And in all those years, when Israelis turned to the international community and said, “Hey, what guarantee do we have that that won’t happen in the West Bank,” they received no answers, absolutely no useful answers about how the disaster of Gaza would not be replicated from an area 20 times bigger overlooking Tel Aviv, surrounding Jerusalem.
And then on October 7, it turned out that the threat wasn’t just rocket attacks; it was full barbarian hordes that were going to come in, abduct little children, commit barbaric sexual atrocities, and then wage a guerrilla war from tunnels underneath people’s feet, and so Israelis have realized that we have much less wiggle room and room for error, and that the stakes are really, really high, and that has led definitely to a rightward shift in terms of security, where people simply will believe the enemy at its word, and are less likely to give it the benefit of the doubt, and believe that we can afford to live in convenient illusions.
That perhaps has been one of the driving lessons of October 7: we cannot afford to inhabit convenient illusions, and sometimes we have to stand up to pressure from our friends when our national interests are at stake. And I think that’s going to shape Israel’s conduct towards the rest of the world. Whoever wins the next election, this is not just a Netanyahu issue.
Israel was, once again, attacked and the world nodded approvingly.
It is so sad that it should stand alone, as in 1948 and still.
Whoever wins in the Israeli election later on this month, he must be mindful that Israel will always have enemies when it should have friends.
Your dictator and you:
ππππ ππππππ πππ πππππππ πππππππ πππ ππππππππππ. πππ ππ πππππππ ππ ππππππ. Mark Carney has quietly taken control of how Canada is run. Cabinet, Parliament, the civil service and the press have all been pushed aside, and power now sits with the Prime Minister and a small circle of people most Canadians have never heard of. That's not coming from his critics. It comes from more than a dozen Liberal insiders who spoke to the Toronto Star's Justin Ling this summer. When Carney took office, he tore up the structure he inherited and rebuilt it as a strict pyramid with himself at the top. He has personally taken over major files instead of trusting his ministers with them. He is effectively his own foreign minister. Then he built a parallel government. Instead of fixing the public service, Carney created brand new agencies inside the Privy Council Office and handed them to people he picked himself. A banker and personal friend runs defence procurement. An oil and gas executive runs the Major Projects Office. These bodies will have enormous power to approve, buy and build things, with far less of the oversight that normally comes with that power. The ministers Canadians can actually hold accountable are being left behind. Insiders say the Treasury Board President doesn't seem to understand his own file, and the Immigration Minister has been a disaster. Carney won't shuffle them, because Jean ChrΓ©tien reportedly convinced him it isn't worth the trouble. Parliament is next. Omnibus bills are back, pushing massive legislation through the House with barely any debate. And he won't explain any of it to you. Carney refuses one-on-one interviews with Canadian media, preferring the New York Times and Bloomberg, and talks to Canadians through his own YouTube videos where nobody gets to ask a follow-up question. One Liberal put it bluntly: "You can get away with a lot when you've got a 10-point lead." Canadians didn't vote for a government run by a handful of insiders nobody can name. They deserve one that answers to them.
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) October 2, 2026
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Carney looks after Carney:
Since assuming office a year and a half ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly promised that his government would “build Canadian and buy Canadian.”But American-controlled multinational corporations have dominated the most lucrative federal contracts under Carney’s leadership, a Toronto Star analysis of government data shows. The share of government contract dollars going to U.S. companies also increased.Since Carney was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 2025 and up to the end of July 2026 — the latest available data — Ottawa awarded $25 billion in contracts to buy everything from cloud services to military vehicles and office furniture.The vast majority of it, $22.4 billion, went to Canadian companies, according to federal contract data. United States businesses come at a distant second place, with nearly $1.2 billion.But that’s not the full picture; procurement data does not distinguish between a homegrown shop and the locally-incorporated subsidiary of an American corporation. This is how well-known U.S. brands such as defence contractor Lockheed Martin or tech giant Amazon, which has received about $49 million in contracts under Carney, sometimes show up in procurement data as Canadian companies.
