The Canadian military is grappling with a range of challenges linked to an easing of recruitment standards, including new members who lack proficiency in English or French or who face significant mental health issues.
The concerns appear in a leaked report written by the commander of a core military training school in Quebec, first covered by Juno News earlier this week. The report says the changes are hurting completion rates of basic training.
Good idea to give them guns?
You have to be kidding. That is the only reaction many Canadians will have when they fully understand what Ottawa has done to our citizenship laws. This is not a technical adjustment buried in legislation. It is a fundamental shift in what it means to be Canadian, and it risks turning something that once carried weight into something that is handed out with little regard for connection, commitment, or contribution.
Bill C-3, passed into law last December, removes the long-standing limit on how citizenship is passed down to children born abroad. For years, Canada restricted citizenship by descent to one generation after a family left the country. That rule was not arbitrary. It was grounded in common sense. It ensured that citizenship remained tied to people with a real, ongoing relationship to Canada. Now, that guardrail is gone, and citizenship can be passed down across multiple generations, even when families have not lived here for decades.
Is this it?
Is this all a galaxy brain in control of a government within sight of 50 per cent in the polls can offer in the midst of a crisis? A bit of a nip here, a bit of a tuck there, but all-in-all keeping Canada on the same rotten economic trajectory?
Welcome to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “spring economic update”: continuity of Justin Trudeau, a bit of a fiddling while Canada burns.
As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.
However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.
One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”
Two-thirds of Canadians believe the national economy is on the wrong track and don’t believe it will improve in the short-term, according to a new poll.
The poll from Canada Pulse Insights for CityNews found that only 33 per cent believe the economy is heading in the right direction.
Canada’s spy agency says five countries, including China and India, remain the main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage in this country despite all being singled out in a public inquiry into these activities.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service also identified Russia, Iran and Pakistan as countries that engage in foreign meddling and spying in Canada.
I am starting to believe that the Carney government allows these foreign powers free range for special considerations in return.
New research suggests Canada’s housing crisis is eroding life satisfaction among young adults across the country, with one in five reporting shelter insecurity in recent years.
The researchers interpret the evidence as “indicating that the happiness crisis among young Canadians is, to a large degree, an economic crisis”.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney is rejecting the notion that Canada might use energy or critical minerals as “leverage” in upcoming trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
The prime minister made the remarks in an interview with The Canadian Press, his first since declaring he would enter federal politics more than a year ago.
Carney said he wouldn’t describe those sectors as “leverage” since Canada is not talking about stopping any sort of existing trade.
Canada’s high youth unemployment rate flies in the face of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s boast about the “resilience” of the economy in the government’s spring economic update this week.
While high unemployment is a concern across all age groups, Statistics Canada’s most recent labour force survey reported that the youth unemployment rate of 13.8% in March was more than double the national average of 6.7%.
It’s neither sovereign, nor wealth, so it’s a mystery why Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen this frame for his new $25 billion special project, the “Canada Strong Fund.”
One would typically expect a country announcing such a thing to have actually gone to the trouble of clearing debt and generating true sovereign wealth. The federal Liberals are conveniently skipping a few such steps.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she’s accountable after a senior Iranian soccer official with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a listed terrorist group in Canada — was granted documents to travel to the country ahead of a pre-FIFA World Cup gathering in Vancouver, before ultimately getting turned around.
But Diab, who spent an hour fielding pointed questions about the case during a parliamentary committee Thursday afternoon, said she was not made aware of the decision to issue Iranian Football Federation president Mehdi Taj documents to enter the country.
And it ain't the only one either. The corruption is legion.@fancypants_s https://t.co/yWWCUhRx3S
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 30, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich announced she has filed a lawsuit against the Ottawa Police Service and Crown prosecutor for their “malicious prosecution” of her.
“This isn’t just about me; it’s about stopping this kind of abuse so no Canadian ever faces it again,” Lich said in a statement on X April 29.
The lawsuit has also been filed against the Ottawa Police Services Board, the Attorney General of Ontario, the two Ottawa Police Services detectives assigned to the mischief case, and His Majesty the King in right of Ontario for “malicious prosecution and negligent investigation.”
Since the beginning of his tenure as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has consistently evoked the language and imagery of a traditional Canadian identity. Whether it was his allusion to the four founding nations of Canada during the election, or more recently, with a video he published giving praise to Canadian hero Sir Isaac Brock.
Mark Carney is attempting to use these icons of our history to present himself as being a unifying figure, drawing from the Canada we remember but have lost. However, these bids to capitalize on nostalgia fall flat when one begins to recall who is to blame for the loss of this identity.
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OTTAWA – J.J. McCullough — one of the most-read Canadian voices on politics — posted a thought this week that I’ve also been hammering in reporting and podcasting this year.
“I do not think the Liberal Party should be engaged in an ongoing backroom conspiracy to undo the stated partisan preferences of voters, or indeed elected politicians themselves,” he wrote, on Mark Carney’s unprecedented scheme of inducements to secure a majority government. “And I think the press should start reporting on this as an organized conspiracy, not fun Ottawa drama.”
To get straight to the point about the federal government’s spring economic update: the Liberals are spending even more of our money than they previously estimated. This fiscal year, program spending is now expected to be $536.2 billion, which is $7.6 billion higher than in the fall budget. The new spending projections for the following year are also higher than in the fall budget, and the same for the year after that, and even the year after that. All told, the Liberals’ economic update raises program spending by a cumulative $25 billion over four years versus their fall budget and they now propose to push spending to $575.4 billion by 2029-30.
