Why Mark Carney’s Canada Isn’t the One You Live In (20 minutes) – Analysis highlighting the loss of 42,000 jobs and high unemployment rates across various regions despite government claims of growth, contrasted with the thriving US economy.
Meanwhile, in Banff… With Canada’s very economic future on the line, the prime minister is bringing his team to one of the most expensive and exclusive hotels to meet about affordability
Run the same poll three months from now and you’ll probably get a very different result, but for the time being Canadians seem blissfully unaware of the freight train that’s barreling down the tracks towards them. John Q. Voter is either incapable of understanding basic economics or he’s experiencing some sort of psychotic break just now.
This means items that consumers may not regularly see or purchase, but are often required as part of a manufacturing process or supply chain that ultimately could mean higher prices for a wider variety of goods — even if they’re made in Canada.
Three-in-five (60 per cent) of respondents said they are willing to stay the course on Canada’s current negotiating strategy even if it means paying 10 or 20 per cent more for household expenses, including groceries and clothing.
Our new friends and overlords in the EU will step up to take it off our hands, right?
President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to sharply escalate the trade war with Canada, seeking to block imports of some motorcycles, dairy products and alcohol.
Senior Trump administration officials said in a call with reporters that the move was in direct response to Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs, which took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
The ban on importing Canadian alcohol in particular closely mirrors bans on American alcohol that provinces across Canada put in place in early 2025. They were imposed after Trump introduced sweeping duties on Canada, America’s longtime northern ally.
The measures announced Tuesday were signed into law under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, documents posted to the White House website show. That trade law was never used until Trump implemented new tariffs on Canada under the statute in late August.
A senior Trump administration official told reporters on the call that the White House also completed “housekeeping” on tariffs already in place. Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.
Joly gets emotional.
Every time a politician tells you that his policy will “come at a cost“, you just know he doesn’t have your best interests in mind.
Carney discussed Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries.
“We have everything we need to pivot and prosper,” he said.
“That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a cost to action. But it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still.”
New World Order: How our new strategic partner – China – behaves, ladies and gentlemen. So happy to hear we’re reopening defense collaboration with them.
Ian Lee, as Canada’s counter-tariffs hit: this isn’t a mood. It’s jobs.~45,000 Canadian firms export to the U.S.; 30,000 export only there. $400B in sales, ~2 million jobs. “We are literally playing with fire.” Sales collapse → “You lay off workers.” Ottawa can’t put them all on… pic.twitter.com/DumNBfXbYZ
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 8, 2026
Settle yourselves, peasants. You’re on a need-to-know basis.
Canada’s military reopened a formal channel to China’s People’s Liberation Army last Friday for the first time in eight years, and Canadians have learned of it only from Beijing.
China’s defence ministry says Canada and China revived their formal Defence Coordination Dialogue on September 4.
Canadians have learned of the meeting not from their own government, but from a terse statement issued by Beijing.
Update, from @RealAndyLeeShow;
Do read this piece from Global Times on our latest defence meeting with China. “Realizing the reunification of the motherland at an early date is the true way out for Taiwan.” Is that our official position?
The Quebec election just got extra spicy.
Import the clowns and watch the circus.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/jpkkhdUfzB
— Tim Somerwille (@TimSomerwille) September 6, 2026
Canada still doesn’t have a coast to coast four lane highway, but it seems the bigger priority is to subsidize water systems for ratepayers in the oil patch. And then there’s the requisite mention of community centers, as if it were literally impossible for such entities to be financially self-sufficient. The mind boggles….
On Tuesday, the federal government confirmed a contribution of up to $29 million to the North Calgary Water Servicing project, funded through the Direct Delivery stream of the new Build Communities Strong Fund…
…$17.2 billion for provinces and territories, $6 billion for direct federal delivery on regionally significant projects and $27.8 billion flowing to local governments for roads, transit, water systems and community centres.
Falling upwards: Phil Verster, the former Metrolinx CEO who oversaw YEARS of delays and BILLIONS in cost overruns during the construction of Toronto’s Eglinton LRT while being paid over $800,000/year, has been hired by Mark Carney to help manage the Alto high-speed rail project.
🚨ALERT: Mark Carney just appointed Patrick Pichette as the new CEO of Digital Transformation Canada.
