LILLEY: As Conservatives lose MP Matt Jeneroux, Canada’s finances burn

Sure, Fitch Ratings, a major international credit agency, has issued a warning about Canada’s out-of-control debt and spending, but let’s talk about the Conservative Party.

Official Ottawa is in an out-of-control frenzy, not due to the out-of-control spending of the Carney Liberal government but over the comings and goings of Conservative MPs.

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WARMINGTON: All 330 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms have been culled, CFIA confirms

Just call it Slaughterhouse 330.

Only unlike Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, this slaughter house at Universal Ostrich Farms was not an abandoned one used as a prisoner camp by the Nazis in the Second World War but a culling pen built with hay walls and platforms in 2025 on the very farm where some of these ostriches as old as 35 lived for years.

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No data exists on citizenship approved or denied due to criminal records

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration bureaucracy has no data on how often Canadian citizenship was granted – or denied – to those with criminal records.

That revelation comes courtesy of a response to an order paper question filed in September by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner asking how many citizenship applications have been received, approved or denied from those with criminal records.

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Mark Carney’s budget will make Canada the strongest economy in Eurovision

Look at these simpletons, doddering around waving their budget report cards. They assert that Prime Minister Mark Carney did not deliver on his promise of transformational change, of generational investment. They huff that Mr. Carney has crafted a fairly typical Liberal big-spending budget, with the exception of actual investment in Canada’s military (though the budget is light on details) and plans to reduce the size of the public service by 40,000 jobs by 2028-29.

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Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

A former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC was found not guilty of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

Sean Charles Dunn, a former justice department paralegal, became a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s occupation in the nation’s capital when video of him, clad in a pink polo shirt and shorts, throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent, wearing a bulletproof vest, went viral.

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Liberals target Farm Credit Canada for being ‘too white’

The federal government is taking aim at Farm Credit Canada (FCC), saying the Crown-owned lender’s portfolio is dominated by “older white men” and needs to better reflect the country’s diversity.

In a budget notice, the Department of Finance said cabinet will amend the Farm Credit Canada Act to require regular legislative reviews ensuring the bank’s loans align with the “changing needs” of the agriculture sector.

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Global Affairs says Canada exploring possible postwar role in Gaza Strip

OTTAWA — With Canadian military personnel already deployed to Gaza to monitor the ceasefire, the federal government says it’s scoping out how it can best support Palestinians in Gaza in the event a peace deal leads to self-governance.

“Decisions have not yet been made on the level of resources nor the type of assistance that we could provide,” Alexandre Lévêque, an assistant deputy minister at Global Affairs Canada, told the House of Commons foreign affairs committee Tuesday.

“The department is working on options to provide to the ministers and prime minister on where we can be most helpful. We have areas of expertise.”

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