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"This decision now stands as binding precedent. It places real legal constraints on future governments and ensures that the Emergencies Act cannot be repurposed as a political convenience. It restores the act to what Parliament intended: a narrow, exceptional tool, not a blunt instrument against dissent.
The government spent millions defending the indefensible. It lost completely. And in doing so, it handed Canadians one of the most important civil liberties rulings in a generation.
That is worth celebrating.” @cvangeyn nationalpost.com/opinion/chr…
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Today marks 12 years since the terrorist attack on Parliament Hill—a tragedy that claimed the life of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and shook our entire nation to its core.
On that dark day, a gunman assassinated a member of the Honour Guard at the war memorial before storming the Hall of Honour, just steps from where Members of Parliament had gathered. It was more than an act of violence—it was an assault on our democracy and the values that define us as Canadians.
As hate and division continue to rise across the country, this anniversary serves as a solemn reminder of the dangers of radicalization and extremism.
Our leaders must take concrete steps to deter, disrupt, and confront the ideologies and division that endanger the safety and cohesion of this country.
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Nothing against Urback but the Globe really needs a columnist based in Alberta theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Canada is set to hand more taxpayer money to Rio Tinto and Aluminerie Alouette through the Strategic Response Fund for “low-carbon aluminum.” Same script as the earlier $100 million for Rio Tinto’s ELYSIS plant
Dominic Barton chairs Rio Tinto. He is also the new chair of Invest in Canada, the federal agency Prime Minister Carney tasked with attracting investment. He keeps both roles, with a conflict screen in place... but it still stink
This is central planning. It has never worked at any point in history. Political allocation of capital replaces profit-and-loss signals, private risk, and competition. Subsidies socialize the downside for owners while taxpayers fund projects the market may not justify
When the chair of the company receiving the money also chairs the government’s investment agency, the revolving door is the point, not a side effect
If the technology and returns are real, private capital will fund it. If not, the subsidy only delays the reckoning. Central planning has a perfect record... of failure! @melaniejoly
Minister Joly to announce Strategic Response Fund investment in Rio Tinto and Aluminerie Alouette
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Friedman nailed it: Nobody spends someone else’s money on someone else with any discipline.
Flushing $434M of our tax dollars down the drain for ineligible claims is classic 'Brookfield' Carney economics—parasitic plunder dressed up as leadership. 🦷🤡
Minister @MarjoriePLC waives repayment of $434.8 million by people who falsely claimed free dentistry under Canada Dental Care Plan.
@GovCanHealth reports it covered dentistry for ineligible claimants who already had private coverage.
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@CdnDentalAssoc #cdnpoli
🚨SCC Emergencies Act appeal granted!🚨
“What we saw recently on Wellington Street here is a small beginning of anarchy, where some people decided to take other citizens hostage, to take the law into their own hands, to not respect the mechanism. […] I find that worrying.”—SCC Chief Justice Richard Warner
We will get to see what the other SCC justices say...
BREAKING: the Supreme Court of Canada has granted the Carney government's appeal of the Emergencies Act case.
See here: decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc…
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There is a reason US military and law enforcement is attacking transnational scam networks, increasingly it looks like they believe it involves hostile state security arms. Like fentanyl, in other words. The Bureau has been forefront in recognizing and documenting. @rcmp @csiscanada
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Great to chat about all things Canadian oil, nuclear, minerals, and electricity 👇
After 20 years, it seems like Canada is finally becoming an energy superpower. So happy that @ExnerPirot could join Blue Skies to talk about all forms of Canadian energy. 🇨🇦
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The CBC reporter Stephen Quinn really didn't want his listeners to hear these dollar amounts.
As soon as Dallas gave him these details, he wanted to move on because he knows these figures would SHOCK his listeners.
WHO IS ADVOCATING FOR BC TAX PAYERS? 🚨
Dallas Brodie and the OneBC team read Bill 20 and presented the details in the Legislature.
Before she did this, the BC Cons were all going to vote YES on all this transfer of funds to the Komoks band.
After the details came out, only 5 BC Con members voted YES. The rest voted against it.
THIS is why OneBC is needed. They actually LOOK at what's being passed.
And keep in mind, this is only the 7th modern treaty. There's still 197 left to go in BC.
Below is a breakdown of what the band of only about 340 members was already receiving.
The money the Komoks band already received
• 2022–23: $20.6M
• 2023–24: $26M
• 2024–25: $33.6M
Accumulated surplus:
2013: $9.5M
2023–24: $62M
Bill 20 added:
• $90M one-time federal + provincial payment
• $6.2M/year ongoing for “self-government”
This could push average yearly revenue near $40M. Surplus + $90M + one year of revenue works out to roughly $565,000/band member — then the recurring funding continues.
2012 Agreement-in-Principle included a $17M signing bonus. Despite large surpluses, the band wanted its legal bills covered before accepting more money.
