Foreign Minister Says Ottawa ‘Closely Following’ Attack on Falun Gong Practitioner Outside Toronto Consulate

Foreign Minister Says Ottawa ‘Closely Following’ Attack on Falun Gong Practitioner Outside Toronto Consulate

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says her department is aware of and “closely following” the recent attack on a Falun Gong practitioner who was protesting outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto.

“Global Affairs Canada is aware of, and closely [f]ollowing, the troubling incident that occurred on September 22, 2026, involving a peaceful Falun Gong protester on the sidewalk outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto,” Anand wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to Conservative MP Jacob Mantle, who had written to the minister about the attack.

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Canada and Europe look beyond the US and China — but carefully

Canada and Europe look beyond the US and China — but carefully

MONTREAL — There’s one thing the European Union and Canada want to avoid with their new alliance: stoking new fury from Washington and Beijing.

Officials have been under pressure to check off everything they said they would do at the last summit and on Friday will unveil the areas they plan to focus on over the next year, as they intensify their transatlantic cooperation. But don’t expect a parade of new deals.

“Canada has objectives where they need our technology — so you can build a beautiful relationship if you focus on it,” one senior EU official told POLITICO about shared challenges in diversifying away from the U.S. and China. The official was granted anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive diplomatic negotiations between Brussels and Ottawa.

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Canadian Minister Leaves PRC-Link Question Unanswered After Conservative MP Demands Probe of Alleged Death Threat Outside China’s Toronto Consulate

Canadian Minister Leaves PRC-Link Question Unanswered After Conservative MP Demands Probe of Alleged Death Threat Outside China’s Toronto Consulate

OTTAWA — A Conservative MP who demanded that Canada investigate whether a man accused of threatening to kill a Falun Gong protester outside China’s Toronto consulate was acting for Beijing has received a response from Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand that leaves the central question unanswered: whether the suspect is a Chinese diplomat or otherwise connected to the Chinese government.

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China’s Car Industry Is Wowing the World—but Crashing at Home

China’s Car Industry Is Wowing the World—but Crashing at Home

NANJING, China—Skyworth Auto’s ambitions are visible everywhere in its electric-vehicle showroom here. A video spins the story of a founder who, like a Chinese version of Elon Musk, slept in the factory to get the company up and running. A map touts its presence in 45 countries. A new sport-utility vehicle is on display.

Back in 2021, Skyworth said its main EV plant could make 100,000 vehicles a year. Its actual sales in China this year through September: 660.

A brutal season has arrived in China’s car market, among the most troubled in the world. Through September, Chinese consumers have bought about 22% fewer passenger vehicles this year than in the same period last year. This week, the head of a major Chinese car-industry group said sales for the full year would likely reach only 18.5 million vehicles, the worst performance since 2014.

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Why Canada could be impacted by who wins the U.S. midterms

Why Canada could be impacted by who wins the U.S. midterms

The outcome of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections could heavily influence the trajectory of the tariff war and Donald Trump’s ongoing behaviour towards Canada, one expert says.

Should the U.S. Democratic party do well in the elections, it would mean more “pressure” on Trump regarding the tariff war, Matt Duss, executive vice-president for the U.S. Center for International Policy, told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday.

“I would say that this trade war that the president has declared on China and many other partners and allies around the world is very much a part of these midterms,” he said.


On China? He’s worried about China? Useful Idiot.

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How China is winning the auto war as Jeep production shifts from Brampton to Wuhan

How China is winning the auto war as Jeep production shifts from Brampton to Wuhan

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.

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Global Affairs did not Google staff during vetting when NATO spy suspect was given clearance

Global Affairs did not Google staff during vetting when NATO spy suspect was given clearance

OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada would not have Googled or done an open-source search before granting security clearance to someone like the Canadian woman charged with spying at NATO headquarters.

That’s according to David Morrison, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s senior diplomatic and international affairs adviser and the former top bureaucrat at Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

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Trumpism Is Backfiring Says Ukraine Bag Lady

Trumpism Is Backfiring Says Ukraine Bag Lady

No country right now better reveals the transformation in the way the world sees America — the way we’ve turned from ally and partner to bully and predator — than Canada.

