OTTAWA – Over the course of just a few days, the Liberals lost a former stronghold in Montreal, their Quebec lieutenant jumped ship, and the premier of Quebec called on MPs to bring down the federal Liberal government. The Liberal Party of Canada has had bad weeks before. This past week was one of the worst.
Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics.
The revelation convulsed all of Canada.
Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families.
It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications of possible unmarked graves were discovered, and it produced a wave of sorrow and shock in a country that has long struggled with the legacy of its treatment of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered flags to fly at half-staff, as many Canadians wore orange T-shirts with the slogan “Every Child Matters.”
Three years later, though, no remains have been exhumed and identified.
What lies beneath is called Bullshit.
Joly says about 45,000 Canadians in Lebanon; she’s concerned about pager explosions
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says close to 45,000 Canadians are in Lebanon, months after warning there is no guarantee Ottawa can evacuate them if the situation deteriorates further.
She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.
I wonder how many of those so called “Canadians” are Hezbollah members?
Another day, another government report proves carbon taxes are a drag on our economy that Canadians can’t afford.
In 2030, the second carbon tax “will result in an overall (Gross Domestic Product) decrease of up to $9 billion.” That’s according to government documents tabled in the House of Commons in response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP John Barlow (Foothills).
A $2.14-billion federal loan for an Ottawa-based satellite operator has Canadian politicians arguing about whether American billionaire Elon Musk poses a national security risk.
The fight involves internet connectivity in remote regions as Canada tries to live up to its promise to connect every Canadian household to high-speed internet by 2030.
A disquieting reality is sinking in for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus: It’s just not working anymore.
It’s a case those Members of Parliament have been making more and more pointedly behind closed doors. It’s a case voters have now made in Toronto and Montreal. And yet the prime minister and his advisers seem convinced that they don’t need to win, because Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will lose.
Taxpayers better brace themselves for the bruising impact of the Trudeau government’s carbon tax on home heating bills this winter.
If you heat your home with natural gas, like more than 75% of Ontario households, you will be paying a lot more to stay warm.
The carbon tax increases the cost of natural gas by 15 cents per cubic metre.
Canada’s inquiry into foreign interference entered its second half this week, with a shift in focus from the meddling that occurred in the last two federal elections to the issue of the targetting of MPs in general, and the things Ottawa needs to do to protect democracy from malevolent actors.
Potentially included in that latter category is an unnamed group of MPs who are alleged to have wittingly colluded with foreign governments in the past – a shocking revelation made in a heavily redacted report released in June by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
On Monday night, two small snapshots of Canadian public opinion sent a powerful message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
With two more by-election losses in Winnipeg and Montreal, following their recent loss in Toronto, the Liberals appear to be on the brink of utter disintegration.
With both the federal NDP and B.C.’s NDP government backing away from support for the carbon tax, it is time to pronounce the tax politically dead in Canada, with precise funeral arrangements to be made after the next federal election. Conservative governments across Canada have long opposed a carbon tax, and federal leader Pierre Poilievre is anxious to fight the next election on the issue. But now even Liberal support is flagging, with Newfoundland’s Liberal government attacking the tax as too costly for households. The federal Liberals themselves acknowledged the tax was a problem when they provided a carve-out for home heating oil, which is heavily used in Atlantic Canada.
Under Jagmeet Singh, New Democrats have never been more obsolete, or more unnecessary. They’ve been outflanked on the left by Justin Trudeau’s cartoonishly progressive government, while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have persuaded workers and young people to join their side, leaving Singh to sound ever more ridiculous, as he talks like his ascension to the prime minister’s office is all but imminent.
They lied. It never ended.
OTTAWA—A government review into how a father and son arrested in Toronto for allegedly planning a terror attack were allowed into Canada will be completed and made public in the next two weeks, federal immigration minister Marc Miller said Thursday.
Miller’s comments came as he appeared before the public safety committee, which is probing the Canadian government’s border screening processes in the backdrop of two recent alleged terror plots that were foiled in Canada but have raised concerns from opposition MPs about Canada’s security vetting.
The federal firearm buyback program has cost taxpayers nearly $67.2 million since it was announced in 2020, but it still hasn’t collected a single gun.
The program is designed to compensate owners of assault-style firearms that were banned by the Liberal government in 2020. Although many details of the program still haven’t been revealed after four years, businesses and gun owners only have until the end of October 2025 to turn in, deactivate or dispose of outlawed weapons. The government estimates there are 150,000 prohibited assault-style firearms in the country.
A majority of Canadians say the country should accept fewer immigrants in 2025 than it did in 2024, with nearly three-quarters saying immigration should be reduced until housing becomes more affordable, according to a Nanos survey for CTV News.
Two out of three, or 64 per cent, of Canadians surveyed said the country should accept fewer immigrants in 2025 compared to 2024. Meanwhile, about one in four, or 26 per cent, of Canadians said we should let in about the same number of immigrants, while only five per cent said we should accept more.
OTTAWA — The Liberals say the House of Commons exceeded its powers when MPs ordered the government to hand over all documents related to the so-called “green slush fund” so they can be sent to the RCMP.
On Wednesday, Government House Leader Karina Gould called on Speaker Greg Fergus to reject opposition parties’ claim that the government violated MPs’ parliamentary privilege by refusing to provide them with unfettered access to thousands of documents regarding Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).
