The Grits are gunning for an election.
With the NDP leaderless, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre still facing a leadership review, and the Green Party having yet to identify Elizabeth May’s long-lost replacement, Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to jump the shark and get his majority before the tsunami of bad economic news gets even worse.
Don’t take my word for it. Just listen to what Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon is saying.
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An inconvenient truth has emerged about the anti-Trump No Kings protests that swept the nation over the weekend – they were mainly attended by rich, old white people.
That demographic is traditionally associated with conservative politics, but it is increasingly synonymous – which some may argue is because of Joe Biden – with the Democratic Party.
In Atlanta, where the population is predominantly black, liberal attendees who took to the streets on Saturday were mostly white, even though they make up just 38 percent of the city.
Today's No Kings' protest expected to be the largest single-day geriatric gathering in U.S. history. pic.twitter.com/hNMzW3gLSy
— Big Popz (@BigPopz72) October 18, 2025
It has become one of the most often repeated mantras of our late Soviet age of European—or, rather, of EU—history: “We need immigration.” A continent with too few births and too much debt is told time and again by its political class that it will survive only by importing millions of new workers from the Third World. The idea is repeated by politicians, quantified by economists, and echoed by journalists. But decades of mass migration have left Europe poorer in relative terms than it has been since, at least, the 15th century. Europeans have been fed a lie.
The City of Vancouver has refused to reveal the cost of renaming Trutch St. šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm St., claiming doing so could “harm” the government and indigenous people.
In response to a request filed by the Western Standard, the director of access to information & privacy said the data was “excepted from disclosure” under Sections s. 16(1) and s. 18.1 of British Columbia’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians should be ready for some “challenges” and “sacrifices” in a speech outlining some of his government’s priorities for the upcoming federal budget.
Carney touted that his government is preparing to “build a stronger economy” against the backdrop of “a more dynamic, a more competitive, a more hostile world.”
“If we don’t act now, the pressures will only grow,” he said in an address to university students in Ottawa on Wednesday night.
Carney says Budget 2025 is about making life affordable, getting immigration under control and helping newcomers succeed.
Meanwhile, those of us who've lived here all our lives are getting gouged by taxes as services crumble.
Canada is a 3rd world country with a 5th world govt! pic.twitter.com/VJY4YFgXSH
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) October 23, 2025
I have a friend who has a foolproof trick for when he wants to do something forbidden: “act completely normal.” Using this system, he’s crashed other people’s weddings to eat the appetizers, sneaked into concerts without tickets, and gotten me into a few troubles, because I, unlike him, am incapable of acting normal while doing something abnormal.
France: The Seine in Paris, a vacation paradise, a seaside resort, homeless people? It’s hard to define. pic.twitter.com/PE0Vpx1MEC
— Shoshana Yisrael Aras (@aras_shoshana) September 7, 2025
After Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blasted RCMP leadership on a podcast, some party members are questioning whether they will continue supporting him.
Five Conservative caucus members who spoke to Radio-Canada said Poilievre has not changed his message enough since the last election campaign and is not projecting an image befitting a prime minister.
Radio-Canada is not naming the sources so they can speak freely about internal party matters.
Some unknown sources.
Canada – "Merry Christmas is offensive!"
Meanwhile, Freshco in Brampton – pic.twitter.com/nriE0iymYM
— Tawny (@the_coral_lea) October 22, 2025
Canada’s immigration department does not collect information on how many migrants are in the country illegally, Deputy Immigration Minister Harpreet Kochhar says.
“We do count through Stats Canada, the census, but we would not have any estimation of those who do not have a particular status in Canada,” Kochhar testified at the House of Commons Immigration Committee on Oct. 21, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
#WATCH: Lit Fireworks Tossed Out Of Vehicle InBrampton,ON. Driver Called The Police, Police Said Call The City, City Said We Don’t Deal With Firework Complaints. pic.twitter.com/7aahzcpF8O
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) October 22, 2025
A volatile politics is taking to the streets
Fearing a riot, the Irish authorities yesterday evening shut down the Luas tram line from central Dublin to the suburban village of Saggart, southwest of the city centre. It didn’t work. Many hundreds — perhaps a thousand — angry protestors had gathered outside the gates of the Citywest IPAS (asylum) centre, hurling missiles and abuse at the Gardai public order unit blocking them from forcing their way up the long and wooded drive to the hotel.
The day before, an African asylum seeker had been charged with the sexual assault of a 10-year old Irish girl on the grounds of the Citywest centre, a 2,500-bed hotel recently acquired at vast expense by the Irish government, against fierce local opposition in the 4,500-strong community. The suspect, who needed an Arabic translator, was issued with a deportation order this spring and hadn’t yet been removed; the victim, in the care of Ireland’s scandal-hit Tusla child protection agency, found her chaotic personal circumstances publicised by the state in a manner many on social media saw as tantamount to victim-blaming. Outside the IPAS centre, the toxic combination had fired up both locals and protestors from across the country, who now had very little time for Ireland’s main political parties, or the police forces standing between them and the hotel they wished to storm.
Our new friends from the #CitywestHotel drinking on the grounds of our primary school yesterday, An Garda Síochána had to move them. @OCallaghanJim this is not acceptable in our small village, what is the long term plan here? because we will not stop highlighting the issues. pic.twitter.com/Ec0bYAsfsi
— Stop Citywest Hotel (@stopcitywest) October 17, 2025
Activists have launched a global campaign to undermine production of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, one of the crown jewels of the U.S. air force. Across the world, activists closely tied to the radical anti-Israel movement are pressuring airports, protesting companies, demanding arms embargoes, and even engaging in more militant direct actions.
On Oct. 10, a U.S.-brokered peace deal, backed by Egypt and Qatar, was signed by representatives of Israel and Hamas in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, though fragile ever since, came into effect.
Despite this, protesters are still in the streets, and in Montreal, one well-organized group has made their goal quite clear — they state outright that this isn’t about a ceasefire, it’s about destroying Israel and “Nazi Zionists.”
Elon Musk’s blunt warning that “violence is coming” to the UK because of its failed immigration policy dating back decades has turned out to be chillingly prophetic. Within just weeks of the tech entrepreneur issuing his dire warning, two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, carried out by a Muslim jihadi.
The unprovoked attack, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, should serve as a warning to the US and other Western countries about the dangers of lax immigration policies.
Mark Carney and his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, have been dialling up expectations for the budget coming in less than two weeks.
So it was a surprise on Tuesday to hear another cabinet member dialling things way down — even raising the prospect that the budget might fail.
“What I’m seeing in Parliament worries me,” said Steven MacKinnon, the Government House Leader. He was talking about the growing sense he’s getting that the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois might be willing to trigger an election to vote down the budget.
