Canada’s reliance on foreign workers could hold back wages and productivity, economist says

Canada’s reliance on foreign workers could hold back wages and productivity, economist says

Temporary foreign workers can be financially attractive to businesses, says a University of Waterloo economist, but access to that worker pool can undermine the push to be more productive.

“Labour shortages are not a problem, they’re a blessing,” said Mikal Skuterud, a professor in the university’s Department of Economics.

His comments come as Ottawa prepares to release its next Immigration Levels Plan and introduce changes to how Canada selects skilled immigrants for permanent residence.


Carney is the worst of men. Evil, greedy, serpentine.

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Netanyahu says U.S. and Israel must topple Iranian regime

Netanyahu says U.S. and Israel must topple Iranian regime

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday night that the Iranian regime must be overthrown once and for all.

Speaking to an Israel Defense Forces officer graduation ceremony, Netanyahu said that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “decided to follow in his father’s footsteps” and attempt “once again to develop the bombs of death.”

“And therefore, there is only one way to remove this threat once and for all: overthrow the regime in Iran,” Netanyahu said. “And that is my directive to the IDF, the Mossad, and the security branches.”

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Trumpism Is Backfiring Says Ukraine Bag Lady

Trumpism Is Backfiring Says Ukraine Bag Lady

No country right now better reveals the transformation in the way the world sees America — the way we’ve turned from ally and partner to bully and predator — than Canada.

In late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada, walked away from trade talks with the Trump administration. He did so knowing that the retaliation could be ruinous for the Canadian economy.


OH Wow! Carney ruined our economy to save us!

It helped China because that was Carney’s orders.

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The Subterranean Battle Playing Out Deep in Ukraine’s Soviet-Era Pipelines

The Subterranean Battle Playing Out Deep in Ukraine’s Soviet-Era Pipelines

At the start of the year, Russian troops began infiltrating deep behind Ukrainian lines several miles and a river away from their own positions.

They hadn’t crossed through minefields or through treelines stalked by drones. They had gone under them.

It wasn’t the first time Russian soldiers had used hundreds of miles of Soviet-era gas pipelines to crawl behind Ukrainian positions to cut their way through to the surface and stage surprise attacks. But near the city of Kupyansk, Ukraine is now fighting back underground, leading to pitched battles in the dark to stem the Russians’ subterranean advance.

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Joly giving Stelco owner 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts

Joly giving Stelco owner 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is giving the American parent company of Hamilton-based Stelco 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts.

In a “demand letter” sent to Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs on Thursday, Joly says the company is violating its commitments under the Investment Canada Act.

“In the event Cliffs fails to comply with this demand, the Minister may, pursuant to section 40 of the Act, make an application to a superior court,” the letter, obtained by Radio-Canada, reads.

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Her sad story …

Her sad story …

Worth the time …

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GOLDSTEIN: PBO says federal spending, borrowing and debt up, economic growth down

GOLDSTEIN: PBO says federal spending, borrowing and debt up, economic growth down

Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan released her economic and fiscal outlook for October this week, based on the spending of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government.

Heading into the feds’ Nov. 5 budget, it’s not pretty.

The general tone was summed up by the first sentence in her press release: “Federal spending, borrowing and debt continue to rise amid weaker economic growth” and it gets worse from there.

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Many Western Governments Won’t Survive

Many Western Governments Won’t Survive

Western governments have put themselves in mortal danger.

They are actively doing things that are destroying their countries: (1) replacing their native citizens with unassimilable foreigners; (2) centralizing government power in unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies; (3) censoring and criminalizing public dissent; (4) offshoring industrial and manufacturing jobs; (5) exacerbating energy costs and general inflation by demonizing hydrocarbons and pushing “global warming” delusions; (6) increasing taxes, government spending, and public welfare in unsustainable ways; (7) demolishing their nations’ historical identities, traditions, beliefs, and common cultures; (8) providing foreigners with “free” homes, food, and educations, while accusing native citizens of being “racists,” “xenophobes,” and “white supremacists”; (9) discouraging healthy marriages and stable families; and (10) indoctrinating the youngest generations to believe that war, “climate change,” overpopulation, and economic collapse will prevent them from ever having happy, hopeful, purposeful futures.


