Mark Carney’s Brexit blunder

Mark Carney’s Brexit blunder

Politicians often refer to examples in history to make a point about a particular idea, policy or event. It can be an effective tool in everything from election campaigns to legislative speeches. Except when it’s not.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made a significant political blunder when he tried to compare a referendum that will occur in one of the country’s provinces to, of all things, Brexit. Not only was this a poor campaign strategy, it ended up massively backfiring and leaving the PM with plenty of egg on his face.

Let’s go back a few steps to understand why.

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Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

For years, Canada’s political elite insisted the housing crisis was caused by everything except immigration. It was a supply problem. A zoning problem. A financing problem. A speculation problem. A foreign-buyer problem. A NIMBY problem.

But never a population problem.

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Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s domestic intelligence agency has failed to report their employees’ potentially unlawful activity and Charter violations, a newly-released watchdog report warns.

Of the 22 instances in which the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) admitted “non-compliance” with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 2023-24, none were formally reported to the federal public safety minister.


I doubt it’s safe to share anything with the Liberal party given they’ve been compromised six ways from Sunday.

China, Islamists, Brookfield etc. Canada is a sieve.

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Trudeau’s climate policy architects gather as Carney changes course

Trudeau’s climate policy architects gather as Carney changes course

It was the end of an era and the four politicians who were its chief architects gathered in one room in Ottawa.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his former climate change cabinet ministers — Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault — on Wednesday were at the Rideau Club, a private social club near Parliament Hill.

Political operatives behind the scenes, MPs across party lines and journalists were also there. The room was packed and on a warm Ottawa evening in May it quickly got hot.

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Why Canada’s homeownership rate is hiding how bad the housing crisis really is

Why Canada’s homeownership rate is hiding how bad the housing crisis really is

Two-thirds of Canadians own their home. That number—66.5 percent in the 2021 Census—is often cited whenever the country debates whether its housing market is working. Taken at face value, it reassures policymakers that the system, whatever its flaws, delivers for the majority. But look beneath the surface, and the number tells a more complicated story.

Statistics Canada recently compared housing outcomes for Millennials, Gen-Xers, and Baby Boomers at the same stage of life. The headline finding was unsurprising but dispiriting: among Millennials aged 25 to 39 in 2021, 16.3 percent were living with their parents—nearly double the 8.2 percent of Baby Boomers in the same age bracket in 1991.

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HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

So there was a business case for natural gas exports to Germany after all.

Of course, we never thought otherwise. But back in August 2022, with Europe freezing and scrambling after Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz came to Canada hat in hand looking for reliable LNG supplies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked him in the eye and delivered his classic line, that there was “never a strong business case” for Canadian LNG exports to Europe. Too expensive, too far, Europe was going green anyway, etc.

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Jamie Sarkonak: All-inclusive migrant health plan will burden Canada for years to come

There are thousands of asylum seekers and illegal residents awaiting deportation who get more free health care than regular Canadian citizens. These all-inclusive care packages cost the public treasury $1 billion last year — and a recent attempt by the feds to bring it under control won’t help much, based on a Parliamentary Budget Officer report released Tuesday.

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Canada’s top-skilled workers are leaving for the U.S. in droves for lower taxes and higher pay: TD study

new report from TD Economics warns that Canada is losing its highest-skilled workers, entrepreneurs, and STEM graduates to the United States through a slow, largely invisible syphoning—calling the phenomenon a “silent brain drain.” The crisis, it argues, is less about who Canada can attract than who it fails to keep.

Much of the outflow never registers in Statistics Canada’s emigration data because it occurs through U.S. employer-sponsored work visas—temporary and semi-permanent pathways that conventional brain drain metrics simply don’t capture. Of the partial data Statistics Canada was able to retrieve, the agency determined that, in 2023, 18,590 Canadian residents emigrated to the U.S. permanently, with 30 percent of those people not being born in Canada.

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Report .pdf below

Canada’s Silent Brain Drain TD Bank report

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Former child soldier deported for ‘serious criminality’ managed to sneak back into Canada

Former child soldier deported for ‘serious criminality’ managed to sneak back into Canada

A former child soldier from Sierra Leone who dodged deportation from Canada for a decade has been sentenced to five months in jail for returning to this country illegally.

Ibrahim Jalloh, a convicted fraudster and drug trafficker, was ordered out of the country in June 2012 for “serious criminality,” but he wasn’t actually deported until Dec. 29, 2023. Jalloh was sentenced earlier this spring in Alberta’s Court of Justice after police found him in Calgary on Dec. 31, 2025, contrary to an order not to return to Canada.

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Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter

Canada’s economy contracted in the first quarter on an annualized basis by a slim margin, marking the second consecutive quarter of such decline — which some would call a technical recession.

Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first three months of this year. That comes after a downwardly revised contraction of one per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth is termed a technical recession.

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Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer revealed on Thursday.

Testifying at a deportation hearing, the extortion investigator described the letter from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was delivered to a police station in Abbotsford, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2025.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.


Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!

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Net zero, infinite damage — How climate policy is undermining Canada: Senator David Wells

Net zero, infinite damage — How climate policy is undermining Canada: Senator David Wells

Is Canada on track to meet its climate goals? The honest answer is “no” — and the really honest answer is that Canada’s climate goals will never be reached. They are folly and were designed by climate ideologues who had no concept of consequence, economic reality or understanding of how Canada was founded and thrived before and after we became a nation. This way of thinking has damaged the country.

The debate is increasingly polarized with positions hardened on all sides. Yet the economic implications of net-zero policies cannot be ignored. In an increasingly unstable world, energy security is no longer theoretical — it is strategic. Climate policy that outpaces economic reality will not succeed.

h/t CBCWatcher

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