Ottawa may soon let foreign entities invest in Canada’s airports as part of the Carney government’s plan to privatize public assets in the hopes of spurring economic growth.

“We are wide open to foreign investment. We are seeing foreign investment,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Mirabel, QC on Wednesday.

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The Carney government may soon abandon an Arctic naval facility first announced nearly 20 years ago, citing high operating costs and claiming it is no longer needed.

Two government sources told the Globe and Mail that Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to shut down the Nanisivik Naval Facility on northern Baffin Island, despite the Department of National Defence spending $107.6 million to build it.

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Alberta’s Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says the RCMP has found no credible evidence that the province’s growing independence movement is being manipulated by foreign interference.

Ellis’ reassurances directly contradict alarming claims pushed by some academics and legacy media reports suggesting Russian and U.S. forces may be fuelling separatist sentiment.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a rallying speech at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference, calling for Canada’s energy sector to be unleashed, taxes to be cut and criticizing Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government for building an economy on “political favoritism” rather than free enterprise.

During his keynote address to the annual grassroots conservative networking event, Poilievre called for Canada to be restored as a free, safe and prosperous nation built on competition and voluntary co-operation rather than handouts to elite insiders and lobbyists.

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Cenovus CEO Jon McKenzie is sounding the alarm over what he says is Canada’s self-inflicted energy crisis, accusing Ottawa of driving away investment and weakening one of the country’s greatest economic advantages through burdensome climate policies and regulatory delays.

During Cenovus Energy’s first-quarter conference call, McKenzie argued that Canada’s political class has spent years fixating on emissions targets while ignoring the broader economic benefits of oil sands development.

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A convicted child sex offender was arrested by Lethbridge police just hours after walking free from prison for allegedly violating the very court orders meant to protect children.

Police say 47-year-old James Robert George Martinac was released from custody at 7 a.m. on May 1 after serving four years behind bars for a disturbing list of child sex offences, including sexual interference, child luring, possession of child pornography, sexual exploitation and uttering threats.

But according to the Lethbridge Police Service, by 11:45 a.m., less than five hours later, officers allegedly caught Martinac at the public library using social media and viewing images of children online despite being under strict lifetime restrictions.

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By: Marco Navarro-Genie

Marco Navarro-Genie is vice-president of research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and co-author, with Barry Cooper, of Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic (2023).

On the afternoon of April 25, Frances Widdowson, a former Mount Royal University professor, walked into a near-empty cafeteria at the University of Lethbridge (UofL) and sat down with a student for coffee.

She was not holding a rally. She was not disrupting a class. Just a woman of grandmotherly age having a conversation, which is, one might have thought, the foundational act of university life. Lethbridge police arrested her for trespassing.

The trespass order exists because university bureaucrats declared Widdowson a health and safety risk. It is worth pausing on that phrase before accepting it. She threatens no one physically and has no record of violence. The safety risk she is said to pose rests entirely on the institution’s response to her presence.

On each prior occasion Widdowson appeared at the university, administrators sent a mass alert to the student body announcing that a controversial figure was on campus. The protest assembled. The crowd grew loud.

The university then pointed at the crowd it had summoned as evidence that her presence was dangerous and ungovernable. The university was not responding to the disorder. It was creating disorder and then certifying that disorder as grounds for removal. It gave administrators the outcome they wanted while allowing them to present themselves as reluctant custodians of campus safety.

Widdowson’s April 25 visit was different in one respect. It was a Saturday. There was no physical crowd with drums to drown her out. But the machinery ran anyway.

The Faculty Association had already circulated a warning to members, urging caution in their communications due to potential Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) requests. Read that carefully. The association was not calling for a defence of open inquiry. It was not asking members to reflect on the potential spectacle of a woman being escorted from a cafeteria by police for the crime of conversation. It was coaching members on document hygiene so that their internal communications would be harder to obtain and scrutinize. That is an institution protecting itself while an arrest happens in its name.

An old dean at the last university I worked taught me that bureaucratic cowardice rarely announces itself directly. It typically arrives dressed as procedural caution.

None of this has anything to do with truth or reconciliation, whatever the university’s invocations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s Calls to Action might suggest. The university cancelled Widdowson’s 2023 lecture on exactly those grounds, framing her arguments as harmful to Indigenous students and incompatible with its reconciliation commitments.

But the Calls to Action ask for honest engagement with difficult history. Using them to suppress examination of historical claims is institutional self-protection dressed in borrowed moral authority, not reconciliation. The university has never demonstrated that Widdowson’s claims and arguments are fallacious. It has demonstrated only that they are an inconvenience to the orthodox narrative, and an institution of higher learning willing to arrest a woman rather than argue with her has effectively conceded the debate.

Universities govern themselves. Academic freedom, they remind us, requires insulation from outside interference. That argument has merit when the people making it are committed to free inquiry.

