Helping migrants come to Canada for the purpose of making asylum claims is little different from running a tour operation in the area around the border, says Canada’s immigration board. It’s yet another entry on the long list of ways in which people can exploit our system with impunity.
Canadians are rightly shocked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs and threats of annexation. In early 2025, he discussed using “economic force” to pressure the country into becoming the 51st state. He now warns that Canada can no longer have “the benefits of being a state, without being one.”
Canadians have faced this kind of threat before and remained resilient. Twice, in fact.
Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday, contrary to economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent.
Statistics Canada said the number of public sector workers fell by 20,000, declining for a third consecutive month. Jobs were little-changed in the private sector.
By region, Quebec was hardest hit, losing 19,000 jobs. Ontario followed with a loss of 18,000.
Statcan’s reporting is suspect as told only weeks ago…
Canada’s Job Market Is Booming If You Ignore Population Revisions
Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.
Canada has unveiled a new $20 banknote featuring a portrait of King Charles III, the first new monarch to appear on a Canadian banknote in more than 70 years, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.
The banknote was revealed at a Bank of Canada event on Thursday – a “very special day”, central bank governor Tiff Macklem said.
Canadian officials shelled out millions of dollars worth of contracts to the son of a former Iranian vice president even as they were investigating allegations he helped develop missile systems for the Islamic Republic.
Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, 45, founded two companies in Alberta, Edmonton under the name ‘Sal Ghafouri’ that have received more than $2 million Canadian dollars [$1,446,370] in federal contracts, including from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Department of National Defense, Global News reports.
He was even reportedly part of an official Canadian trade mission to Latin America, received a federal business grant and was invited to ‘propose legislation’ to the Alberta government.
World Famous Canada!
I think the Mullahs are running the government.
When the CBC recently backed away from an internal policy that instructed its journalists not to label 9/11 as a terrorist attack, it was a sensible reversal. But it occurred only after the broadcaster first dug in its taxpayer-financed heels.
The entire episode is worth exploring because the back-and-forth over the CBC memo spurred debates over the nature of terrorism, and the broadcaster’s failure to think about the reality of what the word actually means.
The living standards gap between Canada and the United States has more than doubled over the past 25 years as Canada increasingly falls behind its southern neighbour, a new study suggests.
The steepest drop, however, occurred post-2014, according to a newly released report from the Fraser Institute.
Up until then, Canada maintained a comparable performance to the United States and, in some cases, even outperformed it across several indicators, said Fraser Institute director of fiscal studies Jake Fuss in the report he co-authored with senior policy analyst Grady Munro and senior economist Joel Emes.
Prayer rooms in colleges, universities, and some workplaces will be closed starting Tuesday. Provisions of Quebec’s Act to strengthen secularism now require them to remove the religious materials they made available to users.
Ezekiel Montoya Desjardins, vice-president of external affairs for the Dawson Student Association, was sitting near the carpets that once adorned his college’s prayer room when Le Devoir called him. The student association at this English-language CEGEP in Montreal had managed the room before being forced to close it off.
“The law will always be stronger than us,” the young man says, defeated. He and his colleagues recently took it upon themselves to announce to the college’s religious student groups that the hall was closing due to Quebec’s Act to Strengthen Secularism. “We could see on their faces that they were looking at us, hoping we would find a solution,” he recounts. “But, honestly, the only solution we have right now is to make sure the government understands the consequences this has for the students.”
Maple Ridge RCMP says a suspect has been arrested in connection with a graffiti incident at Golden Ears Provincial Park that attracted significant public attention.
Police said the alleged suspect turned himself in last week and was subsequently released on a promise to appear in court.
President Donald Trump recently imposed a 50% tariff on many Canadian goods, a move most Americans are strongly or somewhat opposed to, the latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds. 58% of Americans are opposed to raising tariffs on goods imported from Canada, while only 26% support doing so.
President Donald Trump has been praised after it was revealed woke American professors are being poached by Canadian universities, including an academic who teaches transgender philosophy.
California State University philosophy professor, Talia Mae Bettcher, who is transgender, is among the many American-based educators who have packed their bags and headed north to Canada to become a part of the $541 million research funding project.
‘I knew I had to leave,’ Bettcher, who is a native Canadian but taught in Los Angeles, told The University of Waterloo, her new home.
Former banker Doug Guzman is expected to depart as head of the federal government’s newly created Defence Investment Agency after only a year on the job, two sources say.
The sources told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Guzman is frustrated by the slow pace of government bureaucracy in getting defence procurement projects moving and approved.
Mr. Guzman was an important player in the July decision to purchase 12 conventionally powered submarines from German company TKMS for the Royal Canadian Navy, one source said, and has demanded quicker action on procurement files during his tenure.
The LPC strategy is to wait out Trump and then resume Canada’s deadbeat on defence status.
There are moments when excessive nuance ceases to be sophistication and becomes an excuse for moral cowardice. The recent controversy at the CBC over whether journalists should describe the attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism was one of those moments. Nearly 3,000 people were murdered that morning, and civilian aircraft were deliberately hijacked and turned into weapons.
Jesus Christ, people. https://t.co/jPAaqb3rqv
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) August 30, 2026
h/t Mauser
The National Association of Christian Lawmakers and its partners asked the administration to direct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to develop “lawful, secure, and appropriately expedited pathways” for eligible Jewish Canadian nationals and their immediate family members.
h/t Mauser
