๐จ๐ฆ Turkish man who shot two people gets another chance to stay in Canada 10 years after refugee claim first denied
He shot two bystanders, carried an unlicensed firearm, entered Canada without authorization in 2015, and after a decade of rejections, appeals, rehearings, and judicial do-overs, he still gets another bite at the apple. That is not compassion. That is a migration system so allergic to saying no that even serious criminality becomes a paperwork exercise. As reported, the latest ruling turns on whether the tribunal properly analyzed where his conduct would land within a Canadian sentencing range.
And there is the whole scam in one neat little package: endless procedural choreography, infinite benefit of the doubt for the claimant, and zero instinct for national self-preservation. He travelled through multiple countries, abandoned a U.S. asylum claim, then entered Canada without authorization, but the machine still treats removal as the real injustice. Ottawa can posture about borders and public safety all it wants. In practice, the state is telling the world that if you can keep litigating long enough, Canada may eventually surrender.
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He shot two bystanders, carried an unlicensed firearm, entered Canada without authorization in 2015, and after a decade of rejections, appeals, rehearings, and judicial do-overs, he still gets another bite at the apple. That is not compassion. That is a migration system so allergic to saying no that even serious criminality becomes a paperwork exercise. As reported, the latest ruling turns on whether the tribunal properly analyzed where his conduct would land within a Canadian sentencing range.
And there is the whole scam in one neat little package: endless procedural choreography, infinite benefit of the doubt for the claimant, and zero instinct for national self-preservation. He travelled through multiple countries, abandoned a U.S. asylum claim, then entered Canada without authorization, but the machine still treats removal as the real injustice. Ottawa can posture about borders and public safety all it wants. In practice, the state is telling the world that if you can keep litigating long enough, Canada may eventually surrender.
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National Post
Turkish man who shot two people gets another chance to stay in Canada 10 years after refugee claim first denied
A Turkish man denied refugee status in Canada a decade back because he shot two bystanders at a restaurant 18 years ago when he was aiming at his former brother-in-law has won a chance to stay in this country.
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๐จ๐ฆ Indian man convicted for fatally stabbing wife just six days after landing in Canada
Six days. That is all it took. Canada imported a domestic horror story and the courts are left cleaning up the blood. As reported, Jagpreet Singh was convicted after Balwinder Kaur was found with seven stab wounds in an Abbotsford basement suite, with the judge rejecting his melodramatic tale about disarming her and somehow accidentally finishing the job. Seven wounds, a cut jugular, and suddenly the blackout excuse appears. Convenient.
The wider pattern is the part polite Canada refuses to discuss. Our ruling class treats borders like a paperwork issue and national safety like an offensive concept. Trudeau-era migration ideology says every import is automatically a net good, and any concern is taboo. Then reality arrives faster than the suitcase. Kaur had reportedly feared him coming to Canada, and Canada still opened the door. This is what happens when sovereignty is replaced by managerial box-ticking and moral vanity.
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Six days. That is all it took. Canada imported a domestic horror story and the courts are left cleaning up the blood. As reported, Jagpreet Singh was convicted after Balwinder Kaur was found with seven stab wounds in an Abbotsford basement suite, with the judge rejecting his melodramatic tale about disarming her and somehow accidentally finishing the job. Seven wounds, a cut jugular, and suddenly the blackout excuse appears. Convenient.
The wider pattern is the part polite Canada refuses to discuss. Our ruling class treats borders like a paperwork issue and national safety like an offensive concept. Trudeau-era migration ideology says every import is automatically a net good, and any concern is taboo. Then reality arrives faster than the suitcase. Kaur had reportedly feared him coming to Canada, and Canada still opened the door. This is what happens when sovereignty is replaced by managerial box-ticking and moral vanity.
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National Post
Indian man convicted for fatally stabbing wife just six days after landing in Canada
An Indian man who fatally stabbed his wife just six days after he landed in Canada has been convicted by the B.C. Supreme Court.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ottawa made Canada a trade liability
The humiliating part is not that Washington is skeptical. It is that Canada earned it. The U.S. is now openly tying CUSMA renewal to Ottawaโs cozy, confused relationship with Beijing, as reported. After years of Trudeau-era chest-thumping about values, our ruling class managed the rare feat of looking weak, dependent, and unserious to both China and the Americans.
This is what post-national management looks like in real life. A country with vast resources, a captive U.S. market next door, and every strategic advantage somehow drifts into being treated like a possible back door for Chinese interests. Brilliant work from the consultant state. While Ottawa obsessed over DEI sermons, carbon rituals, and importing cheap labour to suppress wages and inflate GDP optics, it neglected the one thing an actual government is supposed to defend: national leverage. Sovereignty is not a slogan and trade credibility is not automatic. You lose both when your elites worship global access more than national interest.
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The humiliating part is not that Washington is skeptical. It is that Canada earned it. The U.S. is now openly tying CUSMA renewal to Ottawaโs cozy, confused relationship with Beijing, as reported. After years of Trudeau-era chest-thumping about values, our ruling class managed the rare feat of looking weak, dependent, and unserious to both China and the Americans.
