OTTAWA — Veteran political journalist Robert Fife has acknowledged that Conservatives face an unfair media bias in Ottawa, describing the problem as longstanding.
Fife made the admission during an interview with independent podcast host Aaron Pete on Nuanced.
“You may be right in the sense that there is an unfair bias against the Conservatives in Ottawa,” Fife said. “I think that’s probably true, and it’s always been the case, generally speaking.”
May be right?
A federal department officially has closed its accounts on the X social media platform, citing concerns that comments from users were causing mental distress among employees.
Women and Gender Equality Canada had kept its accounts dormant since March 2025, following an International Women’s Day post that drew a wave of responses, before formally closing them in late May 2026.
In this episode with Jason James, we revisit the Vancouver Model — the Chinese transnational money-laundering system that helped make Vancouver infamous around the world — and we connect that history to a live political question in Canada today.
Because this is not just a story about casinos, luxury homes, or offshore capital. It is a story about how dirty money, political weakness, and a captured real estate economy can combine to distort an entire country.
The country’s top spy agency says Natural Resources Canada approached it with concerns about former federal scientist Dennis Lu more than two decades ago, not the other way around — and has made a rare disclosure of one of its documents in court to set the record straight, CBC News has learned.
There are also new details about part of the reason for a 23-month delay between the last Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefing about Lu to his employer in February 2021 and the start of Natural Resources’ internal investigation into Lu in January 2023.
Much of whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to fast-track economic growth through his Major Projects Office will bear fruit or remain forever aspirational will depend on how he manages negotiations with indigenous groups. The tone from and resolutions released by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) at its recent annual gathering in Ottawa don’t bode well for the federal government.
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CALGARY, AB: Think tank SecondStreet.org released data from each of the Atlantic province’s health authorities today showing people from outside Canada are coming to the East Coast, receiving health services, and then not paying their bills. This problem has cost the health system (taxpayers) $41.69M since 2020/21.
Whatever the ultimate truth of President Donald Trump’s allegations of Chinese meddling in American elections, Canadians have no excuse for the kind of reflexive dismissal in which the CBC indulged Friday. Despite their ruling class’s attempts to hush up and smooth over what they had allowed to happen, Canadians nevertheless know from what limited government admissions were made exactly what Beijing is capable of. Whether what Trump said is the exact or entire truth, or timed to influence the midterms, is not the point.
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During the first 10 years of Liberal government — the Trudeau years — business investment per worker in Canada fell 18.8 per cent from $20,310 in 2014 to $16,493 in 2024 (inflation adjusted), according to the Fraser Institute.
Over the same period, U.S. business investment per worker rose 31.3 per cent from $23,263 to $30,555, which means U.S. investment levels are now nearly double ours.
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has yet to say whether it plans to extend Canada’s ban on foreign homebuyers, even as internal briefing notes warned time is running short to renew the policy through the existing regulatory process before the ban expires.
If the government does nothing, Canada’s ban, which first came into force in 2023, will sunset automatically on Jan. 1, 2027. The ban currently prevents anyone who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident from purchasing a home in any urban area in the country.
A lot happened in Ottawa just before we went into the field with our latest national survey.
The federal government advanced a new pipeline proposal to the West Coast, moved ahead with plans to buy up to 12 new submarines, changed the rules governing Senate appointments, and pursued new defence and economic partnerships abroad.
The media won’t have as easy a time keeping Carney afloat as they did Trudeau, some of us have learned to see through the grift.
A new poll finds that the majority of Canadians support both the Alberta-B.C. pipeline and the Alberta-Ontario pipeline, though one of the two was favoured by survey respondents.
The poll, conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, revealed that the proposal for a new pipeline from Alberta to B.C. received 63 per cent support, while the plan to bring oil to Sarnia, Ontario, received 55 per cent support.
Canada’s building boom is slowing, but still very much alive–even without population growth. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data shows housing starts slipped in June. BMO Capital Markets wrote to investors, explaining volumes of new housing aren’t a concern. However, they note Canada is building a “nation of rentals,” as most new units will be for purpose-built rentals (not homeowners) for the first time ever.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to lead Canada out of the economic and foreign policy shadow of the United States, and his bizarre Davos plan to lead a Thucydidean “middle power” revolt against Washington, has accomplished virtually nothing. Highly publicized overtures to China and western Europe are inconsequential. The United States still buys 68 per cent of our exports and provides 56 per cent of our imports.
A rear-view glance to this month’s NATO summit should prompt a look to the future, asking how Canada plans to achieve its commitment to spend 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035. For Canada to meet the NATO pledge, it will have to make difficult choices on taxes, spending and borrowing. Making these choices requires a credible fiscal plan – and it needs to come in the fall budget.
Ron Wyden wants the Trump administration to treat one of America’s allies as a counterintelligence threat.
The Oregon senator wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is doubling as acting national security adviser, on July 16.
His warning centers on an invasive surveillance bill moving through Canada’s Parliament that could turn American technology companies into tools for spying on Americans.
