Tasha Kheiriddin: Get ready for Mark Carney unencumbered

Tasha Kheiriddin: Get ready for Mark Carney unencumbered

Prime Minister Mark Carney has secured the first Liberal government since 2019. That’s right — in case you hadn’t noticed, Canada has been operating under minority governments for seven years. Two were won by Justin Trudeau in 2019 and 2021, one by Carney in 2025. Trudeau’s minorities necessitated significant compromise with the NDP; from 2021 until the fall of 2024, he was bound by a supply and confidence agreement with then NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who extracted a series of concessions on childcare, dental care, and pharmacare.


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Gap between richest and poorest Canadians widened again in 2025, StatsCan says

Gap between richest and poorest Canadians widened again in 2025, StatsCan says

The gap between Canada’s richest and poorest grew last year as financial markets gained, interest payouts declined and the job market softened, said Statistics Canada on Monday.

The agency says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent — reached 46.7 percentage points in 2025.

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Mark Carney gets his majority government with Toronto byelection victories

Mark Carney gets his majority government with Toronto byelection victories

OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s minority government transformed into a slim but workable majority in Parliament courtesy of two Monday night byelection victories in Toronto, meaning the prime minister can now more easily advance his high-spending economic and defence agenda over any opposition objections.

The majority gives Carney greater control over parliamentary committee membership and votes in the House of Commons. More importantly, it gives him the luxury of time to govern as he sees fit amid global turmoil.

With 173 of 343 seats in the House of Commons, Carney has up to three more years before he will need to call a federal election.

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On patrol with Canadian forces securing the Arctic as global threats grow

On patrol with Canadian forces securing the Arctic as global threats grow

A simple row of spruce trees marked the finish line for Canadian army reservists and combat members after a marathon two months pushing through one of the harshest environments on Earth: Canada’s vast Arctic.

The patrol, which ended on Friday in Churchill, Manitoba, was the largest northern mission in the history of the Canadian Rangers – a branch of the Canadian Armed Forces responsible for monitoring the country’s remote regions. For 5,200km (3,200 miles), they moved across the Arctic, following a route that had not been attempted in 80 years.

They drove snowmobiles across ice-covered terrain, navigating blizzards and high winds as they travelled for hours between remote northern communities. Some nights, they camped on the ice in tents as temperatures plunged to -60C (-76F).

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Carney secures majority government with Liberal win in Toronto byelection, CBC News projects

Carney secures majority government with Liberal win in Toronto byelection, CBC News projects

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government has become a majority thanks to a projected Liberal win in University-Rosedale.

Results are still coming in Scarborough Southwest, another Toronto riding the Liberals won comfortably in last year’s federal election, and Terrebonne, which they won by a single vote.


CBC has it’s live coverage on now.

The Star has live coverage 

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How the housing crisis damaged Canada’s economy and productivity

How the housing crisis damaged Canada’s economy and productivity

For years, Canada’s housing crisis and its productivity slump have been treated as parallel emergencies. One was a matter of affordability and social equity, the other a question of economic competitiveness.

However a growing body of research, and a pair of Canadian experts who have spent years studying both, say that framing has always been wrong. They insist the country is paying a steep price for keeping the two conversations apart.

Researchers from Harvard’s Growth Lab contend Canada’s restrictive urban zoning is short-circuiting the normal mechanism by which productivity gains in major cities become national prosperity.


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Mark Carney’s Liberals are branding themselves as the beyond-politics party

Mark Carney’s Liberals are branding themselves as the beyond-politics party

The federal Liberals are now the strongest party in the country, as was amply on display at their convention in Montreal over the weekend.

It’s not their politics that have put them there, as was also clear in Montreal. It’s the absence of politics — the ability to shape-shift into a force that can’t be pinned down as right or left, progressive or conservative.


Aside from Carney it’s the same grifters working the same grifts.

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‘The perception is Carney is a wartime leader’: why Canada’s PM could secure a majority

‘The perception is Carney is a wartime leader’: why Canada’s PM could secure a majority

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, is on the brink of securing a majority government, with his Liberal party poised to win at least two closely watched byelections and courting an “almost unprecedented” string of defections from rival parties.

