The dairy sector is lobbying hard in USMCA talks. The government didn’t want you to know

The dairy sector is lobbying hard in USMCA talks. The government didn’t want you to know

Last year, when the federal government invited Canadians to share their views about the operation of USMCA, 5,143 stakeholders heeded the call.

In its summary of the findings, Ottawa noted that a cross-section of Canadian society – businesses, industry associations, unions, individuals, civil society and Indigenous groups – “voiced strong support for maintaining Canada’s supply‑management system for dairy, poultry, and eggs as a pillar of food sovereignty.”

But the actual submissions told a very different story – about a lopsided effort to influence policy.

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U.S. antisemitism envoy calls on Canada to restrict visas, expand terrorism listings

U.S. antisemitism envoy calls on Canada to restrict visas, expand terrorism listings

OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy for fighting antisemitism is urging Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to curb the rise of anti-Jewish hatred.

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, who spent seven years of his childhood in Ottawa, was appointed last December as U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-rank position.

“My message is to Canada, you need to do better,” Kaploun told The Canadian Press last week during a visit to Ottawa.


Trump’s man will trigger the Liberal Party.

A lot of unflattering articles today about Canada and the Islamist leanings of the Liberal-left.

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Calls emerge for U.S. refugee status as group helps Jewish families flee Canada

Calls emerge for U.S. refugee status as group helps Jewish families flee Canada

OTTAWA — A former Ontario man and a Conservative U.S. think tank are encouraging the Trump administration to offer refugee status to Jewish Canadians who feel threatened by rising antisemitism here.

“With the urgency around the challenges and the inaction we see in Canada, an asylum pathway makes sense,” said Joe Roberts, the executive director of Jewish Tulsa, a group that has helped welcome Jews like himself to the Oklahoma city.

Roberts said thousands of Canadian Jews are seeking to escape constant fear over the firebombing of Jewish schools, temples and businesses.


REMIGRATION.

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Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project

Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project

The federal government is advancing the process to designate Alberta’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest.

A notice published in the Canada Gazette on Aug. 1 marks the start of a notice period to designate the potential pipeline as a project of national interest under Bill C-5.

That law requires the government to launch the 30-day notice period and consult with the government of the province or territory in which the project will be carried out before listing it under Schedule 1 as a project of national interest.

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Canadian Public Sector Job Growth Outstripped Private Sector by 14% in Past Decade: Study

Canadian Public Sector Job Growth Outstripped Private Sector by 14% in Past Decade: Study

Canada’s public sector workforce grew 14 percent faster than the private sector’s between 2015 and 2025, reflecting a decade-long trend of increased government hiring, a new study suggests.

Public sector employment grew by 29 percent over the decade, while private sector employment, which includes self-employed individuals, increased by 15 percent, according to data reported by the Fraser Institute.


An important vote bloc for the LPC.

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Colby Cosh: How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?

Colby Cosh: How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?

Man bites dog dep’t: Last Thursday the National Magazine of the Canadian Bar Association published an op-ed praising the Ontario Court of Appeal for an act of rock-solid common sense . A couple of weeks ago, the court overturned some Superior Court acquittals for Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King, who had been successfully convicted on mischief and other charges related to the 2022 trucker protests that besieged parts of Ottawa. But the judge trying King, the Hon. Charles Hackland, had declined to convict King on three charges related to the Criminal Code offence of “intimidation,” which can carry a sentence of up to five years’ imprisonment.

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Taiwan’s Highest Court Is Jailing Beijing’s Election Proxies. Canada Is Still Asking Who Cleared the Alleged Spy Inside NATO’s Military Command: Analysis

Taiwan’s Highest Court Is Jailing Beijing’s Election Proxies. Canada Is Still Asking Who Cleared the Alleged Spy Inside NATO’s Military Command: Analysis

OTTAWA – Within the span of a few days last week, on opposite sides of the world, two democracies revealed how differently they answer the same threat.

In Taipei, the Supreme Court handed down back-to-back rulings upholding prison sentences for two political candidates convicted of taking Beijing’s money to subvert Taiwan’s elections. In Brussels, a Canadian woman of Chinese origin — an intern inside the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military command — stood behind closed doors as a pre-trial chamber weighed espionage allegations.

