Never trust anything where “human rights” appears as an adjective.
“Tensions escalated after Carney’s Liberal government threatened Detroit automakers…”
Politico: Inside the collapse of the Canada-US trade deal
“It was an awesome meeting,” Pete Hoekstra, U.S. ambassador to Canada, recently told POLITICO.
It went so well that President Donald Trump invited Carney and his delegation back into the Oval Office to show off his White House ballroom plans, even asking the prime minister for advice on the design. The Canadians were then ushered into a nearby office and offered Trump-branded memorabilia.
Sixteen days later, the talks collapsed.
Today In Canada’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
It’s absurd for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet ministers to claim the need for confidentiality prevents them from explaining how a former intelligence commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was granted a temporary resident visa by Canada.
Mehdi Taj, president of the Iranian Football Federation, was turned away by the Canada Border Services Agency — the country’s last line of defence — upon arriving in Toronto last month on his way to a FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) meeting in Vancouver.
But the Carney government has failed to explain how he was granted a visa in the first place. […]
CSIS has identified credible death threats by Iran against Canadians, including a failed attempt to assassinate former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler.
No one affiliated with the IRGC is supposed to be allowed into Canada and if they’re here they’re supposed to be deported.
The inexplicable granting of a visa to a former IRGC intelligence commander raises the issue of the failure of the federal government to deport what may be hundreds of agents of the Iranian regime living illegally in Canada.
So far they’ve booted out one — saying the process is complicated — but human rights activists and a 2023 investigation by Global News suggest there could be hundreds of agents of the Iranian regime living illegally in Canada.
What is the point of Canada declaring terrorist organizations if no one is deporting the terrorists?
New Governor: Would You Like A Side Of Word Salad With Your Decline?
Carney at the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Yerevan, Armenia where he is speechifying and sloganeering at speeds not seen before
With all of his Top-Tier Slogans
“Canada is the most European of non-European countries.”
“We share a triple alignment of history, of… pic.twitter.com/ZOuibYhxz9— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) May 4, 2026
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
House of Commons administration is keeping files on what Canadians say about their MPs. The “very robust records management system” included social media posts, said the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms: “We have different categories, if they are misogynistic, etcetera.”
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Japan needs Canadian crude oil, but can’t get it. Why?
There’s no additional export capacity. That’s why Japan is making rare purchases of crude from Mexico. pic.twitter.com/xV5NZeDQza
— Anas Alhajji (@anasalhajji) May 3, 2026
Canada Strong
Gradually, then suddenly: Canada’s top general is shutting down a key operation keeping avalanches under control along the Trans-Canada Highway in the Rocky Mountains because of “significant resource pressures,” according to a letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.
They Admire Our Basic Dictatorship
Prime minister can limit free speech in Parliament in narrow circumstances, Supreme Court rules https://t.co/LW8K0KB0U3
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) May 1, 2026
They’ll become broader.
Today In Canada’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
Barely avoiding a $500 fine, Immigration minister says she’s accountable: “I’m not going as far as offering my resignation by answering, but I want to make clear, Mr. Chair, I’m accountable.”
How did he get the permit?
Who granted it? When? Why? How?
Why is a member of a terrorist group adforded privacy?
Make it make sense. pic.twitter.com/OxCEMbBluv
— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) April 30, 2026
Slight of word: Does @MarkJCarney even know what IRGC stands for — Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? He first called it the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard,” then dropped “Islamic” altogether and just mumbled “revolutionary guard,” as if he’s deliberately avoiding the name.
CBC reports he received “documents”, then buries which documents in paragraph 11.
However, Iran International, the agency that first broke the story, reported that sources within the Canadian government said Taj had been issued a temporary resident permit, a discretionary document that allows a foreign national who is otherwise inadmissible to enter or remain in Canada.
The Libranos: Business As Usual
Stephen Taylor: How Brookfield lobbies Ottawa without Brookfield
The parent is quiet because the screen makes its silence necessary. The work happens at the subsidiary level, where the lobbying registry does not automatically link a company like “Westinghouse Electric Canada LLC” or “Brookfield BRP Canada Corp. DBA Evolugen” back to the Brookfield parent. A member of the public searching the registry for “Brookfield” would find an active but dormant consultant registration and nothing else. You have to know the corporate structure to find the activity.
The Libranos: Partners In Crime
The Adopt-A-Journalist pilot program was a resounding success. Now, it’s time to buy the rest of them off.
