Interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson says he'll be more than an interim premier if his party wins the snap Oct. 24 provincial vote that has been called by NDP leader David Eby.
The official Opposition's constitution prohibits an interim leader from seeking the position permanently but Doerkson says he's running in the election to lead the province.
Doerkson has swiftly moved to reunite the Opposition's splintered factions since his appointment on Sunday after Kerry-Lynne Findlay stepped down, bringing back legislators who quit caucus or were expelled during her brief and troubled reign.
Eby has called the election less than two years into his mandate, framing it as necessary to respond to the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and his trade war.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, when conditions allow.
(Sidebar: using the RCMP against a civilian population. Why does that sound familiar?)
Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney said Canada remains focused on helping create a Palestinian country that could live in peace alongside Israel.
(Sidebar: something that the Palestinian apparatus has refused several times. It's a lazy and disingenuous response given by people who neither understand nor care that Israel is an actual country, its people real citizens who have every right to defend themselves, and those who need those precious diverse votes at home.)
He said the two-state solution motivated Canada to recognize the State of Palestine a year ago with "preconditions" for the Palestinian Authority to reform its governance.
"A year on, the prospect of a two-state solution remains distant," Carney said at an event with his French, British and Saudi Arabian counterpart.
"The long-held international consensus for a two-state solution means nothing -- unless these conditions change."
He told reporters earlier that Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing "immense human suffering" while Israelis face "existential threats from Hamas and from Iran and its proxies."
(Sidebar: oh, my - "Over 60% of ‘Palestinian’ women are obese or overweight. 20% have diabetes.")
At the leaders' event, Carney spoke of the toll of the conflict on Palestinians.
"Gaza is now home to the greatest number of child amputees in modern history. Its hospitals, schools, and maternal clinics have all been destroyed and none have been rebuilt," he said.
Carney said that carnage -
(Sidebar: did you say carnage?)
- is why Canada is announcing $80 million in new humanitarian aid. Another $20 million will go to development funding for security initiatives, including top-up funding for a multi-year project to train Palestinian police.
(Sidebar: where is this money coming from? Are you printing it?)
That currently involves the RCMP training Palestinian police officers in the West Bank, and Carney announced Canada is opening to doing the same in the Gaza Strip if it's safe enough.
"We will continue to lead with others in training the Palestinian Authority's security forces through Operation Proteus, and we stand ready to extend that support to Gaza when conditions permit," he said at the leaders' event.
There are simply no words to describe how disgusting Mark Carney is as a human being.
From wasting taxpayers' money on a fictional state filled with a fictional tribe, to ignoring why the Gazans have had the sh-- bombed out of them in the first place, to using the police here and abroad as the Gestapo.
He is just disgusting and deserves the contempt poured out on him.
A suspect who allegedly opened fire at a Belleville police officer outside of a synagogue has died, the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said Tuesday.
Sean Ward, a 29-year-old man from Quinte West, died in hospital Monday night, Kristy Denette, an SIU spokesperson told Global News.
The officer involved, Const. Jeff Smith, remains in hospital in critical but stable condition.
The shooting occurred on Sunday around 7 p.m. when a man armed with a shotgun allegedly opened fire at a police officer stationed outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, where people had gathered to observe Yom Kippur, the SIU said.
Witnesses near the scene Sunday evening reported hearing the shots ring out. ...
An SIU spokesperson told reporters at the scene that the officer returned fire and another officer also discharged their firearm.
A spokesperson for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) told Global News that a member named Sean Ward who matches the suspect description was a member of the CAF from July 2017 to June 2022 under the rank of corporal.
"He served as an infantry soldier with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and did not deploy during his service," the spokesperson said.
The Commons science committee yesterday tabled a report on political conflicts at Canadian universities without any mention of anti-Semitism. It was a striking omission, said Opposition MPs: “It is an important topic within the study that should have received more attention.”
