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A new report reveals how Canada’s immigration detention system disproportionately impacts racialized people—especially Black men—and calls for a gradual move toward abolition.

At the centre of the plan is what is being described as a "build, partner, buy" philosophy.

This means prioritizing buying from Canadian defence manufacturers. If that can’t be done, the next step will be to partner with allied nations to acquire the equipment, attracting investment and intellectual property rights to Canada.

"Only after exhausting these options will we buy from abroad," Carney said. "Even then, we will ensure that the maximum benefits are returned to Canada throughout the value chain, including through a modernized industrial and technological benefits regime."

The strategy sets the goal of awarding 70 per cent of federal defence contracts to Canadian firms within a decade. In a background technical briefing on Tuesday, senior defence officials said that currently, 43 per cent of federal defence contracts are awarded to Canadian firms.

My flight attendant friend just got a bad news, the arbitration give 100% reason to Air Canada.

Now they’re in a bind because if they choose to go all in in another strike their security clearance will be revoked.

What a shit show

Hundreds of delegates representing businesses and key sectors from across Canada are taking part in this country’s biggest trade mission to Mexico in decades this week, and it’s a trip those on the ground say is long overdue.

“We’re in a continent that we share. We have two trading agreements with Mexico, both the (Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, or CUSMA) and the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). This is an opportunity to go well beyond where we have been,” said Business Council of Canada CEO Goldy Hyder from Mexico City. “It’s a long time coming.”

The “Team Canada” trade mission has two main objectives: strategizing ahead of this year’s mandatory review of CUSMA, as well as trying to forge new bilateral relationships.

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• CSIS documented that Chinese-language media in Canada are systematically controlled and used for election interference targeting the Conservative Party.
• In January 2025, Paul Chiang threatened Conservative candidate Joe Tay at a Chinese-language media event.
• In January 2026, Prime Minister Carney signed an agreement facilitating Chinese journalist access to the very media apparatus CSIS documented as targeting Conservatives and that enabled the threats against Tay.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January agreement to facilitate Chinese journalist access to Canada represents one of the most reckless national security decisions in recent Canadian history. The deal commits Canada to “provide mutual support and convenience for media to work in each other’s countries” through a formal agreement with China Media Group, the Communist Party’s state propaganda apparatus.

Canada is an open society. That is our strength—and, increasingly, our vulnerability.

In the current threat environment—where Canadian police have warned a federal candidate it was unsafe to campaign, where Chinese-language ecosystems have been tied to intimidation campaigns, and where Canadian intelligence reporting describes Chinese media as a central tool in Beijing’s election interference—the proposal is not merely naïve. By enlarging the very channels through which coercion, censorship, and Beijing’s vote-fixing schemes already operate, it may be recklessly dangerous.

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As Prime Minister, Carney has access to classified intelligence including a June 2019 NSICOP report and a 2022 CSIS assessment that The Bureau has obtained. The Bureau has also reported on these documents during Justin Trudeau’s tenure, in reports that were not contested, and in some cases, filed as exhibits in the Hogue Inquiry into Chinese election interference.

The most dramatic illustration of the danger sits in recent parliamentary testimony and documented threats against Conservative candidate Joseph Tay. In December 2024, Hong Kong police issued a $184,000 bounty for Tay, a pro-democracy activist and Canadian citizen, under charges of “inciting secession” and “colluding with foreign forces.” What happened next should have stopped Carney’s China “reset” deal—particularly the state-level media agreements—dead in its tracks.

In January 2025, Liberal MP Paul Chiang stood before a Chinese-language media news conference and told attendees they could claim the bounty “if you bring him to Toronto’s Chinese consulate.” Chiang also warned that Tay’s election to Parliament would cause “great controversy” for Canada. When confronted, Chiang claimed he was joking and issued a perfunctory apology.

In January 2025, Liberal MP Paul Chiang stood before a Chinese-language media news conference and told attendees they could claim the bounty “if you bring him to Toronto’s Chinese consulate.” Chiang also warned that Tay’s election to Parliament would cause “great controversy” for Canada. When confronted, Chiang claimed he was joking and issued a perfunctory apology.

Tay rejected it, stating publicly: “Threats like these are the tradecraft of the Chinese Communist Party to interfere in Canada. They are not just aimed at me; they are intended to send a chilling signal to the entire community to force compliance with Beijing’s political goals. This situation has left me fearing for my safety.”

Carney’s response was to defend Chiang. The Prime Minister called the incident a “teachable moment,” praised Chiang’s “integrity,” and refused to remove him as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville. Only after the RCMP announced it was reviewing the matter—and international Hong Kong diaspora groups mounted a pressure campaign—did Chiang resign.

But Chiang’s comments at a Chinese-language media event were not an isolated incident.

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Did Mark Carney prioritize trade deals over the safety of diaspora communities and the integrity of Canadian elections? Or is his judgment so catastrophically flawed that he cannot be trusted to protect Canadian sovereignty?

