Canadians hate being called the 51st state. But they don’t mind moving south of the border, study says

Canadians hate being called the 51st state. But they don’t mind moving south of the border, study says

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadians may hate the idea of U.S. statehood, but some still see the grass as greener across the border. The question is why, and a new study says the answer is more complicated than tax envy or better jobs.

The data tell a mixed story: More Canadians seem to be heading to the U.S. in recent years, even as long-term permanent migration has declined. Nearly 20,000 Canadians emigrated to the U.S. permanently in 2022, a 65 per cent increase from the year before, according to Statistics Canada. But the average number of native-born Canadian-born people granted permanent U.S. residence fell from 15,600 in the late 2000s to nearly 11,000 in the late 2010s.


We can be such smug hypocrites when it comes to the USA.

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Ambassador says Carney’s Davos speech is being put into practice at UN

Ambassador says Carney’s Davos speech is being put into practice at UN

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers working with less traditional partners outside the superpower club is already taking shape at the United Nations, says Canada’s ambassador.

“We have set up a number of different kinds of relationships that work for specific issues,” said David Lametti, Canada’s ambassador to the UN. “And that’s precisely the manner in which I think Prime Minister Carney has envisaged this, for areas outside of the UN.”


The UN is a cesspit, small wonder they’d like Carney’s con but then Lametti is such a sycophant he probably made the whole thing up.

 

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Canada aims to announce 10 countries backing global defence bank at NATO summit

Canada aims to announce 10 countries backing global defence bank at NATO summit

ANKARA/LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – Canada is aiming to announce around 10 founding nations for a global defence bank at next week’s NATO summit in Turkey, ​the lead Canadian negotiator told Reuters on Thursday.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is promoting the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) as part of his call this year for an ‌alliance of “middle powers” to combat what he sees as the fracturing of the traditional U.S.-led world order.

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B.C. developers say they don’t want government buyout for empty condos

B.C. developers say they don’t want government buyout for empty condos

Real estate developers are pushing back against claims that a new federal-provincial program to buy up empty condos is something the industry asked for, with the Urban Development Institute and others saying that it isn’t a bailout and won’t help their sector.

Two weeks ago, Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney said they are putting together a plan to buy more than 2,200 unsold local condos and provide them as affordable housing.

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Personal Wealth: The US $696,277 per adult. Canada $399,886 per adult. Thanks Liberal Party!

Personal Wealth: The US $696,277 per adult. Canada $399,886 per adult.  Thanks Liberal Party!

North America is the richest region of the world when it comes to personal wealth, according to a new report from Swiss bank UBS, but in terms of countries Canada ranks 13th.

With an average personal wealth of US$660,000 per adult in 2025, North America is followed by Australia and New Zealand, which together had an average wealth of US$590,000. Western Europe was ranked third, with an average wealth of US$330,000 per person.

… Canada came in 13th place in the country rankings with an average wealth of US$399,886 per adult.


The US $696,277 per adult. Canada $399,886 per adult.

Thanks Liberal Party!

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GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s pivot on climate change the right move, but is it real?

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s pivot on climate change the right move, but is it real?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pre-Canada Day pivot away from Justin Trudeau’s failed $200-billion-plus climate strategy, after supporting it up to late last year, is a classic example of what makes the public cynical about politics.

The timing was strategic, after Parliament had adjourned for the summer and the day before Canada Day, when Canadians were thinking about barbecues and fireworks, not industrial greenhouse gas emission targets.


“The Great Negotiator Carney” having zero success beyond Eurovision and accelerating ChiCom infiltration needed some good PR knowing CUSMA was not going to be renewed.

So he tossed some crumbs to the peasants by “renouncing” Trudeau’s nation killing green-scam.

Don’t believe it, Carney wants Canada destroyed as much as Junior did.

Next he’ll have CBC telling us that it was Poilievre’s idea to bail out his Developer bagmen.

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Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

OTTAWA — The Mark Carney Liberals may be giving Canada’s morbidly obese federal bureaucracy a much-needed shot of Ozempic, but recently released data show the problem could easily have been avoided.

Released this week, a new analysis by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation suggests that Canada could have saved $ 7 billion over the past decade if growth within Canada’s public service had been constrained to population growth.

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Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

OTTAWA — The legendary American short-seller Marc Cohodes says he does not invest a dollar in Canada. What Cohodes brings to this conversation is not a financial position but a memory — more than a decade of it, beginning in 2014, when he started traveling to Vancouver and meeting with a young opposition politician named David Eby.

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A Steep Exit Tax Won’t Solve Canada’s Brain Drain

A Steep Exit Tax Won’t Solve Canada’s Brain Drain

For some critics of American immigration policies, Canada’s system, which focuses on admitting educated, experienced workers who can support themselves and bolster the national economy, should be a model for U.S. reforms. About six in ten new residents whom Canada admits are classified as members of the “economic class” of immigrants, granted entry based on their education, work experience, and ability to speak one of the country’s official languages. While America’s legal immigration regime is heavily weighted toward family unification, those admitted to Canada based on familial ties make up less than one-quarter of migrants.

h/t patthedog

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Who does Mark Carney think we are, anyway?

Who does Mark Carney think we are, anyway?

What is the story Mark Carney is telling us about Canada? And why is he doing it?

These seem like ridiculous questions on the surface, because the Prime Minister’s entire political career has unfolded in a maple-soaked tourism commercial, thanks to the ferocious nationalism unleashed by Donald Trump’s unhinged threats. It’s like asking what ice has to do with hockey: The question seems to miss the point.

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Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.


A good rant. h/t Mauser

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Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’

Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’

Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government’s climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.

“In my judgment, that plan was not sustainable over the long term,” Carney said in his second “Forward Guidance” video. “It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability.”

He later says the plan “would have been too divisive for our country” and was “an open opportunity for those people who wish to pull Canada apart both at home and abroad.”

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Latest CBC Sob Story: Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school

Latest CBC Sob Story: Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school

Hundreds of children and teens already attending Alberta schools could be ineligible to enroll for free in September as their families’ immigration status hangs in limbo.

Of the nearly 46,000 students in Alberta schools who are temporarily in Canada, data provided to CBC News by some school boards shows that potentially thousands of children and youths’ study permits will expire by Sept. 30, 2026 — the day after Alberta Education takes a headcount to determine each school’s funding.


CBC: Let’s shortchange Canadian kids in favour of foreigners because vibes.

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