OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is set to name Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder to build the navy’s next fleet of submarines, according to multiple media reports.
That means Canada will now enter into months of closed-door negotiations with the winner.
TKMS had been competing with South Korean defence firm Hanwha Ocean for the lucrative contract.
Canada’s relatively fine performance to date in FIFA 2026 is a cultural anomaly. Historian Gerry Bowler, in an article for the Winnipeg Sun, deplores that our Olympic motto has always been “Go For The Bronze.” Perhaps our distinctly multicultural soccer team will give us something to cheer about as events proceed. Yet even in sports competition, aside from our national game, hockey, the results have almost inevitably been inferior. In most other respects, too, lowering the bar has become a Canadian institution.
Two national days of celebration, two different countries, two different leaders with two very different messages.
On Canada Day, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a polished message of unity, courage, and conviction. He does this well. “We are strongest when we are united,” he told Canadians, praising diversity, kindness, and the national habit of building together.
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The bid for a major federal submarine contract that could have provided Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., with additional infrastructure and hundreds of new jobs was unsuccessful.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce this afternoon that German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has won the right to build a multibillion-dollar fleet of 12 submarines for Canada’s defence.
Could Brookfield’s fingers be in this pie somewhere?
Jason Stanley, left-wing professor and author of How Fascism Works, fled to Canada to escape President Trump, yet somehow feels compelled to appear on TV to bash his abandoned home. He made another appearance on PBS on Amanpour & Co just in time to mark America’s 250th anniversary, in order to declare his previous home is a Nazi state under Trump and Republican control.
A Timmins reptile store owner is facing assault-related charges after police say he confronted and injured a man who had smashed the business’s storefront window.
The local police are using the incident to tell the public not to pursue people suspected of committing crimes, saying such situations can quickly turn violent.
“Our primary concern is always public safety,” said Timmins Police Service communications coordinator Michelle St. Louis.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have unveiled a proposed route for a new west-east crude oil pipeline that would run from Alberta to Ontario.
The Northern Shield Energy Corridor would carry oil about 3,300 kilometres from Hardisty, Alta., to Sarnia, Ont., where it would connect with Ontario’s refining belt.
I have my doubts.
Some argue that the existence of Canada is proof that the American Revolution was unnecessary. The Carney regime in Canada however makes a compelling counterargument.
Iran’s intelligence services may be behind recent attacks in Canada, according to a top-secret government report obtained by Global News.
The threat assessment said it was a “realistic possibility” that Iran had used local criminal networks to target Canada’s Jewish community.
The report said “actors who may be directed by Iranian Intelligence Services” were also suspected of threats to the Israeli and Iranian communities and interests.
After three people were injured and two suspects were arrested in a violent attack Friday night, more details are emerging.
The incident happened just after 10 p.m. on July 3rd near Beacon Hill Park.
According to the VicPD, officers responded to a confrontation involving multiple people.
‼️BREAKING REPORTS of a machete attack in Victoria!
25 friends gathered at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria beach around 9 p.m.on July 3rd …for "a relaxed evening"
and were attacked by a group "of around 10 people" with A MACHETE! 2 hospitalized.
Src: Victoria Buzz pic.twitter.com/vsbE9zYzXw
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) July 5, 2026
Meanwhile in Thunder Bay…
Man injured in alleged hate-motivated attack on Canada Day
h/t Raymond Hietapakka
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to leave for Ankara on Monday to attend the annual NATO summit — the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to Turkey since 2015.
Turkey’s capital will make up the first leg of Carney’s week-long sojourn to the Middle East, which will conclude with a short stay in Saudi Arabia aimed at deepening trade and investment ties.
Good luck weasels!
“Attempting to choke to overcome resistance” and “unlawful confinement”
They choked these girls and kidnapped them?!?
….wait for the names. pic.twitter.com/ZIYK0iv77l
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) July 5, 2026
A man with “a lengthy history of violence” who was deported from the U.S. back to Guyana in 2005 after being convicted of drug offences, then came to Canada as a refugee and later attacked a stranger in Toronto, is moving towards greater freedoms even though he “continues to represent a significant threat to the public,” according to a recent decision from the Ontario Review Board (ORB).
In a landmark 1864 speech, Sir John A. Macdonald, the future first prime minister of Canada, admonished listeners who might be inclined to see the neighbouring United States as a “failure.”
“On the contrary, I consider it a marvellous exhibition of human wisdom,” said Macdonald. “It was as perfect as human wisdom could make it.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves credit for doing the thing that prime ministers before him have been too pusillanimous to do for decades. While it shouldn’t be politically risky, really, to spend some money to refurbish the official residence of the Prime Minister ‐ which has been inhabited only by mice and insects for the last 10 years – this country can be very silly on some matters when it comes to political optics and risk.
I question whether the 50 Million goal can even be met.
