One June day in 1996, three years after he became prime minister, Jean Chrétien made his way to a recreation centre in Fort McMurray, now the gritty northern Alberta heart of the oil sector, sitting atop the world’s third-largest oil reserves.
We should be richer than Sheiks.
Mark Carney has won the Liberal party leadership contest by an enormous margin. He will soon be the prime minister of Canada. It’s a moment of triumph for the former governor of the Bank of England, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, a senior banker at Goldman Sachs based in the United States, Japan and Britain, for a former shapeshifting personage of the United Nations, for a Davos regular: for one of the most ambitious, globally ambitious, guys around. It’s a repudiation of the idea that a citizen of nowhere financier type educated at Harvard and Oxford could never rise to the top in our populist age.
Oh, Canada – you guys are a trip.
Every last Canadian politician has been in the middle of sputtering in indignation and couldn’t wait to get to the next microphone surrounded by a press scrum to rail against Donald Trump.
Life in the shadows– Toronto’s undocumented migrants – most of whom initially entered the country legally – grapple with substandard employment, health and housing options
Every morning across the Greater Toronto Area, thousands of undocumented workers head out to their jobs in construction, cleaning and home care, despite the fact that they are not legally allowed to live or work in Canada.
Unlike in the U.S., where many undocumented people entered without authorization at the southern border, most of these individuals in Canada entered the country legally. They came as temporary workers, international students, tourists or refugee claimants, and saw their visas expire or refugee claims rejected before they were able to transition to another type of legal status.
The Globe’s BIG Concern: The public may turn against “migration”.
How corrupt are they? They write positively about the Liberal government’s recent decision to reward unscrupulous employers who hire illegals.
They don’t give a crap that you are unemployed, that your health is sacrificed due to system strain, that your rent went through the roof or that your children may never be able to afford a home.
They get to virtue signal and peacock their progressiveness because you pay their salaries.
Ottawa’s deficit is projected to be just under $50 billion this year. According to the latest projections, it’s set to remain above $20 billion until at least 2030.
The risk is undoubtedly to the downside. The uncertainty caused by the threat of U.S. tariffs and now the fallout from their imposition will lower the GDP projections underpinning the government’s fiscal plan. It’s quite likely therefore that the deficit will be higher—particularly this year and next year.
After reminding Canadians of the recent tariff threats and the musing of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, we asked if the Canadian government should look into joining the European Union. 44% of Canadians think that the Canadian government definitely or probably should look into joining the European Union, while 34% are opposed to it. About 1 in 4 Canadians are unsure about the suggestion.
As if the Liberals and NDP aren’t already economy wreckers now they want the EU to help!
Premier Doug Ford has made good on his threat to slap a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity sold to the U.S. in retaliation for President Donald Trump‘s tariffs.
Raising an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 per day, the “tariff response charge” will be paid by utilities in New York, Michigan and Minnesota importing power from generators of electricity in Ontario.
Line 5? Bueller? Anyone?
Anybody clinging to the hope that the United States will continue its post-Second World War role as the world’s policeman without major changes was likely disabused of that notion during the tumultuous Feb. 28 White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of that clash was that Trump was — for him — relatively restrained. Vice-President J.D. Vance seemed determined to derail the meeting and Zelenskyy apparently came looking for a fight. In the end, it was clear that, going forward, the United States government will assist other countries on its own terms, and only if there’s something to be gained.
Tariffs aren’t about hiding behind walls; they’re about wielding a sword, carving out space for self-reliance in a ruthless arena.
In the grand theater of 2025, where America’s economic stage is lit by the flickering glow of a manufacturing revival, tariffs have emerged as the unsung hero — or the villain du jour, depending on who’s clutching the pearls. President Trump’s latest salvo — 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, 10-20 percent on China — has reignited a debate that’s less about spreadsheets than sovereignty. For too long, we’ve played the globalist game, trading our industrial soul for cheap trinkets and hollow promises.
Canada likes to portray itself as a nation of free trade. But there’s at least one major relic of the past holding Canada back: our system of supply management.
It’s also a major irritant in Canada’s now-rocky trading relationship with the United States.
The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”
The 60-page report, the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby, the federal appointee tasked with promoting Islam in Canada under the guise of “combatting Islamophobia,” is not just a guide to understanding a particular type of discrimination.
“As long as you, Christians, raise the cross, we will not leave you. We will fight you.”
Jihadists in Syria are all pumped up after the massacres of the last two days
They openly call for genocide against Christians and Alawites.
This extremist openly justifies violence under… pic.twitter.com/hdKcPAaZh2— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 9, 2025
“The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming!” The true North, strong and free, we stand on guard for thee. And don’t forget to vote for the Liberal Party.
The “Red Scare” of the 1950s wasn’t so much a “scare” as it was an excuse to politically punish liberals. During the Great Depression, a couple of million lefties “flirted” with communism as an answer to the vagaries of capitalism’s economic cycles. Misguided and hopelessly naive, they believed that the American experiment could be married to the Soviet experiment.
My point is, given how the Liberals essentially ‘own’ anti-American-style nationalism, it’ll be difficult for the Conservatives to exploit anti-Trump feeling. Difficult, but not impossible.
To borrow a phrase from the movie Spinal Tap, the nationalistic feeling in Canada is amped up to 11.
Indeed, it seems like I get a patriotic meme from one of my friends featuring maple syrup, beavers, moose, or Canadian geese every day.
Of course, we all know why this is happening.
LOL! @fancypants_s https://t.co/yM2Dop2tYb
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 9, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Trudeau met with Paul King Jin in his first term as Prime Minister
Early in his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met with Paul King Jin, a British Columbia businessman who would go on to become a central figure in the province’s money-laundering inquiry.
The existence of the meeting was confirmed by three sources with knowledge of the encounter.
Mr. Trudeau met Mr. Jin, who was among about a dozen people, in a conference room at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, a now-closed hotel near the Vancouver airport, one of the sources said.
The King is said to be concerned about the discord between Canada and the US, an issue that is “particularly on his mind” as Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau continue to clash.
On Monday Charles met the outgoing Canadian prime minister, who has repeatedly locked horns with the US president over Trump’s imposition of crippling tariffs on Canada and his taunting of “Governor Trudeau”.
On several occasions Trump has proposed making Canada, of which Charles is head of state, into America’s “51st state”.
