
When a US Vice-President decides to wade into Canadian politics, most of our politicians reach for the smelling salts.
JD Vance did more than that this week.

When a US Vice-President decides to wade into Canadian politics, most of our politicians reach for the smelling salts.
JD Vance did more than that this week.

Quebec Premier François Legault took many by surprise when, last month, his government introduced a proposed constitution for the province aiming to reflect its “distinct national character.”
The constitution, he said, would protect the common values of the province, including the French language, secularism, the right to an abortion and equality between men and women.
But in the weeks since, the legislation has been the subject of growing consternation among legal experts and civil liberties groups, who warn it would centralize power, weaken judicial oversight and infringe on individual freedoms.

First-year university students don’t expect to pass when they get 17% on their final exam.
Yet, Prime Minister Mark Carney is rewarding the Canada Revenue Agency’s poor performance with more power over taxpayers.

Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that Canada is being overrun by migrants. Almost half of all births are now to foreign-born mothers (42% currently, and rising), and one-third of the overall population is foreign-born.
One of the many terrible consequences of the liberal policies that have resulted in this replacement of the native population is stagnating economic growth.

After alcohol was excluded from a deal this week to drop interprovincial trade barriers, some in the booze industry say they’re perplexed and disappointed — and that they’ve waited long enough for provinces to make the change.
Signed on Wednesday by the provinces, territories and federal government, the agreement promises to remove restrictions on the free movement of some goods across Canada.
However, food and alcohol were conspicuously left off the list — the latter industry having long advocated for the removal of the barriers, well before U.S. tariffs spurred a national campaign to make free trade between the provinces easier.
Canada is a Banana Republic ruled by petty oligarchs.
A pleasant distraction. All went above the “estimate” though not knowing art auctions I am unsure why many were so low to begin with.

“Hudson’s Bay Company York Boats at Norway House,” Walter Joseph Phillips, 1928 (estimate: $15,000 to $25,000)
Sold for: $130,000

Food inflation continues to top Canadians’ financial concerns, according to the fall 2025 edition of the Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), and they’re adapting their diets and shopping behaviours as a result.
The AAL based the bi-annual report on Purdue University’s Consumer Food Insights survey of Americans. The Canadian Food Sentiment Index measures the perceptions and views of roughly 3,000 respondents across the country on issues ranging from food affordability and spending to consumer beliefs and trust.

TORONTO — On the path to becoming the first Canadian of genuine Latin American cartel stature — a man the FBI has likened to a “modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar” — Ryan Wedding did not simply exploit Canada’s borders, ports and highways to move cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.
Prosecutors say he became the single largest cocaine importer into Canada, building a billion-dollar enterprise by mastering cryptocurrency money-laundering, legal strategy, paramilitary training and the kind of hardened operational security usually associated with state intelligence agencies.
A Liberal declares Cooper’s research in an earlier piece unfounded…
The contents of this post relating to the relationship between the RCMP, FBI and DEA are both fabricated and false. https://t.co/GuR0rtjJaI
— Kevin M Vickers (@KevMVickers) November 20, 2025

On Dec. 1, 2009, the police searched a house on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, Ontario, looking for an illegal .22-caliber handgun.
Instead, they found cash — lots of it — hidden around the property, including 15,000 Canadian dollars stuffed in a heating vent in the living room floor, $9,750 in a suitcase in the garage and $1.2 million in a Rubbermaid tub that was buried under the dirt floor of the garage.

More Canadian residents distrust refugees than trust them, with the lowest levels of trust in refugees expressed by immigrants and non-whites, according to a new national public opinion poll.
The polling data comes as recent changes in the federal government’s immigration policies designed to reduce new arrivals in Canada seems to be hitting refugee claimants the hardest.
Understandable. Rumour has it the war in upstate New York is not nearly as bad as described.
Over 10K **CANADIAN** skilled trades workers are laid off at home in Ontario. Doug Ford flooded Ontario's construction industry with cheap foreign labour from one part of the world to please his developer and builder buddies. The program was recently…
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) November 19, 2025

A group of Alaska tribal nations is going to the B.C. Supreme Court to demand a seat at the table in Canadian resource development – including a mine expansion that is among the nation-building projects Ottawa has selected as pivotal to economic development.
The Alaska groups argue that their historical use of what is now northwestern B.C. makes them Aboriginal peoples of Canada under the Constitution Act, saying that status should guarantee them the same rights to consultation as Canadian Indigenous groups.
NB: It’s not the first time US Tribes have demanded a say, The Columbia River Treaty now involves Tribes from both the US and Canada.
“The United States’ Columbia River Treaty with Canada governs hydropower and flood control on the 1,200-mile Columbia River. The current treaty, implemented in 1964, does not consider the needs of fish, a healthy river, or the treaty fishing rights and cultural resources that are now fully protected under modern laws.”
Intertribal Cooperation – Thirty-two tribes (fifteen in the US and seventeen in Canada) have come together to assist in the treaty review and participate in creating the next treaty that will incorporate ecosystem requirements.

Usama Ali is an alleged Hamas operative, leader and financier.
He is also Canadian.
And so are others in the Palestinian terrorist group that killed 1,200 and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, Global News has learned.
About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada, according to a source familiar with the intelligence on the matter.
h/t XC

U.S. and Canadian authorities announced new arrests, indictments and sanctions on Wednesday in their continuing efforts to locate, arrest and prosecute Canadian ex-Olympic snowboarder turned fugitive Ryan Wedding, who allegedly leads a transnational crime network.
Appearing at a joint news conference in Washington, D.C., with Canadian authorities, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said authorities have worked closely with international partners. Ms. Bondi unsealed a new indictment outlining new charges, including murder and witness tampering, against more of Mr. Wedding’s alleged associates and increased the reward for information leading to Mr. Wedding’s arrest from $10-million to $15-million.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said a newly unsealed indictment accuses former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding of tracking down and posting photos on a Canadian website called "The Dirty News" of a witness… to facilitate his murder in Medellin Colombia before… pic.twitter.com/uCVupafqO7
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 19, 2025

Since the October 7 pogrom by Hamas in southern Israel, Canada has seen a staggering surge in antisemitism, up 670 per cent in 2024, and in terrorism charges, up 488 per cent from April 2023 to March 2024. In both cases, the salient factor is Islamism.
Islamists, a small but influential fraction of Muslim communities, harbour the profound conviction that they “should deploy the necessary efforts not only to rule according to Sharia law but also to Islamize society, laws, governance, and all aspects of life…. across the Muslim world and beyond.”

Canadian doctors are warning that Health Canada’s push for euthanasia is forcing doctors to suggest assisted suicide to patients.
In a November 6 video by Christian filmmaker Frank Panico, three Canadian doctors, Will Johnston of Vancouver, David D’Souza of Toronto, and Catherine Ferrier of Montreal, revealed that physicians are forced to discuss euthanasia or so-called “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) with vulnerable patients according to Health Canada protocol.