How’s this for a win-win deal? Alberta lets Premier David Eby, his B.C. NDP government and radical, anti-development First Nations group live in their little “green” bubble west of the Rockies while Alberta finds an investor or investors to build a pipeline to the West Coast through Montana, Idaho and Washington state.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has begun to lay out publicly what he sees as boundaries when dealing with China, as his government wades into a new relationship with the economic giant.
Carney, who earlier this year called China one of Canada’s biggest security threats, has more recently spoken openly about resetting the relationship with Beijing as the Liberal government seeks more trading partners in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
In a year-end interview with CBC News, he was asked by chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton if he sees risks in Canada aligning economically with China.
I spent years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police learning a simple rule. You assess risk based on capability, intent, and opportunity — not on hope or assumptions. When those three factors align, ignoring them is negligence.
That framework applies directly to Canada’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China — and to recent political events that deserve far more scrutiny than they have received.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand summoned Israel’s ambassador to explain why a delegation of Canadian members of Parliament was refused entry to the West Bank earlier this week.
Ambassador Iddo Moed was called in by Ms. Anand on Tuesday. Myah Tomasi, a spokesperson for Ms. Anand, said Mr. Moed met Global Affairs officials that day to discuss the treatment of the delegation.
Six MPs were part of a delegation of around 30 Canadians that also included representatives of charitable organizations. The group was denied entry to the West Bank by Israeli authorities on
Tuesday, prompting Ms. Anand to publicly voice her disapproval of their treatment.
I’m sure the Israeli envoy tried desperately not to smirk.
In late October, the Ottawa Citizen published details about an initiative, developed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and Deputy Minister Stefanie Beck to significantly boost the numbers of personnel in the ranks.
The mobilization scheme, put in motion on May 31, 2025, outlines the need to increase the current reserve force from 23,561 to 100,000 and to boost supplementary and other reserves from the current 4,384 to 300,000.
Douglas Todd: Confidential government polling showed support for lower migration targets. But actual numbers are slippery for both permanent and temporary residents.
The federal Liberals have been getting some good news from public opinion polls by emphasizing, for the first time in five decades, cutting migration targets.
The government’s public relations effort was revealed in confidential emails obtained through a freedom of information request from Ottawa’s Privy Council Office, the powerful arm that advises the prime minister.
The emails state the findings of a series of telephone surveys conducted by the Privy Council Office late last year are “not publicly available — do not share outside government.”
Turncoat MP Michael Ma was gifted the Conservative candidate nomination for Markham-Unionville.
He wasn’t burdened with having to demonstrate loyalty by going through the gruelling task of selling hundreds or thousands of memberships. He was spared canvassing in sweltering heat and bitter cold and the discomfort of facing rude Liberal or NDP voters while door-knocking.
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The former Conservative MPs who crossed the floor over to the Liberals “came to us,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said in an interview with Global News, adding that he did not “lure” them but that they were “attracted” to the work his government has been doing.
In a wide-ranging interview with Global National anchor and executive editor Dawna Friesen that will air in full on Dec. 25, Carney was asked if he was involved in luring or courting the Opposition MPs to join the Liberals.
“I wouldn’t have chosen that verb: lure, or courting. What I would choose is, they are attracted by what we are doing. And that’s a key element,” Carney said.
He means Xi sent them.
As an Egyptian-Canadian journalist of the Muslim faith and human rights defender, I strongly urge the Canadian government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
The story of this malicious transnational Sunni Islamist organization starts in Egypt in 1928. The ideas of its founder, Hassan al-Banna, spread globally, influencing charitable organizations, political parties and violent Islamist groups, such as Hamas.
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the relationship with Canada to be one of “dependence” on the United States, and is not talking about ripping up the trilateral free trade pact but renegotiating it, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In a pair of French-language interviews marking the year’s end, Carney revealed for the first time details of his private conversation earlier this month with Trump and Mexican President Claudia
Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the World Cup soccer draw in Washington — which came following a stormy six-week hiatus after Trump cut off bilateral trade talks on sectoral tariffs.
Canada’s population dropped by about 76,000 from July to October, according to federal estimates, in a decrease largely attributed to immigration policy.
Statistics Canada published its preliminary Q3 report Wednesday morning, which estimated Canada’s population to be 41,575,585 as of Oct. 1.
The main factor was a sharp reduction in non-permanent residents, whose numbers dropped by 176,479 – the largest drop since comparable records began, wrote the agency.
Cripes Liberal media is playing this up like the country will be empty next week.
OTTAWA — Most Canadians think it’s nothing but hot air.
That’s what the results of a recent Leger poll on the industrial carbon tax reveal, suggesting most Canadians believe the costs of the levy aren’t absorbed by emitters but instead passed onto them.
Recently, Statistics Canada released a revision of its calculations of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) in recent years. GDP measures the total production in an economy in a given year, and per-person GDP is widely accepted by economists as one of the most useful metrics for assessing quality of life. The new estimate places Canada’s GDP for 2024 at 1.4 per cent larger than previously reported.
By the standards of these sorts of revisions—which are usually quite small—the recent update is significant. But make no mistake, the new numbers do not change the fundamental story of Canada’s economic performance, which has been one of historically weak growth and stagnant living standards for an unusually long stretch of time.
The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged “raging antisemite” Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry.
Marouf received $122,661 as part of a Canadian Heritage program to deliver anti-racism lectures. According to Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), where Marouf was a senior consultant who led seminars, three consultative events by the centre took place in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax in 2022.
A&W Restaurant franchisees in Québec say they face closure without migrant labour. Owners in petition to Commons human resources committee said they could find no Québecers willing to work in fast food.https://t.co/zKpQJmTW06 #cdnpoli @AWCanada pic.twitter.com/dAAkSJqKt6
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) December 17, 2025
H/T Mauser