This is what post-national management looks like in real life. A country with vast resources, a captive U.S. market next door, and every strategic advantage somehow drifts into being treated like a possible back door for Chinese interests. Brilliant work from the consultant state. While Ottawa obsessed over DEI sermons, carbon rituals, and importing cheap labour to suppress wages and inflate GDP optics, it neglected the one thing an actual government is supposed to defend: national leverage. Sovereignty is not a slogan and trade credibility is not automatic. You lose both when your elites worship global access more than national interest.
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Global News
U.S. flags concerns over Canadaโs ties to China as it blocks CUSMA renewal - National | Globalnews.ca
Speaking to Global News, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the White House is concerned Beijing could use Canada as a back door into the American market.
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๐จ๐ฆ Windsor mayor says better to keep Gordie Howe Bridge closed than to make a bad deal
Canada fully financed a bridge, jointly owns it with Michigan, built the thing, and now gets told to wait at the gate like a tenant asking permission. That is the absurdity here, and even Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens seems to grasp it. As reported, Ottawa has gone silent, Carney announced an opening then backed off, and the bridge sits there closed while Washington fishes for concessions.
This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in real life. Not a theory, not a panel discussion, not another glossy Canada-US partnership speech. A fully financed Canadian project gets turned into leverage, and our federal class responds with delay, caution, and managerial mush. Dilkens is right on one point: do not go on bent knee. If the current arrangement lets a completed trade corridor be frozen by foreign pressure and private lobbying games, then the real scandal is how weak and naive Canadaโs ruling class has become after years of globalist dependency and Trudeau-era submission.
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Canada fully financed a bridge, jointly owns it with Michigan, built the thing, and now gets told to wait at the gate like a tenant asking permission. That is the absurdity here, and even Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens seems to grasp it. As reported, Ottawa has gone silent, Carney announced an opening then backed off, and the bridge sits there closed while Washington fishes for concessions.
This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in real life. Not a theory, not a panel discussion, not another glossy Canada-US partnership speech. A fully financed Canadian project gets turned into leverage, and our federal class responds with delay, caution, and managerial mush. Dilkens is right on one point: do not go on bent knee. If the current arrangement lets a completed trade corridor be frozen by foreign pressure and private lobbying games, then the real scandal is how weak and naive Canadaโs ruling class has become after years of globalist dependency and Trudeau-era submission.
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National Post
Windsor mayor says better to keep Gordie Howe Bridge closed than to 'make a bad deal'
North Americaโs busiest international trade corridor, linking Windsor, Ont. to Detroit, Mich., has a shiny new bridge for tourists and commercial traffic.
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๐จ๐ฆ Carney fixed the wrong problem
A year after the grand photo-op, it is still easier for a B.C. winery to sell red in Germany than in Ontario. That is not a market failure. That is Confederation run by bureaucrats, provincial cartels, and Ottawa frauds posing as nation-builders. Mark Carney rushed through the One Canadian Economy Act, bragged about removing federal barriers by July 1, 2026, and then everyone discovered the federal barriers were never the main blockage, as reported.
So after Trudeau-era centralization, taxes, regulation, and endless lectures about resilience, Canada still cannot manage basic internal free trade despite the Constitution saying goods should be admitted free across provinces. We are told to fear foreign tariffs, but our own political class protects liquor monopolies, licensing fiefdoms, and provincial gatekeepers like sacred cows. This is the liberal-globalist template in one neat package: preach sovereignty, outsource competence, and leave Canadians less free in their own country than in foreign markets.
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A year after the grand photo-op, it is still easier for a B.C. winery to sell red in Germany than in Ontario. That is not a market failure. That is Confederation run by bureaucrats, provincial cartels, and Ottawa frauds posing as nation-builders. Mark Carney rushed through the One Canadian Economy Act, bragged about removing federal barriers by July 1, 2026, and then everyone discovered the federal barriers were never the main blockage, as reported.
So after Trudeau-era centralization, taxes, regulation, and endless lectures about resilience, Canada still cannot manage basic internal free trade despite the Constitution saying goods should be admitted free across provinces. We are told to fear foreign tariffs, but our own political class protects liquor monopolies, licensing fiefdoms, and provincial gatekeepers like sacred cows. This is the liberal-globalist template in one neat package: preach sovereignty, outsource competence, and leave Canadians less free in their own country than in foreign markets.
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National Post
Mark Carney vowed free trade within Canada by this month. It's still not happening
When Lauren Skinner Buksevics first got a taste last year of the political momentum towards Canada finally removing interprovincial trade barriers, she thought the time was ripe for her familyโs winery to go national.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ottawa finds pipelines again, after spending years strangling them
A $35.2 to $43.7 billion pipeline, 1,200 to 1,250 kilometres long, maybe finished by 2032 to 2034, and now suddenly Mark Carney is standing beside Danielle Smith pretending Ottawa discovered economic gravity. After the Trudeau era spent a decade smothering Canadian energy with delays, bans, ESG theatre and investor flight, the same federal machine now wants applause for backing a 1 million barrel-per-day line to Roberts Bank, as reported.
The farce gets better. On the same day Ottawa signs a deal with B.C. to keep the North Coast tanker ban in place, it pitches this southern route as pragmatism. Translation: globalist management of decline with one carefully approved escape valve. Canada is still treating its own oil like contraband while begging foreign markets to take it once the bureaucracy is done blessing every metre. A sovereign country would have built export capacity years ago, not after wrecking competitiveness, inflating costs, and forcing Alberta to negotiate with the same federal class that created the bottleneck.
