🇨🇦🛢️ Western Canada Select Discount Widens — but Stability Holds
The price gap between Western Canada Select (WCS) and U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) widened slightly to $11.45 per barrel, up from $11.25 earlier in the week, according to CalRock data.
While the spread has grown, it remains tight by historical standards — a sign of newfound stability in Canada’s oil market since the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion began operating last year. The expansion has opened a Pacific lifeline for Canadian crude, driving strong buying from China and easing the long-standing bottleneck that once crushed Alberta producers.
Canadian Natural Resources CEO Scott Stauth said the project has effectively “stabilized” the market, with discounts expected to hover between $10 and $13 per barrel below WTI in the near term.
Still, global prices dipped Thursday amid renewed fears of oversupply and slowing demand in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer — a reminder that even as Canada finds balance, it remains tethered to volatile global energy flows.
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The price gap between Western Canada Select (WCS) and U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) widened slightly to $11.45 per barrel, up from $11.25 earlier in the week, according to CalRock data.
While the spread has grown, it remains tight by historical standards — a sign of newfound stability in Canada’s oil market since the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion began operating last year. The expansion has opened a Pacific lifeline for Canadian crude, driving strong buying from China and easing the long-standing bottleneck that once crushed Alberta producers.
Canadian Natural Resources CEO Scott Stauth said the project has effectively “stabilized” the market, with discounts expected to hover between $10 and $13 per barrel below WTI in the near term.
Still, global prices dipped Thursday amid renewed fears of oversupply and slowing demand in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer — a reminder that even as Canada finds balance, it remains tethered to volatile global energy flows.
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🇨🇦 ‘Manufactured Crisis’: U.S. Tariffs Built on a False Fentanyl Narrative
President Donald Trump’s 35% tariffs on Canadian goods were justified under “emergency powers” — allegedly to stop a flood of fentanyl from Canada.
But new data tells a different story.
📉 Fentanyl seizures at the Canada-U.S. border plummeted this summer — down to just 0.14 pounds in September, the lowest since 2023.
💀 Less than 1% of America’s fentanyl comes from Canada. The rest flows from Mexico, long dominated by entrenched cartels.
“This is a manufactured crisis,” said Laura Huey, criminology professor at Western University. “If Canada were exporting large volumes, gang violence would explode. It hasn’t.”
Even as the numbers fell, Trump increased tariffs from 25% to 35%, accusing Ottawa of “continued inaction.” The irony? The same agencies used to justify those tariffs were already reporting a sharp decline.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court now faces a monumental question: can presidents use emergency powers meant for war or terrorism to impose tariffs on allies — all to score political points?
Another case where facts are secondary to theatre — and the stage is global trade.
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President Donald Trump’s 35% tariffs on Canadian goods were justified under “emergency powers” — allegedly to stop a flood of fentanyl from Canada.
But new data tells a different story.
📉 Fentanyl seizures at the Canada-U.S. border plummeted this summer — down to just 0.14 pounds in September, the lowest since 2023.
💀 Less than 1% of America’s fentanyl comes from Canada. The rest flows from Mexico, long dominated by entrenched cartels.
“This is a manufactured crisis,” said Laura Huey, criminology professor at Western University. “If Canada were exporting large volumes, gang violence would explode. It hasn’t.”
Even as the numbers fell, Trump increased tariffs from 25% to 35%, accusing Ottawa of “continued inaction.” The irony? The same agencies used to justify those tariffs were already reporting a sharp decline.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court now faces a monumental question: can presidents use emergency powers meant for war or terrorism to impose tariffs on allies — all to score political points?
Another case where facts are secondary to theatre — and the stage is global trade.
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🇨🇦 BoC Moves to Regulate Stablecoins — The Digital Dollar Era Begins
At a Senate hearing Thursday, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem laid out his vision for Canada’s new stablecoin regime, just days after Ottawa handed the central bank full oversight of the sector.
Macklem says any Canadian stablecoin must be backed by “high-quality, short-term, highly liquid assets” — ensuring one-to-one convertibility with fiat money to prevent “runs” that could destabilize the system.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne confirmed the assets will be regulated as payments, not securities — centralizing control under federal oversight rather than provincial markets.
