If not for independent media, Canadians would have no insight whatsoever into the increasing codependence between the nation’s news organizations and the Liberal Party of Canada.
What began as what was billed as a harmless and temporary little tax credit to help major publishers through a period of digital transition has grown so minaciously that major titles are now openly displaying concern for their financial sustainability should the Liberals lose an election.
TEL AVIV — The international spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces has clapped back against Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s criticism of the Gaza war, even as the Liberal government broadened its messaging to call for Hamas to disarm and cede power.
In a scrum with reporters after being sworn in last week, Anand described Israel’s post-October 7 war on Hamas as “aggression,” accusing the Jewish state of using food as a political toll. She cited a death toll of 50,000 in the war, a figure released by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
In truth, any democratic nation that opens its doors to Islamic fundamentalists inevitably courts its own collapse.
Since Hamas’ grotesque attack against the nation of Israel and the Jewish people on October 7th, Canada has become rife with antisemitism. Unfortunately, the Jew-hatred that has defaced Canadian society is not a mere consequence of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and its most recent outbreak.
Rather, Canada has been engulfed by antisemitism and Jew-hatred throughout the modern era, due to the fact that, for nearly a decade, the Liberal government’s inadequate migration policy and summary inability to secure Canada’s borders has permitted radical Islamic ideology and fundamentalism to flow freely into Canada.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The U.K., France and Canada on Monday threatened “concrete actions” against Israel, including sanctions, for its activities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, calling on Israel to stop “egregious” new military actions in Gaza and immediately allow in humanitarian aid.
The sharply worded statement came shortly after Israel and the United Nations said the first few trucks of aid had entered Gaza after nearly three months of an Israeli blockade, as Israel acknowledged pressure from allies.
The joint statement called Israel’s decision to allow a “minimal” amount of aid into Gaza “wholly inadequate.” There was no immediate Israeli comment.
It invites adversaries to believe that Canada’s leadership can be pressured or swayed by asymmetric warfare and media optics
Practically the first words out of Anita Anand’s mouth after she became Canada’s new foreign affairs minister were not about reaffirming alliances, protecting Canadian citizens abroad or defending democratic norms. Instead, she chose to cast immediate blame on Israel for the devastating conditions in Gaza — without acknowledging, let alone condemning, Hamas’s horrific October 7 massacre, which precipitated this war.
It’s not a blunder.
It’s just a reflection of our modern political landscape which now resembles a map of Middle Earth with Mordor menacing in the distance.
Media Optics? Canada’s government paid media are too often just typists serving up Liberal Party positions as news.
Thanks to a demographic tainted by criminally bad immigration policy the Liberal Party has chosen to side with the Islamists a vote bloc considerably larger than Canada’s Jewish community.
LPC lip service to the Zionist bloc will continue as required.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s fledgling Liberal government is already drawing fierce criticism, with the National Citizens Coalition (NCC) accusing it of repeating the “failed Trudeau-era policies” that have left many Canadians disillusioned.
In a blistering statement, the NCC slammed the government’s early moves on housing, justice, energy, and fiscal policy as tone-deaf, ideologically driven, and damaging to national unity.
ROME — Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Liberal government will present a federal budget in the fall, allowing time for clarity on some key economic and fiscal issues to emerge.
Speaking to reporters Sunday in Rome, Carney defended his government’s decision not to deliver a budget this spring, saying there is little value in rushing the process
Carney noted a new session of Parliament begins with a throne speech on May 27, but the House of Commons is due to rise less than a month later
Terra Page’s new house was the talk of her Toronto neighbourhood. That makes sense, since it was delivered on a truck.
“It was like watching a really cool giant Lego box being assembled,” Page told Cost of Living.
When Page found tree roots growing in the pipes of their 100-year-old house, Page and her family decided their best move would be to demolish the house and build anew. That’s when their contractor suggested a “prefab” house — one that would be built off-site, then shipped to the lot.
Brookfield owns a Prefab housing concern, just a happy coincidence I’m sure.
Well, the election is over, and it turns out that I was right to be sceptical of the polls. Polling which showed collapsing support for the Conservative Party, which I said over and over didn’t track with what I was seeing on the ground, was clearly wrong. In fact, the Conservative Party increased their share of the vote by more than 7 points, breaking 40% for the first time since 1988, while picking up 23 seats in parliament.
That kept the Liberals to a minority government — something the pollsters were definitely not predicting — and they only did as well as they did because the Bloc Québécois lost ground and the NDP were absolutely decimated.
A few days after last month’s Canadian election had delivered a minority victory to Mark Carney and the Liberal party, I got an email from someone I worked with when I lived in Virginia. They asked how I was feeling about the result, a big and complicated question.
Many Canadians I know feel immense relief at what they see as Canada’s rejection of the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre’s, Trump-style brand. But underneath it simmers dread about what might be coming down the pipeline.
After all, a good chunk of the country dislikes (and even despises) the Liberal party. There’s the comment I heard about leaving the country if the Liberals get re-elected. The disinformation-laced lament from a small business owner about refugees and “woke” ideology. The friend who insisted Carney, not Poilievre, is more Trump-like. The Conservative stronghold of Alberta is so upset with the result it might hold a referendum on leaving the country. Danielle Smith, Alberta’s far-right premier, said people in her province are “hurt and betrayed” that Canada re-elected the Liberals. Meanwhile, Poilievre has vowed to stay on as Conservative leader, with a pending byelection to secure him a seat in a reliably Tory riding.
This poor deluded woman is happy to have reelected the same evil clowns who have run Canada into the ditch this past decade.
‘Carney has to pick a lane’: Advocates and opponents worry about mixed signals from Liberals on fossil fuels
OTTAWA — In the span of half a day this week, different members of the Liberal government — including Prime Minister Mark Carney — spoke in different ways about one of the most divisive political issues in Canada: fossil-fuel pipelines.
After his cabinet was sworn in on Tuesday, Carney expressed openness to new oil and gas infrastructure as part of his vision to turbocharge construction of major development projects, potentially including pipelines, as part of a plan to expand the economy and reduce Canada’s reliance on the United States in the midst of Donald Trump’s trade war.
During the recent federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers authorized nearly $70 billion in federal spending without Parliamentary authorization. Given that the campaign was 37 days long, a man who had no seat in the Commons at the time and who had never received a vote from a single Canadian voter, authorized an average of $1.9 billion a day.
After the April 28 general election, the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) is back in power for a fourth term after coming just short of a majority, winning 170 of the 343 seats in the House of Commons. Considering that the LPC trailed the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) by over 20 points in the polls over the previous two years, its victory represented a remarkable political comeback.
This commentary is not a promotional blurb for the LPC, rather it seeks to identify the factors which enabled it to become one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It is hard to identify another centrist party which has achieved such dominance and long-term success.
PARIS—There is a brisk and growing trade between Canada and Europe, and it has nothing to do with American tariffs or Donald Trump.
Canadian cannabis is increasingly washing up on the shores of this continent, landing in its airports and being sold on its streets. It is part of an illegal-smuggling trend that authorities believe is tied to Canada’s 2018 decision to legalize the sale and consumption of marijuana.
That law made Canada a leader — the first among industrialized nations to permit recreational cannabis use. Now, Canada has developed an international black eye as a top source nation for the drug, which remains illegal in much of the world.
Trudeau pushed legalization. I’m betting because China wanted it.
When the boss promotes you, trusts you with a new, important file, it’s a good idea to stay on message. Reinforce the mandate. Show people why you deserved the nod.
Those are the dictates of received wisdom.
But then there is the inconvenience of reality.
