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.
“We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.” That phrase, and the coldly self-interested realism that appeared to be behind it, became associated with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to the Middle East for a brief moment earlier this year.
Grabbed from the PM’s Davos speech in January, the line was celebrated by those who believed Canada’s foreign policy had descended into the virtue-signalling promotion of Canadian values, and needed to return to the rock-ribbed projection of national interests.
Once again, war in the Middle East is destabilizing global energy markets, increasing energy costs (including at the pumps) and threatening Canada’s already fragile economy.
Yet at a moment when policymakers should do everything possible to unlock Canada’s economic potential, the Carney government is doubling down on the Trudeau-era industrial carbon tax, which further raises energy costs, dampens investment and job growth — and all for negligible environmental benefits.
The federal government is giving Ford Motor Co. $464.5 million toward retooling its idled Oakville assembly plant to produce heavy-duty F-series gas and diesel-powered trucks.
The funding — mentioned in a federal database for grants and contributions — comes as the Dearborn, Mich.-based auto manufacturer revealed it has increased its own spending on the retooling to $5 billion from $1.8 billion.
The database says the funding agreement, which took effect March 30, runs until 2038.
Trump is determined to bring all assembly home. Will Ford take the money and run?
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney faced near-daily threats over his first 100 days in office, according to newly released government documents that show how a wave of threats against top political leaders carried over from the Justin Trudeau era.
Obtained under the federal Access to Information system, the documents list hundreds of “direct” and “indirect” threats recorded against the prime minister and members of the federal cabinet from 2022 to June 2025. Descriptions of each threat are blacked-out, leaving only the date and the “affected” figure for each one.
Trump survives multiple assassination attempts and the Star yawns.
OTTAWA – Standing in his office Friday morning, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canadians in her province, and industry stakeholders, are “getting a bit impatient” when it comes to plans to get major projects moving.
Speaking about the memorandum of understanding (MOU) – the energy co-operation pact outlining conditions for a new oil pipeline connecting Alberta to the Pacific Coast to proceed – Smith said the two parties have “had some really constructive conversations.”
But now, she has told Carney that “if we’re going to move forward with that MOU, I hope it happens in the next number of days.”
But there is hope allegedly …
Ottawa suggests letting cabinet green-light pipelines before technical assessments happen
The federal government is proposing reversing the order of pipeline approvals, allowing cabinet to green-light a new project prior to the completion of technical assessments and approvals.
The proposed changes come less than two months before Alberta is expected to submit a proposal for a new pipeline to the west coast.
The idea of switching the order of the approval process by giving it first to cabinet and then to the civil service for a technical review is included in a sweeping set of proposals released by Ottawa on Friday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made history last week as the first non-European leader invited to the European Political Community summit. His remarks were a familiar rehash of the bromides he delivered at Davos earlier this year: a world in “rupture,” the need to rebuild the international order “out of Europe,” and solemn warnings against a “transactional, insular, and brutal world.” He pushed for deeper integration in critical minerals, supply chains, and defence, as well as a new strategic partnership. Yet behind the lofty rhetoric lies a troubling reality. Carney claims to be guided by “pragmatism,” but his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper European Union (EU) alignment risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for a mountain of red tape and romantic symbolism.
On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.
The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.
The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.
BIG PARTY tonight in Toronto 🇨🇦 Looks like SOROS made the trip to meet with Carney and Obama Hosted by Canada 2020 🤯
YIKES pic.twitter.com/ZrZvycfGbo
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) May 8, 2026
Carney is deliberately sabotaging US relations
h/t Mauser
Canada needs to act quickly to push back on a growing belief in Washington that it’s dragging its feet on trade talks, according to the Quebec government’s representative in those negotiations.
Louise Blais, who was appointed last month as Quebec’s envoy for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement review, said that “an impression has set in, in D.C. — for right or wrong — that Canada is looking elsewhere, and that we’re slow-walking this.”
Attempts by the federal and provincial governments to create an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada through massive taxpayer-financed public subsidies have turned into a disaster.
Not to worry Carney’s ChiCom pals will save us!
The federal government quietly transferred more than $3 million away from a homelessness program for veterans after officials claimed they could not find enough former military members eligible to receive the funding.
Blacklock’s Reporter says internal records obtained through Access to Information show Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department moved the money while warning the decision could spark backlash from veterans groups and housing advocates.
WASHINGTON — For nearly four decades, I have advocated for justice and human rights for the Uyghur people in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression. Its record of gross human rights violations is well documented, despite an extensive propaganda apparatus designed to obscure it. China’s use of economic leverage to expand its political influence is also widely recognized, with overt examples across the globe. What is often less visible is the breadth and depth of what the CCP is willing to do, and the lengths it will go, to sustain control and project power.
In an era when objective truth is a nice-to-have and the bar for politicians is in the depths of hell, it’s helpful to have someone like Rosemary Barton in the mix. For more than two decades, Barton, currently the CBC’s chief political correspondent, has chatted with, fact-checked and, when the occasion merits it, borderline interrogated the country’s most consequential public figures. Lately, thanks to some unusually exciting policy shifts under our refreshingly boring new prime minister, Canada’s newsmakers are commanding global headlines. But first, they’ll probably pop up on Rosemary Barton Live.
Government bought media giving a tongue bath to government bought media.
Careful as spittle may leak through your screen.
The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t an empire, or Roman, and its behaviour definitely wasn’t holy. But the title sounds impressive.
Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be using that marketing technique from the Middle Ages with the federal government’s latest way to borrow money and hand out corporate welfare.
