Former Canadian intelligence officer Phil Gurski says Ottawa should use part of its proposed $6-billion boost to Canada’s spy agency to build a foreign intelligence service capable of spying on allies, including the United States.

“That’s a chunk of cash that could be used to create this foreign intelligence wing within CSIS,” Gurski told Canadaland.

Budget 2026 proposes $6 billion over 10 years starting in 2027–28 to expand the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Ottawa says the funding would help Canada rely less on foreign partners. The budget sets no amount aside for a foreign intelligence wing.

CSIS can already investigate threats to Canada’s security overseas. That authority to collect intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of foreign governments is exercised from within the country.

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Author: Hymie Rubenstein

In an ongoing legal appeal, the Government of Canada argues that a federal court judge made several errors in a 2025 finding that it had a duty to provide two remote Indian Band communities in Manitoba with adequate housing and safe drinking water.

This appeal is the first stage of class-action lawsuits that could eventually cost the government hundreds of billions of dollars, if expanded to other remote indigenous reserves, whether attached to this case or not.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the leaders of Shamattawa and St. Theresa Point Indian Bands held a news conference on October 27, where they questioned the federal government’s decision to appeal and called on Canada to uphold its treaty obligations.

“These are without a doubt some of the most consequential appeals that my colleagues and I will ever argue,” Michael Rosenberg, the lawyer representing the Indian Bands, said at the news conference.

“This is not a case about hardship in the abstract. Canada is not a bystander to class members’ plight. This country was built on their dispossession.”

The appeal challenges Federal Court Justice Paul Favel’s finding late last year that the government should have provided adequate housing to St. Theresa Indian Band, Sandy Lake Indian Band and other members of a $5-billion class action certified in 2024.

Favel, a member of the Poundmaker Cree Indian Band, said the class members’ reserves were generally short “hundreds of houses to adequately shelter their populations,” with many families forced to live in condemned units.

In a separate decision, Favel found Ottawa also had a duty to provide Shamattawa Indian Band and other Indigenous communities subject to drinking water advisories after June 20, 2020, with water suitable for human consumption.

That $1.1-billion class action builds on an earlier action over drinking water advisories that led to an $8-billion settlement in 2021.

The October 28 hearing mostly revolved around the water decision. Federal government lawyers argued the judge made several legal and evidentiary errors.

Among other observations, they said Favel completely disregarded evidence presented by the Crown while accepting evidence no longer relevant to the period the class action covers.

“The analysis on the core legal issues all considered historical evidence,” said government lawyer Willemien Kruger. “It is possible that the motions judge… wasn’t persuaded by our evidence, but it is still the fact that it had to be addressed.”

The petitioners also said Favel’s views would oblige Canada to care for all aspects of on-reserve programs and services, which would run counter to Canada’s policy of supporting indigenous self-government.

A second stage would deal with the scope or existence of any fiduciary breaches and potential remedies. Rosenberg opined that Canada would argue that it fulfilled its duties or that it ultimately has no liability during that second stage.

While no further reports about the proceedings are available, they are bound to concern the Treaty rights given to these two bands.

Though I’m no legal scholar by a long shot, I know that none of the treaties Indigenous people freely signed with the British or Canadian governments during the 19th and 20th centuries included a requirement to provide safe drinking water or reserve housing.

Instead, the historic treaties (those signed before 1975) often, but not always, include land to be set aside for Indian reserve use only, monies paid annually to a band and its members, hunting and fishing rights on unoccupied Crown land, and schools and teachers on reserves funded by the government.

Nevertheless, Shamattawa launched the class action, which was certified in 2023, on behalf of all Indian Band members countrywide whose communities were subject to a drinking water advisory in effect on or after June 20, 2020.

Favel claimed in his December 5, 2025, decision that the federal government had to ensure the Shamattawa Indian Band and other bands that opted into the northern Manitoba class-action suit received safe drinking water during the claim period.

The judge also found in a separate ruling that residents of St. Theresa Point Indian Band in northeastern Manitoba, Sandy Lake Indian Band in northern Ontario, along with other class-action members, should have been provided with adequate housing on their reserves from June 12, 1999, until the present — the class period defined in the lawsuit.

