OTTAWA — Dennis Lu, the Natural Resources Canada scientist at the center of one of the most consequential foreign-interference prosecutions in the country’s history, co-authored a scholarly book on carbon-capture technology that his publisher released in December 2024 — months after Canada’s national security police had already detained him. The Bureau has confirmed Lu’s co-author was a Chinese professor who is also a Communist Party personnel official: the man who, since 2020, has helped run the recruiting machinery at Southeast University in Nanjing and today directs its Talent Work Office.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Mexico not looking to cut side deal with U.S. and leave Canada out, foreign secretary says
Mexico’s foreign secretary says his country isn’t looking to cut a deal with the U.S. if it means abandoning the trilateral trade pact with Canada.
When asked Friday if Mexico would go it alone on a trade deal with the U.S., Roberto Velasco Álvarez shook his head and said all three countries that make up the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) have bilateral issues to work on.
They did last time freezing out Freeland.
Canada-US Bridge Pact Omits Canada’s Debt Costs, Document Shows
Canada and the US agreed to split the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan for 15 years — with no provision to cover Canada’s debt-service costs on the project, according to a copy of the pact seen by Bloomberg News.
The agreement in principle covering the Gordie Howe International Bridge appears to contradict earlier public remarks from Prime Minister Mark Carney. And it shows what Canada conceded to get the President Donald Trump’s administration to stop blocking the 1.5-mile bridge over the Detroit River.
Carney lies always.
Michael Higgins: There’s no justice in jailing people for residential school ‘denialism’
Five years after the Kamloops “graves” controversy first erupted, and with zero bodies discovered, First Nations chiefs are pushing hard to make residential school denialism an imprisonable offence.
But Canadians should not have to face up to two years in jail for denying what the chiefs describe as their “truth.” Are we only to speak about the horrors of residential schools, or will survivors with “warm memories” face prison?
GOLDSTEIN: Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau
It’s no accident Prime Minister Mark Carney presided over the worst record of economic growth during his first year in office of any Canadian PM in more than half a century.
Actually, it was negative growth of 0.05% as reported by Bloomberg News.
Despite that, a Nanos-Bloomberg poll showed most Canadians are satisfied with Carney’s performance on the economy.
As Ontario Burns, Ottawa Announces $125M in Financing for Brazil
Northern Ontario continues to be on fire, blanketing southern Ontario and northern U.S. states in thick smoke, while the foreign affairs minister announced over $125M in funding for Brazil and an agreement between the two countries to fight wildfires.
h/t Mauser
Canada joining international program to build next generation of fighter jets
Defence Minister David McGuinty is expected to announce next week in the United Kingdom that Canada will play a role in an international program to build the next generation of stealth fighter jets, CBC News has learned.
Canada has reached a deal to join the Global Combat Air Program as an “observer,” Canadian government sources said.
The U.K., Japan and Italy are all partners in the multibillion-dollar program to develop and build the sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035.
Lots of money to fall into the wallets of the connected.
Senior RCMP officer’s ‘no evidence’ comment about India seems to contradict past statements
Perhaps the most surprising part of the announcement of the joint Operation Hard Ball last week was how much the RCMP’s description of the actors involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist differed from what it said only a short while ago.
“I firmly state that nothing has come out today to link the Indian government” to the operation, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Lisa Moreland told CBC’s Power & Politics.
“There’s no evidence to suggest through this organized crime investigation and the charges and the indictment laid forward that Indian officials were charged or involved
Canada to buy nearly $2-billion in armoured vehicles from U.S. defence contractor
The federal government has picked the local subsidiary of a U.S. defence contractor as Ottawa’s first “strategic partner” to build capabilities for the country’s growing military, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday.
As part of this, Canada will pay General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada nearly $2-billion over four years to build 190 more armoured combat support vehicles, expanding the Canadian Army’s fleet of armoured vehicles to 550 from 360, Mr. Carney said at the company’s plant in London, Ont.
Many unhappy elbows at the dinner table tonight.
70% of Canadians say crushing taxes destroying standard of living: Poll
OTTAWA — We’re tapped out.
That’s the message Canadians have for Ottawa in a new Ipsos poll conducted for the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), which shows 70% of Canadians believe high tax burdens are having a negative impact on their cost of living.
Liberals pause ‘Give Grandma’s Hospital Bed To Some Freeloading Foreigner” Immigration Program
OTTAWA – The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada as permanent residents under a program meant to promote family reunification.
The Immigration Department said the change is part of an effort to responsibly manage the system and reduce wait times.
In a statement posted online, the department said interest in the program continues to exceed the number of available spaces.
Reduce wait times? This program should not exist. Bastards.
LILLEY: Why is Mark Carney hiring Americans for the PMO?
Mark Carney is a man of many firsts, but I wouldn’t have picked him to be the first prime minister to hire an American to help run the Prime Minister’s Office.
This week, it was reported that Carney was promoting a woman unknown to most Canadians to the position of chief operating officer in the PMO.
How come the CBC isn’t projectile vomiting 24/7 about “American Politics Imported To Canada!”
Canadians Like Depraved Slave Labour Camp Called China More Than US Says Pew Research Survey
Canadians’ opinions of the United States have deteriorated while their perceptions of China have improved compared to a few years ago, a new report suggests.
According to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, 44 per cent of Canadians surveyed between February and May hold a favourable view of China, while 33 per cent feel the same about the U.S. Last year, Canadians were “equally” favourable toward both countries. But in 2023, most Canadians had a “positive view” of the U.S. at 57 per cent, compared to 14 per cent that viewed China positively.
Mark Carney looks good but economy tells different story
Mark Carney has presided over the worst first year of economic growth of any prime minister since Lester Pearson in 1963 — 63 years ago! Even Justin Trudeau, who was an economic disaster for 10 years as PM, had a better first year than Carney.
Real gross domestic product shrank last year, an outcome Carney blamed on his predecessor’s government decision to limit non-permanent resident visas.
America Isn’t the Enemy: The Wrongful Dismissal Case Shaking Ottawa’s China Strategy
I’m back with Jason James to discuss an explosive wrongful dismissal claim that I believe may get to the heart of Mark Carney’s pivot to Beijing — and to a larger question now facing Canada.
Who is this government really listening to?
The case involves Raquel Garbers, a senior Canadian defence policy specialist and military figure who, according to reporting on her legal claim, helped shape Canada’s Arctic and NORAD defence policy — the very architecture that binds Canadian and American security together against the real strategic threats facing North America.