The timing is no accident: Washington just passed the GENIUS Act, giving U.S. banks and Big Tech green lights to issue their own stablecoins. Canada is now racing to keep up — or risk letting U.S. dollar stablecoins dominate domestic commerce.
Yet behind the talk of “innovation” and “resilience,” a deeper shift is underway: Open banking, digital ID, and now stablecoins — all under the same regulatory roof.
Welcome to the monetary merger of state and fintech, dressed in the language of stability.
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At a Senate hearing Thursday, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem laid out his vision for Canada’s new stablecoin regime, just days after Ottawa handed the central bank full oversight of the sector.
Macklem says any Canadian stablecoin must be backed by “high-quality, short-term, highly liquid assets” — ensuring one-to-one convertibility with fiat money to prevent “runs” that could destabilize the system.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne confirmed the assets will be regulated as payments, not securities — centralizing control under federal oversight rather than provincial markets.
The timing is no accident: Washington just passed the GENIUS Act, giving U.S. banks and Big Tech green lights to issue their own stablecoins. Canada is now racing to keep up — or risk letting U.S. dollar stablecoins dominate domestic commerce.
Yet behind the talk of “innovation” and “resilience,” a deeper shift is underway: Open banking, digital ID, and now stablecoins — all under the same regulatory roof.
Welcome to the monetary merger of state and fintech, dressed in the language of stability.
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🇨🇦 Ontario’s Slowdown: Debt Up, Jobs Down, Blame South of the Border
Ontario’s fall fiscal update paints a grim picture:
• Deficit: now pegged at $13.5 billion
• Debt: projected to top $500 billion by 2027
• Growth: slashed to 0.8–0.9% over the next two years
• Unemployment: rising to 7.8%, the highest in nearly a decade
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy insists the Ford government is keeping a “steady fiscal hand,” pointing the finger at Trump’s new tariffs and “trade uncertainty.”
But opposition leaders say Ontario’s wounds are at least partly self-inflicted — nine straight quarters of rising unemployment pre-date the tariff war.
Housing construction is collapsing: expected new builds for 2025 have been cut again to 64,300, far off Ford’s target of 1.5 million homes.
With slower growth, fewer jobs, and record debt, the province is quietly edging toward a decade-long stagnation — one buffered by excuses and “contingency funds,” not a plan.
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Ontario’s fall fiscal update paints a grim picture:
• Deficit: now pegged at $13.5 billion
• Debt: projected to top $500 billion by 2027
• Growth: slashed to 0.8–0.9% over the next two years
• Unemployment: rising to 7.8%, the highest in nearly a decade
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy insists the Ford government is keeping a “steady fiscal hand,” pointing the finger at Trump’s new tariffs and “trade uncertainty.”
But opposition leaders say Ontario’s wounds are at least partly self-inflicted — nine straight quarters of rising unemployment pre-date the tariff war.
Housing construction is collapsing: expected new builds for 2025 have been cut again to 64,300, far off Ford’s target of 1.5 million homes.
With slower growth, fewer jobs, and record debt, the province is quietly edging toward a decade-long stagnation — one buffered by excuses and “contingency funds,” not a plan.
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🇨🇦 Canada’s Ostrich Massacre: The Night the Shots Rang Out
In the hills of Edgewood, British Columbia, a government order ended an entire flock’s existence.
More than 300 ostriches — healthy, breeding, and in many cases hand-raised — were shot dead under floodlights by marksmen working for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The official reason: a few tested positive for avian flu.
The farm owners begged to quarantine and test — they were refused. Courts declined to intervene. And on the night of Nov 6–7, the cull began.
Gunfire echoed for hours.
Supporters were blocked by RCMP from the property line.
The next morning, mounds of hay and tarps covered the bodies.
The CFIA called it “humane.”
Observers called it “a government-ordered extermination.”
Experts now admit the outbreak was isolated — Canada’s risk of spread was minimal. The farm argued many birds were immune and could have advanced research. Instead, biosecurity theatre prevailed: total destruction to “protect trade markets.”
This wasn’t about disease.
It was about control — about showing that the state will eliminate anything that challenges its containment doctrine.
And the symbolism couldn’t be darker: a country that prides itself on “humane” governance turning floodlights on living creatures in the name of bureaucratic order.
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In the hills of Edgewood, British Columbia, a government order ended an entire flock’s existence.