In both decisions, Favel said that the Canadian government made aboriginal people dependent by forcing them to relocate to reserves, and that the country has historically “exerted direct control over every facet of indigenous First Nations life through legislation, regulations, policies, and practices,” including control over financing for water infrastructure and housing.

These statements fly in the face of the voluntary signing of Treaty 5 by the ancestors of both Bands and neighbouring groups in 1875-76 and 1908-10.

Much of what is today central and northern Manitoba was covered by the treaty, as were a few small adjoining portions of the present-day provinces of Saskatchewan and Ontario.

These treaties are protected by the 1982 Canadian Constitution and take precedence over its other provisions.

Section 25 says: “The guarantee in this Charter of certain rights and freedoms shall not be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any aboriginal, treaty or other rights or freedoms that pertain to the aboriginal peoples of Canada, including (a) any rights or freedoms that have been recognized by the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763; and

(b) any rights or freedoms that now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired.”

Section 35 says: “(1) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed …. (3) For greater certainty, in subsection (1) “treaty rights” includes rights that now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired.”

While superficially correct, Favel’s statements that aboriginals were not allowed to leave their reserves, presumably to secure clean water or adequate housing in this case, are irrelevant to the matter at hand.

Under the “pass system,” 1885-1941, a haphazardly observed regulation that ended long before contaminated water became an issue on many reserves, its purpose was to protect aboriginal people “… from the rest of society for their own good, as contact tended to be injurious to them.” This was particularly true about reducing easy access to alcohol, which resulted in widespread alcoholism.

The $5-billion St. Theresa Point and Sandy Lake class-action also said the federal government “deliberately underfunded housing on reserves,” while restricting its ability to provide housing.

“Class members’ reserves are generally short hundreds of houses to adequately shelter their populations,” Favel wrote, saying that many families are forced to live in condemned units because they have no other options.

To repeat, housing is unmentioned in any of the Treaties. It also needs to be asked who provided Indigenous Bands with housing prior to colonization. The short answer is that they provided this themselves on an individual and family basis.

Moreover, what other Canadians are provided with free housing? Canada’s housing market operates primarily through private ownership and rental systems. Yes, federal, provincial, and municipal governments offer various forms of financial assistance and subsidized housing for low-income residents, seniors, people with disabilities, and eligible newcomers, whether they are indigenous or not. Apart from young or middle-aged people with severe disabilities, the only significant cohort of Canadians provided with food, clothing, and shelter are elderly impoverished people who are terminally ill. If their families cannot care for them, they either become homeless or are supported by the state or by private entities heavily dependent on state funding.

As for safe water, whether cottagers or full-time residents, non-indigenous Canadians living in remote areas of the country must provide their own drinking water.

Also challenging Favel’s rulings is the Federal Budget 2026 just tabled by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, which commits a historic total of $50 billion over 10 years for programs and services directed at indigenous peoples.

A total of $32 billion over 10 years is earmarked for Indian Band infrastructure and housing, covering roads, bridges, schools, health facilities, and water plants starting in 2027–28. It also provides nearly $13 billion for maintaining, repairing, and constructing homes on reserves.

None of these expenditures are mandated by either the Treaties or the Constitution.

Finally, there is the issue of possible judicial bias.

While in private practice prior to his appointment to the Federal Court in 2017, Justice Favel acted largely for aboriginal clients, was a member of the Oversight Committee of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, taught “First Nations economic development” at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, and, according to the government website announcing his judicial appointment, is “a member of Poundmaker Cree Nation, (who) maintains close connections with his community and served on the Band Council from 2012 to 2013.”

Regardless of which side prevails in this appeal, this battle over water and housing rights is bound to eventually reach the Supreme Court of Canada.

Hymie Rubenstein is a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba and a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

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The CBC removed a CBC Kids News video on Monday after a Juno News investigation and wave of criticism online came down on the state broadcaster for platforming unconventionally coloured poppies and their causes during Remembrance Day.

