CTV- More than half of British Columbians fear for their safety, survey suggests
The survey found 73 per cent of those polled said crime and violence are impacting their quality of life, and 37 per cent said they’ve been the victim of a recent crime.
It didn’t take long for Carney to get out the EV subsidy shovel again.
Speaking at an auto parts manufacturer in Woodbridge, Ont., Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa is restoring the rebate program with $2.3 billion to help Canadians cover the cost of a new EV, and $1.5 billion for EV infrastructure like charging stations.
Ottawa will offer $5,000 toward the cost of a new EV and $2,500 toward plug-in hybrids. Those rebates will decrease every year until they’re phased out after 2030 — or until the money for the program runs out.
Or rather, until the government goes bankrupt.
The cheery facade belies the deep divide that actually exists within “Team Canada”.
Eby said later that Alberta has yet to identify sites where a pipeline would exit, it has not yet identified a proponent who would fund it, nor engaged with coastal First Nations.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has also protested Ford’s plans to pull Crown Royal whisky from government-run liquor store shelves. The product is made in Gimli, Man.
Ford said he understands Kinew is “doing what any other premier would do, try to protect his jobs,” while Ontario is doing the same.
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.
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.
Rather than shovel ever more taxpayer dollars at administratively bloated post-secondary institutions, why not privatize them so they are free to allocate resources based on actual demand from employers? Otherwise, they’ll just continue to give gender studies the same priority as engineering.
Ontario’s universities and colleges are looking for billion-dollar funding boosts in the province’s upcoming budget, investments they are framing as critical to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to “protect Ontario” from tariff impacts by strengthening domestic capabilities.
The Council of Ontario Universities says in its pre-budget submission that its institutions are at “a breaking point” and they are calling for an additional $1.2 billion in operating funding next year, with that amount increasing to $1.6 billion by 2028-29.
Related (from Kate): Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns
To celebrate today’s supreme court decision.
The Truckers were right. pic.twitter.com/2ZbViyYzob
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) January 16, 2026
Shameless Plug for Gord Magill’s new book ‘End of the Road’. Buy a copy and upset Mark Carney’s New World Order.
And of course the we need to hear from Tamara and Big Red on the only Canadian news source with any integrity.
Now that the governing party is in disarray, maybe there’s hope for a solidly positive yes vote in a referendum.
Quebec Premier François Legault announced Wednesday that he would resign after more than seven years in power, triggering a leadership race and further upending the province’s political landscape with only months to go before the fall provincial election.
I look forward to hearing the boy from Waldeck Saskatchewan telling Mark Carney to go F@&K himself…
🚨BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) January 10, 2026
Dan Knight- Canada’s Labour Market Starts to Crack
The most important number isn’t jobs created. It’s people who couldn’t find work. In December, the number of unemployed Canadians jumped by 73,000 in a single month. The unemployment rate rose from 6.5 per cent in November to 6.8 per cent. That move alone wipes out much of the progress made in the fall and tells you the labour market isn’t tightening. It’s loosening.
Wab Kinew, Manitoba’s NDP Premier, is running out of other people’s money.
A doubled deficit on life support
The mid year fiscal update now pegs Manitoba’s deficit at about $1.6 billion, more than double the $794 million shortfall forecast in the spring budget. What was supposed to be contained has blown wide open, blamed on “faster than expected spending” and a familiar parade of “one offs” from fires to droughts to floods, disasters that somehow recur in one form or another every year.
This follows a $1.2 billion deficit in 2024 25, roughly $800 million worse than projected in the previous budget; this is not bad luck, it is awful planning. Taxes and fees, including education property taxes, are coming in higher than expected, so the government is running enormous deficits even while digging deeper into a decreasing base of taxpayers’ pockets.
New federal figures show Manitoba set to receive just over $5 billion in equalization in the upcoming fiscal year, up about 7.5 per cent from roughly $4.68 billion and about double what the province received in 2020. Manitoba is the only western province dependent on equalization and, after Quebec, its second largest user in gross terms.
On a per capita basis, Manitoba far surpasses Quebec and is the largest, or one of the largest recipients of federal transfer payments. In other words, we are Canada’s biggest welfare recipients and have been for years. This is a choice that should be unacceptable to Manitobans for ourselves and for our children…
From Minnesota to managed decline
Manitoba did not always underperform. In the 1960s, its growth rates were comparable to similar sized jurisdictions like neighbouring Minnesota. The divergence that began in the 1970s, coincides with Manitobans repeatedly electing socialist NDP governments, embedding command and control economic thinking in policy and driving the province off the path its US peers followed.
The comparative numbers today are stark. In 2022–23, Minnesota’s GDP per capita sits around 78,000 US dollars, with Iowa and Kansas in the low 70,000 dollar range and South Dakota above 74,000. Manitoba, by contrast, is about 46,800 US dollars per person, roughly 40 per cent below Minnesota and far behind most Mid-Western States.
In fairness, Wab Kinew is not the only incompetent NDP leader…
The sheer magnitude of this taxpayer largess boggles the mind. And yet many reserves are without potable water. My guess is that most of the money is going to lawyers and “consultants”. It’s long past the point where this needs to stop, but a population browbeaten by the residential school mythology seems tragically incapable of raising any objections.
When the Liberals first took power in 2015, their own estimates showed that total federal government spending on what they deemed “Indigenous priorities” was about $11 billion. Within 10 years, this had nearly tripled. By 2024, internal Department of Finance estimates were showing that planned “investments in Indigenous Priorities” were set to hit $32 billion.
Put another way, it would take Manitoba’s entire annual economic activity just to cover the increase in federal Indigenous spending since 2014.
More evidence that Canada is not a serious country. Given that Crown Royal is distilled in Gimli, Ford’s decision effectively imposes economic sanctions on Manitoba.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says to “stock up” on Crown Royal, confirming he plans to strip the Canadian whisky from the shelves of the LCBO in retaliation for a planned plant closure.
It said bottling at the factory intended for the U.S. market will be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers will relocate to its Valleyfield, Que., location.
We can’t be considered a serious country when the airline regulator stipulates the exact number of weekly flights a foreign carrier can offer out of Canada. And people still wonder why Canadian air fares are punishingly expensive.
Ottawa is loosening restrictions on the number of flights coming from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates after past diplomatic spats had limited flights.
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon announced the government is expanding air transport agreements to allow as many as 14 passenger flights per week from Saudi Arabia — up from four. The latest deal also includes as many as 35 passenger flights a week from the U.A.E., up from a maximum of 21. Plus unlimited cargo flights from both countries.
And they would like you to join them on the fainting couch.
Globe and Mail- The Sunday Editorial: Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada
The motivation is simple, and ancient: empire. Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle. Already, Mr. Trump is turning his attention elsewhere, saying in an interview Saturday that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”
Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Mr. Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.
Here is @scottadamssays explaining how the College of Psychologists of Ontario couldn’t find anyone in the entire country to re-educate Jordan Peterson.
Star Phoenix- Why it took Trump to challenge Canada’s dairy orthodoxy
A joint Dalhousie University–McGill University study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard anywhere from hundreds of millions to as much as one billion litres of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices.
