Canada‘s existing fleet of fighter jets is overdue for replacement. The CF-18s have been operating continuously since the early 1980s, longer than most of their pilots have been alive. The basic existing design of the fighter is even older than that.
They should have been replaced long ago. This was supposedly a priority for the Harper government. In theory, it was a priority for the Trudeau government, too. Now it’s a problem for the Carney government.
Canada is moving with what could be called urgent caution as stablecoin goes mainstream.
Stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency, or digital dollar, which has stability as perhaps its greatest asset. Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile.
Stablecoin, by contrast, is backed by real assets — cash or high-quality liquid assets — and is pegged one-to-one to a currency or commodity, often the U.S. dollar, the world’s reserve currency.
It will be just stable enough for the Laurentian elites to profit handsomely before it crashes and the tax payers are left holding the bag.
The “Lost Canadians” legislation, which aims to fix Canada’s unconstitutional citizenship, received royal assent Thursday after being approved by the Senate on Wednesday.
The term “Lost Canadians” refers to people who were born outside of the country to Canadian parents who were also born in another country.
In 2009, the Conservative federal government changed the law so that Canadians born abroad could only pass down their citizenship if their child was born in Canada.
Our government read the room and determined they hadn't quite watered down Canadian citizenship enough. https://t.co/37WTGALyEe
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) November 21, 2025
H/T Patti Jo
JOHANNESBURG – The world’s most influential nations gathered in South Africa to work around Washington’s disruptive foreign policy Saturday, reaching consensus on issues like climate change and gender equality while pushing back on a Ukraine deal that western allies deemed insufficient.
For Canada, disruptive geopolitics led to a technology pact with India, a recent foe, along with a cut to Ottawa’s funding for global health and talks with countries grappling with American and Chinese trade coercion.
“It is a great day for multilateralism,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Johannesburg.
Canada is that kid who is tolerated because he gives money as a Tag Along Tax.
Canada is so overwhelmed by refugee claimants that it is now standard practice to conduct security screenings on the honour system, the head of Canada’s border patrol union told Parliamentarians this week.
Presently, Quebec’s legislature, the National Assembly, is debating a new provincial constitution that would declare Quebec a “free national State,” known as the State of Quebec, “fully sovereign” from the rest of Canada. The new constitution would assert that the province may appoint its own superior court judges (a power now reserved to Ottawa), conduct foreign policy separate from (or even at odds with) Canada’s foreign policy, ignore federal laws and participate in national institutions only when Quebec wishes to.
It’s effectively a declaration of independence without having to give up billions annually in transfer and equalization payments.
Recent polling shows that more than half of Canadians now believe immigration levels are too high — double the number from just three years ago. One-third think immigration increases crime, and six in 10 say too many newcomers fail to adopt Canadian values. These are not the views of a suddenly intolerant country. They reflect a public losing confidence in a system that no longer seems to protect their safety or the integrity of Canadian citizenship.
We recently received information from a reliable industry source about how the federal government is administering beef import permits. If accurate, it raises serious concerns about whether the federal government is knowingly sustaining an outdated and opaque system that keeps beef prices unnecessarily high.
At a time when many families are struggling with food costs, this is more than a bureaucratic issue — it directly affects affordability.
As is so often the case in Liberal Canada someone is stealing the food off your plate.
The federal Conservatives are pushing for stricter rules against asylum claimants and those who fail their claims, and quicker deportation of non-citizens convicted of serious crimes, says the party’s immigration critic.
At a news conference Thursday, Alberta MP Michelle Rempel Garner announced a number of amendments the opposition party is going to table next week to Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, which is currently before the parliamentary public safety committee.
The federal government’s Impact and Innovation Unit (IIU) worked very hard to persuade Canadians to get injected with the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. Modelled after the United Kingdom’s Behavioural Insights Team, the IIU uses social psychology and “nudge” theory to test public messaging and implement other public behavioural interventions.
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There have been 13 cases flagged so far as potential conflicts of interest for Prime Minister Mark Carney, his top public servant said Wednesday, and screens were ultimately enacted in six of them.
Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia, who heads the public service and serves as deputy minister to Mr. Carney, testified at the House Ethics Committee on Wednesday. The committee is studying the Conflict of Interest Act.
Bruce Flatt in case you don’t know is Carney’s old colleague and the head of Brookfield Asset Management.
And Carney just happens to follow him on business trips around the world totally completely unplanned by ACCIDENT.
I was also born yesterday, for those of you just tuning… pic.twitter.com/1JGET0zzmI
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) November 20, 2025
h/t Mauser
If you want to know whether the Carney government is serious about trimming the federal budget and being transparent, keep an eye on what happens to Jason Jacques.
Who is Jacques? Is he a senior economist whose advice everyone respects? A cunning investor whose every market move is mimicked by lesser investors? An opposition MP who might cross the floor to the Liberals?
The Carney government’s budget legislation contains an amendment that lawyers representing veterans say is a bid to cover up a decades-long error that led to overcharging for long-term care.
“Instead of owning up to their error, they are trying to change the rules after the fact,” said Malcolm Ruby, partner at Gowling WLG and co-counsel in a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking damages for an estimated tens of thousands of veterans.
“Retroactively changing legislation is like a thermonuclear weapon that the government has in litigation, that no other litigant has.”
Canada’s instructions to submarine contract bidders highlight sustainment, economic benefits
Canada has formally issued firm bidding instructions to the two companies vying to build the navy’s new submarines, CBC News has learned.
The document went out to ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) of Germany and Hanwha Ocean Co. Ltd. of South Korea last week.
James Rourke, an official in the newly established federal Defence Investment Agency, acknowledged the document, which specifically outlines the federal government’s expectations and how the decision will be weighted, was delivered to both qualified bidders.
If they go with the South Korea bid it’s got to include BBQ, and the German bid, lots of strudel and beer.
OTTAWA—The Liberal government refused Wednesday to say how many banned weapons have been collected in the trial for its contentious gun buyback program, as federal sources and local reports suggest minimal success, raising concerns about how the roughly $750-million scheme will unfold on a national scale.
The Liberals kickstarted the long-delayed program with Cape Breton, N.S. as its testing ground last month, hoping to collect 200 guns and evaluate its system, but the small-scale pilot has been met with pushback and little uptake from frustrated gun owners.
