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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Why Alberta’s referendum is a political and personal test for Mark Carney

Why Alberta’s referendum is a political and personal test for Mark Carney

OTTAWA — High or low, no matter what number Alberta voters cast for the cause of a united Canada on Oct. 19, the stakes are high for the country and the challenges ahead will remain for Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Born just on the other side of the Alberta border in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, Carney has crafted a political persona as a Western Canadian.

Not the cattle herder or wheat farmer kind. Not a cowboy. Not an oilpatch driller. More the high-flyer business investor kind. Comfortable in C-suites anywhere. A fervent Oilers fan, sure. But less “Redmonton” than Calgary cool, able to assess risk and, above all, to manage it.

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Cory Morgan: Decline in Economic Freedom Raises a Red Flag for Canada

Cory Morgan: Decline in Economic Freedom Raises a Red Flag for Canada

The Fraser Institute has released its Economic Freedom of the World annual report, and Canadians should be alarmed as the country has dropped from 9th to 18th. Economic freedom correlates directly with happy, healthy, prosperous lives. Canada is still a long way from the bottom, but moving in the direction of nations such as Algeria, Iran, Myanmar, Libya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela is not a trend to be ignored.

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Jack Mintz: Canada risks losing sight of western values

Jack Mintz: Canada risks losing sight of western values

I am deeply honoured by the Aristotle Foundation’s awarding me the Gordon Gibson Memorial Citizenship Award. Over the years, I enjoyed many interactions with Gordon, especially when I was president and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute, whose events he regularly attended. Gordon’s steadfast support for democratic reform in Canada led to better governance and national unity — and, I daresay, deeper support for Canadian values. This is consistent with the objectives of the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, which reminds us we should appreciate Canada as a country like no other, with its unique tradition and history.

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The weakest links in Carney’s cabinet are still there

The weakest links in Carney’s cabinet are still there

Most Canadians don’t know much about the Singh decision. But if you’re the country’s Immigration Minister, you must.

So it was alarming that Lena Metlege Diab seemed confused when she was asked about the seminal 1985 Supreme Court decision in an interview for a Radio-Canada podcast.

It was the ruling that set the foundations of Canada’s asylum system, and is central to immigration policy. It established that asylum-seekers have Charter rights and a right to an oral hearing, led to the creation of the Immigration and Refugee Board, and is still an issue in reform efforts today.

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Mark Carney warns against UK water sovereignty tells Burnham Thames Water nationalisation will anger investors, Canada and China among them

Mark Carney warns against UK water sovereignty tells Burnham Thames Water nationalisation will anger investors, Canada and China among them

Mark Carney has intervened over the potential nationalisation of Thames Water with a warning that it could damage foreign investment in Britain.

Canadian officials are growing increasingly concerned that any decision by Andy Burnham to place Thames Water under state control could result in heavy losses for overseas investors.

Ottawa is thought to have cautioned that any expropriation of privately owned assets without accompanying compensation could jeopardise further investment in the UK economy. Canada’s so-called
Maple Eight pension funds, and its banks have poured tens of billions into airports, ports, the energy sectors, key utilities and property.


So Carney will deny water sovereignty to the English.

No Brookfield but large positions by Canadian pension funds and of course China.

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GOLDSTEIN: Financial watchdog exposes flaws in Carney’s plan to spend ourselves rich

GOLDSTEIN: Financial watchdog exposes flaws in Carney’s plan to spend ourselves rich

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to bolster Canada’s economy while reducing our reliance on the U.S. economy is based on the claim we can spend ourselves rich.

That is, that reducing corporate taxes while simultaneously increasing capital spending – or rather, what the Carney government calls capital spending – will lead to long-term prosperity.

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Despite Carney’s claims, Canada’s immigration numbers largely unchanged

Despite Carney’s claims, Canada’s immigration numbers largely unchanged

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government announced — or rather boasted — that they had brought immigration under control after the open-floodgate Trudeau years. In 2025 the national population, they claimed, shrank by 102,000 people, the first decline since Confederation.

The problem is, the claim was untrue.

Rather than shrinking by 102,000, Canada’s population actually rose by 280,000 last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. That’s a shift of 382,000.

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Lorne Gunter: Trump’s hatred for Canada has permanently damaged world’s best trade relationship

Lorne Gunter: Trump’s hatred for Canada has permanently damaged world’s best trade relationship

Once again this week, U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated his hatred for Canada. His antics and statements are not merely a negotiating strategy, not merely a tactic to scare us into giving the United States a better trade deal.

Trump seems genuinely to detest Canada for some reason.


Lots of blame to go round.

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Stelco says Hamilton layoffs still happening despite Ottawa’s threats of legal action

Stelco says Hamilton layoffs still happening despite Ottawa’s threats of legal action

Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco says it will proceed with hundreds of layoffs, despite threats of legal action from the federal government.

In a letter obtained by CBC News, Stelco Inc., which is owned by Ohio-based Cleveland Cliffs, says it rejects allegations from Ottawa that it is violating binding employment commitments under the Investment Canada Act (ICA).

“Your representation that Stelco’s planned layoffs cause it to breach its undertakings is false,” says a letter written to Industry Minister Mélanie Joly by Paul Simon, president and general counsel at Stelco Inc.


Stelco, Stellantis, VW, Honda, GM etc. not one of them have panned out.

Except China’s EV’s!

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From Xinjiang Fish Farms to Canadian supply chains: Ottawa Must Investigate

From Xinjiang Fish Farms to Canadian supply chains: Ottawa Must Investigate

Ottawa has been continuously warned that Canada is inextricably linked to forced labor within China’s seafood industry, yet a profound silence persists from the federal government. For years, the troubling narrative surrounding forced labor in China’s seafood sector was understood as a coastal issue. Investigators followed vulnerable Uyghur workers who were systematically transported thousands of kilometers away from their ancestral homes to fish-processing plants in Shandong, where they cleaned, cut, and packed seafood bound for North American and European supermarkets. While that reporting was shocking, it did not tell the whole story.

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Canada’s plans for Donald Trump

Canada’s plans for Donald Trump

This is a New Yorker Podcast featuring Queen of the Grifters Freeland

Freeland must be sweating through her shirt that the Trump-Putin Diesel agreement will derail her Ukraine gravy train.

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LILLEY: PSPP is about to blow up Canada’s immigration consensus

LILLEY: PSPP is about to blow up Canada’s immigration consensus

Paul St. Pierre Plamondon, Quebec’s new premier-designate, is about to shake up Canada’s immigration debate. Like most Quebec politicians, PSPP, as he is known, doesn’t buy into the accepted wisdom of Canada’s Laurentian elite that ever-expanding immigration numbers are good for the country.

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