The Gripen fighter jet built by Sweden’s Saab has lost whatever open competition the Canadian military has held between it and the F-35. Despite this, the Carney government appears set to announce that it will buy the Gripen.
The leadership of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the leadership at the Department of National Defence, and Defence Minister David McGuinty all back proceeding with the planned purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he had several informal discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump during the G7 summit in France, despite not having an official meeting.
Carney told reporters during the final day of the summit Wednesday that the president only had scheduled bilateral meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
While Macron is the only G7 leader Trump has met with at the G7 so far, he has held bilateral meetings with the leaders of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Homeownership rates for recent immigrants in Canada grew recently, but it also decreased for Canadian-born individuals, according to a Statistics Canada study released Tuesday.
Homeownership in Ontario among recent immigrants in their fifth year in Canada rose by from 35.7 per cent in 2018 to 40.2 per cent in 2021, recording an increase of over 12 per cent. While Canadian-born individuals saw a five per cent decrease in homeownership rates for the same period from 50.7 per cent to 47.8 per cent.
I guess the Elbow people who voted for economic security wrecking mass immigration all have homes set aside for their children and grandchildren.
Al Carns, the 24-year Royal Marine veteran turned British politician, posted a Facebook video over the weekend , two days after he resigned as the U.K.’s armed forces minister.
Carns followed his boss, defence minister John Healey, out of the door, with both claiming that the Labour government’s defence funding plan was inadequate.
A newly released Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo from 1992 warned that Islamic extremists could exploit Canada’s refugee system to enter the country while avoiding the security screening routinely applied to other foreign nationals.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the declassified document, obtained through Access to Information laws, argued that refugee claimants were particularly difficult for authorities to screen and monitor because many arrived using improper documentation and with little verifiable background information.
Justin Trudeau’s nine-year tenure as Canadian prime minister, which ended when his own Liberal caucus tossed him overboard in late 2024, can be divided thematically into two distinct periods.
During the mid-to-late 2010s, he presented himself as a sunny Canadian patriot. Then, following the COVID pandemic, the George Floyd protests, and the unmarked-graves social panic of 2021 (which Trudeau’s own government did much to spread), he sounded the exact opposite theme: Canada, he began telling Canadians, was in fact a deeply racist genocide state. He ordered his Liberal colleagues to implement a massive “Action Plan on Combatting Hate,” and introduced legislation that would give his government new powers to stamp out hate speech.
h/t FP
Economic recession is one of the most reliable precursors to a change in government. When the economy is growing, Canadian prime ministers win elections 83 percent of the time; when it is in recession, they lose 67 percent of the time.
But economic stagnation is almost as dangerous: since 1980, incumbents have lost three in five (60 percent) elections held in contexts of economic stagnation or technical recession (two consecutive quarters of 0.2 percent growth or negative growth).
The Elbow people have an irrational tolerance for self-inflicted pain so I’m not counting on an awakening.
OTTAWA — For the first time, a Federal Court judge has authorized Canada’s intelligence service to hack into privately owned routers, servers and household internet devices across the country and disarm the malicious software that conscripts them into foreign botnets — virtual armies implanted by hostile states to act as trojan horses, attacking critical Canadian infrastructure from within Canadian homes — a power the court itself acknowledged would otherwise be a crime.
Canada’s Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is in China this week courting four Chinese automakers she wants to build electric vehicles on Canadian soil, the clearest test yet of whether Ottawa can convert tariff relief into local factories.
Joly is meeting BYD, Chery, Geely and Shanghai Launch Automotive Technology, each of which has been weighing a Canadian investment, she told The Globe and Mail.
Protect 500,000 Canadian Jobs? Liars.
CBC Just said it! There are very FEW jobs in Chinese EV assembly plants. This featured plant can make 400,000+ EVs/Year and is heavily SUBSIDIZED by China. Yes, they control the EV market, but DON’T PROFIT from that enterprise! IF any come to Canada, it will be to hammer the… https://t.co/kTI8VSarvl
— Mike McLean (@MikeMcL00531595) June 16, 2026
Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Mark Wiseman says he wants Canada to be more “top-of-mind” for Americans, while downplaying the urgency around the July 1 deadline for the renewal of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
“Americans don’t wake up every day thinking about Canada,” Wiseman said during a fireside chat with BMO CEO Darryl White at the Canadian Club in Toronto on Monday.
Wiseman is Carney’s boy, in on the con. Wiseman is a proponent of Open Borders replacement migration arguing for a no vetting policy.
He is evil.
Just last Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech at a synagogue in Toronto. Few people were invited to attend and those who did were given little advance warning.
The minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, took the podium to introduce his boss in glowing terms: a great leader who cared deeply about the “scourge” of antisemitism in Canada. The event was highly anticipated, for some. Canadian Jews have been targeted with increasingly violent and frequent incitement and hatred. Carney has had little, if anything, to say. His decision to address the community was long overdue.
In less than two weeks Alberta is expected to deliver to the federal government a solid proposal for a pipeline to the northwest coast of B.C. But so far there is no private sector partner willing to come forward to pay for it.
This is definitely a fly in the ointment of a proposal that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been flogging for years. She finally got some encouragement from the federal government in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and herself in November.
Carney weighted the “Aboriginal” cost making any project likely to fail.
Mark Carney’s industry minister, Melanie Joly, is in China trying to attract auto investment while Carney’s government attempts to kill off our existing auto industry. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Joly explained how she wants Chinese-made electric vehicles to be built in Canada.
The question should always be “How does this benefit Brookfield?”
Carney the “Master Negotiator” is negotiating his cut from the death of our auto industry. Blame Xi or Trump Carney remains a carpetbagger nothing more.
Unless the real reason is cozying up to China https://t.co/hEM5wNtYT3
— Diane Weber Bederman (@dianebederman) June 16, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have a bilateral meeting planned yet with U.S. President Donald Trump, but a hot microphone caught them talking about trade at the G7 leaders’ summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.
Carney can be seen on camera, leaning in to talk to Trump, who was sitting at the leaders’ table ahead of a working luncheon.
A microphone in the room faintly picks them up, apparently talking about Canada’s recent agreement with China to allow a small number of Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a lower tariff rate.
The CBC is optimistic all our troubles are solved.
As the July 1 Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) trade pact renewal deadline looms, Canada’s negotiating strategy continues to defy logic.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney “confirmed” that the $6.4 billion Gordie Howe bridge would be opening at the end of this week — at long last. I took that as a sign of warming relations., As recently as February, President Donald Trump insisted that American politicians negotiated an insufficient share of the toll revenue, despite the fact that the project was 100 per cent financed by Canadian taxpayers.
