Iran’s intelligence services may be behind recent attacks in Canada, according to a top-secret government report obtained by Global News.
The threat assessment said it was a “realistic possibility” that Iran had used local criminal networks to target Canada’s Jewish community.
The report said “actors who may be directed by Iranian Intelligence Services” were also suspected of threats to the Israeli and Iranian communities and interests.
The finance minister’s office is refusing to release data to back up recent claims by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada will substantially accelerate its defence spending.
“Our fiscal framework has already provisioned to achieve four per cent of GDP in total defence spending by the end of this decade, ahead of NATO’s timetable,” Carney told the CANSEC Defence conference in Ottawa in May, a claim he later repeated at a press conference in June.
Carney is spending money. Just not in Canada …
NATO’s European members and Canada have signaled a readiness to fully take over the financing of Ukraine’s fight against Russia
Prime Minister Mark Carney has answered the question of what it’s going to take to build a new oil pipeline in Canada – a gusher of about $60 billion of taxpayer money, for starters.
That’s up to $43.7 billion (minimum estimate $35.2 billion) for a pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to southern B.C., 90% funded by federal and Alberta taxpayers, with 10% initially and up to 20% eventually coming from the Pembina Pipeline Corporation.
In the early 1980s, I read a book about personal finance that dramatically changed my life — by almost destroying it. I was tripped up by my naivety in not knowing that while strategy is good, strategy well timed is much better. I got the timing part wrong. The apartment was bought with maximum leverage (i.e. debt) and was located near a popular ski resort. Such was my strategy. The five units, converted to condominiums, hit the real estate market just as Pierre Trudeau announced the National Energy Program. Buyers disappeared. The bank that held my rather large mortgage also took possession of a 150-unit condominium project that went bankrupt, completed the construction, and offered three months’ free rent to new tenants. All of my renters left for these greener pastures. I went to the bank manager and screamed at him — literally.
When I’m describing my early years to my children it often feels like I’m talking about a journey made by time machine. At the age of 12 — a child myself — I was babysitting other people’s children. I should not have been trusted to look after a peanut butter sandwich, but concepts like safety were more fluid in those days.
I worked three part-time jobs to put myself through university. One of them was at the fur-coat storage department at Eaton’s, and just try explaining that to young people. “Fur storage” and “Eaton’s” are concepts equally lost in the mists of time.
Only at the Star would a columnist gaslight their own kid.
I am not sure why the authors of the study failed to mention mass immigration’s role in youth joblessness but I have my suspicions.
OTTAWA — The Trump administration is hindering work at the United Nations on advancing equality, says Canada’s UN Ambassador David Lametti.
“There has been a general obstructionist policy, (a) cantankerous policy with respect to women’s rights, a woman’s right to choose, with respect to LGBTQ+ rights (and) gender equality,” Lametti told The Canadian Press when asked to describe American actions at the UN.
“There’s a pushback any time you see the word ‘climate change’ anywhere, or you see ‘gender equality’ anywhere,” he added.
The Libs will stop at nothing to sabotage CUSMA.
The United States’ top trade official is pointing to Canada’s deepening economic ties with China as one of the reasons Washington is refusing to renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA) in its current form.
Speaking to Global News on Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the White House is concerned Beijing could use Canada as a back door into the American market.
My suspicion is the Americans are not much concerned with economic matters but worry more at the ChiCom compromised security risk Canada is becoming.
A 35-page memo to Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly contemplates “legal action” against Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media it suspects of spreading “false and misleading information.”
However, the memo, obtained under Access To Information, doesn’t explain what action federal lawyers would take, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and BC Premier David Eby are teaming up to use taxpayer funds for the noble cause of saving real estate developers, likely including some of the ones responsible for the urban blight known as “shoebox” or “dog crate” condos.
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In 1947, a group of scientists created a clock — to measure a world teetering on the edge of its own destruction. Born from the fear of a nuclear arms race between Moscow and Washington, they called it the Doomsday Clock. Its face was simple: an analogue dial, a single minute hand leading to midnight — the point of no return.
VANCOUVER — A Burnaby RCMP investigation that began with a routine traffic stop last summer has ended in one of the largest drug-chemical seizures in British Columbia’s history — 6,765 kilograms of finished narcotics and fentanyl-production chemicals pulled from three homes and two shipping containers in Richmond, alongside tactical shotguns, cash, contraband cigarettes — and a multi-antenna device consistent with the signal jammers used to defeat electronic surveillance.
h/t Auntie Polly
OTTAWA — The Conservative who chairs the House of Commons ethics committee has agreed to convene a meeting Tuesday on the Carney government’s multi-billion-dollar British Columbia condo bailout. But he has told Pierre Poilievre plainly that whether the matter becomes an investigation rests with a committee the Liberals now control.
Mark Carney has only himself to blame, for the controversy that erupted last week when he announced a half-baked plan to buy up vacant condominiums.
But the blowback, as strong as any he’s faced since becoming prime minister, may ultimately prove a blessing in disguise both for him and for the country.
That is, if it causes him to course correct at all on two traits that threaten to eventually get his government in a lot more trouble: overconfidence in his own communication skills, and a cozy relationship with business that could increasingly be seen as out of touch.
For all the ills former prime minister Justin Trudeau left his successor to face, the defence file has been a surprising bright spot.
What makes this all the more remarkable is the fact that just 30 months ago, the then-head of the Royal Canadian Navy took to YouTube to declare that his team and equipment were in a “critical state.” At any other moment in the last 50 years, Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee’s political masters would have punished him for daring to share his unvarnished message.
Not sure I share the author’s premise. Carney is great at pronouncements but when it comes to delivery not so much.
For years, Canadians have been warned about their country’s declining labour productivity. According to the Bank of Canada, it’s a “break the glass emergency” that requires immediate attention. But what about our other productivity crisis — the one of personal, rather than national, proportions?
Modern life has become full of tiny frustrations and complications that steal our attention and creativity a few minutes at a time, leaving us all less productive.
