The Montreal riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie is ground zero for Quebec’s media elites and the beating heart of the province’s cultural industries. Not surprisingly, it skews progressive and has reliably sent left-leaning MPs to Ottawa for more than three decades.
Last week’s resignation of local MP Steven Guilbeault from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet generated a minor earthquake in Laurier—Sainte-Marie whose aftershocks are being nervously monitored in federal Liberal circles in Quebec.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab is warning foreign nationals against abusing Canada’s asylum system, as other G7 countries tighten their refugee rules.
Britain and the U.S. have recently restricted their asylum regimes, raising concerns among immigration experts that this could divert some refugee claimants to Canada.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced he is halting asylum applications, while the British government is planning to end automatic permanent residence for refugees, and would require them to reapply every two-and-a-half years to stay in the country. Britain plans to make refugees wait 20 years for permanent residence.
Canada is an easy mark and Diab is a liar.
In the wake of Steven Guilbeault leaving cabinet, a senior government source told iPolitics that several other Trudeau-era Liberal MPs are also having challenges “coming to grips” to the new direction laid out by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The source, who requested anonymity because they’re not authorized to publicly speak on the matter, said many like Guilbeault are concerned about the government’s shift in approach on climate issues, including laying out a path for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast in an agreement with Alberta reached last week.
Former federal minister Chrystia Freeland this week said Ukraine can become an economic juggernaut and boost European economies by taking up the opportunities it missed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Her comments come as Ottawa pledges another $235 million for Ukraine through the NATO military alliance, and as the world watches for the latest iteration of a Washington-brokered deal to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Freeland spoke Tuesday at a Toronto conference aimed at drumming up investment in Ukraine. It appeared to be her first major speech in Canada since Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed her as special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Freeland knew as early as 2014 about the massive corruption in Ukraine, yet she still advocated for the transfer of billions of Canadian tax dollars, anyway. pic.twitter.com/k1DoH4odaB
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) December 3, 2025
Freeland’s appointment is a clear conflict of interest. Canada has taken a back seat to Ukraine’s grift machine.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin have adopted former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna’s approach to talking to the public about climate change.
In 2019, she uploaded to her Twitter (now X) account a video of her being “screeched in” at Christian’s Pub in St. John’s, N.L., complete with her kissing the cod.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney sought to assure hundreds of First Nations chiefs Tuesday that the federal government will not impose a pipeline or other resource projects over their objections after they unanimously called for the withdrawal of his Alberta energy deal.
But the prime minister stopped short of guaranteeing that Indigenous Peoples will have a veto over resource developments, saying only that his government believes in the importance of Indigenous participation and consultation, along with Indigenous equity stakes and benefits from such projects.
Carney wants the Indians to stop the pipelines.
In the latest example of Ottawa having sketchy figures on the number of non-citizens in the country, Statistics Canada has confirmed that it likely missed several hundred thousand non-permanent residents in the most recent census.
The term “non-permanent residents” refers to anybody living in Canada as a student, a temporary foreign worker or an asylum seeker. And a new report estimates that 38 per cent of non-permanent residents were “missed” by the 2021 census.
This was likely done deliberately to prevent an uprising. Our government simply can not be trusted.
For more than a year, Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons has been pushing the federal government to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers some of its franchisees can hire, CBC News has learned.
The requests occurred over at least 18 months, in writing and in lobbying meetings with officials and MPs, as Canadian views on immigration soured and Ottawa reduced various newcomer streams.
Tim Horton’s doesn’t meet the standard of pig’s swill.
Government job growth outpaced that of the private sector as the public service added nearly one million positions over the past decade, accounting for nearly one-third of the total employment increase in Canada, a new study suggests.
Canada experienced a rise of 950,000 government sector jobs from 2015 to 2024, representing approximately 30 percent of the total employment gains in the country during that timeframe, according to a recently-released report from the Fraser Institute.
The federal government paid Stellantis more than $220 million to help upgrade its plants in Ontario before the automaker revealed plans to move some production to the U.S., recent records show.
It’s more than double the amount the federal government disclosed when asked in October about its Stellantis spending, after the multinational announced that it will scrap plans to build the Jeep Compass at its Brampton plant and assemble it in Belvidere, Ill., instead.
The dream of home ownership is alive, but not well. According to a recent Abacus poll, nearly nine in 10 young Canadians, those aged 18 to 29, aspire to own a home – but a similar share worry about the current state of housing in Canada.
Of course, those worries are justified. According to our new study, in 2023 (the latest year of comparable data), typical homes on the market were unaffordable for families earning the local median income in every major Canadian city. It’s not just Vancouver and Toronto – housing affordability has eroded nationwide.
I trust our Corporate Titans to lead us out of this morass. Therefore the answer must include importing additional cheap foreign labour in their millions.
Danielle Smith was flying high last Thursday as she and Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Calgary. Interesting that it was called an MOU and not an agreement, although most of the news media, and Smith herself, talked about it in those terms.
So now Carney and Smith have an “understanding” that an oil pipeline may be built from Alberta to the northwest coast of B.C. despite the oil tanker ban and B.C. premier David Eby’s objections; the industrial carbon price may go up in Alberta; and Alberta may get its multibillion Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage facility. That’s an awful lot of uncertainty given all the hype and hoopla surrounding the announcement.
OTTAWA – The government is pledging another $235 million in funding for Ukraine, with National Defence Minister David McGuinty and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announcing Canada’s latest commitments.
McGuinty says Canada will work with NATO allies to purchase a package of critical military capabilities sourced from the United States valued at around USD $500 million.
Canada’s contribution to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List package will be CAD $200 million
This latest Canada-Alberta MOU is just another chapter in the same infuriating story we’ve lived through for fifty years: Ottawa dangles a lifeline to the oil patch when it needs votes or headlines, then quietly lets the rope go slack the moment BC coastal outrage or a Vancouver fundraiser kicks in.
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When Mark Carney declared victory in Canada’s general election, he struck a defiant tone against Donald Trump.
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country”, the newly elected prime minister said, before swearing Trump would never “break” Canada.
Since then, Mr Carney has raced to end the country’s historic reliance on the US, launching ambitious domestic economic programmes under his “Canada Strong” spending plans.
One of the most contentious tools available to Mr Carney is the national treasure of Canadian finance: the country’s vast “Maple Eight” pension funds.
I can’t wait for the Repo man to come for all those Elbows.
