OLDCORN: Is Ottawa trying to censor the Bible? Liberals’ assault on Christianity continues

If you told Canadians ten years ago their government would be debating the censorship of the Bible, most would have laughed.

Now, thanks to Liberal MP Marc Miller, the joke’s over.

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After Liberals table a budget with few surprises, all eyes turn to the opposition parties

OTTAWA — After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled a plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an early election.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled his first budget in the House of Commons shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, for what he said is a “true generational shift” in reaction to the new global economic landscape under U.S. President Donald Trump.


Some highlights …

Federal budget breakdown: Mark Carney’s first budget, by the numbers

OTTAWA — Billed as a once-in-a-generation plan to fortify Canada for a wobbly and uncertain global economy, the federal government’s new budget devotes tens of billions of dollars in new spending to national defence, infrastructure and more.


This budget is a Trump survival plan. Here are the highlights

Donald Trump doesn’t appear by name in the 2025 federal budget, even if his One Big Beautiful Bill does get a mention, but the U.S. President has left his mark all over the 493-page document.
From the opening words, “The world is changing,” the Carney government’s first budget is a response to Mr. Trump’s trade war and the threat to Canada’s economy. That means ramped-up defence spending, measures to make Canadian businesses more competitive and billions in new investment around trade diversification.

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“Overrun”: Washington’s Grim Verdict on Canada’s CCP Infiltration Crisis

OTTAWA — In his striking conclusion to Under Assault, former national-security analyst Dennis Molinaro reveals that U.S. government sources have privately described Canada as “overrun” with Chinese influence — the ultimate consequence of a fifty-year pattern, begun under Pierre Trudeau and seemingly accelerated by his son, of engaging the Chinese Communist Party on its own terms and to the detriment of Canadian sovereignty.

It’s a finding that resonates sharply as Justin Trudeau’s successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney renews deeper ties with Beijing amid Washington’s intensifying, security-driven tariff pressure on its allies.


h/t Handy n’ Handsome

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Carney government’s ‘generational investment’ will land squarely on backs of younger Canadians

Despite promising a “very different approach” to fiscal policy during the election, the cracks are clearly showing as the Carney government gears up to release its first budget on Tuesday.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has said “Canada should be prepared for a generational investment.” This is among many attempts by the government to spin the upcoming budget – which will include high spending, huge deficits and massive debt accumulation – as something different from what we experienced under Justin Trudeau. Make no mistake, similar to the fiscal plans of his predecessor, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget will burden Canadians for generations.


It’s a crappy time to be in Canada doubly so for the young.

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Can the federal budget reset Canada’s economy?

By just about every measure, Canada’s economy is stuck in a ditch. Growth has sputtered. The unemployment rate is rising.

In normal times, the remedy is clear. The Bank of Canada cuts interest rates and the federal government boosts spending to help businesses and households weather the storm.

These are decidedly not normal times.

And Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem knows it.

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Mark Carney’s Liberals don’t have enough votes to pass their budget. So what happens now?

OTTAWA — When Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne presents his first budget on Tuesday, he will set off a high stakes game of parliamentary chicken as opposition parties plot their moves to either kick off a national election campaign or reluctantly support the fiscal blueprint.

Here’s how the budget and the Liberal government could live or die…

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Newsflash to Mark Carney’s housing minister: house prices do in fact have to come down

For a faint second, it seemed as though federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson had finally seen the light. During a House of Commons finance committee appearance recently, headlines reported that Robertson acknowledged what should be an obvious truth — that “the average home price must fall” to make housing affordable again.

This was welcome news for both the generations of Canadians locked out of home ownership and housing advocates, many of whom roundly lambasted the minister earlier this year when he insisted, multiple times, that housing prices don’t need to fall.

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Will the budget kill Carney’s honeymoon?

OAKVILLE, ONT.—As any etymologist will tell you, the word “decide” stems from the Latin decidere, which means “to kill off.”

The idea is, whenever you decide on an action, you’re essentially killing off all other options.

This is why politicians don’t like to make tough decisions; they don’t like to kill off options that might be popular with certain segments of the population.

Such a fraud.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Canada’s first battery plant in Windsor will produce energy storage batteries as EV sales slump persists

Nextstar Energy Ltd. will produce batteries for energy storage, not electric vehicles, when its gigafactory in Windsor, Ont. begins commercial production next month.

Expanding into the growing market for energy storage production will keep the plant busy until EV sales pick up again, said Danies Lee, chief executive of Nextstar.

“The EV market is slowed down,” said Lee, chief executive of Nextstar. “It’s like a trend that will come soon, but it does not come as soon as we expect it, so while we are waiting, we have this opportunity from the (energy storage system) ESS market.”

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Fearing fraud, Canada rejects most Indian study permit applicants

TORONTO — Canada’s clampdown on international students has hit applicants from India particularly hard, government data shows, as what was once a preferred destination loses its allure for Indian students.

Canada lowered the number of international student permits it issues for the second year in a row in early 2025 as part of a broader effort to reduce the number of temporary migrants and address fraud related to student visas.

About 74 per cent of Indian applications for permits to study at Canadian post-secondary institutions in August — the most recent month available –- were rejected, compared to about 32 per cent in August 2023, according to immigration department data provided to Reuters.


They should be rejecting every last one.

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Billion-dollar government deals with Stellantis, NextStar for EV battery plant revealed

Confidential government deals worth billions of dollars to help fund a Stellantis-backed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., carry dozens of conditions that, if violated, give federal officials the power to end the agreements and even force repayment in some cases, according to copies obtained by CBC Windsor.

It is unclear, however, if the contracts contain guarantees related to the company’s broader footprint in Canada, as elected officials have claimed. Some portions of the documents are redacted, so the full terms of the agreements are unknown.

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Mark Carney is plunging Canada further into an Islamo-Leftist dystopia

For outdoorsy pursuits, Canada is in the very top of the leagues. The best skiing in the world is arguably at Whistler near Vancouver; I was blown away by my childhood experience there, almost literally, for there is a constant barrage of fresh snow. It is generally very wintry in Canada and it is the world’s great ice hockey nation.

Nature is big and beautiful throughout the northernmost Commonwealth land in all seasons, and if you have disposable income, you can eat very well too. There is first-rate sushi, Franco-American dishes like the famous poutine, which is a mishmash of chips doused in meat and gravy, and craft beers galore. There is even a mini-slice of France, north American-style, in Montreal and Quebec, where the majority still speak French (for now).

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Will Carney’s budget finally reveal where the prime minister is taking Canada?

The Liberals won the election on Carney’s promise to “win” the trade war with Trump. So now what?

OTTAWA — Mark Carney never promised he’d be easy to understand. It was more like the opposite. Near midnight the day before this spring’s federal election, the prime minister joked to a crowd of
Vancouver Islanders in sweaters and anoraks about how politicians who campaign in poetry tend to govern in prose. Ever the technocrat, Carney would go much further than that.

“Imagine,” he said with a grin. “I’m going to govern in econometrics.”


He’s taking us to China if he can get away with it.

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Carney says he’s prepared to fight an election campaign if budget doesn’t pass

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’s prepared to fight an election campaign if his minority Liberal government fails to pass the Nov. 4 federal budget.

Mr. Carney has already warned Canadians they will have to accept challenges and sacrifices in what he said would be “generational investments” to refashion the Canadian economy in the face of rising U.S. protectionism.

The Liberals will require the support of at least one opposition party to pass its fiscal plan and the government will fall if this fails because votes on the budget amount to confidence votes.

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