What is certain is that Carney signed an agreement facilitating access for Chinese “media” operatives that Canadian intelligence has explicitly documented as threats to Canadian democracy and Canadian lives.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7671573

Sweden knew Canada's Marc Kennedy was a notorious cheater.

So they set up a camera at the 'hog line' to record it.

And caught him doing it at the Olympics.

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Amanda Farrell, who turns 41 next week, was accused of assault, forcible confinement, criminal harassment, mischief to property, and breaking into the home uninvited, has entered into a peace bond to resolve her criminal charges in a virtual courtroom.

The matter had been before the courts for two-and-a-half years after it is alleged Farrell broke into her former boyfriend’s home and confronted the man and his partner, who told CTV News she feared for her safety.

“It was 15 minutes of terror,” said Chantelle Stamcos. “It was very scary. She was in full uniform, hand on her weapon most of the time, chasing us around, trying to speak with him, yelling at me.”

This person is still a cop.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/47591061

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Canada’s finance minister François-Philippe Champagne [says his] country is an open shop for Europeans seeking new suppliers of energy, weapons or raw materials, while the EU’s cyber security agency tells us that sophisticated digital weapons typically used by state security services are now being wielded by cyber gangs.

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“There’s more for us to do than there’s ever been before. That’s why I see Canada as a supplier of choice in this new world economic order,” François-Philippe Champagne [said during a visit in Brussels.

“The world has changed . . . we probably saw the shape of things to come faster than others,” Champagne said.

Ottawa is offering Europe liquefied natural gas as a way to diversify away from US supply. “We are so close to Europe that we become almost that natural partner,” Champagne said.

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Beyond energy, Canada is also promoting its reserves of critical raw materials and its aerospace industry. “We have industries which can support the rearmament of Europe,” Champagne said, pointing to companies such as Bombardier and CAE.

Canada is currently the only non-EU country with access to the bloc’s €150bn defence loan scheme, known as Safe, and a €90bn Ukraine support package.

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The glaring fundamental barrier between Beijing and the West remains the incompatibility between the absolute authority of China’s Communist Party and the societal accountability of democratic institutions — including Canada’s.

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A purge of senior generals and deepening concern about China’s wobbling economy have had global Beijing-watchers sniffing for hints of regime fragility.

Skepticism about President Xi Jinping’s hold on power only intensified this month after China resorted to a 20-year prison sentence to silence 78-year-old democracy advocate Jimmy Lai.

Was that a message of deterrence or desperation?

The swirling dramas are noticed here in Canada.

Mark Carney’s description of our new rapport with China as a “strategic partnership” was already causing unease among Canada’s intelligence community and Canadians of Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Taiwanese background.

They worry there is now an understanding that Ottawa will consciously ignore Beijing’s espionage and influence operations in Canada, its repression of Chinese expats, and its flouting of justice both in China and internationally.

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This is on top of doubts about claims that Canada will expand the meagre four-per-cent of our commodity exports that go to China. Based on experience dating back to Jean Chretien, who despite his best efforts failed to grow our market share in China, it is unlikely that China represents economic inroads for Canada. Beijing will never allow imports to compete fairly against its own domestic goods, especially with China’s economy languishing under Xi Jinping’s anti-market statist policies.

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Another factor is that any agreements signed by China’s political institutions — including the very ministries with whom Ottawa is negotiating MOUs — are routinely overruled by powerful officials in the military and security agencies. As Chairman Mao once put it, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”.

China’s People’s Liberation Army, Navy, and Air Force do not answer to the state or its constitution, but to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) masters. President Xi Jinping’s most powerful role is probably chairmanship of the Central Military Commission.

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This is not simply a case of divergent opinions over human rights or the role of sovereignty in relations between nations. Before we even begin negotiating the details of diplomatic or trade agreements, seeing the Canada-China relationship as a “strategic partnership” first requires us to believe that we can have reciprocal, fair state-to-state relations.

And that requires buying into a myth, not reality.

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In the few weeks since Carney’s visit to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other communist leaders, Canadians have learned that the new strategic partnership announced between the two countries was much more than trade negotiations related to canola and EV cars. There were multiple agreements made and MOUs signed that have established police and law enforcement cooperation in the name of “public safety and security,” increased access for Chinese media and communications in Canada, and alignment on government policy for climate change objectives and global governance agendas, including Canada’s recognition of the One China Policy.

Former Canadian ambassador to China, David Mulroney, questioned Carney’s deal making with Beijing, as the government seems to be willfully ignoring serious issues of foreign interference in Canada and dismissing China’s longstanding strategic foreign affairs objective of pulling Canada away from its traditional allies.

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Mulroney warns of the real possibility of the country becoming a “vassal state” of China. In a post this week on X, Mulroney stated: “Our relationship loop with China is now in its See No Evil phase, in which the government pretends that interference is inevitable and can be managed. This will last until interference becomes so egregious and corrosive that it’s impossible to ignore. Give it a year or so.”

