Freeland added to Zelensky Payroll

Freeland added to Zelensky Payroll

Chrystia Freeland named as economic adviser by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

OTTAWA — A former Trudeau cabinet minister and federal Liberal leadership hopeful has a new job.

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced he’d appointed Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister — and catalyst for the downfall of former prime minister Justin Trudeau, as an economic advisor.

Hey Z I’ll swing a few billion your way for a “Job”

h/t Mauser

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Iran Is Burning: Canada Must Decide

The streets of Iran are once again filled with anger, grief, and bloodshed. What began as economic protests over a collapsing currency and runaway inflation has turned violent, with demonstrators killed and the regime signalling that repression, not reform, will be its response. This is not a sudden crisis. It is the predictable consequence of a system that long ago exhausted every source of legitimacy except fear.

Carney won’t do anything to upset Amira.

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GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s climate targets were always a fantasy

Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

“We have too much regulation, not enough action,” Carney told CBC in a year-end interview commenting on Trudeau’s plan.

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Ottawa propose fines of up to $1M for violating foreign influence registry rules

OTTAWA — The federal government proposes fining people and organizations up to $1 million for failing to comply with the requirements of its planned foreign influence transparency registry.

Newly published draft regulations are another step toward establishing the registry, which was set out in legislation passed in 2024 as part of a package of measures to counter foreign interference.

The proposed regulations define key terms and describe the information individuals and entities would have to provide when entering into arrangements with foreign principals to influence Canadian political or government activities.

Liberals report on themselves? Please.

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Tax havens cost Canada some $15B a year in revenue. Is Ottawa’s crackdown working?

Canadian parliamentarians are taking a crack at squeezing out more government revenue from tax havens, and we wish them all the luck and stamina.

Tucked away from the Conservative-to-Liberal floor-crossings and the nail-biting confidence-vote drama that have dominated this Parliament, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee were contemplating all the places where corporations put their profits.

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Mark Carney in 2026: Progressive pivot or Progressive Conservative?

Consensus analysis of the 2025 election results includes this thesis: centre-left ‘progressive’ voters abandoned the NDP and voted for the Liberals under Prime Minister Carney and gave him his victory.

Why? Two broad reasons: 1) to unite against Donald Trump and 2) to unite against the possibility that Pierre Poilievre could be prime minister.

Of course, there is more to it than that, but there’s no question that the worst showing for the NDP in history was accretive to the Liberals and that ‘progressive’ voters gave Mark Carney his victory against Pierre Poilievre despite Pierre’s strong showing – the best vote percentage for a Conservative campaign since 1988.

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A few Haitians deported they say …

Some Haitian migrants arrested in Quebec on Christmas Day deported to U.S.

Some of the 19 migrants of Haitian origin arrested in Quebec on Christmas Day have been deported to the United States.

Canada Border Services Agency says the migrants’ asylum claims were processed and those who were deemed inadmissible were sent back south of the border.

In an emailed statement, the agency didn’t say how many would-be refugees were deported.

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Nearly five million visas were set to expire in 2025. Where are the visa holders now?

As 2025 began, federal records showed that there were 4.9 million visas set to expire in the coming 12 months, with Conservatives pressing the Liberal government on how it would deal with those who didn’t leave willingly.

“The vast majority leave voluntarily, and that’s what’s expected,” was the official committee testimony of then Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

Guess who’s serving you at Tim’s?

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Carney will meet with Ukraine’s allies in Paris as peace talks intensify

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to France next week to meet with Ukraine’s allies as talks aimed at ending Russia’s war intensify.
The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney will be in Paris on Monday and Tuesday to meet with the “coalition of the willing” in an effort to push forward a peace deal for Ukraine.

In a media statement issued Friday, Carney said his focus remains on fortifying Ukraine and deterring future Russian aggression as Ukraine seeks security guarantees from the United States and other nations.

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Canada’s highest-paid CEOs made an average of $16.2 million last year … Corporate Welfare expected to reach $40 to 45 billion

The gap between average worker wages and Canada’s top-paid CEOs widened to a record in 2024, according to a new report that pushes for higher taxes on the wealthiest.

Average compensation for the 100 best-paid chief executives hit $16.2 million in the year, surpassing the previous record of $14.9 million in 2022, said the report out Friday from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.


Canada under the Liberal Party is all about giving your money to their corporate pals. They hate you. Why else would they swamp Canada with cheap foreign labour?

Hey Grok – How much was paid in corporate welfare to Canadian firms in 2025

Federal business subsidies (often termed corporate welfare) in Canada reached approximately $40 billion in the 2023–24 fiscal year, with continued high levels in 2025 due to ongoing programs like clean technology incentives and EV battery production subsidies.

A University of Calgary School of Public Policy report indicates federal subsidies grew 140% from 2014–15 to 2023–24, hitting $40.1 billion in 2023–24. Projections suggest they could approach $50 billion annually by 2027–28 without policy changes, driven by investment tax credits and major industrial supports. For 2025 (covering parts of fiscal years 2024–25 and 2025–26), the total likely remains in the $40–45 billion range federally, including ramped-up EV incentives.

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JAY GOLDBERG: Canadians aren’t buying Mark Carney’s carbon tax spin

Although Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the consumer carbon tax in 2025, he is on a mission to make Canadians’ lives more expensive by jacking up industrial carbon taxes in 2026.

Carney wants Canadians to believe businesses can somehow be taxed without those costs being passed on to consumers.

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Police unwittingly confirm their political capture

Not everything needs to make sense in life, but when a situation seems inexplicable, it may well be that we simply don’t want to admit the truth. The answer to what bedevils us is usually staring us in the face.

A Biologist or Chemist would try different tests and computations before proving out their theory, and that would be that; for the Political Scientist, there comes a point where so much evidence has piled up that only unconscious bias — or the dangerously naive hope that good faith motives are omnipresent — will prevent you from admitting the truth.

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Millions of Canadians struggling as social safety net lags behind federal priorities: economist

While Ottawa debates affordability, defence spending and investment incentives, millions of Canadians are struggling with stagnant wages, weak unemployment benefits and growing economic insecurity, which is a disconnect economist Lars Osberg says is having serious social consequences.

“The big missing link is that we don’t have much of a social safety net in Canada,” the Dalhousie University economics professor said. “We haven’t had it for quite a while and we’re facing an enormous amount of economic insecurity and a long period of stagnant real wages.”

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Cabinet advisor praised pro-Palestine researcher who called Canada a ‘racist settler state’

Hateful Muslim Parasite

A federal cabinet advisor personally approved a taxpayer-funded research assignment on pro-Palestine reports by a York University scholar who has publicly described Canada as a “racist settler colonial state,” according to Access To Information records.

Emails show Amira Elghawaby, now the government’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, thanked researcher Salmaan Khan for his work, calling it “critical.”

(Incognito)

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