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Is Canada Already the 51st State?

Canadians have had two main reactions to President Trump’s trade wars and 51st-state threats. Collectively, we’ve responded to them like a declaration of war, as though it demanded nothing less than the mobilization of our entire society to confront the threat of a hostile foreign power. We watch Doug Ford dump a bottle of Crown Royal onto the ground, like the Boston Tea Party in reverse. We commit to spending hundreds of billions to renovate our military capabilities, wary that rhetorical threats of annexation might one day become real. Individually, we’ve experienced this moment more like a divorce. We throw out their things, cancel our vacations. We vow to buy only from ourselves, the economic equivalent of belatedly opening our own bank account. We create an entire movement around the idea of developing sharper elbows. We elect a prime minister who we hope will be the antithesis of Donald Trump: intelligent and boring. With our prudent, even-tempered financial mastermind at the helm, we tell ourselves that everything will be okay.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 13, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Canada Post paid $30.8 million in bonuses despite $1.57 billion loss

Canada Post paid nearly $31 million in bonuses to managers last year despite posting a record $1.57-billion loss and warning Parliament the Crown corporation was on the verge of insolvency.

Blacklock’s Reporter says financial records tabled before the House of Commons government operations committee show Canada Post distributed $30.8 million in at-risk performance pay to 2,377 management employees in 2025, including 417 executives.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•Canada

Shopify president fears for future of Jews in Canada as families contemplate what was ‘unthinkable five years ago’

The president of Canada’s biggest tech company says antisemitism has been “normalized under the thinnest veil of advocacy,” and many members of the Jewish community are thinking about their future in Canada.

Harley Finkelstein was confronted, again, by an aggressive protester at Montreal’s Startupfest on Wednesday, the third time in two years he has been aggressively challenged in public for his support of Israel.

Mass immigration will make it very difficult to reverse this situation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign migrant living illegally in Canada eligible for Ontario welfare, tribunal rules

Ontario must pay social assistance benefits to a foreign migrant living illegally in Canada a tribunal has ruled in a case revealing that welfare intake workers did not conduct an immigration check of the applicant to avoid jeopardizing his ability to remain in Canada.

The Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal heard an appeal by the man who declared he had come to Canada in 1997 on a temporary work permit. Although his permit expired after four years, he never left.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2026July 11, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Canada, WTF?

Mark Carney won’t let Donald Trump see him sweat, but it comes at a cost

Watch Mark Carney, not long ago thought to be a political novice, work a press scrum. We’re now used to the half-beat pause before the prime minister answers, the banker’s habit of restating the question in duller language, draining it of drama, and the refusal, almost physical, to take the bait.

That composure can come across as a personality quirk but it’s more likely a construction. This week, a remarkable two-part Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation shows us what it was built to withstand.

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2026July 11, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Man arrested after telling Muslim family to “get the f— out of the country” at Halifax Costco

A Halifax man has been arrested and charged following a confrontation at a Bayers Lake Costco Saturday, that police are investigating as a hate-motivated incident.

The arrest comes after a video showing the man allegedly directing “anti-Muslim” remarks toward a Muslim family went viral online.

Thank God they weren’t raped or murdered or sold as sex slaves like in Muslim countries.

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2026July 10, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada

Geoff Russ: Canadian voters are aging out of mainstream conservatism

The Conservative Party faces the problem of a changing country, not a change in ethnic diversity or gender identity, but a change in age brackets. In fact, the electorate is aging out of their preferred conservatism, and they are not getting any younger.

In this changed country, appeals to tax cuts and smaller government simply do not have the attraction they once did. Dependence on the state has grown. Part of that dependence stems from the outsized expansion of the public service since 2015, but that is not the main culprit. The real culprit is the growing share of the population made up of retirees and pensioners.

by Blazingcatfur•July 10, 2026July 10, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Parks Canada calls creation of national parks a ‘colonial injustice’ in internal report

Parks Canada says the creation of Canada’s national parks caused lasting harm to indigenous communities and amounted to a “colonial injustice,” according to an internal report that was kept from public view for two years before being quietly released last month.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2026July 9, 2026•0•"Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

Carney’s Davos speech written at 4 a.m., Trump’s volatile call with Trudeau, and other things we learned from a WSJ article

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a two-part series, with the first part titled “There Is No Going Back: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America.” While it looked at the general situation in Europe, the second was all about Canada’s role, and specifically that of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Its headline was “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.,” with the subhead: “Facing threats from Trump, Mark Carney emerged as a central figure in a project to reshape the Western alliance.”

Parts 1 and 2 linked below.

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by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 8, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

MACLEOD: Ottawa opened the mass immigration floodgates — Alberta is paying the price

I waste far too much of my valuable time on X, but this post caught my attention, as I notice the exact same thing every time I return from the US…

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 7, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, USA

Three Canadians named in international crackdown on ‘thugs’ running Indian prison-based crime group

Three arrests have been made in Canada as part of a sweeping international crackdown on an organized crime group — one U.S. authorities say was linked to the killing of a B.C. Sikh activist, a crime that sparked an international uproar.

The Lawrence Bishnoi group was hit with a combined 24 arrests during what authorities called “Operation Hard Ball,” based in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, authorities announced on Tuesday.

Some of the alleged crimes involved shipping drugs into Ontario and the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency have identified Peel region alongside B.C. as primary hubs for Bishnoi’s violence.

Another mess our so called elites created.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 8, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India, Khalistan

BURTON: Who really built Canada?

Few subjects in Canada generate more passion than the question of who built this country. Unfortunately, the discussion often begins with conclusions rather than evidence. Political advocacy, media narratives, educational institutions, and activist organizations frequently present simplified versions of history that emphasize one set of contributions while minimizing another. The result is not greater understanding but greater division.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 7, 2026•0•Canada

Tariffs Work: Toyota Moves Mexico Factory to Texas

Donald Trump’s tariffs are bringing jobs from Mexico back to the USA. Toyota is now moving more production for its Tacoma pickup truck from the Baja California (Mexico) location to San Antonio, Texas. This is a win for American workers.

The Tacoma is 2nd only to F-150 in US sales.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2026July 7, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, Mexico, USA

Five things you should know about Canada’s new fleet of submarines

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is set to name Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder to build the navy’s next fleet of submarines, according to multiple media reports.

That means Canada will now enter into months of closed-door negotiations with the winner.

TKMS had been competing with South Korean defence firm Hanwha Ocean for the lucrative contract.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2026July 6, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada

Bronze or Gold

Canada’s relatively fine performance to date in FIFA 2026 is a cultural anomaly. Historian Gerry Bowler, in an article for the Winnipeg Sun, deplores that our Olympic motto has always been “Go For The Bronze.” Perhaps our distinctly multicultural soccer team will give us something to cheer about as events proceed. Yet even in sports competition, aside from our national game, hockey, the results have almost inevitably been inferior. In most other respects, too, lowering the bar has become a Canadian institution.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2026July 6, 2026•0•Canada