If We Do Not Escape this Prime Minister, We Are Toast

If We Do Not Escape this Prime Minister, We Are Toast

I’ve just looked up the exchange rate between the Canadian and American dollar. We are malingering at 1.62 of the Benjamin. This is the indelible indication of what the “great banker” — the former director of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England where he distinguished himself as an abject incompetent — has done to the nation pretty well mired in Chapter 11.

My interest in Mark Carney, about whom I’ve written more than a dozen articles for this site and others, has waned for the last year from a dismal bout of boredom. It seemed beneath my pay grade to continue focusing on an endlessly accumulating calamity. But when he was recently spotted at an Oiler-Canuck hockey game remaining seated, smiling, and chatting, during a standing tribute honoring a military veteran, the truth of this man’s appalling fitness for leadership hit squarely home again. The contrast with a respectful Donald Trump was glaring.

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h/t Hermes and Malcolm Y

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Don’t support Trump tariffs then blame Stelco job cuts on ‘act of God,’ minister Joly warns Cleveland-Cliffs

Don’t support Trump tariffs then blame Stelco job cuts on ‘act of God,’ minister Joly warns Cleveland-Cliffs

Canada’s industry minister said Wednesday Stelco Holdings Inc. cannot use the trade war to justify cutting jobs it committed to when it bought the Hamilton-based steel plant, particularly when the head of its U.S. parent company has publicly backed steel tariffs.

Mélanie Joly told reporters that the chief executive of U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs has supported steel tariffs and therefore cannot characterize the company’s plan to lay off up to 500 workers due to tariffs and market pressures as beyond its control.

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FINLAYSON: Carney’s ‘500,000’ housing starts target more fantasy than reality

FINLAYSON: Carney’s ‘500,000’ housing starts target more fantasy than reality

The Carney government says it wants housing starts in Canada to double to 500,000 per year within the next several years.

At first glance, it’s an odd goal for the government to embrace. More than four-fifths of the existing residential housing stock in Canada consists of “market housing” — units constructed by developers and homebuilders guided by market-based signals. These signals include housing demand and business objectives such as making a profit, keeping the firm’s workers employed, etc.

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Former defence chief warns Canada must defend its North or risk U.S. intervention

Former defence chief warns Canada must defend its North or risk U.S. intervention

OTTAWA — The military’s former top soldier says there is a risk the United States will step in to defend the Canadian Arctic under the pretext Canada isn’t up for the job — one reason that he argues the federal government must maintain increases in military spending, even if it means sacrificing social programs.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Star on Tuesday, retired Gen. Wayne Eyre said Canada must, by showing it is capable of protecting the North, defend against “help” that would violate the country’s sovereignty over the vast region. While multibillion-dollar plans to do that are in the works, including through the construction of new over-the-horizon radar stations, icebreaker ships and military support hubs in the Arctic, “speed of execution” is now key, Eyre said.

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Iran’s Sleeper Cells Come Awake

Iran’s Sleeper Cells Come Awake

Attempts to pull off a 9/11-type attack on Israel and stage a drone attack against a strategic U.S. air base in the U.K. took place within days of each other last week. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that the IRGC is activating terrorist sleeper cells for major international operations to disrupt U.S. alliances and influence the U.S. midterm elections through a secretive unit based in Yemen.


Given the ease with which Iran regime members have taking up residence in Canada it’s fair to assume we are home to terror cells.

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More GTA tenants falling behind on rent as housing costs outpace incomes

More GTA tenants falling behind on rent as housing costs outpace incomes

Across the GTA, organizations that support people struggling to pay rent say demand for assistance is reaching unprecedented levels, as rising housing costs and stagnant incomes leave more households behind.

Data from Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board shows applications to evict tenants for non-payment of rent (L1s) have been steadily increasing, rising from 37,690 L1 applications in 2022-23 to 41,386 in 2023-24 and 45,435 in 2024-25 — an increase of about 20 per cent in three years.

These eviction for non-payment filings now account for roughly half of all applications received by the board.


The GTA voted Liberal last election.

