LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston

LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston

The bad news is that Honda isn’t expanding its operations in Alliston to build an electric vehicle plant. The good news is that no government money has been handed over despite a promise of up to $5 billion when the project was announced two years ago.

The announcement on April 25, 2024, promised a $15-billion investment from Honda for a new EV assembly line and a battery plant. The federal government promised up to $2.5 billion in production tax credits and the provincial government promised up to another $2.5 billion in support.

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Ontario power of sales surge as desperate homeowners run out of runway

Ontario power of sales surge as desperate homeowners run out of runway

Distressed home sellers are popping up more and more in Toronto’s real estate market as prices continue to tumble, leaving hundreds of homeowners with no equity in their homes.

April reached a two-year high for the number of power of sale listings in Ontario with more than 300, according to publicly available information on IDX and VOW — property listing databases that realtors can access.

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John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

Wednesday’s report from the financial news site Nikkei Asia that Honda has suspended its plan to build a $15-billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario indefinitely comes as no surprise — particularly not to the federal government, which was told in January, sources say.

The big picture is that Canada’s ambitious gamble to be the locus for North American electric vehicle production has flopped and the battle now is to conserve the assembly plants that are already here.

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GUNTER: Mark Carney as reluctant as Justin Trudeau to wield pro-growth measures

GUNTER: Mark Carney as reluctant as Justin Trudeau to wield pro-growth measures

I’ll bet you heard or read that the Carney government’s spring economic update last month showed the federal deficit had fallen more than $11 billion from the $78.3 billion forecast in last November’s federal budget.

That sounds like good news. Not great news. Even at $66.9 billion the deficit in the coming year will be the largest in Canadian history, larger than the largest Trudeau deficit.

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Your tax dollars at work …

Your tax dollars at work …

Dasha (Daria) Kochurina

She gained widespread attention (and criticism) after a video from her LIOR fashion show/burlesque event at Emily Resort (around May 3, 2026) went viral. In it, she was filmed dancing and throwing stacks of cash (reportedly ~$150,000) while celebrating the new collection. The event featured elaborate staging, performers, and a large audience.

Her husband is Dmytro Khandusenko (or similar spelling), deputy head of the State Audit Service (Southern/Odesa office) in Ukraine. His official salary is low (~$900/month), which has fueled public outrage and questions about the source of the couple’s wealth amid the ongoing war, international aid to Ukraine, and anti-corruption concerns. The family has been noted for luxury assets (e.g., Range Rover, Bentley, jewelry) in prior declarations and reports.


Some to Carney, some to Freeland, some to Trudeau …

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Fired B.C. teacher wins job back after pro-Freedom Convoy presentation

Fired B.C. teacher wins job back after pro-Freedom Convoy presentation

On Jan. 28, 2022, Richmond, B.C., teacher Nicole Kowal-Seafoot told a colleague before a class presentation that, “I might be losing my job today.”

More than four years after she lost her job, for a presentation that was in favour of the self-styled “Freedom Convoy,” which protested vaccine mandates at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a labour arbitrator ruled that the Richmond School District’s decision was excessive.

Kowal-Seafoot’s presentation to her Grade 6 and 7 students featured a caricature of former prime minister Justin Trudeau with his head on a chicken.

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Conservatives blame Liberal EV strategy after Honda plant suspension report

Conservatives blame Liberal EV strategy after Honda plant suspension report

OTTAWA — Conservatives are blaming the federal government’s electric vehicle strategy after reports that Honda is indefinitely suspending plans for a $15 billion electric vehicle project in Ontario.

Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged Wednesday that Canada’s auto sector is facing pressure from U.S. tariffs, though he did not directly address the Honda reports.

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Beryl Wajsman: Arbour’s appointment is a slap in the face for Jewish Canadians

Beryl Wajsman: Arbour’s appointment is a slap in the face for Jewish Canadians

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s appointment of Louise Arbour as governor general is not a neutral choice. It makes a statement — one that many Jewish Canadians will read with deep unease.

Arbour’s resumé is formidable: former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a figure of global stature. But Rideau Hall is not a lifetime achievement award. It is a test of judgment — and of the ability to embody fairness in the eyes of all Canadians.


She’s pissed off a lot of Canadians.

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Canada’s Spy Agency Names Iranian Hacking Group But Omits the DOJ Case That Exposed Its Cartel Bounty on a Canadian Politician

Canada’s Spy Agency Names Iranian Hacking Group But Omits the DOJ Case That Exposed Its Cartel Bounty on a Canadian Politician

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — Canada’s intelligence service has, for the first time, named the Iranian-linked cyber operator at the center of a U.S. federal criminal case that exposed Iran’s issuing a $250,000 bounty death threat directing Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel to behead a high-profile former Ontario politician at her Ottawa home.

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How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were ‘alienated’ under Trudeau

How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were ‘alienated’ under Trudeau

OTTAWA — When it comes to the federal government’s plan to recruit upwards of 100,000 more people into the trades, there stands one demographic likely to benefit the most.

Men, and more specifically, young men.

Those inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government say the pledge, announced last week as part of the spring economic update, reflects commitments he has made around building more homes and getting major infrastructure projects off the ground. It’s also coupled with the need to fill persistent labour gaps in key trades at the same time as the government cuts back on immigration and battles high youth unemployment.

White males? Bullshit.

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Foreign actors targeting Alberta separatism to stoke discord, researchers say

Foreign actors targeting Alberta separatism to stoke discord, researchers say

Early this year, Canadian researchers who track online influence campaigns and foreign propaganda happened upon something peculiar. Using artificial intelligence to catalogue the activity of Russian websites and social-media accounts known to be spreading disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine, the researchers noticed a new topic suddenly garnering more attention than it ever had from those groups: Alberta.

My first suspect would be CBC.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney, the European prime minister

Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney, the European prime minister

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium. If you’re old enough to remember this 1969 film, where a busload of hapless tourists barrel across Europe on an 18-day tour of nine cities, you probably voted Liberal in the past election, like most of Canada’s baby boomers. And you’re probably happy with the way things are going so far. But you may not have expected Prime Minister Mark Carney to rack up quite so much time across the pond.

 

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John Ivison: Carney’s flimsy economic claims get ripped apart by his new parliamentary budget officer

John Ivison: Carney’s flimsy economic claims get ripped apart by his new parliamentary budget officer

It must have been tempting for Prime Minister Mark Carney to appoint an absolute blockhead as the new parliamentary budget officer.

Instead, in Annette Ryan, he has installed a 30-year public service veteran with Finance Department experience who has probably seen it all when it comes to juggling the numbers and concealing errors.

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