Money, grown on trees: Cabinet’s failed Two Billion Trees Program cost nearly a half billion dollars before it was wrapped up last November 4, documents show. The program fell 89 percent short of its tree planting target.
Then delivered in paper bags. Count on it.
If Carney’s polling numbers hold up, a spring election is a distinct possibility, and a Liberal majority would be the likely outcome. The reason is simple enough: once again, NDP and Bloc voters are stampeding to the Liberals. Inevitably, some will suggest that the Tories reinvent themselves to appeal to the left, but a string of electoral defeats with Red Tories at the helm points to the futility of that gambit. If that’s the best conservatives could do, why have a conservative party at all?
From coast to coast, Léger finds Mark Carney’s Liberals at 47% support among decided voters, up four points since Léger’s previous poll back in December. And this newfound support for the Liberals does not come at the expense of the Conservatives, who sit at 38%, themselves up two points.
Yesterday afternoon around 430pm Alberta time, Tony Olienick walked out of Drumheller Institution, and re-united with the only family he has, his mother Tessie, after suffering nearly four years of incarceration as a political prisoner in the mass gulag camp once known as Canada.
The previous evening he was granted ‘bail on appeal’, something he was denied once already last year, and while he has to live with a number of strictly enforced conditions, somewhat similar to those imposed on Chris Barber and his ‘house arrest’, Tony is almost a free man. His conditions will be fully discharged in June of 2026, when he would have been statutorily released at the end of his sentence. ‘Sentence’ doing a lot of work here for a guy whose only crime was being a loudmouth at a protest…
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On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us pledge that “never again” means “never again”, even when Israel is the perpetrator #Gaza https://t.co/32ROC0uyDW
— Yuen Pau Woo (@yuenpauwoo) January 27, 2026
🚨MAJOR BREAKING
The City of Surrey BC has admitted its LOST CONTROL
the Mayor and City Council is asking for the Feds to declare a state of EMERGENCY
to deal with the Indian gang extortion crisis.
Welcome to 2026. We're losing entire cities. pic.twitter.com/yPTipem89T
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 27, 2026
Yesterday, a Vancouver acquaintance of mine posted something online criticizing Trump’s recent inflammatory rhetoric that Europeans would be talking German and Japanese now if it weren’t for the Americans. Over the top? Of course. But this Vancouver fellow in his 60’s implied that the Allies were doing just fine fighting the Germans before America got into World War 2. To be clear, Canada contributed greatly, well beyond its relatively small size. A whole lot of brave Canadian lost their lives in this noble fight against the Nazis.
So I privately asked this fellow about what he posted, and whether he truly felt that America’s contribution in WW2 wasn’t needed to achieve victory for the Allies. He said he wasn’t sure and that “we’ll never know”. He also gave me his list of those who deeply contributed to the war effort: Britain, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Brazil, & Mexico. I was curious, so I asked Grok to do some research for me.
Here’s the AI’s response. I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide whether the Vancouver fellow, a huge fan of Trudeau and Carney by the way, was accurate with his summation of WW2.
Update: I went back to AI and asked it to speculate on what would have happened had America not directly got involved in WW2.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, speaking to Fox News tonight, says Trump and Carney spoke today and claims Carney was “very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos.” pic.twitter.com/LjnurWXIWM
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) January 27, 2026
If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.
Probably unrelated: Y Combinator, the US startup incubator behind companies like DoorDash Inc., Airbnb Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc., has removed Canada from a list of countries where it will invest.
The weekend delivered a jolt from Beijing that underscores a theme Chris Meyer and I have explored across multiple podcast discussions: Xi Jinping’s regime can look strong yet be brittle.
China’s Defence Ministry says it has opened investigations into senior military figures including Gen. Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission—an escalation that is shaking the top ranks of the People’s Liberation Army and fuelling fresh questions, inside and outside China, about whether this is an anti-corruption purge, a political power struggle, or both. […]
Chris and I also discuss the obvious: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new strategic engagement with Beijing, already questionable to many critics of China’s hybrid warfare efforts in the West and especially targeting Canada, now looks increasingly dubious as questions hover over the stability of Xi’s regime.