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The wisdom of the Carney Liberals to advance new, more entangled relations with the CCP is being brought into question almost daily with new revelations about what the deals may contain and new facts emerging about how nefarious the CCP activities have been in Canada. This is an unfolding story that just this week featured two major news items, which reflected new light on the Canada-China strategic partnership. First, Conservative MPs Micheal Chong and Frank Caputo called on the government to release the details of the MOU on intelligence sharing between China’s Ministry of Public Security and Canada’s RCMP. The government has deemed the MOU “confidential” and does not intend on releasing any details to MPs. This is disconcerting for Garry Clement, former national director of the RCMP’s proceeds-of-crime program, who advises in an Epoch Times interview that the new police agreement may potentially permit the CCP to “capitalize on intelligence,” and this can jeopardize Canada’s credibility with its allies, with the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and with diaspora groups, who already are unnerved with CCP police stations operating in Canadian cities.

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A second breaking news story this week is a published report that details how the CCP is directing espionage and foreign interference operations throughout western democracies, and Canada is a particular target. The report’s investigation identifies 575 Beijing-linked organizations that are active in Canada: “the Party’s weapon that it uses to expand control and influence without force.” In response, the MLI held a quickly arranged news conference in Ottawa at which Christopher Coates, its foreign policy and national security director, stated, “The question is no longer whether this is happening. The question is whether Canada is prepared to respond with the seriousness that the evidence demands.” Indeed, that is the question.

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Saskatoon optometrist Rachael Berger has seen an increase in the number of patients concerned about their vision when driving at night.

“I'm seeing an alarming number of perfectly young, healthy individuals coming in and saying, ‘I'm having a hard time seeing at night, what's going on,’” she told The Current guest host Peter Armstrong.

She tells patients it’s not them — it’s the LED headlights increasingly used on vehicles.

When it’s dark, Berger explains, the rods in our eyes turn on to help us see better.

“When you're driving at night and your rods are activated, and all of a sudden this blast of light comes, it can be very jarring, because our night system isn't prepared or necessarily expecting that,” she said.

Advocates are calling on the federal government and car manufacturers to adjust their regulations and industry standards around bright headlights because there needs to be a better balance between solutions to help drivers see while not compromising other’s safety.

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Canada can’t import its way to net-zero, or to a better trading model. It needs to build here at home.

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For Canadian autoworkers already reeling from U.S. trade aggression, idled plants, and stalled EV investment, [the recent Canada-China EV trade] deal creates new vulnerabilities at precisely the wrong moment.

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China ... is not a normal trading partner. Its auto industry is the product of deliberate state controls, deplorable labour conditions and structural overcapacity. Electric vehicles and their key components (e.g. battery cells) have been a strategic priority for government since at least 2013.

Chinese automakers are encouraged to produce far more vehicles than their domestic market can absorb, then export the excess.

This isn’t competition, it’s market distortion. Canadian regulators are working constantly to control the flow of low-cost Chinese imports on a range of products, like steel, guarding domestic industries against unfair practices and injury. China is among the world’s worst offenders of dumping.

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Ottawa has tried to minimize the political blowback of this China deal, claiming the quota represents just three per cent of annual vehicle sales. That figure is misleading. It compares Chinese EV imports to total vehicle sales in Canada, including gas-powered trucks and SUVs. Measured against the EV market alone, 49,000 vehicles represent roughly 20 per cent of new EV and hybrid sales, based on 2025 sales data.

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With EV demand weakened by a temporary rollback of consumer purchasing incentives and gaps in charging infrastructure (only recently reinstated as part of the feds’ new auto strategy), Chinese imports could soon account for as much as 30 per cent of the EV market. This ratio far exceeds other automaking regions, like Europe, where Chinese automakers have wreaked havoc on auto supply chains and local jobs, albeit accounting for only 16.5 per cent of the EV sales market. In Mexico, a Chinese vehicle import surge (that started as a trickle) forced government to safeguard its domestic auto industry by raising import tariffs to 50 per cent.

The concerns for autoworkers are even more acute. Once Chinese automakers have set in place Canadian retail and afterparts networks, they will be given clearance to supply unlimited quantities of vehicles from numerous factories outside China, at standard or even zero tariffs, sidestepping the quota altogether. Canada must establish rigorous monitoring and authentication protocols to avoid import surges, and trans-shipment of Chinese vehicles through other countries.

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Canadian officials would be wise to contain the unintended spread of cheap Chinese EVs, or risk undoing its own auto industry strategy. If one thing is clear, its that Canada cannot import its way to a net-zero future. It must build it here at home.

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I understand we need to wait and see about pricing and warranties and the availability of service centres here in Canada, not to mention better understanding of quality issues and of course environmental and human rights issues, but...

Which potential Chinese cars interest you the most to drive here in Canada? Personally I'm tired of soulless cookie-cutter SUV/CUVs and am far more interested in the 4 door coupes and smaller city-cars. Think downtown Montreal cars with personality rather than suburban Alberta parking lots in places like Sherwood Park outside big-box stores.