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Ottawa gives Stelco’s U.S. owner 5 days to share plan to keep jobs

Ottawa gives Stelco’s U.S. owner 5 days to share plan to keep jobs

Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton-based steelmaker or face potential legal action.

Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs said last week it plans to lay off as many as 500 workers as it idles certain steel production at Stelco, which the federal government says violates “binding commitments” made when it bought the company in 2024.

In a letter to Stelco president Paul Simon on Monday, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Ottawa is prepared to seek a court ruling to enforce the agreement under the Investment Canada Act.

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Public safety minister admits security ‘gaps’ after NATO intern arrest

Public safety minister admits security ‘gaps’ after NATO intern arrest

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree conceded there are “gaps” in the government’s security clearance process, after the arrest of a Canadian woman of Chinese origin charged with spying at NATO headquarters.

“I think there’s over 200,000 screenings that are undertaken every year,” said Anandasangaree, who was grilled by MPs of all stripes at the Commons public safety committee on Monday.


Carney cares so little for Canada that he chose a terrorist symp foreigner for the role of Public Safety Minister.

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Report suggests Muslim Brotherhood has plans to transform Canada

Report suggests Muslim Brotherhood has plans to transform Canada

A new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) argues that the Muslim Brotherhood — the world’s oldest political Islamist group in the Arab world but forbidden to operate as an official political party in several Arab countries — revealed in a 1991 internal explanatory memorandum its “grand mission” to eliminate and destroy western civilization “in America and Canada,” from within. As with many things, Canada appears to be late in addressing this threat. Hopefully, not too late.


Too many Canadians can’t stomach the risk of being called “Islamophobic or “racist” so they’ll just let this slide.

Elbow something.

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Gwyn Morgan: We’re heading toward another failed government in Ottawa

Gwyn Morgan: We’re heading toward another failed government in Ottawa

The breakdown of trade discussions between the United States and Canada has resulted in Prime Minister Carney turning to expanded trade with Europe. That raises two fundamental questions:

First, Canada already has a free trade agreement with the EU: the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Canada also has the Trade Continuity Agreement (TCA) with Britain, and an agreement with European Free Trade Association (EFTA), whose members include Iceland, Lichenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Given that we have these agreements with virtually all of Europe, what does “turning to Europe” mean exactly?

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Carney’s U.S. invasion contingency: What Canadians should understand about the PM’s ‘extreme tail risk’ message

Carney’s U.S. invasion contingency: What Canadians should understand about the PM’s ‘extreme tail risk’ message

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s description of possible U.S. military action against Canada as an “extreme tail risk” raises a question Canadians deserve to have answered clearly: what does preparing for such a contingency actually tell us about the danger?

Carney said the scenario was “not a base case,” but that it would be irresponsible not to prepare. Canadians should understand that distinction: a government can examine a highly unlikely event because its consequences would be catastrophic. The existence of a contingency assessment does not, by itself, establish that an attack is expected.

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MORGAN: Carney celebrates expanding the welfare state

MORGAN: Carney celebrates expanding the welfare state

Mark Carney spent the weekend telling Canadians to check their bank accounts. He said more than 12 million people would get the next Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit payment. Earlier, he called it a boost of up to $1,890 this year to help families with essentials while the country waits for the payoffs of “building big.”

He may as well be celebrating increased food bank use while his government continues to bungle the management of Canada’s economy.

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The United Nations needs more Canada, not less

The United Nations needs more Canada, not less

Canada’s last foreign policy review was more than 20 years ago, when the world was a much different place. Appropriately, the 2025 Liberal election platform committed the government to develop a “new, full foreign policy.” As an essential complement, in a speech at the University of Toronto last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney committed to a new defence policy alongside the foreign policy review.


Bob Rae and Eugene Lang because it ain’t their money.

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Geoff Russ: Mass immigration drives down your wages

Geoff Russ: Mass immigration drives down your wages

A labour shortage? What does that mean in Canada?

Apparently, it means that Prime Minister Mark Carney will muse about hiking our immigration intake to 500,000 people per year. 500,000 permanent residents a year is a historically unprecedented target, and Canada already came remarkably close to it in 2024.

In Canada, it is the federal government that decides who is legally permitted to come and work here from abroad.

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