For months now, consumers across North America have been wondering: Where’s the inflation? With tariffs making headlines constantly — particularly under the Trump administration — many expected food prices to spike. Yet, grocery bills haven’t exploded. Not yet.
We should be working together to counter China, not trapped in a harmful trade war.
When President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017, I was profoundly disappointed. In 2015, as Canada’s minister of international trade, I helped negotiate the ambitious agreement that set high standards for the global economy and countered China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region. It was more than a trade deal—it was a strategic blueprint for shared prosperity and security among like-minded nations.
That withdrawal signaled a larger shift. The Trump administration over its two terms has steadily retreated from the multilateral, rules-based order the U.S. had built since World War II. It has refused to appoint judges to the World Trade Organization’s appellate body, effectively paralyzing the system that enforces global trade rules. It has turned to tariffs as a blunt instrument of coercion, wielding them against strategic competitors like China and longtime partners such as Canada.
Canada is riddled with ChiCom interference, not sure the USA would risk its security any further than it has with Canada’s Liberal government.
Morgan Birch was puzzled when her four-month-old daughter, Kimie, suddenly fell ill with a fever and rash.
At first, the Alberta mother assumed it was a common side effect of immunisations – or perhaps a case of chicken pox. Ms Birch then consulted her 78-year-old grandmother, who recognised Kimie’s illness immediately.
“That’s measles,” her grandmother said. Ms Birch was stunned, as she thought the disease had been eradicated.
A lab test later confirmed her grandmother’s hypothesis: Kimie had measles, likely contracted after a routine visit to the hospital in the Edmonton area a few weeks earlier.
A buck toothed national mascot throttling a squawking bald eagle under the headline “You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are” had to get people talking. I suspect many who opined about it have not even read the extensive cover story in a recent issue of New York Magazine by Simon Van Zuylen Wood that attempted to let Americans know just how angry Canadians are about President Trump’s trade war.
I promptly posted about it on LinkedIn with the caption: “Captain Kirk is quoted in New York magazine”.
Fifty-five thousand Canada Post employees are set to vote this week on the latest offer for a new collective bargaining agreement.
The potential new deal would see wages jump more than 13 per cent while adding more part-time workers.
Negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been ongoing for more than 18 months.
… On March 28, Callejas was arrested for battery after family said there was an altercation with her then-boyfriend. Family say Callejas maintains her innocence in the situation and said she was defending herself.
After posting bail, her family said Callejas was taken into ICE custody.
An ICE spokesperson said Callejas entered the United States on a non-immigrant visitor visa and violated the terms of her admission. ICE said she will “remain in custody pending completion of her immigration proceedings.”
The CBC makes this woman out to be a martyr.
Canada started building only slightly more homes in June than it did in May, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said on Wednesday.
Compared to May, the annual rate of housing starts was largely flat with a 0.4 per cent increase, but it rose 14 per cent compared to this time last year.
The national numbers mask stark regional disparities, however.
Next month’s byelection in Alberta’s Battle River-Crowfoot will break the record for the most candidates on a federal ballot in Canadian history.
As of Friday, 108 candidates — mostly associated with a group of electoral reform advocates known as the Longest Ballot Committee — have registered to run for the seat.
Seems legit.
Supply management (SM) is a complex set of government policies that restricts production, marketing, and trade of dairy and poultry in Canada. At its core, SM is a textbook cartel in which producers collude to fix production at the national level, and set prices charged to processors who make the consumer food products sold in restaurants and grocery stores. Such collusion is illegal in other industries — food and elsewhere — but is mandated in SM through government policies.
The shareholders of leading Canadian crypto trading platform WonderFi approved the sale of the company to American financial services giant Robinhood Markets on Thursday.
The shareholders of WonderFi, which owns the Coinsquare and Bitbuy crypto exchanges, are happy, not least the company’s chairman, who stands to earn nearly $2 million for brokering the $250-million deal.
But not everyone thinks this deal should be allowed to stand, particularly when it has been reported there are interested Canadian bidders.
The Gathering Storm: Where Organized Crime Meets Espionage
From my earliest days in the RCMP through years embedded with global financial intelligence units, one reality has remained consistent—and it’s now accelerating: Canada is a soft target.
In Undercover in the Shady World of Organized Crime, I chronicled how criminal empires—from Italian syndicates to Asian Triads—operated in the shadows, laundering vast fortunes through our banks, casinos, and real estate. Back then, the fight was tactical. Today, it’s existential.
Clutching a teddy bear and trembling through her story in the witness box, a female former Afghan interpreter who worked for Canada in Afghanistan detailed the harrowing sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of a Canadian government employee.
For four days this week, the woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, recounted to an Ottawa courtroom how the alleged abuse started when she was 17, shortly after moving to Canada in October 2011, and went on until 2013.
“He called me his sex toy, a whore and a bitch,” the woman said of her alleged attacker, whose family she was living with during some of the alleged abuse.
My estimates put the number of Afghan Interpreters employed by CAF at approximately 3 to 4 million.
NEW YORK — The upcoming trial of Linda Sun — also known as Wen Sun — may prove to be the most sophisticated and high-level political infiltration operation in the United States publicly tied to Beijing’s United Front system. A youthful, naturalized immigrant from China, Sun rose through New York State’s bureaucracy to become a senior diversity official. Now, she stands accused of secretly manipulating two Democratic governors — effectively scripting Andrew Cuomo’s praise of Chinese pandemic mask shipments, while blocking Governor Kathy Hochul from meeting Taiwanese officials and ensuring her silence on the Chinese Communist Party’s mass detention of Uyghurs.
A Leger opinion poll in June found 43 per cent of Canadians don’t favour accepting more migrants from besieged Iran. Twenty-seven per cent were in favor. The rest were undecided.
The war-torn theocratic nation of Iran has become the second highest source country of refugee claims to Canada (after India).
Last year, more than 6,600 people from the Persian Gulf country submitted asylum requests.
The volume of applicants from the Islamic Republic of Iran, also known as Persia, is a red flag to human-rights activists who worry Canada might inadvertently take in some applicants with close ties to the country’s brutally repressive regime.
Canadian families pay hundreds of dollars a year more for dairy, poultry and eggs due to the country’s antiquated supply management system.
This system restricts the production of dairy, poultry and eggs in Canada and imposes severe quotas and tariffs on potential imports from abroad.
