OTTAWA – As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the future of the NATO military alliance, Canada is looking to partner with the European Union on defence.
Here’s a closer look at what’s driving this major shift in transatlantic relations.
What problem is Europe trying to solve?
I see a Big Liberal Slush Fund ahead.
Prime Minister Minister Mark Carney cannot be trusted with our Charter-protected right to free expression.
The man has been clear: during the election campaign, Carney spoke scornfully of our most essential freedom, our speech, from which all our other freedoms flow.
Canada’s housing market is “cracking” under the weight of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, with housing resales down in markets across the country, a new report said.
The Royal Bank of Canada report looked at the data from the MLS Home Price Index, which is essentially the median price of a house in a market.
The sharpest pullback in people getting into the housing markets has been in southern Ontario and British Columbia, RBC economist Robert Hogue said.
Not to worry they’ll just open the mass immigration floodgates wider to juice the housing shortage.
A former top naval commander and several defence experts have been left scratching their heads following the governing Liberals and Opposition Conservatives’ recent embrace of the notion of giving the Royal Canadian Navy heavy, armed icebreakers to defend the Arctic.
They question the military sensibility of building — possibly at a cost of billions of dollars — one, two or even three 10,000-tonne or more polar-class icebreakers with guns and missiles, vessels with possibly limited usefulness that would be vulnerable to both air and submarine attack.
Theatrics mixed with another LPC crony capitalist slush fund.
To me, the most surreal moment came during Mark Carney’s speech on the night he won the Liberal leadership. Raucous cheers ensued when he declared the abolition of the consumer carbon tax and the retreat from the increase in capital gains inclusion rates. If you knew nothing about Canadian politics, you’d think this jubilation was in response to the assertion of long-cherished Liberal policies and principles.
But, of course, it was nothing of the sort.
Canada is no longer a serious country — at least not when it comes to foreign policy and moral fortitude.
Over the last several years, Ottawa has failed to articulate any meaningful strategy in response to major global events, while at the same time jeopardizing some of Canada’s most important diplomatic relations. This should set alarm bells off in Washington. If Canadian and U.S. foreign policy remain this misaligned, the consequences for America could be serious.
Joly meant Canada's Liberal gov't has chosen a side and ceded control of its streets to Islamists. Just like all those European nations enjoying the benefits of Islamist immigration and multiculturalism. https://t.co/MtxV8sNb91
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) May 9, 2025
A modest improvement in Indigenous living standards due to unrelated federal child benefit
Since 2015, the federal government has significantly increased spending on Indigenous Peoples.
The annual Indigenous budget has almost tripled from 2015 to 2025, growing (in nominal dollars) from roughly $11 billion to more than $32 billion.
h/t Mauser
“… In a sense, Carney represents the logical next step after Trudeau’s demolition job. Trudeau destabilized Canada’s foundations. Carney is stepping in to rebuild it, not as a nation of free citizens, but as an administrative region within a larger, borderless system of corporate governance. A system where people are no longer protected by a social contract but managed like livestock: monitored, nudged and corrected under the pretext of global crises — climate, pandemics, inequality, disinformation — manufactured or manipulated to justify endless “emergency” rule. The message to Canadians is simple: You had your fun with elections. Now the grown-ups will take it from here…”
.@seanhannity on @FoxNews talks about how Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney threatens American companies with eco extremism and how Carney is threatening to shut down American social media and free speech in Canada.
Has anybody informed President Trump @realDonaldTrump about… pic.twitter.com/3LSck0E7Xz
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) May 7, 2025
Hong Kong Police Detain Relatives of Canadian Candidate Targeted by Beijing Election Interference
HONG KONG / OTTAWA — In a striking escalation of Beijing’s interference in Canada’s Parliament and its global campaign to silence dissent, Hong Kong police have reportedly detained and questioned relatives of former Conservative election candidate Joe Tay—who was targeted by aggressive Chinese cyber and ground operations during the recent federal campaign, according to The Bureau’s intelligence sources.
h/t Mauser
Joe Rogan is stupefied by the Liberals’ return to power last month after the party had fallen to historic lows under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Hunting podcaster Cameron Hanes brought up the government’s handling of the trucker protest in the nation’s capital back in 2022. The “Freedom Convoy” descended on the city on Jan. 22 to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Big rigs blocked off major streets and drew thousands of supporters, both in real life and virtually.
NEW: Joe Rogan calls out Canada for voting back into power the same party that tried to silence them and take their banking away: “Good job, Canada!” pic.twitter.com/foeUZ81yKO
— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) May 6, 2025
Early on in the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ that terrified, traumatized and financially devastated so many Canadians, one priority weighed heavily on the federal Liberal government.
That was to protect itself from criticism or embarrassment… and also from legal liability surrounding the $8 billion that taxpayers paid for COVID-19 vaccines to seven pharmaceutical companies — including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
Gone, it seems, are the days when the phrase “going nuclear” was meant figuratively.
Since the beginning of the year and the inauguration of the second Trump administration, an increasing number of Washington’s closest allies have begun to throw quiet — and sometimes not so quiet — fits about whether they can still count on the decades-old nuclear deterrent capability of the United States.
Few places feel that uncertainty more keenly than South Korea.
It’s bad to have nuclear weapons. The US has nuclear weapons so the US is bad.
It’s OK if the US promises to defend us with them but we’re just too pure to ever acquire them in Canada’s defense.
Ottawa looking for ways to mend tears in Canada’s social fabric, document shows
OTTAWA — Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.
With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.
The most memorable meme of the recent Canadian election campaign emerged from the line outside an Ontario microbrewery, where an older Liberal Party supporter named Matt Janes flashed two middle fingers to protesters agitating against Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The obscenity went viral — with Janes becoming infamous as the Brantford Boomer — not just for its crass vulgarity, but for exposing the deep generational divide in Canada.
.@seanhannity on @FoxNews talks about how Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney threatens American companies with eco extremism and how Carney is threatening to shut down American social media and free speech in Canada.
Has anybody informed President Trump @realDonaldTrump about… pic.twitter.com/3LSck0E7Xz
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) May 7, 2025
