Auditors have revealed that a federal “Equality Fund” established with a $300 million taxpayer grant quickly lost 10% of its value due to poor investments.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the fund was intended to aid women in developing countries.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
TERRAZZANO: Trudeau’s bureaucrat hiring spree is out of control
Bureaucrats love to think of themselves as “public servants,” but who is really serving who around here?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added another 10,525 bureaucrats to the taxpayer payroll last year. Since becoming prime minister, Trudeau has added more than 108,000 new federal bureaucrats.
He is literally buying voters with our money.
Canada Pledges to Meet NATO Spending Goal. It Won’t Be Easy.
Long seen as punching below its weight, Canada, the world’s second-largest country by area and one of its seven wealthiest economies, said it would meet its NATO pledge to significantly bolster its military spending by 2032.
But everything about the commitment, which NATO is pushing all alliance members to make, is fraught.
Some have criticized the timeline as too protracted, though it is actually compressed if seen through the lens of the slow pace of global military hardware production.
There’s a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?
A little more than 18 years ago, amid the dust and hard heat of Kandahar Airfield, the weary look on Col. Ian Hope’s face spoke more loudly than his words.
It was the spring of 2006 and the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan had just been through several brutal weeks. More than half a dozen Canadian soldiers had been killed in roadside bombings. As it turned out, it was the beginning of a bloody, unrelenting wave of casualties that would rend the heart of a nation and seize the political agenda in ways the Conservative government of the day never expected.
Joe Oliver: Bad policies, not poor messaging, will sink the Liberals
Last week, columnist Kimberley Strassel wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic Party’s central problem is, not Joe Biden’s deteriorating cognition, but its policies. The very same day, our own Prime Minister’s Office criticized Deputy PM and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland for poor economic messaging, a stunning public rebuke of the second most important person in the government and one of her boss’ most vocal loyalists. Apparently, Liberals’ fiscal ineptitude was not a major contributor to their staggering by-election loss in the formerly safe riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s.
ANALYSIS: While Liberals chase Carney, Conservatives crow about a blue-collar candidate
The Trudeau Liberals and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney have been engaged in the strangest of dances for more than a few years now.
Carney came out as a Liberal Party of Canada supporter in 2021. His priorities — dealing with climate change above all else — are Liberal priorities. Some Liberal MPs want him in Parliament on their side of the House. And on Sunday, according to The Globe and Mail, the prime minister himself and Carney “held talks” — was it a negotiation? A summit? Were lawyers present? The Globe did not say — about Carney “joining the government” in some unspecified role.
ANALYSIS: Why Foreign Minister Joly Is Visiting China at This Time
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to China comes at a time when there’s increased scrutiny of the Beijing regime’s meddling in Canada and harassment of the diaspora community, raising questions about the timing of the trip.
An ongoing public commission is currently examining China’s interference in federal elections and other areas of society. And just this month, the RCMP in Quebec took the unusual step of launching a public campaign calling for tips about Beijing’s harassment of Canada’s Chinese diaspora.
The Liberals are anti-Trump weasels and likely fear they will be stiff armed in trade by the Trump presidency, so naturally the LPC seeks out a fellow weasel regime for trade purposes.
Kelly McParland: Why would Mark Carney want anything to do with Trudeau Liberals?
It’s come down to this for Justin Trudeau as he seeks a way to win back cranky voters.
Another big-spending budget loaded with pricey benefits fell flat. A tax raid on Canadians graceless enough to buy houses before they became unaffordable failed to impress. Stirring up resentment against “the very wealthy” did nothing to reverse polls.
Canada’s CMHC Internal Messages Show Housing Supply Narrative Is BS
Everyone in Canada will soon be able to afford a home. We just need investors to build more and rates to be cut, right? Anyone that can do basic math has probably been skeptical of that narrative and with good reason—even the people making those statements don’t believe it. Internal messages from the CMHC make very brief but important notes that challenge the exact narrative its leadership has been publicly spinning. More supply won’t bring down home prices, and lower rates won’t make them more affordable. Higher prices will make more supply feasible and lower rates will help boost prices.
Sorry, NATO, but Justin Trudeau will never take defence seriously. We need a new government for that
It’s hard to understate the historical moment that came with NATO’s 75-anniversary summit last week. The milestone the organization reached, being held in the capital of its most powerful member, should have been significant enough on its own. But with the Ukrainian War continuing, increased Chinese aggression in the South China Sea, and the growing prospect of Donald Trump winning a second term has accentuated the summit’s importance. Shoring up NATO’s long-term defence and security has become a major focus across the alliance’s members. It was into this milieu that Justin Trudeau arrived.
No one here wants you anyway …
Chinese international students passing on Canada: ‘Monotonous’ and unaffordable
When 19-year-old Ricky Liu was applying for universities in the fall of 2022, one thing occupied his mind: how to score a seat at a top-ranked institution. Both Chinese and Western universities courted Liu, a dual citizen of mainland China and Hong Kong: he was fluent in multiple languages, scored high grades in STEM and humanities courses, and showed leadership through his extracurricular activities in sports and music.
‘I don’t think I’ll last’: How Canada’s emergency room crisis could be killing thousands
It wasn’t how the emergency doctors ranked each statement — from “never” to “every day” — in the burnout inventory that alarmed Dr. Kerstin de Wit and her research team.
It was the doctors’ responses, in a final, optional, open-ended question: “Is there anything you would like to tell us about your experiences?”
“This is awful. Worst in 20 years. With no light; just darkness,” one remarked.
New chief of the defence staff warns of 5-year timeline to counter Russia, China threats with DEI GenderForce or something silly like that
Thirty-five years after women gained the right to participate in combat roles with the military, Gen. Jennie Carignan has made history by becoming the first female to lead
the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), officially taking on the role following a ceremony in Ottawa on Thursday.
“Not only do I feel ready, but I also feel very well supported,” Carignan said in a speech at the ceremony.
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Our armed forces will soon be comprised of 5th Columnist foreigners and other DEI hires as white males no longer consider military service a viable career option.
I doubt China and Russia fear us.
No nation in the world needs nuclear submarines more than Canada does
A Canadian shipyard has cut the first steel for a new class of missile-armed destroyer for the Royal Canadian Navy. The 15 planned River-class warships should massively boost the Canadian fleet’s surface firepower – although not very soon.
But the new destroyers won’t do anything to solve what is arguably the Canadian navy’s biggest problem – its almost complete lack of submarines.