An internal ArriveCan investigators’ report long sought by MPs has been sealed by Federal Court order. A judge blocked distribution of the findings at the request of Cameron MacDonald, a former Canada Border Services Agency director briefly suspended over the $63 million program: “The allegations each side makes against the other are most serious.”
The environment ministers of two of Canada’s biggest provinces are calling on the Liberal government to scrap a host of Trudeau-era environmental and climate policies, saying the policies are holding the country back from meeting its economic potential.Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz and Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy said in a letter to federal counterpart Julie Dabrusin that the new, Mark Carney-led Liberal government will need to ditch Justin Trudeau’s net-zero agenda if it hopes to meet its promise to make Canada an energy superpower.“We are hopeful that (the Carney government) will move away from policies and legislation that undermine competitiveness, delay project development, and disproportionately harm certain (regions) without any quantifiable benefit to the natural environment,” read the letter.“Canada is poised to become an economic superpower, but achieving that potential depends on strong, constitutionally grounded provincial authority over resource development and environmental management.”Schulz shared a copy of the letter on social media on Wednesday, just as a two-day meeting between federal, provincial and territorial environment ministers kicked off in Yellowknife.The letter calls for a repeal of the federal Impact Assessment Act, as well as a full repeal of the legislation authorizing the consumer carbon tax. Carney set the tax to zero shortly after becoming prime minister in March.The recently passed Bill C-5 allows projects deemed by Ottawa to be in the national interest to bypass some parts of the federal impact assessment process.Alberta has repeatedly called for this process to be either massively streamlined or eliminated altogether.
Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson did not commit to scrapping Trudeau-era climate policies that Alberta and Ontario want to see gone but said that the newly adopted major projects bill could pave the way to doing so “over time.”
Amid a protracted trade war, Canadian exports to the United States are at one of the lowest proportions on record, while exports to other countries have reached a record high, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada.
Data show Canadian exports to the U.S. have decreased for the fourth consecutive month, seeing a 0.9 per cent drop in May. The average share of total Canadian exports to the U.S. is also down, from 75.9 per cent last year, to 68.3 per cent in May, a near-record low.
Imports from the U.S. have also been on the decrease for the third consecutive month.
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The Carney government is poised to post a massive deficit of more than $92 billion during this fiscal year, a new report from a well-respected financial think tank projects, almost double what was forecast just a few months ago by a non-partisan arm of the government.
The report, from the C.D. Howe Institute, also forecasts deficits of more than $77 billion a year over the next four years, also huge increases over what had been expected. If this fiscal year’s deficit turns out to be as hefty as projected, it would be the second-largest deficit in Canadian history, topped only by the $327.7 billion shortfall from the pandemic year of 2020-21.
The think tank attributes much of the government’s declining fiscal health to increased spending on defence and other items, the economic effects of the Trump tariffs, cuts to personal income tax and the GST for first-time homebuyers, and the elimination of the digital services tax.
Based on the most current and largely optimistic variables, the report says, federal deficits will remain above $71 billion during each of the following three years and in the fiscal year 2028-29 will be greater than three times what the government itself forecast in its most recent federal budget.
But more likely, the report says, it will likely be a bit worse than that because the report’s authors say that they’re skeptical that all of the government’s plans to increase revenue through promised higher fines, penalties and savings will actually occur.
“It is widely accepted that Canada’s economy is at a critical crossroads,” the C.D. Howe economists write. “So are Canada’s finances – beyond the economic drag of high deficits and rising debt, it is unfair to pass these burdens on to the current young and future generations.”
But the most recent federal budget was now well over a year ago. The government took the highly unusual step this year of waiting until the fall to release its annual budget, more than half-way through the fiscal year.
According to reporting in the Financial Times, the European Commission is reviewing a measure that would exempt industrial sectors such as concrete and steelmakers from having to pay carbon taxes on exported products.
The idea is to avoid kneecapping European exporters competing with the likes of China and India, whose own heavy industry face no such taxes.
As the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told the Financial Times, carbon pricing could not come “at the expense of our own companies (as they) face unfair competition on the global market.”