Accountability is for the proles:
A national overview of province-by-province senator overseas travel, released by the CTF this week, states that international trips undertaken between Jan. 16, 2023 and March 17, 2026 by 65 senators cost Canadian taxpayers $1,850,420. Overall, says the CTF, senators have nearly doubled their international travel spending in the last two years, with the costs climbing 88 per cent from $391,095 in 2023 to $736,165 in 2025, according to its analysis of parliamentary financial disclosures.
The CTF takes the position that senators are unelected and as such should not be travelling anywhere outside of the country on the taxpayers' tab. "Nobody votes for senators so these people represent exactly nobody," said Kris Sims, spokesperson for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in an email to National Post.
Ontario Senator Salma Ataullahjan's international travel topped the CTF list, totalling $131,706 between January 2023 and March 2026 for 14 overseas trips. The CTF says Ataullahjan travelled to Mozambique, Botswana, Switzerland twice, Uzbekistan, the United States, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Angola, Costa Rica, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Bahrain, Senegal and Cabo Verde.
Second in Canada was Newfoundland and Labrador Senator David Wells, whose travel for 17 international trips between 2023 and 2026 totalled $120,389.
Otherwise, looking at the CTF's top Senate travellers on a per province basis across the rest of the country, Nova Scotia Senator Michael MacDonald took 17 trips abroad costing $85,000. B.C. Senator Margo Greenwood went on 11 trips abroad costing more than $80,000, then P.E.I. Senator Percy Downe ($67,000), New Brunswick Senator RenΓ© Cormier ($64,000), Manitoba Senator Gigi Osler ($61,000), former Saskatchewan Senator Brent Cotter ($19,000) and on the lower end, Alberta Senator Scott Tannas ($10,795). (Terrazzo told National Post in an email that the organization is holding off on a report about Quebec senators until after that province's election on Monday.)
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π¨FRIENDLY REMINDERπ¨ The Canadian Government is funnelling taxpayer funds to municipalities to purchase real estate—hotels, apartments, housing complexes—to house migrants while Canadians face homelessness. This isn't immigration; it's state-sponsored replacement. https://t.co/6u7WjP8ud2
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) October 3, 2026
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From the most transparent government in the country's history:
Cabinet is quietly concealing more records than ever, Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard has written the Senate. The warning followed a single clause in an omnibus budget bill, C-31: “My office was not consulted.”
It was never about safety:
#BREAKING: Last week, Marc Miller was unable to answer when asked if his so-called "Online Harms Bill" will go after people who run websites encouraging su*cide. But today he admitted the truth to the Toronto Star: No. The "Online Harms Bill" will do NOTHING to protect kids from the worst harm of all. So what is this bill for? It's for censorship, that's what it's for. As Miller said last week, it's about determining what is "legitimate and illegitimate" discourse. It's all about protecting the Liberals from online content that harms them politically.
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) October 5, 2026
The federal government gives an excuse why no Afghanistan war veterans were invited to speak at the memorial groundbreaking. The truth is that the government is afraid of what any veteran would say. But of course one of the privileged race was invited to speak in their headdress and feathers. Of course they were... And not one person refused to speak upon finding that no veterans were invited. Had enough yet?
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 2, 2026
WOW: Mark Carney attended the Oilers home opener tonight and appeared to remain seated as the crowd stood to applaud a Canadian Army veteran. Tall about disrespectful. https://t.co/WPqITc3DP0
— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) September 30, 2026
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it didn’t have time to invite Afghan War veterans to speak at the ceremonial groundbreaking for a National Monument to Afghan War dead. The 40-minute ceremony did hear from non-combatants including Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight: “Why?”
"Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now," Trudeau said, answering a question from a veteran, who said he lost his leg to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, during a town hall meeting on Thursday evening in Edmonton.
We are psychiatrists who work with patients with advanced cancer. It’s no wonder, then, that when Canada legalized medical assistance in dying a decade ago, it quickly became a major topic of conversation in our clinics. We’ve counseled patients about the procedure and assessed whether they were eligible. One of us has administered the drugs to end patients’ lives. We’ve also researched what leads people to choose this option. And together, we created an institutional framework that determined how one of Canada’s largest medical centers would respond to requests for assisted death. ...