The CBC’s resurfaced video, which was still online Monday, tells children that some people are using different-coloured poppies because they feel the traditional red poppy “focuses too much on soldiers.”

The CBC Kids News video, originally published on YouTube in November of 2021, features host Isabelle MacNeal and serves as an explainer for children about the history and use of the poppy.

The controversy arose from the host stating that some organizations and individuals are using white, purple, black and rainbow poppies for other war-related causes, while simply stating that the Legion “disagrees” with the use of these other variations of its traditional trademarked poppy.

“Recently, different colour poppies have been popping up. So what’s the deal? Well, some feel that the red poppy focuses too much on soldiers and can be perceived as glorifying war,” MacNeal says in the video. “While the Legion disagrees with this, multi-coloured poppies have sprung up as a result.”

After Juno News asked the CBC to respond to the criticisms and explain whether they stand by the video, which was still available on its Kids News channel, Chuck Thompson, a spokesperson for the state broadcaster, said, “The video has been taken down.”

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When police arrested Diana Bosco, 40, a perennial pro-Palestinian protestor in Toronto on November 8, their press release said a “woman” had been arrested. Legacy media followed along en masse. Except, Bosco has been public about his male-to-female transition for years.

On his YouTube channel, Bosco details his transition since at least 2017. In 2021, the CBC reported that Bosco had transitioned about four years earlier and was struggling to get an Ontario Photo Card with an “F” designation.

So why are the police incorrectly identifying Bosco as female in official reporting?

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Three grass fires broke out across Edmonton over the Diwali weekend after individuals set off fireworks without permits, sending firefighters scrambling to multiple locations across the city.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (EFRS) responded to fires near 41 Avenue and 344 Street SW, 34 Avenue and Meridian Street, and 34 Avenue and Calgary Trail.

One fire came dangerously close to a home in the Ermineskin neighbourhood, burning just metres from a resident’s backyard fence.

Tara Hoffman, who lives nearby, warned that the fire could easily have spread to nearby properties, putting homes and lives at risk.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada’s growing economic ties with China pose fewer security risks than its relationship with the U.S., despite previously calling Beijing Canada’s greatest security threat.

Carney made that comparison in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen, China (November 18-19).

“We’ll discuss our economic partnership, which is something that is deepening but has clear guardrails in terms of the areas in which we’re involved,” Carney told reporters.

“In terms of the security risks of our partnership, they are much, much, much, much less than the security risks, for example, of the United States,” he declared.

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The Carney Liberals are making the rural immigration program permanent, targeting 5,500 permanent resident admissions next year. Meanwhile, Ottawa is promising to cut temporary immigration to relieve some of the pressure on communities as they prepare for their permanent arrivals.

Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab announced Monday that the Rural Community Immigration Pilot will become a permanent pathway to residency, allowing employers to recruit and retain foreign workers in communities facing persistent labour shortages.

The program will start off with 14 participating communities across six provinces with the intention of rolling out to further regions.

“Many face real challenges finding the workers they need,” Diab said. “That’s why we’re transitioning our successful rural immigration pilot into a permanent program.”

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Author: Richard Dur

There are two ways to leave an abortion clinic. (For the unborn child, there is no such choice.) One is through the front door. The other is in an ambulance.

The second is not an outcome the abortion industry likes to advertise.

It does not conform to the reassuring language of “reproductive healthcare,” the arguments about “access,” or the promises of “choice.”

It belongs to a less comfortable vocabulary: hemorrhage, emergency department, retained tissue, hospital transfer. And, occasionally, “severe harm”: permanent injury or death.

At Calgary’s Kensington Clinic, those words are not hypothetical. They appear repeatedly in government records recently obtained through access-to-information requests.

So do the names of hospitals where patients subsequently received care.

The records identify emergency departments and hospitals across Alberta. Foothills Medical Centre. Peter Lougheed Centre. Rockyview General Hospital. South Health Campus. Hospitals in Red Deer, Lethbridge, Drumheller and Fort McMurray.

A veritable provincial tour of emergency medicine.

Some patients were transferred directly from the clinic. Others arrived at a hospital on their own. And if some women reported a spontaneous miscarriage to the triage nurse rather than disclosing a recent induced abortion, the official figures may tell only part of the story.

