🇨🇦 Freeland Recalled as BC Ferries Scandal Deepens — Emails Reveal She Knew Weeks Before Public Denial

Chrystia Freeland’s sudden resignation as Transport Minister just days ago is under fresh scrutiny after internal records blew a hole in her narrative on the BC Ferries procurement scandal.

Emails exchanged in late April between BC Ferries president Nicolas Jimenez and Transport Canada deputy minister Arun Thangaraj show Freeland’s department was informed that taxpayer dollars would finance four new ferries from a Chinese state-owned shipyard. Yet, when the deal was announced in June, Freeland feigned surprise — publicly expressing “dismay” and insisting Ottawa had been kept in the dark.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank had quietly signed off on a $1.1 billion loan on March 28 to finance the ships at CMI Weihai in China. The final approval came almost three months later — but without naming the builder. That gap, and Freeland’s later outrage, now looks less like incompetence and more like a cover-up.

BC Premier David Eby blasted the federal government over the disparity in ferry funding, pointing out that while Eastern Canadian ferries received full support, BC Ferries was forced to take a loan — only for the work to be outsourced offshore. Conservative MP Dan Albas called the revelations “a damning indictment,” accusing Freeland of doing “nothing to protect Canadian jobs” despite being fully briefed six weeks prior.

Freeland’s resignation as Transport Minister on Tuesday, under the pretense of becoming Canada’s “Special Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine,” now raises even more questions. Was this a convenient escape hatch to sidestep parliamentary accountability? Bloc Québécois MPs and Conservatives have both demanded she be recalled to testify again, with access to confidential records and further hearings with shipyards and industry experts.

Critics warn this saga could be Canada’s next ArriveCAN — billions funneled offshore, Canadian industry ignored, and ministers feigning ignorance while hiding behind bureaucratic language. The fact that Freeland is now tasked with overseeing Ukraine’s reconstruction, while leaving unanswered questions about misleading Canadians on a billion-dollar China shipyard deal, underscores just how far accountability has slipped in Ottawa.

For Canadian workers and shipbuilders, the scandal is more than politics. It’s about lost jobs, hollowed-out industries, and a government that preaches sovereignty while outsourcing critical infrastructure to Beijing.

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🇨🇦 Chrystia Freeland’s Grinning Kiev Reunion with Ukrainian Nationalists Should Alarm Every Proud Canadian

Chrystia Freeland has once again shown where her loyalties lie and it’s not with the Canadian veterans who fought and bled to stop Nazism in Europe. While in Kiev this week for the elite Yalta European Strategy Conference, Freeland proudly posed with her “old friend” Viktor Yushchenko, the former Ukrainian president known for glorifying WWII-era Ukrainian nationalists, including Stepan Bandera, the same man celebrated by Waffen-SS sympathizers and whose legacy is stained with war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

Let’s not forget: Yushchenko posthumously awarded Bandera the noscript of “Hero of Ukraine” in 2010, sparking outrage across Europe and beyond. Poland condemned the move. Jewish groups were horrified. Historians warned it whitewashed the Holocaust-era collaborationist history of the OUN-B, Bandera’s faction. And who is standing beside him today with a gleaming smile and Canada’s name on her noscript? Chrystia Freeland, now our Special Envoy for Ukrainian Reconstruction.

Freeland’s family history is no mystery either. Her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, was a Nazi collaborator who edited a pro-Hitler propaganda newspaper in occupied Poland during the Second World War. Freeland has long attempted to downplay or deflect from this reality, but the pattern is becoming undeniable.

Her newly minted role gives her significant diplomatic reach and potential access to billions in Canadian aid, infrastructure contracts, and future military arrangements under the guise of “reconstruction.” But for what kind of Ukraine?

One where Bandera statues are built?
One where WWII Waffen-SS units are openly commemorated in marches?
One where even Canada’s own Parliament shamefully applauded a Nazi SS veteran, only to later claim ignorance?

It’s time to wake up.

Freeland’s rapid resignation from Cabinet just days before this trip, under the cloud of her BC Ferries scandal, has the stench of political sleight-of-hand. She ducked parliamentary scrutiny just in time to be parachuted into Ukraine with a new noscript, no public mandate, and no accountability. And what’s her first move? Cozying up to Ukrainian ultranationalists who whitewash the very ideology our grandfathers fought and died to defeat.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a betrayal.

Canada has no business backing a regime that glorifies Nazi collaborators. We should not be sending reconstruction funds, weapons, or political legitimacy to a government that continues to flirt with the legacy of ethnic nationalism and wartime atrocities. Our allegiance is to the truth, to the memory of our veterans, and to Canadian sovereignty, not the geopolitical games of a former Nazi-collaborator’s granddaughter.

Let the legacy of the Royal Canadian Legion, Juno Beach, and the countless sacrifices of WWII veterans guide our policy, not the whisperings of foreign nationalist elites and their admirers in our own government.