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A $35.2 to $43.7 billion pipeline, 1,200 to 1,250 kilometres long, maybe finished by 2032 to 2034, and now suddenly Mark Carney is standing beside Danielle Smith pretending Ottawa discovered economic gravity. After the Trudeau era spent a decade smothering Canadian energy with delays, bans, ESG theatre and investor flight, the same federal machine now wants applause for backing a 1 million barrel-per-day line to Roberts Bank, as reported.
The farce gets better. On the same day Ottawa signs a deal with B.C. to keep the North Coast tanker ban in place, it pitches this southern route as pragmatism. Translation: globalist management of decline with one carefully approved escape valve. Canada is still treating its own oil like contraband while begging foreign markets to take it once the bureaucracy is done blessing every metre. A sovereign country would have built export capacity years ago, not after wrecking competitiveness, inflating costs, and forcing Alberta to negotiate with the same federal class that created the bottleneck.
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CBC
Alberta pitches southern route for West Coast pipeline, with a price tag of $35B or more | CBC News
Alberta is formally proposing an oil pipeline to the southwest coast of British Columbia for tanker export to Asian markets, in a partnership with federally-owned Trans Mountain Corp. and Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp.
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๐จ๐ฆ 100,000 Albertans stampede for a $100 cheque
More than 100,000 people applied in 24 hours for a one-time $100 affordability handout, which tells you everything about the state of this country and almost nothing flattering about its managers. In oil-rich Alberta, families are scrambling for grocery money while Ottawa keeps inflating housing, energy and food costs, then pretending the cure is another tiny cheque and a press release. The reported frenzy is not a success story. It is a distress signal.
This is late-stage Canadian governance: crush purchasing power with Trudeau-era taxes, mass immigration pressure, and endless bureaucratic meddling, then toss citizens $100 like trained seals and expect applause. Danielle Smith can posture about affordability, but a province this wealthy should not need emergency pocket change politics. A sovereign country protects the value of work, energy and family life. This regime, federal and provincial alike, manages decline with debit cards and slogans.
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More than 100,000 people applied in 24 hours for a one-time $100 affordability handout, which tells you everything about the state of this country and almost nothing flattering about its managers. In oil-rich Alberta, families are scrambling for grocery money while Ottawa keeps inflating housing, energy and food costs, then pretending the cure is another tiny cheque and a press release. The reported frenzy is not a success story. It is a distress signal.
This is late-stage Canadian governance: crush purchasing power with Trudeau-era taxes, mass immigration pressure, and endless bureaucratic meddling, then toss citizens $100 like trained seals and expect applause. Danielle Smith can posture about affordability, but a province this wealthy should not need emergency pocket change politics. A sovereign country protects the value of work, energy and family life. This regime, federal and provincial alike, manages decline with debit cards and slogans.
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The Globe and Mail
More than 100,000 Albertans apply for $100 affordability cheques in first 24 hours
Direct deposits are meant to help Albertans deal with the high cost of living
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๐จ๐ฆ Reconciliation by Bureaucratic Erasure
The absurd part is not the dispute. It is that Newfoundland and Labrador created an Indigenous Relations ministry, then apparently needed a review to decide whether the Innu existed in Labrador before a neat little 300-year cutoff. Minister Lela Evans says she is committed to true reconciliation, yet cannot plainly state what even outside academics say is obvious. Meanwhile The Rooms, a provincial Crown corporation, helped kill an Innu-led exhibit because history had to fit the government-approved timeline, as reported.
This is the Canadian managerial state in miniature: endless ministries, endless slogans, zero spine. Ottawa and the provinces lecture citizens about decolonization, diversity, and lived experience, then hand cultural truth to bureaucrats, archaeologists, and absent ministers jetting around France. If a people cannot even present their own history without state gatekeepers trimming it for political convenience, this is not reconciliation. It is narrative control dressed up in liberal therapy language, paid for by taxpayers and executed by Crown functionaries.
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The absurd part is not the dispute. It is that Newfoundland and Labrador created an Indigenous Relations ministry, then apparently needed a review to decide whether the Innu existed in Labrador before a neat little 300-year cutoff. Minister Lela Evans says she is committed to true reconciliation, yet cannot plainly state what even outside academics say is obvious. Meanwhile The Rooms, a provincial Crown corporation, helped kill an Innu-led exhibit because history had to fit the government-approved timeline, as reported.
This is the Canadian managerial state in miniature: endless ministries, endless slogans, zero spine. Ottawa and the provinces lecture citizens about decolonization, diversity, and lived experience, then hand cultural truth to bureaucrats, archaeologists, and absent ministers jetting around France. If a people cannot even present their own history without state gatekeepers trimming it for political convenience, this is not reconciliation. It is narrative control dressed up in liberal therapy language, paid for by taxpayers and executed by Crown functionaries.