Then there are the lawsuits, including those brought by two women who took Kensington Clinic and its abortionists to court, alleging serious injuries following their abortions.

And all of this matters to Alberta taxpayers.

They fund the abortions, the hospital treatments when complications arise and the legal consequences when publicly funded defendants face litigation. All flowing from abortions that, in most cases, were elective rather than medically necessary in the first place.

Surely somewhere in this arrangement, the taxpayer ought to be entitled to a few answers?

In July 2004, Nawal Basheer went to the Kensington Clinic for an abortion. According to her statement of claim, the clinic’s head nurse acknowledged that its ultrasound equipment was inadequate. The clinic assured Basheer that the abortion had been successful.

It hadn’t.

Nearly three months later, Basheer learned she was still pregnant. The first abortion had failed. The taxpayers would now fund another, this time at the Peter Lougheed Hospital.

Her statement of claim offered a revealing glimpse into the circumstances surrounding her abortion: missed university midterms (requiring private tutoring to make up for them), a second abortion (that conflicted with her religious convictions concerning the stage of pregnancy at which abortion is permissible) and a broken engagement with her fiancé.

Alleging serious physical and psychological harm, Basheer sought $250,000 in damages from Dr. Theodore Mitchell Busheikin, Dr. John L. Barrow, Kensington Clinic, Calgary Health Region, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and then-Alberta health minister, Iris Evans.

Fifteen years later, another woman alleged serious injuries following an abortion at that same clinic.

Krista Cormier alleged that in June 2019, Kensington Clinic inserted an intrauterine contraceptive device despite the presence of “retained pregnancy tissue” following her abortion. Her lawsuit described hemorrhaging, emergency treatment and surgeries that included the removal of her uterus and both fallopian tubes — costing her fertility.

An abortion intended to end one pregnancy cost her the possibility of another. Cormier sued Dr. Bruce Allan and 492246 Alberta Ltd., the company operating as the Kensington Clinic. Court records identify claims for $950,000 and $100,000 in damages.

Two lawsuits over fifteen years might suggest serious complications are exceedingly rare. But lawsuits are not complication statistics. Were these isolated incidents, or merely two that reached Alberta’s courts and happened to come to light?

Newly released government records raise further questions.

Documents recently released through access-to-information requests by Acute Care Alberta (ACA), the provincial agency overseeing hospital and emergency care since 2025, reveal a history of patients requiring hospital treatment following an abortion at the Kensington Clinic. (See ACA disclosures: 2013–2025 and 2025–2026.)

These are not allegations from wild-eyed pro-life protesters. They are entries in the government’s own reporting system.

The records extend back to 2013 and include emergency department visits, hospital admissions and transfers. One September 2025 incident stands out.

A patient experienced hemorrhage following an aspiration abortion after an unsuccessful chemical abortion. She was transferred by ambulance to Foothills Medical Centre.

The government’s classification was unmistakable: “Severe Harm (critical incident).” The designation covers a range of serious outcomes, including death and significant injury, but the released record does not identify which of those outcomes occurred.

Other records describe patients requiring hospital care, severe bleeding following an abortion and treatment for retained pregnancy tissue.

Though the disclosures do not establish Kensington Clinic’s overall complication rate, they do establish that serious complications do occur.

Unlike physicians treating illness or injury, the overwhelming majority of an abortionist’s patients are young, strong and in good health: pregnant women. When a non-medically necessary, elective procedure results in serious injury, questions of medical judgment, patient safety and accountability become especially pressing.

What did the authorities know? What did they do? And where are the records documenting their response?

On November 4, 2026, Acute Care Alberta explained that its current reporting system was introduced in April 2023. Subject-matter experts, including a former Kensington Clinic executive director, confirmed that some older records were no longer available.

The records that might help explain how earlier incidents were reported, investigated and resolved are, at least in part, unavailable. Gone.

What makes the newly released records particularly troubling — to say nothing of the unavailable ones — is the contrast.

