Doug Ford’s plan for a tunnel under Highway 401 has gone from a surprise announcement to a full on re-election pledge.
And according to one expert’s cost estimate, it could be a near $100-billion idea, which would make it the single-most expensive Ontario election promise in the last 10 years, if not the province’s history.
A BBC documentary about Gaza has been pulled from its iPlayer service while the broadcaster deals with intensifying accusations that the film was biased because it failed to make clear the father of its child narrator was a Hamas deputy minister.
BBC sources indicated the intention was to make the documentary available to watch again once a “due diligence” exercise had taken place, but the decision reflects a frustration that the filmmakers did not inform the broadcaster of the situation before transmission.
The BBC said that while the documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, featured “important stories we think should be told, those of the experiences of children in Gaza” there had been “continuing questions raised about the programme”.
As the race to name the next Liberal leader nears the finish line, speculation is swirling that the winner could be angling to seize on the party’s current momentum and call a snap election soon after.
But party data suggests two of the three major parties could use some more time to get campaign-ready, with the Liberals and NDP trailing the Conservatives when it comes to picking candidates, and more still left to lock-in than they have nominated so far.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is hiring a diversity tsar with a “spiritual edge” even as Sir Keir Starmer faces pressure to increase military spending amid looming threats posed by Russia.
The role, advertised on the government website, states that the suitable candidate will be required to “constructively challenge and critique current practice” within diversity and inclusion and will be eligible for an annual salary of up to £38,790.
A vacancy for a “culture and inclusion lead” on a similar salary is also being advertised by the MoD, a role that includes organising “wellbeing events” and “wellbeing information sessions” for the department’s police force.
OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ramping up his attacks on Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney, painting him as a corporate-friendly politician who will slash public services just like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
In a campaign-style speech to labour organizers in Edmonton on Thursday, Singh argued Carney’s pledge this week to balance the federal operating budget and cap the growth of the public service would hurt Canadian workers and help the wealthy.
Whether it’s stealing Singh’s votes or a coalition one way or another Carney will be riding Singh.
I wonder why? pic.twitter.com/obAtoxC1Uk
— LogicalQueries (@JoshuaCalledMe) February 21, 2025
h/t Mauser
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.
On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals – a “deal” Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.
The comments, made at a White House briefing on Thursday, overshadowed a meeting in Kyiv between Zelensky and Keith Kellogg, the US chief envoy to Ukraine.
Forget about that crunchy apple he ate in an orchard once: Pierre Poilievre’s hyper-nationalist rebranding, unveiled at last weekend’s Canada First Rally in Ottawa, is pitch perfect. Or so Conservatives should hope.
The biggest uncertainty — and threat — for any potential prime minister who’s riding high in national polls is a lengthy wait for the writ to drop. Anything could go wrong during the interim.
The White House said Thursday that it expects all NATO members to be spending at least two per cent of their GDP on defence by the alliance’s next summit — four months from now.
The demand further ramps up pressure on allies like Canada — which has long missed the spending target and doesn’t plan to meet it for another seven years — from U.S. President Donald Trump, who is pushing for drastic defence spending increases and reducing reliance on U.S. security.
Goodbye NATO?
‘NATO Is Dead’ Might Be an Overstatement, but Markets Are Behaving as If It Were True
CAF now stands for Caliphate Armed Forces.
Canadian Military Features Soldier in Hamas War Scarf
This says No. 51 is looking better every day.
In a move likely to induce whiplash for some Canadians in the automotive sector in Southern Ontario, it is being reported that Stellantis is stopping all activity at the Brampton Assembly Plant, effective immediately. Talking heads at Automotive News say the parent company of brands like Ram and Jeep is taking a pause on plans for the facility, a space which was to have been used to produce the next-gen Jeep Compass.
Kash F.B.I. pic.twitter.com/mXWx2emKQl
— maximemehyperdrive (@maximemehdrive) January 31, 2025
H/T patthedog
The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan’s civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various programs.
But Ottawa says it remains impossible for Quebecers to sponsor relatives from Sudan to resettle in that province.
Instead, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives as long as they go to another province.
Over the past decade, Germany has experienced a series of Islamist attacks that have exposed the deficiencies of both the country’s and the European Union’s immigration policies, at a high human cost. According to reports from the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the number of individuals classified as dangerous Islamists has increased drastically, rising from 550 in 2015 to over 2,000 in 2025, representing an almost fourfold increase in just ten years.
This sharp growth has led to a tightening of security policies, with increased surveillance and preventive detentions of terrorism suspects. However, some of these measures have sparked criticism, as they have involved restrictions on individual freedoms, including home raids for social media posts deemed “offensive,” a trend that has also been observed in the United Kingdom, especially for non-Islamists posting.
On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario …
