So what could go wrong with Canada’s euthanasia program, somewhat euphemistically called Medical Assistance in Dying or MAID? Well everything that could go wrong with this program, has gone wrong, from the increasing sphere of those “eligible” for the program to the latest wrinkle: a preponderance of organs coming from Canada to potentially transplant into American patients.
OTTAWA — Former Liberal cabinet minister and Toronto police chief Bill Blair is resigning from Parliament to become Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, the Star has learned.
Two sources confirmed the MP for Scarborough Southwest was set to formally resign his seat on Monday, while Blair did not immediately respond to the Star’s request for comment.
At the same time, the Prime Minister’s Office was set to announce that Nathalie Drouin — the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the prime minister, first appointed under Justin Trudeau — will leave the role to take up Canada’s ambassadorship to France and Monaco.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is embracing the politics of economic tinkering, offering a rebranded, narrowly targeted GST credit top-up when Canadians need broad, structural relief. While the government says it is responding to the affordability crisis, modest tweaks to the GST credit will not deliver the kind of meaningful, universal relief that cutting income taxes would.
Canadian media members caught on camera admitting they are purposely going easy on Mark Carney to help keep the Liberals in power
CPAC tried scrubbing this segment from the internet
Here are the receipts pic.twitter.com/FfjXfysnJB
— The Pleb 🌍 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) February 2, 2026
h/t Mauser
In an interview with an American television network this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent volunteered some advice to Mark Carney.
“I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue-signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up,” Bessent said, using the American name for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
“He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that’s not a great place to be when you’re negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are and your biggest trading partner.”
I think Carney is priming the LPC for a snap election.
Pissing off Trump is just free campaign advertising for his gullible base.
It’s entirely possible he prefers China as a personally profitable alternative to the US.
It takes a special kind of hubris to stand in Davos, surrounded by the global elite, and lecture the world on the virtues of “living in truth.” Yet there was Prime Minister Mark Carney, channelling the dissident spirit of Václav Havel to chastise the international community for clinging to a “rules-based order” that no longer exists. Carney invoked Havel’s famous parable of the greengrocer — the shopkeeper who puts a sign in his window reading “Workers of the World, Unite!”, not because he believes it, but because “it has been done that way for years” and it buys him a quiet life.
After a year of the Prime Minister whizzing around the world, Canada still has nothing concrete to pin our hopes on for a happier, more prosperous country.
Relationships with the United States are strained with Mr. Carney earning the title of Governor from Mr. Trump for the thinly veiled speech criticizing the President delivered by the Prime Minister to the world at Davos. Then, according to a witness to a phone conversation between the two, the prime minister climbed down from his lofty position. But once again, Mr. Carney has a different story to what the witness heard, telling Canadians that he stood by his word. This is not the first time we have seen conflicting stories from Mr. Carney about what he has said or not said.
A growing majority of Canadians now view economic engagement with China as more important than focusing on the country’s human rights record, a new Angus Reid Institute poll shows.
Three-in-five respondents (59%) said trade and investment opportunities should be Canada’s main priority, marking a sharp shift from recent years when human rights concerns dominated public opinion.
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I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia, and after the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, I served proudly on the board of Czech President Václav Havel’s Vision ’97 Foundation. Having known him personally, I can say with certainty that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans do not at all align with Havel’s vision.
Canada and the United States of America have one of the strongest, most peaceful, and longest-lasting relationships between any two nations bordering each other in the world. Now, opportunistic, partisan brinkmanship is threatening that partnership, and it’s intolerable.
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South Asian communities across Canada are being terrorised by gangs – and city officials in Surrey, BC are calling on the federal government to declare a national state of emergency.
The crimes follow a distinctive pattern. South Asian gangs demand money from members of their own communities. Intimidation, threats and even shootings follow. Gang members drive to someone’s home or business, and video themselves shooting at buildings and vehicles. They then post the recording online or send it to the target, with threats of worse to come if payment is not made.
While an Alberta separatist group confirms it had meetings with U.S. officials over the past year, its leaders won’t say which members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration they have spoken with directly.
“We’re meeting at a very high level,” Alberta Prosperity Project legal counsel Jeffrey Rath said in an interview with CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday.
When asked by host Vassy Kapelos whether those officials would be recognizable to Canadians, Rath said “probably,” but would not confirm whether Stephen Miller, Trump’s homeland security adviser, was among them.
Prime Minister Mark Carney recklessly provoked President Donald Trump, with the predictable result of a hyperbolic overreaction — a 100% tariff threatened on all goods and services exported to the United States — which, taken at face value, would have a devastating impact on Canada’s economy.
Although we should not accept his threats at face value (take him seriously, but not literally), it was irresponsible for Carney to have indulged his ego for domestic political purposes.
Maybe Carney is working a con stoking the base for an early election while privately walking back his public comments?
Federal and provincial governments have announced measures to crack down on immigration fraud by toughening regulations and even closing entire programs. But what if these moves are merely scratching the surface of a much larger problem?
This past December, Canada’s immigration department announced a halt on applications for the Start-up Visa (SUV) Program, which had allowed foreign entrepreneurs to move to Canada to start new businesses.
Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the “great powers.” The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!” (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher).