Inside the Kensington Clinic, women have alleged serious injuries, patients have required emergency hospital care, and the government acknowledges that some records no longer exist. Outside the Kensington Clinic, even peaceful attempts to warn women about the risks of abortion are prohibited in the name of protecting them.

For decades, abortion providers like the Kensington Clinic have sought restrictions on free speech outside abortion facilities.

In 2018, following lobbying by Alberta’s abortion providers, the province’s NDP government enacted the Protecting Choice for Women Accessing Health Care Act, establishing 50-metre access zones, or “bubble-zones,” where even “request[ing] that a patient refrain from accessing abortion services” is prohibited.

Those prohibitions remained in force throughout Jason Kenney’s premiership and remain in force under Danielle Smith.

But the law goes further. It also prohibits certain forms of observation of abortion facilities. Someone keeping an eye on activity from within the bubble zone, including ambulance arrivals and departures, could be breaking the law.

The province can tell a citizen where she may stand, what approaches are forbidden and what conduct may constitute unlawful observation. But ask what happened to a woman transported from the clinic to hospital with severe hemorrhaging, and the answers become considerably less clear.

Censorship conceals what observation might expose.

The government and the courts, doing the abortion industry’s bidding, have made it a legal priority to police the sidewalk outside abortion facilities. How effectively have those same authorities scrutinized what happens inside the walls of those facilities? The sidewalk, apparently, demands extraordinary vigilance. The medical incidents? We are still trying to obtain the paperwork.

And the irony becomes more difficult to ignore when one considers the justification offered for these restrictions: protecting women.

Which presents the greater danger to women seeking an abortion: someone standing on the sidewalk peacefully warning her of the harms of abortion, or the possibility of suffering that very harm inside the clinic, with the circumstances and outcome beyond public scrutiny?

How can a woman make an informed choice if she is denied information about the risks?

Alberta has spent years making certain that the public cannot get too close to the Kensington Clinic. Perhaps it is time the public found out what has been happening inside.

For more information about Alberta’s abortion bubble zone laws and efforts to repeal them, visit PopAlbertaBubbleZones.ca.

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Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner fired back at a CTV host who brought up a significantly smaller surge in temporary foreign workers under Stephen Harper, demanding to know why he was scrutinizing the Conservative government from well over a decade ago instead of Mark Carney.

The spat happened on the November 6 broadcast of Power Play, when host Michael Couture confronted Rempel Garner about the increase between 2006 and 2013 when faced with Carney’s record immigration proposal.

Couture asked whether former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives contributed to Canada’s reliance on temporary foreign workers amid housing and job pressures criticized by Rempel Garner.

“Dude, 2006 called,” Rempel Garner shot back. “Why are you guys asking me about 2006?”

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Last month, I went to Ottawa City Hall to vote in the Ottawa municipal elections.

As a longtime Ottawa resident, I have been to my city hall many times, but this time, something was different: upon entering the building, I had to go through an airport-style security check.

These “enhanced” security protocols have been in place since May 2025 in order to improve safety.

There haven’t been any major incidents at Ottawa City Hall, but Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has pointed to a January 2024 terrorist attack at Edmonton City Hall, in which an Afghan immigrant fired multiple rounds from an SKS semi-automatic rifle into ceilings, walls and glass and ignited a gasoline-filled Molotov cocktail. As reported by the National Post, the suspect had invoked Gaza in his manifesto.

The rise of the metal detector

Ottawa City Hall is not the only place in Canada to get metal detectors in recent years.

Earlier this fall, the owners of the Edmonton City Centre mall, which is Edmonton’s main downtown mall, akin to Toronto’s Eaton Centre, Montreal’s Eaton Centre, Vancouver’s Pacific Centre and Ottawa’s Rideau Centre, announced that metal detectors would be installed at entrances to address safety concerns.

Meanwhile in Winnipeg, people now need to go through an airport-style security screening at the city’s main downtown library, the Millennium Library. These measures were put in place in January 2023, following a fatal stabbing at the library.

Metal detectors have also become commonplace at hospital emergency rooms across Canada, as well as schools.