Enough is enough.

#Canada #Ukraine

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🇨🇦💸 Why is Ottawa pouring billions into a regime that openly venerates Nazi collaborators — while Canadians can’t afford rent, food, or heating?

Chrystia Freeland calls Azov-linked soldiers “true heroes.” Our real heroes fought and died to defeat the swastika in Europe.

Canada should be investing in Canadians, not whitewashing history or bankrolling regimes that flirt with Nazi ideology.

It’s time to put 🇨🇦 first.

#Canada #Ukraine

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🇨🇦⚖️ Justice or Betrayal in Edmonton?

Edmonton’s new police chief Warren Driechel is trying to patch things up with Crown prosecutors after a bitter public fight over a plea deal that stunned the city.

The case: a woman charged with second-degree murder in the horrific killing of an 8-year-old girl. Instead, she pled guilty to manslaughter — a softer charge that police blasted as a “miscarriage of justice.”

➡️ Autopsy showed multiple broken bones, untreated infections, and a head injury.
➡️ The girl’s body was found stuffed in a hockey bag on Samson Cree Nation.
➡️ Prosecutors struck a deal anyway.

EPS went public, warning they’d release case details so Canadians could judge for themselves. Critics called it “overreach.” Defence lawyers smeared it as an “extortion tactic.”

But Premier Danielle Smith sided with police: “If the Crown won’t proceed to trial, the public deserves to know why.”

Now Chief Driechel admits the plea deal “is done” but says the letter forced a conversation about a broken system where cops are left in the dark until it’s too late.

🚨 A little girl suffered, died, and was failed by every system meant to protect her. Police say they fought for her when no one else would. The question now: why didn’t prosecutors?

#Alberta

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🇨🇦🇪🇺 Champagne Pitches Canada as Europe’s “Supplier of Choice”

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Canada can step in to fuel Europe’s future — from critical minerals to LNG and nuclear tech — as nations scramble to boost energy security and defence capacity.

Speaking in Denmark after meetings with EU finance ministers, Champagne declared:

“We are redesigning the world economic order at a speed and scale not seen in a generation. Canada can be that trusted supplier.”

Critical minerals were “front and centre” in Copenhagen talks, seen as essential to aerospace, auto, and defence industries. LNG, nuclear tech, and even Canadian shipbuilding were also pitched as exports that could reduce Europe’s reliance on hostile or unstable suppliers.

Champagne noted NATO states are ramping up defence spending — a market Ottawa wants Canadian firms to fill, drawing parallels to Canada’s WWII munitions boom.

The outreach comes as Trump’s tariffs squeeze Canada and the CUSMA review looms in 2026. On Thursday, PM Carney locked in a new “strategic partnership” with Mexico, signaling Ottawa is now hedging against U.S. trade volatility.

Champagne admitted it was “sad” that Canada’s biggest trading partner turned its back, but argued this forced Ottawa to diversify:

“We shifted the economy after the Second World War. For me, this is the same calling we have today.”

The pitch: Canada as a 21st-century arsenal of minerals, energy, and industrial know-how. The question: will Ottawa actually keep control of it — or just sell the crown jewels abroad?

#Canada #Europe

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🇨🇦🇵🇸 Canada Formally Recognizes Palestine

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Sunday that Canada now recognizes the State of Palestine, joining the UK and Australia in a move that shifts Ottawa’s Middle East policy for the first time in decades.

The recognition comes with conditions — including Palestinian Authority elections in 2026 that exclude Hamas, and steps toward demilitarization. Carney framed it as a step toward peace: “This recognition is about strengthening coexistence, not legitimizing terror.”

Israel and Washington have blasted the decision, warning it rewards extremists and undermines negotiations, while Palestinians call it an overdue step after years of stalled talks and expanding settlements.

Canada has moved from cautious observer to official recognition — a symbolic, but historic, turn in foreign policy.

#Canada

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🇨🇦 Poilievre: Canada Must Demand a Tariff-Free Deal with Trump, Not Settle for Sectoral Punishment

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada should reject sector-by-sector tariffs in any trade deal with the United States, insisting on restoring the tariff-free access Canada once had.

“We used to have that privileged access to the American economy, and in exchange for that, we could provide more continental security,” Poilievre told CTV’s Question Period. “That’s the deal I would go for.”

Poilievre accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of negotiating “out of weakness,” pointing to concessions like scrapping Canada’s digital services tax and dropping counter-tariffs while Trump’s levies on steel, aluminum, autos, and copper remain in place. “Trump smells weakness,” Poilievre said.

He argued Canada’s over-dependence on the U.S. stems from Liberal “anti-development policies” — the oil and gas emissions cap, the carbon tax, and Bill C-69, which Conservatives call the “no more pipelines act.” According to Poilievre, Canada should be building pipelines, ports, and export routes to Asia and Europe so it can negotiate with the U.S. from a position of strength.

