Carney says he’s prepared to fight an election campaign if budget doesn’t pass

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’s prepared to fight an election campaign if his minority Liberal government fails to pass the Nov. 4 federal budget.

Mr. Carney has already warned Canadians they will have to accept challenges and sacrifices in what he said would be “generational investments” to refashion the Canadian economy in the face of rising U.S. protectionism.

The Liberals will require the support of at least one opposition party to pass its fiscal plan and the government will fall if this fails because votes on the budget amount to confidence votes.

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Fled ISIS to live, murdered in Europe for believing

The West always likes refugee stories. Not all of them. Not this one. Not the story of a Christian who fled from the East to live and died in the West for believing.

It was 10:30 p.m. when the Assyrian Ashur Sarnaya returned to the apartment he shared with his sister in Lyon, in a quiet neighborhood where public housing stands alongside student campuses, corporate offices, and a few shops. The 45-year-old Iraqi Christian refugee from the Assyrian-Chaldean community was disabled from birth and used a wheelchair. That evening, as usual, he went live on TikTok to talk about his faith. Ashur made his videos in Arabic or Aramaic. During the livestream, Ashur Sarnaya was slit in the throat and lay dying in his wheelchair.

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“Sometimes It Pays to Be Gay and Do Crime”

A new collection of essays tells you exactly what the radical Left thinks.

You may have seen the phrase “Be Gay, Do Crime” before. It appears in bright neon as graffiti after a protest, next to an image of a dumpster fire or opossum, as a sticker on a radical professor’s brand-new MacBook, or in the social media bio of a particularly vitriolic Internet troll. The meme has also made its way to bookshelves in the form of Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, a recently released anthology from the radical publishing house PM Press.

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PINSKY: Canada’s Mark Carney problem: Are we better off than when he arrived?

Doug Ford’s controversial use of Ronald Reagan’s 1987 radio address — originally a nuanced defence of limited, temporary, targeted tariffs against unfair Japanese trade practices — didn’t just derail Canada’s efforts to repair relations with the U.S. It also exposed yet another troubling facet of Mark Carney’s leadership.

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‘Innocent People Cowardly Killed’: The Persecution of Christians, September 2025

“These atrocities are just part of a continuing wave of attacks by the Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M), which has been active in northern Mozambique since 2017, killing an estimated 1,800 Christians and displacing more than half a million people. The militants … establish roadblocks to intercept travelers, particularly Christians, who are charged “tolls” ranging from $150 to $460 to continue their journeys. IS-M continues to demand that Christians convert to Islam, submit to IS authority and pay jizya (“tribute”), or face death. — Barnabas Aid, September 14, 2025, Mozambique.”

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Winnipeg MP’s private member’s bill would make residential school denialism a crime

Manitoba New Democrat MP Leah Gazan reintroduced a private member’s bill Friday that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying “real action” is needed to combat rising anti-Indigenous hate.

Bill C-254, if passed, would amend the Criminal Code to include the promotion of hatred against Indigenous Peoples by “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system.”

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Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like When a City Gives Up.

JOHANNESBURG—What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them.

Signs tell you what crime you’re most likely to fall victim to at highway exits and intersections; beware “Hi-Jacking Hot Spot” or “Smash and Grab Hot Spot.” Homeless people routinely direct traffic when the stoplights don’t work. Minibus taxis that ferry workers around the city often drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid rush hour traffic.

Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest metropolis, markets itself as a “world class African city.” It’s home to some of the continent’s biggest companies and its largest stock exchange. But private firms have gradually taken over public services, from security to healthcare to mail delivery. Insurance companies fix potholes and sponsor fire brigades to reduce claims.

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PM Carney was advised to push back on Trump if provoked in April call, memo shows

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was counselled to push back during an April call with Donald Trump if the U.S. president revived his complaints about border security, fentanyl from Canada or low defence spending, a newly released memo shows.

Federal officials prepared the internal memo to guide Carney’s conversation with Trump following the Liberal party’s April 28 election victory.

A concise Canadian summary of the April 29 call, released that day, says Trump congratulated Carney and that the leaders agreed on the importance of working together — as independent, sovereign nations — for their mutual betterment.

That worked great.

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What’s going to be in Carney’s first budget?

After weeks of federal government spending announcements leading up to budget day, the biggest unknown remains how large the deficit will be and where and how deep the expected cuts will land.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, have repeatedly characterized Tuesday’s budget as a generational one. In this time of “ruptured” global economics and geopolitical uncertainty, the’ve said Canada has to “spend less” to “invest more.”

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Why more young Americans are cheering for violence

In the hours after the fatal shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Dr Nicholas Kardaras held his weekly college class on the impact of digital media on mental health.

“I walked into my classroom that afternoon and one of my students said, ‘Oh, Kirk was just shot, we think he might be dead’,” said Kardaras, a professor at Stony Brook University in New York and one of the country’s foremost addiction experts. “Then another one — who is getting their mental health degree — said, ‘Well, yeah, but he had it coming’.”

Kardaras, a psychologist who has spent over a decade studying the online radicalisation of young people, was a little taken aback but not altogether surprised by the student’s response.

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