Not that long ago, seismic change was in the air. And it began with kisses.
A symbolic one to the Bad Orange Man from Syrupean Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling the United States to kiss off.
Not that long ago, seismic change was in the air. And it began with kisses.
A symbolic one to the Bad Orange Man from Syrupean Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling the United States to kiss off.
In a Tuesday social media post, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) provided a fact sheet on “the progress we’re making to restore immigration to sustainable levels.”
The number of foreign students entering the country is down 71 per cent. The number of foreign workers is down 57 per cent. Asylum claims are down 52 per cent.
In the six weeks between Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to the European Parliament and top EU officials arriving for a joint summit in Montreal, the United States has moved considerably closer to Russia.
Just days after Carney returned to Canada, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin to December’s G20 summit in Miami. Then on Oct. 9, the U.S. lifted sanctions on Russian oil and announced a deal to buy diesel directly from Russia.
Some analysts say Trump’s rapprochement with Russia poses a clear danger to Canadians — one not easily solved by closer partnerships with allies an ocean away.
Russia is allied with Canada since Carney became Xi’s Butt Boy.
Is Carney ginning up the fear due to the collapse of his EU scam?
The European Union has a number of partnership deals with non-member countries, but Canada won’t fit into any of those existing frameworks.
A joint statement expected to be released at the 21st Canada-EU summit in Montreal on Friday will promise closer ties — though no one knows exactly what that means yet.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced last month that the EU would begin the process of making Canada its first “associate member.”
Ursula speaks
At the turn of the last century, Jean Monnet discovered Canada’s pioneering spirit.
He brought that spirit back to Europe.
And went on to become one of the founding fathers of our Union.
Today, that same spirit inspires us to explore a historic first:
Canada becoming the EU’s first associate member ↓
https://t.co/IMc7oCOiAZ— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) October 29, 2026
An Indian gangster that is wanted by INTERPOL for murder has been arrested by police in Surrey after he was pulled over while being the passenger in a car that was seen driving erratically.
Amritpal Singh Bath is wanted on an INTERPOL Red Notice for murder and has been implicated in nearly 20 criminal cases in the Punjab region of India. These cases involve murder, attempted murder, drug trafficking, and extortion.
The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.
But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.
Canada is facing a carbon tariff threat from the European Union within months as the economic bloc fully implements its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
According to internal documents CBC News obtained through an access to information request, Canadian iron, steel and aluminum are not exempt from the carbon tariff even with Canada’s national price on carbon and its decade-old trade deal with the European Union.
The memo from Global Affairs Canada signed on Dec. 10, 2025, describes the CBAM as a “border charge” or “effectively a ‘carbon tariff.'”
Qatar and Turkey are two of the world’s only countries to maintain diplomatic relations with the terrorist group Hamas.
The Qatari capital of Doha has been home to Hamas’s official political office since 2012. Turkey’s foreign minister hosted a Hamas delegation just two weeks ago, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has praised Hamas as a “group of liberators.”
An update on Carney’s EU membership application: https://t.co/XlOBjHz466
— Canada Roast (@CanadaRoast) October 27, 2026
h/t Hermes
A CBC News investigation has pinpointed a dozen politically-motivated gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto that appear to have been financed by the Iranian government.
The attacks targeted synagogues, a school and businesses in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as the U.S. Consulate in the city’s downtown.
On to round three.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to hear an appeal of the Federal Court of Appeal decision that found the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act had violated Charter rights of freedom of expression and security against unreasonable search and seizure.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) supports that position and will be a primary challenger in court.
At an Ethics Committee meeting in Ottawa on Monday, the lobbying commissioner Nancy Bélanger confirmed that she has opened a preliminary investigation into the federal government’s plan, in conjunction with the outgoing government in BC, to buy up empty condos in the province and convert them into affordable housing.
“Yes, I opened a preliminary investigation; I can’t say more about it,” Bélanger confirmed in French while speaking in front of the committee.
Canada’s planned “associate membership” in the European Union to deepen trade and defence relations is intended to build a partnership that comes closer to membership in the economic bloc than anything the EU has done before, EU officials say.
They acknowledged the name describing Canada’s relationship with the EU is still being debated. Last week a number of EU member states including, reportedly, Germany, objected to including the term “associate member” in the planned communique for the summit.
Federal Identity Minister Marc Miller says he would consider broadening the scope of the digital safety bill to include gaming platforms, in order to help protect children from predators who use them to target kids.
The bill will make social-media companies block users below the age of 16 from having accounts. The companies would be able to seek exemptions from the under-16 ban if they can convince a new digital safety regulator that they have sufficient safeguards to protect children.
Miller believes it’s his personal right to monitor your speech and thoughts.
As the Trump Administration continues its nonsensical tariff attack on Canada’s auto industry, it is becoming increasingly clear the only winner in this trade war is China.
News that Stellantis intends to build some electrified Jeep vehicles in China, with plans to export them around the world including Canada, is another gut punch to Unifor members at the Brampton Assembly Plant and the Canadian auto industry.
The Jeep announcement came quietly, on Sept. 24, delivered by Lü Haitao, the general manager of a joint venture between Stellantis and automaker Dongfeng, a Chinese partner. Reports suggest Chinese Jeep production will begin in 2027.
The head of Canada’s auto parts lobby group says Ottawa and Washington are engaged in talks about a possible trade deal but he’s not certain this will lead somewhere.
Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said he learned in recent days of renewed discussions but cautioned it was unclear how intense these talks have grown.