At Dene High School in La Loche, Saskatchewan, metal detectors were installed in 2023 after a stabbing left a student and a teaching assistant injured. In 2023, the school also had four security guards on duty.

Back in 2014, Toronto schools rejected the idea of having metal detectors, with Toronto educators saying, “We don’t want to turn schools into the stereotypical downtown American city.”

Canadians once prided themselves on the fact that, unlike America, our public places, including hospitals, schools, libraries and malls, did not need airport-style security measures.

But now, these airport-style security measures are commonplace across Canada.

The increase in crime

In the last 10 years, crime has significantly increased across Canada.

As reported by The Hub, violent crime in Canada rose by 30 percent between 2013 and 2023, with repeat offenders responsible for 29 percent of homicides in 2022. A study by the Fraser Institute, meanwhile, found that violent crime had risen faster in Canada than in the United States.

Canada, after more than a decade of Liberal rule, has become more violent and dangerous.

And metal detectors popping up everywhere has been the result of this.

We don’t have to live like this

This increase in crime didn’t come by accident.

It came as a direct result of the policy agenda of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Justin Trudeau’s criminal reform agenda with Bills C-5 and C-75 led to a revolving-door justice system, with violent repeat offenders committing crime after crime, while Canada’s justice system has become more preoccupied with racial justice than public safety.

The push to destigmatize, liberalize and decriminalize drugs coincided with a sharp increase in drug use and homelessness, with experts saying both are linked to crime.

Furthermore, the Liberals’ immigration agenda resulted in an immigration system that let in foreign criminals, and woke judges have protected these migrant criminals by giving them sentencing discounts so they are not subjected to deportation.

This is a problem of our own making. But it can also be a problem of our own fixing.

The solution to Canada’s public safety crisis, which has led to metal detectors being installed in libraries, hospitals, schools, malls and town halls, is simple and involves doing the following three things:

1. Locking up the criminals and keeping them in jail rather than giving them bail.

2. Reopening mental health institutions and putting individuals with severe mental illness and drug addiction into involuntary care.

3. Deporting foreign criminals back to the countries they come from.

We don’t have to keep living like this.

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The French government is attributing a mass coordinated cyber attack, which targeted over 700 grocery stores in the country, to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ cyber terrorism wing “Shahid Kaveh,” and the government is now calling on the EU to impose sanctions in response to the unprecedented attack on the nation’s infrastructure.

The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs announced Monday that they have identified Islamic regime state actors as the culprits behind the mass cyber attack, which hacked into grocery store refrigeration units to raise the temperature and spoil food on the night of October 11-12.

“France condemns in the strongest possible terms the unacceptable cyberattacks carried out on its territory by the Islamic Republic of Iran against its interests,” France’s Cyber Crisis Coordination Centre said in the statement.

“These cyberattacks caused considerable material damage, fires, and food losses estimated at tens of millions of euros. They represent a major threat to the interests of the nation and the safety of the French people.”

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Schools encouraged to embrace white poppies by pro-Palestine activists

World BEYOND War Canada, a pro-Palestinian activist group, is encouraging Canadian schools to adopt white poppies ahead of Remembrance Day as part of its “anti-war” campaign.

The group released a handbook for students in Grades 1–12 that challenges traditional commemorations of military sacrifice and promotes white poppies as symbols of “peace and remembrance for all victims of war.” Critics argue the initiative risks undermining the significance of the red poppy and the sacrifices of Canadian veterans. Keep reading.

WARNING: Carney wants dollar linked to digital Euro

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pursuing closer integration of Canada’s financial infrastructure, with hopes of linking the Canadian dollar to the European Union’s payment systems and collaborating on mutually accepted digital IDs.

Under the Canada–EU Alliance for the Future, both sides are exploring how to connect Canada’s Real-Time Rail payment system with Europe’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement network as European central bankers advance plans for their digital euro — a central bank digital currency. Keep reading.

Liberals dangle $501M in media subsidies as CRA vets newsrooms

The Carney Liberals are proposing $501 million in tax credits for legacy media outlets over five years, extending the enhanced 35 per cent journalism tax credit through 2028 and expanding eligibility to private broadcasters.