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Carney will likely sends pal to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing

Carney will likely sends pal to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing

Carney looks to influential outsiders to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing, sources say

Martin Cauchon, a vice-chair of the Canada China Business Council lobby group and former Liberal cabinet minister, is under consideration to be Ottawa’s envoy to China as both countries work to mend fractured diplomatic and economic ties, three sources say.

Mr. Cauchon, a justice minister in Jean Chrétien’s government, has a long history of developing close business ties with China. Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a business-friendly relationship with Beijing as he looks to diversify trade away from the United States. He has set out to double non-U.S. exports globally over the next decade.

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Canadian Bank Discriminates Against U.S. Gun Companies While Courting Business

Canadian Bank Discriminates Against U.S. Gun Companies While Courting Business

It should be no surprise that a Canadian bank would be in lockstep with that country’s disdain for lawful firearm ownership. After all, Canada’s bent on confiscating lawfully owned firearms from owners who did nothing to violate the law. The outlook for personal freedoms in Canada is decidedly murkier after Canada’s ill-advised crackdown on protests against the government that led to arrests of hundreds in 2020. It seems the stereotype of Canadian “nice” isn’t holding up these days.

That’s especially true when it comes to the firearm industry.


Not a surprise. RBC was incompetent to the point the point of criminality in matters of Kathy’s estate.

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UN experts urge Canada to protect threatened Sikh activist

UN experts urge Canada to protect threatened Sikh activist

Five United Nations rights experts have urged Canada to take all feasible measures to protect the Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has been repeatedly warned by the Canadian authorities of credible threats to his life.

In a letter to the Canadian government dated June 3, and made public two months later, as per regular procedure, the UN experts raised “concerning allegations of foreign intimidation and reprisals” against Singh, a Canadian national.

It recalled that since 2022, Singh has received four so-called “duty to warn” notices from the Canadian authorities about credible and imminent threats to his life.


Goodness! United Nations Experts!

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Audit finds Canada’s $135 million Ghana farm aid program fell short after motorbikes ran out of gas

Audit finds Canada’s $135 million Ghana farm aid program fell short after motorbikes ran out of gas

A federal audit has concluded that Canada’s $135 million agricultural aid program in Ghana suffered from poor oversight and planning after thousands of taxpayer-funded motorbikes were delivered without adequate funding for fuel, maintenance or replacement parts.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the evaluation, obtained through Access to Information, found Global Affairs Canada failed to properly oversee the program, resulting in equipment that many agricultural extension workers could not afford to operate.

(Incognito)

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Noah Jarvis: Doug Ford should block the Liberal high-speed rail boondoggle

Noah Jarvis: Doug Ford should block the Liberal high-speed rail boondoggle

Ontario Premier Doug Ford shouldn’t sit around while the federal government burns taxpayer money on a high-speed rail line in his backyard. He should try to stop it.

The proposed Alto high-speed rail line would be 1,000 kilometres long, running from Toronto to Quebec City. The feds say the line would cost taxpayers up to $90 billion. That’s $2,170 per Canadian or $8,680 for a family of four. But there are lots of reasons not to trust the government’s estimate.

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With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons.

There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four?

The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is that Liberal strategists would clearly have advised the prime minister that, given the unique political circumstances of the ridings that are currently vacant, the Liberals could give themselves a boatload more money to spend fighting off the Bloc Québecois in one vacant Québec seat by calling three byelections while depriving the BQ of cash it could use by holding off on that fourth by-election to fill a second vacant Québec seat.

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Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

In Belgium, Claire Biwei Zhang, the Canadian woman allegedly spying on NATO has launched an appeal to be released from pre-trial detention, while the Canadian government is scrambling to investigate its screening protocols to find out how it may have been infiltrated by a foreign power.

Global Affairs has acknowledged that Zhang’s security clearance for her NATO internship was approved by the Government of Canada after she was vetted by CSIS. According to its 2025 annual report, CSIS completed 129,740 screenings for the federal government last year.

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