Such an exemption would effectively be the inverse of what Canada has been doing on carbon pricing.
Unlike much of Europe, Canadians are no longer required to pay a consumer carbon tax. The first action of Prime Minister Mark Carney upon his March 14 swearing-in was to cease collection of federally mandated “retail” carbon taxes on motor fuels and heating oil.
However, the Carney government has stayed the course on a latticework of industrial carbon taxes targeting “big polluters” in sectors such as steel, concrete and oil and gas.
Housing in Canada is so unaffordable CMHC yesterday changed its definition of affordability. Canadians realistically should not expect a return to market conditions of 20 years ago, said the federal mortgage insurer: “Restoring affordability to levels last seen two decades ago is not realistic.”
A federal agency boasts in a briefing note its jobs program cost taxpayers the equivalent of more than $13,000 per employee on average. Individual grants approved by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario ranged as high as $62,500 per job: “We would have liked more money of course.”
In other cases, Ottawa has been essentially compelled into overturning policies it was defending only a short while ago. The latest example is the decision to abolish the Digital Services Tax (DST) on June 29, two days after Trump said he was cancelling all trade talks with Canada over the issue.
During the first quarter of this year, 27,086 people emigrated from Canada. It was 25,394 in the first quarter of 2022, then 25,536 in the first quarter of 2023 and up to 26,293 in the same quarter of 2024.
The number of emigrants peaked at more than 31,000 in the third quarter of 2017, and hit over 30K midway through 2018 and 2019.
The lowest emigration level in recent years was in the second quarter of 2020 — at just 7,431. Though, that’s unsurprising considering it is when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After that, emigration started ramping up again.
With two of their peers killed last year, more than 70 Palestinian students are raising the alarm over stalled immigration to Canada despite admissions and scholarships at universities across the country, stranding them in Gaza or nearby Egypt and Jordan as they wait out a war.
Some were awoken in their beds in kibbutzim by shooting. Others were dancing at dawn at a music festival in the Negev desert. Among the approximately 1,200 people slaughtered in the most brutal attack on Israel in its history were found the bodies of young women stripped and tied to trees and poles, shot through their genitals and in the head.Sexual violence was “widespread and systematic” during the October 7 attack, rape and gang rape occurring in at least six different locations, according to a report using testimony never heard before now. But most victims were “permanently silenced”, either murdered during the assaults or left too traumatised to talk. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack.The Dinah Project’s report, which will be published in Jerusalem on Tuesday, is based on first-hand testimony from 15 of the returned hostages from Gaza (only one of whom has spoken previously) and a survivor of attempted rape at the Nova music festival, as well as interviews with 17 people who saw or heard the attacks and with therapists working with traumatised survivors.
On February 12, 2025, Parks Canada announced the designation of the Kamloops, B.C. Indian Residential School as a national historic site. Surprisingly, it omitted any reference to the alleged graves containing 215 missing children in an adjoining apple orchard.
“The Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest institution in a system designed to carry out what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission described as cultural genocide,” Parks Canada said in a statement. No reason was given for omitting reference to unmarked burial sites.
Now we know why, thanks to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada’s leading Internet publication covering Canadian government administration.
Blackrock’s has just revealed that Parks Canada began questioning the accuracy of the Kamloops Indian Reserve’s 2021 claim about these alleged graves as early as 2023.
After consulting historians and archaeologists, Parks Canada managers found the claim unproven before designating the school a national historic site in February. “They are very careful about the nature of evidence and the conclusions that can and cannot be drawn at this point in time,” wrote one manager.
The Kamloops Band has nearly always been far less cautious since its May 27, 2021, burial announcement of the “the stark truth of the preliminary findings [that] came to light — the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.”
To date, the stark truth is that the band has not attempted to recover any skeletal or other material from the site, despite receiving $12.1 million in federal funding for fieldwork, exhumation, coroners’ analysis, and DNA testing.
