What does Prime Minister Mark Carney have against the U.S. dollar?
Plenty, it turns out. And his recent calls for an alternative to the U.S. greenback as a global reserve currency will not go over well in Washington, where the dollar’s dominance is seen as an indispensable tool in the conduct of U.S. economic and foreign policy.
Carney knows the war is lost so he’s riling up the Elbow people to avoid having to admit he’s been a failure.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Despite being touted as a key affordability measure by the Mark Carney Liberals, a program offering tax relief for Canadians’ first home is leaving applicants waiting — often for months — with a good chance of having their application refused.
When explaining why trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed in late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney often cites the U.S. team’s shifting and last-minute demands. Those mattered, to be sure. But what he doesn’t mention is equally important.
In a 2,700-word address on Aug. 22 explaining why we’re in a trade war, Mr. Carney never said the word “China.” In his Sept. 8 Forward Guidance video, he mentioned it once, observing that an Alberta farm can now get better prices for its canola “because our trade diversification opens opportunities with China.” That was the deal he negotiated in January in Beijing, with the benefit emphasized and the price tag removed.
Canadians know how it feels to be hit by U.S. tariffs. But Canada hasn’t been subjected to Washington’s more aggressive tactics such as trade sanctions and asset freezes.
Or rather, most Canadians haven’t.
Judge Kimberly Prost, a Canadian jurist who serves on the International Criminal Court, is the exception. She found her credit cards cancelled, her Google accounts closed and was effectively “de-banked” after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the court “an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel.”
I bet Carney holds greenbacks. h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Canadians overwhelmingly support Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union, a new poll suggests — even though the details of that arrangement haven’t been finalized.
The online poll by Leger, conducted between Sept. 19 and Sept. 21, suggests 70 per cent of Canadians support the idea, 18 per cent are unsure and 13 per cent oppose it.
But the poll suggests Canadians draw the line at changing some laws in order to align with Europe.
Canada’s former top soldier said he is appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., saying the alleged involvement of a veteran could risk tarring the reputation of the military.
Retired general Wayne Eyre led the military when suspect Sean Ward was released in 2022 from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving five years.
“I was horrified to hear of the events,” he said in an interview. “I was disappointed to learn of the perpetrator’s military affiliation.”
I think the CAF’s “reputation” is long past the point of salvage and most of that damage was self-inflicted.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN—The Canadian federal government and Canadian consumers should be wary of continuing to import Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in its trade deal with China, says the head of a Taiwanese think tank focusing on Taiwanese government policy and relations with China.
“You do not want your land vehicles to be controlled by [China] and weaponized by them,” I-Chung Lai—The Prospect Foundation president and the former director general of both international affairs and China affairs—told The Hub during a foreign press tour event at the think tank’s headquarters in Taipei. “That threat needs to be taken very seriously.”
OTTAWA — Toronto police are investigating a September 22 confrontation outside China’s Toronto consulate in which a man wearing a black jacket with a red People’s Republic of China insignia damaged Falun Gong protest displays and threatened a female practitioner with lethal violence, invoking Chinese law, accusing protesters of making trouble and threatening to have her shot.
"The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I'm going to shoot all of you." He can be heard saying this at 01:18 here: pic.twitter.com/mhtkyceAQ0
— Aric Chen (@aricchen) September 23, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney over the past year has prepared for the unlikely risk that President Donald Trump might order military action against Canada, a news report says.
The New York Times, citing an interview with Mr. Carney, said he had described the probability of such action as “extreme tail risk.” It’s a term used in finance and risk management, and refers to a very rare event that would cause enormous damage but is so unlikely that people tend to ignore or underestimate it.”
OTTAWA — Days before Prime Minister Mark Carney traded lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles for relief on Canadian canola, a Toronto-area Chinese business association reportedly urged his office to remove Canada’s 100 percent surtax on those vehicles, citing support for Canadian farm exports.
A Hamilton, Ont., man who followed a 15-year-old down a dark trail just before midnight, grabbed her by the hair from behind, then showed her an explicit video and exposed himself has failed to convince a judge to tailor his sentence so he can avoid deportation.
Harpreet Singh, 30, was convicted in the Ontario Court of Justice for sexual interference, making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual interference, and exposure to a person under the age of 16 years for a sexual purpose. The permanent Canadian resident, who was born and raised in Punjab, India, argued unsuccessfully for 182 days in jail followed by two years of probation.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the “extreme tail risk” that President Trump might order military action against Canada, but disclosed that the two men have spoken “frequently,” even since trade talks collapsed last month, describing a tense, evolving relationship.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times at its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Mr. Carney described in meticulous detail how he was systematically reducing Canada’s reliance on the United States for key technology — from space satellites to fighter jets — in an effort to make his country far less vulnerable to American threats. He outlined a plan to diversify Canada’s relationships and suppliers, and said that even with a different future president “we will be a better partner for the U.S. because of what we are doing.”
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she is checking to see if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who faces an international arrest warrant — will be travelling through Canadian airspace on Thursday.
“I actually have asked my department to provide me with information relating to this particular flyover, which I did not have before coming to the United Nations,” Anand told reporters Wednesday outside UN headquarters in New York.
Netanyahu is set to visit New York on Thursday. Prime Minister Mark Carney said in October that the Israeli leader will be arrested if he enters Canada.
h/t Mauser
Mark Carney was in the room when two starkly different visions of the world order were laid before the United Nations General Assembly.
One came from the secretary-general of the UN, António Guterres. The other came from Donald Trump.
It was immediately evident, within the span of two hours, which world view would be embraced by Canada’s prime minister. Another day, another milepost in Canada’s increasing distance from Trump’s United States.
OTTAWA — Former prime minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. is an “extremely unpredictable” partner because President Donald Trump’s administration is “no longer working” in the best interest of Americans.
The former prime minister shared his thoughts on the current Trump administration as part of a question and answer session with Brown University President Christina Paxson in Rhode Island on Tuesday.
