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.
If by “broken”, they mean “working as designed”: Year-end bonuses for federal executives are not literally tied to departmental performance, says a Treasury Board report. It follows data showing departments typically reward 90 to 100 percent of managers regardless of failure: “There is a system that is broken.”
National Post- Service Canada offers limited apology, ‘no accountability’ for telling Jewish Montrealer she couldn’t name Israel as birth country
She and her lawyer, Neil Oberman, suspect the episode stems from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to recognize the state of Palestine.
Canadian Taxpayers Federation- Carney’s Toronto cabinet meetings cost $530,000
…records reviewed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show. Carney’s cabinet meetings cost thousands of dollars more than recent cabinet retreats hosted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Canadian taxpayers gave Stellantis $15 billion.
Today their CEO proudly told Donald Trump they’re putting almost that exact amount into new factories in the USA.
Mark Carney is a master negotiator!
May the odds be ever in your favour.
National Post- An assisted-suicide political time bomb is ticking for Mark Carney
…support drains away when those tight guidelines are loosened to include those who are suffering from mental illness as the sole underlying condition (42 per cent) or societal reasons such as homelessness (26 per cent) or poverty (25 per cent).
Our industrious little Mel the Disassembler is having a tough week.
Auto giant Stellantis says the government, not the company, insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of dollars requested by a Commons committee.
A letter sent to the House Government Operations Committee by Stellantis appears to contradict testimony by top Industry Canada (ISED) officials last week that redactions to the agreement sent to MPs — who demanded unredacted copies — were requested by the auto giant.
In response to the letter, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told National Post Tuesday that her department would finally release the unredacted agreement to the committee after repeatedly refusing to do so.
“I received the letter (from Stellantis) earlier. There’s no problem, we’ll remove the redactions and send it to the committee,” Joly said.
But the contradicting claims between Stellantis and ISED about who requested the agreement be redacted against the committee’s will raises a new question: who may have lied to MPs?
And her week just became tougher.
Algoma Steel CEO: Feds knew about plans for layoffs before giving $400M loan https://t.co/lS5AQUA2PL
— CTV News (@CTVNews) December 3, 2025
Well, that response took all of about ten minutes to develop. Maybe fifty percent unemployment across the country would change their attitude, but I’m not too confident about that.
Assembly of First Nations chiefs voted unanimously on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a new pipeline deal between Canada and Alberta, while expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast that strongly oppose the initiative.
The resolution also urges Canada, Alberta and B.C. to recognize the climate emergency and uphold the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Hardly a week has passed since the memorandum of understanding with Alberta, and already the Libs are laying the groundwork for endless “unavoidable” delays. At this rate, I don’t know why Guilbeault found it necessary to quit caucus at all.
On his way into a cabinet meeting Tuesday morning, the former minister of Crown-Indigenous relations told reporters he sees a difficult road ahead for any pipeline project.
“If everyone thought Thursday was difficult, that was probably the easiest day in the life of that pipeline,” Miller said.
