The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CHMC) — the federal Crown corporation in charge of monitoring and financing housing in this country — reported that Ottawa fell well short of its goal of assuring 500,000 new housing units in by 2030.
Indeed, at 259,000, just a little under 52 per cent of the target promised by Prime Minister Mark Carney was met last year. Admittedly that was better than the 245,000 new units (including rentals and condos) in 2024.
A much-overlooked element of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government’s new Building Canada Strong Act is major labour relations reforms that will bring about more predictability in the federal government’s responses to significant labour disputes.
Over the past three years, Canada has seen several labour disputes that have affected Canadians and our country’s reputation as a reliable international trading partner. We’ve seen rail, port and airline stoppages, all of which have affected Canadians, our economy and our ability to trade internationally.
Gas price analyst and Canadians for Affordable Energy president Dan McTeague issued a challenge to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“I would call on Ford and Carney to sit down, and get this right, at least temporarily, to alleviate the incredible, excruciating burden fuel prices are putting on Canadians,” McTeague told the Toronto Sun.
Om Kachhadiya picked Canada for his postgraduate studies because its immigration rules and pathways were clear and predictable.
The 26-year-old, who already had a civil engineering degree in India, knew the criteria to meet for his study permit and what he needed to do to qualify for the postgraduation work permit, so he could get a job and earn Canadian work experience — and ultimately his permanent residence.
But what has happened to Canada’s immigration system between his arrival in 2022 and graduation in 2024 — and thereafter — has been anything but clear and predictable.
I have ZERO sympathy for Om and whoever vetted his entry to Canada. Remigration Now.
Taxpayers just won a big court victory against Ottawa’s ‘No More Pipelines’ law. The Alberta Court of Appeal slapped Ottawa back into its lane, ruling that the federal law that lets it interfere with the development of provincial natural resources is still unconstitutional.
Conservatives who complain the Parliamentary Press Gallery is anti-Conservative and pro-Liberal may be surprised to learn two of Canada’s top political journalists agree with them, to some extent.
Bob Fife, the recently retired parliamentary bureau chief of the Globe and Mail, and Globe and Mail political columnist Andrew Coyne, also a regular on CBC‘s ‘At Issue’ political panel, made the observation in recent interviews with B.C. political broadcaster Aaron Pete, chief of the Chawathil First Nation, on his Nuanced podcast.
h/t Mauser
Former finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland believes her resignation — which spurred Justin Trudeau to step down — was ultimately a good outcome for the former prime minister given his plummeting popularity.
While her book, Unreliable Boyfriend, is meant to be a guide for dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, it also outlines how her political relationship with Trudeau declined in the final months of his government.
It did unfortunately.
Nearly 75% of Canadians surveyed believe Prime Minister Mark Carney should go forward with country-wide infrastructure improvements, before seeking another federal mandate.
In a new Canada Pulse Insights poll, the 1, 531 adults surveyed found that 73% want Carney to fast-track major projects, relax certain environmental reviews, alter labour strikes and deepen meaningful economic ties with Europe.
Foreign-owned companies can qualify for federal contracts under Ottawa’s Buy Canadian policy despite government claims the program will strengthen domestic manufacturing and protect Canadian jobs, according to federal documents.
Blacklock’s Reporter says internal records from Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s department acknowledge the importance of building Canadian industrial capacity, while separate documents show businesses with 100% foreign ownership can still qualify as Canadian suppliers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recent weeks, we’ve learned that Canadian military leaders war-gamed U.S. military action against Canada earlier this year, with Prime Minister Mark Carney having described it as an “extreme tail risk,” in an interview last month with the New York Times.
It’s no secret the long-held Canadian consensus on immigration has fractured — pulled apart by a rapid increase in new arrivals post-pandemic and growing affordability challenges. Now, that fracture is starting to show up at the ballot box.
The Parti Québécois won a minority mandate in Quebec on a platform that included promises of tighter immigration controls, which the party linked to protecting French culture and easing pressure on public services and housing.
Recently the first Canada Investment Summit put 167 projects before global investors and set a target of $1 trillion in new capital over five years.
The pitch was for pipelines, mines, ports and data centres: large projects seeking big cheques. It is the right ambition for a country whose most important trading relationship has been put in a blender.
It is also incomplete.
Four days before the latest test of this 159-year-old Confederation — a nation that has given the world both insulin and Céline Dion — Mark Carney went to Calgary to make the case for carrying on.
“Canada isn’t perfect, but we are the best,” he said. “And we are getting better.”
A day before Carney arrived, Naheed Nenshi, the leader of Alberta NDP and the former mayor of Calgary, was asked what he wanted to hear from the prime minister. Nenshi said Carney needed to make the argument that “Canada works.”
Canada works for grifters not Canadians.
Federal immigration policy, and its effects on the ongoing housing and affordability crisis, is front and centre in Canadian politics once again.
First off, Prime Minister Mark Carney, while speaking outside of Canada to journalists at the New York Times on Sept. 23, suggested his Liberal government is looking to increase immigration following efforts to reduce numbers since forming government in 2025.
Who except a few twisted self-flagellants would vote for their own erasure?
No one.
This is a criminal act against the citizens of Canada.
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Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says the government will force a sale of Stelco’s Canadian operations if planned layoffs aren’t rescinded — and she didn’t rule out Ottawa taking a stake.
“They must keep the jobs in Canada or face the prospect of having to sell their Canadian assets,” Joly warned U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs in a speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto Friday.