But Canada’s system for assisted death is no longer an option of last resort. Too many people are receiving the procedure without the opportunity for careful reflection about it with a health provider. In some cases, patients are being approved who should not be. Reports have emerged of people seeking assisted death in the context of poverty or loneliness, raising concerns that they may feel they have no other options. In other cases, including for many of our cancer patients, medical assistance in dying may be the right choice eventually, but there’s a risk of rushing into it and shortening what can be a meaningful period in patients’ lives.Canada’s medical assistance in dying program started in 2016 as an option only for patients with a “reasonably foreseeable” natural death. In 2021, Parliament removed the foreseeable death requirement. Today, Canada’s system is one of the most permissive in the world, allowing assisted dying for almost any form of subjectively intolerable suffering that has a medical basis, or even for medically unexplained physical symptoms. This latitude may contribute to Canada having the fastest growth rate of assisted dying in the world, increasing 16-fold in the eight years since legalization. The procedure now accounts for over 5 percent of all deaths in the country.
How did we get here? Within the Canadian system, medical assistance in dying is the result of a decades-long campaign aimed at enshrining it as a human right — often in the face of strong pressure from groups who opposed the procedure on religious or other grounds. Activists who support the procedure are still understandably wary of anything that could make it harder to get, often warning of unnecessary “gatekeeping” that might interfere with a patient’s autonomy. These activists helped shape the laws that govern the procedure and were instrumental in supporting the first medical networks that emerged to administer it.
Perhaps as a result of this influence, many doctors have come to see their primary role to be making sure their patients meet the legal eligibility requirements to qualify for assisted dying. They must, for instance, be experiencing intolerable suffering and have the mental capacity for informed consent. The problem is that there has become far more focus on whether patients can get an assisted death and not enough on whether they should.
A study published earlier this year looked at how Canadian physicians involved in medical assistance in dying understood their role. One provider described being “just a conduit really for someone’s desires and someone’s choices.” In a separate but similar study, another provider professed to have no role in evaluating suffering — though one of the legal requirements to receive the procedure is that a clinician must confirm that the patient is experiencing intolerable suffering. Determining that degree of suffering “is entirely up to the patient — 100 percent,” that provider said.
While it is critical that patients are able to make decisions about their bodies, doctors have an important role in guiding those decisions. There is an old saying about surgeons that is apt here: Good ones know how to operate, better ones know when to operate and the best know when not to.
Our research shows that the suffering of patients with an advanced disease arises from a complex interplay of physical and psychological distress, family strain and a slow erosion of identity and meaning. In this context, the loss of the will to live is not a fixed state. It fluctuates. It can be treated. And it can be misread.
Here’s how Canada’s medical assistance in dying program works: Two clinicians (either physicians or nurse practitioners) are required to approve an assisted dying request. The vast majority of cases are what is known as Track 1, in which the patient must have an illness that will lead to a “reasonably foreseeable death” (although no time frame is specified in the law). In these cases, they can request the procedure and get it quickly — sometimes even on the same day. Track 2 cases, in which the person does not have a life-threatening illness, are much less common. In these cases, patients are required to wait 90 days before receiving the procedure.
The law, however, does not require clinicians to engage in deeper conversations that explore the complex meaning of the request. We’ve seen cases where people request medical aid in dying in the face of a new cancer diagnosis or flare-up of an existing illness and get the procedure within a matter of days. There is no requirement in either track that patients attempt treatment to relieve their suffering. Nor does the law specify adequate safeguards to protect vulnerable individuals whose decision may be affected by social disadvantage.
We wonder whether inadequate consideration of such factors helps explain why in 2024, 98 percent of people assessed for medical assistance in dying in Canada were found to meet the criterion of “intolerable suffering” and over 92 percent were approved for the procedure.
Truth & Reconciliation: How much more money - and for how long? Canada’s demographics are changing fast. Indigenous leaders who assume the gravy train will run forever are in for a surprise - and soon. Many newcomers plainly state that they don't care about residential schools, historical government abuses, or even the continued medical experiments on Indigenous peoples documented in FOI records, including in Nunavut, Nunavik and Alberta. And when our tax money fails to reach or benefit the individual people? When it is squandered - or enriches a connected few while families continue to suffer? What’s the answer? More money? For how long? Past abuses do not excuse present-day financial misconduct. Nor does calling spending “reconciliation” put it beyond scrutiny. The grift must end. We need mandatory, independent audits of all tribes receiving public funds - to establish how the money is spent and whether it improves people’s lives, with public findings and consequences for misuse or theft. Billions spent must produce better lives for Indigenous peoples. The only measure of success is improved lives - nothing else.