More than 300 ostriches — healthy, breeding, and in many cases hand-raised — were shot dead under floodlights by marksmen working for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The official reason: a few tested positive for avian flu.
The farm owners begged to quarantine and test — they were refused. Courts declined to intervene. And on the night of Nov 6–7, the cull began.
Gunfire echoed for hours.
Supporters were blocked by RCMP from the property line.
The next morning, mounds of hay and tarps covered the bodies.
The CFIA called it “humane.”
Observers called it “a government-ordered extermination.”
Experts now admit the outbreak was isolated — Canada’s risk of spread was minimal. The farm argued many birds were immune and could have advanced research. Instead, biosecurity theatre prevailed: total destruction to “protect trade markets.”
This wasn’t about disease.
It was about control — about showing that the state will eliminate anything that challenges its containment doctrine.
And the symbolism couldn’t be darker: a country that prides itself on “humane” governance turning floodlights on living creatures in the name of bureaucratic order.
#BC
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🇨🇦 Scheer vs. Carney: Ottawa Turns Into a Power Auction
As the Carney government inches toward a majority, Conservatives are bleeding MPs — one defection, one resignation — and blaming “undemocratic pressure tactics” from the Liberals.
This week, Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont crossed the floor, while Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux abruptly quit after meeting with the prime minister. Within hours, Andrew Scheer accused Mark Carney of “cobbling together a majority through backroom deals.”
The optics are brutal: on budget week, when the opposition should be hammering a $78-billion deficit, the Conservatives are instead fighting fires inside their own tent. Leader Pierre Poilievre is silent, MPs are abstaining on confidence votes, and internal discipline is fraying.
Carney, meanwhile, is playing the long game — courting defectors, projecting calm, and joking that he’s “just a couple seats short.” For a man accused of being unelected, he’s behaving like one already crowned.
This isn’t just floor-crossing. It’s a live stress test of Canadian democracy — where persuasion, pressure, and ambition all blur in the scramble for power
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As the Carney government inches toward a majority, Conservatives are bleeding MPs — one defection, one resignation — and blaming “undemocratic pressure tactics” from the Liberals.
This week, Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont crossed the floor, while Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux abruptly quit after meeting with the prime minister. Within hours, Andrew Scheer accused Mark Carney of “cobbling together a majority through backroom deals.”
The optics are brutal: on budget week, when the opposition should be hammering a $78-billion deficit, the Conservatives are instead fighting fires inside their own tent. Leader Pierre Poilievre is silent, MPs are abstaining on confidence votes, and internal discipline is fraying.
Carney, meanwhile, is playing the long game — courting defectors, projecting calm, and joking that he’s “just a couple seats short.” For a man accused of being unelected, he’s behaving like one already crowned.
This isn’t just floor-crossing. It’s a live stress test of Canadian democracy — where persuasion, pressure, and ambition all blur in the scramble for power
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🇨🇦 Canada’s “Surprise” Jobs Boom — or Just Smoke and Mirrors?
StatsCan says Canada added 67,000 jobs in October, pulling unemployment down to 6.9% — beating forecasts. But look closer:
• Most gains were part-time, not full-time.
• Construction shed 15,000 jobs — another hit to the real economy.
• Growth came mainly from wholesale, retail, and recreation — not the productive sectors that build long-term wealth.
Economists called it a “strong headline” but a weak foundation. CIBC’s Andrew Grantham says it’s still a “meandering” labour market; TD’s Andrew Hencic calls the gains narrow and uneven.
Average wages rose 3.5%, to $37.06/hour, barely ahead of inflation. Youth joblessness dipped for the first time since February — helped, bizarrely, by the Blue Jays’ World Series run, which boosted food, accommodation, and entertainment work.
The takeaway: Canada’s economy isn’t roaring back — it’s shuffling sideways. A few thousand new service jobs can’t offset industrial contraction, chronic underemployment, and a government banking on optimism rather than productivity.
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StatsCan says Canada added 67,000 jobs in October, pulling unemployment down to 6.9% — beating forecasts. But look closer:
• Most gains were part-time, not full-time.
• Construction shed 15,000 jobs — another hit to the real economy.
• Growth came mainly from wholesale, retail, and recreation — not the productive sectors that build long-term wealth.
Economists called it a “strong headline” but a weak foundation. CIBC’s Andrew Grantham says it’s still a “meandering” labour market; TD’s Andrew Hencic calls the gains narrow and uneven.