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CBC
Indigenous Relations minister says province reviewing Innu timeline | CBC News
Newfoundland and Labrador's Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Lela Evans says the provincial government is dedicated to "true reconciliation" with Innu people, but stopped short of any endorsement of Innu history in the region extending beyondโฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ Canadians have 'sense of superiority' over Americans, poll finds
The funniest number here is not 64 per cent saying Canadians are nicer or 82 per cent claiming we are more admired. It is that this country is congratulating itself while admitting the U.S. may offer better opportunity, lower taxes, cheaper food, cheaper houses, and no longer losing the comparison on health care. That is not superiority. That is national self-esteem as a coping mechanism, as reported.
This is what the Trudeau-era political culture produced: a soft, smug anti-Americanism that mistakes moral vanity for strength. Canadians are told they are more humble, more cultured, more admired, while the country gets pricier, weaker, and more dependent. Even the snippet admits wealthier Canadians and Western Canadians tend to admire American entrepreneurship, which tells you exactly where reality still survives. The managerial class sells decline wrapped in superiority, and too many people buy it because feeling better is easier than governing better. Nice branding, collapsing competitiveness.
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The funniest number here is not 64 per cent saying Canadians are nicer or 82 per cent claiming we are more admired. It is that this country is congratulating itself while admitting the U.S. may offer better opportunity, lower taxes, cheaper food, cheaper houses, and no longer losing the comparison on health care. That is not superiority. That is national self-esteem as a coping mechanism, as reported.
This is what the Trudeau-era political culture produced: a soft, smug anti-Americanism that mistakes moral vanity for strength. Canadians are told they are more humble, more cultured, more admired, while the country gets pricier, weaker, and more dependent. Even the snippet admits wealthier Canadians and Western Canadians tend to admire American entrepreneurship, which tells you exactly where reality still survives. The managerial class sells decline wrapped in superiority, and too many people buy it because feeling better is easier than governing better. Nice branding, collapsing competitiveness.
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National Post
Sibling rivalry: Canadians have 'sense of superiority' over Americans, poll finds
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of declaring independence of our common mother country, Canadians remain uneasy siblings with Americans, a new poll suggests.
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๐จ๐ฆ B.C. admits the housing fire sale after helping light the match
David Eby now compares condo buying to a liquidation sale, which is a cute line from a premier governing the province where ordinary Canadians got priced out years ago. When the political class spends a decade pumping demand, smothering supply, and cheering endless population growth as economic magic, of course the endgame is desperation dressed up as policy. Even Eby is admitting the market is distorted, as reported, but notice the scam: they describe the wreckage like a weather event, not the direct result of elite decisions.
This is the Trudeau era in miniature, with provincial accomplices. Flood the country, moralize against anyone who notices, then act shocked when homes turn into speculative chips and younger citizens are told to be grateful for smaller boxes at worse prices. Mark Carney style managerial liberalism offers the same medicine that caused the disease: more state choreography, more market distortion, less national sanity. Housing was never just about zoning. It was about sovereignty, numbers, and whether Canada is run for its own people at all.
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David Eby now compares condo buying to a liquidation sale, which is a cute line from a premier governing the province where ordinary Canadians got priced out years ago. When the political class spends a decade pumping demand, smothering supply, and cheering endless population growth as economic magic, of course the endgame is desperation dressed up as policy. Even Eby is admitting the market is distorted, as reported, but notice the scam: they describe the wreckage like a weather event, not the direct result of elite decisions.
This is the Trudeau era in miniature, with provincial accomplices. Flood the country, moralize against anyone who notices, then act shocked when homes turn into speculative chips and younger citizens are told to be grateful for smaller boxes at worse prices. Mark Carney style managerial liberalism offers the same medicine that caused the disease: more state choreography, more market distortion, less national sanity. Housing was never just about zoning. It was about sovereignty, numbers, and whether Canada is run for its own people at all.
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The Globe and Mail
B.C. Premier likens condo purchase plan to liquidation sale
David Eby and Mark Carney defend controversial plan to convert unsold condos into affordable housing
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๐จ๐ฆ Refugee who stabbed stranger could soon be freed from Ontario hospital despite โsignificant threat to the publicโ
Ontarioโs system has achieved peak absurdity: a man the Review Board says still poses a threat to the public is being moved toward more freedom anyway. Delroy Apple was deported from the U.S., came to Canada as a refugee, racked up 39 criminal offences in Canada from 2012 through 2018, then stabbed a stranger in Toronto and was found not criminally responsible. After eloping in 2025 and making it all the way to New Jersey, he is still being steered toward community living, as reported.
This is what a post-national state looks like in practice: imported risk, endless institutional excuses, and the public told to trust the experts again. Refugee status, bureaucratic therapy language, supervised accommodation, 12-hour passes, optimism from the treatment team, every elite script is here except the one about protecting Canadians first. When the state cannot draw a hard line after deportation, repeated violence, drug abuse, and a random stabbing, it is not compassionate. It is unserious, ideologically captured, and openly indifferent to national self-preservation.
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Ontarioโs system has achieved peak absurdity: a man the Review Board says still poses a threat to the public is being moved toward more freedom anyway. Delroy Apple was deported from the U.S., came to Canada as a refugee, racked up 39 criminal offences in Canada from 2012 through 2018, then stabbed a stranger in Toronto and was found not criminally responsible. After eloping in 2025 and making it all the way to New Jersey, he is still being steered toward community living, as reported.
