Canada now ‘the outlier’ in NATO on defence spending: U.S. ambassador

The United States’ ambassador to Canada, David Cohen, says Canada is becoming “the outlier” in NATO following a bipartisan letter from 23 American senators calling on Ottawa to meet the two per cent of GDP defence spending target.

“At the end of 2024, the way projections are looking, Canada will be the only country in NATO that is not spending at least two per cent of its GDP on defence and does not have a plan to get there,” Cohen said in an interview with The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson.

“Canada has moved within NATO from being a bit of an outlier to being the outlier in the entire alliance.”

But we have Trannies galore in the pipeline! Don’t we?

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Conservatives, Bloc Québécois force meeting to investigate Liberals’ refusal to share foreign interference documents with public inquiry

The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have forced a meeting of a House of Commons committee to investigate the Liberal government’s refusal to turn over cabinet documents on foreign interference to a public inquiry into foreign meddling in Canadian democracy.

The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that the federal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections.


My Theory: People have tuned out the Foreign Interference inquiry knowing that those who perpetrated these traitorous acts will suffer exactly ZERO consequences.

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Trudeau’s Canada: Struggling to make ends meet, Ukrainian family that escaped war reconsidering choice of coming to Canada

A Ukrainian family that came to Canada to escape the war is having second thoughts about their new home because of the economic situation.

The Sadovnyks are reconsidering life in Quebec, just outside of Montreal, for financial reasons.

“They like it here but it’s just a question of money,” family friend Oleg Koleboshyn told CityNews.

“They wanted to move to Canada. It was an opportunity for them.”

At least they can return to the Ukraine. Most Canadians have no place to go!

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Jesse Kline: The wrath of Khan, and the failure of Trudeau

JERUSALEM — Israelis are more divided than ever before, but are united against the idea of their highly unpopular prime minister standing trial over his prosecution of the war in Gaza.

On Monday, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he’s seeking arrest warrants, not only for three Hamas leaders who orchestrated the barbaric October 7 massacre — in which 3,000 terrorists flooded across the border with Gaza, raping, torturing and slaughtering 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 hostage — but also for the two men charged with ensuring such atrocities never happen again: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

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Sinking to Pierre Poilievre’s level won’t make Liberals look any better

It wasn’t nice.

“Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader is wearing more makeup than I am today,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said of Pierre Poilievre earlier this week in question period.

Her words were not technically as “unparliamentary,” as when the opposition leader called the prime minister “a wacko” or when Poilievre said “WTF” in the House, and then tried to convince the speaker he meant “where’s the funds?” — an acronym the Conservative party is now using to sell T-shirts.

But Speaker Greg Fergus reprimanded Freeland: “We do not comment on the appearance of members.”

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Visiting Ottawa, it was sad to see what has become of my hometown

… Not only did the central core resemble a ghost town – mostly because thousands of civil servants, backed by powerful unions, refuse to return to their office desks – but many of the walking routes I used to take through downtown have morphed into a distressing obstacle course of homeless people camped out on the sidewalks. In fact, the last time I felt like that – and I’ve been to some of the meanest cities in the world – was in Pretoria, South Africa, around the time of the BRICS summit last year, when a wrong turn to the diplomatic quarter brought a few anxious encounters. On many strolls through my former home, I shook my head in disbelief thinking, “This isn’t the Ottawa I know or love.”

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John Ivison: Eco-activist Liberal ministers could ruin a $300M lifeline for a struggling First Nation

The decision on whether to renew salmon farming licenses on the West Coast that will come before the federal cabinet on Tuesday is a microcosm of the struggle between the environment and the economy that has bedeviled the Liberal government ever since it promised to balance these competing interests in 2015. The predicament facing the Ehattesaht First Nation on Vancouver Island’s West Coast is its compelling symbol: The band has hanging in the balance a new $300-million salmon-farming opportunity that could help it out of deepening economic and social hopelessness, but it could all be scuppered by environmentally activist ministers.

