Elections Canada is doing a really good job of sullying its own reputation. The bizarre nature of recounts happening in this last election is making them look like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
We have ridings won by hundreds of votes by one side flipping to the other, leads reduced to a handful of votes and one riding won by a single vote, but some ballots weren’t counted.
What we have witnessed in Canada and other Western democracies over the last year and a half is the rapid establishment of social licence.
Social licence for the type of violent extremism that resulted in the assassination of two Israeli embassy diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, in Washington last week. Social licence for the open celebration and justification of the murders – from extremist voices, yes, but also from academics, influencers and a former Green Party candidate in the recent Canadian election – by people convinced that emptying a gun into two people on an American sidewalk is a defensible form of “resistance” against the actions of a foreign government half a world away.
Nathan Prier, president of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, one of the federal government’s largest unions, said earlier this week that Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali and the rest of the Carney cabinet must make regaining the trust of federal civil servants one of the Liberal government’s highest priorities.
Canadians say jobs and the economy are once again their biggest concern, for the first time since February ahead of the issue of relations with their southern neighbour, a new poll shows
The issue of jobs and the economy in mid-May surpassed concern about the U.S. president and Canada-U.S. relations, according to the latest polling report released by Nanos Research on May 20.
An Ontario judge has approved a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that accused Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. of engaging in an industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread.
In a written decision, judge Ed Morgan says the $500-million settlement is excellent, fair and in the best interest of class members.
The settlement was reached last year and includes a combined $404-million to be paid by Loblaw and George Weston.
In the US execs would be doing hard time.
Canada’s relationship with Israel has travelled a long way since 2015, when prime minister Stephen Harper and aspiring rival Justin Trudeau competed to claim the title of best friend of the Jewish state.
After winning his majority in 2011, Harper realigned Canada’s votes at the United Nations, joining a firmly pro-Israel bloc comprised of the U.S. and a group of Pacific island microstates that normally follow Washington’s lead.
That bloc would often be joined by a wider circle of pro-Israel nations; on the most controversial matters, however, its core members voted alone with Israel against overwhelming majorities.
As Canada’s measles outbreak continues to grow, the country is at risk of losing its measles elimination status — a bar set by the World Health Organization.
“The risk is substantial,” said Dr. Sarah Wilson, a public health physician with Public Health Ontario who has been tracking the measles outbreak in that province.
How long before vaccine administrators are targeted for death by our fellow citizens.
For Canadians, there’s nothing new about a province contemplating secession. Two referendums on Quebec’s potential independence – in 1980 and 1995 – brought the country uncomfortably close to the precipice. Today, it’s not Quebec but the oil-rich western province of Alberta that is chafing under the constraints of Canadian confederation. US president Donald Trump’s tariffs and comments about turning Canada into the 51st state have set in motion a chain of political events that will probably result in a referendum on Albertan independence sometime in 2026.
The pomp and pageantry will be on full display when King Charles arrives in Canada for the first time since his coronation.
He is due to deliver the Speech from the Throne to open the 45th session of Canada’s parliament in Ottawa on Tuesday.
The King is the head of state of Canada – and of 13 other Commonwealth realms such as Australia, New Zealand and several Caribbean states – as well as the UK.
Charles has brought dignity back to the throne.
Universities are ground zero for the most virulent strains of antisemitism that plague the West today. But within them, some clusters are more problematic than others. Above all, the widespread antisemitism in university faculties of medicine and affiliated hospitals.
Simmering for decades in these departments, the October 7 pogrom unleashed a dramatic surge in its expression amongst students, faculty and practitioners that cries out for attention at the highest levels.
Do we want to be a nation where violent rhetoric is dismissed as ‘activism’?
Two Israeli Embassy staffers — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim — were shot in cold blood outside a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The killer reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” and declared, “I did this for Gaza” before firing again and again at close range.
This wasn’t random violence. It was the predictable result of a culture that has normalized antisemitism, cloaked Jew-hatred in the language of justice, and dismissed every warning as an overreaction.
Looks like the pro-Hamas haters get another free pass from the Toronto Police. What has Canada become?
— Alan Fryer (@alanfryermedia) May 25, 2025
Don’t blame rank and file Canadians.
No one asked me or anyone I know if we’d like to import a murder cult like Islam.
Every single federal government this benighted nation has had since 911 has insisted on blighting our nation with Islam.
We proles are now perversely asked to protect Jews from the Islamist murder cultists our betters thoughtlessly invited here.
A war was declared against us and we just didn’t know it.
Update: The author is lecturing us about our response to a problem she helped create.
“Klompas worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ontario government supporting efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in Canada.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Klompas
TORONTO — The last time Canada’s monarch opened a session of Parliament was in 1977, when Queen Elizabeth II visited the country as part of her Silver Jubilee tour. On Tuesday, King Charles III will become only the second monarch in Canada’s history to participate in the historic ritual. From a walnut throne adorned with a spray of gold maple leaves, Charles, who is Canada’s head of state, will deliver the Speech from the Throne.
His presence, at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s invitation, is widely viewed as sending a subtle message of resistance to a certain non-Canadian with a fondness for the British royal family: President Donald Trump.
The WAPO is on Canada’s side!
‘Hide Jewish symbols’: Anti-Israel protests spark NSC warning to Israelis in Canada
The Israeli National Security Council (NSC) has raised the travel alert level for Canada from Level 1 to Level 2, warning of a growing security threat to Israelis and Jews in the country. The decision comes in light of a series of recent incidents targeting Jewish institutions and individuals, as well as an increasingly hostile public atmosphere.
Canada should make it mandatory for young newcomers to join the cadet corps to learn more about this country’s history and values, says the former honorary colonel of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
“We have to get to a point where you have to serve the nation somehow, somewhere, sometime during your life,” said Donald Cranston, a senior investment counsellor with Fiera Capital, who just stepped down last week from the honorary military appointment.
That’s Racist!
