Mark Carney has a clever idea to unify Canada. This is how it could go wrong

Mark Carney has a clever idea to unify Canada. This is how it could go wrong

In May 1980, with a Quebec sovereignty referendum five days away, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made a bet. At the Paul Sauvé Arena, he staked his political credibility on a single phrase. “If the answer to the referendum question is NO,” he told the crowd, “we have all said that this NO will be interpreted as a mandate to change the Constitution, to renew federalism.” It was a last-minute brand for the federalist side — a rallying cry designed to give Quebec voters a reason to stay. The strategy worked.

A quarter of a century later, “renewed” federalism became “open” federalism. Stephen Harper’s version promised to respect provincial jurisdiction and resolve the fiscal imbalance. It was a different sales pitch, but with the same underlying move to rebrand the federation to make it seem responsive and worth defending.


Not sure how shitting on virtually all of Canada will unify us.

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Privy Council report finds Canadians doubt Carney can end U.S. tariffs

Privy Council report finds Canadians doubt Carney can end U.S. tariffs

Canadians increasingly believe U.S. tariffs are here to stay despite repeated promises from Prime Minister Mark Carney that Ottawa can negotiate a better trade deal with Washington, according to newly released Privy Council research.

Blacklock’s Reporter says federal focus groups found little confidence the Liberal government would succeed in convincing the United States to eliminate tariffs on Canadian goods, with many participants saying the measures are now a permanent part of American economic policy.


I get the feeling that the LPC and their media are running a psyop attempting to convince Canadians they are upbeat about the future.

Record insolvencies, youth fleeing for the US where unlike Canada they have a shot at owning a home and building a future, a growing number of households with food and rent exceeding monthly income, criminal governance by a business and political elite that have used mass immigration for their own monetary gain and agendas, foreign criminals waltzing into our nation and receiving a slap on the wrist for their crimes so their immigration status isn’t compromised.

I could go on.

There is a reason the LPC wants to limit free speech.

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Indian diplomat accuses RCMP of investigating ‘fantasy’ allegations of interference

Indian diplomat accuses RCMP of investigating ‘fantasy’ allegations of interference

India’s top diplomat in Canada says CSIS has been politically compromised and that the RCMP are investigating “fantasy” allegations that Indian officials are involved in crimes against Canadians.

In a sweeping interview with The Globe and Mail, High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik went on the offensive, attacking the integrity of Canada’s national-security agencies, while pushing back against assertions from Canadian authorities that the Government of India has directed multiple homicide plots and foreign-interference campaigns on Canadian soil.

Mr. Patnaik asserted that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been compromised by Sikh separatists using Canada as a base for their campaign to carve out a breakaway state in northwest India, which they call Khalistan.

Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou claims India was behind Air India attack? How common is this belief in Canada?
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Insolvency volumes hit highest rates since 2009, Equifax warns

Insolvency volumes hit highest rates since 2009, Equifax warns

TORONTO — A new report from Equifax Canada says insolvency volumes have risen to the highest level since 2009 amid escalating financial strain on homeowners.

The firm’s first-quarter market pulse report on consumer credit trends says systemic risks persist even while Canadians are staying financially disciplined to cope with economic challenges.

Insolvency volumes for the quarter were up 18.8 per cent year-over-year, indicating that many consumers “may have reached a financial inflection point,” it said.

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Majority of party members likely to back Alberta separation, UCP president says

Majority of party members likely to back Alberta separation, UCP president says

The president of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party says he believes that a majority of UCP members will vote against remaining in Canada in a referendum this fall, despite Premier Danielle Smith’s campaign in favour of Confederation.

Rob Smith, who heads the UCP’s board of directors, said the party will not pick a side in the lead-up to the separation vote, in which Albertans will decide if the province should stay in Canada, or if it should start the legal process to hold a second, binding vote on secession.

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Majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, find Smith’s handling poor says government polling company and CBC

Majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, find Smith’s handling poor says government polling company and CBC

As an October referendum on the future of Alberta separation looms, new polling finds three in five Albertans say they would vote to stay in Canada, while more than half of Albertans feel Premier Danielle Smith has handled the issue “poorly.”

