America Isn’t the Enemy: The Wrongful Dismissal Case Shaking Ottawa’s China Strategy

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.

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Carney’s $160,000 in-flight catering bill draws criticism from taxpayers group

Carney’s $160,000 in-flight catering bill draws criticism from taxpayers group

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s delegation spent nearly $160,000 on in-flight catering during a single overseas trip, according to government records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, prompting renewed criticism over government travel spending.

The records show Carney and a 55-member entourage spent $159,800 on meals during a week-long trip to Athens, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg and the Canary Islands in November 2025.

That amounts to roughly $2,850 per passenger.

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Hundreds rally at Winnipeg’s city hall against federal gun buyback

Hundreds rally at Winnipeg’s city hall against federal gun buyback

Hundreds of people stood in the courtyard outside Winnipeg’s city hall in 34 C heat on Monday to express their opposition to a federal effort to compensate owners of guns the Liberal government describes as “assault-style” firearms.

The $700-million program has faced widespread criticism for both its cost and its effectiveness. The federal government hoped to buy 136,000 firearms through the program but ended up with only 67,000.

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Amy Hamm: Liberals warning of ‘looksmaxxing’ in the ‘manosphere’ is as silly as it sounds

Amy Hamm: Liberals warning of ‘looksmaxxing’ in the ‘manosphere’ is as silly as it sounds

In June, the government of Canada’s Standing Committee on the Status of Women submitted a parliamentary report titled “Confronting Antifeminist Ideologies in Canada.”

The report is proof of how petty and out of touch with reality — and with the real threat to women’s rights in this country, i.e. gender ideology — that the federal government truly is. I simply don’t know where to start.


Report Pdf below.

CONFRONTING ANTIFEMINIST IDEOLOGIES

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Carney promotes Net Zero Pal Maia Johnson as COO of His PMO

Carney promotes Net Zero Pal Maia Johnson as COO of His PMO

Two members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s inner circle are getting a boost as part of a staff shuffle prompted by the appointment of his principal secretary to the Senate and a deputy chief of staff departing to run for office.

Scott Gilmore, currently Mr. Carney’s senior adviser on foreign, defence and security policy, is being promoted to principal secretary as of later this month, three sources told The Globe and Mail.

The sources also said that Maia Johnson, currently a senior adviser for Canada-U.S. relations, is taking on an additional role as chief operating officer.

Twitter/X has opinions!

If Poilievre did this our Media would be screaming “Foreign Interference” for a month.

My guess is she’s Carney’s Net Zero Sidepiece

The sources said she is connected to Mr. Carney through his prior work with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he launched while he was the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. But they did not know the specifics.

h/t Patti Jo

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How many more times will Beijing fool Canada’s politicians?

How many more times will Beijing fool Canada’s politicians?

Nearly three months after Jennifer May’s four-year appointment as Canadian ambassador to China ended, the office remains dark, with little word about why.

This is obviously a key position in Canada’s diplomatic corps, but in an era of prioritizing trade relations, this office requires more than a sharp business mind.

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Pain at the pump, sticker shock forcing buyers into used car lots

Pain at the pump, sticker shock forcing buyers into used car lots

OTTAWA — With Canada’s affordability crisis dashing dreams of home ownership for many, Canadians are now finding that owning a new car is also becoming out of reach.

Released on Tuesday, AutoTrader’s Q2 2026 automotive price index suggests that even though new car prices have eased slightly, one in seven Canadians are abandoning plans to purchase a new car off the lot, opting instead for more affordable used options.

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Former MP Raj Grewal faces slew of fraud allegations, possible suspension as lawyer

Former MP Raj Grewal faces slew of fraud allegations, possible suspension as lawyer

Ontario’s legal regulator is moving to suspend the licence of lawyer Raj Grewal as the former Liberal MP faces a slew of lawsuits accusing him, the law firm he founded, family members and associates of millions of dollars in fraud and other wrongdoing.

The Law Society of Ontario is investigating charges that Grewal may have misappropriated trust money, participated in fraud and failed to act with honour and integrity, the agency says in requesting the suspension.

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Canada is spending billions of dollars on new submarines — so what are they actually for?

Canada is spending billions of dollars on new submarines — so what are they actually for?

A little over two years ago, the federal government announced it would be “exploring options” for the purchase of a new submarine fleet. Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the winning bid, for up to 12 diesel-electric submarines. He did so in advance of a visit to Ankara for the NATO leaders’ summit, where the deal between Canada and the German-Norwegian consortium TKMS was exhibit A in demonstrating our commitment to increased defence spending, a contentious issue for the Trump administration.

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NATO Summit: Canada Must Now Deliver

NATO Summit: Canada Must Now Deliver

Canada leaves this week’s NATO Summit in Ankara with good reason for cautious optimism. After years of debating defence budgets and delayed procurements, the Alliance has reached an important turning point. The discussion is no longer about promises. It is about military capability. That is precisely where Canada’s focus must remain.

For years, NATO measured commitment by the percentage of GDP devoted to defence. That benchmark still matters, but it is no longer sufficient. The true measure of national security is whether those dollars produce soldiers, ships, submarines, aircraft, armoured vehicles and ammunition that can fight. Capability deters aggression. Announcements do not.

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Canada’s going to need to use its aging secondhand British subs for another decade

Canada’s going to need to use its aging secondhand British subs for another decade

Canada will have to squeeze at least another decade of life out of its used British submarines as it waits for Germany to deliver up to 12 new vessels. But not everyone’s convinced that can be done.

The four diesel-electric subs the Royal Canadian Navy acquired from Britain in the late 1990s have been plagued with disasters, including floods, a deadly fire and a grounding that took the only operational sub we have right now out of action for a decade.

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MACLEOD: The chilling effect — why Albertans are afraid to speak freely in Canada

MACLEOD: The chilling effect — why Albertans are afraid to speak freely in Canada

Canada likes to describe itself as a mature democracy. We are often told by the Laurentian elite, who have never been shy about lecturing the West, that this country is built on tolerance, debate, pluralism, and peaceful disagreement.

Then Albertans start talking seriously about independence, and suddenly those principles become negotiable.

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A Chinese University Affiliation, Chinese State Funding, and Warnings Ignored: The Dennis Lu Case Follows a Pattern Canada Has Seen Before

A Chinese University Affiliation, Chinese State Funding, and Warnings Ignored: The Dennis Lu Case Follows a Pattern Canada Has Seen Before

OTTAWA – Dennis Lu, the veteran federal scientist accused in an explosive foreign interference case echoing the scandal involving Dr. Xiangguo Qiu at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory, published a book after his arrest that lists his institutional affiliation not as the Government of Canada, where he worked for nearly three decades, but as a Chinese university — one credited, along with the book, as receiving Chinese state funding and red-flagged by Australian security analysts for ties to Chinese intelligence.

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CSIS Warned About Him for Two Decades. Then a Clean Energy Scientist Allegedly Copied Thousands of Files for Beijing on the Eve of Retirement

CSIS Warned About Him for Two Decades. Then a Clean Energy Scientist Allegedly Copied Thousands of Files for Beijing on the Eve of Retirement

OTTAWA – A senior Natural Resources Canada scientist who court records say collaborated with Chinese counterparts on government energy research has been charged with breach of trust and unauthorized use of federal computers, as an Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered Canada’s national security agencies — including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Privy Council Office — to disclose volumes of sensitive records in a high-profile foreign interference prosecution now heading to trial in Ottawa.

h/t handy n handsome

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