Average wages rose 3.5%, to $37.06/hour, barely ahead of inflation. Youth joblessness dipped for the first time since February — helped, bizarrely, by the Blue Jays’ World Series run, which boosted food, accommodation, and entertainment work.
The takeaway: Canada’s economy isn’t roaring back — it’s shuffling sideways. A few thousand new service jobs can’t offset industrial contraction, chronic underemployment, and a government banking on optimism rather than productivity.
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🎤🇨🇦 Mark Carney’s Budget: Canada’s Path to Prosperity… via Eurovision
You can’t make this up.
In a budget drowning in $78.3 billion of deficit spending, no bold tax reform, no energy revival, no productivity plan — the great innovation, the “hinge moment” for Canada’s economic rebirth — is joining Eurovision.
Yes. While housing collapses, youth unemployment spikes, and the debt tops half a trillion, the government proudly announced it will “modernise CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate” so Canada can compete in Europe’s televised song contest.
So hey, Carney may not have delivered generational investment — but he’s delivered generational comedy.
It’s symbolism, really: a banker-technocrat PM who once ran the Bank of England now trying to turn Canada into a “European-style nation” with British spelling, Brussels-grade bureaucracy, and borrowed cultural gravitas.
Forget fiscal discipline or sovereignty — the Carney era is about vibes, optics, and soft-power karaoke.
Canada strong.
Canada free.
Canada in Eurovision. 🎶
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You can’t make this up.
In a budget drowning in $78.3 billion of deficit spending, no bold tax reform, no energy revival, no productivity plan — the great innovation, the “hinge moment” for Canada’s economic rebirth — is joining Eurovision.
Yes. While housing collapses, youth unemployment spikes, and the debt tops half a trillion, the government proudly announced it will “modernise CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate” so Canada can compete in Europe’s televised song contest.
So hey, Carney may not have delivered generational investment — but he’s delivered generational comedy.
It’s symbolism, really: a banker-technocrat PM who once ran the Bank of England now trying to turn Canada into a “European-style nation” with British spelling, Brussels-grade bureaucracy, and borrowed cultural gravitas.
Forget fiscal discipline or sovereignty — the Carney era is about vibes, optics, and soft-power karaoke.
Canada strong.
Canada free.
Canada in Eurovision. 🎶
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💰🇨🇦 Budget 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Tax expert Kim Moody didn’t mince words: Canada’s latest federal budget is a “slow-motion fiscal shootout where taxpayers are left holding the smoking gun.”
After 567 days with no budget, Ottawa delivered one that promises “generational investment” but delivers generational debt.
🔹 The Good:
• Repeal of the Underused Housing Tax and parts of the luxury tax.
• Progress on automatic tax filing and small depreciation incentives.
• Higher capital-gains exemption to $1.25 million.
🔹 The Bad:
• No serious tax reform or rate cuts.
• More boutique credits that clutter the code.
• Creative accounting splitting “capital” from “operating” budgets to hide the true deficit.
🔹 The Ugly:
• A $78.3 billion deficit this year, falling only to $57.9 billion by 2029.
• Debt-servicing costs exploding from $53 billion → $76 billion by 2030 — that’s $1.46 billion a week in interest.
• Just 10% public-service reductions while new spending soars to $450 billion.
Moody calls it reckless: “Calling this a generational investment is like calling a payday loan a wealth strategy.”
Behind the glossy rhetoric, the message is simple — Canada is borrowing its future to fund its present, and the bill will come due long after today’s cabinet is gone.
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Tax expert Kim Moody didn’t mince words: Canada’s latest federal budget is a “slow-motion fiscal shootout where taxpayers are left holding the smoking gun.”
After 567 days with no budget, Ottawa delivered one that promises “generational investment” but delivers generational debt.
🔹 The Good:
• Repeal of the Underused Housing Tax and parts of the luxury tax.
• Progress on automatic tax filing and small depreciation incentives.
• Higher capital-gains exemption to $1.25 million.
🔹 The Bad:
• No serious tax reform or rate cuts.
• More boutique credits that clutter the code.
• Creative accounting splitting “capital” from “operating” budgets to hide the true deficit.
🔹 The Ugly:
• A $78.3 billion deficit this year, falling only to $57.9 billion by 2029.
