HOLY CRAP 🤯 Michael Ma who just betrayed his constituents to join the Liberal Party, is now travelling with CARNEY to CHINA
Ma, born in Hong Kong, Vice Chair of the Canada China Legislative Association
You can’t even make this up, NOT GOOD @stevenchase pic.twitter.com/L0BXyIO0is
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 8, 2026
National Post- Carney to visit China to talk trade with Xi
It will be the first trip to China by a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade, after a diplomatic row was sparked by Canada’s 2018 arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou on a US extradition warrant. Shortly after, China detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and held them until a deal to release Meng was reached with US prosecutors in 2021.
18 tweet rant – because it’s important:
China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.
I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I’m astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.
I’m not putting my elbows up – we deserve what we’ll be getting.
Why?
Because we’ve been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.
Threadreader version here. h/t Prairie Putz
The Food Professor has some predictions for Canadian agricultural policy in 2026. Here’s hoping that we’ll see moves to either liberalize or end our supply mismanagement system.
Even if the United States has little genuine interest in exporting more dairy to Canada – and even if Canadian consumers show limited appetite for it – President Trump now understands, far better than during his first term, that supply management is a potent political wedge.
The system protects roughly 9,400 dairy farmers who exert disproportionate influence over agricultural policy, while compensation payments continue to flow without any meaningful reduction in production or market share. For a growing number of Canadians, this arrangement increasingly resembles a closed loop rather than a public good.
If you tuned into CBC today, this is the first you are hearing about a new Zelinskyy corruption scandal… as an aside from an Atlantic Council sr. fellow guest
"But also secondly is that, you know, the Ukrainian population right now is very, very disappointed in him for not… pic.twitter.com/dbynNBPz03
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) December 28, 2025
Blacklock’s- Mexican Embassy Is Fed Up
The Government of Mexico complains it is too expensive and bureaucratic to do business with Ottawa. The candid report by diplomats comes three months after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a “new era of cooperation” with Mexico.
The report was submitted to the Senate foreign affairs committee. Ottawa was so dysfunctional that Mexican diplomats had difficulty getting basic data here, it said.
It’s probably not a good idea to “stand firm” when your feet are in quicksand.
As Canada approaches a review of its key free trade deal with the United States next year, Unifor national president Lana Payne says it’s important to stand firm for a good deal. Payne said it’s important to play hardball, and not allow tariffs to be legitimized in any form. Instead, Canada needs to hold out and let the “self-inflicted wounds” of tariffs create pressure instead.
“We’re seeing that now in the United States where their economy is suffering and worsening by the day,” Payne said in a Dec. 19 interview.
Way down. Might as well stick a fork in us. Since GDP is just a measure of all the borrowing and spending in an economy no matter who undertakes it, it’s disturbing that our economy is contracting despite record deficits for all levels of government. The real problem is shrinking private sector manufacturing.
The Canadian economy shrank by a greater-than-expected 0.3% in October, the largest drop in almost three years, on weakness in both the goods and services sectors, official data showed on Tuesday.
The manufacturing sector dropped by 1.5%, partly reflecting a 6.9% plunge in machinery output. Wood product manufacturing dropped by 7.3%…
Just in time for pay for Quebec’s shit again;
Taxpayers will be shocked to learn that nearly $30 billion is set to be paid out in federal equalization transfers for 2026-27, with Quebec poised to grab almost half of the massive payment.
Elections Alberta has approved the citizen initiative petition on Alberta independence. (Sorry, link fixed)
h/t Marc
You’re assuming there’s something there to measure in the first place.
CTV- Government rejects call to measure productivity across public service
The federal government is rejecting a call from a working group to measure productivity across Canada’s public sector, arguing that doing so would not “readily align” with its priorities.
It’s no surprise that the US sees Canadian supply mismanagement as a major trade irritant; I sincerely hope they don’t back down in trade talks this time around.
Washington’s trade representative says a coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal will hinge on resolving concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.
Like clockwork, the water carriers for Big Dairy are falling in line:
Carney said Canada has been clear about its intention to protect the supply management of agricultural products. “We continue to stand by that,” he said at a news conference in Ottawa with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
“People are at the breaking point. Our public servants are at the breaking point.”