Pressed on what he’d do differently, Poilievre pointed to his proposed Canadian Sovereignty Act, which would repeal Liberal growth-blocking laws, cut the carbon tax, and eliminate capital gains taxes for reinvested business profits. “We should reward those who build,” he said.

Poilievre also promised to shrink Ottawa’s ballooning bureaucracy, saying there are “billions of dollars” in savings to be found.

Meanwhile, Canada heads into CUSMA consultations after Carney missed his self-imposed July 21 deadline for a new deal with Trump — leaving Canada’s economy exposed as tariffs pile up.

#Canada #USA

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🇨🇦 Smith Floats Notwithstanding Clause to Protect Kids in Transgender Law Fight

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won’t hesitate to use the notwithstanding clause if that’s what it takes to defend her government’s transgender legislation.

On her provincewide radio show, Smith responded to a leaked memo showing cabinet will consider invoking the clause Oct. 21 to shield three laws — including bans on puberty blockers for minors, restrictions on gender-based sports participation, and rules on pronoun use in schools.

“I’m prepared to go to court and battle it out. I think we need to,” Smith said. “But if it turns out the court process may take years and years and years to resolve, then we may have to take that measure in order to protect kids.”

The Premier pointed to puberty blockers as a red line: “By definition, they stop the process of sexual maturity and it means that you’re sterilizing children, and we’re not going to do it.”

Her government has already faced court setbacks. In June, a judge granted a temporary injunction halting the health law, saying denying blockers could cause “emotional harm.” Smith counters that children aren’t old enough to consent to life-altering medical interventions, no more than they can sign contracts or enlist in the military.

Critics call the move government overreach. Activist groups and even the Canadian Medical Association are lining up to fight the law. But supporters say Smith is doing what Ottawa and the courts refuse to: draw a hard line on protecting children from irreversible treatments.

The notwithstanding clause allows provinces to override certain Charter rights for up to five years. Smith has downplayed using it in the past — but with this battle escalating, she now says it may be necessary.

#Alberta

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🇨🇦 Carney Courts the Global Elite in New York—But Whose Interests Is He Serving?

Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the stage at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York — the ultimate globalist club — to pitch Canada as the country that “has what the world wants.”

Carney boasted that Canada has the resources, talent, and ingenuity needed by international markets, presenting Canada as a “trustworthy trading partner with connections to every major market.” But the question remains: trustworthy for Canadians, or for the global elite?

The timing is telling. Just one day after Canada recognized Palestinian statehood — joining the UK, Australia, and Portugal, Carney used his platform to position Canada as a go-to supplier for a world undergoing rapid geopolitical shifts. Now he’s in New York for the UN General Assembly, where backroom deals and global frameworks are hammered out with little input from ordinary citizens.

Carney will also hold a fireside chat with CFR president Michael Froman — another reminder that Canadian sovereignty is being bartered away at forums where unelected think tanks and corporate interests pull the strings.

While Carney assures the world that Canada “has what it wants,” many Canadians are left wondering: what do we get in return, besides more taxes, more regulations, and a government that puts global priorities ahead of its own people?

#Canada

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🇨🇦 TMU Student Arrest Sparks Outcry

On Sept. 19, security at Toronto Metropolitan University forcibly arrested a student during a Dais Democracy Forum event featuring Evan Solomon.

📹 Videos circulating online show the student being restrained on the floor by security while shouting, “you’re hurting me.”

🔹 Witnesses allege the student had pressed Solomon to acknowledge the word “genocide” in relation to Gaza before being confronted by security.
🔹 Reports suggest she refused to show ID and attempted to leave, before being restrained and later handed to Toronto Police.
🔹 TMU confirmed the student was one of several individuals asked to leave for “disruptive behaviour” allegedly violating event guidelines. Others complied peacefully.

In a Sept. 20 statement, TMU Vice President Saeed Zolfaghari called the video “unsettling” and confirmed the contracted security officers have been reassigned pending review. The university stressed the incident is now a police matter, adding: “There is no higher priority for the University than the safety of our community.”

Allegations of excessive force and suppression of political speech are being raised. TMU says it will not hesitate to take further action if its review deems it necessary.

#Ontario

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🇨🇦🇵🇸 "In this context, Canada recognizes the state of Palestine"

Canada officially recognized Palestine yesterday, but PM Carney gets cheers when he tells the UN

Right before his mic mysteriously cuts off.

#Canada

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🇨🇦🇮🇳 Canada Pushes Back on India’s Trade Talk Claims

On Sept. 19, India’s Ministry of External Affairs announced that Canada had agreed to “reactivate bilateral dialogue” on trade, defence, energy, and more. Indian media portrayed this as the first step toward restarting stalled trade talks.