• Debt-servicing costs exploding from $53 billion → $76 billion by 2030 — that’s $1.46 billion a week in interest.
• Just 10% public-service reductions while new spending soars to $450 billion.
Moody calls it reckless: “Calling this a generational investment is like calling a payday loan a wealth strategy.”
Behind the glossy rhetoric, the message is simple — Canada is borrowing its future to fund its present, and the bill will come due long after today’s cabinet is gone.
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🇨🇦⚔️ Military Families: The Invisible Backbone of Canada’s Defence
Ottawa has pledged a historic $84 billion boost to defence spending over five years — new ships, jets, and bases. But beneath the headlines, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is fighting a quieter war: keeping its people from leaving.
Recruitment is falling. Retention is collapsing. And the reason isn’t just pay — it’s family.
Frequent relocations mean uprooted children, jobless spouses, no family doctors, endless child-care wait lists, and broken continuity in schooling and health. Each move restarts a family’s life from zero.
An auditor general’s report found military housing crumbling, with thousands of service members stuck on waitlists. Behind every soldier who serves is a spouse carrying the unseen weight — the logistical and emotional cost of service.
Defence analysts warn: without family stability, there’s no operational readiness. NATO’s own definition of defence spending includes people, not just machines.
Supporting military families isn’t charity — it’s national security.
Canada’s sovereignty won’t be defended by hardware alone. It will be defended by those who serve — and the families who make that service possible.
#Canada
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Ottawa has pledged a historic $84 billion boost to defence spending over five years — new ships, jets, and bases. But beneath the headlines, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is fighting a quieter war: keeping its people from leaving.
Recruitment is falling. Retention is collapsing. And the reason isn’t just pay — it’s family.
Frequent relocations mean uprooted children, jobless spouses, no family doctors, endless child-care wait lists, and broken continuity in schooling and health. Each move restarts a family’s life from zero.
An auditor general’s report found military housing crumbling, with thousands of service members stuck on waitlists. Behind every soldier who serves is a spouse carrying the unseen weight — the logistical and emotional cost of service.
Defence analysts warn: without family stability, there’s no operational readiness. NATO’s own definition of defence spending includes people, not just machines.
Supporting military families isn’t charity — it’s national security.
Canada’s sovereignty won’t be defended by hardware alone. It will be defended by those who serve — and the families who make that service possible.
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🌲🇨🇦 B.C. Cancels Anti-Tariff Ad Campaign — and Still Loses Another Mill
Premier David Eby began the week by backing off his plan to run anti-tariff ads in the U.S. — meant to expose Washington’s “one-man trade policy” under Donald Trump.
In exchange for dropping the campaign, Eby got more talks with Ottawa — a “working group” and a promise to “coordinate communications.”
Days later, West Fraser Timber announced the closure of its 100 Mile House mill, costing 165 jobs.
Eby blamed pine beetles and Trump’s tariffs. The industry was blunter:
“The mill is no longer able to access enough viable timber,” West Fraser said. “Higher duties and additional tariffs have compounded the situation.”
The premier’s retreat underscores a grim reality: B.C.’s forestry sector is caught between U.S. protectionism and Ottawa’s bureaucracy — with no rescue plan in sight.
Once the backbone of Western Canada’s economy, lumber towns are dying quietly, while politicians trade press conferences for “task forces.”
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Premier David Eby began the week by backing off his plan to run anti-tariff ads in the U.S. — meant to expose Washington’s “one-man trade policy” under Donald Trump.
In exchange for dropping the campaign, Eby got more talks with Ottawa — a “working group” and a promise to “coordinate communications.”
Days later, West Fraser Timber announced the closure of its 100 Mile House mill, costing 165 jobs.
Eby blamed pine beetles and Trump’s tariffs. The industry was blunter:
“The mill is no longer able to access enough viable timber,” West Fraser said. “Higher duties and additional tariffs have compounded the situation.”
The premier’s retreat underscores a grim reality: B.C.’s forestry sector is caught between U.S. protectionism and Ottawa’s bureaucracy — with no rescue plan in sight.
Once the backbone of Western Canada’s economy, lumber towns are dying quietly, while politicians trade press conferences for “task forces.”
