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> Trump says the United States does not need oil, gas, vehicles, or lumber imports from his allies to the north. > Trump made the comments Thursday, in his first speech to world leaders since returning to the White House for his second term.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadians would have “much better” health coverage if Canada became the 51st state. He made the remarks during a briefing in North Carolina, where he toured areas struck by Hurricane Helene on Friday. “I would love to see Canada be the 51st state,” he said. “The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut -- a tremendous tax cut -- because they are very highly taxed.” “They’d have much better health coverage. I think the people of Canada would like it,” said the president.

> Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says she's running against the "Ottawa establishment" as more federal cabinet ministers rally around her top rival Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada. > "It's central to my campaign to see this not about Liberal elites deciding. This is about the grassroots," Freeland said in an interview on CBC's The House that will air on Saturday. I see.

Wouldn't be the holiday shopping season without some payment processing outages.

At least 45 firearms have been stolen from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 2014, including 33 handguns, seven rifles, four shotguns and a grenade launcher. The data, which was obtained through an access to information request, shows that nearly half of these firearms were reported stolen from the RCMP in 2016, when the grenade launcher plus 18 handguns, two shotguns and a rifle were taken. Four Mountie handguns were also reported stolen last year in 2024. “If the RCMP has truly lost these weapons, the matter should be fully investigated and the public should be worried,” former RCMP major crime investigator Bruce Pitt-Payne told CTVNews.ca. “I don’t know what the situation is or why so many are unaccounted for; however, the RCMP must be absolutely forthright about this with the public if they want to retain the trust of Canadians.”

I recently stumbled across a post in the c/Europe community (https://lemmy.world/post/24641691) that highlighted alternatives to software and infrastructure from Big Tech companies. This got me thinking - is there a similar resource available for Canadians, or would there be interest in creating one?

"Continental energy security" was the watchword of both governments and industry for much of the past quarter century in North America: the idea that by linking the U.S. and Canada in a tight web of pipelines and refineries, both countries would protect themselves from threats and hostile trade actions that — it was assumed — would come from outside North America. The website of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is still littered with references to the now-obsolete notion that increasing interdependence with the U.S. would make Canada safer: "Over the past decade, Canada has strengthened its continental energy security by reducing reliance on overseas oil and increasing the share of imports from the United States." Too late did Canada realize that the threat would come from inside the house — that Americans would elect a president who saw Canada not as a partner, but as a target for extortion and even annexation.

Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found. CBC News' visual investigations unit has investigated both the internet infrastructure behind the ads — leading from a Barrie, Ont., provider, to the Netherlands, to Russia — as well as the spoofed accounts from local businesses sharing the ads. Dozens of accounts on X, formerly Twitter, have shared the ads, which often feature sensationalist headlines focusing on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre or NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

THE Liberal Party has surpassed the 30-point threshold for the first time since September 2022 and now sits at 32 per cent, according to EKOS Politics. Indeed, the party is now tied with its vote share in the 2021 election. Meanwhile, at 39 per cent, the Conservative lead has narrowed to just seven points, a significant shift from the 25-point advantage the party enjoyed in the wake of former finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s resignation a month ago. While the Conservatives would no doubt win the most seats if an election were held tomorrow, it is unlikely they would form a majority government given the renewed Liberal support in Ontario. According to EKOS Politics, the Liberal resurgence seems to be driven by three factors. First, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation produced a modest but noticeable boost to the party’s standing. Second, the extensive media coverage of the Liberal leadership race accelerated this rise. Finally, the cavalcade of radical announcements from the freshly inaugurated Donald Trump has spurred a renewed sense of national identity, prompting Canadians to rally around their incumbent leaders in a show of solidarity.

An Alberta widow will be allowed to keep tens of thousands of dollars her late husband left to her in retirement savings after winning a years-long court battle against the Canada Revenue Agency. The ruling Tuesday said Marlene Enns is exempt from a clause in Canadian tax law that gives the tax agency power to collect unpaid tax debts from spouses or common-law partners in certain cases because, under law, her marriage ended the moment her husband died. The appeal court ruling settles a question that for years did not have a clear answer, after other cases involving widows in the Tax Court of Canada ended with conflicting answers: what should the definition of "spouse" be in cases like the one involving Enns.

