OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news is disseminated wider and faster two years after Meta banned access to news on its platforms.
Carney made the unexpected suggestion while announcing over $1 billion in loan guaranteed and long-term supports for the softwood lumber industry at a mill in West Kelowna, B.C.
When a senior Hamas terrorist praises your country by name, it’s not a diplomatic gesture. It’s not a political milestone. It is a stain. A warning. An indictment of a nation that has lost its moral compass, its democratic voice, and perhaps even its future.
Carney knows. He just doesn’t care.
Mark Carney showed up at Gorman’s Mill in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday promising to change Canada’s trading relationship. If we judged that promise based off his promise to strike a deal with Donald Trump, he’d get an automatic fail.
Still, he wants us to believe that he’s going to turn things around and magically not make us reliant on the United States.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Tuesday that Canadian investment in the United States — already among the highest in the world — could decline if trade relations deteriorate and a new economic and security pact is not secured.
“Canada is the second-largest investor in the United States today in the world. We have 40 million people,” Carney said while speaking to reporters in British Columbia.
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed no signs of retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs — and even suggested he’s open to removing existing tariffs if it would help Canadian industries.
Carney faced questions Tuesday about Canada’s next steps after the two countries failed to reach a trade deal by the Aug. 1 deadline, resulting in a 35 per cent import tax on some Canadian goods. The rate applies to goods not covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which governs trade between the three countries.
The Great Negotiator at work.
In the winter of 1975, I went to work on a kibbutz.
I was 17 years old. The work in the fish ponds was not glamorous: I stood for hours in a large, stinky pool of muddy water hauling spiny St. Peter’s fish out into a tank for export. But the trip was an ideological inspiration. Here was Jewish community. Here were whole neighbourhoods celebrating my holidays. The communal kibbutz lifestyle united in the building of something new, something hopeful.
The author writes of counting the vertebrae of starving Gazan children.
That would be the ill children Hamas has exploited to advance their agenda among the willfully gullible of the west.
No doubt children suffer but I have grave doubts about the alleged food shortages that come from a people who celebrate rape, murder and the ‘martyrdom’ of their own children.
Why did Mark Carney choose this moment to recognize Palestine as a state?
The announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday to recognize Palestine as a state took many Canadians by surprise. Up until recently, Canada and other western states seemed committed to the view that the recognition of Palestine would come at the end of a lengthy peace negotiation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Two states for two peoples has been a central pillar of Canadian and other western countries’ Middle East policies for decades. Indeed, that is precisely what was envisioned at the time the United Nations voted Israel into existence in 1947. Unfortunately, Israel’s Arab neighbours rejected partition, attacked Israel and the rest is some very complicated, bloody history.
Spanish police say they have dismantled a criminal network that facilitated illegal entry into Canada and the U.K. using forged passports and travel documents.
In a press release by Spain’s National Police, the smuggling operation primarily targeted Yemeni nationals and involved more than 40 migration attempts.
The network allegedly charged each migrant up to C$4,400.
Where do things stand for Canada after the United States imposed a new, higher tariff last Thursday evening?
In the short run, not much has changed. In the long run, a lot may yet change.
Since the signing of the landmark Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the relationship has been about ever-lower trade barriers and ever-easier movement of goods and services across the border. It was part of a global trend. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. is reversing course, hard and fast.
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad on Saturday hailed Canadian, British, and French plans to recognize a Palestinian state as “the fruits of October 7,” crediting Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel with growing Western support for such a state.
“Why are all the countries recognizing a Palestinian state today?” Hamad, a senior member of the Hamas politburo, asked during a Saturday interview on Al Jazeera, according to a translation by the Times of Israel. “Before October 7, did any country dare recognize a Palestinian state?”
B.C.’s premier and public safety minister are condemning the vandalism of Canada’s oldest surviving synagogue and pledging to support police and the community while an investigation is underway.
The Victoria Police Department was called to the Congregation Emanu-el Synagogue on Saturday around 8 p.m.
This is we are told a “progressive” synagogue.
Don’t believe the crocodile when he promises to eat you last.
Three alleged smugglers and 44 asylum seekers attempting to enter Canada from the U.S. were intercepted in Stanstead, Que., by the RCMP overnight Sunday.
With the help of provincial police, authorities arrested the asylum seekers, who were travelling in a truck, near Haskell Road. Some of them included children. RCMP brought the asylum seekers to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) office in Stanstead, according to CBSA east border district director Miguel Bégin.
… Bégin said most of the migrants were transferred to the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle regional processing centre, where they are being screened for their eligibility for asylum in Canada.
There is no reason for them to be eligible for asylum in Canada.
Since Aug. 1, many Canadian commentators have downplayed the impact of the 35% tariffs the United States has imposed on select Canadian goods, citing the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and its oft-repeated claim that 90% to 93% of Canadian exports remain exempt.
While technically true, this statistic masks the much more complicated — and far less reassuring —reality for Canada’s agri-food sector.
Ottawa has issued a guidance document informing public servants they may face scrutiny if they post content on social media that it deems partisan, disrespectful, or critical of government policies—even when shared from anonymous personal accounts.
The document seeks to provide “guidance for public servants on their personal use of social media.”
Meanwhile, most residents in B.C. and Ontario can’t afford the $2,500 ticket
You’d better be prepared to pony up when FIFA comes to Vancouver and Toronto next summer for the World Cup, because it’s leaving taxpayers with a massive bill.
FIFA is bringing the 2026 Men’s World Cup to Canada, the United States and Mexico.
