Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government – Page 46

Canada is spending billions of dollars on new submarines — so what are they actually for?

A little over two years ago, the federal government announced it would be “exploring options” for the purchase of a new submarine fleet. Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the winning bid, for up to 12 diesel-electric submarines. He did so in advance of a visit to Ankara for the NATO leaders’ summit, where the deal between Canada and the German-Norwegian consortium TKMS was exhibit A in demonstrating our commitment to increased defence spending, a contentious issue for the Trump administration.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 14, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Your daily corruption

REPORT: @GAC_Corporate last year fired 25 Canadian diplomats including one caught in secret contact with a foreign government. Neither the fired diplomat nor the foreign state were identified by Minister @AnitaAnandMP.https://t.co/phCRPReyeE #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/xjXObflf3D

— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) July 14, 2026

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 14, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

NATO Summit: Canada Must Now Deliver

Canada leaves this week’s NATO Summit in Ankara with good reason for cautious optimism. After years of debating defence budgets and delayed procurements, the Alliance has reached an important turning point. The discussion is no longer about promises. It is about military capability. That is precisely where Canada’s focus must remain.

For years, NATO measured commitment by the percentage of GDP devoted to defence. That benchmark still matters, but it is no longer sufficient. The true measure of national security is whether those dollars produce soldiers, ships, submarines, aircraft, armoured vehicles and ammunition that can fight. Capability deters aggression. Announcements do not.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

Canada’s going to need to use its aging secondhand British subs for another decade

Canada will have to squeeze at least another decade of life out of its used British submarines as it waits for Germany to deliver up to 12 new vessels. But not everyone’s convinced that can be done.

The four diesel-electric subs the Royal Canadian Navy acquired from Britain in the late 1990s have been plagued with disasters, including floods, a deadly fire and a grounding that took the only operational sub we have right now out of action for a decade.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MACLEOD: The chilling effect — why Albertans are afraid to speak freely in Canada

Canada likes to describe itself as a mature democracy. We are often told by the Laurentian elite, who have never been shy about lecturing the West, that this country is built on tolerance, debate, pluralism, and peaceful disagreement.

Then Albertans start talking seriously about independence, and suddenly those principles become negotiable.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 13, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech

A Chinese University Affiliation, Chinese State Funding, and Warnings Ignored: The Dennis Lu Case Follows a Pattern Canada Has Seen Before

OTTAWA – Dennis Lu, the veteran federal scientist accused in an explosive foreign interference case echoing the scandal involving Dr. Xiangguo Qiu at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory, published a book after his arrest that lists his institutional affiliation not as the Government of Canada, where he worked for nearly three decades, but as a Chinese university — one credited, along with the book, as receiving Chinese state funding and red-flagged by Australian security analysts for ties to Chinese intelligence.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CSIS Warned About Him for Two Decades. Then a Clean Energy Scientist Allegedly Copied Thousands of Files for Beijing on the Eve of Retirement

OTTAWA – A senior Natural Resources Canada scientist who court records say collaborated with Chinese counterparts on government energy research has been charged with breach of trust and unauthorized use of federal computers, as an Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered Canada’s national security agencies — including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Privy Council Office — to disclose volumes of sensitive records in a high-profile foreign interference prosecution now heading to trial in Ottawa.

h/t handy n handsome

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A unilateral declaration of independence and the 51st State? Ottawa’s Clarity Act could push Alberta there

On a mild though grey winter’s day just before Christmas, citizens of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia voted 95.7% in favour of becoming independent. Six months later, after negotiations regarding a looser “confederal” arrangement with their Serbian overlords in Belgrade broke down, the Slovenian Parliament issued a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI).

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"Western Independence", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadian savings deteriorate as spending outpaces income: report

Savings have deteriorated for a majority of Canadians, particularly the bottom 80 per cent of Canadian households, as spending significantly outpace income growth, according to research by Boston Consulting Group.

Consumer spending is up, but that growth isn’t coming from income for those outside the top 20 per cent earners. The report said that for the lowest 20 per cent of earners, spending jumped 27 per cent over the past five years, while disposable income just went up three per cent.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Bryan Brulotte: Canada can’t afford another unbuilt pipeline

Canada’s greatest energy problem is not that we produce too little oil. It is that we have spent more than a decade making it increasingly difficult to sell it. Ottawa’s decision to support, in principle, a new pipeline to Canada’s Pacific coast is encouraging, but approval alone will not restore investor confidence. Trust, once lost, must be earned back. For years, governments layered Canada’s energy sector with carbon taxes, increasingly complex regulations, emissions caps, tanker restrictions and political uncertainty. Investors responded exactly as rational investors should. They invested elsewhere.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Energy Matters", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Guns and butter: The true cost of Canada’s military spending is yet to be tallied

Canada will never be a military powerhouse. But it is making up for lost time during the post-Cold War years, when spending on fighting machines sank to risible levels. As various MPs have stated, Canada had planes that wouldn’t go up and submarines that wouldn’t go down, and still does for the most part. Today, only one of Canada’s four rust-bucket submarines is in service and its CF-18 fighter jets are twice the age of some of its pilots.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

At competing Stampede breakfasts, 2 very different visions for Alberta emerge

It may have been the final day of the 10-day Calgary Stampede exhibition and rodeo, but two pancake breakfasts held simultaneously Sunday morning made clear the battle for the hearts and minds of Albertans is just ramping up.

At Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall, one of Calgary’s most well-known western bars, the pro-independence group Let Alberta Decide hosted a pancake breakfast, drawing hundreds. One man wore a shirt that read “Alberta First. Ottawa Last,” before grabbing a plate of eggs, sausages, pancakes and fruit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Can Carney’s big military spending save Canada’s economy? (Or should it?)

“This historic investment in the Canadian Armed Forces will bring strong economic benefits and jobs across the country,” said the Defence Minister when the federal government announced its preferred bidder for the navy’s submarine program this week. We’ll be hearing a lot more of this as Canada’s ambitious defence procurement program ramps up – that it will not only make us safer, but richer. But is that true? Does defence spending juice economic growth?

Good account of the sub purchase.

https://t.co/PkLHZ6LUU6

— Fyure (@Fyure3) July 10, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Shopify president fears for future of Jews in Canada as families contemplate what was ‘unthinkable five years ago’

The president of Canada’s biggest tech company says antisemitism has been “normalized under the thinnest veil of advocacy,” and many members of the Jewish community are thinking about their future in Canada.

Harley Finkelstein was confronted, again, by an aggressive protester at Montreal’s Startupfest on Wednesday, the third time in two years he has been aggressively challenged in public for his support of Israel.

Mass immigration will make it very difficult to reverse this situation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Mark Carney’s visit to Saudi Arabia revealed a narrowed vision of Canada’s place in the world

“O Canada” was played in Saudi Arabia this week for the first time in 26 years. That quarter-century silence tells the real story behind Mark Carney’s visit to Jeddah.

The last Canadian prime minister to visit Saudi Arabia was Jean Chrétien, in 2000, during a 12-day Middle East tour driven by a very different ambition: to reinforce Canada’s role as a credible participant in the Oslo peace process and to lead the international working group on Palestinian refugees. Canada then aspired to play a distinctive diplomatic role in the region and strengthen multilateralism.

What will the Elbows say?

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia - Dubious Ally