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🇨🇦 RCMP Probes Threats Against Floor-Crossing MP Chris d’Entremont
The RCMP in Nova Scotia has opened an investigation into online threats targeting Chris d’Entremont, the MP who defected from the Conservatives to join Mark Carney’s Liberals earlier this week.
Police in Yarmouth confirmed they received reports of threats on Wednesday, one day after d’Entremont’s shock move rocked Parliament and brought the Carney government within two seats of a majority.
While Liberals hailed him as a “principled convert,” many Conservatives erupted in fury — with MP Jamil Jivani calling him “an idiot” and MP Aaron Gunn branding him “a coward.”
The RCMP says it won’t disclose protective details, citing security reasons, but the episode underscores a deeper trend: Canada’s political climate is souring, and online vitriol is now colliding with real-world consequences.
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The RCMP in Nova Scotia has opened an investigation into online threats targeting Chris d’Entremont, the MP who defected from the Conservatives to join Mark Carney’s Liberals earlier this week.
Police in Yarmouth confirmed they received reports of threats on Wednesday, one day after d’Entremont’s shock move rocked Parliament and brought the Carney government within two seats of a majority.
While Liberals hailed him as a “principled convert,” many Conservatives erupted in fury — with MP Jamil Jivani calling him “an idiot” and MP Aaron Gunn branding him “a coward.”
The RCMP says it won’t disclose protective details, citing security reasons, but the episode underscores a deeper trend: Canada’s political climate is souring, and online vitriol is now colliding with real-world consequences.
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🇨🇦 Deadly QEW Crash Driver Wins Another Chance to Stay in Canada
Yasir Baig, a Pakistani immigrant convicted of dangerous driving causing death in a 2018 Mississauga highway crash that killed 22-year-old Nicole Turcotte, has won a judicial review overturning his deportation order.
Baig — who stopped his car in live QEW traffic after being flashed by high beams, triggering a five-vehicle pileup — fled the scene and surrendered 12 days later. He pled guilty in 2022, served six months less a day, and received a 32-month driving ban.
After the Immigration Division deemed him inadmissible for “serious criminality,” Baig appealed on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, citing remorse, his Canadian-born children, and limited medical options in Pakistan.
When the Immigration Appeal Division rejected him, Federal Court Justice Anne Turley intervened — ruling the IAD’s decision “unreasonable.” She said it ignored a Parole Board finding that rated Baig a “very low risk to reoffend,” and failed to weigh evidence that deportation would force his family to return to Pakistan, where his sons’ learning-disability accommodations don’t exist.
The case now goes back for redetermination — meaning Baig remains in Canada for now.
For Nicole Turcotte’s family, justice feels suspended.
For Ottawa’s immigration system, it’s another reminder of how compassion and consequence rarely meet in the same courtroom.
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Yasir Baig, a Pakistani immigrant convicted of dangerous driving causing death in a 2018 Mississauga highway crash that killed 22-year-old Nicole Turcotte, has won a judicial review overturning his deportation order.
Baig — who stopped his car in live QEW traffic after being flashed by high beams, triggering a five-vehicle pileup — fled the scene and surrendered 12 days later. He pled guilty in 2022, served six months less a day, and received a 32-month driving ban.
After the Immigration Division deemed him inadmissible for “serious criminality,” Baig appealed on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, citing remorse, his Canadian-born children, and limited medical options in Pakistan.
When the Immigration Appeal Division rejected him, Federal Court Justice Anne Turley intervened — ruling the IAD’s decision “unreasonable.” She said it ignored a Parole Board finding that rated Baig a “very low risk to reoffend,” and failed to weigh evidence that deportation would force his family to return to Pakistan, where his sons’ learning-disability accommodations don’t exist.
The case now goes back for redetermination — meaning Baig remains in Canada for now.
For Nicole Turcotte’s family, justice feels suspended.
For Ottawa’s immigration system, it’s another reminder of how compassion and consequence rarely meet in the same courtroom.
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🇨🇦 Canadian News Giants Win Round One Against OpenAI
The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that a landmark lawsuit by Canada’s biggest news publishers against OpenAI can proceed.
Filed last year by a consortium including Postmedia, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and the Toronto Star, the suit accuses OpenAI of “regularly breaching copyright” by scraping Canadian journalism to train models like ChatGPT — without consent or compensation.
