Canada’s immigration, refugee and asylum system has long been broken, and to claim any questioning of it is based on racism, as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet ministers often do when they are challenged by the Conservatives, is absurd.
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Canada’s Q4 GDP contracts on annualized basis, full-year growth at 1.7%
Canada’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter, coming way below expectations, as manufacturers heavily dipped into their inventories to meet demand instead of producing fresh goods, data showed on Friday.
Gross domestic product contracted at an annualized pace of 0.6 per cent in the October-December quarter, Statistics Canada said, compared with a revised 2.4 per cent increase in the prior quarter.
This brings the country’s overall growth in 2025 to 1.7 per cent, the slowest pace of annual growth since the decline in 2020, StatsCan said.
Zero population growth expected in Canada this year: Budget watchdog
The parliamentary budget officer (PBO) predicts Canada’s rate of population growth will remain flat in 2026, mainly due to cuts to non-permanent resident admissions in the latest federal Immigration Levels Plan.
This would be the second year in a row with zero population growth in Canada, which follows several years of above-average growth, including the record-breaking years of 2022 and 2023.
Statistics Canada reported flat growth in 2025, with the PBO report finding any gains were offset by a decline in the non-permanent resident population of 382,000 people.
Energy-hungry India tells Carney ‘we are willing to buy whatever Canada is offering’
India wants to buy any energy product it can from Canada, and its officials are urging the federal government to streamline approvals for various projects so it can tap into new supplies to feed a rapidly growing country with relatively few natural resources of its own.
That’s the message India’s high commissioner to Canada, Dinesh Patnaik, relayed in an interview with CBC News before Prime Minister Mark Carney left for a five-day visit to the country.
It’s a trip that will be laser-focused on cutting new business deals and getting negotiations for a free trade agreement underway as part of a push to diversify from the American market.
Carney’s bid to forge the world’s largest trading bloc will be an uphill battle
No one can accuse Prime Minister Mark Carney of lacking ambition.
But high on the agenda for a three-country trip that will take him over the next week to the eastern reaches of the globe is what may be his most audacious gambit: trying to forge the world’s largest trading bloc as an antidote to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Poilievre says China is no substitute for the United States as Canada grapples with Trump
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south.
“Canada’s prosperity and security are inseparable from a stable relationship with the United States,” said Poilievre, during a speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday.
Ottawa admits ‘significant strain’ and possible fraud in Canada’s refugee system
The federal immigration department is acknowledging mounting “integrity pressures” and potential fraud within Canada’s refugee system, even as Liberal MPs downplay concerns about bogus claims.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in a formal Response To A Request For Information tabled with the Senate social affairs committee, the department of Immigration Minister Lena Diab conceded there is no single metric to precisely measure fraud in the asylum process.
Canada’s Friendly Dictatorship Problem
OTTAWA — On January 3, 2026, US special forces captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in a military operation that seized him and his wife and transported them to the United States. In the operation, 32 members of Cuba’s elite “Black Wasps” counter-insurgency unit were killed protecting him; Havana subsequently declared two days of national mourning (14ymedio 2026; Prensa Latina 2026). The Cuban regime’s response lays bare a reality that Canada has long preferred to ignore: Cuba is not simply a poor Caribbean nation struggling under US sanctions. It is an active participant in an authoritarian network that spans continents, exports repression, and works systematically to undermine democratic governance across the Western Hemisphere.
GOLDSTEIN: Bigger government doesn’t mean better government
If bigger government meant better government, our federal government would get the gold medal for making the lives of Canadian better.
The operative word is “if”.
Canadian Liberals let in nearly 25k unvetted asylum seekers from world’s most dangerous countries: report
An insider report authored by a former director of policy at Immigration with the Canadian government has shown that, for nearly a decade, Canada let in 25,000 asylum seekers without any of them ever being properly vetted.
The report, by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, and authored by James Yousif, who is the former director of policy at Immigration, noted how the federal government “slashed all its usual controls to weed out fraudsters, human traffickers and terrorists” in letting these people into the nation.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada didn’t become poorer than Alabama ‘out of nowhere’
Some Canadians clutched their pearls so hard they nearly shattered last week, after The Globe and Mail published a deep dive into how, as its online headline read, “Out of Nowhere, Canada Became Poorer Than Alabama.”
There was some debate about whether analyses showing that our GDP per capita had recently fallen behind Alabama’s is enough to declare us poorer (GDP per capita is a nation’s economic output divided by the population, and is used to determine a country’s standard of living). But the real source of righteous indignation was far more revealing: the idea that Canada’s moral and social standing is so superior that such data can’t possibly reflect reality and, even if it does, it doesn’t matter.
State Typist Andrew Coyne Defends Liberal Party’s Extravagant Healthcare Coverage For Fraudulent Asylum Seekers
Smith and Poilievre find someone to blame for their problems: immigrants
Danielle Smith has a problem. Her government is heading toward a deficit projected, before Thursday’s budget, at $10-billion. This is only partly because it overestimated oil revenues, with oil prices now projected at roughly $5 to $10 a barrel lower than forecast in last year’s budget. It is because the government set spending at levels that could only be sustained so long as the oil boom continued. She needs something, or someone, to blame for her excess spending.
Pierre Poilievre, too, has a problem…
POILIEVRE: Mass immigration ruined the quality of healthcare. Resources are going to illegals.
CARNEY: This isn't America. EVERYONE gets healthcare.
POILIEVRE: 100,000 DIED on waitlists due to out-of-control immigration
CARNEY: I have been PM for a year! pic.twitter.com/9mv4XIOw17
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) February 24, 2026
Canada’s global performance rankings are in freefall
There is an ongoing debate over whether Canada is doing better economically than Alabama, based on their relative GDP per capita, with many on the Canadian Left arguing that our country’s economic performance and quality of life look much better when other factors are taken into account.
Unfortunately, this argument misses the mark. When we expand our comparisons beyond Alabama, it quickly becomes apparent that GDP per capita is, if anything, overstating the relative state of our economy and wellbeing relative to our global peers.
China accused of using Buddhist monasteries in Canada for money laundering, intel operations
Regular readers of LifeSiteNews, and in fact those who read most independent media, most likely are already aware that the People’s Republic of China, through its Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) many arms, has been meddling in Canada’s elections, as well as democracy in general, for years.
What may not be as well known is that in Canada’s smallest province, the picturesque Prince Edward Island (PEI), the CCP has been accused of using Buddhist monasteries as money laundering fronts to the tune of half a billion dollars.
Carney Economic Miracle: Insolvencies hit 16-year high while food bank use and cost of living continue to rise
The numbers aren’t dramatic at first glance — a 2.3 per cent annual increase in consumer insolvencies tempered by a 3.8 per cent dip in filings in the fourth quarter.
But taken together, they tell a story about pressure building quietly for many Canadian households.