I would not go to war under a Carney government that is certain.

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Cybersecurity agency prepares alert for Canadian organizations on programming vulnerability

Cybersecurity agency prepares alert for Canadian organizations on programming vulnerability

The Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity says it is preparing an alert for organizations regarding vulnerabilities in a programming language powering many of the world’s websites.

The developers of PHP, an open-source programming language used to run websites, disclosed Wednesday that they have identified two “critical vulnerabilities,” urging all PHP users to “update immediately.”

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The mob is coming to Britain, and the police are woefully unprepared

The mob is coming to Britain, and the police are woefully unprepared

France is ablaze and we could be next, say the gloomsters; and they may be right. Unrest seems to be spreading across Europe with riots in Milan, Albania, Spain and Portugal in recent weeks.

This may all be coincidental or a sign of a deeper political malaise that is expressing itself in violent behaviour. If the politicians won’t listen, the French protesters say, what choice do we have? It is also the reason given by masked men who have turned up at south-coast ports when asylum seekers arrive.

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Accused Toronto airport gold heist gang turned on each other in nasty fight for loot

Accused Toronto airport gold heist gang turned on each other in nasty fight for loot

While suspects in the Toronto airport gold heist were under intense, around-the-clock police surveillance, one of them franticly made increasingly angry and desperate phone calls chasing down money, feeling cheated and abandoned by his friends, court heard.

“It’s already falling apart,” a caller identified in court as Parmpal Sidhu said over the phone nine months after more than $22.5 million in gold bars and cash was stolen after arriving at Pearson airport on a flight from Switzerland.

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Civil servant who earned £280K by working FIVE jobs at same time tells court he failed to disclose roles ‘because he was suffering with stress’

Civil servant who earned £280K by working FIVE jobs at same time tells court he failed to disclose roles ‘because he was suffering with stress’

A civil servant accused of pocketing wages from five full-time government jobs has said he failed to disclose his multiple roles because he was suffering from stress.

Kashim Chowdhury, 55, is accused of exploiting the post-Covid work-from-home culture to take on multiple roles from unwitting government departments.

He allegedly lied multiple times to secure overlapping jobs with employers including the Food Standards Agency, Home Office and Department for Business and Trade


Says something about the civil service.

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A Romanian Money Courier, a Jet Ski Across the Akwesasne Border and a Los Angeles Deli Point to an Epidemic of Transnational Scams Targeting North America

A Romanian Money Courier, a Jet Ski Across the Akwesasne Border and a Los Angeles Deli Point to an Epidemic of Transnational Scams Targeting North America

OTTAWA — The money was scammed from Canadian victims. The Romanian theft-gang operative sent to collect it, an Ontario fraud investigator said Tuesday, flew from Paris to Montreal and then crossed into the United States on a jet ski at Akwesasne, the Mohawk territory that straddles the borders of Ontario, Quebec and New York.

“Literally it was a two minute jet ski ride that this guy hopped on with a human trafficker,” said Detective Sergeant John Armit of the Ontario Provincial Police.

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45% Of College Students Justify Violence To Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey

45% Of College Students Justify Violence To Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey

A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas.

Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that 45 percent of undergraduate students surveyed believe physical violence can be justified to stop so-called hate speech. That number is up 6 points from 2025 and ties the all-time record set in 2023.

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RCMP search headquarters of Quebec bus maker Lion Electric in fraud investigation

RCMP search headquarters of Quebec bus maker Lion Electric in fraud investigation

Dozens of RCMP police officers are searching the headquarters of Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric as part of what the national police force is calling an investment fraud investigation.

As many as 75 police officers are taking part in the operation, which is targeting the company’s base of operations in Saint-Jérôme, Que., some 60 kilometres northwest of Montreal, RCMP spokesman Enrique Gasse said in an email on Wednesday.

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