This is the 7th modern treaty in 30 years (204+ First Nations in BC). Most can be reopened every 10 years.
Claimed goal is socioeconomic “equity,” yet non-Indigenous BC taxpayers receive far less support per person while paying the bill.
What do British Columbians get in return?
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Twelve years ago, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed while standing guard at the National War Memorial. Just days earlier, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent was killed in a deliberate attack in Quebec.
Both men proudly served Canada and were targeted because they wore its uniform.... Standing on Guard for Thee.
We remember their dedication and service to our country. They will not be forgotten.
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Brian Kingston, President & CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, called today’s Carney-Ford announcement “extremely helpful” for the auto sector in the short term—especially the $2.5B in capital support and the decision to hold GHG emissions standards at 2026 levels through 2029 instead of tightening them sooner
Kingston stressed, however, that nothing offsets the damage if 50% U.S. auto tariffs take effect on January 1:
“Hard to offset a $7 billion tariff bill, but every little bit helps. And most importantly, we’ve seen this decision to delay increasing the stringency of emission standards. This is a notable change in stance… It doesn’t solve the trade issue, but it sure helps.”
“If we go to January 1st, there is no level of government support program that is going to keep us going. These tariffs are too costly and 50% is frankly catastrophic.”
Kingston remains optimistic a deal can still be reached before then, noting U.S. auto production, employment, and exports (especially to Canada) are also suffering. The new Canada-Ontario Automotive Task Force is welcome for coordination, he said, but only if it drives real action rather than more talk. And as we have seen this Carney government talks at speeds not seen before @bkingston
"In summary, I would assert that I, along with other voters, am seriously concerned about Premier David Eby’s lack of transparency, incompetence and deceptive behavior and failure to protect the public interest in responding to the Cowichan Rulings and UNDRIP.
He has profoundly divided British Columbians and diminished our vital journey of reconciliation with First Nation Communities.
Notwithstanding Premier Eby’s profound failure to protect the public interest, we need to continue to strive to address the reconciliation process with First Nations."—Elbert King Paul
thebureau.news/p/david-ebys-… David Eby’s Secrecy on Indigenous Land Deals Has Failed British Columbians and Set Back Reconciliation
Mark Carney in Ankara: “We don’t lecture our partners”
Meanwhile, the welcome package includes the full ceremonial treatment—anthem, gun salute, horses, and a handshake with the man who has spent two decades turning Turkey’s judiciary, media, and opposition into personal property
Trade with Turkey: ~$4.3 billion. Share of Canada’s total merchandise trade: under 0.3%. Still sending the vast majority of exports to the U.S.
So the strategy is clear: flee the tariffs and rhetoric of one imperfect democracy by cozying up to a far more consolidated authoritarian whose market is a rounding error, all while calling it mature realism
“Take the world as it is,” indeed. Just don’t look too closely at the human rights report or the trade balance. And it shields him from the actual domestic democratic scrutiny of Commons @markjcarney
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💰 Carney just announced $8.7B for steel & EVs.
🏥 Over $40 BILLION in tariff relief to date. The Health budget is $60B.
⚒️ The Liberals are trying to build markets & control the means of production. This is full-blown socialism.
📉 It’s not “winning the trade war.” It’s failure.
⛔️ It is not sustainable. Thx @cbcwatcher
CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, is running Lincoln Project ads calling Trump “Putin’s slave, his meat puppet.”
How many US households does CBC actually reach? A rounding error. It’s a Canadian network with limited free-streaming and online presence south of the border
Meanwhile in Canada: food-bank visits hit a record 2.35 million per month — more than doubled since 2019. Working people, kids, housing and food costs
That’s a Canadian problem under Canadian policy that has only worsened under a lost decade of Liberals. Not Trump’s. CBC prioritizes US distraction over Canadian realities
CBC's programming schedule is back to the regularly scheduled climate propaganda programming
After the Alberta referendum, CBC sandwiched a segment on climate catastrophe theater between record food bank use and the usual US Republican scare story
The food bank piece is grounded. Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2026 reports 2.35 million monthly visits—up 8.7% year-over-year and 117% since 2019. Nearly one in five clients is employed; a third are children. Food prices are up ~30% since 2021, housing ~28%. Canadians are making “impossible trade-offs.” No mention of Carney's promises to fix it!
