GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s pivot on climate change the right move, but is it real?

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s pivot on climate change the right move, but is it real?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pre-Canada Day pivot away from Justin Trudeau’s failed $200-billion-plus climate strategy, after supporting it up to late last year, is a classic example of what makes the public cynical about politics.

The timing was strategic, after Parliament had adjourned for the summer and the day before Canada Day, when Canadians were thinking about barbecues and fireworks, not industrial greenhouse gas emission targets.


“The Great Negotiator Carney” having zero success beyond Eurovision and accelerating ChiCom infiltration needed some good PR knowing CUSMA was not going to be renewed.

So he tossed some crumbs to the peasants by “renouncing” Trudeau’s nation killing green-scam.

Don’t believe it, Carney wants Canada destroyed as much as Junior did.

Next he’ll have CBC telling us that it was Poilievre’s idea to bail out his Developer bagmen.

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Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

OTTAWA — The Mark Carney Liberals may be giving Canada’s morbidly obese federal bureaucracy a much-needed shot of Ozempic, but recently released data show the problem could easily have been avoided.

Released this week, a new analysis by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation suggests that Canada could have saved $ 7 billion over the past decade if growth within Canada’s public service had been constrained to population growth.

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Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

OTTAWA — The legendary American short-seller Marc Cohodes says he does not invest a dollar in Canada. What Cohodes brings to this conversation is not a financial position but a memory — more than a decade of it, beginning in 2014, when he started traveling to Vancouver and meeting with a young opposition politician named David Eby.

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A Steep Exit Tax Won’t Solve Canada’s Brain Drain

A Steep Exit Tax Won’t Solve Canada’s Brain Drain

For some critics of American immigration policies, Canada’s system, which focuses on admitting educated, experienced workers who can support themselves and bolster the national economy, should be a model for U.S. reforms. About six in ten new residents whom Canada admits are classified as members of the “economic class” of immigrants, granted entry based on their education, work experience, and ability to speak one of the country’s official languages. While America’s legal immigration regime is heavily weighted toward family unification, those admitted to Canada based on familial ties make up less than one-quarter of migrants.

h/t patthedog

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Who does Mark Carney think we are, anyway?

Who does Mark Carney think we are, anyway?

What is the story Mark Carney is telling us about Canada? And why is he doing it?

These seem like ridiculous questions on the surface, because the Prime Minister’s entire political career has unfolded in a maple-soaked tourism commercial, thanks to the ferocious nationalism unleashed by Donald Trump’s unhinged threats. It’s like asking what ice has to do with hockey: The question seems to miss the point.

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Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.


A good rant. h/t Mauser

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Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’

Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’

Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government’s climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.

“In my judgment, that plan was not sustainable over the long term,” Carney said in his second “Forward Guidance” video. “It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability.”

He later says the plan “would have been too divisive for our country” and was “an open opportunity for those people who wish to pull Canada apart both at home and abroad.”

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Latest CBC Sob Story: Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school

Latest CBC Sob Story: Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school

Hundreds of children and teens already attending Alberta schools could be ineligible to enroll for free in September as their families’ immigration status hangs in limbo.

Of the nearly 46,000 students in Alberta schools who are temporarily in Canada, data provided to CBC News by some school boards shows that potentially thousands of children and youths’ study permits will expire by Sept. 30, 2026 — the day after Alberta Education takes a headcount to determine each school’s funding.


CBC: Let’s shortchange Canadian kids in favour of foreigners because vibes.

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Canada arrives at a pivotal day for free trade with the U.S. and Mexico

Canada arrives at a pivotal day for free trade with the U.S. and Mexico

OTTAWA — Like the cool corner dudes, the three Canada-U.S.-Mexico trading partners are acting nonchalant, urging the rest of us to chill ahead of Wednesday’s deadline that will set one of the world’s largest trading blocs on a new economic path — wherever that may lead.

Nothing to see here, Prime Minister Mark Carney effectively said on Tuesday about a July 1 virtual meeting on the trade deal’s renewal.

“We’re expecting a constructive exchange,” Carney shrugged to reporters in the northern Inuit community of Kuujuaq. “I wouldn’t expect any drama tomorrow,” he added, quipping, “I’m not looking for my pen.”

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney using ‘conflicts’ to avoid doing his job

Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney using ‘conflicts’ to avoid doing his job

It will surprise nearly no one that Prime Minister Mark Carney, thanks to his extensive corporate career, has potential conflicts of interest in his new role. His critics can shout “Brookfield!” in assorted accusatory tones until they’re hoarse, but his connections to the asset management firm are baked into his political rise, and doing so won’t meaningfully shift public opinion.

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Don’t bail out developers. Rescue housing

Don’t bail out developers. Rescue housing

The debate over governments purchasing unsold condominiums is asking the wrong question.

Critics are right to warn against governments becoming the buyer of last resort for failed condominium projects. That would socialize private losses, reward speculation and encourage developers and lenders to take greater risks, knowing taxpayers may absorb them.

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Beheaders call for pro-Beheaders education in schools

Beheaders call for pro-Beheaders education in schools

The Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council has released a new policy handbook calling for “anti-Islamophobia education” to be integrated into Canadian school curriculums, along with at least $40 million in federal funding for security at mosques and Islamic schools.

The handbook was launched on Parliament Hill earlier this month to mark the fifth anniversary of the June 6, 2021, killing of a Muslim family in London, Ontario. NDP House Leader Heather McPherson joined CMPAC executive director Khaled Al-Qazzaz and youth representatives at the event.

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‘Elbows up’ is now part of the Oxford English Dictionary

‘Elbows up’ is now part of the Oxford English Dictionary

A cherished Canadian rallying cry is now in the official lexicon: Oxford University Press on Tuesday added “elbows up” to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The hockey term, popularized by Gordie Howe, became synonymous with the surge of patriotism that fuelled the Buy Canadian movement last year when U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada and threatened to make Canada the 51st American state.

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