Canada’s rookie prime minister, Mark Carney, who holds three passports, is an Anywhere. His background as a cosmopolitan former central banker gives off an aura of competence that is irresistible to the impetuous and uninformed, Unaware Canadian voter. Too bad that most never bothered to delve into his history.
Carney’s blueprint for Canada has been spelled out in his book "Value(s)" and in his professional resumé. The country is slated to become a fiefdom of the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations. We recall that as Governor of the Bank of England, Carney exceeded his mandate in his battle, dubbed Project Fear, to defeat Brexit and keep the U.K. manacled to an increasingly totalitarian European Union.
In line with his recipe for cooking up an unrecognizable Canada, Carney intends to bring in new and/or to reinforce existing censorship laws under the pretext that Canadians are drowning in “the sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories — this sort of pollution online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States.”
In other words, he has vowed to protect us both from America and from ourselves by legislating for a new nationwide gag order as well as preventing people from accessing information about the country and the world. His government will continue to regulate online comment as a form of “disinformation,” the Liberals' synonym for truth or fact, while reviving Trudeau’s Digital Safety Commission (Bill C-63), as Amy Hamm warns in the National Post, “to police Canadians’ speech, and impose life-destroying fines upon those whose speech was deemed hateful by our government censors.”
At the same time, Carney is poised to continue the Liberal Party’s vendetta against the energy-producing West, shutting down pipeline projects, banning tanker activity along the coast of British Columbia, and levying anti-emission, net-zero protocols designed to stifle the province’s economic output with the Trojan Horse deception of fighting climate change. His admiration for that mental infant Greta Thunberg tells us all we need to know. Add to this malpractice the travesty of a system that ensures that provincial Parliamentary and unelected Senate seats are distributed in such a way as to ensure that the Prairie Provinces are underrepresented, that conspires to appoint a submissive judiciary, and that intends to continue the uneven allotment of provincial wealth through the Marxist inspired Equalization program.
Five veteran ministers have been fired from cabinet after Canadians “voted for big change,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said yesterday. The firings included ministers who’d spent a decade in cabinet: “Big change, not small change; they voted for big change.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday appointed nearly a third of his cabinet from the Greater Toronto Area but said they would represent all Canadians nationwide. Appointments left one senior minister west of Winnipeg: “We are governing for all Canadians, all regions.”
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne signalled Wednesday there will be no spring budget and only a fall economic statement, despite his predecessor Dominic LeBlanc announcing pre-budget consultations earlier this year.Asked by reporters about the date of the next budget, Champagne said his first three orders of business are tabling a motion to cut the bottom income tax bracket by one per cent, presenting a speech to the throne on May 27 and then publishing an economic update in the fall.He made no mention of a budget, nor did he respond to repeated questions as to why the government would not be tabling a spring budget.
Minister of Canadian Identity Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday that Ottawa’s stalled progress on oil and gas pipelines isn’t a threat to national unity because demand for pipelines is petering out on its own.“The Canadian energy regulator, as well as the International Energy Agency, are telling us that probably by 2028, 2029, demand for oil will peak globally and it will also peak in Canada,” Guilbeault told reporters in Ottawa, when asked about whether pipelines will continue to be a source of friction between Alberta and the federal government.
Higher housing supply, not lowering home prices, are the solution for Canada’s housing crisis, Canada’s new housing minister said on Wednesday.
Gregor Robertson, the former Vancouver mayor who was sworn in as housing minister in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet on Tuesday, attended the first meeting of the new cabinet on Wednesday.
When asked by reporters if he thinks home prices need to go down, he told reporters: “No, I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the market is stable.”
New Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand accused Israel on Wednesday of using a lack of food as a political tool in its Gaza operation and urged further work on a ceasefire with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian enclave.
