CBC is expanding once again, but that’s not shocking given the amount of government money, or government-directed money that they get.
While every other media outlet struggles and tries to find ways to keep the lights on, CBC is handed money by a government that sees them as vital to the national – read party – interests.
Donald Trump is considering placing tariffs on countries that do not support his plan to annex Greenland.
The US president has been vocal about his aspiration to acquire the Danish territory, repeatedly saying that he would buy it, and failing to rule out military action to take the island by force.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” Mr Trump said during a roundtable at the White House on Friday.
Canada admitted 393,500 permanent residents last year
Canada admitted approximately 393,500 permanent residents in 2025.
That’s according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, which said the number is in line with its admissions targets.
It’s actually slightly lower than projections announced in the fall of 2024. At the time, Ottawa released its permanent resident targets for 2025-27 as part of its Levels Plan – the government’s roadmap to pausing short-term population growth.
Thursday’s numbers are about 2,000 people shy of the 395,000-person target set for 2025.
Robina Aminian was passionate about fashion, posting images of herself on Instagram wearing the dresses she hand-embroidered.
She was also passionate about politics. On Jan. 8 the fashion student finished her class at Tehran’s women-only Shariati College at around 7 p.m. and joined a group of antigovernment protesters not far from campus.
Iranians had been demonstrating for over a week, but Aminian knew that day was going to be different. The protests had been growing in size and expanding to more cities, with calls for regime change becoming louder. President Trump had threatened to intervene if security forces started shooting. Adding to the growing momentum, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the deposed shah, had urged Iranians to pour onto the streets at 8 p.m., the start of the Iranian weekend.
It was an ordinary Saturday night in my hometown of Calgary. Nothing about the evening announced itself as historic. No banners. No blaring slogans. Just a community hall, a few speakers, and a petition on a table.
I had invited my wife, of decidedly unpolitical temperament, to join me at the Queensland Community Hall to hear speakers on Alberta independence and to add our names to the referendum petition. Full disclosure: I had already signed on as a canvasser. My wife, who had never attended anything remotely like this before, agreed simply to come along and sign.
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A bipartisan group of members of the US Congress has been visiting Denmark to show support in the face of increasing pressure from President Donald Trump for the US to annex Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of Denmark in the Arctic.
The 11-member delegation met MPs as well as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Group leader Senator Chris Coons said their trip was to listen to the locals and take their views back to Washington “to lower the temperature”.
Premier Doug Ford is panning Prime Minister Mark Carney’s slashing of Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.
“Make no mistake: China now has a foothold in the Canadian market and will use it to their full advantage at the expense of Canadian workers,” Ford warned Friday after Carney reached a deal with Beijing in exchange for China cutting retaliatory levies on Canadian canola and seafood.
“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” the premier said in a statement.
The loss of Canada’s automotive industry is inevitable assuming Trump holds true to course and reshores manufacturing.
And EV’s are not the future but that won’t stop Carney and his plans to turn bad policy into profit for the China class.
This may be a tacit admission by Ford that the Great EV Gamble came up snake eyes.
“To fix this mess, Prime Minister Carney and the federal government need to urgently step up and support Ontario’s auto sector,” he added.
“That means making the sector more competitive by ending the electric vehicle mandate, harmonizing regulations with key trading partners and scrapping federal fees that do nothing but add thousands to the cost of making vehicles and chase away investments,” stressed Ford”
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The pampered offspring of Iran’s ruling elite are living the American Dream as the country’s brutal regime kills protesters by the thousands — and fed-up Iranians in California and across the US want them out.
Two explosive online petitions have been gaining steam as they call on the US government to immediately deport Eissa Hashemi and Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani — the children of current and onetime prominent Iranian government figures enjoying the comforts of the “Great Satan’’ as opposed to the oppressive streets of Tehran.
White liberal woman says White People need to die in order to dismantle White Supremacy
“In order to dismantle white supremacy, we have to be willing to lose the benefits of whiteness. Means they kill us too — and it's time for some radical acceptance about that, guys. That's… pic.twitter.com/X3901jmGBT
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 14, 2026
The Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
The court dismissed the government’s appeal of a 2024 ruling which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to use the legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters’ Charter rights.
“As disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national security,” wrote the three judges on the appeal court.
The elected police chief at the centre of the Israeli football ban row has been accused of offering to give a controversial mosque the equivalent of a “blank cheque” to apply for public funding.
Simon Foster, the West Midlands police and crime commissioner, wrote that he would be “very happy” to provide Green Lane mosque with a generic letter of support that would allow it to apply for future, unspecified public grants.
Internal documents reveal that in January 2023 Foster also praised the “impressive range of work” at Green Lane, which has a history of antisemitic and misogynistic speakers. Last night he said he supported the charity for a specific grant but ultimately did not issue the wider letter.
Of course … Canada and China reach tariff deal on electric vehicles, canola
BEIJING — Canada will lower its U.S.-aligned tariffs against Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for China reducing tit-for-tat tariffs against Canadian canola and seafood, a deal that has the potential to anger U.S. President Donald Trump.
Under the agreement, Canada will allow a small toehold for up to 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter the Canadian market at a tariff rate of 6.1 percent, down from the current tariff rate of 100 per cent that Ottawa applied on Chinese-made EVs in fall 2024.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said it simply returns to a rate that Canada once had with China in 2023 prior to its “recent trade frictions.”
He underscored Chinese manufacturers — who churn out electric cars far more cheaply than North American-made EVs — will invest in auto production in Canada.
WARMINGTON: Mark Carney tells China, Canada ready for ‘New World Order’
When you have Prime Minister Mark Carney talking to leaders in China about the “new world order,” one has to wonder what could be coming next.
Social credit scores? Digital ID? More carbon taxes? More net zero talk? Fifteen minute cities?
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Of Mark Carney saying Canada is entering a “New world order” today in Beijing.
Saskatchewan Premier Moe VISIBILY recoils as the words come out of Carney’s mouth! pic.twitter.com/hIBEebMBhR
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 15, 2026
Truckers are fed up with people washing their feet at truck stops. pic.twitter.com/8jvtqGQuVR
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