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) September 30, 2026
In the decade leading up to 2024/25, inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending jumped from $10.3 billion to $40.8 billion, growing seven times faster than overall federal spending, according to a new study published by the Fraser Institute.The independent think tank found that inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending increased by an average of 4.3 per cent per year from 1969/70 to 2014/15. But from 2014/15 to 2024/25, average annual Indigenous spending increased 17.1 per cent, not including the “substantial” spending on lawsuits and court settlement payouts.
Ottawa reported in 2024 that more than $216 million had been committed through 146 agreements supporting community-led initiatives to document, locate, and commemorate missing children and burial sites, while Budget 2024 added another $91 million over two years. Federal announcements have explicitly said communities should undertake this work “in their own way and at their own pace.”
Respect for communities does not eliminate government's responsibility to taxpayers. Where public money finances investigations, there should be transparent objectives, timelines, expenditures, methodologies, and findings, while respecting legitimate cultural and legal considerations. Years after the initial claims, asking what has actually been established and what remains unproven should be responsible scrutiny, not hostility.
That makes the government's increasing use of the term “residential schools denialism” particularly concerning. On September 24, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty described denialism as including statements that deny or “cast doubt” on residential school history and announced that a $5 million national public education effort would confront misinformation and denialist claims. Canadians should reject genuine historical falsification, but governments must be extremely cautious about defining legitimate questions, evidentiary challenges, or disagreement over historical interpretation as “denialism.”
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Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday omitted all reference to Indian Residential School graves or genocide in observing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It followed the Senate’s defeat of a motion endorsed by the Assembly of First Nations to criminalize “denialism.”
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For years there have been tales of thousands of missing Indian residential school students. The federal government has allowed these baseless rumours to proliferate, despite the fact that not a single name of a missing Indian residential school student has ever been produced by anyone, including the federal government.
Moreover the federal government has allowed these baseless tales of missing Indian residential school students to proliferate while actively concealing from the Canadian public the attendance records in its possession which disprove them.
An example is the attendance records for the Kamloops Indian Residential School. A close examination of the quarterly returns for the Kamloops Indian Residential School from 1943-1952, which are available online, establishes that every student is accounted for during that decade.
The government also has quarterly returns and other attendance records for the remaining years of the existence of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, 1952-1977, which it has not released to the public. Their existence is attested to by the federal government itself in the school narrative it prepared for use in the Independent Assessment Process (see attachment).
Quarterly returns were the basis on which the Department of Indian Affairs calculated the per capita grant which covered the operating costs of the school. School officials ensured they were meticulously accurate in order to obtain as large a grant as possible based on current student enrolment, and the Department of Indian Affairs likewise demanded that they be meticulously accurate to avoid the federal government overpaying the school.
It is thus of the greatest significance that on pp. 7-8 of the attached school narrative, the federal government provides a table of total attendance figures for the years of the Kamloops Indian Residential School’s existence. The figures given by the federal government for the years from 1952-1977 are not estimates. They are very precise numbers - 402, 424, 381, 390, for example — indicating that they are derived from attendance records in the federal government’s possession, and in fact the federal government’s heading on the table reads ‘most are September figures for each year and based on Quarterly Returns where possible‘.
It is thus clear that if released by the federal government, the quarterly returns underlying the figures in this table would establish conclusively that not a single student from the Kamloops Indian Residential School went missing between the years 1952-1977, yet the federal government refuses to release these attendance records so that the Canadian public can learn the truth. Instead, the federal government allows the damaging and completely unfounded myth of thousands of missing Indian residential school students to proliferate, and even to be promulgated beyond Canada’s borders (as, for example, in the recent hearings of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal).
A series of internal Department of National Defence documents suggest Canadian troops were ill-prepared and occasionally ill-equipped for the harsh conditions they faced last winter during a major training exercise with American forces in Alaska.
