Carney will likely sends pal to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing

Carney will likely sends pal to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing

Carney looks to influential outsiders to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing, sources say

Martin Cauchon, a vice-chair of the Canada China Business Council lobby group and former Liberal cabinet minister, is under consideration to be Ottawa’s envoy to China as both countries work to mend fractured diplomatic and economic ties, three sources say.

Mr. Cauchon, a justice minister in Jean Chrétien’s government, has a long history of developing close business ties with China. Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a business-friendly relationship with Beijing as he looks to diversify trade away from the United States. He has set out to double non-U.S. exports globally over the next decade.

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Canadian Bank Discriminates Against U.S. Gun Companies While Courting Business

Canadian Bank Discriminates Against U.S. Gun Companies While Courting Business

It should be no surprise that a Canadian bank would be in lockstep with that country’s disdain for lawful firearm ownership. After all, Canada’s bent on confiscating lawfully owned firearms from owners who did nothing to violate the law. The outlook for personal freedoms in Canada is decidedly murkier after Canada’s ill-advised crackdown on protests against the government that led to arrests of hundreds in 2020. It seems the stereotype of Canadian “nice” isn’t holding up these days.

That’s especially true when it comes to the firearm industry.


Not a surprise. RBC was incompetent to the point the point of criminality in matters of Kathy’s estate.

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UN experts urge Canada to protect threatened Sikh activist

UN experts urge Canada to protect threatened Sikh activist

Five United Nations rights experts have urged Canada to take all feasible measures to protect the Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has been repeatedly warned by the Canadian authorities of credible threats to his life.

In a letter to the Canadian government dated June 3, and made public two months later, as per regular procedure, the UN experts raised “concerning allegations of foreign intimidation and reprisals” against Singh, a Canadian national.

It recalled that since 2022, Singh has received four so-called “duty to warn” notices from the Canadian authorities about credible and imminent threats to his life.


Goodness! United Nations Experts!

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Audit finds Canada’s $135 million Ghana farm aid program fell short after motorbikes ran out of gas

Audit finds Canada’s $135 million Ghana farm aid program fell short after motorbikes ran out of gas

A federal audit has concluded that Canada’s $135 million agricultural aid program in Ghana suffered from poor oversight and planning after thousands of taxpayer-funded motorbikes were delivered without adequate funding for fuel, maintenance or replacement parts.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the evaluation, obtained through Access to Information, found Global Affairs Canada failed to properly oversee the program, resulting in equipment that many agricultural extension workers could not afford to operate.

(Incognito)

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Noah Jarvis: Doug Ford should block the Liberal high-speed rail boondoggle

Noah Jarvis: Doug Ford should block the Liberal high-speed rail boondoggle

Ontario Premier Doug Ford shouldn’t sit around while the federal government burns taxpayer money on a high-speed rail line in his backyard. He should try to stop it.

The proposed Alto high-speed rail line would be 1,000 kilometres long, running from Toronto to Quebec City. The feds say the line would cost taxpayers up to $90 billion. That’s $2,170 per Canadian or $8,680 for a family of four. But there are lots of reasons not to trust the government’s estimate.

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With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons.

There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four?

The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is that Liberal strategists would clearly have advised the prime minister that, given the unique political circumstances of the ridings that are currently vacant, the Liberals could give themselves a boatload more money to spend fighting off the Bloc Québecois in one vacant Québec seat by calling three byelections while depriving the BQ of cash it could use by holding off on that fourth by-election to fill a second vacant Québec seat.

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Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

In Belgium, Claire Biwei Zhang, the Canadian woman allegedly spying on NATO has launched an appeal to be released from pre-trial detention, while the Canadian government is scrambling to investigate its screening protocols to find out how it may have been infiltrated by a foreign power.

Global Affairs has acknowledged that Zhang’s security clearance for her NATO internship was approved by the Government of Canada after she was vetted by CSIS. According to its 2025 annual report, CSIS completed 129,740 screenings for the federal government last year.

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Are there climate benefits to Canada’s new relationship with China asks Beijing’s Ottawa News Bureau?

Are there climate benefits to Canada’s new relationship with China asks Beijing’s Ottawa News Bureau?

When Canada announced earlier this year that it would allow a token number of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, the gesture didn’t seem so much about climate action as a sop to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola.