This is what a post-national state looks like in practice: imported risk, endless institutional excuses, and the public told to trust the experts again. Refugee status, bureaucratic therapy language, supervised accommodation, 12-hour passes, optimism from the treatment team, every elite script is here except the one about protecting Canadians first. When the state cannot draw a hard line after deportation, repeated violence, drug abuse, and a random stabbing, it is not compassionate. It is unserious, ideologically captured, and openly indifferent to national self-preservation.
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National Post
Refugee who stabbed stranger could soon be freed from Ontario hospital despite โsignificant threat to the publicโ
A man with โa lengthy history of violenceโ who was deported from the U.S. back to Guyana in 2005 after being convicted of drug offences, then came to Canada as a refugee and later attacked a stranger in Toronto, is moving towards greater freedoms even thoughโฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ Carney knew Canadians wanted pipelines and stalled anyway
The funniest part is not the poll. It is that Mark Carneyโs own PMO was told Canadians backed a pipeline plan, and the ruling class still acted like energy development was some fringe prairie tantrum. These people never lacked public consent. They lacked the courage to offend the climate clergy, the NGO cartel, and the Davos parasites who think Canada exists to be a managed carbon museum.
So after a decade of Trudeau-era sabotage, Ottawa suddenly discovers the country likes jobs, exports, and economic sovereignty. Brilliant. Canadians were hammered with carbon taxes, regulatory choke chains, canceled projects, and sermons about net zero while the state imported dependency and called it progress. Carney is not correcting course out of principle. He is reading the room because the room is on fire. A sovereign country builds pipelines when it needs them, not when the consultant class finally permits a mild realism. The real scandal is that they always knew.
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The funniest part is not the poll. It is that Mark Carneyโs own PMO was told Canadians backed a pipeline plan, and the ruling class still acted like energy development was some fringe prairie tantrum. These people never lacked public consent. They lacked the courage to offend the climate clergy, the NGO cartel, and the Davos parasites who think Canada exists to be a managed carbon museum.
So after a decade of Trudeau-era sabotage, Ottawa suddenly discovers the country likes jobs, exports, and economic sovereignty. Brilliant. Canadians were hammered with carbon taxes, regulatory choke chains, canceled projects, and sermons about net zero while the state imported dependency and called it progress. Carney is not correcting course out of principle. He is reading the room because the room is on fire. A sovereign country builds pipelines when it needs them, not when the consultant class finally permits a mild realism. The real scandal is that they always knew.
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Global News
Internal PMO polls told Carney Canadians backed pipeline plan
PMO-supervised polls showed that a majority in every region of the country, including B.C. and Quebec, supported a new oil pipeline.
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๐จ๐ฆ Beef up 13 percent, and Ottawa calls that food security
Fresh or frozen beef is up almost 13 percent in a year and 62.6 percent since 2021, yet the ruling class still lectures Canadians about affordability while building a country that cannot reliably feed itself. Even the industry admits cattle supply is at historical lows, herd rebuilding could take three years, and foreign buyers are happy to outbid Canadians for Canadian beef, as reported. Great system: produce premium food at home, price your own citizens out of it, then call it market efficiency.
And the federal fix is classic Ottawa theater: nibble around interprovincial barriers after years of centralizing everything else. Trudeau-era policy has been a masterclass in making energy, transport, processing, and basic food more expensive, then acting stunned when the grocery bill explodes. This is what post-national management looks like: weak domestic capacity, export-first logic, and bureaucrats pretending sovereignty is just a branding exercise. A serious country would protect its supply chain before preaching global integration to families staring at a steak they can no longer afford.
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Fresh or frozen beef is up almost 13 percent in a year and 62.6 percent since 2021, yet the ruling class still lectures Canadians about affordability while building a country that cannot reliably feed itself. Even the industry admits cattle supply is at historical lows, herd rebuilding could take three years, and foreign buyers are happy to outbid Canadians for Canadian beef, as reported. Great system: produce premium food at home, price your own citizens out of it, then call it market efficiency.
And the federal fix is classic Ottawa theater: nibble around interprovincial barriers after years of centralizing everything else. Trudeau-era policy has been a masterclass in making energy, transport, processing, and basic food more expensive, then acting stunned when the grocery bill explodes. This is what post-national management looks like: weak domestic capacity, export-first logic, and bureaucrats pretending sovereignty is just a branding exercise. A serious country would protect its supply chain before preaching global integration to families staring at a steak they can no longer afford.
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CBC
Feeling sticker shock over Canadian beef? Here's why โ and what's being done about it | CBC News
Why do beef prices keep going up, and when can Canadians expect relief? CBC's The House spoke to experts across the Canadian meat industry about the ongoing issue and measures the federal government is pitching to address the problem.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ottawa wants 10 reactors, and your pension to babysit the risk
The punchline is almost too perfect: private investors are welcome, but only after taxpayers and ratepayers absorb the danger first. Tim Hodgson is pitching up to 10 new reactors in 15 years, leaning on the U.K. Sizewell C model, where La Caisse already parked $3.2 billion for a 20 per cent stake, as reported. Translation: privatize upside, socialize overruns. Hinkley Point C jumped from $34 billion to more than $64 billion. Finlandโs Olkiluoto 3 swelled from $5.1 billion to $17.8 billion. But sure, let the same class that blew fortunes on net-zero fantasies tell us this time the spreadsheet works.