> Mr. Ford won a majority of the Ontario Legislature’s seats for the second time in June, 2022, just 2½ years ago. The next election date under provincial legislation is currently fixed for June, 2026. ... > Ms. Stiles, citing the Premier’s own recent warning that Mr. Trump’s tariffs could cost Ontario half a million jobs, said Mr. Ford was putting party before province. > > “He can either be the Premier or run for Premier,” the NDP Leader said in a statement. “He needs to decide what’s more important: his job or 500,000 jobs.” From: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-voters-to-head-to-the-polls-feb-27-source/

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/94936

Do I smell austerity for the working class?

Canada should not respond to potential U.S. tariffs with retaliatory tariffs, as this would primarily harm Canadian consumers by driving up prices. Instead, Canada should leverage its industrial and technological capabilities to undermine the monopolistic rent-seeking of American corporations by legalizing and promoting third-party modifications, repairs, and alternative marketplaces for technology, agriculture, and other industries. By dismantling restrictive intellectual property laws—many of which were imposed under the USMCA trade agreement—Canada could become a global hub for jailbreaks, independent app stores, and right-to-repair solutions, thereby reducing dependence on U.S. tech monopolies and fostering a new high-tech economy that directly benefits Canadian consumers and businesses.

> “However, given the sizeable population shock, real GDP per capita would be 1.4 per cent higher in 2027 under the 2025-2027 [Immigration Levels Plan],” the report said ☝️ The better title hidden in a paragraph further down.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24511890 > The fact that this is a real image is infuriating > > 20-01-2025. This is a real image

Two years after Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly declared she was taking the unprecedented step of moving to confiscate millions of dollars from a sanctioned Russian oligarch with assets in Canada, the government has not actually begun the court process to forfeit the money, let alone to hand it over to Ukrainian reconstruction — and it may never happen. The federal government announced on Dec. 19, 2022, that it had ordered a freeze on $26 million US held in a Canadian bank account by an offshore investment fund, saying the money ultimately belonged to Roman Abramovich, a high-profile ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was Ottawa's first use of newly legislated powers to not just sanction certain people and companies, but to also confiscate their money and sell off their assets based solely on those sanctions — something no other major Western economy has tried.

Just turned on CBC News Network Live and they were talking about how “by far” Melania’s hat is getting the most attention of the day. I’m so tired of our media. Trump [issued at least 26 executive orders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump), Elon did the nazi salute multiple times, Trump commented on tariffs… but we *have* to talk about this hat! For what it’s worth, Wikipedia’s news section seems highly factual and not editorialized. It shouldn’t be this hard to get news though.

Premier Doug Ford says he needs a "clear mandate" from Ontario voters to wage an economic battle against potentially devastating tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump says could come on Feb. 1. Ford's comments to reporters Monday at Queen's Park following Trump's inauguration were the clearest indication yet he intends to call an election in the province, after months of fuelling speculation of an early vote. "These are negotiations that are going to go on for quite some time right now. And make no mistake about it: he's coming for us," Ford said of Trump. "I need a clear mandate from the people of Ontario. Not for tomorrow, or the next day — for four years of dealing with our American friends."

>Retired Col. Brett Boudreau, a former senior military public affairs officer, said the decision not to release speeches is just a symptom of the ongoing failure by the forces to connect with Canadians. “The episode is just the latest in a long series of painful examples showing how far the defence communications enterprise has fallen,” he added. “This is a telling snapshot of the current malign mindset toward public communication by Defence senior leadership.” > >The Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence have faced intense criticism for its increasing secrecy. In 2023, the House of Commons Committee on National Defence launched hearings into the lack of openness and transparency. The committee heard that DND and the military routinely violates the law by failing to release records under the Access to Information Act.

He's single and all out of cares

Trump, kindly go fuck yourself.

> In a Fox News interview posted to his personal X account on Wednesday, O’Leary appeared to vouch for Canadians, suggesting that citizens are interested in joining forces with its southern neighbours. > “I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested,” O’Leary said. > “The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.”

In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Errol Billinkoff rarely saw a man without kids come into his Winnipeg clinic to get a vasectomy. But since the pandemic began, he says it's become an almost daily occurrence. And he's not alone. "At first, I thought I was the only one who was noticing this," Billinkoff, who brought a no-scalpel vasectomy procedure to Winnipeg in the early 1990s, told CBC News in a November interview. "But I am part of an international chat group where doctors who do vasectomies participate and the topic came up, and it's like everybody notices it."