Canadians still have plenty of food even with foreign tariffs on farm and seafood, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said yesterday. He did not explain how producers would make up billions in lost exports: “It means we can be self-sufficient.”
Costs of free lawyering for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are up 378 percent, says a Department of Justice memo. The disclosure follows complaints by Federal Court managers that tens of thousands of immigration appeals have clogged dockets nationwide: “Annual funding was raised by 378 percent.”
New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh and a former Liberal cabinet minister are among 28 MPs to sign a campaign pledge accusing Israel of genocide. The “Palestinian platform” was drafted by a coalition of anti-Israel groups including the Canadian Federation of Students and Queers for Palestine: “I cannot believe I am hearing this.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday said he “will move on” after losing three former Liberal MPs in 10 days to suspected foreign interference. The trio’s ejection followed a 2024 warning from the Commission on Foreign Interference that Canadians must “shine a light on what is going on.”
A federally-sponsored foundation is offering cash for election coverage. The judges’ panel assigned to approve $35,000 grants is led by Margo Goodhand, a former Winnipeg Free Press editor who once urged Liberals to “stand up to the bullies” in the Conservative Party: ‘Trudeau will show us the way.’
New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh yesterday said he has “not had any circumstances” to drop candidates including one who posted anti-Semitic conspiracies on Instagram. Party headquarters declined to answer numerous questions regarding the New Democrat who claimed Jews controlled the Government of Canada: “Has the NDP had to drop any candidates so far in this race?”
A Crown bank yesterday declined comment on its broadcast of TV and YouTube ads during the general election campaign. A federal policy forbids taxpayer-funded promotions in a writ period: “It it is especially important to avoid anything that could call into question political impartiality.”
Canada’s leading prescription drug middleman is under investigation by federal anti-trust lawyers. The Competition Bureau in a Federal Court affidavit questioned the business practices of Express Scripts Canada Services of Mississauga, Ont.: ‘The inquiry is focused on alleged patient steering and margin squeezing.’
Liberal MP Paul Chiang (Markham-Unionville, Ont.) last night abruptly resigned while under RCMP investigation after threatening a political rival with arrest for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. “I served with integrity,” said Chiang, a former police sergeant.
Canada must develop its own nuclear weapons program, says the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The group yesterday released a National Policy Guide recommending Canada arm itself with nuclear warheads as protection against Russian terror and American expansionism: “The future of Canada’s freedom and the freedom of Europe depend on our ability to defend our sovereignty.”
Cabinet to date has spent more than a quarter billion dollars on its Two Billion Trees Program with no deadline yet for completion, says a briefing note by Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s department. It will take several more years to ensure “the right conditions,” wrote staff: “Tree planting at this scale takes time and careful planning.”
All news media will be allowed to assign reporters to televised election debates. The Leaders’ Debates Commission dropped its blacklist of media critical of the Liberal cabinet after twice losing Federal Court challenges over censorship: “It is not the mandate of the Commission to regulate the journalistic profession.”
Alberta Attorney General Mickey Amery in an unusual court application seeks to pre-empt a new trial for a convicted murderer. Canadians deserve “intelligible and transparent reasons” that justify any claim of miscarriage of justice, Amery wrote the Federal Court: ‘They failed to provide any reasons.’
