The Iran war has made supplies of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, the most strategic since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Suddenly, countries are scrambling to get their hands on molecules that provide reliable baseload power to industries and homes.
That explains why Germany is buying LNG from Canada. It’s to ensure long-term energy security, reduce reliance on volatile global supplies, and diversify away from Middle Eastern and Russian energy markets.
h/t patthedog
OTTAWA — Just as Prime Minister Mark Carney touches down in Paris to begin another overseas trip, newly released documents show the Department of National Defence spent nearly $ 1 million on in-flight catering aboard CANFORCE ONE during the PM’s first 12 months in office — but questions remain on the accuracy of those numbers.
By now, it’s clear the Carney government’s approach to economic development amounts to an all-in bet on industrial policy, a fad that has picked up steam globally. The thinking goes like this: the state chooses the right sectors and firms, directs capital and support to them, and builds a stronger economy from the top down. But a popular idea isn’t necessarily a good one.
Ottawa is betting big regardless.
On Wednesday, the Liberals tabled Bill C-34, which would restrict minors from social media. That’s the headline pitch, but the bill goes much further, offering cabinet the power to ban children from online games, shut online entities out of Canada completely and order websites to censor content deemed “harmful” by the government. It’s a Great Canadian Firewall in the making.
Some time ago, I attended a closed-door meeting with foreign intelligence officials to discuss the growing influence in Canada of the Muslim Brotherhood, the powerful transnational Islamist movement that is the ideological root of all modern Islamic terrorism.
The Brotherhood’s objective, I was told, is two-fold: to achieve a paralyzing effect on the ability of Canadian policymakers to act against it; and to steadily expand its influence in Canada. Indeed, the Gaza war has mobilized and emboldened the Islamist group’s “white-collar jihadists” in the country to advance its strategy of “civilizational jihad” — gradual institutional transformation, rather than violent overthrow.
From Ontario’s Peel Region, to Surrey and Abbotsford, BC, to Edmonton, Alberta, the pattern is impossible to dismiss.
Extortion. Shootings. Arson. Cross-border smuggling networks.
Illegal firearms are moving between provinces faster than police can trace them.
TORONTO – At 5:40 in the morning on June 11, heavily armed tactical officers breached a fourth-floor unit at 15 Martha Eaton Way, a high-rise in the city’s northwest that has been marked by gang gunfire for decades. They were executing one of several search warrants tied to a series of shootings across the city — including the March 10 attack on the United States consulate, an incident American prosecutors allege was directed from abroad by a commander of an Iranian proxy militia. Within moments, Constable Marc Pinizzotto, a 43-year-old tactical veteran and father, was shot dead. A 19-year-old resident, Nicholas Bennett, was struck multiple times by return fire and will be charged with first-degree murder. A second 19-year-old, Zara Jabbi, wanted in connection with the consulate shooting, remains at large.
Canada’s long-anticipated and dreaded Bill C-34 arrived on June 10 with the usual fanfare about protecting children.
We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.
Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, tabled it.
Strip off the press release and what is left is a law that lets an appointed federal body order Canadians’ posts deleted across the country, decide which platforms can give an account to a 15-year-old, and tell AI chatbots to watch what you type.
On June 8, Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre, Yvan Baker, introduced a private member’s bill to declare July of every year as “Somali Heritage Month.”
It should be noted that Toronto’s Etobicoke is home to a large, heavily concentrated Somali population. In June 2024, Baker gathered with “members and leaders of the Somali-Canadian community” to raise the Somali flag at City Hall to “celebrate Somalia’s Independence Day.”
OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has captured global attention by championing the idea of an alliance of mid-level economic powers that would operate beyond President Donald Trump’s increasingly protectionist United States.
Yet Carney’s push to lessen dependence on the U.S. is colliding with a stubborn reality: access to American markets remains a crucial part of Canada’s appeal to prospective trading partners, according to interviews with a dozen government officials and business leaders.
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump once again flexing his power to scrap his country’s free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, there’s plenty of reason to doubt he would actually follow through on such a threat.
Trump signed the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in his first term and at the time boasted of it as “the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country.”
Most guns used in Canadian crimes were not smuggled in from abroad: internal reports https://t.co/GzUZknt6oH
— Judy Trinh (@judyatrinh) June 11, 2026
Community notes.
h/t Mauser
The belief that mental illnesses are the main driver of rising homelessness is noticeably widespread, and is prompting governments across Canada to expand involuntary commitment as a purported “solution.”
This belief, though, is not promoted by experts on homelessness so much as by influential proponents of more funding for mental health services and involuntary commitment, such as the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, and by governments themselves, dodging responsibility for failed economic policies. In fact, the belief is heavily based on misleading claims and dubious data. Worse, it’s hindering us from fully recognizing and discussing – let alone helping – the people who are actually the fastest-growing demographic of unhoused Canadians. And if we don’t start seeing more clearly and investing in real solutions, this latter group could soon overwhelm the country’s already stretched support systems.
Much has been written about China’s rise. Far less attention has been paid to a more important question: whether China’s economic model can sustain it.
For more than three decades, China achieved one of the most remarkable economic expansions in modern history, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and transforming itself into the manufacturing centre of the world. Yet beneath that success lies a growing structural weakness that Canadian policymakers should watch closely: debt.
Rather than blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney for backsliding on climate change, why don’t the Liberals simply admit their policies under former prime minister Justin Trudeau were misguided, ineffective and ruinously expensive for Canadian taxpayers?
