Carney government, Alberta strike deal to fast-track building new pipeline by 2027

Carney government, Alberta strike deal to fast-track building new pipeline by 2027

OTTAWA — The federal government and Alberta will try to clear the way for construction of a major new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast by September 2027, as part of a new deal that showcases Prime Minister Mark Carney’s softer approach to fossil fuel emissions in a bid to boost economic development.

Friday’s “implementation deal” follows the memorandum of understanding signed last November that scrapped, suspended and watered down major national climate policies created under Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

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Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill

Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill

Canada’s Public Safety Minister is telling Apple, Meta, and Signal that they don’t understand his own surveillance bill. They understand it fine. That’s the problem.

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, would force telecoms, internet companies, and social media platforms to rebuild their systems so police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) can access user data more easily during investigations.

h/t patthedog

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And now a word from the Laurentian elite

And now a word from the Laurentian elite

Canada is one of history’s most successful countries. Here’s a look at who’s trying to destroy it, and how

The recorded history of Canada stretches back more than 500 years; the unrecorded history, many thousands.

It is one of the world’s oldest continuously existing democracies, with a Constitution whose principal features – monarchical, federal, parliamentary, with an independent judiciary and (ahem) an unelected Senate – have remained unchanged since 1867.


Your kids can’t get a decent job or afford a home.

You can’t find a doctor and the waiting list seems longer every day.

Taxes are through the roof yet our so called government dumps truckloads of tax payer dollars into sinkholes foreign and domestic while you worry about whether to eat or heat.

And your hometown is overrun by migrants who hate you and the Canada you helped build.

Who couldn’t want more of that Mr. Coyne?

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MACLEOD: Carney and Smith deal won’t unite Canada — it’s fragmenting under Ottawa’s double standards

MACLEOD: Carney and Smith deal won’t unite Canada — it’s fragmenting under Ottawa’s double standards

For decades, Alberta has learned one hard political lesson over and over again: Ottawa only “hears” Alberta when Alberta becomes impossible to ignore. Not when Alberta asks politely. Not when Alberta negotiates in good faith. Not when Alberta contributes tens of billions to Confederation. Only when Alberta becomes politically dangerous.

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GUNTER: Worried as Carney’s Canada gets closer to China

GUNTER: Worried as Carney’s Canada gets closer to China

Since February, there have been two significant reports documenting the extent to which Chinese Community Party (CCP) agents have infiltrated Canadian institutions and community organizations in an effort to woo or strong-arm Chinese Canadians into helping spread Chinese government policies and goals.

The most disturbing aspect of both reports is the willingness of Canada’s Liberal government to turn a blind eye to this level of infiltration and the effects it has on Canadian elections and democratic institutions.

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Canada’s not ready for the next viral outbreak. We didn’t even bother with an inquiry on the last one

Canada’s not ready for the next viral outbreak. We didn’t even bother with an inquiry on the last one

Various experts have been assuring the public over the past several weeks that the risk of a major hantavirus outbreak is low.

This is a known virus, they say, unlike the novel coronavirus first observed in 2019.

It doesn’t pose pandemic potential, they say, because this Andes variant requires prolonged close contact to be transmitted from human to human.

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GOLDSTEIN: It’s as if the foreign interference inquiry never happened

GOLDSTEIN: It’s as if the foreign interference inquiry never happened

Has the federal government learned nothing from Canada’s foreign interference inquiry?

More than five years after the previous Justin Trudeau regime first claimed to be “actively considering” a foreign lobbyists’ registry (officially the Foreign Influence Transparency Registry) in February 2021, Canada still doesn’t have one.

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Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canadian ports

Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canadian ports

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is looking at offering Canadian sea ports for sale.

Buried deep in the pages of a discussion paper released Friday — one of two published for swift 30-day public consultations — is the announcement that the government is open to and seeking a report on the potential amalgamation of certain unnamed “key ports” in Canada and “divestiture” of others.

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Canada aims to double electricity grid capacity by 2050 as demand soars

Canada aims to double electricity grid capacity by 2050 as demand soars

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday unveiled Canada’s new clean electricity strategy as electricity demand in Canada grows.

The plan aims to double the capacity of Canada’s grid by 2050, Carney said, adding that the federal government is launching consultations with provinces, territories, Indigenous groups, utility companies and unions.

“Over the coming decades, Canadians will use more electricity because many of the things we use every day, the cars we drive, the heaters in our home, the machines in our factories are switching to electric power. Doubling our grid to meet that demand won’t be easy,” Carney said.

Lots of pie in the sky.

h/t Mauser

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The world order has changed. Now comes the hard part

The world order has changed. Now comes the hard part

It is now commonplace to say that the international rules-based order is dead. Indeed, in his speech at Davos in January, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney not only pronounced its death but outlined a strategy for middle powers to adopt in response.

There are two elements of the rules-based order that have been challenged by recent events. The first is that there can be no changes to borders through the forcible annexation of territory or unilateral secession. This is one of the main pieces of the international order that appears to have fallen. The first serious brick in the wall was removed in 2014, with general acquiescence to Russia’s takeover of Crimea and eastern Donbass. It was also challenged more recently by the United States’ stated desire to purchase Greenland, as if it was a piece of real estate, and against the wishes of both Greenlanders and Denmark.


Carney does not “matter” in the old or new world order.

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‘We have a lot to lose’: Will Trump’s visit to China threaten Carney’s diversification?

‘We have a lot to lose’: Will Trump’s visit to China threaten Carney’s diversification?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump is in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first meeting of 2026 after a year of tariff escalation and just months after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own trip to China.

The talks begin on Thursday on issues ranging from Iran and Taiwan to trade.

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NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora Safety

NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora Safety

OTTAWA — A senior New Democratic Party parliamentarian has formally demanded that the Carney government release the full text of its secret law enforcement agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security, echoing a set of facts The Bureau has been reporting for months, while warning that Ottawa’s continued refusal to disclose the deal is fueling legitimate fear among diaspora communities who have experienced or fear transnational repression by the Chinese state.

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Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

DEA administrator Terrance Cole said U.S. law enforcement officials are “very conscious” of fentanyl being manufactured in Canada for export across the border and there have been “significant seizures” of the drug in Canada over the past two months.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Carney really risk his majority over Alberta?

Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Carney really risk his majority over Alberta?

Prime Minister Mark Carney is avidly wooing the west — but will his own caucus trip him up? Last Friday, Carney met with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to reassure her that Ottawa’s got her back on a second bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. After the tête-à-tête Smith said, “This morning I said ‘if’ a deal gets signed, and afterwards I said ‘when’ a deal gets signed,” describing it as “an indication of my improved level of confidence.”

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