Expert Says Migrant Tidal Wave Makes Insolvency Rate Look Better Than Peak Year Of 2009

Expert Says Migrant Tidal Wave Makes Insolvency Rate Look Better Than Peak Year Of 2009

Are Canadians reaching their ‘breaking point’? New data shows more people filing for insolvency

More Canadians are filing for insolvency according to the latest data from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, as rising costs stretch consumers to their limits.

Some 37,121 Canadians filed for insolvency in the first quarter of 2026 — the highest number of consumer insolvencies since 2009, when North America was reeling from the financial crisis.

Compared to the same time period last year, insolvencies are up 8.5 per cent.

However, the population now is higher than it was in 2009. Insolvency trustee Doug Hoyes says when that population growth is factored in, the rates of insolvency are much lower than 2009 levels.


Hmmm … Brampton Leads Canada in Mortgage Delinquencies

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Canada is fast-tracking citizenship certificates for trans Americans

Canada is fast-tracking citizenship certificates for trans Americans

Trans Americans with Canadian ancestry have been receiving expedited processing of their applications for Canadian citizenship certificates.

Proof of Canadian citizenship certificates, which are provided to individuals who qualify as Canadian citizens on the basis of their ancestry, have become a hot commodity this year in the United States, following changes to Canada’s Citizenship Act last December that removed the generational limit on inheritance.

h/t JL

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The Enemy Is Already Inside the Gates. Mark Carney Just Opened Them Wider.

The Enemy Is Already Inside the Gates. Mark Carney Just Opened Them Wider.

OTTAWA — When the Chinese consulate in Houston was ordered closed in July 2020, it did not go quietly. Within an hour of being told they had 72 hours to vacate, the staff set the building on fire.

What followed was, in the account of the man who ordered it done, a revelation. “Within two days,” former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Canada Strong and Free conference in Ottawa, “we had identified hundreds of Chinese agents operating in the United States, most of which we were unaware of. They started getting tickets to fly out. You could just see the network light up.”

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John Ivison: Carney may finally be unhitching Liberals from Guilbeault’s hardcore eco-activism

John Ivison: Carney may finally be unhitching Liberals from Guilbeault’s hardcore eco-activism

Building at speeds not seen in generations, as per Mark Carney’s oft-repeated election pledge, has been less hypersonic than the prime minister might have wished.

As the new parliamentary budget officer pointed out last week in an analysis of the spring fiscal update, only two of 15 projects being overseen by Carney’s Major Projects Office are actually under construction, and the two largest have yet to reach a final investment decision.

Part of the problem remains regulatory uncertainty, and that was the subject of a discussion paper issued by the government on Friday. That sounds of little consequence, but it could prove seismic.

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Human rights advocates sound alarm as court documents reveal extent Chinese police harassed Canadian residents

Human rights advocates sound alarm as court documents reveal extent Chinese police harassed Canadian residents

OTTAWA – Security experts and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the renewal of a co-operation agreement between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and China’s Ministry of Public Security as troubling details surface at a foreign interference trial.

Court documents filed at the trial of alleged double agent William Majcher reveals that at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted by Chinese police under an anti-corruption program, which doubled as a tool of transnational repression. The affidavit shows that the Chinese nationals may have been forced to return to their homeland against their will to face punishment for alleged financial crimes.

Some of them would have faced life imprisonment, or even a death sentence.

h/t Patti Jo

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Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

In a 2022 news conference, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there wasn’t a clear business case for building liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to export to Europe. This past week, Mark Carney suggested in a media interview that the first thing European authorities are interested in when they sit down with Canada is not our energy. He went on to say that energy is something Canada raises as being part of the solution in respect to nuclear and LNG.


Carney will talk big but nothing will get done.

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Ontario Liberal Party stands by results in Scarborough Southwest nomination, as Erskine-Smith weighs options

Ontario Liberal Party stands by results in Scarborough Southwest nomination, as Erskine-Smith weighs options

The Ontario Liberal Party is standing by the results of its nomination contest in Scarborough Southwest as losing candidate Nate Erskine-Smith met with his team to discuss next steps after raising concerns about the race.