What UofL has demonstrated instead is that academic self-governance can become a protection racket for ideological conformity, complete with trespass orders, police escorts and FOIP warnings to sanitize the paper trail. These are not the instruments of a scholarly community.

The Alberta government has watched this unfold for over two years. Reporting requirements without consequences are suggestions. The Chicago Principles, free expression guidelines first developed at the University of Chicago, without enforcement, are decoration.

Those principles, which Alberta required all 26 publicly funded post-secondary institutions to adopt in 2019, are explicit on the central point: debate may not be suppressed because ideas are thought by some to be offensive, unwise or wrong-headed. Shielding members of a university community from views they find disagreeable is not a legitimate institutional purpose. UofL signed on to exactly that standard. Its conduct since has been a systematic repudiation of it.

Widdowson has been harassed and arrested at universities across the country. She was removed from the University of Victoria under B.C.’s Trespass Act in December 2025 for the offence of attempting to speak to students. The pattern is national.

But Alberta has something the other provinces have so far declined to build: a government with an explicit mandate to act, a province-wide free speech framework already in place and a documented case history that removes any pretence of ambiguity. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has already drafted legislation that would empower the minister to levy fines, mandate viewpoint-neutral enforcement of campus policies and allow funding to be withheld from institutions that use administrative power to silence.

The Widdowson case has produced a cancelled lecture, a manufactured protest, a trespass order, a pre-emptive ban titled like a police alert, a Charter challenge before Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench and an arrest in a cafeteria on a quiet Saturday. It is a complete and documented record of precisely the conduct that legislation should address.

The legislature should write it down, give it a number and pass it without delay.

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Palestine Action Canada has published an interactive target map naming dozens of Canadian institutions and providing what it describes as a manual for direct action against them. The group says the sites are linked to Israel or its military and describes the website as a tool for “Dismantling Complicity in Israeli Apartheid. Maintained to support Palestine Action Global only.”

The “target map” identifies locations in Montreal, Barrie, the Greater Toronto Area, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, Langley, B.C., Halifax and St. John, P.E.I.

The accompanying manual outlines how to organize cells for direct action. “3-5 people [is] an ideal number” for a cell, it states, because “keeping the cell small makes it more secure.” It adds that new cells must submit evidence of their first direct action to a secure email account “to receive further information on potential targets.”

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New York Times fabricated Poilievre quote with AI

The left-leaning U.S. legacy media outlet The New York Times has issued an apology and correction after an article published last month fabricated a quote by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre falsely claiming he called floor crossers “turncoats.”

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WATCH: Detransitioners speak out against youth gender transitions on Parliament Hill

A coalition of doctors, academics, parents of transgender-identifying youth and detransitioners gathered on Parliament Hill to raise awareness and call for an end to the medical transition of children in Canada.

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Miller says next media bailout could be $6 billion

Ottawa is preparing a massive new subsidy for Canada’s biggest legacy media companies, with Heritage Minister Marc Miller signalling that covering newsroom labour costs is “not a question of if, but how”, and it could cost taxpayers up to $6 billion.

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Barry Neufeld intends to appeal $750K fine to Supreme Court

A former Chilliwack, B.C., school trustee facing $750,000 in fines from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal says he intends to fight the penalties and stand firm against gender ideology, saying conversations with detransitioners have only strengthened his conviction that youth gender transitions amount to child abuse.

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Anandasangaree won’t provide details on Bill C-22 consultations

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree refused to disclose what he called “privileged information” related to a consultation report on the Liberals’ Bill C-22, proposed legislation critics say would turn Canada into a “surveillance state.”

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Honda pulls the plug on $15B Ontario EV plant

Honda announced that it will halt plans to build its $15 billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario, according to Japanese outlet Nikkei Asia.

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B.C. Conservatives 10 points ahead of Eby in new poll

A new poll suggests the BC Conservatives are gaining momentum against Premier David Eby’s government as controversy surrounding Indigenous land rights legislation continues to dominate provincial politics.

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Ottawa to launch “pilot” to track expired student visas

Months after saying it needed to begin tracking whether international students with expired visas were still in Canada, the immigration department announced plans to launch a pilot program to contact permit holders and gather information on migrants’ entries and exits.

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Police Seize 365,000 contraband cigarettes in Fort McMurray

A 39-year-old Fort McMurray man was arrested and faces multiple charges after Alberta RCMP seized more than 365,000 illegal cigarettes with an estimated street value of up to $75,000.

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Ottawa is preparing a massive new subsidy for Canada’s biggest legacy media companies, with Heritage Minister Marc Miller signalling that covering newsroom labour costs is “not a question of if, but how”, and it could cost taxpayers up to $6 billion.