Seven months after federal RCMP officers raided Canada’s biggest and most sophisticated meth and fentanyl lab, only one person has been charged: a 32-year-old whose only previous conviction was for lower-level drug dealing near Vancouver.The bust of the so-called “superlab” occurred last October, just weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected and started making false claims about Canadian fentanyl “pouring” into his country, part of his pretext for the tariffs that have ignited a trade war. The discovery of the lab in British Columbia’s rural Shuswap region made headlines in major U.S. media.The authorities have touted the hundreds of millions of dollars in potentially lethal drugs they took off the street, but Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa remains the only person now awaiting trial. Before he was caught allegedly trying to export 310 kilograms of meth overseas, Mr. Randhawa had only ever been charged with delivering drugs locally and is not considered a kingpin.The lack of other arrests appears to be linked to a less publicized bust of a second facility located down the highway in Enderby, B.C., where 30 tonnes of chemicals used to make methamphetamines were stashed and discovered a month-and-a-half earlier. Although it had ties to the superlab, the separate units investigating the two properties don’t appear to have been sharing information before the busts.The details of the twin raids underline the challenges Canada faces as it tries to crack down on a growing number of facilities making meth and fentanyl for sale here and abroad – all while the Trump administration pillories Canada’s war on drugs as vastly inadequate.
International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News.
The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”
The newly released figures also suggest that 2025 could see an even greater number of claims by foreign students. In the first three months of the year, international students filed 5,500 asylum claims, a 22 per cent increase from the same period last year.
Diplomat Neil Macdonald, husband of Canada’s Ambassador to Vatican City, in an election commentary ridiculed Conservative voters as “rumpy-Trumpy” and questioned whether Hitler had worse media relations than Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday had no comment: “Fanboys in Alberta thought becoming the 51st state was a super-keen idea.”
The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said it would not discuss self-published commentaries by Neil Macdonald, a former CBC-TV reporter now writing as husband of Canada’s Ambassador to Vatican City. Macdonald mocked Pope Francis’ funeral after attending the mass as a VIP, complained Canadians don’t work hard enough and proposed a boycott of exports to the United States: “It is easy to mock.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs has asked statisticians to calculate when the last Canadian survivor of the Second World War is likely to die, Access To Information records show. Statistical tables were compiled in planning for a national tribute: “The last surviving Second World War veteran is projected to pass away between 2034 and 2038.”
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The first report callously sets out the financial savings that might be made when terminally ill patients can opt to kill themselves. It estimates that the NHS could save up to £10million in ‘unutilised healthcare’ within the first year of the law coming into effect. After a decade, it could apparently save up to £59million.
The second report is the Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA), which makes for bizarre and chilling reading. The civil servants who wrote this were not, as you might have hoped, concerned with protecting the disabled or mentally ill from wrongful deaths, nor with preventing a disproportionate number of suicides among those from a lower socioeconomic status or ethnic-minority background. Instead, they were worried about the barriers that might prevent people from these disadvantaged groups from accessing an assisted-dying service.
The report dutifully considers how those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, those whose first language is not English and even ‘pregnant persons’ can overcome any barriers that might be put in their way to killing themselves. It makes a point of saying that ‘the bill does not discriminate against transgender people and provides equal opportunity to access this service’. For those who are worried about the ‘inclusivity’ of assisted suicide, this is presumably supposed to be reassuring.
Canada is no longer a serious country — at least not when it comes to foreign policy and moral fortitude.
Over the last several years, Ottawa has failed to articulate any meaningful strategy in response to major global events, while at the same time jeopardizing some of Canada’s most important diplomatic relations. This should set alarm bells off in Washington. If Canadian and U.S. foreign policy remain this misaligned, the consequences for America could be serious.
Consider, for instance, how Canada and the U.S. have approached India and Israel. Both New Delhi and Jerusalem are critical pillars of the global democratic architecture. Both face relentless threats from nonstate actors and revisionist regimes. Both are central to the future of democratic cooperation.
India is a key partner in pushing back against China’s Indo-Pacific dominance, while Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
The U.S. has, for the most part, treated both Israel and India with consistency and clarity. After the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, America affirmed Israel’s right to self-defense while engaging actively on humanitarian concerns. Likewise, when hitmen allegedly linked to the Indian government assassinated in British Columbia Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a leader in the Sikh separatist movement, Washington remained cautious and disciplined, allowing its intelligence agencies to manage the matter discreetly while protecting its strategic partnership with India.