On Thursday, Smith announced she is planning to put a question on the fall referendum ballot that will ask Albertans if they want the province to remain in Canada or if they want a future binding referendum on separation.

According to a poll from the Angus Reid Institute released Monday, 60 per cent of respondents would vote no to the official referendum question, compared to 35 per cent who would vote yes.

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Canadians face food insecurity as 120% of income for some goes to food, rent

Canadians face food insecurity as 120% of income for some goes to food, rent

Canadians from coast to coast to coast are continuing to face food insecurity as income fails to keep pace with food price increases and advocates say the country is “failing” to meet some people’s human right to food.

Data from Statistics Canada showed about one in four Canadians was living in a food-insecure household last year.

The numbers were released the same month data showed food prices had increased 3.5 per cent year-over-year.

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MACLEOD: Alberta can’t survive five years of globalist Carney’s centralized control

MACLEOD: Alberta can’t survive five years of globalist Carney’s centralized control

Mark Carney is not some accidental politician who wandered into Ottawa from Bay Street. He is a product of the modern global financial establishment. Former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, long-time participant at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and a prominent voice in global climate finance and centralized economic coordination, Carney has spent nearly two decades operating inside elite international circles.

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Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Remarks from Conservative MP Michael Chong on his recent Taiwan visit should not have required saying.

“Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally,” stated Chong on May 17, a day prior to his departure.

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Carney warns that push for Alberta separatism referendum could be ‘dangerous bluff’

Carney warns that push for Alberta separatism referendum could be ‘dangerous bluff’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that Alberta separatists who think a referendum will provide the province more leverage are risking a “very dangerous bluff” and argued that it is “not helpful” to ask people to vote over secession.

Speaking to reporters from a residential construction site in Ottawa, Carney had a stark warning for Albertans ahead of Smith’s referendum question on provincial sovereignty in the fall: be wary of what you’re voting for.

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She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

OTTAWA — Laura Harth helped expose Beijing’s “overseas police service centers” as a global architecture of transnational repression — clandestine outposts that Harth and Safeguard Defenders linked to China’s Ministry of Public Security, triggering investigations from Europe to North America.

Now, Harth says, the machinery she helped reveal has turned on her with an AI-generated sexualized deepfake smear campaign that her organization identifies as part of the same Chinese police-linked repression ecosystem documented by the U.S. Justice Department and other security researchers.

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The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) found a whopping 324 asylum claims to be unfounded out of 107,000 refugee applications made in 2025

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) found a whopping 324 asylum claims to be unfounded out of 107,000 refugee applications made in 2025

A federal tribunal declared a record number of refugee claims in 2025 to be fraudulent amid an unprecedented number of people claiming asylum.

In the first 11 months of 2025, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) declared 324 asylum claims to be “manifestly unfounded,” more than any year since at least 2015.

That finding means that not only were the claims rejected, but the IRB’s staff concluded they were so baseless that applicants are precluded from appealing the board’s decision.

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Canadian court ruling will make it easier for drug traffickers to win asylum

Canadian court ruling will make it easier for drug traffickers to win asylum

For the safety of their family, Nini Johana Rodriguez Anzola and her husband said they had no choice but to ingest the cocaine-filled pouches, swallowing them along with some oat oil.

The Colombian couple were intercepted at the Bogota airport before they boarded the flight to Spain. They later pled guilty to drug-related charges because they said they felt pressured to remain silent in court about the involvement of the feared trafficking and guerrilla group known as the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC.


The tribunal says they don’t have to believe nothing they don’t wanna believe.

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MCTEAGUE: Carney’s pipeline permission slip doesn’t address our deeper problems

MCTEAGUE: Carney’s pipeline permission slip doesn’t address our deeper problems

There was a striking story which was buried in the news cycle in Canada by reports of the new Carney-Smith Memorandum of Understanding. While Canadians were being told to celebrate an agreement that might — might — allow a pipeline to begin construction in the fall of 2027, the United Arab Emirates announced plans for a new pipeline that will be fully operational around the same time.

Let that land for a moment. A desert nation with roughly a quarter of our GDP is completing pipeline infrastructure on a timeline that Canada can only hope to begin breaking ground on.

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