Canada does need reliable baseload power. The problem is Ottawa can never touch a real strategic necessity without wrapping it in de-risking schemes, climate branding, and pension-fund financial engineering. If nuclear is essential to sovereignty and energy security, build it as national infrastructure with hard accountability, not as another globalist casino where citizens guarantee the losses while bureaucrats and consultants collect applause.
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The punchline is almost too perfect: private investors are welcome, but only after taxpayers and ratepayers absorb the danger first. Tim Hodgson is pitching up to 10 new reactors in 15 years, leaning on the U.K. Sizewell C model, where La Caisse already parked $3.2 billion for a 20 per cent stake, as reported. Translation: privatize upside, socialize overruns. Hinkley Point C jumped from $34 billion to more than $64 billion. Finlandโs Olkiluoto 3 swelled from $5.1 billion to $17.8 billion. But sure, let the same class that blew fortunes on net-zero fantasies tell us this time the spreadsheet works.
Canada does need reliable baseload power. The problem is Ottawa can never touch a real strategic necessity without wrapping it in de-risking schemes, climate branding, and pension-fund financial engineering. If nuclear is essential to sovereignty and energy security, build it as national infrastructure with hard accountability, not as another globalist casino where citizens guarantee the losses while bureaucrats and consultants collect applause.
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CBC
Canada wants to build up to 10 new nuclear plants. Will our pension funds pay for them? | CBC News
Canada's ambitious new nuclear strategy has called for private investment to help expand the industry. Given that nuclear power plants are notoriously expensive to build, the government will have to heavily de-risk the ventures to attract large investorsโฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ 60,000 nurses, one collapsing system
B.C. is sending nurses to the picket line at Vancouver General while pretending essential services are still fine. Right. When 60,000 nurses are represented by a union that voted 98.2 per cent for strike action, that is not a labour hiccup, it is a system-level failure the province can no longer hide, as reported. Overtime bans, refusal of non-nursing duties, pickets starting July 7, and negotiations that stalled after Mayโs rejected deal tell you everything the bureaucrats do not want said out loud.
This is the Trudeau-era Canadian model in miniature: import endless demand, drown public infrastructure, then act shocked when staffing, safety, and morale implode. Nurses cite unsafe staffing and workplace violence, and the government response is the usual managerial sludge about returning to the table. No serious national interest, no capacity planning, no sovereignty over who and what our systems are built to serve. Just ideological mass-growth politics and a health-care machine cracking in public while officials recite press-release therapy.
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B.C. is sending nurses to the picket line at Vancouver General while pretending essential services are still fine. Right. When 60,000 nurses are represented by a union that voted 98.2 per cent for strike action, that is not a labour hiccup, it is a system-level failure the province can no longer hide, as reported. Overtime bans, refusal of non-nursing duties, pickets starting July 7, and negotiations that stalled after Mayโs rejected deal tell you everything the bureaucrats do not want said out loud.
This is the Trudeau-era Canadian model in miniature: import endless demand, drown public infrastructure, then act shocked when staffing, safety, and morale implode. Nurses cite unsafe staffing and workplace violence, and the government response is the usual managerial sludge about returning to the table. No serious national interest, no capacity planning, no sovereignty over who and what our systems are built to serve. Just ideological mass-growth politics and a health-care machine cracking in public while officials recite press-release therapy.
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CBC
B.C. nurses to form picket lines at Vancouver General Hospital next week | CBC News
Nurses will be escalating job action on July 7 at 5:30 a.m. PT, the B.C. Nurses' Union announced Friday evening. It says essential services will be maintained.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ottawa wants another blank cheque pipeline
Tim Hodgson says a second West Coast pipeline is a good investment for taxpayers, but somehow cannot say what taxpayers are actually buying. That is the Ottawa method in one sentence. The proposed 1,200-kilometre line is pegged at $35.2 billion to $43.7 billion, after the Trudeau-era Trans Mountain fiasco already blew out into the $30 billion to $40 billion range, as reported. Socialize the risk, privatize the upside, then call it nation building.
The deeper joke is that Ottawa spent years strangling Canadian energy with climate dogma, regulation and activist vetoes, and now suddenly rediscovers pipelines because U.S. trade cover is fading. Even Danielle Smith admits the partners still do not know who pays what. Pembina gets a 10 per cent economic interest, while the federal herd gets the open-ended liability. Canada does need export capacity and sovereignty, but not another elite boondoggle run by the same class that sabotaged our energy sector in the first place.
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Tim Hodgson says a second West Coast pipeline is a good investment for taxpayers, but somehow cannot say what taxpayers are actually buying. That is the Ottawa method in one sentence. The proposed 1,200-kilometre line is pegged at $35.2 billion to $43.7 billion, after the Trudeau-era Trans Mountain fiasco already blew out into the $30 billion to $40 billion range, as reported. Socialize the risk, privatize the upside, then call it nation building.
The deeper joke is that Ottawa spent years strangling Canadian energy with climate dogma, regulation and activist vetoes, and now suddenly rediscovers pipelines because U.S. trade cover is fading. Even Danielle Smith admits the partners still do not know who pays what. Pembina gets a 10 per cent economic interest, while the federal herd gets the open-ended liability. Canada does need export capacity and sovereignty, but not another elite boondoggle run by the same class that sabotaged our energy sector in the first place.
