Chinese EVs Could Put Canadians Critical of China at Risk

Chinese electric vehicles present risks for Canadians who are critical of Beijing, as the vehicles are capable of sending camera, microphone, and location data back to China, a former senior government official told MPs.

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a China expert and senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, told MPs on the House of Commons international trade committee on March 12 that Chinese-made vehicles include software from the Chinese technology company Baidu, which collects data from the vehicles and transmits it back to China.

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Varcoe: ‘All hat and no cattle’: Canada has big reserves, but can’t get much more oil to strained global markets today

Canada doesn’t have a strategic petroleum reserve — like the United States — and still imports foreign oil into parts of Eastern Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to talk down oil prices during a war in the Middle East.

Federal Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson is trying to talk up increasing Canadian oil production to help strained global markets.

Good luck to both.

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At some point, Carney must dial back his love of the world stage

For a career banker, Mark Carney plays the role of Machiavellian politician very well.

The prime minister has now plucked a third MP from the opposition benches and is just two by-election wins in safe Liberal seats away from a majority government. This time Carney’s fruit was harvested from the NDP, not the Conservatives, and came in the form of Lori Idlout, the MP from Nunavut.

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Douglas Todd: B.C. voices did speak up against Trudeau’s migration policies, but were ignored

Red flags about the Liberals’ plan to hike the volume of low-skill foreign workers, international students and transnational wealth were raised about a decade ago. But the Laurentian elite paid no heed.

One of the relatively few books written about Canadian immigration policy in the past decade says Justin Trudeau’s Liberals could have avoided “breaking the system” if they had just listened to some level-headed economists.

In “Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong,” author Tony Keller, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, reveals how in 2016 then-immigration minister John McCallum invited 11 labour economists to give their views regarding issues such as increasing low-skill temporary workers and international students.

The economists’ ensuing report was utterly ignored by the Liberal government — to the point the authors doubted their paper had even been read.

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STIRLING: Canada’s ‘climate cartel’ — how green billionaires and Bay Street banks are picking your pocket

Climate scammer

While all eyes were on the Middle East at the end of February, anticipating the outbreak of war, in Texas, a climate bomb dropped that blew another hole in the so-called “climate cartel.”

According to a February 26 press release from the office of Ken Paxton, Attorney General for Texas, “Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a monumental, first-of-its-kind settlement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. (“Vanguard”), resolving part of his multistate lawsuit against asset managers BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. As part of the settlement, Vanguard has agreed to make the strongest passivity commitments in the industry and to empower its investors with proxy voting — a first for the industry. This landmark settlement represents one of the most significant enforcement actions ever taken against coordinated ESG-driven market manipulation, ensures a competitive and low-cost coal industry, and fundamentally resets the precedent for the conduct of large institutional investors.”

(Incognito)

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Are synagogue shootings a tipping point that will lead to real action?

Hamas support rally Toronto

The synagogue shootings continue. This is a sentence that seems like it belongs in an archival newspaper clipping from Nazi Germany, not a Canadian newspaper in 2026. This month, three separate Greater Toronto Area synagogues were hit by gunfire within a five-day span. Not even a week later, an armed man plowed his vehicle into a Detroit synagogue, which had 140 children inside at the time, before being killed by security.


There will be no action.

There is no political will because our elite are complicit in the crimes.

You don’t import Islamist hate unless you share it.

One day if we are lucky we will interrogate those responsible.

I can tell you now I will not believe anyone’s claim of naive innocence.

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Housing affordability has been improving. It’s not enough and may not last much longer

Canada’s housing market is waking up for the spring selling season, but young prospective homebuyers would be justified to remain in a state of prolonged hibernation.

For over two years homes in much of the country have been getting more affordable, thanks to a mix of softer prices and, later, falling interest rates. The problem is that, for the most part, we are still nowhere close to pre-pandemic levels of affordability. With the exception of condos, owning a home remains far more expensive than it was before the last housing boom.

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I spoke to over 30 sources about Mark Carney’s first year as prime minister. This is the picture that emerged

“Let the party begin.”

That’s how Mark Carney started his first press conference after being sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister, on March 14, 2025, after a whirlwind leadership contest.
Weeks earlier, he’d jettisoned an emblem of the Liberals’ brand by promising to scrap the consumer carbon price, describing himself — as he does now — as a “pragmatist” tied to results, not dogma.

Usual Star Tongue Bath.

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61 per cent of Canadians disapprove of U.S. military actions in Iran: poll

New Ipsos polling conducted for Global News reveals 61 per cent of Canadians disapprove of the U.S. military action against Iran.

Only one in four (23 per cent) Canadians approve (eight per cent strongly approve, 15 per cent somewhat approve), while 16 per cent are unsure either way.

Forty-two per cent were found to strongly disapprove, while 19 per cent somewhat disapprove.

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Two Charged in Killing of Iranian-Canadian Activist Masood Masjoody as Gary says Feds approach to Iranian regime in Canada ‘aggressive

VANCOUVER — The killing of Iranian-Canadian activist and mathematician Masood Masjoody has triggered alarm across Canada’s Iranian diaspora, with prominent community voices warning that the case raises broader concerns about intimidation and possible transnational repression linked to Iran’s regime.

Police have charged Arezou Soltani of North Vancouver and Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi of Maple Ridge with first-degree murder in connection with Masjoody’s death. The two accused are scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Sure Gary Sure … Feds approach to Iranian regime in Canada ‘aggressive,’ public safety minister insists

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Al-Quds Day shows how Canada tolerates intolerance

A society that tolerates intolerance – as we now do – can pass as many laws as it likes against “hate” but it won’t reduce hate-motivated crimes.

We have never had as many laws against hate as exist today in Canada and yet we have never seen more hatred on our streets – as illustrated yet again by Saturday’s annual hate-fest known as the Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto outside the U.S. consulate, which was recently shot up.

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Rats Are Jumping Ship: Is the Iranian Regime Relocating to Canada?

This is not an overnight development that just happened in the past two weeks, after the Trump administration and Israel launched attacks on Iran.

Reports were emerging in January that even while Iranian citizens fed an uprising that led to the murder of roughly 40,000 of them at the hands of the Iranian regime, members of the regime have been quietly relocating to Canada.

h/t PA Cat

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The two faces of Mark Carney show a leader skirting a fine line

Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

He was speaking of the citizen in relation to his community, but the situation for political leaders is rather different. They are compelled to wear more than one face when addressing the multitude – especially in democracies, which are made up of different constituencies with differing interests. Things get more complicated, however, when two different public faces are in tension with one another, as has been the case for Mark Carney since he assumed the premiership of Canada a year ago this week.

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