Most renters have not given up on home ownership despite the housing crisis, CMHC said yesterday. Findings of a Canadian Housing Survey showed renters were counting on home equity to help their children and provide security in retirement: “Canadians continue to aspire to housing that better meets their needs yet many still face challenges in doing so.”
Housing affordability just worsened for a growing share of Canadians, new data from Statistics Canada shows.
Nearly one in four (23.2 per cent) Canadian households were living in unaffordable housing in 2024, compared to 22 per cent in 2022, Statistics Canada said in a report on Monday.
Statistics Canada defined households living in “unaffordable” housing as those that spent 30 per cent or more of their income on shelter costs.
Renters (33.7 per cent) were more likely than homeowners (17.4 per cent) to live in unaffordable housing, the report said.
In 2024, more than one -third (36.6 per cent) of all households in Canada were homeowners with a mortgage, while 27.8 per cent were homeowners without a mortgage.
Ontario farmers are looking for help as the cost of diesel hits record levels.
Farmers say they have been struggling this year as the price of diesel skyrocketed after the Iran war disrupted oil supplies, with effects felt around the world.
The B.C. government is suing OpenAI in California for its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in February, according to the province's attorney general.
Niki Sharma made the announcement at a news conference Monday.
Sharma said the province is suing OpenAI for its failure to notify law enforcement of threats made on its platform, ChatGPT, before the mass shooting.
It is also suing the company for designing an unsafe product, she said.
Six children and two adults were killed in the shooting on Feb. 10. The 18-year-old shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.
"We owe it to the families, survivors, and everyone whose life was changed by this tragedy, to get answers and accountability," Sharma said.
Why did you let a mentally ill tranny play with guns?
Also - let's not be shocked. The government and the rest of the apathetic population of this country refuse to acknowledge that this terrorist incident, which is a blight on the character and intelligence of this nation, even exists let alone should be further discussed:
The RCMP held a meeting in Toronto on Sept. 12, according to letters viewed by CBC News, where the families say they were told there is no further information to pursue in the case. CBC News has spoken with several people who say they attended the meeting.
Sanjay Lazar, who lost his parents and sister on the 1985 flight bombing, said the families had no idea what was coming in the meeting they'd been called to in a hotel near the Toronto airport.
"They said that we don't have any more leads. We cannot pursue and we need to identify significant persons in this. And therefore we are going to start, well, winding down," Lazar told CBC News in an interview Monday.
"You can't just abandon the whole investigation purely because you feel you've reached a dead end."
Uh, yes, they can because they are the RCMP, the government's private police force, not a service for the public.
This Canadian woman was given MAID as her only choice for stage 4 cancer in Deathcare Canada. She went to the US and death was not the option the doctors there gave her. Canadian healthcare used to be good, it is now in desperate fear of collapse. They're bringing in doctors who did not study in Canada and whatever else that entails. I find the healthcare in the US unquestionably superior. Health insurance is the same since I don't pay income tax in Florida, I pay it on insurance. There is immediate, private healthcare if you need it. Medically assisted suicide is not an option they offer.
— Alix (@AlixG_2) September 20, 2026
this is one of the cult-indoctrination slides contained in an all-staff Sept. 14 meeting for teachers at a York Region District elementary school. https://t.co/ASwHmajXEm
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) September 17, 2026
While most Canadians reject collective blame and sweeping claims about religious and ethnic groups, younger Canadians are substantially more likely to accept them, according to a new poll.Data collected by the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) found that more 57 per cent of Canadians find it unacceptable — not very or not at all — to suggest that a particular religion has harmful beliefs. The only outlier among the age groups was 18-24-year-olds, 56 per cent of whom felt it was somewhat or very acceptable to say that.Nearly seven in ten respondents (69 per cent) think it’s either degree of unacceptable to say that members of a specific ethnic or religious group cannot be trusted. The youngest cohort was the only one with observable conflict, with 42 per cent of on the accepting side.
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