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Trudeau plans to F*ck Canadians over and let illegal alien invaders stay

Plan to let undocumented migrants stay in Canada to be examined by PM, ministers

The federal cabinet could discuss plans as early as next week to provide a path to citizenship for thousands of migrants living in Canada without valid documents, including rejected asylum seekers, so they can remain here legally.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is preparing a plan for discussion by cabinet before Parliament breaks for its summer recess within weeks.

It would propose that people living in Canada without legal status – including former international students whose study permits have expired – have a chance to apply to regularize their position and gain permanent residence.

This says Trudeau wants to cause as much harm as possible before he gets the boot.

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s Competition Bureau takes a stand, finally!

The recent move by Canada’s Competition Bureau to investigate the parent companies of grocery giants Loblaws and Sobeys marks a significant step in addressing anticompetitive behaviour in the retail grocery sector.

This investigation, initiated on March 1, focuses on the alleged use of property controls by these firms, which purportedly restrict competition through their lease agreements and control over land vacancies. With these two companies holding a combined market share of over 50% in the Canadian food retailing market, the potential implications are substantial.


I posted the CBC’s take on the investigation earlier and it drew criticism suggesting restrictive covenants are a fit and proper commercial activity designed to protect tenants from loss of income. But why do we see retail clusters as in clothing stores or automobiles where competitors sit cheek by jowl?

Charlebois’s take is a bit more informative on the degree to which such covenants may be distorting the retail grocery market in Canada.

The use of foodbanks has skyrocketed under Trudeau and I do not trust his friend Galen the bread thief to do the right thing.

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Chinese officials and Triads flooding illegal immigrants into United States: Canadian Report

In 1993 a confidential Canadian report from Hong Kong warned that an unprecedented flood of illegal immigration from Mainland China was threatening North America because China’s government was collaborating with drug-smuggling Triads and corrupt Latin American officials in the multi-billion-dollar business of trafficking human cargo into the United States.

A covering memo explained the Consular report was contentious and “highly sensitive” but also included powerful evidence, as U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had informed Canada a Chinese Communist leader, the Governor of Fujian, had ties with Hong Kong’s largest Triad.

Details of the lengthy study, Passports of Convenience, Corrupt Officials and Triad Involvement in Illegal Immigration, have never been reported.

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U.S. Congress asks for intelligence briefing on fired Winnipeg scientists

A U.S. congressional committee has summoned the country’s Director of National Intelligence for a briefing on the firing of two Canadian scientists from Ottawa’s high-security infectious-disease laboratory in Winnipeg.

The House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce, which is investigating the origins of COVID-19, want to know about the activities of Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, at the National Microbiology Laboratory.

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Military Did Not Assess Operational Impact of Kicking Out Unvaccinated Troops: Records

The Canadian military never evaluated how operational readiness would be affected by the expulsion of soldiers refusing COVID-19 vaccination before imposing its mandate, internal records indicate.

“The CAF did not conduct a pre-policy risk analysis since CDS, based on solid medical advice, decided to accept any impacts this policy would/could have brought to bear,” wrote then-Brigadier-General Erick Simoneau in a May 2022 email.

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WATCH: Tam, Henry laugh about ‘messaging’ strategy and lawsuits put forward by Canadians

A leaked video recording shows the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (CPAC) health chief Theresa Tam and BC health authority Bonnie Henry laughing at Canadians.

Tam hosted a roundtable meeting over Zoom to discuss the H5N1 Avian flu and where to test for it with several provincial health officials and PHAC staff.

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Trudeau needs to read the writing on the wall

In October of 2022, when I started working on my book about Justin Trudeau’s government, I told my interview subjects that I thought history would judge him favourably.

It seemed to me then that Mr. Trudeau had changed the country more than Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin or Stephen Harper, and that his record could be measured against Brian Mulroney’s. Justin’s father, Pierre – who gave the country the Charter of Rights and Freedoms – is more significant, but I thought history might put Justin ahead of other recent prime ministers.

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