Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.

“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

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Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies were in a frenzy of conspiracy theories Friday after former President Barack Obama greeted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a think-tank event in Toronto.

A video, posted by Carney on X, shows him shaking hands with the former president, before Obama also greets the prime minister’s wife, Diana Fox Carney. Obama was in town to deliver a keynote address at a gala for Canada 2020, a progressive think-tank that advocates for inclusivity. Obama and Carney have known each other on a professional level since at least 2008, when he was the U.S. president and the PM served as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

The Independent can be as bad as the Guardian.

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Statscan sold early hate crime report to Heritage for $72K as questions raised over omitted antisemitism data

Statscan sold early hate crime report to Heritage for $72K as questions raised over omitted antisemitism data

Statistics Canada sold an advance copy of a national hate crimes report to the Department of Canadian Heritage for $72,000, granting officials early access for “feedback.”

Blacklock’s Reporter says the confidential agreement between Statistics Canada and Department of Canadian Heritage allowed a designated official in Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s department to review the report Police-Reported Hate Crimes In Canada prior to its public release.

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Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada’s shameful international student boom

Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada’s shameful international student boom

For years, the stories of the overseas sacrifices that were made to fuel Ontario’s international student boom have been told.

Families in poor countries that sold their few worldly possessions, sometimes the actual farm, to pay the steep college tuition costs for foreign students in the land of milk and honey. Often, they found the education and opportunity were not at all what they expected.

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An army of 3rd World mercenaries …

An army of 3rd World mercenaries …

The following BBC piece reads like a CAF PR Handout

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GUNTER: Canada’s youth employment crushed under Liberal policy

GUNTER: Canada’s youth employment crushed under Liberal policy

The Canadian economy has lost 112,000 jobs just since January. That’s the weakest four-month stretch since the pandemic. The unemployment rate has climbed to 6.9 per cent.

But a closer look at the numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada reveals two even more disturbing trends.

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CSIS director says Alberta referendum vulnerable to foreign interference

CSIS director says Alberta referendum vulnerable to foreign interference

The head of Canada’s intelligence agency says Alberta’s potential secession vote is susceptible to disinformation and foreign interference from players like Russia.

In an interview with CBC’s The House, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) director Dan Rogers said it’s his agency’s job to “understand and investigate” foreign interference.

“And a referendum like the one in Alberta, that may have a divisive effect on society, is rife for amplification or for the sort of disinformation or foreign interference that we’ve seen from players like Russia in the past,” he told host Catherine Cullen.


I get the impression this guy will say anything Carney wants.

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Bill to help authorities probe online activities raises widespread privacy fears

Bill to help authorities probe online activities raises widespread privacy fears

OTTAWA – A Liberal government bill that would make it easier for police and spies to navigate the online world is running into fierce opposition from major digital companies, civil liberties groups and law professors who say it would open the door to serious privacy infringements.

The government says the bill — “An Act respecting lawful access” — will ensure law enforcement agencies have the legal tools to prevent, investigate and respond to modern crime and protect Canadians in a manner consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Oh Shut Up.

Oh Shut Up.

Thousands of temporary residents are being squeezed out by Canada’s shifting immigration reality. Here’s what the country could lose

They’ve spent months and years living, studying and working toward the Canadian dream, once touted as the “economic engine” for this country’s post-COVID-19 recovery and future growth.

But after all their toil to build a new life here, their journeys have stalled.

An IT specialist, a special-needs teacher, an engineer with two master’s degrees: They’re among hundreds of thousands of temporary residents who have been left in limbo by Canada’s immigration pivot.


And the latest immigrant Sob Story from CTV – 28 seems a bit “old” for a youth and I doubt he was even born in Canada.

The Media is busy working the immigration scam on behalf of their paymaster.

SEND THEM HOME.

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GOLDSTEIN: Mark Carney must kill Justin Trudeau’s anti-growth agenda

GOLDSTEIN: Mark Carney must kill Justin Trudeau’s anti-growth agenda

If Prime Minister Mark Carney seriously wants to address Canada’s number one economic crisis – low productivity – he must scrap the anti-growth environmental polices of the Justin Trudeau government.

His major political opponents will be Trudeau-era Liberals and environmental activists, including the radical green groups Trudeau incorporated into his government.

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Buy Canadian Policy allows fully foreign-owned firms to qualify as ‘Canadian

Buy Canadian Policy allows fully foreign-owned firms to qualify as ‘Canadian

Ottawa’s much-touted “Buy Canadian” policy does not require companies to be Canadian-owned, allowing even 100% foreign-owned firms to qualify for federal contracts, according to newly disclosed records.

Blacklock’s Reporter says documents from the Department of Public Works show the definition of a “Canadian supplier” under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s policy is based on operational presence rather than ownership, meaning multinational corporations with a minimal footprint in Canada can still be deemed Canadian.

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Viva Diversity! Liberals Hoist by their own petard!

Viva Diversity! Liberals Hoist by their own petard!

Hoist by their own petard!

h/t CodexCoder


Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith loses nomination race for provincial byelection in Scarborough

“There was a ton of scrutineers in there, lots of stories about what’s happened inside, but I’ve got to debrief,” he said in the rainy parking lot of the school where the voting took place, after initially trying to dodge reporters.

“I’ve spoken to a few scrutineers already who said they’ve never seen anything like it, and it’s unreal what happened in there.”

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Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. in some sectors, Carney says

Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. in some sectors, Carney says

Speaking to a room of progressive policy experts in Toronto Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered some insight into what Canada has offered up ahead of an official review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) this summer.

“Canada remains open to deeper integration,” said Carney, whose government has so far signaled it is in no rush to negotiate a new deal.

“Like Mexico, Canada remains open to deeper integration, including options for fortress North America in (certain) sectors. And to be clear, those offers are on the table,” said the prime minister.


Pretty sure he can’t remember all his lies anymore.

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HANNAFORD: Trump’s energy revolution leaves Carney in the dust

HANNAFORD: Trump’s energy revolution leaves Carney in the dust

President Trump has largely succeeded in repositioning the Americas as the new centre of world energy markets. Canada – particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan, with the world’s third-largest oil reserves and stable oil-sands production – is exceptionally well placed to benefit, provided Canadian policy stops fighting the continental reality and starts leveraging it.

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