The Conservatives have brought Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s business investments into the spotlight , particularly as pertains to a company called ‘Stripe’.
Carney joined the board of directors at Stripe, a global tech company worth $65 billion that “builds economic infrastructure for the internet,” on February 21, 2021, according to the company’s website. Stripe facilitates the internet operations of tech giants like Amazon, Zoom, Slack and Wayfair.
Oh, Canada’s Liberal leadership race — could it be any more fixed and favouring the few?
It’s like watching a rerun of a show you never liked in the first place. The contenders are all singing the same tired tune, obsessing over Trump’s tariff threats as if they’re the only issue that matters, while conveniently ignoring the real challenges that shape the Great White North.
A Liberal Party of Canada committee has voted unanimously to disqualify former MP Ruby Dhalla from the race to be the next leader, according to a source.
That source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said a special joint committee met and voted Friday afternoon to remove Dhalla for violating the race’s rules.
She faced 12 allegations, including accepting donations from a corporation in the form of payments to campaign staff, the source said.
The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan’s civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various programs.
But Ottawa says it remains impossible for Quebecers to sponsor relatives from Sudan to resettle in that province.
Instead, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives as long as they go to another province.
On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario …
Canadians want the federal government to implement even deeper cuts to immigration, beyond the 20 percent reduction implemented this year, in-house research from the immigration department suggests.
“Over half of surveyed Canadians, 54 percent, say they feel there are too many immigrants coming into Canada,” said a department report, which was drawn from a poll of 2,500 Canadians.
With Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s globalist policies, unchecked immigration, and high taxes threatening Canada’s sovereignty, the question arises: Is it time for Canada to bjoin the United States? For generations, Canadians have believed in the idea of a unified, indivisible Canada — that no matter what happens, the country will always remain intact. The idea of breaking apart or joining another nation has been dismissed as unthinkable, even laughable.
But history proves otherwise. Nations change. Borders shift. Political realities evolve. The belief that Canada will always remain as it is, is not based on facts — it is based on assumption.
‘Trump, annexation, and the collapse of Canada’s national identity.’
During the recent US-Canada Economic Summit, Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, frantically remarked that “…Trump’s threat to annex Canada is a real thing,” and suggested that President Trump desires to annex Canada specifically “…because he wants to access [Canada’s] critical minerals.”
Unfortunately, despite Prime Minister Trudeau’s claims, President Trump’s campaign to transform Canada into America’s 51st state has not become “a real thing” because of President Trump’s conquistadorial agenda or desire to acquire Canada’s mineral resources.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s plan to split the federal budget, calling it a “sneaky accounting trick” to avoid balancing the books.
Carney vowed at a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday to split the budget into two streams — capital and operating spending — and to balance the operating side while running small capital deficits.
Should she win the current federal Liberal leadership contest, Chrystia Freeland is pledging to scrap a controversial division of the Canada Revenue Agency that Muslim charities and civil liberties advocates have long accused of discriminatory auditing practices, CBC News has learned.
Her campaign has yet to make an official announcement, but Thursday morning she signed and sent a letter about her plan to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), one of Canada’s larger Muslim advocacy groups, about her plan to get rid of the Research and Analysis Division.
The RAD has been criticized by Muslim groups for unfairly targeting their work as it looks for sources of terrorism financing in the country. An intelligence review body, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), undertook a review of its activities in 2023, a probe that has yet to be completed.
The RCMP was urged in a confidential interview with former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to widen their probe into the SNC-Lavalin scandal, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The details came from access-to-information files that were released Tuesday by the group Democracy Watch, which said Wilson-Raybould’s advice was ignored.
Mark Carney, who wants to be your next prime minister, recently released his plan for Canada’s climate policies through 2035. It’s a sprawling plan (climate plans always are) encompassing industrial and manufacturing emissions, vehicle emissions, building emissions, appliance emissions, cross-border emissions, more “green” energy, more “heat pumps” replacing HVAC, more electric vehicle (EV) subsidies, more subsidies to consumers, more subsidies to companies and more charging stations for the EV revolution that does not seem to be happening. And while Carney wants to eliminate the “consumer carbon tax” on “fuels such as gasoline, natural gas, diesel, home heating oil, etc.,” it’s basically Trudeau’s climate plans on steroids.
A transgender aide to Justin Trudeau’s minister for women has defended her participation in a race where she beat a 12 year-old girl to the ‘fastest female’ title.
Nathanielle Morin won a women’s 5km road run by almost six minutes in Ottawa, Ontario in February 2024, demolishing the rest of her competition in the 30-39 year-old female category with a finish time of 25 minutes and 32 seconds.
The second fastest runner across all women’s tournaments that day was 12 year-old Saoirse Hoogenraad with a time of 26 minutes and eight seconds, who ran in a separate age group to Morin.
At this stage of his political career, a Justin Trudeau press conference should be like living next to the highway. With little more than two weeks left in office, the prime minister’s musings should be irrelevant background noise, with no spending implications whatsoever.
Yet the announcement on Wednesday in Montreal that the federal government plans to hand over nearly $4 billion to a consortium to develop high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto was a reminder that Trudeau’s still got it when it comes to brazen disregard for the taxpayer.
OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is in talks with police forces across the country in an 11th-hour-effort to launch its weapons buyback program for gun owners before a potential spring election.
Although the program is underway for retailers, Ottawa’s scramble to kick-start it for individual gun owners has been complicated by a problem: who will collect the guns?
