BARCLAY: ‘Not American’ is now the sum total of Canada’s national identity

BARCLAY: ‘Not American’ is now the sum total of Canada’s national identity

OTTAWA — Recently, Prime Minister Carney has publicly attacked and imploded every aspect of Canada’s historic relationship with the United States of America.

Unfortunately, Mark Carney’s incipient anti-American persona is a paradigm that the Liberal era has imposed upon all of Canada, and not merely the latest outpouring of Carney’s own personal vanity.

Share

Scholar tracks uptick in Iran’s threats to diaspora in Canada, others question deporting official

Scholar tracks uptick in Iran’s threats to diaspora in Canada, others question deporting official

OTTAWA – A scholar researching transnational repression says he’s seeing an uptick in Iran’s regime threatening diaspora in Canada.

University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau said at the start of the U.S. war on Iran that Tehran tends to target dissidents abroad when it feels threatened.


The Liberal Party has regime toadies sitting in Parliament.

Share

DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

The Department of Homeland Security tried to obtain a Canadian man’s location information, activity logs, and other identifying information from Google after he criticized the Trump administration online following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis early this year.

Lawyers for the man, who has not been named, are alarmed in part because they say that the man has not entered the United States in more than a decade. “I don’t know what the government knows about our client’s residence, but it’s clear that the government isn’t stopping to find out,” says Michael Perloff, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia who is representing the man in a lawsuit against Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of DHS, over the summons. The lawsuit alleges that DHS violated the customs law that gives the agency the power to request records from businesses and other parties.


I hope it was Avi Lewis or Chairman Chow!

Meanwhile Canada has a whole data base dedicated to crushing dissent.

Share

Ottawa breaks ground on long-delayed Afghanistan memorial after bitter design fight

Ottawa breaks ground on long-delayed Afghanistan memorial after bitter design fight

The federal government officially broke ground Monday in Ottawa on a national memorial to the sacrifice of Canadians during more than a dozen years of war in Afghanistan.

The monument, which has a controversial design history, will be located on LeBreton Flats in the national capital, near the Canadian War Museum.

It is intended to recognize the contributions of those who served in Afghanistan and those who supported them.

Share

‘Crime has just blown out of control here’: The businessman challenging Hamilton’s NDP mayor

‘Crime has just blown out of control here’: The businessman challenging Hamilton’s NDP mayor

This fall’s Ontario municipal elections are shaping up as the most compelling in years, thanks to stark left-right battles.

Much of the conversation has centred around Toronto, where Councillor Brad Bradford is challenging NDP stalwart Olivia Chow over what he says is a city in quick decline. But TVO’s Steve Paikin has declared that Hamilton, Ontario’s fifth biggest city, may have the province’s best race.

Share

Jamie Sarkonak: At a human rights tribunal, it’s better to be a transwoman

Jamie Sarkonak: At a human rights tribunal, it’s better to be a transwoman

Human rights tribunals have drastically expanded society’s obligations to accommodate transwomen — but biological women seeking sex-based protections aren’t extended the same courtesy.

One of those regular women, known only as J, had moved into transitional housing on the women’s floor of a B.C. Salvation Army building back in the fall of 2020. She lived there for two years without issue, but when her tenancy ran out in 2022 and she hadn’t found a new place to live, the Salvation Army extended her term and offered to place her in a different building. The problem: that building was trans-inclusive. For this, J filed a human rights complaint.

Share

Chris Selley: Canada’s new, unearned decadence

Chris Selley: Canada’s new, unearned decadence

Donald Trump has hatched many threats to Canada’s prosperity over the years, both short-term and long. One of the greatest long-term threats, however, is largely of our own device: the threat that when Trump finally leaves, Canada will slump back into its favourite proverbial easy chair at the cottage (as if anyone can afford to buy a cottage nowadays) and relax.

“Cancel the military spending. Probably no need for that LNG pipeline. Normal service has resumed.”

Share

Morgan: When It Comes to Airport Privatization, the Benefits Outweigh the Risks

Morgan: When It Comes to Airport Privatization, the Benefits Outweigh the Risks

The Liberal government is running perilously low on money.

The spring economic update celebrated a deficit lower than had been projected but still contained a fiscal shortfall that can only be called massive. This likely inspired the government to pitch the notion of privatizing Canada’s airports for the second time in a year. Funds from the sale of airport infrastructure could be used to reduce government debt or to add to the planned sovereign wealth fund. Nearly 20 percent of the world’s airports are privately owned, and it comes with risks and benefits.

Share

Conrad Black: Canada’s path back to prosperity

Conrad Black: Canada’s path back to prosperity

Last year, I supported the Conservatives in the federal election because the Liberal government of the previous 10 years had produced large net capital outflows, presided over Canada’s decline in the rankings of the most prosperous countries per capita, conducted a suicidal war on the petroleum industry, self-defamed the country for attempted genocide of First Nations, was a useless member of the western alliance and did not deserve a fourth consecutive term in office. I had seen Mark Carney as a central banker in Canada, where he was a scene-stealer when the prime minister, Stephen Harper, and the finance minister, Jim Flaherty, guided us through the 2008 financial crisis. I also saw him in the United Kingdom, where, as governor of the Bank of England, he had plunged the bank into absurd controversies about global warming and parroted the Cameron government’s nonsense about Europe. His successor has renounced his dire predictions of the consequences of Britain withdrawing from the European Union.

Share

Aligning the U.S. and Canadian Defense Industrial Bases

Aligning the U.S. and Canadian Defense Industrial Bases

The United States and Canada are both racing to rebuild their defense industrial bases, recognizing that future conflicts will be determined not only by military capability, but by the ability to produce at scale. But they cannot succeed alone — and importantly, they do not need to start from scratch.

After decades of reliance on globalized supply chains for everything from consumer products to critical defense technologies, the United States is reasserting a more active industrial policy, using tools ranging from the Defense Production Act to incentivizing private capital investments and even selective government equity stakes. Canada is undergoing a parallel shift, with increased defense spending commitments, the recent release of its first Defence Industrial Strategy, and the newly launched Defence Investment Agency.


I doubt the USA will risk Canadian exposure given Carney is busy selling us out to the ChiComs and whoever else he thinks he can squeeze a buck from.

Share