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CBC
Taxpayers could be on hook for West Coast pipeline, but it's a 'good investment': Energy minister | CBC News
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says a second pipeline to the West Coast will be money well-spent for the federal government but can't say how much Ottawa would be on the hook for.
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๐จ๐ฆ Carney wants trust without receipts
Mark Carney says Canada will finally hit NATOโs 2 percent target this year, and his Liberals refuse to show the math. Not later, not soon, not at all. Just clap for the press release and move along. Even Ottawaโs own fiscal update is nowhere to be found, as reported. After a decade of Trudeau hollowing out the military, the same crowd now wants credit for a benchmark every serious ally treated as the bare minimum years ago.
This is the Liberal formula in one neat package: grand international posturing, zero transparency at home. Carney, the ultimate Davos banker parachuted into Canadian politics, sells competence like a brand label while hiding the ledger. If the numbers were real, they would release them. Instead we get strategic vagueness dressed up as statesmanship. A government that can count every carbon molecule and micromanage every citizen suddenly cannot produce proof for a multibillion-dollar defence claim. Canada is being governed like a marketing deck, not a sovereign country.
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Mark Carney says Canada will finally hit NATOโs 2 percent target this year, and his Liberals refuse to show the math. Not later, not soon, not at all. Just clap for the press release and move along. Even Ottawaโs own fiscal update is nowhere to be found, as reported. After a decade of Trudeau hollowing out the military, the same crowd now wants credit for a benchmark every serious ally treated as the bare minimum years ago.
This is the Liberal formula in one neat package: grand international posturing, zero transparency at home. Carney, the ultimate Davos banker parachuted into Canadian politics, sells competence like a brand label while hiding the ledger. If the numbers were real, they would release them. Instead we get strategic vagueness dressed up as statesmanship. A government that can count every carbon molecule and micromanage every citizen suddenly cannot produce proof for a multibillion-dollar defence claim. Canada is being governed like a marketing deck, not a sovereign country.
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Global News
Liberals refuse to provide proof of Carneyโs NATO defence spending claims - National | Globalnews.ca
Carney has said Canada is set to achieve four per cent of GDP in total defence spending by 2030, but the finance minister's office will not provide data to back up that claim.
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๐จ๐ฆ National interest, pending Ottawa permission until 2027
Carney and Smith unveiled a West Coast pipeline, then immediately wrapped it in the only language modern Canada seems to respect: consultation, co-ownership, and endless Indigenous signaling. We are told this is a project of national interest, yet Carney will only declare it that by October 2027, because apparently a country sitting on oceans of energy must ask its own bureaucracy for permission to survive. As reported, Rajan Sawhney met more than 40 First Nations, the route was shifted away from Prince Rupert after opposition, and the line will run from Bruderheim to Roberts Bank instead.
The real absurdity is that Canada still cannot build a pipeline without turning it into a therapeutic exercise for the federal state. Majority owned by the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation, with Pembina as minority partner, plus promised equity slices for First Nations, this is less free enterprise than managed extraction under Ottawa supervision. Trudeau-era sabotage made energy nation-building so toxic that even a pipeline announcement now sounds like an HR seminar with excavators.
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Carney and Smith unveiled a West Coast pipeline, then immediately wrapped it in the only language modern Canada seems to respect: consultation, co-ownership, and endless Indigenous signaling. We are told this is a project of national interest, yet Carney will only declare it that by October 2027, because apparently a country sitting on oceans of energy must ask its own bureaucracy for permission to survive. As reported, Rajan Sawhney met more than 40 First Nations, the route was shifted away from Prince Rupert after opposition, and the line will run from Bruderheim to Roberts Bank instead.
The real absurdity is that Canada still cannot build a pipeline without turning it into a therapeutic exercise for the federal state. Majority owned by the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation, with Pembina as minority partner, plus promised equity slices for First Nations, this is less free enterprise than managed extraction under Ottawa supervision. Trudeau-era sabotage made energy nation-building so toxic that even a pipeline announcement now sounds like an HR seminar with excavators.
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National Post
Alberta wins praise for stressing Indigenous support in new pipeline plan
OTTAWA โ Karen Restoule, the director of Indigenous affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says she was struck by the number of times she heard the word โIndigenousโ during Thursdayโs federal-Alberta announcement regarding a new West Coast oil pipeline.
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๐จ๐ฆ $6.4 billion, endless delays, and Ottawa wants applause
The bridge was supposed to open in 2025. It is now July 2026, still delayed, and the federal authority insists the cost is magically frozen at $6.4 billion. Right. In Trudeau-era Canada, everything gets more expensive except government failure. Even Windsor West MP Harb Hill says he does not know what to believe, as reported. Somebody is paying for crews, compliance, and political stalling. The only mystery is which ledger Ottawa plans to hide it in.
This is the Canadian model now: taxpayers front the entire bill, bureaucrats recite fixed price contract like a religious chant, and sovereign infrastructure gets jerked around by U.S. politics and private lobbying. Canada pays first, waits later, then hopes to claw it back through tolls over decades while Michigan eventually shares revenue. Brilliant arrangement if your goal is to subsidize everyone except Canadians. Another monument to elite incompetence dressed up as cross-border partnership.
