Six months after Mark Carney’s historic trip to China, the first for a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade, CBC announced it will reopen its Beijing bureau. Pending final approvals, a Canadian journalist will be permanently working in mainland China for the first time in years.
The bureau shuttered in 2022, after Beijing would not renew its correspondent’s visa. But that was when the Canadian government viewed the country as one of our greatest security threats. Today, the Canadian government says China is our “strategic partner.”
More Canadian journalists on the ground to cover a world superpower is welcome news. But will they be safe from documented spying, arrest, and harassment? What will they actually be allowed to report on?
OTTAWA — Twenty-five years ago, many of us witnessed an event that changed the world — and us — irrevocably. To label anything “world-changing” is fraught with danger. What exactly changed? Were these changes truly global in nature? Why does an occurrence in one country — the United States — qualify as such?
It should come as no surprise that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Wednesday deadline to impose 50 per cent tariffs on $29 billion worth of Canadian goods came and passed with little fanfare — the president is famous for making boisterous threats and then backing down at the last minute. But as businesses, consumers and investors eagerly await details of a trade deal that may-or-may-not come by Friday, the lesson for Canadians should be that we cannot continue to allow our fate to hang on the whims of foreign politicians.
Another Sikh Canadian activist has been issued a “duty to warn” letter, casting further doubt on the Carney government’s claims that it has dealt with the issue of Indian government foreign interference and transnational repression.
Inderjeet Singh Gosal says he received the letter on Friday, Aug. 14, after RCMP contacted him by phone in Caledon, Ont.
Duty to warn letters are issued by police when they possess credible intelligence that there is a threat to the life of a citizen. They typically do not provide information on the nature of the threat.
He shouldn’t be in Canada. Remigration now.
Just when you thought Canada’s digital misadventures couldn’t get more chaotic, it appears they could be about to.
First, let’s take a quick look at the record. Then we’ll take a peek at the problems.
CALGARY — Justin Trudeau and his popstar girlfriend Katy Perry are reportedly receiving the royal treatment from the RCMP, as they are being used as Trudeau’s security.
Three sources confirmed to TVA Nouvelles this was the case, costing taxpayers a pretty penny to ensure the safety of the former prime minister and his beau.
A Canadian man with alleged ties to terrorist organizations has been barred from entering Panama and returned to Canada.
According to Panama’s National Migration Service, the detection occurred during verification procedures.
A senior member of the Iranian regime has been deported from Canada after a judge dismissed his last-minute appeal, Global News has learned.
The Canada Border Services Agency said it had removed Syed Salman Samani, Iran’s former deputy interior minister and official spokesperson.
I’m more interested in learning who has been letting his likes into Canada.
Our government appears deeply compromised by foreign powers and criminals.
“Intense” trade talks are going down to the wire as Canada seeks to avoid a fresh round of tariffs from the Trump administration due to come into effect on Wednesday.
Canadian negotiators have been camped out in Washington for a week, trying to pin down some agreement before new 50% tariffs on some $20bn (C$28bn) worth of Canadian imports are imposed.
Prime Minister Mark Carney kept details of the talks close to his chest when pressed by reporters on Monday, saying that given the “very delicate and intense” negotiations, it is “not the time to negotiate in public”.
OTTAWA — The House of Commons public safety committee will meet Monday to decide whether to investigate potential security screening failures, after a Canadian woman was arrested in Belgium for allegedly spying on NATO.
On July 25, Belgian authorities announced the arrest of a “Canadian national of Chinese origin” on suspicion of spying for a third country while working as an intern at NATO’s central military headquarters in southern Belgium. The suspect was subsequently identified as Biwei “Claire” Zhang, a computer science and systems engineering graduate in her early 30s who’d previously held positions at multiple Canadian federal agencies.
We know that the RCMP compiled and distributed lists identifying peaceful Freedom Convoy protestors and associated entities to banks and other financial institutions. Those lists contained names, birth dates, phone numbers, and other personal information sent by unencrypted email… pic.twitter.com/SBnLh6hI04
— Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (@JCCFCanada) August 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke over the phone with Donald Trump on Monday afternoon ahead of the U.S. president’s tariff deadline.
While CTV News has confirmed the conversation took place, the Prime Minister’s Office would not provide further details, other than that the conversation was about “the ongoing trade negotiations.”
PM @MarkJCarney says he has plan to cover “all eventualities” if U.S. imposes $28 billion in new tariffs under Wednesday deadline. Details of plan too confidential to discuss in public, he said.https://t.co/KzTwlnxDkI@howardlutnick @jamiesongreer @DLeBlancNB @GAC_Corporate… pic.twitter.com/1zJ4hBVI0r
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) August 18, 2026
I bet he does. h/t Mauser
“For us this is not a trade war,” Jamieson Greer said last week.
It’s a statement at odds with how Canadians have viewed the ongoing trade dispute with the United States. It’s not the first time that Greer, Donald Trump’s chief trade negotiator, has made those remarks; he’s also not the first senior American official to dispute the idea that Canada is in a trade war with the United States.
A national union says it was told by Stellantis this week that it is seriously considering the closure and sale of the Brampton Assembly Plant.
Unifor national president Lana Payne told reporters on Friday that the union “received information” from Stellantis on Wednesday about its possible plans, but Stellantis has not provided the union with formal written notice of closure of the plant as required under its collective agreement.
How did this story get buried?