Internal Parks Canada records, presumably obtained by Blacklock’s through a freedom of information request, show managers were initially just as devastated as most Canadians by the claim. “Heartbreaking news,” wrote one executive. “I read a story early this morning on the Guardian website and found myself totally in shambles after reading it. This is truly staggering.”
“Our thoughts and prayers are with you,” another Parks Canada manager wrote the band. “I couldn’t even begin to appreciate what you and community members are going through.”
One director cancelled a staff meeting as an act of mourning. “This horrifying and tragic discovery by the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc [Kamloops band] is yet another painful reminder of the ongoing intergenerational trauma and loss experienced by First Nations communities at the hands of colonial government and organized religion,” he wrote, mimicking indigenous propaganda in the process.
“Devastating,” wrote a field superintendent at Jasper National Park. “It shines a light on our individual and collective commitments to address dark and tragic histories from colonization.”
Parks Canada CEO Ron Hallman issued a June 1, 2021, staff notice directing that all flags be lowered in observance of “this national tragedy.” The graves announcement was “a painful reminder that this dark and shameful time in Canada’s history resonates today and into the future,” wrote Hallman.
However, records show that Parks Canada subsequently consulted historians “to help identify any gaps or errors” before designating the Kamloops Indian Residential School a historic site. The agency’s consultants questioned the accuracy of identifying 215 graves using the inconclusive technique called ground penetrating radar, which cannot detect organic material.
“Authors refer to the 215 ground-penetrating radar hits that were reported in 2021 as ‘graves’ or ‘burials,’” wrote one Parks Canada consultant. “But none of these sites have been investigated further to determine that they are graves.”
“Ground-penetrating radar often throws up false positives, anomalies that are not indicative of anything significant,” wrote the consultant. “I suggest that until there is further investigation of the sites at Kamloops, the report refer to them as ‘possible graves’ or ‘probable graves’ or ‘likely graves’ rather than ‘graves.’”
Parks Canada subsequently rewrote an October 26, 2023, report to modify the “graves” claim to “probable unmarked graves.”
Agency managers in 2024, as noted in staff emails, concluded that even “probable” was inaccurate. “On the question of ground penetrating radar, I wonder whether we should leave that,” wrote one executive.
“The challenge is that ground-penetrating radar does not provide evidence of potential unmarked graves,” said the staff email. “It provides evidence of anomalies. I am quoting the archaeologists here.”
“Regarding the topic of ground-penetrating radar, I’ve made a suggested revision,” wrote another manager. “It might be preferable to not use the term’ anomalies’ for now.” Staff were also advised to “stay extra quiet” on the designation of the Residential School as a national historic site.
Parks Canada announced the national historic designation on February 12. It omitted all mention of any graves. The Kamloops site was the fifth former Indian Residential School to be listed as a national historic site. “The possibility of unmarked burials is not a determining factor for designation of any site,” a spokesperson told Blacklock’s at the time.
Parks Canada is a notable outlier in the “missing children buried in unmarked graves” bruhaha: no other federal agency publicly expressed doubts about the Kamloops claim after then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the site in 2021 “to pay my respects to the graves,” he said. “That’s the realization that Canadians have taken on following the leadership right here in Tk’emlups, a discovery in May of 2021 of indigenous kids in the graves just up the hill,” said Trudeau.
The Prime Minister ordered the lowering of the Peace Tower flag for over five months for “all the indigenous children who never made it home,” he said at the time. “I think Canadians have seen with horror those unmarked graves,” Trudeau told reporters.
Blacklock’s could have also mentioned that many academics, journalists, lawyers, and other writers doubted the veracity of the Kamloops announcement soon after it was made, as shown here, here, here, here, and here.
The efforts of these contrarians may have influenced the following May 18, 2024, Kamloops Band admission:
“On May 27, 2021, it was with a heavy heart that Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc confirmed an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School. With the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light — the confirmation of 215 anomalies were detected.” (emphasis added)
The revelation that Parks Canada has not accepted as truthful and accurate the initial Kamloops Band claim does not mean the government of Canada is ready to acknowledge that it was deceiving about the claim of thousands of children buried in unmarked graves across the country.