Then the pivot to CBC climatte activism: a new UNEP Emissions Gap Report declaring that staying under 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot is now “imminent and unavoidable.” Current policies point to ~2.8°C; full pledges ~2.6°C. Their “Plan B” is an overshoot to 1.7–1.8°C mid-century, then a return to 1.5°C by 2100 via 18% global emissions cuts by 2030, 45% by 2035, and 69% by 2040 (from 2025 levels), plus roughly 320 Gt of CO₂ removal whose scale and reliability remain speculative
This is the same pattern as previous years: the target recedes, the rhetoric intensifies, and the prescribed solution is still rapid, deep cuts that have never been politically or technologically delivered at the required pace. Emissions are roughly flat
The bulk of growth has long come from China, India, and other developing economies, not from Canadian households already facing the highest food-bank usage in modern records
The juxtaposition is the tell. Immediate, measurable hardship—driven by inflation, housing costs, and energy prices that climate policy itself has helped raise—is treated as the warm-up act. The main event remains an abstract global temperature trajectory whose near-term policy implications (higher energy costs, constrained supply, industrial flight) make the food-bank problem harder, not easier. CBC then cuts to Republican election material, completing the cycle of fear over domestic priorities
Taxpayer-funded CBC repeatedly frames Canadian energy and industrial policy through the lens of distant UN scenarios while downplaying the domestic costs already visible in the data. That is not reporting; it is distraction sequencing for the benefit of their Liberal government funders! @brodiefelon @BjornLomborg
CBC is addicted to importing American storylines
They spent the last 2 years telling Canadians to stop shopping in the U.S., stop travelling there, and emotionally break from the Americans over tariffs, politics, and “threats to democracy.”
Now, two weeks out from the U.S. midterms, they’re running a segment on The House about how politics is “widening the gender divide” and wrecking relationships… in America. Then they take that framing, drop it onto Canadian campuses, and ask if the same thing is happening here
Not covering the actual Canadian stories people are talking about. Not digging into domestic problems. Just grabbing the latest U.S. culture-war narrative, slapping a maple leaf on it, and shipping it north
Absolute clownery for a public broadcaster
Ford: “I have no interest at all interfering in American elections”
Carney: Everything is for Canadian workers and families
Meanwhile Joly in March 2025: “we’re doubling down on products that will have an impact politically in Republican state.”
Someone should ask her if that still counts as “not interfering”
It won't be CBC
Elbows up!
Retaliatory #tariffs imposed by cabinet Sept 8 are costing Canadian consumers $100 million a week, economist and former federal consultant @trevortombe @UCalgary tells Commons foreign affairs committee.
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CBC’s Piya Chattopadhyay interview is nothing but book promo. Freeland gets a kid glove treatment as the principled heroine who stood up to Trump and quit over “gimmicks,” while the actual wreckage is airbrushed. No hard questions on the $470 billion in debt she piled on, the $61.9 billion deficit that smashed her own $40.1 billion cap, or the fact she walked out hours before the numbers that proved she failed her job
She defended massive spending and missed targets for years, then suddenly discovered prudence when Trudeau wanted more. Interest costs heading past $50 billion a year, a bloated public service, stagnant productivity — all ignored. The Zoom call and her hurt feelz get the airtime; the fiscal blowout does not
This is not journalism. It is state broadcaster rehab for a finance minister whose record was continuous deficits and broken rules. Canadians paid for it. The interview pretends it never happened. Now Canadians pay for the promos to help sell her book. The Unreliable Broadcaster @piya @brodiefenlon
Bloody freaking hell! CBC is giving Chrystia Freeland free promotion for her book Unreliable Boyfriend, with a soft interview that treats her like a wronged heroine instead of the finance minister who helped run one of the most reckless fiscal blowouts in modern Canadian history
The teaser segment dwells on her hurt feelings: the Zoom call where Trudeau removed her as finance minister was “the third-worst day of her life.” It covers cabinet crying, tissue boxes, and tone-policing. What it largely skips is the reason she used to quit
Hours before delivering the Fall Economic Statement, she resigned and accused Trudeau of “costly political gimmicks” and failing to keep “our fiscal powder dry.” That same statement showed a $61.9 billion deficit for 2023-24 — more than 50% above the $40.1 billion cap she had set herself
McGill’s Christopher Ragan: “If we describe her primary job as getting our fiscal house back in order after COVID, I’m not sure she did it.” The Fraser Institute noted roughly $470 billion in added federal debt under her watch, with interest costs climbing toward $50+ billion a year. She never really pulled back on spending once the emergency ended, and the government repeatedly blew its own fiscal rules
She spent years defending large deficits and high spending. When Trudeau piled on holiday GST breaks and $250 cheques, she somehow suddenly discovered prudence and walked away rather than own the numbers?
CBC’s audience is not as blind as this interview assumes. Canadians watched the deficit targets get missed in real time, watched public-sector headcount grow far, far faster than the population, and watched interest costs balloon
Meanwhile, the Carney government that followed has not reversed course. Its first budget projected a $78.3 billion deficit — larger than most non-pandemic Trudeau-era shortfalls — with further debt accumulation planned. Reports that the trajectory is “the same or worse” are not hard to find
A 45-minute conversation that appears to from the promotion to prioritize personal grievance over the $50 billion per year hole and broken fiscal targets on the backs of Canadian taxpayers is not journalism. It’s blatant book promotion @piya