Douglas Todd: While migration battles flare in the U.S. and Europe, Canada reduces its numbers in an understated way

Canada’s tightening of borders is not nearly as draconian as in the U.S. and Europe, but Ottawa wants the public to recognize the number of new arrivals has been falling

While headlines blare about migration crackdowns in the U.S. and Europe, Canada is restricting newcomers more incrementally — and mostly away from the spotlight.

U.S. politics is growing ever more fiery after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents during protests against ICE’s mass arrests of migrants in Minneapolis.

In Europe, many countries are using large-scale detention to deter asylum seekers.


Not nearly good enough. There are serious immigration issues that won’t be fixed by cosmetic reductions. Remigration is the only solution.

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Chinese Canadian Group Petitions for Support of Carney’s China Policy While Pushing National Nanjing Memorial Day

OTTAWA — A petition supporting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s re-engagement with China is circulating in Canada’s Chinese diaspora, launched by an organization that has already submitted a policy proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office on establishing a national Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day.

The Chinese Canadian Proposals Committee, registered in Canada on August 31, 2025—several months after Carney’s spring election—proposed in October 2025 that Parliament establish a Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day “as part of a discussion on public history education,” according to a report posted on Weixin, a Chinese social media platform.

Not model immigrant material.

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Canadian military goes to U.S. for F-35 ceremony despite renewed trade tensions

The Canadian Armed Forces will participate in a ceremony in Texas on Monday to celebrate the imminent arrival of their first F-35 — as Ottawa has still yet to announce how many U.S.-made fighter jets it will ultimately buy.

The event comes as the future of the CF-18 replacement program is under review because of the ongoing trade and political disputes between Canada and the United States.


This is a good way to avoid buying new fighters until the fruition of drone tech replaces the need for them.

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Canada Looks an Awful Lot Like Venezuela. And Trump Has Noticed

Recently, the United States of America (USA) successfully completed Operation: Absolute Resolve and, thereby, liberated the Venezuelan people from Nicolás Maduro’s brutal socialist regime.

More importantly, Maduro’s rapid dispatch and America’s open pursuit of democracy’s resurgence have now forced a bevy of corrupt leaders and nations to scurry out and confront their sins in the light of the new American epoch.

Unfortunately, it is clear that even the U.S’s historic ally, Canada, has been badly disfigured by its past decade of Liberal government and transformed into a fortress of hyper left-wing politics that now echoes many aspects of Maduro’s Venezuela.


Our media is actually worse than Venezuela’s

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DAVID KRAYDEN: Canada’s euthanasia program is turning into an organ harvesting nightmare

So what could go wrong with Canada’s euthanasia program, somewhat euphemistically called Medical Assistance in Dying or MAID? Well everything that could go wrong with this program, has gone wrong, from the increasing sphere of those “eligible” for the program to the latest wrinkle: a preponderance of organs coming from Canada to potentially transplant into American patients.

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Toronto MP Bill Blair to resign and become high commissioner to U.K.

OTTAWA — Former Liberal cabinet minister and Toronto police chief Bill Blair is resigning from Parliament to become Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, the Star has learned.

Two sources confirmed the MP for Scarborough Southwest was set to formally resign his seat on Monday, while Blair did not immediately respond to the Star’s request for comment.

At the same time, the Prime Minister’s Office was set to announce that Nathalie Drouin — the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the prime minister, first appointed under Justin Trudeau — will leave the role to take up Canada’s ambassadorship to France and Monaco.

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Carney’s GST credit tweaks won’t fix Canada’s affordability crisis

Prime Minister Mark Carney is embracing the politics of economic tinkering, offering a rebranded, narrowly targeted GST credit top-up when Canadians need broad, structural relief. While the government says it is responding to the affordability crisis, modest tweaks to the GST credit will not deliver the kind of meaningful, universal relief that cutting income taxes would.

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Canada’s Banana Republic Media

Canada’s Banana Republic Media

They did try to hide this.

h/t Mauser

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Was Mark Carney’s Davos speech a mistake if it upset Trump?

In an interview with an American television network this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent volunteered some advice to Mark Carney.

“I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue-signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up,” Bessent said, using the American name for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.

“He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that’s not a great place to be when you’re negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are and your biggest trading partner.”


I think Carney is priming the LPC for a snap election.

Pissing off Trump is just free campaign advertising for his gullible base.

It’s entirely possible he prefers China as a personally profitable alternative to the US.

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Richard Ciano: Tear down the signs in Carney’s little shop of hypocrisy

It takes a special kind of hubris to stand in Davos, surrounded by the global elite, and lecture the world on the virtues of “living in truth.” Yet there was Prime Minister Mark Carney, channelling the dissident spirit of Václav Havel to chastise the international community for clinging to a “rules-based order” that no longer exists. Carney invoked Havel’s famous parable of the greengrocer — the shopkeeper who puts a sign in his window reading “Workers of the World, Unite!”, not because he believes it, but because “it has been done that way for years” and it buys him a quiet life.

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DOBBIE: Globe trotting PM needs to show some results

After a year of the Prime Minister whizzing around the world, Canada still has nothing concrete to pin our hopes on for a happier, more prosperous country.

Relationships with the United States are strained with Mr. Carney earning the title of Governor from Mr. Trump for the thinly veiled speech criticizing the President delivered by the Prime Minister to the world at Davos. Then, according to a witness to a phone conversation between the two, the prime minister climbed down from his lofty position. But once again, Mr. Carney has a different story to what the witness heard, telling Canadians that he stood by his word. This is not the first time we have seen conflicting stories from Mr. Carney about what he has said or not said.

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Canadians now prioritize trade with China over human rights concerns

A growing majority of Canadians now view economic engagement with China as more important than focusing on the country’s human rights record, a new Angus Reid Institute poll shows.

Three-in-five respondents (59%) said trade and investment opportunities should be Canada’s main priority, marking a sharp shift from recent years when human rights concerns dominated public opinion.

(Incognito)

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Indian gangs are terrorising Canada

South Asian communities across Canada are being terrorised by gangs – and city officials in Surrey, BC are calling on the federal government to declare a national state of emergency.

The crimes follow a distinctive pattern. South Asian gangs demand money from members of their own communities. Intimidation, threats and even shootings follow. Gang members drive to someone’s home or business, and video themselves shooting at buildings and vehicles. They then post the recording online or send it to the target, with threats of worse to come if payment is not made.

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