President Donald Trump was wrong to launch his trade war on Canada, majorities of adults in both countries agree.
Now Canadians of all political stripes are rallying around their government, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, while in the United States, even some self-identified MAGA voters are worried about the political fallout for Trump.
I never imagined Politico publishing such a piece!
Mark Carney and Donald Trump are from different planets. And the Canada–US border now represents a face-off line on big issues in Western ideology.
While Carney praises climate action and net zero, Trump calls it all a hoax and says, “Drill, baby, drill.” While Trump declares, “We reject the ideology of globalism,” Carney worships it in his Davos speech.
Twenty-eight per cent of working Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would struggle to meet their financial obligations if their pay was delayed by just one week, according to a survey from the National Payroll Institute released Tuesday.
This climbed from just under a quarter last year to its highest level in five years, said Peter Tzanetakis, president and chief executive at the institute.
OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s government’s own Public Safety assessment of the controversial BC Ferries contract with a Chinese state-owned shipyard identified potential risks to Canadian supply chains and flagged the proximity of ferry routes to sensitive military and intelligence infrastructure — including a Signals Intelligence facility in Haida Gwaii and the country’s main naval base in Victoria.
For a multitude of reasons, Canada will never become an “associate member” of the European Union. It was never in the realm of possibility.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would have known this. Her offer last week at the European Parliament wasn’t off the cuff but was carefully orchestrated within EU circles and was done for symbolic purposes, a clear signal to certain unnamed powers that Canada and Europe have shared geopolitical interests and can work together as close political and commercial allies in today’s hegemonic world.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney claimed Monday that the industrial carbon tax has no effect on grocery prices, drawing a sharp rebuttal from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
PM Carney claimed today that industrial carbon pricing has “zero” direct or indirect impact on food prices.
That is not true.
Ottawa’s own modelling estimated millions in carbon-pricing costs for food, beverage manufacturing in 2022, when the carbon tax was $20 per tonne.… pic.twitter.com/vTT5xP4csF
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 21, 2026
I. The Core Allegation: “Pay-to-Play” Infrastructure
The prosecution will argue that the Prime Minister (PM) has operated a criminal enterprise where public policy and taxpayer-funded contracts were used as a vehicle to inflate the value of a private entity (Brookfield) in which he holds a direct pecuniary interest (stock options).
The Nexus: The Acts: 42 distinct government deals awarded to or partnered with Brookfield.
The Benefit: $5 billion in reported profits for the entity.
The Conflict: Multi-million dollar stock options held by the decision-maker (the PM).
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Months after the Canadian Armed Forces banned chaplains from praying at official military ceremonies, members of a Protestant chapel at an east coast military base are protesting plans to deconsecrate the historic sacred building and turn it into a multi-faith space.
Housing affordability just worsened for a growing share of Canadians, new data from Statistics Canada shows.
Nearly one in four (23.2 per cent) Canadian households were living in unaffordable housing in 2024, compared to 22 per cent in 2022, Statistics Canada said in a report on Monday.
Statistics Canada defined households living in “unaffordable” housing as those that spent 30 per cent or more of their income on shelter costs
Katie Hopkins gives Mark Carney a proper introduction at the EU Parliament. pic.twitter.com/3nJUb6dWl0
— RPN Entertainment (@rpnenter) September 21, 2026
h/t Mauser
The federal government introduced sweeping legislative changes on Monday aimed at reducing labour disruptions in federally regulated sectors and speeding up project approvals.
The changes to federal review rules represent a partial dismantling of policies introduced under former Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau that have been sharply criticized by the energy sector and the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments.
Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act, was introduced in the House of Commons Monday afternoon by Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon.
Big Projects = Big TFW influx.
What does it tell us about what Prime Minister Mark Carney really wants, that a yet-to-be-defined associate relationship with Europe is something to which we should aspire, but any suggestion of a comparable relationship with the US would be anathema if not faintly treasonous?
The short answer is that for Mr. Carney the political meaning of the two options is not the same. In the absence of full details, being an “Associate” to the European Union sounds like statesmanship. (Once details are provided, it may not.)
The speeches keep coming, each building on the previous one, as the Canadian prime minister builds a case for a new world order that has strikingly little to do with the United States of America, the country that has led the west since the second world war.
On 20 January, in Davos, Mark Carney proposed that the world’s middle powers do more to support each other, in light of a “rupture” in the global order. That was clearly a reference to the destabilizing policies of Donald Trump, who had been inaugurated exactly one year earlier, and had spent most of that year insulting the US’s allies.
Oh yea?
Pivot away… so exciting pic.twitter.com/ZkVtiRBQln
— Bree (@brethordark) September 20, 2026
Canada’s spy agency says China is the “most active state” conducting foreign interference in Canada, and warns that Beijing is likely to continue targeting Canadian democratic institutions.
In its Sept. 3 report on foreign interference (FI), the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said Chinese officials and proxies are responsible for planning, organizing, and carrying out interference activities in Canada.
OTTAWA – Parliament is set to return after a three-month long summer break on Monday and the Liberal government’s agenda will be jammed packed this fall.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is running high in the polls, and his government maintains a majority of seats in the House of Commons, which gives the Liberal leader ample room to implement his policies.
Canada is no longer a democratic country and only a a fool believes it is. https://t.co/pBoW7aE2KC
— Mr. Bill K. 🇨🇦🏴🇺🇲 (@KieserBill) September 20, 2026
