Expanding subsidies risk transforming Canada’s mainstream media into a government-controlled entity, an Ottawa think tank warned Thursday.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, in a report by former Calgary Herald publisher Peter Menzies, argued that growing reliance on federal funding is damaging journalism’s credibility and independence.
Before Mark Carney became Liberal leader and Canada’s 24th prime minister, he served as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. It’s fair to say these two countries would’ve had the most intimate knowledge of his personality, views and ideas.
Britain, unlike Canada, has always been more brutally honest about what they like about Carney — but mostly what they don’t like. The wide range of criticism included Carney’s left-wing politics, such as his championing of radical environmentalist policies like net-zero emissions, along with his opposition to Brexit, his political inexperience, dull personality, volatile temper, lousy track record at the Bank of England and more.
Tory leader Pierre Poilievre on Friday said he categorically rejects Prime Minister Mark Carney’s appointee Mark Wiseman’s Century Initiative that would open the floodgates of immigration.
Carney this week added the World Economic Forum’s Wiseman to his council of advisers on Canada-US relations.
Carney’s choice of Wiseman tells me both are evil swine.
The polls are clear: Canadians are looking for someone to lead us through this difficult patch. There was even a moment during Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership acceptance speech when it seemed as though he understood the assignment. He hinted that common sense would finally prevail, that he would dispense with a decade of Liberal orthodoxy that had demonized Canada’s oil and gas sector.
By promising to make Canada a “superpower in both clean and conventional energy,” our new prime minister seemed to be prioritizing Canadian jobs over his stated fear that climate change is a “tragedy on the horizon” that will lead to the loss of countless lives.
The joke around the political world Thursday was that the Edmonton Oilers hadn’t seen that level of power on their ice surface since Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky left town.
As he prepares for an expected election call Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney not only has the clout to get the best seats in the rink to see the Edmonton Oilers, but also to get on the ice and skate with them.
No this is not A.I.
Carney joined the Oilers Practice.
We all know if this guy had his way he would force them to change their team name, he hates oil & gas.
It sure doesn’t look like he remembers how to hold a hockey stick. pic.twitter.com/m9sz742Nql— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) March 20, 2025
China ‘ready to move forward’ in relations with Canada, envoy says
China’s ambassador says his country is open to negotiating a free-trade agreement with Ottawa and co-operating on a research station in the Arctic – extending an invitation to repair strained ties as Canada’s relations with the United States worsen.
However, Wang Di, Beijing’s envoy to Canada, says Ottawa would have to remove restrictions placed on Chinese investment in recent years.
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are announcing nearly $100 million in humanitarian relief and governance support for Palestinians, days before a widely expected election.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, who took on the file of international development last week, is announcing funding for major agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
As Canada heads toward its next federal election, voters are being asked to trust Mark Carney — a man who spent a decade defending and shaping Justin Trudeau’s disastrous economic agenda — to lead them into the future. But Carney isn’t the answer to Canada’s problems. He is the problem. He was one of Trudeau’s top economic advisors, a cheerleader for every major policy failure of the last decade and an outspoken advocate for the tax-and-spend policies that have crushed affordability for millions of Canadians.
Emergence of the New Right and their interest in tariffs was an open secret
Why have Canadian business leaders, policy makers and analysts invariably been on their back feet making miscalculation after miscalculation in dealing with the second Trump administration?
It’s not as if we haven’t been here before. And more to the point, it’s not as if what is now occurring was not clearly telegraphed months if not years in advance.
Why would our “Super Patriot Captains Of Industry” change anything?
They got to flood Canada with cheap foreign labour to depress wages and profit off the ensuing shortages in housing etc.
They got to orchestrate “free trade” deals that shipped your jobs offshore to low wage states making it impossible for domestic competition to succeed.
They got to profit off your back on the “Green Energy Transition” scam which was just a way to siphon your tax dollars into their wallets.
Do you really think our Oligarchs are ready to give up the protection racket that lines their pockets?
That’s why “Orange Man Bad“
Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical
Elon Musk has said that “Canada is not a real country,” just one of his social media jabs at the U.S. neighbor.
But people in Canada have done real damage to the vehicles and dealerships belonging to his electric car company, Tesla, according to the police.
More than 80 Teslas had their tires punctured and bodies scratched at a lot in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said on Thursday. Several acts of vandalism against Tesla property have also been committed in the United States.
These pre-fab patriots seize any excuse to raise havoc, for the most part they’re the same useful idiots you see parading with the Mohammedans.
OTTAWA — A Mark Carney government will maintain the cap on emissions from the production of oil and gas, Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in a recent interview.
Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberals promised in the 2021 election to cap emissions from oil and gas and began the process to regulate the cap a year later.
Danielle Smith has something to say…
At his request, I met with Prime Minister Mark Carney @MarkJCarney today. We had a very frank discussion in which I made it clear that Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years.
I provided a specific list of… pic.twitter.com/SmTsyFoxvM
— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) March 20, 2025
And … Energy CEOs Ask Party Leaders to Declare ‘Energy Crisis’, Reduce Oil and Gas Regulations
A group of 14 energy CEOs have written a letter to all major federal parties urging them to declare an “energy crisis” in Canada and use emergency powers to relax regulations within the industry and increase production levels.
The CEOs, who represent the 10 largest oil and gas companies and four largest pipeline companies in Canada, suggest several measures to support oil and natural gas investment and “remove the barriers we have imposed on ourselves over time.”
h/t XC
Mark Carney is the freshly anointed Prime Minister of Canada. He has stepped before the press, hyper guarded, unpolished, and — perhaps most revealingly — unprepared for scrutiny. A man who has spent decades basking in the adulation of elite banking circles along with Vatican and United Nations gatherings, now faces a different beast: democratic accountability.
The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people.
Once again, Canada is in an emergency. The situation is dire. This will be a difficult time. Canadians are going to suffer enormously. This is because we are at war. We will need to band together and fight back against this unforeseen threat.
This, at least, is what our elected officials have been telling us after Canada began retaliating in the trade war with the US. The same message has been repeated in various ways by leaders across the political spectrum, from Canada’s newly anointed prime minister, the Liberal Party’s Mark Carney, to his main rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.
The picture of Mark Carney with French President Emmanuel Macron showed him with his left hand draped around Macron’s left shoulder, his right held by both Macron’s. The wattage of their collective smiles could light up a coal mine. Clearly, they are best buds.
Carney had the same grin on his face when he met the King. The monarch, however, had an ironic smile when looking down his nose at his former servant, the governor of the Bank of England. Carney did crack a joke: “bit of a disaster today, sir. My Order of Canada pin broke.” Poor Mark. Charles then quipped: “do you want mine?”
If the Liberals win a majority government based solely on the faint hope Prime Minister Mark Carney will be a better tariff negotiator with U.S. President Donald Trump than Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, then we’re going to get everything we deserve.
