While there has been little impact on the planet, the United Nations (UN) Earth Summit in 1992 has dramatically impacted the world — carbon dioxide demonized, emission reductions favoured over economic growth, subsidies by Western governments and eroded balance sheets, and individual freedom lost to officious rules.
The increasingly desperate desire of the UN to unilaterally expand its role towards global governance rules is obvious. The “climate crisis” is its chosen pathway to more power.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney made the rounds on day two of his party’s Montreal convention, two types of Liberals kept trying to shake his hand.
One, the lifetime Liberals, who’ve known every party leader for decades. The other, young Liberals, whose introduction to the party was through former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s progressive values.
Neither are sure what to make of the newest Liberal among them and what it says about the future under Mr. Carney.
It’s easy to see why the Carney government wants to overturn the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal condemning the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) during the trucker convoy demonstrations in February 2022.
The appeal court’s Jan. 16 ruling – upholding the 2024 judgment of Justice Richard Mosley that the government’s actions were unconstitutional and unlawful– is a devastating indictment of what the Liberal government did, reflecting many of the arguments made by the protesters.
MONTREAL – Federal Liberals have agreed to set 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.
Party grassroots passed a non-binding resolution Saturday morning for the restriction and to place the onus on social media companies to enforce it.
Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan says prolonged social media use is harmful to the mental health of young Canadians.
They’ll extend this to your retirement years ASAP.
MONTREAL — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s agenda at the party’s 2026 convention was simple: a little byelection politicking, a little schmoozing, a little hockey cheering, sprinkled with a lot of speechifying.
For about 4,500 federal Liberals who gathered, their agenda also seemed simple. They mainly came to hail Carney, the leader whose arrival a year ago threw the Liberal Party of Canada a political lifeline.
The Liberal party has Patrick Pichette a former Senior VP of Google on stage who lives in Europe by the way, say that if Canadians want to leave Canada to work in the US they need to pay an exit tax of half a million dollars. The guy did the very thing to get a Microsoft job… pic.twitter.com/5miejn9So2
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 11, 2026
As part of its pitch to lure Canada to buy Gripen-E fighter jets, Saab has offered to establish a secure, sovereign data centre in Montreal to house critical, top-secret mission data and intelligence, CBC News has learned.
The company is framing it as a “unique advantage” in the battle to convince the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney to limit the purchase of U.S.-manufactured F-35s, which have all of their data stored at a Lockheed Martin centre in Fort Worth, Texas.
The purpose-built Saab data centre “will host all work on the fighter mission system,” Saab spokesperson Sierra Fullerton confirmed in a recent statement to CBC News.
Given the potential for graft I suspect Carney & Co. are leaning toward the Gripen.
BYD to open 20 car dealerships in Canada this year
BYD Co. is opening some 20 sales locations with partners in Canada this year as the country’s government is considering Chinese auto-industry investments to reduce dependence on the United States.
“The overture of Canada is a very important one,” Alfredo Altavilla, a former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles manager who now advises BYD in Europe, said in an interview in Paris. “We immediately took action to establish a sales network there.”
Canada’s Immigration Department is sending tens of thousands of refugee claimants letters that they may not be eligible for asylum — and is telling some of them that they should leave immediately.
The move comes after Ottawa passed a law last month that tightened how and when claimants can apply.
“These are not deportation letters,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told CBC News in a statement confirming that the letters have started going out to some 30,000 applicants.
More than 7,000 banned guns have been declared in Alberta under the federal government’s gun buyback program, but owners in the province can’t collect compensation because of an ongoing dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over how the program is meant to operate.
That’s left firearms owners like James Bachynsky, president of the Calgary Shooting Centre, frustrated and out of pocket.
“It’ll impact me personally; it’ll impact my business partners, my family,” he said.
OTTAWA — In policing — particularly in national security and organized crime — we are trained to recognize a simple truth: the most serious threats rarely arrive with warning. They emerge gradually, through relationships, dependencies, and decisions that appear rational in isolation but carry strategic consequences in aggregate.
What concerns me today is not a single incident or headline. It is a pattern.
What started out as a small scrape is turning into a long bleed. On Wednesday, 11-year Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu left caucus and joined the Liberals after denouncing floor crossers. You can actually make it make sense if you really squint, but for Pierre Poilievre, that doesn’t help much.
Gladu should repulse the Liberals: she’s dined with Freedom Convoyers; stood up for an alleged constituent whose bank account was frozen for buying a convoy T-shirt; spoken at the National March for Life; praised Donald Trump before he was president.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, recording the horrors and sharing them online. The attack triggered a bloody Israeli invasion of Gaza that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. It also had immediate consequences far beyond the region.
In Canada, Jewish communities experienced what Deborah Lyons, the former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, called an “unprecedented wave” of antisemitism involving “harassment, intimidation, threats of violence” and a near tripling of hate crimes. In Europe, pro-Palestinian demonstrations were marred by antisemitic chants. In Berlin, a synagogue was attacked with firebombs while Stars of David were scrawled on apartments housing Jews, reminiscent of Nazi intimidation.
I had a call with @OttawaPolice today. I was told if I don’t delete my X posts where I say Mosques in Occupied Iran are hubs of terrorism and should be bombed, I would be charged under the Criminal Code of Canada.
So I deleted my posts.
Meanwhile, Mosques in Occupied Iran: pic.twitter.com/TAL1z1Pg0i
— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 (@gghamari) April 8, 2026
Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree needs to learn the meaning of the sunk-cost fallacy.
That’s because he needs to finally cut his losses and scrap Ottawa’s gun ban and confiscation scheme.
OTTAWA — Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing gives the Liberals a virtual lock on a majority, and one that would allow them to do far more than simply survive confidence votes — because not all majorities are created equal.
Two of the three April 13 contests — in the Toronto ridings of University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest — are widely considered safe Liberal seats, while the Montreal riding of Terrebonne is expected to be more competitive.
The US Supreme Court is diving into the heated debate over ‘birthright’ citizenship, and it’s time Canada had the same conversation.
Birthright citizenship is pretty straightforward — if you’re born here, you’re a citizen, no questions asked. It’s what lawyers call jus soli, or “right of soil.”
