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.
Brutal election night for Republicans, though the ugliness mostly happened in blue states and probably has limited meaning over the long term. A long series of “however” paragraphs follow.
Abigail Spanberger is a harbinger, East Coast Katie Hobbs: bland, empty, relentlessly platitudinous, tactically cowardly. The fact that she won comfortably tells you what’s going to win comfortably. Listen if you must to her NPR interview this morning, where she says literally nothing for seven minutes.
We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic.
Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So Republicans must react to even these paltry results.
OTTAWA — When the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission opened an investigation into Buddhist landholdings between 2016 and 2018, few could have imagined that, nearly a decade later, its quietly shelved probe would raise serious questions about whether the regulator itself had become entangled in the very network of interests it was meant to police.
“Extreme Right-wing” concerns accounted for twice as many Prevent referrals as Islamist extremism last year, according to new data from the Home Office. Of the 8,778 referrals made to the counter-terrorism scheme in the year ending 31 March 2025, 21% (1,798) of referrals were about Right-wing extremism, while 10% (870), concerned Islamism.
Overall referrals to Prevent were up 27% compared with the previous year’s total of 6,922, and constitute the highest number of referrals recorded in a single year since the Home Office began recording in April 2015.
Prevent is as politicized as Brit policing.
Middle East Eye, a site with Hamas links whose content tends to read like Hamas propaganda, has decided to reveal the latest tale of suffering from the terrorist territories. Rend your clothes and get ready to weep a small stream.
‘They’re forcing us to gain weight’: Select foods allowed in Gaza as essentials remain missing
The horror! The humanity!
When NDP MP Leah Gazan re-introduced her bill to make “residential school denialism” a criminal offence, she did so from a place of compassion. Her intent was to protect survivors from cruelty disguised as skepticism—to stop people from mocking the dead or trivializing one of Canada’s darkest chapters. But the debate her proposal has reignited goes beyond one bill. It cuts to the core of how a democracy handles truth, grief, and dissent.
She’s a Pretendian!
Here is a story about Leah Gazan that you certainly won’t read or hear about coming from CBC @brodiefenlon @carter_c @stirlingmg https://t.co/NgVbvFpJEy https://t.co/ISjdrKtj3p pic.twitter.com/aLr9oBfV7J
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 3, 2025
Axel Rudakubana bought knives with money his father paid him to shower, an inquiry into the Southport killings has heard.
Alphonse Rudakubana admitted he would pay his son £40 for every three showers he took as a “reward” for washing himself, something he said happened at least twice.
He told the public inquiry into the murder of three girls that he and Axel Rudakubana’s mother would also “give him money” when their son asked.
OTTAWA — Conservative Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux says he will resign his seat in the House of Commons after days of intense speculation that he would cross the floor to the governing Liberals, as the party tried to stamp out flames of what had been a chaotic week.
In a letter obtained by National Post, the Edmonton Riverbend MP said he informed Conservative Party Whip Chris Warkentin on Thursday of his intention to resign from Parliament at an unspecified date.
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.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget has accomplished a near-impossible feat in Ottawa.
It has united every opposition party across the political spectrum in an outright rejection.
The Conservatives, the Bloc Québécois, the NDP, and the Greens have all declared they will vote against the fiscal plan, branding it as costly, directionless, and profoundly out of touch with the needs of Canadians.
The transgender woman who’s the focus of a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row has insisted she is entitled to use the female facilities — and wouldn’t be comfortable in a trans-only locker room.
Alexis Black spoke out after singer-songwriter Tish Hyman claimed she was recently kicked out of a Gold’s Gym in Beverly Hills for confronting someone she described as a “man” in the female bathroom.
Just when you think it’s over…
h/t PA Cat
Hundreds of protesters at Villa-Maccabi match
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine mob chants for hours in Birmingham: “Villa fans, we know you support Palestine!”
Aston Villa fans emerge just before the match starts roaring back: “Oh Tommy, Tommy — Tommy Tommy Tommy Robinson!”
The islamists are furious. pic.twitter.com/YbMf6RmX1u
— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) November 6, 2025
Breaking – The mask slips.
Protestors start to chant Allahu Akbar in Birmingham tonight. pic.twitter.com/kqT6JKQZtK
— Patriotic Nation (@HoodedClaw1974) November 6, 2025
After nearly getting back in the black last year, Ontario is again awash in red ink.
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy’s fall economic statement is projecting a $13.5 billion deficit this fiscal year — ballooning from a $1.1 billion shortfall in 2024-25 — but less than the $14.6 billion forecast in his May 15 budget.
The treasurer’s update contained many warning signs that point to a sputtering Ontario economy with a softening jobs market, anemic growth, weak housing starts and shrinking resale home prices.
OOH BOY! Maga Men, she is talking directly to you and she has something important to say.
Always sit up and heed the wisdom of a liberal goddess! pic.twitter.com/Gr0VEIrTAH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 2, 2025