Who is Patrick Pichette? Here's him two months ago at the Liberal Party Convention talking about how he wants to fine Canadians HALF A MILLION DOLLARS or potentially just BAN… pic.twitter.com/A4PVciJyRV
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) September 4, 2026
The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations says it doesn’t believe any managers meant to steal paintings, jewelry, sculptures or other works that vanished from a $14.4 million Indigenous art collection. It is not known what happened to scores of artworks used to decorate the department’s regional offices: “This went on for decades.”
More: Police were never called, and the department still cannot explain what happened to the paintings, jewelry, sculptures and other taxpayer-funded works…
Surely this is just a massive coincidence, right?
The unemployment rate held steady at 6.4 per cent last month, Statistics Canada said Friday. August’s losses fell short of economists’ expectations for a gain of 15,000 positions.
And just south of us:
The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang.
The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.
This is the time at SDA when those things that never made sense, start making sense.
Who benefits most from a destabilized, quasi-communist basket case on America's northern border?
China. https://t.co/Z6g2c6zEps
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 3, 2026
More on this: Why Would Carney Be Selling Out Canada to the Chi-Coms? (h/t roaddog)
A Study Of EDI In Canada Research Chairs Program: Executive summary
Is diversity truly our strength? Does equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) improve excellence?
Since 2017, the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which sets the agenda for Canadian academic research, has moved dramatically in the direction of implementing EDI ideology and quotas.
Regrettably, prioritizing EDI results in an “equity-excellence trade-off”: Canadian taxpayers are funding cultural socialist activism among elite professionals at the expense of the disinterested pursuit of truth.
And, Canadian research is paying a high cost for its unfettered embrace of EDI, both through the non-meritorious appointment of less qualified Black, Indigenous, and female chairs, and by diverting millions of dollars to left-wing scholar-activist research.
According to our analysis — the first of its kind — EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year, equivalent to a 12 per cent “tax” on the CRC’s $300 million annual budget.
While previous studies have examined demographic differences and the effects of EDI on organizational and team performance, none has examined its organizational-level consequences in academic research. This study fills that gap by testing EDI’s impact on research output in the CRC holders program from 2016 to 2025. It turns out, diversity is not merely neutral — it can actually lower performance.
Because real DEI has never been tried: This is one of the 68 “world-class academics” Canada poached from the USA at a COST OF 504 million Dollars….
Carney announced Monday that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.
Much of Barton’s career was spent at McKinsey and Co., a global consultancy firm. Barton is also the chair of mining giant Rio Tinto and LeapFrog Investments.
@scoopercooper – Hopefully the Conservatives that probed Barton’s links to PRC state owned enterprises consider the implications on this appointment. Doesn’t dispel the notion I’ve been following on where the influence lies in Carneyland. Barton’s colleague over in UK is already investigated in PRC influence allegations.
"It was under his watch at McKinsey that so many of the problems… festered." — @PekingMike (@nytimes) on former Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton. At 8/11pm with @ae_clarke (@CarletonSPPA), @jaimanchin (@StrategyCorp) & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XFmRLrO9cK
— The Rundown (@therundowntvo) December 1, 2022
Recently sat down with @SNewmanPodcast to discuss trade and why Canada continues to fall short against the U.S.
"Mexico became the U.S.'s number one trading partner, surpassing Canada, by playing the game without emotion. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney is widely popular across… pic.twitter.com/mTwHkP9B7V
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) August 31, 2026
We officially got caught relabeling (to Made in Canada) & selling inferior Chinese steel into the US using NAFTA/USMCA. The Obama admin caught us years earlier but were more polite than the Trump admin.
Now we been caught doing the same thing with Chinese lumber?
Can’t… https://t.co/obBjdESeNu
— Lee Humphrey (@tleehumphrey) August 31, 2026
If U.S. President Donald J. Trump was upset about Premier Doug Ford telling him to “kiss” his behind, there’s no telling how he may react to an Ontario judge saying the man charged in shooting up the American consulate in downtown Toronto does not have to sit in jail and is free to wait at home until his trial. […]
Just steps from where the March 10 shooting occurred, Jabbi strolled into the courtroom to face the Crown’s office challenging his July 7 strict conditions bail release. Later in the day, he walked right out those doors free of shackles or handcuffs and on release after a judge dismissed the attempt to keep him incarcerated. The judge also implemented a publication ban that does not allow reporting of the reasons.
Incidentally, he’s also linked to the murder of Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto in June, so there’s that.