Canada
Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another Alberta separatist has travelled south of the border to woo American conservatives.
In recent months, members of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a separatist organization, have boasted of meetings in Washington, D.C., with senior-level officials from the U.S. administration. Now, the only political party affiliated with Alberta’s independence movement, the Republican Party of Alberta (RPA), is making its own waves south of the border.
Relative of Muammar Gaddafi given a new chance to stay in Canada due to uncle’s close bond with dead Libyan dictator
A relative of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been given another chance to remain in Canada by arguing he was much closer to the brutal authoritarian regime than immigration officials thought he was.
Seraj Essaadi El Ferjani Ahmed, a citizen of Libya, has been in Canada since 2017 and appears to be the nephew of a notorious member of Gaddafi’s inner circle, a man so loyal he was fleeing with Gaddafi when the leader was caught by rebels in 2011 and killed.
Our recent past …
Internal Emails Show Immigration Officials Cautioned Against Mentioning ‘Free’ Health Care in Controversial Post
Immigration department staff have been cautioned against describing Canada’s health-care system as “free” in social media posts encouraging people to immigrate to Canada, according to internal emails.
October social media posts from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) read, “Thinking about moving to Canada? Did you know Canada has public health care? Learn how it works, who can get it and what services are covered.”
Geoff Russ: Canada desperately needs to find its ‘we’ again
The classical liberal John Stuart Mill once warned that “free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.” He wrote that, without a “united public opinion,” representative government lacked the common sympathies and culture required for it to work properly. He added that even entities like the army would cease to identify with the people and become another branch of the state.
Liberty’s better theorists have always presumed a “we,” and Canada needs to find its “we” again.
There can be no “we” in a nation subjected to the abuse of it’s culture, values and heritage by the heinous immigration scam orchestrated by Canada’s so called “elites”.
Creating a Youth Climate Corps could be Carney’s FDR moment … or not
Being raised in Canada taught me two enduring lessons: To care for the environment, and to contribute meaningfully to public life.
That’s why in 2023, when an unexpected call from the White House came in, I stepped forward. I was appointed by president Joe Biden, and within months began work on the historic American Climate Corps program.
In his first budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney has proposed a similar climate corps for Canada – a bold, consequential, nation-building program with deep roots and a rich legacy dating back nearly 100 years. This is exactly the kind of generational investment that young people need.
Sounds like a job application.
Carney’s new nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro: all realized in LEGO say sources
New nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro: sources
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce a second set of “nation-building projects,” including at least three focused on critical mineral extraction, one for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) and at least one transmission project, sources told CBC News.
Maybe we shouldn’t have stopped him?
Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Migrants From Canada Into the US
A foreign national has pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate the smuggling of illegal migrants into the United States, and will face deportation after serving a two-year prison sentence, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says.
Edgar Gonzalez de Paz, 37, pleaded guilty to facilitating illegal entries into the United States at a Montreal courthouse on Nov. 6, the CBSA said in a Nov. 10 news release. The agency says Gonzalez de Paz faces a prison sentence of two years less a day.
I bet he moves more illegals out of the country than the government does.
Chinese-Owned Trailer Park Beside U.S. Stealth Bomber Base Linked to Alleged Vancouver Repression Case
A sprawling U.S. investigative report has placed a Richmond, B.C., couple already identified in a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case at the center of an even more explosive national-security controversy south of the border: they are linked to a web of shell companies that own a trailer park beside Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — home to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and launch point for the June 2025 strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
h/t SC
Second World War veterans are a shrinking presence on Remembrance Day
As the Second World War came to a close, Elmer Friesen and his brother, Alvin, received a letter from their Mennonite church in Aberdeen, Sask.
They could return to the church, it said, but not without publicly apologizing to the small rural congregation. They had been expecting the ultimatum since first being given the choice at the outset of the war: Serve and renounce your membership to the church, or don’t participate at all.
But the appeal to pacifism – a core belief of the church – didn’t land with the Friesen brothers.
ALBERS: MAPLE MIRAGE: Canada – a cautionary tale for America
“When inflation, ideology, and immigration collide in a nation that forgot arithmetic.”
As a Canadian, I confess to watching my country’s troubles not with outrage first — but with disbelief. A stunned, slack-jawed astonishment at how quickly a nation once steady, responsible, and confident has managed to drive itself into the ditch and keep the accelerator pressed.
And now, a fresh Liberal budget is upon us — yet another thick, glossy brochure promising “investments in the future,” which in the plain tongue of the taxpayer means more spending, more debt, and another shovel-load of red ink poured into a pit we can no longer see the bottom of.
(Incognito)
Your Afternoon Musical Interlude
Solemn selections for today:
A very oldie but a goodie:
More Canadians trust the military than the federal government: poll
In the lead up to Remembrance Day, Canada’s military remains one of the most trusted institutions in the country.
A new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies suggests that trust in Canada’s military sits at 75 per cent. Trust in police, meanwhile, remains close behind, at 71 per cent. Only 13 per cent of Canadians distrust the armed forces and police.
Toronto city hall agrees to fly Palestinian flag this month for the first time
Toronto city hall will fly the Palestinian flag for the first time next Monday to commemorate State of Palestine Independence Day, a gesture long sought by advocates that the city says it has now agreed to because Canada recognized Palestine in September.
City hall hoists several dozen flags a year. In 2024, it raised more than 60. Most were national flags but about a third were for sports teams or various causes, including the End Polio Now Flag, the Black Liberation Flag and the Period Purse Flag on Menstrual Health Day in May.
One Term Chow.
Ekos poll finds Canadians most concerned about ‘growing political and ideological polarization’
While the focus last week was on how Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget will affect Canadians’ pocketbooks, the top issues “keeping them up at night” involve deep concerns about the country’s future, according to Frank Graves, founder and president of Ekos Research Associates Inc., based on the results of a recent Ekos poll.
In the late October survey involving 1,581 respondents presented with a set of 10 choices, 70 per cent identified “growing political and ideological polarization” as their top issue of concern. Next, at 67 per cent, was the “acute decline of our democratic and public institutions.” The poll results were released on Oct. 29.