Carbon Tax Carney blasted as ‘out-of-touch’ after fentanyl comment in Kelowna

A comment in Kelowna by Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney that fentanyl is a “challenge” in Canada shows how out of touch he is with reality of the drug crisis, Kelowna-Lake Country Conservative MP Tracy Gray says.

“Carbon Tax Carney came to Kelowna to tell people they should ignore the damage caused by nine years of the Trudeau-Carney Liberals, to downplay the fentanyl crisis, and to promote his new and bigger shadow carbon tax that will make Canadians even poorer,” Gray said in an email to The Kelowna Courier.

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Elon Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency team at the Pentagon to meet defense staff

Members of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.

Donald Trump has said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk’s government budget and personnel slashing team and that he expects the tech billionaire to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse in the department.

Last week, Trump confirmed that he had asked Musk to review spending in the sprawling defense department. “I’ve instructed him to go check out education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you’ll find some things that are pretty bad.”

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How Husain Al Kawwaz used a refrigerated produce trailer to smuggle people into the U.S. from Canadastan

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A Canadian truck driver has been sentenced to three years in an American prison after pleading guilty to using the refrigerated trailer of his semi-truck to smuggle people into the U.S. in exchange for money.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested Husain Al Kawwaz after surveillance video appeared to show he let 10 Vietnamese citizens out of his trailer in Michigan after it left Windsor, Ont., and crossed the Ambassador Bridge around midnight on Aug. 7, 2024.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry paying big bucks to Dem operatives via their charity – sparking calls for a congressional investigation

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to controversial political operatives through their charity, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been spending big on high level Democrat party aligned sources, according to public records, including hiring a ‘disinformation expert’ who worked at a company involved in every high-profile US election since the 90s.

Trump should kick Harry out.

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Liberals’ immigration program has purposely transformed the country

Canada’s history is one written largely by its industrious immigrants. Having said that, in this past decade, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned this national strength into a chaotic social upheaval. There is no other way to describe the fact that the Liberals have implemented an immigration program that has purposely transformed the country’s ethnicity and its character. Canadians have yet to fully realize what has transpired. And still, the Liberals continue to permit plane loads of migrants to land at the Toronto and Montreal airports.

It is instructive to look back at the genesis of the Liberals immigration policy to understand exactly what has occurred to Canada’s population through the past decade. Accelerating the flow of people into Canada is an immigration strategy formalized in the Trudeau government’s early years. In 2016, the federal Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which was chaired by Dominic Barton (then-McKinsey & Co. global managing partner and later the Canadian ambassador to China), recommended that there be a 50 per cent increase in annual “permanent resident” immigration levels so that in five years (2021) the number would reach 450,000. Barton was also a co-author of a paper advising the government that the country’s population should be 100 million by 2100.

It was an evil act for which Trudeau and his Liberal party must pay.

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JD Vance meets AfD leader after attacking Germany for excluding party

JD Vance has met Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), outside the Munich Security Conference (MSC) after criticising the organisers for excluding the party.

In a landmark address to the conference, the US vice president denounced the pariah status placed upon the AfD.

“Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls,” he said, referencing a pledge by mainstream German parties not to work with or form governments with the party.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Chrystia Freeland’s socialist disaster of an affordability plan

It wasn’t enough for Chrystia Freeland to drive Canada off an economic cliff as finance minister, ushering in heaps of debt and deficits more intense with the year. She wants to do it all over again — just from the prime minister’s seat.

And really, that’s all she can do. Freeland can’t offer change because, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s no. 2 since 2019, the Trudeau government might as well have been her government. What she can do is stuff his most working-class friendly ideas — in appearance, at least — into a bouquet, adding to them a few proposals plucked from other parties elsewhere to fool onlookers into thinking it’s all new.

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How drug cartels are turning France into ‘the new Mexico’

Drug menu – France

Turf wars between rival trafficking gangs claimed 110 lives last year, and French families are despairing at the spiral of violence consuming their young

The murder of 15-year-old Azad Budak was filmed by a passer-by and posted on Telegram, an encrypted social media platform. Almost immediately, the video of him lying on the ground with a bullet in his chest spread through Besançon, the eastern French city where he lived. His two brothers, aged 11 and 16 at the time, saw the images, as did his neighbours, who phoned his parents to say what had happened.

“I couldn’t walk, talk or think,” said Sema Budak, his mother. “He was a baby to me.”

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Hearing White House aide reinforce Trump’s annexation plans ‘chilling,’ premier says

WASHINGTON — Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey says it was “chilling” to hear a top White House adviser say U.S. President Donald Trump is serious about making Canada the 51st state.

All 13 premiers travelled to Washington this week for the first time in history for a joint mission to push back on Trump’s escalating tariff threats.

Speaking to CPAC Friday, Furey says he left the U.S. capital very aware that the president was launching an attack not just on Canada’s economy but on its sovereignty.

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Three released hostages returned to Israel looking emaciated and pale

Alexander Sasha Troufanov, Sagui Dekel Chen, and Iair Horn appeared thin and pale at the Red Cross handover point in Khan Yunis on Saturday, but were able to stand, support their own weight, and walk independently.

These initial signs suggest their medical condition is stable and does not require emergency hospitalization at Soroka Medical Center or Barzilai Medical Center in the South.

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Munich Security Conference finds Europe in a dismal state

Europe’s political and security elites are flocking to the Munich Security Conference to witness their American security umbrella being folded up and packed away. On Thursday morning, a car reportedly driven by an Afghan asylum seeker rammed into a group of trade union protestors injuring almost 30 people. This apparent terrorist attack underlines the continent’s existential problem: it is ruled by people who cannot ensure its safety, within or without its borders.

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Union representing 30,000 city of Toronto workers starts countdown to strike

Toronto’s largest workers union has requested a no-board report, which could put them in position to strike in as little as three weeks.

CUPE Local 79, which represents 30,000 city employees, including nurses, child care workers and restaurant food inspectors, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike last month, citing low wages.

Toronto needs a DOGE.

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