Smith says Canada is a nation of immigrants and Alberta more so than anyone else but newcomers need to be able to get a good-paying job to support themselves. What does the Alberta premier want to see?
A made-in-Alberta immigration system with a “sustainable” level of immigration and much more.
“We want to have a similar program to Quebec. Quebec has an immigration program that allows them to choose on the basis of language and culture. […]
“Maybe you don’t get health care covered until you have been a taxpayer for a number of years.
“Maybe you don’t bring your kids over to be educated in our publicly-funded education system or use our taxpayer-supported child-care system until you have a certain number of years as a taxpayer. You have to pay into the system.”
Smith says those who want to become permanent residents would then know “the number of years they’ve got to work in order to be able to receive all the entitlements of those who have been taxpayers all their lives.”
Smith says being a citizen or being on the path to citizenship as a permanent resident has privileges.
“Until somebody becomes a permanent resident and citizen we’ll treat them like tourists,” she says.
Since existing port facilities don’t have the capacity, I fully expect that someone will soon suggest that we access magical new export markets by shipping through Churchill. This is what Canadian exceptionalism actually amounts to: the stubborn insistence that we’re entitled to our dreams no matter how hard reality smacks us in the face.
But a recent announcement from one of Canada’s most successful natural resources exporters, saying that future exports will soon be shipped to overseas markets from a port in the state of Washington instead of Canada’s west coast, has raised fresh questions about whether some key Canadian ports even have the capacity to handle any more of those diversified goods. Any bottlenecks or other inefficiencies would only be magnified if exporters are able to hit Carney’s recent target that Canada will double non-U.S. exports over the next decade.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after two days of talks with an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump, an American statement said.
In return, the United States agreed to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash. Potash is a key component in fertilizers, and the former Soviet state is a leading global producer.
All that’s missing is a discussion about how much money the train is going to lose. Even in Japan, only one line of the entire high speed rail network runs at a profit.
The federal government says the first segment of its proposed high-speed rail project would connect Montreal and Ottawa. The segment would be about 200 kilometres long and construction would begin in 2029.
As is typical of mainstream financial media reporting, you need to scroll to the bottom of an article to see a comment by David Rosenberg regarding Canada’s recent unemployment numbers. I suppose putting the comment at the top would have raised too many eyebrows.
While Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey is telegraphing a jobs boom, its Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH) is telling a different story, said Rosenberg, founder and president of Rosenberg Research & Associates Inc. In the latter report the number of employees receiving pay and benefits dropped by 58,000 in September. For the first time in five years payroll employment was “completely flat,” he said.
“In a sign that there is more slack in the Canadian jobs market than meets the eye … if we were to superimpose the SEPH employment trend on the LFS (household) survey, the unemployment rate would be 8.2 per cent, not 6.9 per cent — and that would be the highest since May 2021,” said Rosenberg.
Sometimes comedy just writes itself. Why would sovereign governments who are in effect their own bank need to set up another bank to coordinate armament purchases? It’s as clear as mud exactly what these functionaries will be doing much less how that will “solve” anyone’s financial problems.
At least five Canadian cities are vying to host a new defence-oriented world bank that could create up to 3,500 jobs, the National Post has learned. Announced this past spring, the DSRB could solve financial problems for countries, including Canada, that are under pressure to increase military spending. The bank will be owned by its member nations, which would capitalize the bank so it would get a triple-A rating it could take to the bond market to raise money.
All of our toothless laws go in the same direction.
Behind the hundreds of pages of civil filings reviewed by The Bureau lies a failure of governance as urgent as the unchecked advance of Latin cartels into Canadian cities — and as lethal as the synthetic opioids tied to the Surrey home.
British Columbia has been chasing the same house, and the same alleged transnational traffickers, through raids, affidavits and Charter of Rights battles since before fentanyl became a household word — and still has not managed to take the keys away.
The case documents explicitly point to a criminal-defence-friendly Supreme Court of Canada ruling — Stinchcombe, notoriously cited by police leaders — and to its role in undermining numerous major prosecutions involving networks tied to alleged narcoterror suspect Ryan Wedding and modern Canadian fentanyl-lab operators. One of those networks is the Wolfpack, a hybrid of Mexican cartels, Middle Eastern threat networks and biker gangs said to be supplied by Chinese Communist Party–linked criminal organizations and other Latin American cartel interests.