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The bridge was supposed to open in 2025. It is now July 2026, still delayed, and the federal authority insists the cost is magically frozen at $6.4 billion. Right. In Trudeau-era Canada, everything gets more expensive except government failure. Even Windsor West MP Harb Hill says he does not know what to believe, as reported. Somebody is paying for crews, compliance, and political stalling. The only mystery is which ledger Ottawa plans to hide it in.
This is the Canadian model now: taxpayers front the entire bill, bureaucrats recite fixed price contract like a religious chant, and sovereign infrastructure gets jerked around by U.S. politics and private lobbying. Canada pays first, waits later, then hopes to claw it back through tolls over decades while Michigan eventually shares revenue. Brilliant arrangement if your goal is to subsidize everyone except Canadians. Another monument to elite incompetence dressed up as cross-border partnership.
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CBC
Gordie Howe bridge cost still $6.4B despite delays, federal authority says | CBC News
The cost of the new Gordie Howe bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit is still $6.4 billion despite multiple delays, according to the federal authority that oversees the bridge.
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๐จ๐ฆ Leading Jewish groups call on rights museum board to 'rectify' Nabka exhibit failures and hold CEO 'accountable'
A national human rights museum allegedly kept its own board at armโs length, sidelined experts, leaned on political activists, and then acted shocked when public trust cratered. That is not curation. That is ideological programming with taxpayer prestige attached. Even Marc Miller called it regrettable and a failure, which tells you how impossible this became to spin. As reported, Jewish organizations are accusing CEO Isha Khan of opacity, lack of integrity, and refusing meaningful dialogue while the exhibit allegedly omitted basic context like identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization.
This is the Trudeau-Carney institutional model in miniature: activist narratives first, accountability later, maybe. Canadaโs public institutions are increasingly run like seminar rooms for approved grievance politics, where balance is treated as oppression and governance as a nuisance. When a museum tasked with human rights starts importing foreign conflict, pitting communities against each other, and emboldening open hostility toward Jews, that is not enlightenment. It is state-sponsored cultural vandalism dressed up as moral sophistication.
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A national human rights museum allegedly kept its own board at armโs length, sidelined experts, leaned on political activists, and then acted shocked when public trust cratered. That is not curation. That is ideological programming with taxpayer prestige attached. Even Marc Miller called it regrettable and a failure, which tells you how impossible this became to spin. As reported, Jewish organizations are accusing CEO Isha Khan of opacity, lack of integrity, and refusing meaningful dialogue while the exhibit allegedly omitted basic context like identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization.
This is the Trudeau-Carney institutional model in miniature: activist narratives first, accountability later, maybe. Canadaโs public institutions are increasingly run like seminar rooms for approved grievance politics, where balance is treated as oppression and governance as a nuisance. When a museum tasked with human rights starts importing foreign conflict, pitting communities against each other, and emboldening open hostility toward Jews, that is not enlightenment. It is state-sponsored cultural vandalism dressed up as moral sophistication.
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National Post
Leading Jewish groups call on rights museum board to 'rectify' Nabka exhibit failures and hold CEO 'accountable'
The CEOs of prominent Canadian Jewish organizations have written a joint letter protesting the โserious failure of governance, curation, and public trustโ of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, andโฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ Gail Asper is not angry about museum's Nakba exhibit. She is energized
A federally funded human rights museum built with Asper family backing now gets accused of sidelining the very community that helped create it. That is the whole late-liberal institutional formula in one neat little package: take the money, take the legitimacy, then hand the microphone to a single approved narrative and call the omissions compassion. Even Marc Miller, hardly a prairie populist, reportedly had to admit parts of the curation failed basic honesty, as reported.
The point here is bigger than one exhibit. Canadaโs public institutions are run by managerial ideologues who think context is optional as long as the politics are fashionable. A national museum is not supposed to function like an activist seminar with federal branding. But under the Trudeau-Carney era moral bureaucracy, that is exactly what too many institutions have become: taxpayer-backed vehicles for selective history, selective empathy, and carefully curated social tension. Asperโs line about broken trust lands because it names the real disease. Institutions are being hijacked, and Canadians are expected to fund their own cultural dispossession with a smile.
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A federally funded human rights museum built with Asper family backing now gets accused of sidelining the very community that helped create it. That is the whole late-liberal institutional formula in one neat little package: take the money, take the legitimacy, then hand the microphone to a single approved narrative and call the omissions compassion. Even Marc Miller, hardly a prairie populist, reportedly had to admit parts of the curation failed basic honesty, as reported.
The point here is bigger than one exhibit. Canadaโs public institutions are run by managerial ideologues who think context is optional as long as the politics are fashionable. A national museum is not supposed to function like an activist seminar with federal branding. But under the Trudeau-Carney era moral bureaucracy, that is exactly what too many institutions have become: taxpayer-backed vehicles for selective history, selective empathy, and carefully curated social tension. Asperโs line about broken trust lands because it names the real disease. Institutions are being hijacked, and Canadians are expected to fund their own cultural dispossession with a smile.
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National Post
Gail Asper isnโt visibly angry about โNakbaโ exhibit. But sheโs resolute about fixing the rights museum
Gail Asper tells me quietly but firmly: โMy trust has been absolutely broken.โ
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