HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

So there was a business case for natural gas exports to Germany after all.

Of course, we never thought otherwise. But back in August 2022, with Europe freezing and scrambling after Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz came to Canada hat in hand looking for reliable LNG supplies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked him in the eye and delivered his classic line, that there was “never a strong business case” for Canadian LNG exports to Europe. Too expensive, too far, Europe was going green anyway, etc.

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Jamie Sarkonak: All-inclusive migrant health plan will burden Canada for years to come

There are thousands of asylum seekers and illegal residents awaiting deportation who get more free health care than regular Canadian citizens. These all-inclusive care packages cost the public treasury $1 billion last year — and a recent attempt by the feds to bring it under control won’t help much, based on a Parliamentary Budget Officer report released Tuesday.

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Canada’s top-skilled workers are leaving for the U.S. in droves for lower taxes and higher pay: TD study

A new report from TD Economics warns that Canada is losing its highest-skilled workers, entrepreneurs, and STEM graduates to the United States through a slow, largely invisible syphoning—calling the phenomenon a “silent brain drain.” The crisis, it argues, is less about who Canada can attract than who it fails to keep.

Much of the outflow never registers in Statistics Canada’s emigration data because it occurs through U.S. employer-sponsored work visas—temporary and semi-permanent pathways that conventional brain drain metrics simply don’t capture. Of the partial data Statistics Canada was able to retrieve, the agency determined that, in 2023, 18,590 Canadian residents emigrated to the U.S. permanently, with 30 percent of those people not being born in Canada.

Alternate link.


Report .pdf below

Canada’s Silent Brain Drain TD Bank report

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Former child soldier deported for ‘serious criminality’ managed to sneak back into Canada

Former child soldier deported for ‘serious criminality’ managed to sneak back into Canada

A former child soldier from Sierra Leone who dodged deportation from Canada for a decade has been sentenced to five months in jail for returning to this country illegally.

Ibrahim Jalloh, a convicted fraudster and drug trafficker, was ordered out of the country in June 2012 for “serious criminality,” but he wasn’t actually deported until Dec. 29, 2023. Jalloh was sentenced earlier this spring in Alberta’s Court of Justice after police found him in Calgary on Dec. 31, 2025, contrary to an order not to return to Canada.

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Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter

Canada’s economy contracted in the first quarter on an annualized basis by a slim margin, marking the second consecutive quarter of such decline — which some would call a technical recession.

Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first three months of this year. That comes after a downwardly revised contraction of one per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth is termed a technical recession.

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Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer revealed on Thursday.

Testifying at a deportation hearing, the extortion investigator described the letter from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was delivered to a police station in Abbotsford, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2025.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.


Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!

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Net zero, infinite damage — How climate policy is undermining Canada: Senator David Wells

Net zero, infinite damage — How climate policy is undermining Canada: Senator David Wells

Is Canada on track to meet its climate goals? The honest answer is “no” — and the really honest answer is that Canada’s climate goals will never be reached. They are folly and were designed by climate ideologues who had no concept of consequence, economic reality or understanding of how Canada was founded and thrived before and after we became a nation. This way of thinking has damaged the country.

The debate is increasingly polarized with positions hardened on all sides. Yet the economic implications of net-zero policies cannot be ignored. In an increasingly unstable world, energy security is no longer theoretical — it is strategic. Climate policy that outpaces economic reality will not succeed.

h/t CBCWatcher

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A strong Canada ‘will help make America great again,’ Carney tells New York business leaders

A strong Canada ‘will help make America great again,’ Carney tells New York business leaders

Prime Minister Mark Carney told a crowd of New York industry titans and financiers on Thursday that Canada and the U.S. need to pursue a new partnership — a bilateral relationship premised not on how things were done in the past but one where a stronger, more independent Canada can selectively help “make America great again.”

Carney said as U.S. President Donald Trump prompts “tectonic shifts” in trade, and as the world becomes “more divided and dangerous,” Canada must focus more on “taking care of ourselves” and building up at home by embracing its status as an energy superpower.

But that doesn’t mean Canada wants to close itself off from the U.S., Carney said in lunchtime remarks to about 200 attendees at the city’s Yale Club.

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GOLDSTEIN: Albertans are frustrated with being Canada’s cash cow

GOLDSTEIN: Albertans are frustrated with being Canada’s cash cow

The reality is that many Albertans — and not just those already convinced that separation is the only answer — are legitimately frustrated with their province’s status in Canada.

Gratuitously insulting them over the next five months, at least, as Albertans debate their future role in or outside of Confederation, serves no purpose.


The CBC. Absolute arsehole of journalism in Canada.

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John Ivison: Poilievre may prove shrewd to back America’s alliance as Carney embraces Europe

John Ivison: Poilievre may prove shrewd to back America’s alliance as Carney embraces Europe

The United States has informed its European allies of its plan to significantly cut its military contribution to NATO, the German news outlet Spiegel reported on Tuesday.

The Europeans are scuttling to fill the gaps that will be left by departing American warships and fighter jets.

But the ripple effects may be felt far beyond Eastern Europe.

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Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Should the Liberal government decide to go with the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) bid, the German shipbuilder has now pledged to deliver four Type 212-CD submarines to the Canadian Navy by 2036, the country’s defence minister tells CBC News.

Boris Pistorius said Wednesday that he has every confidence that the company will meet the delivery goal, which emerged early on as one of the major competitive differences between TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard.

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Records show Carney spent more than Trudeau on luxury in-flight meals

Records show Carney spent more than Trudeau on luxury in-flight meals

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his entourage billed taxpayers $195,400 for gourmet in-flight meals during three international trips in 2025, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The documents show Carney’s flights to London, Rome and Brussels featured luxury meals including veal escalope, beef tenderloin with bordelaise sauce, Scottish salmon fillet and “slow simmered beef with red wine reduction sauce.”

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Canada’s scary debt problem: Federal, provincial debt to exceed $2.4 trillion this year, report finds

Canada’s scary debt problem: Federal, provincial debt to exceed $2.4 trillion this year, report finds

As prices for just about everything skyrocket and an untold number of Canadians are going deeper into debt trying to keep up, the Fraser Institute’s latest study is a reminder that Canada and the provinces have been hurdling their own roads of indebtedness since the 2008 recession.

In its latest research bulletin on the growing debt burden for Canadians, the public policy organization found that the combined federal and provincial net debt, adjusted for inflation, has nearly doubled from $1.24 trillion in 2007-08 to a projected $2.44 trillion this fiscal year, a growth of 97.7 per cent.

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German submarine bid promises Canada $86B economic boost and tens of thousands of jobs

German submarine bid promises Canada $86B economic boost and tens of thousands of jobs

An average of up to 50,000 jobs could be created in Canada over the next five years should the federal government opt to buy the German-made Type 212CD submarine, CBC News has learned.

Up until this point in the fierce competition over the navy’s new submarines, both the German and Norwegian governments and the builder, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), have been reluctant to reveal strict details of the potential economic benefits that could accrue from their proposal.

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