While Trudeau never backed down from his initial 2021 position, current Prime Minister Mark Carney is unlikely to distance himself from the prevailing Liberal Party view, given his repudiation of his father Robert Carney’s views of the Indian Residential School system.
During a 1965 CBC Radio interview, the elder Carney spoke of a programme at an Indian day school in Fort Smith, N.W.T., where he was principal, for “culturally retarded children.”
Given the assimilationist ethos of the times, he defined such a child as one “from a Native background who, for various reasons, has not been in regular attendance in school,” or a student with a non-English speaking background who is behind in their studies. Such a view, now considered retrogressive by woke-obsessed Canadians, cannot be called racist or culturally destructive because they were meant to apply equally to white immigrants from all across Europe whose cultures and languages were other than British or, in the case of Quebec, French.
The elder Carney also later criticized indigenous-led studies, highlighting the adverse effects of these schools as one-sided and imbalanced, a claim increasingly supported by more open-minded Canadians as the true face of the Indian Residential Schools is slowly revealed.
As for the younger Carney, he said, “I love my father, but I don’t share those views, to be absolutely clear,” while campaigning in April.
Mark Carney is elbows up on indigenous grievances
If Carney continues the Trudeau elbows up approach on the indigenous file by continue to say the country has learned of the “fundamental damage of residential schools and day schools to those who attended them [and] those who were their descendants,” all that the rest of us can do is keep showing that without verified truth-telling about the boarding schools and many other indigenous issues, there can never be honest reconciliation with our aboriginal people.
Health Canada is currently evaluating two drugs — lecanemab and donanemab — that may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s in some patients with mild disease.These therapies mark the beginning of a new chapter in Alzheimer’s care. More than 120 drugs are in the pipeline, along with blood tests that will be able to diagnose the presence of Alzheimer’s.But should new treatments be approved, many people will not be able to access them. Canada’s health systems do not have the capacity to diagnose, support and deliver these Alzheimer therapies to eligible patients within a reasonable window of time.The level of change needed in dementia care will have to be similar to the revolution that happened in cancer over the last 70 years. Decades ago, patients with cancer were sometimes not even told they had the disease. They weren’t urged to get screening. Now, people are encouraged to seek out a diagnosis as early as possible. There are specialized cancer centres, dedicated oncology teams, spiritual and social supports and hundreds of treatment options.Advocates for people with Alzheimer’s say a similar revolution in dementia care is possible. But the change must start with recognizing that Alzheimer’s is “something other than a death sentence,” says Mike.
“The executive director interviewed me on the spot and then introduced me to the doctor, and 20 minutes later, they offered me a job and asked if I could start that same day,” said Padilla. She would later come to understand how difficult it is to find skilled and trained staff to work at an abortion business. The director even offered her a $500 sign-on bonus and she agreed to work as the recovery-room nurse beginning right then and there, even though she had just come off a 12-hour shift at the jail.
“The bribery and conditioning started immediately,” said Padilla. “We began to see patients around 11 a.m. The support staff got excited [because] once we saw 12 patients we got free lunch, usually pizza or sandwiches. If we saw 24, we would get the ‘good lunch,’ Chinese or Jamaican food. That day, we ordered Chinese.”
In addition, the abortionist on staff offered to buy her a new phone saying that hers “wasn’t cool” and that “their clinical nurse couldn’t be seen with such an outdated phone…”
Slavery is officially illegal in Mali, but it continues, a hereditary and racialised system, as it does in Mauritania and other parts of west Africa. Nor is the problem unique to the region. In recent years, the Arab world, especially the Gulf, has become a hub of modern slavery – defined by Walk Free, the international human rights and anti-slavery group, as “situations of exploitation in which a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, or abuse of power”.In its most recent report, from 2023, Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index reported that Arab states have the world’s highest prevalence of slaves (10.1 per 1,000 people), ahead of Asia and the Pacific (6.8), Europe and Central Asia (6.6) and Africa (5.2). The countries in the region with the highest numbers of people trapped in modern slavery were Saudi Arabia (740,000), Iraq (221,000), Yemen (180,000) and Syria (153,000).The history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world is as long as the history of Islam. Whereas the notorious Atlantic slave trade lasted from the 15th to the 19th centuries and enslaved 11-14 million Africans, the slave trade practised within the geographical heart of the Muslim world, centred on North Africa and the Middle East, lasted from the seventh century until the 20th and enslaved 12-15 million, perhaps even 17 million. Vast numbers of men, women and children were taken overwhelmingly from sub-Saharan Africa, together with Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus during the Ottoman period. More covertly and in much smaller numbers, slavery – if not institutionalised trafficking – continues today.
