Joseph Tay, a Conservative candidate in Toronto, is being targeted by the Chinese Communist Party on social media, federal election monitors said yesterday. Tay is running in the same riding where the previous Liberal MP was cited for frequent contacts with the Chinese Consulate: "Threats like these are the tradecraft of the Chinese Communist Party."
To Keep RRSPs In The Family
Parents should be allowed to make tax-free withdrawals from Registered Retirement Savings Plans to help children buy their first home, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet said yesterday. Federal data show family aid is crucial in permitting first time buyers to enter the housing market: 'It is a social contract with younger generations.'
Feds Give Up On Paper Filers
The Canada Revenue Agency in a memo says it is resigned to processing millions of tax returns by individuals and small businesses that still file by paper. The Agency since 2012 has reviewed proposals to mandate electronic transactions without success: "Paper filing will continue to be supported so that no one is left behind."
Fed Report Predicts Collapse
The Privy Council in a report quietly released Saturday predicted Canada in 15 years may be so dysfunctional that wage earners flee the country and the poor resort to illegal hunting for food. “It is plausible,” said the report dated January 2025: "People in Canada assume ‘following the rules’ and ‘doing the right thing’ will lead to a better life. However things are changing."
Call Consulting Fees “Insane”
Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday proposed to halve the “insane” billions spent on federal consultants. The campaign pledge followed a report by one department with 34,000 employees that it tripled spending on consultants in a single year because “no employee was available.”
CBC “Corrects” Fact Checker
CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton broadcast misinformation in claiming to correct other media’s misinformation, says the network. Management issued a correction after Barton garbled facts in attempting to fault Rebel News Network as unreliable: "Some things weren't true."
Cannot Meet ‘Historic’ Target
Cabinet will not meet its target of reducing poverty by 50 percent, Department of Employment figures show. Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched the campaign six years ago on a promise he was making history: "We have a plan."
I’m Clear-Eyed On China: PM
Canadians must “take steps to protect ourselves” from China, says Prime Minister Mark Carney. Speaking to reporters, Carney was asked to explain a remark in a televised election debate last Thursday in which he named China as our biggest threat: "I am very clear-eyed about China."
Poem: “Blast From The Past”
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: “Reagan’s slogan for the 1984 elections sounds familiar…”
Review: Look Up
Canadians’ embrace of conservation has come a long way since “back to nature” meant car camping with briquettes, and B.C. tourist films extolled carefree driving up the parkway to Fairmont Hot Springs.
Historian PearlAnn Reichwein of the University of Alberta cleverly documents this evolution through the viewfinder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Once a tea society for Anglophiles and dilettantes – no Jews were allowed for the first 40 years – the club over decades transformed itself into an advocate of conservation and protector of national parks. It was a long climb.
Canada does not see itself as an alpine nation though our mountain ranges are spectacular. The Alpine Club even today has fewer members (10,000) than Calgary’s Glencoe Golf & Country Club (12,000). Most Canadians have never seen the Rockies. Many consider them a backdrop for postcards. Few noticed when the 41st Parliament voted to allow an Alberta ski operator to expand into one national park, and ExxonMobil to conduct seismic tests in another.
Calls China #1 Security Threat
China is the biggest threat to Canada’s security, Prime Minister Mark Carney last night told a TV election debate audience. His remark followed the abrupt departure of three former Liberal MPs in the past month over foreign interference: "China, you say?"
No Reply On Genocide Claim
New Democrat campaign managers yesterday would not say if their still-confidential Party platform will censure Jews. Leader Jagmeet Singh in nationally televised debates repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes while a prominent NDP candidate claimed Jews committed “humanity’s worst crimes.”
Debates Commission OK: PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday said Liberals accept the Leaders’ Debates Commission just the way it is despite new complaints of bias and incompetence. The federal agency with a $3.5 million annual budget has drawn criticism three campaigns in a row: "It's not for me to opine."
Voting Popular Just In Theory
New Elections Canada data show electors are untruthful when asked if they actually cast a ballot. Data from two federal byelections last September 16 showed twice as many electors claimed to go to the polls than the number who actually voted: "Are you sure you voted?"
Tweets Were A Firing Offence
A British Columbia tribunal has dismissed a complaint that publishers of a weekly newspaper fired a reporter for tweeting in support of the People’s Party. The Human Rights Tribunal said it found insufficient evidence but noted management had monitored the journalist’s social media posts: "There is no free press."



