OTTAWA — The free ride is over.
That’s the message most Canadians have for the government when it comes to the Governor General’s expense account, according to a new Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Michael Barutciski: Gruesome beheading attempt in Belfast a warning against fast-track asylum processes
Canadians who are worried about their immigration system should be paying attention to our closest historical partners. They’ve made many of the same errors we have in allowing porous borders, and their experiences offer a warning about the problems Canada can expect if we do not correct course.
Too late …
🚨BREAKING BOMBSHELL
President of the CBSA union
REVEALS that Canada lets in refugees
via AN APP on their phone due to understaffing
No physical interaction EVER occurs. They land and click a few buttons and walk INTO CANADA and get MONEY! …. 10% dont even USE THE APP! pic.twitter.com/reDEQyOCLn
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) November 19, 2025
Toronto pro-Palestinian protester charged with terrorism over alleged Hamas links
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator has been charged with terrorism over his alleged actions in association with Hamas, Toronto police said Wednesday.
Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad, 33, was arrested following a joint investigation by the Toronto police hate crime unit and the RCMP national security team.
He appeared in court on Tuesday.
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho and Trump Lit the Fires in Canada
There’s been quite a bit of smoke blanketing the northern states recently, thanks to a drought in Canada exacerbating their normal summer fire season.
Every fire season, the people who spent decades suing to stop thinning and prescribed burn projects reappear to explain that devastating fires prove them right on climate change.
You don’t get credit for predicting the fire you refused to prevent. pic.twitter.com/UD1p3NBhii
— Danielle Franz (@DanielleBFranz) July 17, 2026
h/t Hermes
Ottawa police arrest three Mohammedans in organized human trafficking network spanning Ontario
TORONTO — Ottawa Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police have arrested three men in connection with an organized human trafficking ring that spanned Ottawa, the Greater Toronto Area, and other southern Ontario communities over more than a year.
Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke
The Midwest and Northeast registered some of the worst air quality in the world last week as wildfire smoke shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze. More than 100 million Americans were under air-quality alerts, with smoke even reaching Washington, D.C., by the weekend.
Most of the smoke came from Canada, where about 900 wildfires were burning by Friday. Over 100 were burning in northwestern Ontario alone. Fires are also raging in northern Minnesota and across the western United States, where another brutal fire season is underway. Nearly 80 large fires are uncontained nationwide, and more than 3.9 million acres have burned this year.
Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out
As Spain’s team was basking in its victory at the World Cup medal ceremony on Sunday, Donald Trump had to be nudged offstage by FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
Images of Trump getting the hook went viral, with plenty of cheers for anyone who dared giving this president a timeout. And it didn’t stop there. The Spanish team then went on to crop Trump from the official photo of its World Cup win.
Susan Delacourt is hangry.
Trump administration staying out of Alberta separation referendum, ambassador says
The Trump administration is staying out of the upcoming referendum on Alberta’s future in Canada, the U.S. ambassador to Canada says.
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said during a podcast interview in Edmonton on Monday that the Oct. 19 referendum vote is a matter for Albertans alone to decide.
How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power
In April, almost a year after last spring’s federal election delivered a minority government, Mark Carney’s Liberal Party inched its way to a majority by poaching a string of floor crossers from opposition parties. The new-found majority further strengthens the hold of a party that has been in power for 60 percent of Canadian electoral history. This makes them among the most successful political parties in the Western democratic world.
A Walrus piece.
Women and Gender Equality Canada Leaves X, Citing Need to Protect Employees From ‘Hateful Commentary’
A federal department officially has closed its accounts on the X social media platform, citing concerns that comments from users were causing mental distress among employees.
Women and Gender Equality Canada had kept its accounts dormant since March 2025, following an International Women’s Day post that drew a wave of responses, before formally closing them in late May 2026.
Michael Higgins: Canada-U.S. relations are worse than ever under Carney and Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney inflicted a damaging blow on Canada-U.S. relations with his Elbows Up shenanigans but this last weekend it was America’s turn take a hammer to the alliance.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was openly gloating at the prime minister being embarrassed over the Gordie Howe Bridge deal while Donald Trump said he was considering demanding Canada pay damages over wildfires in this country.
Widening Divide: Canada Lagging Behind US on per Capita Business Investment, Report Finds
Canada has experienced a sharp decline in business investment per worker over the past decade, in stark contrast to gains in the United States, highlighting a deepening productivity crisis north of the border, a new study suggests.
Inflation-adjusted business investment per Canadian worker fell 18.8 percent from $20,310 in 2014 to $16,493 in 2024, according to findings from the Fraser Institute’s latest study. The United States’s equivalent surged 31.3 percent from $23,263 to $30,555 over the same decade.
Canada has become America’s northern security threat
Canada’s failed policies are doing more than fouling American air. Summer across the Midwest and East Coast has again brought unhealthy and hazardous air-quality warnings from Canadian wildfires. Poor forest management threatens public health and daily life. Canada’s immigration policies pose a deeper and more lasting danger.
Most Americans still regard Canada as a polite northern extension of the United States: familiar, friendly, and strategically harmless. That view belongs to another era. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that “nostalgia is not a strategy.” Neither is complacency.
‘Bunch of rubbish’: Ford responds to Trump over threats of wildfire smoke tariffs
Premier Doug Ford says U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to introduce new tariffs on Canada over northern Ontario wildfire smoke that’s drifted south of the border is a “bunch of rubbish.”
“Rather than sit there and complain, why don’t we see some help from President Trump. Send up some water bombers, send up some wildland firefighters, but then again, they have thousands of fires going in the U.S. right now, but you don’t hear Canada ever complain,” Ford said at a news conference Monday.
Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney
After sitting together with Prime Minister Mark Carney during Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t letting up on his threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke.
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night, Trump said he has a good relationship with Carney, but the fires need to stop.
He said the fires are poisoning U.S. air, and that maybe Canada should pay damages, or the U.S. should impose tariffs.
CBC guest Lori Daniels — UBC forestry professor and vocal climate change believer — just dropped some rare inconvenient common sense on CBC:
"I'd really love to see us diversify our forest management for resilience… and use fire to fight fire in good ways."She went on:… pic.twitter.com/lhPBi27JCe
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 19, 2026