Diana Fox Carney makes first trip to Halifax as Ocean Envoy

Diana Fox Carney makes first trip to Halifax as Ocean Envoy

Diana Fox Carney arrives in Halifax on Wednesday on her first trip there as Canada’s Ocean Envoy, ahead of an international conference she will chair in the city next spring.

The Our Ocean Conference has raised about US$180-billion in commitments since it was launched by former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry in 2014 as a faster alternative to negotiated treaties. The conference asks governments, businesses and conservation groups to make voluntary commitments to protect the ocean.


Another Carney slushfund.

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Joni Mitchell Becomes A US Citizen

Joni Mitchell Becomes A US Citizen

This legendary Canadian musician just became a U.S. citizen

After more than 60 years of living in the U.S., Joni Mitchell has become an American citizen.

On Tuesday, the 82-year-old singer-songwriter posted a photo and video on Instagram of her citizenship ceremony with the caption, “A journey that began 62 years ago.”

Seems she’s had TDS for 60 years as well.

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Canada Urges Palestinian President to Hold Elections, Which Was Condition for Recognizing Statehood

Canada Urges Palestinian President to Hold Elections, Which Was Condition for Recognizing Statehood

Canada has joined three Western allies in expressing disappointment regarding the Palestinian president’s move to postpone elections for nearly a year, and is calling on him to reconsider his decision.

Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Portugal recognized Palestinian statehood in September 2025, saying the move was intended to revive hopes for peace between Palestinians and Israelis and advance a two-state solution. The United States and Israel condemned the recognition.


The Palestinians lied? OMG!

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‘CRYING WAS ROUTINE:’ Freeland reveals Trudeau’s woke cabinet culture

‘CRYING WAS ROUTINE:’ Freeland reveals Trudeau’s woke cabinet culture

OTTAWA — Crying ministers, comforting hugs and public scoldings over politically incorrect language were apparently part of life in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, according to former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland’s new memoir.

In Unreliable Boyfriend, released Tuesday, Freeland describes the atmosphere inside the Trudeau government, including an occasion when the former prime minister reprimanded a female minister for using the word “crazy.”

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney struggles to know if he should back Trump on Russia, or not

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney struggles to know if he should back Trump on Russia, or not

Prime Minister Mark Carney has built his political reputation on being the adult in the room — and a man at ease in the corridors of power. He’s a former central banker with friends in high places, a guy who understands how the world works, and, supposedly, a leader who can handle U.S. President Donald Trump.

But this weekend, Carney demonstrated that having world leaders on speed dial and knowing how to deal with them are two very different things. On Sunday, he thanked Trump for his leadership in securing an alleged “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. The two countries have been relentlessly bombing each other’s energy infrastructure, and with winter approaching, the consequences for people left in the cold could be dire.

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Billions more for defence, but Canada’s military still faces an old budget squeeze

Billions more for defence, but Canada’s military still faces an old budget squeeze

The Canadian military is on the verge of another round of internal belt-tightening, despite an enormous influx of cash from the federal government, CBC News has learned.

It appears to be a combination of past and current budget initiatives colliding with the expectations and demands associated with the gush of defence spending.

The Department of National Defence has been told to focus its billions of extra dollars on priority areas, including the purchase of much-needed new combat equipment.

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Founder of Canada-China relations group, Liberal donor faces deportation for ‘war crimes’

Founder of Canada-China relations group, Liberal donor faces deportation for ‘war crimes’

ince arriving in Canada almost two decades ago, Rong Xiang Yuan has championed closer ties between Ottawa and Beijing, spoken at community events and rubbed shoulders with politicians.

The founder of an advocacy group called the Canada-China Association for Promoting Friendly Relations, he met Justin Trudeau and donated to the then-prime minister and the Liberal Party.

But Canada’s immigration enforcement department is now alleging the Chinese community leader, also known as “Tiger” Yuan, is a war criminal who lied his way into the country.


A war criminal? Hell he’s due for a standing O in parliament.

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Mark Carney says he might ramp up immigration again. We need to see his plan first

Mark Carney says he might ramp up immigration again. We need to see his plan first

It’s unlikely Mark Carney was aiming to relaunch a national immigration debate when he popped into the New York Times last month and mentioned in passing that Canada will “resume some controlled increase in the population” once the system is under control.

