If Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking for ways to save money, he can start by shooting fish in a barrel: He can scrap the gun confiscation program that law enforcement leaders and academic experts say won’t work.
Carney’s government says it’s working super hard on a spending review. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told the rest of cabinet to come up with “ambitious savings proposals” to control government outlay.
Economists are urging the government to factor in the estimated 500,000 undocumented residents in Canada as it consults on its forthcoming immigration levels plan.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab is consulting on targets for the number of temporary and permanent residents Canada plans to allow in the next three years, in what some consider a litmus test of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s position on immigration.
The immigration levels are annually presented in October or November to help planning for housing, schools, health care and infrastructure.
First erect walls encircling the city then ship them all to Ottawa.
Farking lying bastards.
Numbers update.
Immigration levels in first third of the year outpaced @MarkJCarney promised cap on quotas.
Figures released by @CitImmCanada for first 120 days set a pace that would see nearly 400,000 new landed immigrants in 2025.https://t.co/oiom76oPHa@LenaMetlegeDiab… pic.twitter.com/pk3nltzwcY— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) August 13, 2025
From Torontology – When did everyone in the GTA turn Indian?
“So I just came back to Canada after being out of the country for a couple years, an after searching for a few months I landed a forklift warehouse job in the GTA, paying about $23/hour.
Whole crew? Indian.
Managers? Indian.
I was literally the only non-Indian guy there.
They all speaking Punjabi or Hindi or something the whole time I didn’t understand a thing
The lunchroom absolutely smelled like ass I couldn’t even my meal in there so I went and ate it in my car.
Then after my shift I hit McDonald’s to grab a drink… same thing. Staff, customers everyone there was Indian too.
Not tryna be rude or weird or nothing, I was just shook. Like when did this happen?? Was there some big immigration wave recently or is this just how it’s been in Ontario now?
Genuinely curious haven’t been around in a few years and it feels like the GTA changed heavy. What the fuck happened?”
John Van de Brook went online recently to search for the constituency office address of his local MP, Nepean Liberal Mark Carney. There’s been a recent rat infestation in Barrhaven, and, while he had already reached out to the office of his municipal councillor, Van de Brook thought he might as well cover all the bases. After all, it wasn’t so many months ago that his then-MP, Chandra Arya, helped solve a problem that Van de Brook’s wife was having with her permanent resident card. Who knows, he figured, maybe Carney could help with this?
Alas, Van de Brook couldn’t locate Carney’s office because, well, there isn’t one.
We don’t often get a look at a potential prime minister’s detailed policy proposals. But in 2021 Mark Carney published a book that laid it all out for us.
”Values: Building a Better World for All,” states in no uncertain, and often very complicated, terms what we must do to build a better world. But one of the key themes of the book is climate change and all the lost life, damage and general mayhem it is already unleashing and will continue to do so at an even more frantic pace, if we don’t do something about it now.
I don’t think anyone but a Star writer could believe that.
Why to drop a bad idea on immigration
The federal government seems to be quietly abandoning a program that would have opened a door to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers employed in low-wage jobs in Canada.
The program, mentioned unceremoniously in a bulletin in the Canada Gazette in April of 2024, appeared to offer a quick path to permanent residency for international students and temporary foreign workers making a living as food and beverage servers, delivery drivers, cleaners and general labourers.
What sort of scumbags would happily sacrifice Canadians for cheap foreign labour?
Corporate Canada that’s who.
I swear they’re gonna make me some sort of new wave communist.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vow to double Canadian housing construction to 500,000 units a year would seem to be an ambitious enough goal.
But Carney’s housing plan is also an industrial strategy meant to kick-start a nascent factory-built housing industry and rejuvenate Canada’s ailing forest products sector.
With his $26 billion Build Canada Homes (BCH) agency, which goes into operation this fall, Ottawa hopes to increase production of innovative housing types including prefabricated, modular, panelized and mass timber housing.
The Carney Liberals have been hiding immigration data from Canadians for months. Now, after being called out on it, the government says it’s all in the name of openness and transparency.
Normally, government numbers on the number of new arrivals, the number of asylum seekers and more are released on the government’s open data portal. As of now, the government hasn’t released any data since May and that information only covers until the end of March.
Culture SHOCK ⚡️ for an Albertan to visit Ontario! pic.twitter.com/jxxiqX1sAg
— JayGen er (@JayGenXer) August 11, 2025
More than 50 percent of Canadians say the size and cost of the federal public service should be scaled back in the years ahead, a new poll suggests.
A Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) poll conducted by Leger found that 54 percent of respondents would like to see the federal bureaucracy trimmed while 24 percent want it maintained. Only 4 percent said it should be increased and 17 percent said they were uncertain.
In January, Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry on foreign interference recommended that politicians check to see whether the people they meet are listed on the foreign-agent registry.
Good idea. But there’s a hitch: There is still no registry.
And there won’t be one before the end of 2025.
A foreign agent registry will interfere with the grift.
More than a year after announcing a new immigration stream that would have granted permanent residency to low-wage workers already in Canada, the federal government has yet to move ahead on formally launching the program – suggesting that Ottawa could be backing away from the plan altogether.
The plan targeting low-wage workers was informally announced in April 2024, through the Canada Gazette. Consultations were set to begin last year on amending immigration laws to admit a “new permanent economic class of workers in TEER 4 and TEER 5 jobs.”
Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is a feature not a bug. Yes they are out to get you.
It seems like a lifetime ago, but Justin Trudeau was Canada’s prime minister until only a few months ago.
As he gets smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror, we’re coming to terms with some of the public policy disasters that came out of Trudeau’s time as prime minister.
(Go incognito)
As Canada’s industries reel under ever-changing tariff burdens applied by U.S. President Donald Trump on Canadian products, it becomes clear that Canada must diversify its customer base for exports. The United States will always be Canada’s primary trading partner due to its size and proximity, but Canada will remain vulnerable to protectionist actions from presidents if it refuses to expand its capability to develop resources and deliver products to overseas customers.
Carney has kowtowed to the Indigenous rent seekers, likely a deliberate move to advance his economy killing eco-nuttery.
A Montreal think tank says the federal government could save $10 billion by reducing 64,000 public service jobs.
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) made the recommendation in a pre-budget brief released on Aug. 7. It urges the government to follow the approach of former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, saying his government reduced the civil service by 17 percent over five years.
I don’t see Carney alienating the public service unions, they are too significant a vote bloc.
Canada has 4.5 million public servants
whose wages are being paid by only 13.7 million private sector workers
3 taxpayers for every 1 public servant making 80-120k
HOW is this country still standing?
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) August 8, 2025
As Canada’s income gap widens, some of those who are struggling sort trash to survive
Grant Kilian likes to move fast between the tall blue recycling bins he sorts through, in Vancouver’s West End alleys.
Time, but more accurately, cans are money here. The faster you can fill a bag, the faster you can get paid at the return depot. A big garbage bag full of beer cans, some of which he says he crushes, at 10 cents a pop, could earn Kilian about $30 in tax-free cash.
As he puts it, it’s just a bit of extra money for food, bills or cigarettes when everything feels tight.
It’s an economic miracle if you consider turning a wealthy nation into a 3rd World Dumpster Fire a miracle.