The government is doubling down on its support for the Canadian news sector by proposing to massively expand the Labour Journalism Tax Credit to include television and radio news. The announcement in yesterday’s Spring Economic Update didn’t garner much attention, but it will mean tens of millions of dollars for Bell, Rogers, Corus and other broadcasters. The tax credit is the most important support for those who meet the standard of being a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO) as it provides a 35 percent refundable tax credit up to $29,750 per employee. The government paid out roughly $71 million for just over 3,000 journalists in 2024, but that would likely double if coverage extends to television and radio news.
Canadian Competitiveness
As I was sifting through the influencer pulp this morning on the UAE decision to leave OPEC (and decided to sit it out), I stumbled upon this chart from the just released OPEC Annual Statistical Bulletin.
Let’s zoom in.
Blue is crude price, red is tax, coral is industry profit margin.
Related.
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has ‘no plans’ to reduce US assets, per FT
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 29, 2026
Is Our Diversities Learing?
Our Managing Editor, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa has obtained a secret, internal bombshell report from the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School. This 15 page document exposes shocking military secrets that Mark Carney is not sharing with the public.
One critical platoon was revealed to be 83% non-citizen residents – many in Canada for just three months – and it descended into total dysfunction.
Cultural infighting between Cameroonian and Ivorian factions within the CANADIAN Armed Forces.
Repeated allegations of racism flying between squabbling tribes.
A shocking lack of respect toward female members and instructors.
Graduation rate? A catastrophic 48%.
“The National Observer record speaks for itself “
A Vancouver climate news site, the National Observer, is the nation’s heaviest user of Department of Canadian Heritage grants, newly-disclosed records show. The “independent news site” received more than $1.3 million in taxpayers’ aid to cover the equivalent of 23 employees’ salaries while its CEO served on a volunteer board responsible for approving grants: “The National Observer record speaks for itself regarding our independence from any government.”
@bcbluecon – Yup. Tides owns the National Observer for example: Publisher Linda Solomon Wood
The Libranos: Threats And Bribes
So, name them.
Conservative MP Kelly DeRidder was not only approached by the Liberals to cross the floor, they used pressure to try & convince her by telling her that a candidate would be running in Kitchener Center with support from both the Liberals & the Greens & that she wouldn’t stand a… pic.twitter.com/jXjToWjWMz
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 28, 2026
The Libranos: “You are asking more than we can give”
Gradually, Then Suddenly
How are them elbows working out for ya?
Rogers Communications is offering voluntary departure packages to roughly half of its employees, in what is believed to be the largest round of buyout offers in Canada’s telecom sector in recent years.
Rogers said about 50 per cent of its roughly 25,000 employees across numerous business divisions will be offered packages, according to the Globe & Mail.
“We are taking steps to adjust our cost structure to reflect the business realities of the current environment. As part of this, some teams have chosen to offer voluntary departure and retirement programs to give some employees the choice to decide whether they’d like to stay with the company or begin a new chapter,” said Rogers spokesperson Zac Carreiro in the report.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Great moments in Liberal economics: This is akin to a man who’s in debt borrowing hundreds of thousands to buy stocks.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce plans to create a sovereign wealth fund Monday, a day ahead of the spring economic statement, according to a senior government official.
The fund will be used to invest alongside the private sector in major projects that the Carney government has committed to building over the coming years, and the government also plans to create a way for individual Canadians to contribute, the official said.
Mr. Carney will lay out the details of the fund at an event Monday in Ottawa, while Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will have a separate event in Montreal.
The Globe and Mail is not identifying the official as they were not authorized to publicly comment on the pending announcement.
A sovereign wealth fund is a state-owned investment account that is typically independently managed.
Maybe they should name it something like “Canadian Infrastructure Bank”.
I Want A New Country
Oh, now the Liberals need Alberta oil and gas…
To use as leverage to protect the Dairy Cartel and eastern manufacturing. https://t.co/WpjjkJBSz6
— David Staples (@DavidStaplesYEG) April 25, 2026
Cubada
Ralph Goodale on Canada-US relations: "A relationship that has lasted for more than 80 yrs has come to an end. And we're now trying to build something to replace it. We need to make sure in building that replacement we are less vulnerable and less dependent than we used to be." pic.twitter.com/FG7shJ14RI
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertsonca) April 24, 2026