OTTAWA — A senior officer of China’s Public Security Bureau who spent more than three decades supervising interrogations and detentions in Hebei Province has been barred from Canadian permanent residency — along with his wife and child — after a federal immigration officer found reasonable grounds to believe he was complicit in the systematic torture of criminal suspects.
Among the G7 countries, Canada still posts the highest food inflation rate
Canada’s food inflation rate eased to 5.4% in February 2026, down from 7.3% previously. At first glance, this looks like progress. But the reality behind the numbers suggests Canadians shouldn’t celebrate just yet.
Food inflation remains 3.6 percentage points above overall inflation, which means groceries are still becoming more expensive faster than most other goods in the economy. While the pace of increase has slowed, the pressure on household budgets has not disappeared.
Ottawa has reconvened its Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, and one name is a cause for concern, Bernie Farber. The announcement from Canadian Heritage says Farber, founding chair emeritus of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), will again help guide federal policy on “online harms.”
The same release also says the panel’s 2022 advice helped shape Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which later died in January 2025. That alone should have set off alarm bells in Ottawa.
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President Donald Trump’s late-night musing about Venezuela potentially becoming the 51st state was likely well received in the Prime Minister’s Office.
It suggests that Mark Carney’s speech in Davos — widely viewed as standing up to the bully president — has persuaded Trump to move on and find an easier target than Canada or Greenland.
That may be temporary, of course, given the president’s mercurial nature.
Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to spend more and run deficits more than twice as large over the next five years compared to those planned by the previous Liberal government, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
As a result, Carney’s combined deficits are projected to total $321.7 billion from 2025-26 to 2029-30 — $167.3 billion higher than the $154.4 billion former prime minister Justin Trudeau was projected to spend during the same period, according to the report by the fiscally conservative think-tank.
On March 5, the body of Masood Majoody was found. Majoody was a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University but was also a vocal critic of the theocratic Iranian regime. He went missing in February 2026, and foul play was suspected. Sure enough, police have now arrested and charged two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members, Mehdi Razavi and Arezou Soltani, with his murder.
The war in Iran has come to Canada. IRGC collaborators are being charged with the murder.
Carney loves Shia values.
OTTAWA – A senior official from the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department met with former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Trudeau-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo during a four-day visit to Canada in March — a significant development given that Germany’s domestic intelligence service warned in 2023 that the body effectively operates like an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China. The meetings were documented in a readout and photographs published on the department’s official website.
Canadians pride themselves on living in a fair society.
Most believe people should be judged by what they do, not by who they are. That principle is called merit. Working hard, earning your place, and contributing to the country are the foundations of Canada’s prosperity and stability.
It is also an idea that resonates deeply across political lines. Whether Canadians lean left or right, most still agree that fairness means the same rules for everyone.
Vaughan’s Steven Del Duca said ‘a lot of officials … (are) too busy counting votes, rather than standing up for Canadian values’
At about 8 a.m. on March 7, about eight hours after a flurry of bullets were fired into his city’s BAYT synagogue, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca arrived at the shul to show his support. Within the hour, hundreds of congregants would arrive for Shabbat services, seeing the police tape at the front doors, the barricades and dividers, and a lot of York Regional Police officers.
It’s always weird to be reminded that the world as it is – to borrow a phrase, if I may – was a very different place not so long ago, and that what now seems constant and obvious was once strange or unknown.
The phone you unthinkingly grab from your pocket to do, well, everything, used to be a crazy technological magic trick. The person snoring on the couch next to you in front of the TV was once a first date. The new building that went up in your neighbourhood at first looked like it dropped out of the sky, but now you can’t remember the block without it.
“Good” is the new “Lying” I see.
Nearly three-quarters of Canadians are apprehensive about surging government deficits, and many worry middle-class taxpayers or future generations will have to shoulder the responsibility for public overspending, a new survey suggests.
Seventy-one percent of respondents to a recent Leger poll say they worry that Ottawa, as well as several provinces, are exceeding their financial resource limits even as trade tensions with the U.S. and other challenges threaten Canada’s economy.
Only 19 percent of survey-takers said they had no concerns, while 10 percent said they were uncertain.
The latest numbers on inflation from Statistics Canada showing overall inflation dropping are already outdated.
The federal agency released its latest report on Monday morning showing the Consumer Price Index rose 1.8% in February compared to a year earlier.
The war in the Middle East, the fear that it could escalate and the economic consequences were top of mind as Prime Minister Mark Carney met his British counterpart Monday in the United Kingdom at the tail of a whirlwind trip to Europe.
Carney met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, where the two leaders discussed the ongoing military operations of the United States, Israel and Iran and the closure of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
An official statement from Carney’s office following the meeting said that both Canada and the U.K. condemned Iran’s missile and drone attacks, including on civilian and energy infrastructure.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada may have been the odd man out, but he was also the star attraction at a meeting of the leaders of the five Nordic countries in Oslo on Sunday.
The meeting, convened by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway, came in the aftermath of President Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty, and his suggestion that the United States take over Greenland in name of Arctic security. Although Mr. Trump seemed to have set that notion aside for the present, it was high on the leaders’ list of concerns, along with the war on Iran, which has disrupted energy markets worldwide, and Russia’s warnings regarding Ukraine.
Established in July of last year, the Dominion Society — headed by former People’s Party of Canada director Daniel Tyrie — has made a noticeable splash in Canadian politics. The Dominion Society’s chief concern is mass immigration and its consequences. In their polemic against the policies of mass immigration, the Dominion Society says that the Canadian elite has manufactured a fictitious “mass immigration consensus,” and that this has been utilized to justify continued increases in the number of newcomers into Canada.
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