Data released by China’s Ministry of Education last month revealed an astonishing reality: In the past two years alone, 36,000 preschools across China have shuttered their doors.
This is not due to a decline in the popularity of preschool or consolidation on the part of the Chinese government. Rather, these preschools have closed simply because not enough children to attend them were born.
Since 2016, when births in China peaked, the country has been gripped by a dramatic decline in births. Whereas 17.86 million children were born in China in 2016, only 9.54 million Chinese children were born in 2024, according to the Chinese government (which could very well be manipulating the numbers). This dramatic decline eclipses the birth collapse that the country experienced during Mao’s Great Chinese famine.
The Chinese government claims that the number of children enrolled in preschool peaked in 2020 at 48 million. Today, the number of children attending preschool has already declined to just under 36 million.
“The difficulty in kindergarten enrollment seems to have appeared suddenly, like a cliff,” said a Chinese woman, Tang Tang, who recently left a position teaching preschool education to teach at the university level.
The Chinese government has been forced to somewhat admit the folly of its population control measures, which used forced abortions, kidnappings, and coercive fines to enforce a one-child policy. The government abandoned its one child-policy in 2016 to switch to a two-child policy before changing to a three-child policy and then abandoning that in favor of encouraging child-bearing.
But with this massively depleted new generation of young people, the Chinese Communist Party’s idiocy will be put on full display. The start will be this mass shuttering of preschools, which will only accelerate with each passing year. Then, elementary schools will soon find there are half as many students to teach as in recent years. Tens of thousands of high schools will then close their doors. Then Chinese universities will find that prospective students simply do not exist. The country’s economy will then face the pain of half as many young workers.
Other signs of the birth collapse today include the idling of factories that produce baby formula, the closing of obstetrics units in hospitals across the country, and hundreds of thousands of preschool teachers recently losing their jobs. One man who formerly operated preschools described last year how he had switched into the elderly care industry and planned to use empty classrooms as places for the elderly to go during the day for services.
In China, children ages 3 to 6 attend preschool, meaning that preschool enrollment will continue to decline over the next few years as smaller birth cohorts age into the system. And, if, as is expected, births continue their downward trend in China, preschools — which are divided roughly equally between private and public — will need to shutter even faster than they already are. It is expected that births in China will fall this year in correspondence with the declining marriage rate, with one estimate projecting 7.3 to 7.8 million births in 2025. This means that China could have roughly 40 percent as many births this year as at its 2016 peak.
In 2021, China had 295,000 preschools. These kindergarten programs offer full-day instruction. Given current trends, easily 100,000 of those schools could shutter within just the next few years. Those preschool closures will be an ever-present sign of civilizational doom and the brokenness of Chinese culture, which has been brought to the point where people see no hope for the future. Many young Chinese speak of themselves as being the “last generation.” Generations of authoritarian control have created a society that doesn’t wish to continue on.
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Canadian intelligence officials have warned federal departments about an individual they believe is trying to obtain sensitive information for China’s spy services, Global News has learned.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service confirmed on Friday that it had issued an “espionage advisory” to government departments and universities, notifying them about the person.
“We can confirm that an espionage advisory was shared with certain federal departments and universities regarding a person who is attempting to obtain sensitive and privileged Canadian information on behalf of the People’s Republic of China intelligence services,” a CSIS spokesperson said.
“CSIS advised recipients to use extreme caution when dealing with this person and avoid discussing confidential and sensitive information with them. We also advised that suspicious encounters with this individual should be reported to the appropriate security officials.”
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