OTTAWA — When the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission opened an investigation into Buddhist landholdings between 2016 and 2018, few could have imagined that, nearly a decade later, its quietly shelved probe would raise serious questions about whether the regulator itself had become entangled in the very network of interests it was meant to police.
Recent statements from Ottawa that frame Canada as being in a “strategic partnership” with China land against a record of cyber operations, foreign interference, coercive finance, and alignment with other authoritarian actors. NATO texts, Five Eyes advisories, and U.S. trade negotiations will show how allies and markets are reacting to Ottawa’s words.
A clear course on Canada’s part requires definition, verification, and visible enforcement.
OTTAWA — In his striking conclusion to Under Assault, former national-security analyst Dennis Molinaro reveals that U.S. government sources have privately described Canada as “overrun” with Chinese influence — the ultimate consequence of a fifty-year pattern, begun under Pierre Trudeau and seemingly accelerated by his son, of engaging the Chinese Communist Party on its own terms and to the detriment of Canadian sovereignty.
It’s a finding that resonates sharply as Justin Trudeau’s successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney renews deeper ties with Beijing amid Washington’s intensifying, security-driven tariff pressure on its allies.
h/t Handy n’ Handsome
French authorities have threatened to block Chinese online store Shein if it does not remove sex dolls with “childlike” features from its website.
The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said descriptions for the products on the Shein website “make it difficult to doubt the child pornographic nature of the content.”
The French daily newspaper Le Parisien said the product in question — an 80 centimeter (30 inch) tall doll holding a teddy bear — was accompanied by an explicitly sexual description on the Shein website.
No wonder the LPC is hot for China.
A city had a rude awakening when it tested its electric buses for security flaws.
Some cities have gone all-in on their dedication to renewable energy and electric public transportation, but discovering that a jurisdiction does not actually control its own public property likely was not part of the idea.
h/t SC
TORONTO — Four years after the RCMP first announced investigations into alleged clandestine Chinese “police stations” in Toronto, The Bureau has learned that a Fujian business leader listed as a key principal for the Markham clubhouse under investigation was previously the subject of major narcotics, organized-crime, and triple-murder inquiries in Japan — long before arriving in Canada amid a history of falsified travel documents, gaining citizenship through a refugee claim, and later rising in political and business circles tied to Beijing’s United Front Work Department.
China’s leader Xi Jinping, the de facto geopolitical heavyweight at an Asia-Pacific economic summit, on Friday courted countries for trade and investment, but also implicitly warned them not to join the United States in reducing the world’s reliance on Chinese supply chains.
President Trump’s departure from South Korea a day earlier meant that Mr. Xi was the sole superpower leader at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the city of Gyeongju. At the opening of the meeting, Mr. Xi could be seen smiling and shaking hands with world leaders and economic and finance ministers who came up to greet him.
He seized his time in the spotlight to pitch China, the world’s second-largest economy and a manufacturing powerhouse, to a room that included the leaders of Japan, Canada, Australia and the host, South Korea. He invited Prime Minister Mark Carney, recently spurned by President Trump, to visit China and even met with Japan’s new leader, Sanae Takaichi, who had been a prominent critic of Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in the region.
It worked! Carney goes full Xi Fanboy!
Carney: Canada’s relationship with China at a ‘turning point’
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada’s relationship with China is at a “turning point” following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The meeting was hosted by China and lasted just 39 minutes.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Speaking to reporters briefly after their meeting, Carney said his meeting with Xi was “long overdue.”
Results: Trump says US, Canada will not restart trade talks
In 1973, not many Canadians fell in love with a newly launched car that resembled a large toaster and had about the same horsepower. But it was extraordinarily cheap and matched many larger U.S. luxury cars in skilful engineering and reliability.
In its first year it found only 747 customers, though. Three years later, the Honda Civic was the bestselling import in Canada. Price was a factor — $2,150 — but only one. Like big car companies then and now, the Big Three were not known for their thoughtful and reasonably priced customer service.
