The federal government’s plan to replace electric vehicle sales quotas with a reduced emissions standard is unrealistic and could saddle Canadians with massive costs, according to the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that instead of gradually banning conventional vehicles by 2035, 75% of new vehicles sold in that year would need to meet an electric-equivalent emissions standard.
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A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests.
Researchers from the University of Toronto’s food insecurity research program analyzed Statistics Canada income data to better understand how Canadians’ jobs affect their access to food.
Their study, published last December in the journal Canadian Public Policy, found that the main earner in two-thirds of all households experiencing food insecurity held a permanent, full-time job.
A scout is supposed to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent and able to behead infidels.
A rogue ambassador to the United States, a new office in Washington for the “Commonwealth of Alberta,” another Mark Carney world tour: we’re just over a month into 2026, and already Canadian diplomacy is headed madly off in all directions.
Let’s start with Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who last week heeded a call that apparently he alone could hear and headed south to liaise with his college chum U.S. Vice-President JD Vance. Acting as consulting diplomat, Jivani seemed certain that if only someone from Ottawa listened to the Trump administration, we could figure out this trade-war business. He later said he’d gleaned invaluable “insights” he couldn’t wait to sharem. He even passed on a message from the president: “Tell the Canadians I love them.”
Someone at the Star is cranky.
We’re living in a global kleptocracy
Two scandals have dominated the American culture wars of recent years, usually assigned to opposite teams. There was the liberal obsession with Russiagate — the idea that Donald Trump was a foreign asset and the Republic was under external attack from Russian agents and bots. Meanwhile, the Right fixated upon the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as proof that a paedophilic cabal ran the world and global elites were predatory monsters. Each side tended to treat the other’s scandal as a distraction or hoax.
The 3.5 million pages released last week by the Department of Justice confirm that these are, in fact, the same story. Treating Russiagate as a case of isolated foreign interference or the Epstein revelations as a story of individual depravity are limiting and, strange as it sounds, comforting frames because they give each side a convenient villain.
Members of the Jewish community are pushing for armed security as a solution for safety and protection at synagogues and schools amid rising antisemitism.
Eli Yufest is a father of three children who attend Jewish day school in Toronto.
“My wife and I worry about their safety every single day we drop them off,” he told National Post. “More broadly, I feel a responsibility to speak on behalf of Jewish families and community members who attend schools, synagogues and other communal spaces. Since October 7, and with the sharp rise in antisemitism, concerns about security have become constant among the Jewish community and deeply personal for every Jewish person I know.”
A DEFRA (Dept. for Environment Food & Rural Affairs) commissioned report published in 2022 has begun circulating again and is clearly less about protected landscapes than about protecting one belief system [1].
The focus is almost entirely on reshaping public space to accommodate Islamic religious practice. Food, prayer, toilets, fear of racism and dogs are a constant source of complaint – all of it entirely consistent with sharia.
Canada finds itself listing in stormy waters, split between several solitudes. We are no longer just divided between French and English. Now we are torn along national identity, media ecosystems, class, and basic beliefs about Canadian values and culture. It is doubtful that Canada will be able to remain a unified country if we continue under an incompetent skipper, Mr. Carney, at the helm.
The heartbreak is that Canada, our beloved Canada, has enormous potential. Tragically, however, we have been governed for years by people who, whether for personal gain or due to ineptitude, failed to do the hard work of nation‑building. Instead, they fueled the destruction of our national identity and values, and the degradation of our economy.
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Are you sick of hearing the phrase: “you can’t be racist to White people”?
Me too. So I took 2 months and put together this video.
This video proves anti-White sentiment IS racism, and dismantles every single lie progressives and anti-White professors use to justify it.
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— Metatron (@pureMetatron) February 8, 2026
You could say that Jeffrey Epstein short-changed himself by not reading up on his favourite pastime of prostitution.
He could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he known that while prostitution is illegal in every US state, it is legal in parts of Nevada, a state which justifies its brothels as continuity with their roots in 19th Century mining towns and as an example of ‘economic diversification’ – an unusual application of DEI.
Or he might have tried buying young women in Canada where, in the usual way of Canadian half measures, selling sex isn’t illegal though buying it usually is.
Why do governments exist? There must be a better reason than simply providing well-paid jobs for people who enjoy bossing others around.
Philosopher John Locke offered one of the clearest answers when he wrote in 1690 that the “great and chief end” of government is “the preservation of … property.”
Last week, the Irish government released a St. Brigid’s Day video that mocks the Catholic saint while celebrating abortion and gay marriage. The video shows a cloaked figure—a pagan witch—carrying fire from one feminist milestone to the next, boasting images from when Ireland redefined marriage and created a constitutional right to abortion. The Irish government elite confused (or conflated) the Catholic saint with an old Gaelic goddess of the same name. This was not merely a mistake. It is the latest example of the elite’s contempt for Ireland’s Catholic heritage.
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— Brian Jonathan Cowan (@_briancowan_) January 30, 2026
Canada is not in crisis because it is under siege from hostile foreign powers. Nor is it a victim of some unavoidable global conspiracy or historical inevitability. Canada’s predicament is far more unsettling as it is largely self‑inflicted. The country is struggling because too many of its leaders — and too many citizens — are trapped in an acute and dangerous form of denialism about the nation’s vulnerabilities, its declining institutional capacity, and the cumulative consequences of decades of misguided political, economic, and social decisions.
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My not so old Bosch has given up the ghost it seems, the pump is likely shot an E-19 error code can’t be cleared on reset.
It’s been acting up for a couple of weeks first with the E-27 error code which can be bypassed on reset.
Any suggestions on a replacement? Budget friendly of course.
I have been looking at this Whirlpool model 800 bucks and good reviews.
From the very start, there was something weird about Operation Absolute Resolve. The official story went something like this: after a whirlwind air attack, which included the use of suicide drones for the first time, special operators from the US Army’s renowned but shadowy SFOD-D unit (“Delta Force”) were helicoptered into the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in the south of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. They defeated the local garrison, used “massive blowtorches” to breach heavy metal doors in a fortress-like residential site within the base, captured the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, then spirited them back to the helicopters and flew them out to face charges in the United States. Donald Trump said it had been “an assault like people have not seen since World War Two.”
Painfully real for Maduro I’m betting.
Here’s the truth about the housing crisis in Canada: it is no longer just a policy problem. It is becoming a political identity problem.
A new national survey conducted by Abacus Data in partnership with the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) finds that Canadians have not given up on the dream of homeownership. In fact, it remains deeply rooted. Seven in ten non-homeowners (70%) still say they want to own a home someday, including nearly nine in ten young adults aged 18 to 29 (89%) and 80% of those aged 30 to 44.