Carney’s ability to turn a strong minority into a narrow majority through electoral gains and floor crossing has strengthened his reputation as a pragmatic leader above the cut and thrust of partisan politics. But his efforts to bring in lawmakers from across the political spectrum has also sparked a fierce internal debate over the Liberals’ values and the risks of consolidating more power.


WTF? Carney is a good wartime grifter … maybe.

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‘We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts,’ says Canada’s military chief

‘We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts,’ says Canada’s military chief

As well as being the first woman to lead Canada’s armed forces, General Jennie Carignan is also in command as her country pushes to rearm on a scale not seen since the Cold War.

This includes expanding the full-time military, bolstering the number of reservists and attempting to get up to 300,000 civilians to join a “strategic reserve” – a pool of people with some form of training that could be called upon in the event of a major crisis.

“The world has changed,” General Carignan told Sky News. “We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts, more conventional, so we need a different military to do that and different capability.”

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LILLEY: Tories can thank Donald Trump with Mark Carney on verge of majority

LILLEY: Tories can thank Donald Trump with Mark Carney on verge of majority

By the time Mark Carney turns off the light and heads to bed Monday night, he will know for certain that he is presiding over a majority government.

Carney and his Liberals currently have 171 seats in the House of Commons; the three byelections taking place Monday should give them 174 seats. That is still a tight majority, but it’s a majority nonetheless.

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GUNTER: Poilievre calls for federal action on cloudy Indigenous land title developments

On Thursday, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre called on the Liberal government to take action to protect private property rights in B.C. and across Canada. He was absolutely right to do so.

Poilievre explained that Canadians need the federal government, to “make it clear that the federal government’s position is that fee-simple property takes priority over all of the other claims.”

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MORGAN: Canada’s high-speed rail dream is just a Liberal slush fund in disguise

MORGAN: Canada’s high-speed rail dream is just a Liberal slush fund in disguise

Canada’s economy is on the rocks.

The ongoing tariff war has wracked the manufacturing sector, while Canada’s soft embargo on expanding the ability to export oil and gas products prevents the energy sector from filling the economic void. Subsidies for everything from battery plants to edible cricket farms have produced nothing more than a list of business failures, while the national debt explodes.

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On verge of a majority, Carney offers reassurance and a measure of caution

On verge of a majority, Carney offers reassurance and a measure of caution

At a moment of celebration and on the eve of potentially even greater triumph, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a brief note of caution.

“Just over a year ago, in the midst of a blizzard … we started down the road to make the best country in the world even better,” he recalled, speaking perhaps both literally and metaphorically.

But, he warned Liberals gathered in Montreal for the party’s biennial convention, they “should be under no illusions” because “the path we’ve chosen is hard.”

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Adam Zivo: Canada backs terrorist-state Iran reviewing UN programs to stop terro

Adam Zivo: Canada backs terrorist-state Iran reviewing UN programs to stop terro

If Canada truly cares about human rights, then why does it support Iran’s continued inclusion in prominent UN decisionmaking bodies? The Islamic Republic is a draconian regime that just murdered around 30,000 anti-government protesters this January, so shunning it within international fora is — to put things mildly — the bare minimum that Ottawa can do.

A great case study here would be the UN Committee for Program and Coordination (CPC), which functionally acts as the institution’s “board of directors” by providing broad strategic oversight (e.g. evaluating existing programs and setting long term priorities and budgets).

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Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500k exit tax for educated Canadians

Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500k exit tax for educated Canadians

MONTREAL — Are you a Canadian considering improving your situation after graduating by moving abroad for better, higher paying opportunities? A guest speaker at the federal Liberal party convention on Friday just suggested that, in order to defeat Canada’s brain-drain problem, our best and brightest either stay put or cough up half a million dollars, what he suggests is the cost of their taxpayer-subsidized education, before they can pursue opportunities outside of Canada.

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