On Saturday, Liberal members in the east Toronto riding chose businessman Ahsanul Hafiz as their next provincial candidate in a yet-to-be-announced by-election, beating Mr. Erskine-Smith in a close contest. The nomination was seen as a critical step in Mr. Erskine-Smith’s plan to run for leader of the Ontario Liberal party. He is currently a federal MP for the neighbouring riding of Beaches-East York.


I am lovin it. The pandering pol got what he deserved.

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Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has committed $180 million in taxpayer money to a World Bank climate initiative aimed at accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy and addressing “gender equality gaps” in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

According to the federal government’s grants and contributions website, the funding was provided to the World Bank through the “World Bank Clean Energy and SIDS Resilience Facility (CESR).”

(Incognito)

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‘Pathetic’: How the people behind Canada’s Afghan war memorial lost many vets

‘Pathetic’: How the people behind Canada’s Afghan war memorial lost many vets

Canada’s proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it’s designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war.

Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan in Lebreton Flats, near Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum, last Monday. But some vets felt overlooked in a ceremony that focused on the project and not the onetime warriors, and showcased an Indigenous-inspired “Medicine Wheel” design.

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Carney government discussed media blacklist at closed-door meeting, records show

Carney government discussed media blacklist at closed-door meeting, records show

Staff inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Privy Council Office took part in a confidential federal meeting to discuss which reporters should receive government accreditation and which could be denied access, according to Access To Information records released this week.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the March 10 meeting, involving officials from the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, Treasury Board, Canada Revenue Agency and the immigration department, focused on creating a more unified federal media accreditation system amid growing concerns over independent journalism and alternative media outlets.

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Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

OTTAWA – More Canadians now say economic growth should be a bigger priority in Canada’s energy policy than protecting the environment, a new Angus Reid Institute report suggests.

The pollster released a report today that suggests 61 per cent of Canadians now see economic growth as the biggest priority in energy policy.

That’s a shift in public opinion since seven years ago, when the same question had 55 per cent of Canadians saying that the environment should be the top priority in energy policy.


And Carney is just the man to lie to your face about it.

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Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow

Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow

On May 31, 2001, a former Pakistan army captain named Tahawwur Hussain Rana swore the oath of citizenship in front of an Ottawa judge, who anointed him a Canadian.

But he is a fraudulent Canadian, according to hundreds of pages of government documents obtained by Global News that allege he obtained his citizenship through “deception.”

The documents show that an RCMP investigation uncovered considerable evidence that Rana lied on his citizen application form by claiming he resided in Canada, when he did not.

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Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?

Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?

I spent last weekend crossing half the globe with Prime Minister Mark Carney, to spend a few hours with European leaders in Yerevan, the stunning Armenian capital, before crossing all the way back to Ottawa.

Mr. Carney was the first non-European leader to be invited to a meeting of the European Political Community, a grouping that brings together the 27 European Union member states with allies and neighbors, including Britain and Turkey, as well as aspiring members such as Ukraine and Albania.

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Canadian home ownership for young families falls to lowest level since postwar era

Canadian home ownership for young families falls to lowest level since postwar era

Young Canadians are buying homes at the lowest rates seen since the postwar period, according to new Statistics Canada data that adds to growing concerns over affordability, declining optimism and widening generational inequality.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the report found millennials are significantly less likely to own homes than previous generations were at the same age, reinforcing fears that the traditional middle-class path to ownership is slipping out of reach.

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Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney’s foreign policy

Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney’s foreign policy

Last week I reviewed mainly the domestic record of the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney over the past 13 months, although, as was mentioned, the principal point that Canadians seem to hold in his favour is the foreign policy perception of his ability ”to stand up to Trump.” Few could forget how Carney, with the connivance of the anti-conservative national political media, represented his campaign as a Churchillian finest hour of national defence against a belligerent America. That burlesque has ended and Carney must now face the question of how to deal with the United States, a subject that our longest-serving prime minister, W.L. Mackenzie King, described to General de Gaulle in 1945 as “an overwhelming contiguity.”

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