OpenAI tried to have the case thrown out, arguing its business operations occur outside Ontario. The court disagreed, saying there’s “a good, arguable case” that Canadian copyright laws apply — and awarded the publishers $260,000 in costs.
The decision sets a major precedent: foreign tech giants can be hauled into Canadian court for alleged data theft.
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The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that a landmark lawsuit by Canada’s biggest news publishers against OpenAI can proceed.
Filed last year by a consortium including Postmedia, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and the Toronto Star, the suit accuses OpenAI of “regularly breaching copyright” by scraping Canadian journalism to train models like ChatGPT — without consent or compensation.
OpenAI tried to have the case thrown out, arguing its business operations occur outside Ontario. The court disagreed, saying there’s “a good, arguable case” that Canadian copyright laws apply — and awarded the publishers $260,000 in costs.
The decision sets a major precedent: foreign tech giants can be hauled into Canadian court for alleged data theft.
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🇨🇦 Drama on the Hill:
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont claims Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged into his office and yelled at him about how much of a snake he was” — just after he announced he was crossing the floor to join Mark Carney’s Liberals.
d’Entremont said the two “pushed the door” open so forcefully that his assistant had to jump out of the way.
The Conservatives call it “heated words,”and call d'Entremont a liar but the optics are unmistakable:
The party that preaches “freedom” can’t even handle dissent in its own ranks. Are more primed to jump ship? 🍿
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Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont claims Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged into his office and yelled at him about how much of a snake he was” — just after he announced he was crossing the floor to join Mark Carney’s Liberals.
d’Entremont said the two “pushed the door” open so forcefully that his assistant had to jump out of the way.
The Conservatives call it “heated words,”and call d'Entremont a liar but the optics are unmistakable:
The party that preaches “freedom” can’t even handle dissent in its own ranks. Are more primed to jump ship? 🍿
#Canada
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🇨🇦🎤 Canada’s Budget Priorities: Jobs? No. Eurovision? Yes.
Buried deep on page 182 of the federal budget — beneath billions in new debt and vague promises of “fiscal discipline” — sits one surreal line:
“The government will explore participation in Eurovision.”
Yes, while housing collapses, debt spirals, and military readiness sinks to historic lows, Ottawa wants to sing its way onto the European stage — in the name of “deepening relations with Europe.”
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne called it “a platform for Canada to shine.” Meanwhile, defence analysts call our armed forces “critically under-equipped,” and Ontario’s unemployment just hit 7.8%.
$150 million will go to “modernizing CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate” — the same network that will now apparently double as a karaoke audition for Brussels.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s delusion dressed in sequins.
While the U.S. and China weaponize trade, and Europe burns through energy crises, Canada’s grand strategy is… to win Eurovision?
If Mark Carney wanted to prove how disconnected the elites have become from working Canadians, he just hit the high note.
#Canada
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Buried deep on page 182 of the federal budget — beneath billions in new debt and vague promises of “fiscal discipline” — sits one surreal line:
“The government will explore participation in Eurovision.”
Yes, while housing collapses, debt spirals, and military readiness sinks to historic lows, Ottawa wants to sing its way onto the European stage — in the name of “deepening relations with Europe.”
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne called it “a platform for Canada to shine.” Meanwhile, defence analysts call our armed forces “critically under-equipped,” and Ontario’s unemployment just hit 7.8%.
$150 million will go to “modernizing CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate” — the same network that will now apparently double as a karaoke audition for Brussels.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s delusion dressed in sequins.
While the U.S. and China weaponize trade, and Europe burns through energy crises, Canada’s grand strategy is… to win Eurovision?
If Mark Carney wanted to prove how disconnected the elites have become from working Canadians, he just hit the high note.
#Canada
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🇨🇦💥 Budget Week Became a Meltdown Week for the Conservatives
It was supposed to be their moment.
A $78-billion Liberal deficit gift-wrapped for Pierre Poilievre — a chance to hammer Mark Carney’s first budget and define the national conversation.
Instead, the Conservatives imploded.
One MP crossed the floor.
Another resigned entirely.
And Andrew Scheer was left yelling behind closed doors — accused of “barging into” Chris d’Entremont’s office as the Nova Scotia MP defected to the Liberals.
What should’ve been a budget debate turned into a public therapy session for a fractured party.
Even former loyalists described it as “the worst personal betrayal in 30 years.”
The result?
