BARBER: Prime Minister Carney’s “rupture” is not what he claims

Carney’s “rupture” isn’t America’s doing — it’s the collapse of his own globalist illusion.

At the beginning of September, the Prime Minister, speaking in Mississauga, stated that the changes initiated by the Trump administration were not a “transition” but a “rupture.” He expanded on this, emphasizing the rupture’s adversity and calling it “a new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism.” He continued to use this message to rally Canadians under the flag of patriotism. This is “elbows up” without the elbows.

(Incognito)

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Muslim charity’s lawsuit accuses Stoney Creek church of ‘bad faith’ in preventing Islamic school lease

A Muslim charity’s lawsuit alleges a landlord cancelled a new lease agreement with the organization after a Hamilton pastor — with a church that would be sharing the space — made Islamophobic comments during a recent service.

The Toledo Foundation was hoping the new space would host its Islamic school and said the cancellation has impacted dozens of children who had set their sights on attending it this fall.

The lawsuit, filed Sept. 17 in Ontario Superior Court, is against Great Life Church and the company that owns the building where the church operates in Stoney Creek, a community in Hamilton.

(Link fixed)

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RCMP closes investigation into two alleged Chinese police stations without laying charges

OTTAWA — The RCMP has closed its investigation into two alleged Montreal-area secret Chinese police stations in Quebec without laying charges.

In a statement, RCMP Quebec division spokesperson Cpl. Erique Gasse confirmed that the police force had closed the two-year-long investigation “recently.” The information was first reported by the Journal de Montréal.

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Geography and destiny

Two days before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Berlin, Canada put on a little show at the German Foreign Ministry.

This country, the Group of Seven president this year, was one of three that did so at the Auswärtiges Amt’s open house. Walking up the red carpet and through the marbled halls, one could see little Maple Leaf flags sticking out of backpacks and waved by children. Bully, the polar bear mascot for the Eisbären Berlin hockey team, also made an appearance.

But there were few other offerings. Canada gave out a singular maple syrup candy for completing a bingo quiz with questions such as “What is the name of the Prime Minister of Canada?” (One could keep the faux-wooden pen, though.)

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Canada must make public order a priority again

This week, Canada’s largest public transit system, the Toronto Transit Commission, announced it would be stationing crisis worker teams directly on subway platforms to improve public safety.

Last week, Canada’s largest library, the Toronto Public Library, announced it would be increasing the number of branches that offer crisis and social support services. This builds on a 2023 pilot project between the library and Toronto’s Gerstein Crisis Centre to service people experiencing mental health, substance abuse and other issues.

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Star Triggered: We have one good reason to thank the infuriating, undiplomatic U.S. ambassador to Canada

When people talk about being “diplomatic” they usually mean something along the lines of being tactful, sensitive, of smoothing over difficult issues.

In that sense Donald Trump’s top diplomat in this country, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, must be the least diplomatic guy around.

If he’d set out deliberately to inflame Canadian opinion, Hoekstra couldn’t be doing a better job of it. He’s been going on about how “disappointed” he is that Canadians have their backs up in the face of Trump’s tariffs and hostile rhetoric and lamenting the “anti-American” tone of the federal election campaign. When it comes to blatant insults like all that “51st state” talk, his advice has been blunt: “Get over it.”

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‘Never come to the U.S. again!’ Video shows alleged border officer yelling at Canadian driver

A video showing what looks to be a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer yelling at a Canadian tourist to “never come to the U.S. again” is being investigated by the CBP.

More to the story?

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Alberta considers new law allowing it to ignore international agreements signed by Canada

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to ignore international agreements signed by Ottawa.

The future legislation is listed in a new mandate letter Smith issued this week to the government’s intergovernmental relations ministry, which the premier heads.

The letter says it’s about protecting “Alberta’s authority,” and Smith’s office added in a statement that it’s also an issue of due process.

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Idiot convert to Islam charged with terrorism elects trial by jury

A B.C. woman who used to belong to ISIS and is charged in Canada with terrorism offences has elected to have her trial next year heard by a judge and jury.

Kimberly Polman appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday by video for a half-day hearing to have federal prosecutors and her defence lawyers confirm dates for her trial and for pretrial matters before Justice Catherine Murray.

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Weasel Boy Carney quietly dropped more U.S. counter-tariffs than advertised

The federal government quietly removed more counter-tariffs on American goods than initially advertised, according to an order-in-council published online.

The notice published last month indicates that, with the exception of sectoral tariffs for the steel, aluminum and auto industries, all Canadian retaliatory tariffs have been removed — in apparent contradiction to what the prime minister had said about the decision.

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Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas

Douglas Todd: How can decision-makers plan for housing, jobs, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units and social services when a significant number of people who were supposed to leave the country aren’t being tracked?

It’s hard to run a city, or country, when you don’t know how many people actually live in them.

How can public officials and businesses plan for housing, workers, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units or social services when they don’t know how many individuals need them?

Yet, according to experts, that is the problem in Canada, especially in the Toronto and Vancouver regions. The federal government isn’t being transparent about how many people in Canada remain in the country after their visas expire.


My God but we need a Trump. (Incognito)

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Doug Ford blasts Carney government for proposal to limit use of the notwithstanding clause

Ottawa’s bid to curb the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause is “way overreach,” warns Premier Doug Ford.

Ford, the first Ontario premier to ever employ the Constitution’s nuclear option to override the courts, railed against federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s request to the Supreme Court of Canada to limit its use to protect Charter rights.

“It’s way overreach with the courts. Again, Parliament — federal Parliament, provincial Parliament — they’re supreme because the people are supreme, not judges ruling on stuff that shouldn’t even be in front of the courts,” he said Thursday in Vaughan.

I think they have Dougie on a “Say something vaguely conservative” once a month regime.

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Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will allow Canada Post to stabilize its finances and ensure its survival.

“The bottom line is this: Canada Post is effectively insolvent,” Government Transformation Minister Joël Lightbound said in a statement on Thursday.

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