The Food Professor- Academic here.
At first, I dismissed the plagiarism accusation against Mark Carney as Conservatives just digging up dirt — I didn’t see the point of it after 30 years. But I’m a little more concerned about it today. Here’s why. Continue reading
A fun watch, no politics.
Peter Menzies- This is the first election in which media have a direct financial stake in the outcome: does it show?
Welcome to the first Canadian election in which reporters covering it have the incumbent government to thank for showering their bosses with hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies.
Peter Menzies- Gloves are off, elbows are up, media cross swords and accusations of shilling for the Liberals fly
Grits grabbing Globe and CBC content for attack ads supporting Carney’s “positive” campaign while CTV Ottawa drops all pretence of journalism as anything other than a circus sideshow
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and behold the dawning of a new Bronze Age.
According to The Bureau’s analysis of prior CSIS reporting, comments by Chiang—a former police officer in the Markham area—reflect a longstanding pattern of election interference by the People’s Republic of China in Canada, including the use of Chinese-language media in Toronto, operating under consular influence, to amplify pro-Beijing narratives and promote candidates perceived as sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party.
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole suggested Saturday that the riding of Markham–Unionville, where Paul Chiang unseated incumbent Conservative Bob Saroya in 2021, was among several successfully targeted by Beijing’s interference operations—part of what he says weakened key Conservative campaigns and ultimately contributed to his resignation as party leader.
Chiang, the sitting Member of Parliament and a candidate for re-election, was quoted in Ming Pao suggesting individuals could “claim the one-million-dollar bounty” placed by Hong Kong authorities on Conservative candidate Joe Tay—by bringing Tay to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. According to reporting, Chiang also remarked that Tay’s criminal charge under Hong Kong’s national security law would cause a “great controversy” if Tay were elected to Parliament, before issuing his bounty comment to laughter among the gathered Chinese journalists.
Chiang issued a brief apology after the remarks surfaced on Thursday. But the backlash has only intensified, with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accusing Chiang of echoing Chinese Communist Party repression—and Mark Carney of turning a blind eye.
“Liberal MP and candidate Paul Chiang’s heinous call to turn over a Canadian citizen to the authoritarian regime in Beijing in return for a Chinese Communist Party bounty is no accident—it reflects the Liberals’ long-standing mockery and neglect of national security for their own partisan gain,” Poilievre said Saturday.
“Carney is weak and compromised by money his company owes Beijing. His silence on these deplorable comments says it all. Carney must fire Paul Chiang as a candidate.”
Veteran democracy activist Cheuk Kwan, co-chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, surfaced Chiang’s remarks Friday and called for the MP to resign.
“This is shocking. Mr. Chiang openly encouraged people to assist in China interference and transnational repression,” Kwan said. “Rather than protecting Canadians, he betrayed them and jeopardized their safety.”
Kwan noted that the bounty on Tay was issued by the Hong Kong Police Force under its new national security laws, because Tay runs a YouTube channel in Canada that is critical of governance imposed from Beijing.
I’m old enough to remember the Chinese police station story that quietly died away.
Lilley: Carney is, for far, standing by Chiang’s call to hand over a Canadian citizen to China.
Woke America: Does it get any more un-American than this? The woke elites and museums.
Conman Carney’s Canada: A pair of CBC reports. Carney’s severing of Canada. Liberals are screwing the West.
Odds And Ends: China’s digital noose. Israel’s secret weapon. A Dubai Muslim. Socialist Britain. A book review.
The Sunday Hymn.
In the not too distant past, there was an infamous investigation/prosecution called AbScam.
Your best recent tips are appreciated!
You may be entitled to compensation. (Just kidding, you’re not.)
I’m looking at you Newfoundland.
Telegraph- Labour launches net zero crackdown on boats
Under the maritime decarbonisation strategy, boat owners will be forced to swap out diesel engines, petrol generators and wood-fired stoves for electric motors, batteries and extra shore power hookups. There will also be tax rises on marine fuel, with new boats required to be entirely electric.
And they are delicious.
The freak ( Aubrey Cottle ) from Oshawa, Ontario, who hacked & released the private info of donors to the Freedom Convoy through GiveSendGo has just been arrested & is facing charges for hacking/theft of data from the Texas Republican Party.
Speaking bluntly about the nexus between Chinese Triads and Mexican cartels operating in Canada, Asher said: “Of course, they’re in bed with each other. This is why Tse Chi Lop lived in Toronto… These cartels are now designated as terrorist organizations. That changes everything—how we prosecute them, and what tools we can use.”
…you have to vote me in before you get to see if I’m a good negotiator or not.
Blacklock’s- I’ll Get Results, PM Promises
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday promised results for Canada in renegotiating a new trade deal with the United States but said details must be kept confidential for the time being.
These photos were taken after Epstein's first arrest and conviction, which means Carney knew precisely whose company he was keeping. But he did so anyway, because the reputational costs for elites who liked hobnobbing with international sex traffickers was negligible at the time. https://t.co/vFpS0Fou6L
— Katewerk (@katewerk) March 29, 2025
Matt Taibbi: Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I’d have found these stories about Elon Von Hitler-Musk detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. But the education sob stories now flying off the presses are a Burj Khalifa of “needs context.” A gigantic lie of omission is a constant feature of these stories…
Ron Butler lays it out for Canada in this podcast: “We’re f***ed!”.
“…you don’t have to move the assembly plant at all; you just have to work out how to produce the same cars in the United States. That’s a big tooling shift [that] could take a few months but in some cases they just may let the that brand run out. Like if we’re making nothing but…Lexus here maybe they just let that brand run low for a few months and then they [move] the tooling [to] Kentucky and away they go.”
The way I see this election playing out is as follows: whoever wins better hope they get a majority because they won’t want to face the voters anytime soon after they cave in to all, or nearly all, of Trump’s demands.
“Trump has exposed fundamental problems in our economy”
This is a must watch. pic.twitter.com/vui2GwnVXP— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) March 28, 2025
Related, for the slow learners in the back.
Woke America: Disney’s dwarf discrimination. We agree with Walz. Clinton’s lies.
Conman Carney’s Canada: The Eurasia Group. Dividing Canadians. Carney’s globalist ideas.
Odds And Ends: The subject of slavery. Whiteness is a problem. Australia’s Carney.
Your morning meme. And at the Bee.
The Hub has donated their payment to charity.
It beggars belief.
In the past two weeks, with little fanfare and virtually no reporting, news outlets large and small started receiving millions in cash payments from something called the Canadian Journalism Collective.
Who, you might well ask, is this generous, new patron of the country’s ink-stained wretches?
Why are they suddenly showering journalists in lucre amid an election campaign?
And why is none of this being reported on by the media itself?
These are important questions that every Canadian should be asking.
The CJC — or the Collective as it sometimes calls itself—is a non-profit organization selected by Google to parcel out $100 million in annual payments the so-called “Tech Titan” is required to make to news outlets in order to comply with the Trudeau government’s Online News Act.
It’s rather remarkable if you think about it. The cheques are being distributed just as the incumbent government kicks off an election campaign in search of its fourth term.
