OTTAWA — An explosive wrongful-dismissal lawsuit that claims a senior defence official was fired after warning that Ottawa’s anti-American rhetoric was handing a gift to Canada’s real adversaries, China and Russia, casts an article by a veteran Ottawa newspaper reporter as a turning point in the government’s posture toward her — a characterization the reporter firmly rejects.
Ottawa is once again examining whether a lack of competition across Canada’s food supply chain is contributing to persistently high food prices. The Competition Bureau has launched a comprehensive review stretching from farm inputs to grocery store shelves, with a report expected in 2027. The review is long overdue, but Canadians should temper their expectations. Competition matters, but it is only one piece of a much larger affordability puzzle.
From sexual harassment to violence, racism and fraud, Canada’s immigration department recorded 105 cases of employee misconduct and wrongdoing last year.
According to a report published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the employee misconduct and wrongdoing cases resulted in at least three terminations and 47 suspensions without pay.
Zero transparency.
OTTAWA – Human rights advocates say Ottawa is turning its back on foreigners alleging involvement by Canadian companies abroad in forced labour and environmental degradation.
Prime Minister Mark Carney mentioned in passing last week that Ottawa had eliminated the position of Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, or CORE, months ago.
The office reviews complaints about possible human rights abuses by Canadian companies operating abroad in the garment, mining and oil and gas sectors.
The proposed crude oil pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the B.C. coast that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been championing and that Prime Minister Mark Carney has ostensibly signed off on in a “grand bargain” last month is unlikely to be built.
It won’t begin construction as early as next year, as Smith has suggested, or be delivering one million barrels a day of Alberta crude to the Pacific coast by the mid-2030s, if ever.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday lashed out at NATO allies during the announcement of a six-month Pentagon review of U.S. forces in Europe, saying the future of the alliance depended on others stepping up their defence spending.
He also appeared to take a veiled dig at recent remarks made by Prime Minister Mark Carney about middle powers needing to band together.
Europe like Canada will have to contend with a huge 5th Column and traitor class capable of upending any effort at self defense.
When you invite the enemy to overrun your country expect negative consequences Canada.
Canada is not capable of defending its borders and there will no Band of Middle Powers riding to the rescue.
There are few easier political arguments than saying we must protect children online. Every serious parent agrees with that. Every responsible adult knows social media can be addictive, manipulative, corrosive, and, at times, deeply harmful. The platforms have designed products that capture attention, reward outrage, promote insecurity, and keep young people scrolling long after common sense says they should be outside, reading a book, playing hockey, or annoying their parents in a healthier way.
When it comes to a choice between raising taxes and hiking deficits, governments increasingly opt for raising the debt.
The problem is, it’s a false choice for taxpayers because higher deficits are simply deferred taxes, which must eventually be paid.
An 81-year-old Lebanese man with dementia who obtained refugee status in Canada “on the basis of threats from terrorist organizations” in his homeland, then lost it for returning to Lebanon five times to visit his sick and dying siblings and to attend their funerals, has won another shot at staying in this country.
Ezzat Fahs, who holds Lebanese citizenship, obtained refugee protection in Canada about 14 years ago, according to a recent Federal Court decision regarding his case.
“Thomas, have you seen the demographics of my riding?”— Melanie Joly, Minister of Industry
The above statement was candid, self-aware and breathtakingly cynical.
Joly was explaining to former NDP leader Tom Mulcair why the large Muslim voting bloc in her Montreal-area riding shaped her electoral calculus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab says people seeking Canadian citizenship by descent must prove their connection to Canada through each generation and that genealogy websites alone are not sufficient evidence.
Diab made the comments June 16 during Question Period in the House of Commons, when asked how many individuals had been given Canadian citizenship using inaccurate documents under a law passed last year that lets some people born before Dec. 15, 2025, obtain Canadian citizenship by descent if they can document a chain of descent to a Canadian citizen.
Canada’s top science adviser has reportedly spent more than $400,000 on travel across Canada and around the world since being appointed to the role nine years ago by former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Dr. Mona Nemer billed taxpayers for 12 business-class flights to Paris as Chief Science Advisor, including one trip that cost $10,433.23.
h/t Mauser
In this episode with Jason James, I break down my criticisms of the raft of public-safety and surveillance laws Mark Carney’s manufactured-majority government is attempting to push through Canada’s Parliament before the summer break — a legislative push now drawing serious concern from privacy experts, media lawyers, civil-liberties advocates, and technology leaders including Shopify founder Tobi Lütke.
Canada used to be a bilingual country, in that our institutions could accommodate speakers of either official language. That age came to a resounding close on Friday, when a majority of the Supreme Court banned the appointment of unilingual speakers to a bilingual government office.
The case before the court had been brought by an Acadian activist group that challenged the appointment of a non-French-speaker, Brenda Murphy, to the position of lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. Six of the Supreme Court’s nine judges agreed with the Acadians, concluding that the lieutenant governor must speak both English and French. Appointing an anglophone, they said, constituted a violation of the Charter, in particular the equality rights of francophones.
The Royal Canadian Navy will have to grow by as much as 40 per cent in terms of personnel in order to meet the demands of a growing fleet, says its new commander.
Vice-Admiral Dan Charlebois assumed the post of top sailor in a ceremony on Tuesday set against the backdrop of the country’s naval history — HMCS Haida, the Second World War vessel that serves as the navy’s ceremonial flagship.
The retired warship is berthed in Hamilton and serves as a heritage site.