The evaluation reports, obtained by CBC News, show the military has a lot to learn and a long way to go to rebuild its capability to defend the Arctic.
The training involved over 400 members of the 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment (3RCR) which was folded into a much larger U.S. Army brigade during Exercise Global Response in February at the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center, north of Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Carney government has committed to an almost year-round presence in the Far North and the reports indicate, among other things, that troops will need to learn to rely less on technology and more on basic skills in order to fight and survive, according to defence experts.
Separate Canadian and American evaluations were prepared and both show a litany of concerns that raise questions about how prepared troops and their equipment are to fight in harsh conditions, where the temperatures plunge below –30 C.
"Throughout their stay in the waiting area the Coy [Company] consistently demonstrated a lack of preparations needed to live in Arctic conditions," said an undated Canadian evaluation, which assessed individual companies within the battalion.
The report was critical of a recent initiative which allowed the regiment to purchase off-the-shelf civilian equipment to augment military cold-weather gear — something that created problems.
"This was evident when observing soldiers attempting to remedy issues with a Coleman stove and lanterns or watching them attempt to set up a 10-man tent," said the evaluation, obtained by CBC News. It said that among some Canadian units there was a "lack of emphasis on basic winter soldiering skills."
In an interview, Lt.-Col. Aaron Corey, the commander of 3RCR, disagreed and said his troops trained for winter conditions for a year before the Alaska training deployment.
"Every soldier to go up on that exercise had to be a cold weather operator qualified," Corey said.
"All of our leaders from the sections and up, we received cold weather leader training and then we had Arctic operations advisers that were sprinkled into the battalion as well."
He added the battalion "put a lot of effort into preparations for this exercise in the year preceding it and to get back to a level of winter warfare — or Arctic warfare — that we haven't seen in a few years."
If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider: — The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’HumanitΓ© €6.5 million and LibΓ©ration €6.3 million — The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation — European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies — To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.” — Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of. — The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft. https://t.co/LpyxOXtFAY — Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 5, 2026
Cabinet proposes to launch a Canadian version of the European Union’s Solidarity Corps, a youth volunteer program. It follows earlier federal programs promoting youth volunteerism that cost taxpayers millions: ‘In Norway, the European Solidarity Corps offers opportunities for young people. The government is looking into the possibility of developing its own civic corps in Canada.’
The idea that we and our allies simply need to press our case with China based on appeals to rules or laws misunderstands everything about the Xi Jinping era. They are fully aware of how we do things over here. They just reject it wholesale. Document 9 explicitly mocks the very notion of “rule of law”.
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LNG Canada (entirely owned by foreign investors) confirmed they will use Chinese steel to build the expansion Mark Carney was so giddy to announce. Not Canadian steel.., while Canadian steel factories shut down… and Canadians lose their jobs… Elbows Up though! https://t.co/vLwXOfnEyP
— Millennial Grump (@mapleblooded) October 2, 2026
Conservative MP Adam Chambers says layoffs at a Hamilton steel plant should raise questions about Canada forging closer economic ties with China, citing concerns about Chinese steel dumping in the Canadian market.Stelco Holdings Inc. announced on Sept. 28 that it would indefinitely idle finishing operations at its steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., due to “market uncertainty,” a move that could affect as many as 500 employees.Stelco said the decision was “necessary” to help “ensure the survival” of the company amid what it described as a challenging and unsustainable market caused by ongoing trade disruptions affecting the Canadian steel industry. The company also cited U.S. tariffs and declining demand for its products.Chambers said on social media that the “primary focus” should be on the workers affected, which he called “awful and heart-wrenching.” He also said the layoffs “should raise further questions about getting closer to China,” arguing that cheap Chinese steel has been dumped in Canada and harmed the domestic industry.China is the world’s largest steel producer, producing 960.8 million metric tonnes of crude steel in 2025, compared with Canada’s 11.5 million tonnes. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) has reported that Chinese steel producers receive substantially more government subsidies than producers elsewhere, contributing to excess capacity and increased exports.In 2024, the median Chinese steel firm received subsidies equivalent to 15 times the share of assets received by the median steel producer elsewhere, according to the OECD. Chinese steelmakers exported a record 131 million tonnes in 2025.
