LILLEY: False asylum claims drive refugee health-care program toward $1B price tag

A federal program to provide health care to refugees and asylum claimants that a decade ago cost just $60 million a year is expected to cost taxpayers close to $1 billion this year. And according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the program will cost more than $1.5 billion annually by the end of the decade.

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Heritage department’s ‘notable Muslim Canadians’ list dominated by Liberal, NDP figures

A federal heritage department fact sheet highlighting “notable Muslim Canadians” leaned heavily toward Liberal and NDP politicians, including former cabinet minister Maryam Monsef, according to records obtained through Access to Information.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the document, titled Fact Sheet: Muslims In Canada, identified seven individuals deemed Muslims of note.

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Former Canadian defence chief says we can no longer afford to just claim the Arctic

Unless you have spent long hours flying over Canada’s Arctic, it is difficult to grasp its scale, its harshness, or its emptiness. And yet this forbidding territory is becoming one of the most strategically important parts of our country’s future.

Why does it matter? Who else is interested in it? And what must Canada do to protect its sovereignty?

The supply flight from the air base in Trenton, Ont. to Canadian Forces Station Alert, the northernmost station on Ellesmere Island, takes roughly the same time as to fly from Trenton to Ireland. And from about an hour north of Trenton onward, there are almost no settlements to see; only rock, ice, water, and wilderness.

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End ‘Visa King’ and immigration consultants — Canadian immigration is not a Cracker Jack box prize

Somewhere in Brampton, a man who calls himself the “Canadian Visa King” sits behind a desk with immigration paperwork, flashing a wristwatch worth more than most Canadians earn in five years. The watch, a Richard Mille replica or, if a genuine watch costs about $300,000, tells you everything you need to know about what Canada’s immigration system has become.

A gold mine for those who know how to work the system.

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A Washington-based study identifies Canada as an extreme outlier for Beijing-linked “united front” organizations—nearly five times the per-capita density of the United States.

Deal, we get Arctic you condo in Beijing

Beijing’s Hidden Army: How 2,294 United Front Cells Advance China’s Interests in Four Leading Democracies

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA – A groundbreaking study has mapped 2,294 organizations with proven links to the Chinese Communist Party’s “united front” influence apparatus across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany—with Canada exhibiting nearly five times the per-capita penetration rate of the U.S. and the highest density of CCP-linked organizations among all four democracies.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration minister’s refusal to deport knifepoint robber is another justice failure

Stupid rhymes with witch

By the time repeat violent offender Oral Carver Lewis threatened to kill an Ontario Crown prosecutor, he had already been under a deportation order for two years.

“You b–ch, I’m going to kill you,” he told her during court in January 2022. “You watch, I’m going to f–king kill you…. When I get out of jail, I’m going to kill you, Crown. I’m going to find you and kill you. I’m going to kill you the f–k.” A few months earlier, he made vulgar comments to her and pulled his pants down in court, exposing himself.

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Ford salutes Poilievre’s leadership result, but says ‘you don’t win elections at conventions’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre may have secured the overwhelming support of his party in a recent leadership vote, but cautioned that elections are not won on the convention room floor.

Poilievre secured 87 per cent of the delegates in Calgary last month at the party’s convention, pulling in more than what former prime minister Stephen Harper achieved at his own leadership review back in 2005.

“You don’t win elections at conventions. You win elections across the country, so let’s see what happens if the prime minister decides to call an election,” Ford said on Tuesday.


There’s really no point in the Ontario Liberal Party holding a leadership convention now.

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CBC disappointed Carney failed to arrest Netanyahu as he flew through Canadian airspace on way to meet Trump

Netanyahu again flies through Canadian airspace en route to Washington

Online flight trackers show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday — despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

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Hack linked to gun licensing program was biggest federal data breach in last 5 years: documents

A hack linked to the Canadian program overseeing firearm licences and registration was the largest data breach reported by a federal institution to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in the past five years, according to documents obtained by the IJF.

The single incident accounted for more than half of all people affected by data breaches reported by federal institutions to the privacy watchdog during that period. In total, 3.7 million individuals were affected by data breaches during the time period.

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The Liberals are still blaming Conservatives for failures

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney answered a House of Commons question about grocery inflation by replying that the whole issue was the fault of the Conservatives.

According to Carney, the food prices were rising because of “the fall in the Canadian dollar caused by the obstructionism of the members opposite before this government came into place.”

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PM Mark Carney billed taxpayers $94Gs for in-flight catering on one trip

While Canadians continue to struggle with rising grocery bills and as lineups for food banks get longer, Prime Minister Mark Carney flies in style, even racking up a $94,000 in-flight catering bill for a short flight.

Records recently released by National Defence show Carney’s flights drew sky-high expenses, with the priciest being a four-day Rome trip in May that cost the Canadian taxpayer $93,780.

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Carney’s China Deal: Trade, Electioneering, Police Cooperation, and Risks to Canada’s Sovereignty

OTTAWA/TORONTO — In this episode, I catch up with columnist Brian Lilley to unpack Prime Minister Mark Carney’s emerging trade and cooperation agenda with the People’s Republic of China — and why I argue these agreements could accelerate Canada’s decline on multiple fronts.

Before we get into Ottawa’s electric vehicle deal — which I argue risks introducing foreign surveillance platforms onto Canadian roads while aggravating our most important trade partner, the United States — we step back and ask: what is Carney really trying to accomplish?

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Don’t tell the Elbow People! … Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s

Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.

The money for these 14 aircraft is in addition to the contract for a first order of 16 F-35s, which will start being delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces at the end of the year.

According to sources, the new expenses are related to the purchase of so-called “long-lead items,” which are parts that must be ordered well in advance of the delivery of a fully assembled aircraft.

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