The latest numbers on inflation from Statistics Canada showing overall inflation dropping are already outdated.
The federal agency released its latest report on Monday morning showing the Consumer Price Index rose 1.8% in February compared to a year earlier.
The war in the Middle East, the fear that it could escalate and the economic consequences were top of mind as Prime Minister Mark Carney met his British counterpart Monday in the United Kingdom at the tail of a whirlwind trip to Europe.
Carney met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, where the two leaders discussed the ongoing military operations of the United States, Israel and Iran and the closure of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
An official statement from Carney’s office following the meeting said that both Canada and the U.K. condemned Iran’s missile and drone attacks, including on civilian and energy infrastructure.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada may have been the odd man out, but he was also the star attraction at a meeting of the leaders of the five Nordic countries in Oslo on Sunday.
The meeting, convened by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway, came in the aftermath of President Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty, and his suggestion that the United States take over Greenland in name of Arctic security. Although Mr. Trump seemed to have set that notion aside for the present, it was high on the leaders’ list of concerns, along with the war on Iran, which has disrupted energy markets worldwide, and Russia’s warnings regarding Ukraine.
Established in July of last year, the Dominion Society — headed by former People’s Party of Canada director Daniel Tyrie — has made a noticeable splash in Canadian politics. The Dominion Society’s chief concern is mass immigration and its consequences. In their polemic against the policies of mass immigration, the Dominion Society says that the Canadian elite has manufactured a fictitious “mass immigration consensus,” and that this has been utilized to justify continued increases in the number of newcomers into Canada.
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Chinese electric vehicles present risks for Canadians who are critical of Beijing, as the vehicles are capable of sending camera, microphone, and location data back to China, a former senior government official told MPs.
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a China expert and senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, told MPs on the House of Commons international trade committee on March 12 that Chinese-made vehicles include software from the Chinese technology company Baidu, which collects data from the vehicles and transmits it back to China.
Canada doesn’t have a strategic petroleum reserve — like the United States — and still imports foreign oil into parts of Eastern Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to talk down oil prices during a war in the Middle East.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson is trying to talk up increasing Canadian oil production to help strained global markets.
Good luck to both.
For a career banker, Mark Carney plays the role of Machiavellian politician very well.
The prime minister has now plucked a third MP from the opposition benches and is just two by-election wins in safe Liberal seats away from a majority government. This time Carney’s fruit was harvested from the NDP, not the Conservatives, and came in the form of Lori Idlout, the MP from Nunavut.
Red flags about the Liberals’ plan to hike the volume of low-skill foreign workers, international students and transnational wealth were raised about a decade ago. But the Laurentian elite paid no heed.
One of the relatively few books written about Canadian immigration policy in the past decade says Justin Trudeau’s Liberals could have avoided “breaking the system” if they had just listened to some level-headed economists.
In “Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong,” author Tony Keller, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, reveals how in 2016 then-immigration minister John McCallum invited 11 labour economists to give their views regarding issues such as increasing low-skill temporary workers and international students.
The economists’ ensuing report was utterly ignored by the Liberal government — to the point the authors doubted their paper had even been read.
While all eyes were on the Middle East at the end of February, anticipating the outbreak of war, in Texas, a climate bomb dropped that blew another hole in the so-called “climate cartel.”
According to a February 26 press release from the office of Ken Paxton, Attorney General for Texas, “Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a monumental, first-of-its-kind settlement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. (“Vanguard”), resolving part of his multistate lawsuit against asset managers BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. As part of the settlement, Vanguard has agreed to make the strongest passivity commitments in the industry and to empower its investors with proxy voting — a first for the industry. This landmark settlement represents one of the most significant enforcement actions ever taken against coordinated ESG-driven market manipulation, ensures a competitive and low-cost coal industry, and fundamentally resets the precedent for the conduct of large institutional investors.”
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The synagogue shootings continue. This is a sentence that seems like it belongs in an archival newspaper clipping from Nazi Germany, not a Canadian newspaper in 2026. This month, three separate Greater Toronto Area synagogues were hit by gunfire within a five-day span. Not even a week later, an armed man plowed his vehicle into a Detroit synagogue, which had 140 children inside at the time, before being killed by security.
There will be no action.
There is no political will because our elite are complicit in the crimes.
You don’t import Islamist hate unless you share it.
One day if we are lucky we will interrogate those responsible.
I can tell you now I will not believe anyone’s claim of naive innocence.
Canada’s housing market is waking up for the spring selling season, but young prospective homebuyers would be justified to remain in a state of prolonged hibernation.
For over two years homes in much of the country have been getting more affordable, thanks to a mix of softer prices and, later, falling interest rates. The problem is that, for the most part, we are still nowhere close to pre-pandemic levels of affordability. With the exception of condos, owning a home remains far more expensive than it was before the last housing boom.
“Let the party begin.”
That’s how Mark Carney started his first press conference after being sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister, on March 14, 2025, after a whirlwind leadership contest.
Weeks earlier, he’d jettisoned an emblem of the Liberals’ brand by promising to scrap the consumer carbon price, describing himself — as he does now — as a “pragmatist” tied to results, not dogma.
Usual Star Tongue Bath.
New Ipsos polling conducted for Global News reveals 61 per cent of Canadians disapprove of the U.S. military action against Iran.
Only one in four (23 per cent) Canadians approve (eight per cent strongly approve, 15 per cent somewhat approve), while 16 per cent are unsure either way.
Forty-two per cent were found to strongly disapprove, while 19 per cent somewhat disapprove.
VANCOUVER — The killing of Iranian-Canadian activist and mathematician Masood Masjoody has triggered alarm across Canada’s Iranian diaspora, with prominent community voices warning that the case raises broader concerns about intimidation and possible transnational repression linked to Iran’s regime.
Police have charged Arezou Soltani of North Vancouver and Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi of Maple Ridge with first-degree murder in connection with Masjoody’s death. The two accused are scheduled to appear in court Monday.
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A society that tolerates intolerance – as we now do – can pass as many laws as it likes against “hate” but it won’t reduce hate-motivated crimes.
We have never had as many laws against hate as exist today in Canada and yet we have never seen more hatred on our streets – as illustrated yet again by Saturday’s annual hate-fest known as the Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto outside the U.S. consulate, which was recently shot up.
