Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.
And with one slick soundbite — we take the world as it is not as we wish it to be — Prime Minister Mark Carney gets to straddle whatever political or foreign fence he is confronted with.
Difficult choices and questions can all be deferred or deflected with this simple mantra.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to back American strikes against Iran has provoked much controversy. Even though he and several of his ministers partially walked back some of this initial enthusiastic support, the debate still raises difficult questions about what Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refers to as principled pragmatism. Is Canada moving away from its allegedly traditional support for international law? How can Canada’s rhetorical support for the war in Iran, even if watered down, be reconciled with the principles Mr. Carney enounced in his speech in Davos in January? And how can these principles be reconciled with Mr. Carney declining to close the door on Canada’s eventual participation in the war?
In October 2024, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced an about-face on mass immigration, admitting: “We didn’t get the balance quite right.”
Trudeau’s mea culpa ranks among the starkest understatements in recent political memory: record-breaking immigration levels contributed to a severe housing shortage, strained public services to the breaking point, suppressed wage growth and, in the process, shattered Canada’s once-stable pro-immigration consensus.
Never believe academics, the corporate class or politicians when it comes to immigration.
The Greek myth of Pygmalion is based on a sculptor who fell so deeply in love with the beautiful sculpture he created that it came to life.
The so-called Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to improved performance.
It is an intriguing prospect, but wishful thinking is probably not the best basis for a system of government.
TRUE STORY!!!🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/8na47mgtK0
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) March 5, 2026
h/t Mauser
Political analysts and organizers used to be obsessed with the “gender gap” between male and female voters. If a candidate or party did noticeably better among men, that was seen as a bad thing.
There is, of course, often still a gender gap. In the 2024 U.S. presidential election then-candidate Donald Trump did so much better among male voters under 35 and among Hispanic men that their support contributed considerably to his win.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called on the world’s “middle powers” to band together and resist President Trump, perhaps the most obvious ally for Canada was Australia, another sprawling, former British colony.
As Mr. Carney pulled up in front of the Australian Parliament on Thursday, there was a subtle sign of the two countries’ mutual understanding. A row of Australian Army howitzers boomed out a 19-gun salute. The countries’ shared political system meant that Australia knew that a 21-gun salute is reserved for the governor general, Canada’s head of state as King Charles’s representative.
True Story!!!🤣🤣🤣
Wild thing, you make my heart sing, you make everything groovy, wild thing ~~~~~~~
❣️Wild Thing❣️ pic.twitter.com/5NfKXd97fv— Toni Young (@moosiewa_tusi) March 5, 2026
Within the massive federal government bureaucracy, there are only two independent offices that can be relied upon to give Canadian parliamentarians and taxpayers objective, independent, non-partisan evaluations of government spending.
One of them is the auditor general.
On February 18, Matt Jeneroux, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton-Riverbend, joined a cohort of other disgraced Conservative MPs, such as Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont, and ‘crossed the floor’ in the House of Commons, to embrace the Liberal Party of Canada.
Predictably, a horde of liberal pundits and political actors have attempted to seize upon Jeneroux’s feckless politics and exit, in an effort to condemn the Conservative Party of Canada and claim that “moderates are fleeing the CPC.”
Mark Carney refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict
CANBERRA—Prime Minister Mark Carney now says he won’t rule out future military involvement in the spiralling Middle East conflict.
Speaking in the Australian capital, Carney appeared to harden Canada’s stance on the war, saying it’s too soon to call for an immediate ceasefire because it is not clear whether the objectives to knock out Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorist groups have been achieved.
Asked whether Canada could get involved militarily, Carney said he could not “categorically” rule that out.
Yea? You and whose army?
There is a way the U.S. could play hardball with Canada, if the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney decides it wants to limit its purchase of F-35s in favour of the Gripen.
Critics who favour the Lockheed-Martin stealth fighter have long argued that the Swedish-built Gripen would not be interoperable with American aircraft and the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
That’s not what you see at the NATO air policing mission in Iceland, where Danish-owned F-35s have been training and operating alongside Swedish JAS-39 Gripens-Cs.
OTTAWA — With Canada’s population growth now essentially flat, the country could be heading toward an unprecedented situation where population growth is driven entirely by immigration, one expert says.
Based on the federal government’s latest Immigration Levels Plan, the parliamentary budget officer projects 2026 will be Canada’s second consecutive year of zero population growth.
They’re selling the same BS in order to justify Canada being converted into a 3rd World Dumpster.
We need migrants to create housing demand or else no one will build new inventory and the economy will stagnate and rents will go up!
What they really want is imported tribal vote blocs, depressed wages and the protection of their real estate equity not to mention the opportunity to profit from the shortages mass immigration creates.
A former Liberal cabinet minister and prominent Sikh-Canadian is calling for Prime Minister Mark Carney to urge for the extradition of Indian officials in relation to the 2023 killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
In an interview with The Hill Times, Herb Dhaliwal said he hopes the first item on Carney’s (Nepean, Ont.) agenda in India is “the full co-operation of the Indian government in the murder of a Canadian where Indian officials were involved,” as well as the discussion of extradition of Indian officials.
Instead we we get this crap …
🚨BREAKING – Canada to provide educational funding for INDIAN nationals, including:
– A $100 Million University of Toronto Scholarship Indian students — 200 fully-funded scholarships for top-tier Indian students.
– and, 300+ Funded Research Positions for Indian researchers. pic.twitter.com/nDKj5xg94X
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 3, 2026
h/t Mauser
Goldie Ghamari is concerned for her life after the Iranian-linked hacker group Handala placed a $250,000 bounty for her beheading, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative MP told The Jerusalem Post.
She has since filed a police report and was reassured that law enforcement was taking the incident “very seriously.”
h/t Mauser
Child poverty in Canada rose for a third consecutive year in 2025, with nearly 30,000 more children falling below the poverty line, according to the latest Child and Family Poverty Report Card.
The report says progress toward eliminating child poverty is not only stalling but reversing, with rates now approaching levels last seen in 2017, signalling an erosion of gains made after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit in 2016.