Meanwhile, the Canada Revenue Agency is retaining the authority to evaluate news organizations’ eligibility for taxpayer-funded benefits, including reviewing their published reporting, based on their own standards. Keep reading.

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Mark Carney’s Liberals are handing out $501 million in media tax credits as the CRA reviews newsroom reporting and determines which outlets qualify for the taxpayer-funded credits.

The 2026 budget would extend the enhanced 35 percent journalism tax credit to 2028 and broaden eligibility to include qualifying private broadcasters. The measure is estimated to cost $501 million over the five years, with $85 million per year thereafter.

To be eligible for tax benefits that require Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO) status, newsrooms must meet the federal eligibility requirements set out by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

The agency can review published stories, assess whether the reporting constitutes original news (often subjectively) and judge the quality of the journalism (including fact-checking and the pursuit of contrary views).

The CRA can also revoke an outlet’s designation if it no longer meets the statutory requirements, which could cut it off from the associated tax benefits.

While the agency can’t dictate editorial positions, approve stories before publication or otherwise stop newsrooms from doing their work, given its history of selectively deciding what does and does not constitute original reporting, it’s easy to imagine some news organizations may alter their editorial direction to appear more in line with the CRA’s bias so they qualify.

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Canada fell an estimated 554,000 private sector jobs short of U.S. performance under Justin Trudeau, as job growth failed to keep pace with the working-age population between 2019 and 2024, according to a new Fraser Institute study.

From 2019 to 2024, private sector job growth lagged behind Canada’s working-age population growth. The 554,000 figure represents hypothetical additional jobs — not jobs lost.

“Despite political rhetoric, Canada has performed poorly compared to America in creating private sector jobs,” study co-author Ben Eisen said in the institute’s November 3 release.

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Green Party Leader Elizabeth May took some shots at the Liberals’ Budget 2026, saying she’s “appalled” by the federal Liberals’ budget and claims that she regrets propping up Liberals in votes of confidence when it mattered.

In one of her last remarks as Green Party Leader before Mike Morrice takes the helm, May lambasted the Liberal Party for abandoning climate targets in the budget, even as the government still states that Canada will be net zero by 2050.

“This is the first budget in more than a decade that not only fails to live up to the challenge of the climate crisis, but actually repudiates the very idea of targets,” she said in the House of Commons on Friday.

“The Liberals still mouth the words ‘net zero by 2050’ as if they are meaningful… Net zero by 2050 was an invention for public relations purposes to kick down the road to 2050 any real action for our children and grandchildren.”

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing for Canada’s payment system to be linked directly to Europe’s. And this push comes as European central bankers are moving forward with their own plans for a central bank digital currency, the digital euro.

Under the Canada–EU Alliance for the Future (announced at the Montréal summit of October 29-30), the two sides have agreed to look at the possibility of linking Canada’s Real-Time Rail (RTR) with Europe’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system.

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Microsoft has filed a patent for new technology that uses artificial intelligence to rewrite what someone says during livestreams. The technology can even alter the person’s face to make the change appear authentic.

The proposed technology would monitor speech during a live event and identify words to remove or replace. Generative AI would create the new audio, then change the speaker’s mouth movements to match. Viewers could receive the altered broadcast within roughly one to ten seconds.

The changes could be based on preset rules or the personal profile of each viewer. As a result, two people watching the same event could hear different versions of what was said.

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A U.S.-sanctioned organization is hosting a Toronto conference celebrating the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. The program advertises the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine alongside a Samidoun co-founder and representatives of Palestine Action Canada.

Masar Badil, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, is organizing the November 28–29 conference under the banner “3 Years of Al-Aqsa Flood: Resistance & Return From the Belly of the Beast,” with Al-Aqsa Flood being the name Hamas gave its October 7 offensive.

The conference website calls it “one of the most courageous acts of resistance in our lifetimes” and a “glorious feat.”

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Canadian teachers are being encouraged to replace traditional Remembrance Day lessons with a white poppy campaign developed by a pro-Palestinian anti-war group with documented ties to terrorist-designated organizations.