Now, it very much appears like the opening gambit in a deeper engagement with China on clean energy. Following up on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s momentous meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in January, Industry Minister Melanie Joly was in Beijing last month to discuss the feasibility of Canadian-Chinese EV ventures.

Meanwhile, the Canada China Business Council is organizing a cleantech mission to China in Beijing in November.


The CBC is owned by China now.

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Lurkers in the deep: How Canada’s new submarines will be used in peace and potential war

Lurkers in the deep: How Canada’s new submarines will be used in peace and potential war

“Canada’s next submarine fleet will secure our coastlines and waters,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said early last month in announcing the choice of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder for the country’s new underwater fleet.

Patrolling Canada’s three coasts will be part of the job for the fleet of up to a dozen state-of-the-art diesel-electric 212CD submarines, says retired vice-admiral Darren Hawco, who commanded Canada’s Atlantic Fleet and served as the nation’s military representative to NATO until 2020.


I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ll get 3 subs if we’re lucky.

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PRINGLE: Wicked madness — the dangerous consequences of twisting the Bible for political control

PRINGLE: Wicked madness — the dangerous consequences of twisting the Bible for political control

According to the Christian History Institute, many southern Christians felt that slavery, in one Baptist minister’s words, “stands as an institution of God.”

While these southern Christians quoted Bible verses to defend and justify slavery, they completely neglected the context and proper application of these Bible verses.

There are 2 kinds of slavery.

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By-elections a crucial test of Carney’s unconventional majority

By-elections a crucial test of Carney’s unconventional majority

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s careful march to a majority has reached the coda. With three by-elections set for Aug. 31, the Liberals can put to rest the rumblings about their majority status and earn the halo of legitimacy.

These by-elections are about both seats and symbolism because of the unprecedented way Carney came to have a majority in the first place: five floor-crossings and a trio of byelection wins. Never before has a Canadian government leapt from minority to majority status outside of a general election. While impressive as a political act, the patchwork approach invited skepticism, even hostility. Is this a true majority government, or a sleight of hand?

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Call to prayer broadcast approved for Regina mosque

Call to prayer broadcast approved for Regina mosque

A Regina mosque has received approval to broadcast a weekly call to prayer.

On Friday, Regina City Jamia Masjid announced on social media that its Call to Prayer (Adhan) permit had been approved Thursday, allowing the mosque to broadcast the call from its loudspeaker on the building’s rooftop.


This is the reason our elites decided to blight Canada with Islamist immigration. They wanted to fatten their wallets. They don’t give a damn about you and I.

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On Ukraine’s front lines, female soldiers testing Canadian-designed body armour

On Ukraine’s front lines, female soldiers testing Canadian-designed body armour

Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front lines of Russia’s war are now testing curved body armour designed specifically for women so they’re better protected against bullets, shrapnel and drone strikes.

Ukrainian MP Iryna Nykorak said the majority of the more than 10,000 women serving in combat in her country are wearing ballistic plates for men that are too bulky, heavy and don’t fit their chests. Some decide not to wear the plate at all, which makes it useless, she said.


Female Friendly Body Armour was approved for use in the Ukraine army in 2023, why are we reinventing the wheel?

Someone’s gettin paid?

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Canadian Mortgage Arrears Hit Recession Levels, Reality Is Likely Worse

Canadian Mortgage Arrears Hit Recession Levels, Reality Is Likely Worse

Even more households are falling behind on their supersized mortgage payments. Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) data shows the mortgage arrears rate climbed in May. Mortgages at least 90 days past due have more than doubled since 2022, pushing the rate just shy of a decade high. New mortgage originations are also failing to offset outflows, already wiping out most of 2020’s low-rate growth.

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Arrested NATO intern has history of fraud, was ordered to take ethics course

Arrested NATO intern has history of fraud, was ordered to take ethics course

A Canadian NATO intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying for China was ordered by a federal watchdog to take a course in ethics after being found to have committed fraud in applying twice under two slightly different identities for a public service job.

Claire (Biwei) Zhang, a Canadian of Chinese origin, worked in public service roles, including at Statistics Canada, before taking up the NATO internship at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, known as SHAPE, in Mons near the French border.


You get caught cheating and still keep your job?

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