Because Donald Trump is brandishing his 7-wood at us about fentanyl and illegal migration, Canada is leasing two Black Hawk helicopters for the RCMP and putting them on border patrol, and also bolstering the fleet of border-patrolling drones. That’s an accurate assessment of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, and that’s more or less how media reported it: “Canada sending Black Hawks, drones to border as the clock to pacify Trump ticks down,” was one apropos headline.
The problem Mark Carney, likely Liberal leader-to-be, will always run into is this: his fate doesn’t depend on a successful Canada.
Carney will be announcing his leadership run Thursday. Odds are good he’s going to win. He’s not as recognizable as his only real competition, potential candidate and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, but he doesn’t share her bruised record of inflating the deficit to multi-billion dollar highs, and last week’s polling shows that more people are open to voting for him than for her.
A recent Angus Reid poll found only half of Canadians feel a deep connection to their country. This reflects a sharp decline in the past decade, and a stark contrast to the 85 per cent of Americans who, according to Statista, consider themselves very patriotic.
There are many reasons why Canadians might be ambivalent: Does the duality of our English/French history, or strong provincial jurisdictional powers make it difficult to hang on to a national narrative?
Never happen.
Some big figures in federal politics are having themselves a Linus moment, dragging around their ideological security blankets while making their case to the public, like the anxious little brother in Peanuts.
Seems like the thing to do right now is to seek out a comfy media perch from which to trot out your message, knowing you and the host share a common outlook and the spiciest question might be, “How are you great and/or good? Please be specific.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will soon lay out his own strategy to confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canada as part of a broader economic agenda that, if he becomes prime minister, will include a promise to roll back the capital-gains tax increase.
Mr. Poilievre told The Globe and Mail in an interview that he believes Canada must respond with tariffs of its own to counter Mr. Trump’s promise that he’ll levy 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods.
Canadian political leaders have reacted to Donald Trump’s tariff threat with a stubborn lack of understanding about why the U.S. president-elect keeps targeting his country’s friendly neighbour.
They still seem genuinely perplexed by Mr. Trump’s seemingly anachronistic concept of international trade, which they see as rooted in 19th-century mercantilism.
This helps explain why most of them are still expounding on the win-win virtues of Canada-U.S. free trade, despite Mr. Trump’s endless protestations to the contrary. They still seem to think that he is simply misinformed or has a shaky grasp of economics.
They started to arrive, and the line began to form, as early as 2 a.m.
Despite a steady snowfall and bone-chilling cold, they came to stand outside and wait their turn, hours before the doors opened at 10 a.m.
This wasn’t a queue to purchase Taylor Swift concert tickets at a kiosk in downtown Toronto.
Toronto [Canada], January 14 (ANI): Canadian journalist Tahir Gora believes that outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s diplomatic row with India was a desperate attempt to garner votes, which ultimately backfired.
Trudeau’s popularity had been waning due to his handling of immigration policies and the economy, and his party’s trust in him had begun to erode. He raked up the diplomatic row with India only for his ‘vote bank politics’ which didn’t work, Gora said.
In an online interview with ANI, Tahir Gora said he doesn’t see the India-Canada ties improving anytime soon, irrespective of the results of the next general elections due later this year.
At least 15,000 Canadians died while waiting for surgery or a diagnostic scan over the course of a year, according to government data collected by public policy think tank SecondStreet.org.
The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data, said SecondStreet president Colin Craig. Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.
We need more dancing nurses, doctors and EMT’s. And more migrants!
With the announcement by former B.C. Premier Christy Clark that she would not seek the leadership of the Liberal Party, the race is really down to two people who have not yet officially declared: former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Given how the criminal pigs of the LPC have turned Canada into 3rd World cesspit no member of the party should ever be elected again.
As Canada plans cuts to immigration, Ukrainian families say they’re worried and “disoriented” after getting mixed messages about their permanent residency applications under a special humanitarian pathway to reunite families fleeing war.
Some applicants allege Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) “lost” their applications, and question Canada’s commitment to continue supporting Ukrainians as the war rages on in Ukraine and Russia.
“It worries me very much because it’s once again interruption of promises,” said Eugenia Pynchuk, a Canadian citizen, as she sat next to her father. Her parents are currently in Ottawa under a visitor visa that’s set to expire next year.
Something is rotten at IRCC.
Incoming American president Donald Trump has threatened “economic force” against Canada, crippling 25 per cent tariffs on all imports, and has repeatedly said that the country should be the 51st state. In response to Trump’s threats to devastate Canada, the Liberals have responded by promising to make things worse.
Radical Islamic group cancels Ontario conference under pressure of being named a terrorist group
A planned conference by a radical Islamic group that caused outrage and security concern has been cancelled a day after the federal government said it was considering declaring the organization a terrorist group.
Late on Monday, federal minister of Public Safety David McGuinty issued a statement saying Hizb ut-Tahrir’s history of “glorifying violence and promoting antisemitism and extremist ideology” and supporting terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah “are entirely contrary to Canadian values,” and asked them to scrap their conference, scheduled for this coming weekend, while security and intelligence agencies assessed whether the group should be listed as an official terrorist entity.
Federal security agencies will monitor for foreign interference in the Liberal leadership race, providing some protection after MPs were already raising concerns about potential meddling in the contest.
The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will do the monitoring and offer security advice to the Liberal Party and leadership candidates as part of its mandate to safeguard democratic institutions from outside interference, the Privy Council Office announced Monday.
It is the first leadership race under scrutiny by the task force since it was created in 2019; its mandate was at first to monitor only general elections, and then expanded to by-elections.
As Canadians grapple with astronomical grocery prices, troublingly high numbers of people are flocking to food banks to feed their families. Last March alone, two million Canadians visited food banks—a staggering 90 per cent increase from 2019—and the most recent figures estimate that 12,000 new users access them every month. Food banks aren’t just frequented by unhoused and precariously employed folks anymore, either: now, one in five users has a steady job.
It’s a dishonest article failing to even mention the demand created by Trudeau’s mass immigration scam.
4 in 5 new food bank clients in Toronto are newcomers to Canada, new report finds
Data also indicated that 4 in 5 of the new users are people who have called Canada home for five years or less and usage by refugee claimants also doubled to 12 per cent over the previous year, both of which, the report notes, align with permanent and temporary international migration fuelling 97.6 per cent of Canada’s population growth in 2023.
Last month, Food Banks Canada’s latest Hunger Count revealed that 32 per cent of clients to food banks across the country are people who’ve been in the country for less than 10 years.