Carney looked like the grown-up in the room — cool, calculating, and just two seats away from a majority — while the Conservatives spent budget week fighting ghosts in their own ranks.
When a party built on “discipline” starts bleeding from within, it’s not just a messaging failure. It’s the smell of panic before the split.
#Canada
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It was supposed to be their moment.
A $78-billion Liberal deficit gift-wrapped for Pierre Poilievre — a chance to hammer Mark Carney’s first budget and define the national conversation.
Instead, the Conservatives imploded.
One MP crossed the floor.
Another resigned entirely.
And Andrew Scheer was left yelling behind closed doors — accused of “barging into” Chris d’Entremont’s office as the Nova Scotia MP defected to the Liberals.
What should’ve been a budget debate turned into a public therapy session for a fractured party.
Even former loyalists described it as “the worst personal betrayal in 30 years.”
The result?
Carney looked like the grown-up in the room — cool, calculating, and just two seats away from a majority — while the Conservatives spent budget week fighting ghosts in their own ranks.
When a party built on “discipline” starts bleeding from within, it’s not just a messaging failure. It’s the smell of panic before the split.
#Canada
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😷📺 Flu Season or Fear Season?
Every November, headlines scream “worst flu in a decade.” Every year, the story sounds the same.
This season it’s an H3N2 mutation, complete with maps, graphs, and urgent pressers.
Reality check: Canada hasn’t even crossed the epidemic threshold. Two per cent of tests are positive — the same baseline we see most autumns.
Yet the coverage reads like the opening scene of a pandemic movie.
It sells fear, not facts.
Yes, influenza is serious for vulnerable groups. But for most people, it’s a recurring seasonal virus that modern medicine already knows how to manage. Public messaging should inform, not terrify.
Canada needs clear data, not breathless drama — proportionate response, not panic.
#Canada
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Every November, headlines scream “worst flu in a decade.” Every year, the story sounds the same.
This season it’s an H3N2 mutation, complete with maps, graphs, and urgent pressers.
Reality check: Canada hasn’t even crossed the epidemic threshold. Two per cent of tests are positive — the same baseline we see most autumns.
Yet the coverage reads like the opening scene of a pandemic movie.
It sells fear, not facts.
Yes, influenza is serious for vulnerable groups. But for most people, it’s a recurring seasonal virus that modern medicine already knows how to manage. Public messaging should inform, not terrify.
Canada needs clear data, not breathless drama — proportionate response, not panic.
#Canada
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🇨🇦🇺🇸✈️ Trump’s Tariffs Threaten the Snowbird Economy
For decades, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have escaped the long winter by heading south — fueling a $20.5 billion “snowbird economy” across Florida, Arizona, and Texas.
But this year, the migration is thinning. New Trump-era tariffs, border photo-tracking, and visitor registration rules have spooked many Canadians into staying home — or heading to Mexico instead.
A new survey shows only 26% of Canadians plan a U.S. trip this winter, down from 41% last year.
Among seniors — the traditional snowbird core — only 1 in 10 now plan to visit.
The politics are biting deep: rising hostility, erratic border enforcement, and 10% retaliatory tariffs have made many feel unwelcome.
Meanwhile, Canada’s own tourism industry just hit a record CA$59 billion, as dollars stay north of the border.
As Florida businesses struggle and condos go up for sale, the “winter of discontent” between Washington and Ottawa is no longer theoretical — it’s economically measurable.
#Canada #USA #Florida
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For decades, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have escaped the long winter by heading south — fueling a $20.5 billion “snowbird economy” across Florida, Arizona, and Texas.
But this year, the migration is thinning. New Trump-era tariffs, border photo-tracking, and visitor registration rules have spooked many Canadians into staying home — or heading to Mexico instead.
A new survey shows only 26% of Canadians plan a U.S. trip this winter, down from 41% last year.
Among seniors — the traditional snowbird core — only 1 in 10 now plan to visit.
The politics are biting deep: rising hostility, erratic border enforcement, and 10% retaliatory tariffs have made many feel unwelcome.
Meanwhile, Canada’s own tourism industry just hit a record CA$59 billion, as dollars stay north of the border.
As Florida businesses struggle and condos go up for sale, the “winter of discontent” between Washington and Ottawa is no longer theoretical — it’s economically measurable.
#Canada #USA #Florida
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