But Ottawa is flatly denying it. Global Affairs Canada says no negotiations on a free trade agreement are underway, stressing that the priority remains “well-established commercial ties,” not new trade pacts.

Deputy Minister David Morrison did meet with Indian counterparts last week, including Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, but Canada insists talks centered on security and sovereignty — not reopening trade.

Canada’s national security adviser Nathalie Drouin also held meetings, saying both sides agreed to refrain from “transnational repression” and pledged reciprocal intelligence sharing.

The timing is sensitive: these meetings coincided with the two-year anniversary of Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing in Surrey, B.C. — a case Canada linked to Indian operatives, sparking a major diplomatic rupture.

Relations only began to thaw after PM Mark Carney and PM Narendra Modi met at the G7 in June, agreeing to restore ambassadors. But once again, Ottawa and Delhi are telling two very different stories.

#Canada #India

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Buttigieg in Ottawa: U.S.-Canada Rift is a Trump-Made Storm

Potential 2028 U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told an Ottawa crowd Monday that the “outrages” from Washington against Canada do not reflect the will of the American people.

Speaking at a Canada 2020 event alongside former minister Seamus O’Regan, Buttigieg admitted he “did not imagine we would find ourselves in a moment like this,” pointing to tariffs and Trump’s talk of Canada as the “51st state.”

In contrast to U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, who last week lamented “anti-American sentiment” in Canada, Buttigieg argued the relationship remains strong at the people-to-people level. “What’s happening between us is a storm provoked by one government, not a rupture between our peoples,” he said.

He praised PM Mark Carney’s spring campaign on sovereignty, saying it resonated with progressive Americans and signaled a realignment “friends” can weather.

Buttigieg, a Biden-era transportation secretary and former mayor of South Bend, Ind., is openly weighing a 2028 run. Hinting at it Monday, he quipped when asked about Kamala Harris once deeming him too “risky” a VP pick: “There’s only one way to find out what the country can handle.”

#Canada #USA

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TikTok Busted for Collecting Data on Canadian Kids 🚨

A joint investigation by Canada’s federal and provincial privacy commissioners has found TikTok’s age checks are largely ineffective, allowing the app to collect sensitive data from underage users.

🔹 TikTok admits it removes 500,000 underage users every year — but only after already harvesting their personal info and tailoring ads to them.
🔹 Investigators say TikTok collected, inferred, and used sensitive details from Canadian children, despite its own rules banning users under 13 (14 in Quebec).
🔹 “Youth may be less aware of privacy risks, and more susceptible to manipulative techniques,” warned Federal Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne.
🔹 TikTok has now agreed to tighten age verification measures — but watchdogs say they’ll be monitoring closely.

Observers say this is no different and perhaps hypocritical when looking at Alphabet's Google or Meta. This raises deeper questions: Why was a foreign-owned platform allowed to vacuum up children’s data in the first place — and will Ottawa ever put Canadian families’ privacy ahead of Big Tech profits?

#Canada

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🇨🇦 Mark Carney is back with the buzzwords. This time: “Authoritarianism has risen.”

But notice what he doesn’t say. Where exactly? Who? What policies? Nothing. Just a vague, sweeping claim designed to scare you into thinking only he can protect “democracy.”

It’s the same playbook every time: invent a shadowy threat, never provide details, and then use it to justify more control. Fear is the product, compliance is the goal.

Canadians deserve straight answers, not globalist slogans. If “authoritarianism” is rising, let’s see the evidence. Otherwise, spare us the lecture.

#Canada

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🇨🇦 Only in Canada…

The Supreme Court just granted a stay of execution — not for a convicted killer, but for ostriches.

Yes, 400 giant birds at a B.C. farm were about to be wiped out by federal order over avian flu fears. Now, thanks to Canada’s highest court, they’ve won a temporary reprieve.

So here we are: in a country where pipelines stall, court cases drag on for years, but when it comes to ostriches? Justice moves at lightning speed.

Only in Canada, folks. 🪶

#BC

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🇨🇦 RBC Employee Charged After Allegedly Accessing Carney’s Banking Info

The RCMP has charged 23-year-old RBC employee Ibrahim El-Hakim for allegedly accessing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s banking profile — and even a profile under the name Justin Trudeau.

Court filings allege El-Hakim was recruited through a Telegram account called “AI WORLD”, which investigators suspect is linked to organized crime.

He admitted to creating fake bank profiles, securing fraudulent lines of credit, and snooping accounts — including Carney’s — in exchange for $500 per request. Police say he pocketed about $5,000 before being caught.

El-Hakim was arrested in July, released under conditions, and is set to appear in court next week. RBC says he’s been terminated and is “fully cooperating” with the investigation.

RCMP insists there was no threat to national security — but Canadians are asking: if the PM’s banking data isn’t safe, whose is?

#Canada

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