Ever since the federal government issued new regulations in 2020 banning 1,500 “military-style assault weapons” and their “variants” from circulation—a number that has since been increased to 2,500—there’s been widespread confusion and even conspiracy about the legal implications of the prohibited list. In fact, no one seems to know exactly which firearms are legal or not.
That’s a big problem.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has a problem. He promises that Canada can become more economically independent. He wants to accelerate major projects and expand energy exports. He’s pledged to build housing for the homeless, pipelines for petroleum, and army bases in the Arctic. All good things, all long overdue, and all projects that could, at first blush, bring Canadians together.
But ironically, they could also tear us apart.
The more I look at the recent Canadian federal budget, the more disenchanted I become. It was actually amusing to see all my compatriot Bay Street economists give this document a free pass. It deserves a failing grade just based on the numbers, the actual versus what was pledged by the Liberal government in the past.
The 2027 fiscal year projects were first published in April 2022. The worst of COVID-19 was behind and the economy had reopened. The fiscal spigots had already been opened in support of the economy in 2020 and 2021.
Back then, the fiscal deficit projection for the current 2027 fiscal year was $8.4 billion. What did we find out last week? The red ink is going to be $62.3 billion. That isn’t offensive to anyone?
🚨 Sec. Scott Bessent is MIC DROPPING Canada PM Mark Carney! This man never misses.
"We’ve had a FREE RIDER problem with Canada. And PM Carney, after getting a verbal BEATDOWN from myself and Hegseth, said: ‘Stop throwing shade to get negotiations?’ Well, HE’S the one who said WE’RE AT WAR!"
"Canada had a great military. They were right there at the forefront on the beaches of D-Day, and what the Canadian government has done to the Canadian Armed Forces, if you look at the ranks of NATO spending, they are near the very BOTTOM, like they’re cellar dwellers around with Spain in terms of their military spending to GDP!"
"And why is that? Because they were free riding."
"The Canadian businesses are not with the Prime Minister, the Canadian military is not with the Prime Minister."
"And, you know, he thinks that he got to office on an anti-Trump, anti-Americans, the platform, and it’s not going to work out in the long term."
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— QUANTUM GUARD ™️ (@QuantumGuard17) November 10, 2026
Ouch.
A resurfaced CBC Kids video about the Remembrance Day poppy has been taken down after sparking online outrage among Canadians.
The 2021 video, which CBC Kids kept up on its YouTube channel for five years until Tuesday, explains why Canadians wear poppies on Remembrance Day, along with the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual poppy drive to support veterans and their families.
Here is a CBC Kids broadcast segment originally published in 2021, promoting different coloured poppies during Remembrance Day because “some feel that the red poppy focuses too much on soldiers and can be perceived as glorifying war.”
The segment highlights the white poppy for civilians, a black poppy for African, Caribbean and Pacific Island communities, a purple poppy for animals and a rainbow poppy for “contributions the LGBTQ community has made to war efforts.”
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) November 9, 2026
A $1,500 round-trip flight within Canada has people asking a familiar question: why can it sometimes feel cheaper to leave the country than travel across it?
I thought our PM was going to make us a land of Milk and Honey!
h/t kh
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the “right thing” by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream.
The levels plan, published Thursday, includes targets for 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 new temporary residents annually through 2029, along with a pledge to make upwards of 200,000 longtime temporary residents permanent by the end of 2027.
There is little reason to trust Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government when it comes to investigating security threats against Canada by China.
The latest allegations come in an updated report by Safeguard Defenders, a Spanish human rights non-governmental organization, that says 1,247 Chinese associations in 91 countries — including 18 in Canada — are fronts for illegal domestic police stations.
In last week’s federal budget, Ottawa announced a one-time immigration measure that took policy-watchers by surprise: It plans to grant permanent residency to 200,000 temporary residents already in Canada.
The new spots would be in addition to the 380,000 spots previously allocated for permanent residents in 2026, an unexpected move given the Liberal government’s recent efforts to clamp down on immigration.
I’ll take ‘People are sick and tired of having their society trashed and economic security stolen so Carney’s corporate welfare pals can make a buck off our misery by importing cheap 3rd world labour" for 500 Alex.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) November 10, 2026
On Friday afternoon, which is the unofficial time for governments everywhere to publish information they hope no one will pay much attention to, Canada’s federal government came out with some news: It has decided to again loosen restrictions on the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers.
The government didn’t frame it quite like that, of course. Instead, it announced what it called “targeted reforms” to “respond to labour market needs,” which is a much more polite way of saying it will facilitate the continuing suppression of Canadian wages by allowing employers to hire from abroad, rather than improve worker incentives domestically.
.@OurCommons places order for 6,000 bottles of fine wine to “maintain expected standards of hospitality” in Parliamentary Dining Room.
Stocking of wine cellar came 4 days after #Budget2026 lamented plight of “hardworking Canadians struggling to get by.”
https://t.co/QR5fmOEXOb
@MarkJCarney @FPChampagne #cdnpoli— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) November 10, 2026
h/t Mauser
Mark Carney’s choice to head up Canada’s sovereign wealth fund is a Democrat donor and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. Karen Karniol-Tambour, a resident of the affluent town of Norwalk, Ct., and currently the co-chief investment officer of an American hedge fund, will soon head up the Canada Strong Fund.
Mark Carney is carrying out a Cloward-Piven-style hostile takeover of Canada—deliberately overloading our welfare state, energy sector, housing, and debt with mass immigration and green mandates to crash the economy from within. This isn’t reform; it’s a calculated globalist assault to replace free enterprise and sovereignty with top-down control. Wake up and repost before it’s irreversible.
— Dante Rossi (@tvc1five) November 9, 2026
Carney always chooses the right grifter.
h/t Mauser
Ottawa plans to hold immigration levels mostly steady over the next three years, according to Budget 2026. The Liberals claim the updated immigration plan aims to strike “a balance” that favours the needs of the economy, housing, healthcare, and social services. Such claims have not been true in the past and are unlikely to be true going forward.
If Canada becomes an associate member of Erasmus+, it could end up paying a hefty sum of our tax dollars into a pool of funds so that the European Union can manage international exchanges involving our students, professors, workers and athletes.
Canada is capable of managing its own exchange programs. More importantly, a review of Erasmus+ documents reveals that these exchanges benefit few select applicants, while the program appears more obsessed with the EU’s relevance on the world stage than any measurable improvements in the quality of education for member nations.
OTTAWA — An explosive report from Britain’s Mail on Sunday alleges that a man it describes as a senior Chinese intelligence officer, and a British businessman indicted with him in the United States over a plot to silence a Los Angeles critic of Xi Jinping, sought damaging information on seven British parliamentarians who have challenged Beijing.
This is the Daily Mail piece referenced in the article.
British businessman accused of spying for China tried to hire former Met Police detective to dig up intelligence on top MPs who were critical of Beijing