More: China just took over a Canadian gold mining company in a $5.5 BILLION deal.
Make it permanent. It’s not that complicated.
Financial Post- Carney Boosts Sales Tax Credit as Affordability Pressures Rise
The Food Professor- Why Ottawa Keeps Treating Food Inflation Like a PR Problem
We are back in a political comfort zone perfected in the Trudeau era—heavy on slogans, light on structural reform.
I’m not so sure that central banks have much of a choice when it comes to cutting interest rates, given the dynamics of fiat currencies with an exponentially growing debt load, but the fact that the mainstream financial media is even publishing Pelletier’s analysis is, in itself, a warning sign.
The issue now is that central banks appear close to implementing yet another round of QE, not to stabilize markets but simply to absorb the massive issuance of government debt. That’s where the real danger emerges: currency debasement. When a central bank prints money to finance deficits, the purchasing power of that currency erodes rapidly.
Now is an ideal time to revisit your portfolio. Start by examining your government bond exposure, especially in jurisdictions such as Canada, where the federal government holds no gold reserves and where 10‑year yields near three per cent offer little compensation for the level of risk.
Fractures spread.
The managed decline of Canada, by Mark Carney. Pray for The North. pic.twitter.com/s7oDTZqOnZ
— John-Paul Berg (@SemperVeritasX) January 25, 2026
Keep your eye on Scott Bessent, first and always.
Statement from the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy:
“As the Prime Minister said this week, Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership in our economy and security — and we will remain focused on ensuring the future of that relationship will benefit workers and businesses on both sides of our border.
There is no pursuit of a free trade deal with China. What was achieved was resolution on several important tariff issues.
Canada’s new government is building a stronger Canadian economy, with a plan that is building our strength at home and strengthening our trading partnerships throughout the world.”
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would impose a 100% tariff on Canada if it makes a trade deal with China and warned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that a deal would endanger his country.
“China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.”
And then peel off Alberta in the aftermath.
Related: Pro-China Networks Amplified Carney’s Beijing Messaging to Attack U.S. Policy
The Trump whisperer was unavailable for comment.
h/t Scott
Three Agriculture Agri-Food Canada research and development centres and four satellite research farms will close, the federal government has confirmed Friday.
Research and development centres at Guelph, Ont., Quebec City, Que., and Lacombe, Alta., will close, an AAFC spokesperson said in a statement on Friday afternoon.
Satellite research farms at Nappan, N.S., Scott, Sask., Indian Head, Sask. and Portage la Prairie, Man., will also close.
As far as Canada is concerned, this is the only new world order that matters now.
NOW – Citadel's CEO says decisions made under the Biden administration "were so so poorly thought out in terms of economic consequences, it cost the U.S. economy dearly." pic.twitter.com/y9zlWeCYrn
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 21, 2026
It is no secret that JFK interfered with the 1963 Canadian Federal election.
But did you know why?
Kennedy was keen to draw Canada deeper into the American sphere. Diefenbaker, who held the more traditional attachment to Britain, balked at the invitation to join the Organization of American States.
Diefenbaker would not allow American nuclear warheads on Canadian soil and Pearson would.
The first US nuclear-armed missiles arrived in Canada on December 31, 1963. These were CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air interceptor missiles, which were equipped with nuclear warheads and deployed to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stations in North Bay, Ontario, and La Macaza, Quebec.
all U.S. nuclear weapons were removed from Canadian soil by 1984, …with the final nuclear-tipped Genie missiles leaving Canadian bases in July 1984…
The Liberals were willing to do anything to win the 1963 election, even sell out Canada’s sovereignty and security to a foreign nation. The placement of US nuclear warheads on Canadian soil made Canada a potential battleground in a Nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Another corporate headquarters heads south.
Green For Life Environmental (GFL), the ubiquitous waste management company that holds numerous local garbage contracts, announced on Wednesday that it is moving its corporate headquarters from Vaughan to Miami, resulting in about “a dozen” job losses, its CEO told CityNews.
