China Daily’s take on Mark Carney’s visit: pic.twitter.com/uB3mdWKaix
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 15, 2026
[…] No progress on tariffs imposed on Canadian pork, canola, and seafood exports to China, according to @CTVNews
Serious question: Did PM Carney actually meet with China’s President Xi?
I haven’t seen any footage during this trip showing both leaders in the same room.
@RobertFife – China propaganda mouthpiece tells @MarkJCarney to be subservient to Beijing
I like Jeff Snider’s podcasts and in this one he spends the first half talking about Canadian real estate investment funds that are starting to restrict payouts. Given that Canadian real estate values are crashing, if they don’t halt outflows the funds could quickly become insolvent. The Bloomberg article he quotes is behind a paywall, but he conveniently scrolls through it so you can read the whole thing.
Dan Knight- From “Biggest Threat” to Beijing Handshakes
Trump on USMCA renegotiation "I don't really care about it, so it might go away. No real advantage to us. It's irrelevant to me. Canada would love it. Canada wants it. They need it."
"Because we don't need Canada product. That's the thing. You know, I want to be a nice person,… pic.twitter.com/aG68X7vJiz
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) January 13, 2026
Blacklock’s- Cuts Are Five Percent, Not 10
Federal agencies yesterday outlined payroll cuts that were half the 10 percent stated by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Budget Office had sought the figure for months.
“There is a lack of detail regarding the impact on individual programs within each organization including the reduction in personnel and potential service level impacts,” said a Budget Office report. “It is unclear if or when the government plans to publish this information or how it will report on the progress and results of the exercise.”
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.
More evidence of Canadian exceptionalism. But not something to cheer about.
The unemployment rate rose to 6.8 per cent in December, StatCan said, up from 6.5 per cent in November.
What’s really notable is where the losses are occurring:
The professional, scientific and technical services sector meanwhile shed 18,000 positions to end the year, and the accommodation and food services industry also faced losses.
You will live in a pod and eat bugs.
…the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is moving forward with expanded identification and traceability regulations that will require farmers and ranchers to report livestock movements in significantly greater detail. These rules were first proposed in 2023. Conservatives opposed them then, and they oppose them now, because they add new regulatory costs at a moment when households are already being asked to absorb higher food prices and producers are operating under documented financial strain.
(A point repeatedly missed by commentators who write on food prices: commercial beef is sold at auction. Like most western Canadian commodities, there’s no mechanism for producers to recover expenses because they don’t set the price, and their regulatory costs aren’t passed along to the consumer directly.)
John Barlow, the Conservative agriculture critic, released a statement warning that these regulations add yet another layer of red tape onto producers who are already being crushed by higher fuel costs, higher energy prices, labour shortages, drought, and regulatory overload. These aren’t large multinational corporations. These are family farms, ranchers, and community-based agricultural groups trying to survive.[…]
Indeed: The same dysfunctional @liberal_party that has ‘misplaced’ millions of TFW’s, Int’l students, uninvited immigrants etc., and DON’T CARE about finding & sending them home …. Now wants to pinpoint & track EVERY f*kin cow in the food chain??
Farmers would be required to track and report routine livestock movements that were previously informal or community-based, including movements tied to agricultural fairs, 4-H events, rodeos, and local exhibitions.
Those groups have been very clear about what this means. It means more paperwork, more compliance costs, more liability, and fewer events. It threatens youth programs, rural traditions, and the local economies that depend on them. This isn’t theory, these organizations told regulators directly that they may not be able to continue operating under the new rules.
More detail from Alberta Beef Producers: Proposed Part XV of the Health of Animal Regulations
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
Dan Knight- New StatsCan Survey Shows Canadians Losing Faith in Parliament and Media
…just 28.3% of Canadians say they have high confidence (ratings of 4 or 5 out of 5) in Federal Parliament. That’s not a typo. Fewer than three in ten Canadians trust the institution that claims to represent them. Even worse, 40% report low confidence—the highest level of distrust recorded for any major institution measured.
Only 36.2% of Canadians say they have high confidence in the media, while nearly 30% express outright low confidence. Among men, distrust is even sharper, reflecting a growing perception that legacy outlets function less as watchdogs and more as enforcement arms for a narrow ideological consensus. Canadians see the bias. They see the omissions. And they are no longer buying what’s being sold.
National Post- Federal government confirms 25 guns collected in ‘buyback’ pilot,
Public Safety Canada, the department overseeing the program, had, up until Wednesday, only signed two agreements with local jurisdictions whose police agreed to collect firearms to be turned over by gun owners under the controversial program. Those services were in Winnipeg and Cape Breton, the latter of which helped the federal government pilot a test-run of the program, set to be rolled out nationally sometime this month.
But that's not good enough.
Zelenskyy hired her on Dec. 22.
She disclosed that to Carney on Dec. 24. The two of them decided to keep it a secret because…
They gave $2.5 billion to Ukraine on Dec. 27.
What was her involvement in that Dec. 27 decision? https://t.co/R4f0wYEi2P
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 8, 2026
Sun- Six years later, pandemic divide lingers
The vast majority of Canadians don’t know that vaccine manufacturers disclaimed any efficacy or safety statements about their mRNA products. Our governments insisted they were “safe and effective” without any evidence. But they wielded the claim to invoke totalitarian controls in our country and in Manitoba.
Blacklock’s- More Research On Mistrust
The Public Health Agency yesterday budgeted $80,000 to have pollsters design future surveys regarding Canadians’ willingness to take medical advice from the government. It followed a 2023 report acknowledging “increased distrust of government and science.”
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.
What a country.
National Post- There’s not actually anything to stop Canadian MPs working for foreign governments
After former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland got a job with the Ukrainian government while still serving as an MP, she was lambasted by the opposition for serving two masters.
But…
Canada doesn’t have any restrictions against foreign government actors serving in its parliament.
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