Miller announced Ottawa’s plan to cover the labour costs for Canada’s media landscape by expanding the Labour Journalism Tax Credit to include television and radio news.

During a Heritage Committee meeting on Tuesday, Miller revealed the government's plans.

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On today's episode of The Fighter, Chawathil First Nation Chief Aaron Pete joins Kris Sims to discuss British Columbia’s growing debt crisis, natural resource development, private property rights and the future of grassroots democracy in Canada.

Pete says governments are out of money and the only realistic path forward is growing the economy through responsible resource development, including pipelines, mining and energy projects that directly benefit local communities.

They also discuss rising fears around private property rights in British Columbia, frustration with political elites, and why many Canadians feel ignored by their governments.

Pete explains why he believes more direct accountability through town halls, referendums and community engagement is essential to restoring trust in public institutions.

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A former Chilliwack, B.C., school trustee facing $750,000 in fines from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal says he intends to fight the penalties and stand firm against gender ideology, saying conversations with detransitioners have only strengthened his conviction that youth gender transitions amount to child abuse.

While in Ottawa for a press conference, rally and later a talk at Ottawa’s Biker Church, Neufeld told Juno News he plans to take the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal fines to “a real court” and is seeking organizations willing to defend his right to express what he believes to be true.

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Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree refused to disclose what he called “privileged information” related to a consultation report on the Liberals’ Bill C-22, proposed legislation critics say would turn Canada into a “surveillance state.”

While testifying before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Anandasangaree declined to provide details about the report, calling it a “distraction.”

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Honda announced that it will halt plans to build its $15 billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario, according to Japanese outlet Nikkei Asia.

The automaker cited a decline in U.S. demand for EVs as the reason, saying the automaker will now “put hybrids at the centre of its North American strategy.”

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The left-leaning U.S. legacy media outlet The New York Times has issued an apology and correction after an article published last month fabricated a quote by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre falsely claiming he called floor crossers “turncoats.”

After fabricating the quote, The New York Times issued a correction stating the quote had been paraphrased by an AI tool and that the reporter should have verified its accuracy. The outlet stated that the article has since been updated to include Poilievre’s actual remarks, which called for constituents to be able to petition floor crossers to resign and trigger a byelection.

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Months after saying it needed to begin tracking whether international students with expired visas were still in Canada, the immigration department announced plans to launch a pilot program to contact permit holders and gather information on migrants’ entries and exits.

In February, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said she wanted Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to begin tracking such data on temporary residents.

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A new poll suggests the BC Conservatives are gaining momentum against Premier David Eby’s government as controversy surrounding Indigenous land rights legislation continues to dominate provincial politics.

An Angus Reid Institute survey released Tuesday found the BC Conservatives holding a 10-point lead over the governing BC NDP despite the opposition party still being without a permanent leader. The Conservatives sit at 46 per cent support compared to 36 per cent for the NDP, marking the governing party’s weakest showing in Angus Reid polling since 2020.

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A 39-year-old Fort McMurray man was arrested and faces multiple charges after Alberta RCMP seized more than 365,000 illegal cigarettes with an estimated street value of up to $75,000.

According to local news reports, the man faces charges related to possessing a large quantity of contraband cigarettes and defrauding the government.

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Federal NDP National Director resigns from post

The federal NDP’s National Director Lucy Watson is stepping down after more than a decade in senior party roles provincially and federally.

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Immigrant who pulled loaded gun won’t face deportation

An Ethiopian immigrant who pulled a loaded handgun and pointed it at another driver during a road rage incident in Calgary will serve three years in prison, but will not face deportation because his home country has been deemed too dangerous for him to return to.

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Louise Arbour derided soldiers as “white boys” who “don’t like women”

Former Supreme Court of Canada justice and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pick for Governor General, Louise Arbour, derided Canadian soldiers as “white boys who like guns and don’t like women” while overseeing an inquiry into the Canadian Armed Forces in 2022.

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Caroline Elliott backs restricting party membership to Canadian citizens

Conservative Party of British Columbia leadership candidate Caroline Elliott indicated in an exclusive interview with Juno News that she intends to restrict party membership and voting exclusively to Canadian citizens.

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Guelph police arrest two men for sex trafficking minors

Guelph police say two men residing in Toronto have been arrested and charged in connection with a human trafficking investigation involving the alleged sexual exploitation of two youths from Guelph, with offences spanning several months and multiple Ontario cities.

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Kingston sculpture to celebrate toppling of Canada’s historical monuments

A new sculpture celebrating the destruction of Canada’s historical monuments is being planned for installation outside Kingston’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

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OP-ED: Understanding Canadian identity — the process of forging a nation

Daniel Tyrie writes, “Canada is not just a multicultural economic-zone. We are a nation forged through generations of struggle and sacrifice.”

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