An NDP hack writing in the Star.
This is what “Elbows Up” was all about surrender to the CCP.
Opening the door to what he calls pragmatic and constructive dialogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney held a bilateral meeting Friday with the president of China on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
It marked the first formal leader-to-leader contact between the two nations since 2017.
In other words nothing was accomplished beyond a reminder that Carney should keep the KY handy.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says it seized 4,300 litres of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and other illicit drugs in shipping containers coming from China, which were bound for Calgary.
The seizure occurred in May at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility in Delta, B.C., but was publicly announced by CBSA on Thursday — one day before Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
The UK Labour Party’s feckless response to CCP espionage.
High treason, a crime so often alleged in our public discourse and so seldom proven in an actual court of law, is now more of a metaphorical device than a felony. It is passing strange that the law of treason should have fallen into such a marked state of decay, considering its location in the very pith and heartwood of the ancient, sprawling, gnarled tree that is our common law tradition. Indeed, the Treason Act of 1351 (25 Edw. 3 Stat. 5. c. 2) is counted among the oldest parliamentary acts still in effect, with only the Statute of Marlborough (1267), the Statute of Westminster (1275), the Quia Emptores (1290), and the iconic Magna Carta predating it. “The objects of the laws are rights and wrongs,” as every good student of Blackstone knows, and what greater wrong is there than to compass, or to effectuate, the murder of your sovereign, or to adhere to your sovereign’s enemies by giving them aid and comfort? And what greater right is there on the part of the sovereign than to have such treachery punished, and punished severely?
Smells awful like Canada’s Liberal Party.
In a groundbreaking new book, former Canadian intelligence analyst and historian Dennis Molinaro argues that nearly a thousand pages of newly declassified RCMP Security Service files indicate Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the first Canadian prime minister ever targeted by a successful Chinese Communist Party influence operation—one whose reverberations shape the central geopolitical crisis of our time: Beijing’s threat to invade Taiwan.
Canada has provided more than $100 million in foreign aid to China since 2015, with the Department of Foreign Affairs saying the funding promoted “sustainable development.”
Blacklock’s Reporter says a briefing note for the Minister of International Development stated the money supported “key foreign policy priorities in China including human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and climate change.”
We are lead by Grifters.
Chinese interests own more than £190 billion in British companies and property and Beijing is making millions a year from asylum hotels, analysis reveals.
The Sunday Times China List discloses that organisations linked to the Chinese Communist Party own three hotels block-booked for migrants, netting them at least £15 million in Home Office contracts.
They are just some of the 442 UK assets owned by private individuals and firms from China and Hong Kong, as well as state-backed organisations.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Negotiators have reached a framework of a trade deal to avert additional 100 percent tariffs that President Donald Trump had threatened to impose on imports from China, setting the stage for the U.S. president’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in interviews Sunday that constructive meetings with his Chinese counterparts led to the deal, with the delegation from Beijing agreeing to defer restrictions on rare earth minerals that were poised to harm the U.S. economy. The announcement marked a significant de-escalation of a whiplashing trade war between the world’s two largest economies, which heated up when Trump threatened to ratchet up tariffs earlier this month in response to China’s restrictions on the minerals, which are essential components in most electronics.
And from CBC – Shadow of Trump’s trade war follows Carney to Malaysia
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Malaysia late Saturday in search of trade opportunities with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
But the question on everyone’s mind is whether he’ll get any face time with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is expected to arrive at the same gathering on Sunday.
Learn Mandarin Cheap!
JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is ready to make a trade deal which would remove President Trump’s 100% tariff. pic.twitter.com/OdJbLMhuYZ
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 26, 2025
The United States and Thailand reached a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. This historic Agreement will eliminate tariff barriers on approximately 99% of goods, covering a full range of U.S. industrial and agricultural products.
Learn more: https://t.co/FCgLGcY8oL pic.twitter.com/lp38ocnOCY
— United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) October 26, 2025
The Soybean Summit!
h/t Mauser and Clink9
