP is willing to do, and the lengths it will go, to sustain control and project power.

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CBC’s Rosemary Barton Has No Time for Fake News

CBC’s Rosemary Barton Has No Time for Fake News

In an era when objective truth is a nice-to-have and the bar for politicians is in the depths of hell, it’s helpful to have someone like Rosemary Barton in the mix. For more than two decades, Barton, currently the CBC’s chief political correspondent, has chatted with, fact-checked and, when the occasion merits it, borderline interrogated the country’s most consequential public figures. Lately, thanks to some unusually exciting policy shifts under our refreshingly boring new prime minister, Canada’s newsmakers are commanding global headlines. But first, they’ll probably pop up on Rosemary Barton Live.


Government bought media giving a tongue bath to government bought media.

Careful as spittle may leak through your screen.

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The Canada Strong Fund is a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund

The Canada Strong Fund is a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund

The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t an empire, or Roman, and its behaviour definitely wasn’t holy. But the title sounds impressive.

Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be using that marketing technique from the Middle Ages with the federal government’s latest way to borrow money and hand out corporate welfare.

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LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston

LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston

The bad news is that Honda isn’t expanding its operations in Alliston to build an electric vehicle plant. The good news is that no government money has been handed over despite a promise of up to $5 billion when the project was announced two years ago.

The announcement on April 25, 2024, promised a $15-billion investment from Honda for a new EV assembly line and a battery plant. The federal government promised up to $2.5 billion in production tax credits and the provincial government promised up to another $2.5 billion in support.

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Ontario power of sales surge as desperate homeowners run out of runway

Ontario power of sales surge as desperate homeowners run out of runway

Distressed home sellers are popping up more and more in Toronto’s real estate market as prices continue to tumble, leaving hundreds of homeowners with no equity in their homes.

April reached a two-year high for the number of power of sale listings in Ontario with more than 300, according to publicly available information on IDX and VOW — property listing databases that realtors can access.

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John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

Wednesday’s report from the financial news site Nikkei Asia that Honda has suspended its plan to build a $15-billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario indefinitely comes as no surprise — particularly not to the federal government, which was told in January, sources say.

The big picture is that Canada’s ambitious gamble to be the locus for North American electric vehicle production has flopped and the battle now is to conserve the assembly plants that are already here.

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GUNTER: Mark Carney as reluctant as Justin Trudeau to wield pro-growth measures

GUNTER: Mark Carney as reluctant as Justin Trudeau to wield pro-growth measures

I’ll bet you heard or read that the Carney government’s spring economic update last month showed the federal deficit had fallen more than $11 billion from the $78.3 billion forecast in last November’s federal budget.

That sounds like good news. Not great news. Even at $66.9 billion the deficit in the coming year will be the largest in Canadian history, larger than the largest Trudeau deficit.

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Your tax dollars at work …

Your tax dollars at work …

Dasha (Daria) Kochurina

She gained widespread attention (and criticism) after a video from her LIOR fashion show/burlesque event at Emily Resort (around May 3, 2026) went viral. In it, she was filmed dancing and throwing stacks of cash (reportedly ~$150,000) while celebrating the new collection. The event featured elaborate staging, performers, and a large audience.

Her husband is Dmytro Khandusenko (or similar spelling), deputy head of the State Audit Service (Southern/Odesa office) in Ukraine. His official salary is low (~$900/month), which has fueled public outrage and questions about the source of the couple’s wealth amid the ongoing war, international aid to Ukraine, and anti-corruption concerns. The family has been noted for luxury assets (e.g., Range Rover, Bentley, jewelry) in prior declarations and reports.


Some to Carney, some to Freeland, some to Trudeau …

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