But that, unsurprisingly, has been the result — with opposition MPs warning about Ottawa again letting in “too many people too fast,” accompanied by alarmist op-eds in conservative media outlets, packaged into online ragebait.


Wanting to save your country from Carney’s migrant hordes is ragebait according to the Star.

Carney has lied about having immigration under control, claiming an historic population reduction when in fact an increase of almost 300,000 occurred.

Carney will always lie, expect it. Never trust him or his minions.

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Canada’s air force doesn’t have enough people to run two fighter programs, says retired lieutenant general

Canada’s air force doesn’t have enough people to run two fighter programs, says retired lieutenant general

Alain Pelletier can still remember that new plane smell when he first climbed into the cockpit of a CF-18 more than three decades ago.

The retired Royal Canadian Air Force lieutenant general, who was deputy commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs from July 2020 until June 2023, knows what it takes to get a new fleet of fighter aircraft up and running. He thinks the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) would be stretched thin for pilots, technicians and trainers if ordered to double that effort for a combined fleet of American-made Lockheed Martin F-35s and Saab Gripen-E fighters.

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Majority of Canadians support closer formal ties with European Union: poll

Majority of Canadians support closer formal ties with European Union: poll

Canadian support for more formal ties with the European Union appears to be growing, a new poll suggests.

Nearly eight in 10 respondents were supportive or somewhat supportive of Canada becoming an associate member of the EU so long as the agreement increased co-operation on trade and defence, but stopped short of full membership.

 

 

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A military underfunded, undermanned and underprepared

A military underfunded, undermanned and underprepared

The radars watching over Canada’s Arctic region were designed when the Soviet Union was a country. The Royal Canadian Navy’s frigates and the Royal Canadian Air Force’s fighter jets are nearing the end of their useful lives. As Canada looks to reinvigorate its defence sector with billions of dollars in new spending, years of neglect may have left Canadian Forces short of the equipment they need to fight alongside their allies.

Canada is expected to put 25 per cent of its 2026 defence budget toward major equipment, according to NATO data compiled by Benchmark Canada, a Macdonald-Laurier Institute project that ranks the country against its allies. That would exceed NATO’s 20 per cent guideline for a second consecutive year, but leave Canada ranked 28 among the 31 allies measured.


The Liberal Party has left us poor and defenseless while courting dubious allies..

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Trade Minister Leading 300-Member Mission to India This Week

Trade Minister Leading 300-Member Mission to India This Week

International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is in India this week as the two countries look to reach a free-trade agreement by the end of the year.

Sidhu is set to make stops in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru during his visit. He is being joined by almost 300 delegates representing businesses and exporters from across Canada.

A Global Affairs Canada news release said the trade mission will include businesses from multiple sectors, including aerospace, clean technologies and energy transition, information and communication tech, life sciences and agri-food.


So long as he leaves them in India I’m Ok with this.

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Champagne won’t promise Alto high-speed rail will stay under $90 billion

Champagne won’t promise Alto high-speed rail will stay under $90 billion

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne declined to guarantee taxpayers that Ottawa’s proposed Alto high-speed rail project will stay within its $90-billion price tag as MPs questioned escalating costs and millions paid in employee bonuses.

Blacklock’s Reporter said Champagne repeatedly referred questions about the project to Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon during testimony before the Commons finance committee.


Why ask Slush Funds R’US?

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Carney makes case for united Canada ahead of Alberta separation vote

Carney makes case for united Canada ahead of Alberta separation vote

Prime Minister Mark Carney is making the case for a united Canada as Albertans prepare to vote in a referendum on the province’s place in Confederation.

In a video posted online on Monday, Mr. Carney said Albertans helped build Canada, and he raised concerns about uncertainty linked to the sovereignty vote.

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Canadian housing policy wants you to live in shoebox condos in the middle of nowhere

Canadian housing policy wants you to live in shoebox condos in the middle of nowhere

Jane Jacobs was wrong. So suggests the drift in government housing policy toward community-killing high-rises. The urbanist who fought for low-rise living in townhouses and apartment blocks didn’t believe livable communities existed high in the sky. Today’s decision-makers beg to differ.

Passé are eyes on the street, as is economically mixed and human-scaled density, defined by street-centric neighbourhoods where residents easily walk to local shops, entertainment, transit and civic spaces.

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