Prime Minister Mark Carney’s claim of “fast tracking a trillion dollars of investment” is grossly inflated and drawn mainly from reannouncements of old spending, according to Budget Office figure released yesterday. Carney repeated the claim Tuesday in a speech to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos: "We are going to put more than $3,000 in the pocket of every Canadian." READ MORE
Authorities yesterday confirmed Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle spent two weeks holidaying in Egypt after booking a $13,684 business class junket to Cairo for meetings. A spokesperson denied Houle timed her vacation to subsidize her flights: "The Advocate extended her stay for personal reasons." READ MORE
New Democrats must counter an “incredibly active” Jewish lobby, Party leadership candidate Avi Lewis said last night. Lewis made his remarks in a leadership debate sponsored by an anti-Israel group, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: "We have to expose the actions of the Israel lobby." READ MORE
Chrystia Freeland yesterday said she “behaved ethically at every moment” in accepting a job as an advisor to Ukraine’s President while acting as parliamentary secretary overseeing Canadian postwar aid to that country. Freeland spoke to Rebel News Network in her first public comments since resigning January 9: "I wasn’t on both sides of the deal." READ MORE
Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault is appointing new returning officers in three federal ridings that reported 2025 election irregularities, records show. Revisions to the List Of Returning Officers are in anticipation of another general campaign as early as 2026: "A ballot box got lost. How can that possibly happen?" READ MORE
A self-described ‘watchdog for homelessness' billed taxpayers nearly $14,000 for a business class junket to Cairo, records show. Employees in Access To Information emails questioned expenses charged by Marie-Josée Houle, cabinet's $213,000-a year Housing Advocate: "It’s my job to be a watchdog for housing and homelessness in Canada." READ MORE
Costs to manage the Canada Dental Care Plan have jumped to nearly 9 percent or almost $860 million since the program was launched, records show. Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department disclosed the program has already been audited but would not release the findings: "The report is confidential." READ MORE
My parents are Sikh, from the Punjab. Life here was difficult at first. My father had a master’s degree in economics but worked in a factory for the first time in his life. Amid success and setbacks, I never heard my parents say a disparaging word about our country, not once. Mom defined Canada in her own terms: the people are polite, she said. My brother and I grew up in Mississauga, enjoying a wonderful suburban childhood. We cruised the streets on our bicycles, played road hockey and went to Temple. It was quiet and peaceful, the Canadian dream.
