The Cannabis Council of Canada has announced it is suspending its advocacy operation, apparently because its member companies have given up hope that the federal government is prepared to listen to them.
In a letter to Finance Minister François Philippe Champagne that foreshadowed this week’s announcement, outgoing council president Paul McCarthy said the country’s licensed cannabis producers have lost confidence that the government is committed to getting its tax and regulatory policies right.
VANCOUVER — Marc Cohodes built his name and his fortune betting against frauds, from small public companies to the American subprime-mortgage machine that collapsed in 2008. This week, he returned to The Bureau with a blunt verdict on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to spend up to $3.2 billion absorbing Vancouver’s unsold condominiums: he has seen this movie before, and this version is worse.
Cohodes "And Carney is basically putting the losses to the Canadian taxpayers of these condos which are built and can't sell. And he's bailing out the CCP backed developers, you know, the condo king Rennie and all his buddies."
"And it's sick and it's insane and it's amazing… https://t.co/ToTAKKxb9R pic.twitter.com/7uNUYYEQrC
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) June 22, 2026
TOKYO, Japan – Industry Minister Melanie Joly said she has made it clear to four Chinese electric vehicle makers that getting more access to the Canadian market will require them to “build where you sell.”
But as she courts Chinese EV manufacturers to build another lifeline for the domestic auto industry as it buckles under the uncertainty of the CUSMA review, Japanese auto manufacturers are voicing concerns about the federal government’s embrace of their biggest regional competitor.
Canada will die but at least Joly can work the pole as a fallback.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”
Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.
CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney has once again been caught on a live microphone, this time appearing to tell the Croatian prime minister that his MPs are just “useful for votes.”
The comments were overheard by a media camera pool in Ottawa on Monday when Carney welcomed Croatian leader Andrej Plenković during his first-ever visit to Canada.
The look on Carney’s face when someone obviously signals to him to shut up because he’s on a hot mic.
Lolz. 😆 pic.twitter.com/Zeg03Qa4Js pic.twitter.com/3hN1oMWs8B
— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) June 22, 2026
VANCOUVER — When Mark Carney and David Eby and Gregor Robertson stood together in South Vancouver’s River District this month, a short drive from the Richmond casino that gave the world the phrase “Vancouver Model,” they did so flanked by condo towers where empty two-bedroom units are marketed at close to $1.1 million.
It was a fitting backdrop.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is signalling growing impatience with Ottawa’s delays on its F-35 purchase and broader defence reset.
U.S. defence officials applauded Canada’s 2022 selection of Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter, and the plan to buy 88 of the U.S.-made jets, but political debate and shifting priorities have left only 30 under contract so far.
A third straight month of rising gas prices from the war in Iran pushed the annual rate of inflation above three per cent for the first time since 2023, Statistics Canada said Monday.
The annual rate of inflation jumped to 3.2 per cent in May, up from 2.8 per cent in April and topping most economists’ expectations.
Gas prices up? Blame Trump.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refused to say whether Chinese-made electric vehicles could be banned under new federal legislation targeting products linked to forced labour, despite evidence that some Chinese auto supply chains rely on materials connected to Uyghur labour camps.
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The federal government wants to dramatically scale up the use of nuclear power and the export of Canadian-owned reactor technology through a new strategy that sets a goal of increasing by more than 50 per cent the number of large-scale reactors in Canada.
In a policy document to be released on Monday by Energy Minister Tim Hodgson, and obtained by The Globe and Mail, the government positions nuclear power as a triple threat for Canada’s economy, energy transition and sovereignty.
10 nuclear reactors? In Canada? BS.
When Federal Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced $4.6 billion in new funding to eliminate all long-term unsafe drinking water advisories on reserves, she refused to set a deadline for when that will happen.
“The deadline goal is not part of my narrative,” she told the Globe and Mail.
That’s the problem with the Liberals’ approach to Indigenous spending.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming a plan by the federal and B.C. governments to buy vacant condo units in the province and turn them into affordable housing — a move he describes as a “bailout” that should be immediately cancelled.
“Where is your bailout?” Poilievre told reporters in Vancouver on Sunday afternoon. He further argued that Prime Minister Mark Carney “seems to have a bailout for anyone who’s part of the Liberal club of power brokers.”
On Thursday, Carney and B.C. Premier David Eby announced that over the next 10 years, the federal government would invest more than $5 billion in British Columbia’s local infrastructure through the Build Communities Strong Fund.
People can’ afford food but Carney’s breed of slime can always find an excuse for lavish Corporate welfare bail outs.
OTTAWA — From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada’s aging submarine fleet turned heads in more ways than one.
The unusually short competition to build the navy’s next submarine fleet seemed to focus on everything but the boats themselves — even though the two vessels in the running are, in some ways, very different.
At no point during the two-year-long procurement competition did the federal government ever really talk about the boats’ capabilities. The navy made it clear very early on that either model would do just fine.
My guess is Germany, more room for graft in Europe.
According to recently released data from Statistics Canada, a record 120,640 Canadians left Canada and emigrated to other countries in 2025, surpassing the previous high from the year prior. Notice a trend? Wonder why?
Possibly because the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is desperately attempting to ram through a dystopian internet censorship bill which would demand that people’s data be kept for possible police review.
We may be forced to flee in the near future but currently I think the reason to do so is primarily economic self interest.
Mark Carney is building a surveillance state online.
What else can you call a government that’s working to outlaw online anonymity? That plans to ID internet users as if going online is the same as entering a bar? That plans to create the equivalent of a human rights tribunal for offensive speech online?
We will soon mirror the UK. One day you may be thanking Trump.