Canada, by contrast, flinched under domestic pressure in both cases, allowing diaspora politics and electoral calculations to distort its diplomatic posture, souring relations with two of its most important allies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s public accusation of Indian state involvement in Nijjar’s killing derailed already fragile ties, leading Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to harshly criticize Canada and shun Trudeau at the 2023 G20 summit.
A similar drift is evident in Canada’s response to Israel’s war with Hamas. Ottawa initially condemned the terrorist attacks. But in the face of rising domestic protest and activist pressure, the government’s stance became incoherent — a muddled blend of contradictory U.N. votes, hedged statements and an inability to affirm basic principles such as Israel’s right to self-defense. Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, has even echoed the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Beyond weakening key strategic alliances, Canada has not communicated a clear vision about the world’s most pressing conflict zones. For instance, Ottawa has repeatedly capitulated to demands from the Chinese government, while remaining shockingly noncommittal when it comes to defending Taiwan from a possible Chinese invasion. Waffling like a feather in the wind, Canada was also the last member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to ban Chinese government-connected companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks. And while Beijing continues to carry out everything from widespread foreign interference operations to espionage to executing Canadian citizens on Chinese soil, Canadian officials seem fine focusing on “positive developments” between the two countries.
On Ukraine, statements of support are clear, but material and financial assistance is lacking, and Canada has, once again, avoided any clear long-term strategy for the region. And despite a storied history of peacekeeping, demilitarizing war zones and brokering peace agreements, Ottawa’s approach to Israel’s multifront war in the Middle East is virtually nonexistent.
Going forward, Canadian leaders must rediscover that trust and reliability mean treating allies and issues not as political footballs, but as long-term partners and problems in a dangerous multipolar world. If they do not, America might have to make some tough decisions.
For instance, if Canada cannot be trusted to fully back Israel in its greatest time of need, can America count on Canada as a credible security partner? Further, if Canada fails to muster up the courage to more forcefully confront China, Washington will have no choice but to reevaluate everything from economic ties to defense cooperation with Ottawa. Canada also continues to spend a pittance not just on its own military, but on support for key allies such as Ukraine and alliances like NATO. In time, this could increase pressure for the U.S. to make up for Canada’s shortcomings — something it should not be expected to do.
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If Chinese sellers paid 145 percent tariffs, prices would have doubled. They didn’t. Price-tracking sites like camelcamelcamel.com and keepa.com show that Chinese-made goods, such as textiles, gadgets, and pet products, still sell for $10–$20. They’re relatively unchanged.
And despite tariffs, China’s outbound container volume dropped only 35 percent in 2025, not the 80 percent collapse many expected. That’s because e-commerce exporters kept shipping and kept cheating.
According to the Canadian Medical Association, non-emergency surgeries that can be scheduled in advance, like hip, knee and cataract procedures, are being delayed, while a growing number of Canadians — now more than 6.5 million — lack access to a family doctor altogether.
Among the most significant findings is the steep drop in Canadians’ mental well-being. In 2019, 67% of Canadians described their mental health as “very good or excellent,” but by 2023, that figure had dropped to 54%.
Those rating their mental health as “fair or poor” nearly doubled, rising from 8% to 15%, with young adults disproportionately affected.
Non-COVID deaths among Canadians under 45 increased by 22%, with contributing factors including addiction, delayed medical care, suicide, and other diseases.
Youth physical activity declined sharply, while screen time surged. As many as 70% of children and teens reported anxiety, depression, or other serious mental health issues.
The opioid crisis worsened during the pandemic, with overdose deaths increasing by 108% from 2020 to 2023. In 2023 alone, 8,606 Canadians died from opioid toxicity, more than double the pre-lockdown average. The highest death rates were recorded in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, with fentanyl involved in most cases.
The report also highlights the severe disruption to healthcare services.
Wait times for medical treatments rose by 43% between 2019 and 2024, with the median wait reaching 30 weeks. MRI wait times increased by 55%, while surgical delays for some cancers jumped by up to 34%.
Since 2018, more than 74,000 Canadians have died while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic procedures — over 15,000 in the last year alone.
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