Ahead of Remembrance Day, the Palestine activist group World BEYOND War Canada released a handbook for students in Grades 1–12. The group says that conventional commemorations glorify war and violence.

For Canadians, Remembrance Day honours the men and women who fought and died defending the country and its freedoms. It is a solemn day of gratitude and national remembrance, symbolized by the red poppy and a promise that their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

“The white poppy is not in competition with the red poppy,” the campaign says. Instead, they say they’re offering a symbol for “all war victims” to represent “nonviolent solutions to various disputes.”

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Their focus was on how the neutering of Republican President Donald Trump would impact the trade talks and the tariffs (in a positive way).

Most of the comments were childish and highly disconnected from reality.

Premier Doug Ford — thinking this was retribution after getting sucked in by Trump’s trolling and pushing his many sophomoric tactics to fight Trump — couldn’t wait to post that he was ready to do cartwheels over the Blue Wave across the U.S.

Ford, who has been a huge disappointment as Premier, along with various Elbows Up boomers and media with TDS, seemed to assume Trump was already put out to pasture and their troubles would disappear as if by magic.

Former Conservative premier Jason Kenny, in a most delusional way, insisted the Republicans lost over the tariffs.

Well, excuse me, Jason, but I hate to inform you that you and Canadian trade woes were not on the Midterms radar in the slightest.

Why are you so arrogant, or insecure, to think Americans, or the Democrats elected, give a crap about our trade issues and our economy?

Does the Elbows Up crowd, lapsed Conservatives and other Canadians fixated on Trump think that because we are obsessed with him, Americans are obsessed with Canadians?

I’ve got news for the fools thinking the sun will shine over Canada now that Trump has been neutered.

For one thing, he is still president and still has the power to veto the crazy left-wing radicals now in office.

In fact, this particular post struck a chord. The comments are similar to what I’ve been saying since Trump first came to power and subsequently PM Mark Carney.

I continually ask those Canadians with TDS why they are so obsessed with Trump and why they are not paying attention to what Carney is doing to destroy Canada.

All I’ve seen is Carney jet around the world cozying up to despots and dictators, eating gourmet food on his many flights at taxpayers’ expense, rarely attending Parliament, rarely meeting with the media, spending an inordinate amount of money releasing cheesy videos on his so-called accomplishments and shunning a trade deal with the U.S. over politics and his ginormous ego.

In fact, the budget by the man touted as a great economist — unveiled this week — promises $142B in more spending to allegedly lure investment to Canada. In other words, to correct a problem he essentially created by walking away from the trade talks with the United States.

While preaching affordability, he intends to bring in more immigrants than during any year of Liberal rule. I’m not sure how having more immigrants living off handouts or taking away jobs will help the average Canadian.

He also claims he’ll end homelessness in Canada within 10 years, all dutifully reported by the legacy media enjoying government handouts.

Right. Will he wave his special Carney magic wand and make it disappear as if by magic?

I have covered the homeless file since 1999–some 27 years — and all I’ve seen is more money thrown at the problem and the numbers multiplying exponentially.

Apparently, the legacy media let him get off with any hard questions about what the cost will be to become an EU associate—yet another ridiculous Carney wet dream.

So let me be clear: Our troubles in Canada are not because of the Big Bad Orange Man.

He’s improved the economy, closed the border to illegals, job numbers are up, and the U.S. is firing on all cylinders.

No. Our problems stem from 11 years of Liberal rule, crazy DEI policies, unchecked immigration, a stagnant economy, reckless spending, high taxation and red tape, the legacy media manipulation (can we say CBC) and politicians who try to gaslight us (Carney) into thinking he’s there for us.

Whether Democrats or Republicans are in power, Canada will not turn around until lazy Canadians start to think critically, instead of allowing themselves to be so easily manipulated by a highly narcissistic PM (who cares little about them).

Trust me, the newly elected Democrats, particularly those who align with the far-left Democratic Socialist wing of the party, are only interested in pushing their anti-Western (and sadly anti-semitic) values, their radical (trans) ideologies and protecting illegal aliens.

Canada is the furthest thing from their minds.

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