‘Very high level’: Alberta separatist group won’t say which Trump officials it met with

While an Alberta separatist group confirms it had meetings with U.S. officials over the past year, its leaders won’t say which members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration they have spoken with directly.

“We’re meeting at a very high level,” Alberta Prosperity Project legal counsel Jeffrey Rath said in an interview with CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday.

When asked by host Vassy Kapelos whether those officials would be recognizable to Canadians, Rath said “probably,” but would not confirm whether Stephen Miller, Trump’s homeland security adviser, was among them.

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OLIVER: Playing to Davos and domestic audience, Mark Carney recklessly provoked Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney recklessly provoked President Donald Trump, with the predictable result of a hyperbolic overreaction — a 100% tariff threatened on all goods and services exported to the United States — which, taken at face value, would have a devastating impact on Canada’s economy.

Although we should not accept his threats at face value (take him seriously, but not literally), it was irresponsible for Carney to have indulged his ego for domestic political purposes.


Maybe Carney is working a con stoking the base for an early election while privately walking back his public comments?

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From Sham Marriages to Fake Colleges: Inside Canada’s Battle Against Immigration Fraud

Federal and provincial governments have announced measures to crack down on immigration fraud by toughening regulations and even closing entire programs. But what if these moves are merely scratching the surface of a much larger problem?

This past December, Canada’s immigration department announced a halt on applications for the Start-up Visa (SUV) Program, which had allowed foreign entrepreneurs to move to Canada to start new businesses.

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Conrad Black: Trump isn’t our problem — we are

Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the “great powers.” The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!” (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher).

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They can’t be serious… Mary Simon To Run Up Tab While Saving Arctic Sovereignty

Arctic sovereignty: Gov. Gen. Mary Simon heading to Norway, Denmark and Greenland

Indian name means “Put it on the tab”

OTTAWA – Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is set to visit Greenland, Denmark and Norway next week.

On Monday, Simon will travel to Norway, where she will take part in the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso and later meet with Norway’s King Harald in Oslo.

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WARMINGTON: Trump’s Bombardier threat latest play in plan to hollow out Canadian business

With one press of a button on a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through Canada’s aerospace industry and raised questions about its very future.

It caught many by surprise – but not Unifor National President Lana Payne, who has warned Canadian workers are in the “fight” of their lives.


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Big revenue, trade leverage, and industrial perks: Why Trump’s $264B tariff haul will be hard to give up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “‘Tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” President Donald Trump liked to say early last year, calling it his favourite word and promising they would help usher in a new “golden age” for America.

He was serious.


Bombardier is what’s wrong with Canada, a corporate welfare parasite like so many others whose main business is robbing the public treasury to enrich the elite.

Mass immigration? The elite engaged in a human trafficking scam on a grand scale to line their pockets without care for the profound harm ordinary Canadians would suffer.

Multiculturalism and diversity? Bludgeons used to beat your very existence into the ground.

The media? A bought and paid for elite megaphone serving up a daily dose of propaganda purposely designed to humiliate.

The China Pivot? A villainous effort to keep Canada the elite’s ATM.

I fear Trump far less than I do our “betters”.

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Trump and Ottawa’s take on TACO will determine Canada’s fighter-jet strategy

In Ottawa, various cabinet ministers are praying that TACO – the “Trump always chickens out” theory – is still valid. Or largely so, or at least somewhat so, for they are on the verge of gambling big on the U.S. President’s rage factor.

TACO is high on their minds because Prime Minister Mark Carney and several of his cabinet ministers, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, are thought to be embracing the idea of Canada building the Saab Gripen fighter jet and Saab GlobalEye military surveillance plane. They are both Swedish creations whose construction in Canada would create 12,600 jobs, Saab has said.

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The Golden Dome is where Canada’s F-35 debate and Trump’s Greenland threat meet

It’s not much of a stretch to say that in terms of Canada-U.S. relations, we are — metaphorically speaking — at the point where we’d prefer to shoot the messenger, rather than listen to the message.

In the view of some experts, the political and economic discourse is so distorted, so angry, so mashed up that important points of strategic and defence policy that would have been mundane — even eye-glazing — less than a decade ago are lighting enormous rhetorical and political fires.

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Carney Liberals push Bill C-16 that could criminalize normal family conversations

Mark Carney’s Liberal government wants to control everything. With Bill C-9, they seek to remove the religious exemption for prosecutable hate speech; MP Marc Miller specifically cited Bible passages as examples. With Bill C-16, they could open the door to criminalizing conversations between family members after the fact.

The new Bill C-16 (not the 2017 bill of the same name, which prohibited “hate speech” on the grounds of “gender identity and expression” and made Dr. Jordan Peterson famous) has been titled the “Protecting Victims Act,” and was introduced by the Liberals in the 45th Parliament. It has not attracted much attention, but as MP Leslyn Lewis recently highlighted, it may have far-reaching effects.

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Military men facing terrorism charges prepared for zombie apocalypse, informant alleges

New information from an informant in the case involving three men accused of facilitating terrorism in Quebec City revealed they were planning for a supposed zombie apocalypse.

The information, provided as part of an ongoing case still before the courts, comes from a former member of the group Hide & Stalk — an alleged anti-government Instagram group of current and former military members.

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Yuan Yi Zhu: Face it, Carney just doesn’t know much about Canada

Cowboy Carney

Mark Carney received worldwide praise for his speech at Davos, in which he threw down the gauntlet against Donald J. Trump’s destructive politics. His speech, a couple days later on Canadian unity at the Plains of Abraham will not receive such international attention, but it is far more revealing of the fundamental flaw of Carney as a politician. For all his intelligence and credentials, Carney simply doesn’t know much about the country he governs.

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Ottawa hires hundreds of foreign students as Canadian youth unemployment climbs

Federal departments hired nearly 900 foreign students in a single year despite official warnings that Canadian students are struggling to find work and facing rising unemployment.

Blacklock’s Reporter says records tabled in Parliament show the federal government employed 889 foreign students in 2024, the most recent year with complete data, even as the Treasury Board acknowledged Ottawa is supposed to prioritize Canadians.

If this doesn’t make you despise the Liberal Party nothing will.

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LILLEY: Carney Liberals must wake up and deal with Canada’s growing extortion problem

Earlier this month, the shocking video of a man shooting up a Brampton home while brandishing two pistols was the first time many had heard much about extortion rings.

Yet, in communities across Canada, especially those with a significant Indian immigrant population, extortion has been a rising concern for years now.


Carney wants the criminal alien vote bloc too much to enforce the law.

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