Parliament should abolish offshore tax agreements with “known havens" like those used by Brookfield Asset Management, says New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh. Brookfield under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mark Carney avoided more than $5 billion in federal taxes using offshore accounts, he said: "Is it ethical?"
The British Columbia First Nation that announced its discovery of 215 children’s graves sought a visit to the Kamloops Residential School site by Pope Francis, Access To Information records show. Minutes of a local meeting quoted councillors as remarking they were “the first to announce unmarked graves.”
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: “Neatly on my shelf, eighty books I haven’t read. They make me look inept. I should move with the times…”
Everything was political in the 1930s. It was a haunted decade that “almost made me a Communist,” as Alberta Premier William Aberhart put it. Strong, Beautiful and Modern captures the oddest political expression of all, the campaign for physical culture. Archival images of mass synchronized exercises of the Pro-Rec League in the parks of Vancouver bear an unnerving resemblance to parades of bronzed youth so popular in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia.
“Interest in fit, strong and beautiful bodies in the 1930s was not the monopoly of totalitarian and right-wing regimes,” writes historian Charlotte Macdonald. “Was it a modernity of individuality and freedom or of mass conformity and national duty?”
Beginning in 1937 with Britain’s Physical Training and Recreation Act and spreading through the “white Dominions” of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, legislators enacted national fitness programs. This is an intriguing story, crisply told.
Canadian universities are targets of foreign agents determined to intimidate critics and scout recruits, says an RCMP briefing note. The Mounties did not identify any campus by name but said foreign interference was sophisticated: "Universities can be used as venues for ‘talent spotting.'"
An emotional Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday recited comments from elementary schoolchildren he said were worried about an American takeover. Neither Liberal Party aides nor the Georgetown, Ont. school he claimed had forwarded the children’s comments would corroborate the story: "Last week I met a teacher."
Any future Conservative cabinet would remove the GST on the purchase of a new light passenger vehicle providing it is Canadian-made, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. Costs were not detailed: "This will boost the sale of new Canadian-made cars."
Public works should be financed through the sale of consumer savings bonds with a promise of tax-free interest, New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singhs said yesterday. Costs were not detailed: "Canadians are saying, ‘I want to do my part.'"
Indigenous Canadians do not have an ancestral right to sell marijuana without a license, a Nova Scotia judge has ruled. Provincial Court dismissed the “test case” of a First Nations distributor who invoked treaty rights following his arrest: "This type of offence has become a widespread problem."
Prime Minister Mark Carney only weeks before seeking the Liberal leadership lobbied Beijing’s mayor to “deepen co-operation," according to a Chinese account of the meeting disclosed yesterday by The Epoch Times. Carney lobbied as chair of Brookfield Asset Management though cabinet at the time had censured China for unfair trade practices that would "cripple our own industry."
Prime Minister Mark Carney last night said he will “act with purpose and with force” against Trump tariffs but kept the details confidential. Voters will learn more after premiers meet later this week, he said: "It is essential to act with purpose and with force and that is what we will do."
Canadians still have plenty of food even with foreign tariffs on farm and seafood, Finance Minister François-Phillipe 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.”