In late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada, walked away from trade talks with the Trump administration. He did so knowing that the retaliation could be ruinous for the Canadian economy.


OH Wow! Carney ruined our economy to save us!

It helped China because that was Carney’s orders.

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No Way! China Wants to Visit U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs

No Way! China Wants to Visit U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs

China’s officials this year proposed to the Trump administration reciprocal visits to nuclear sites.

Specifically, the Chinese discussed visits to U.S. Department of Energy national labs. The U.S., a source told CNN, “would be open to discussing visits to nuclear testing sites.”

Unfortunately, China’s initiative looks suspect, and talks should not proceed until Beijing is ready to engage the United States meaningfully.

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Green Group Already Under Scrutiny Honors Leader of Foundation That Gave Millions to China-Linked Entities

Green Group Already Under Scrutiny Honors Leader of Foundation That Gave Millions to China-Linked Entities

An environmental group facing scrutiny for its ties to China honored a leader of a major left-leaning grantmaking foundation that has given millions of dollars to China-connected entities.

The Environmental Law Institute on Tuesday honored Julie Packard, vice chair of the board of trustees for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, with its 2026 Environmental Achievement Award. Packard’s group has funded a range of Chinese institutions including universities scrutinized by Congress, a public foundation, and a research institute.

They’re everwhere.

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Former CSIS Chief Says China Will Spy on Canadians Through Chinese EVs

Former CSIS Chief Says China Will Spy on Canadians Through Chinese EVs

Canada’s former spy chief is warning that China could use data collected by Chinese-made electric vehicles to gather vast amounts of personal information on Canadians that Beijing could later weaponize.

David Vigneault, former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), made the comments during a recent appearance on a BBC podcast. As more Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) are set to enter the Canadian market, Vigneault says they could expose users to surveillance by Beijing.

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China blamed for loss of half a million German factory jobs

China blamed for loss of half a million German factory jobs

China has been blamed for the loss of half a million German factory jobs since 2019, as experts have warned that Europe’s manufacturing engine is losing momentum.

German industry shed 496,000 jobs between 2019 and 2025, according to the Ifo Institute in Dresden, representing a drop of 7.1pc.

Joachim Ragnitz, the managing director at Ifo Dresden, said: “Employment is shrinking in almost all industrial sectors, which is likely a result of declining competitiveness, particularly vis-à-vis China.

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From “Elbows Up” to “Shoulder-to-Shoulder”: Hardening North American Security Against Our Common China Threat

From “Elbows Up” to “Shoulder-to-Shoulder”: Hardening North American Security Against Our Common China Threat

Xi Jinping offers the world a seductive promise: a “community with a shared future for mankind.” Its intellectual ancestry is rooted in tianxia—a sinocentric ordering that encompasses “all under heaven.”

This is the vision Beijing presents as harmony without hegemony, and for many years, both Canada and the U.S. swallowed this line, and the accompanying promise that China would liberalize and democratize its governance model—a misguided proposition which James Mann correctly labeled the “China Fantasy,” but which most bought into because it promised profits, at least in the short term.

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What’s the impact of China’s influence on the gaming industry?

What’s the impact of China’s influence on the gaming industry?

In a dark underground hideout, dim light spills from a handful of oil lamps. A comrade fiddles with a rifle. A red flag hangs on one of the roughly hewn stone walls, bearing a hammer and sickle on a white star — the symbol of the ChineseWorkers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Weapons are scattered on the ground. One is picked up, and soon the action moves into the snowy forest, where gunfire erupts among the trees.

Such a scene could fit in a new installment of “Call of Duty,” the popular first-person shooter game that transports players to battlefields past, present, and future. But it is actually from “The Defiant.” The game is currently being developed by the Chinese studio Hoothanes Technology in Hangzhou. It tells the story of Chinese forces fending off the Japanese army in the 1930s and 1940s.

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