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Things are changing for our Northern Neighbor, first it was Quebec where Mark Carney's party was wiped out, now B.C. held a snap election called by Premier David Eby the super liberal running the province, the conservative party won a majority for the first time in nearly 100 years, Eby has resigned his position and accepted responsibility for the major defeat his party suffered, Eby ran on a platform of Orange Man Bad and it backfired spectacularly.

British Columbia has elected a Conservative government for the first time in 98 years in a landslide victory that could be a warning for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) was ousted in the key federal battleground on Saturday, after nine years in power, following the snap election called two years early by Premier David Eby.

This wooden figurine was discovered in 1977 in an early house built by the ancestors of the Inuit on Baffin Island in northern Canada. The unique carving represents a person wearing European clothing and a cross on their chest. Dated to 1350, the figurine is the earliest Indigenous representation of a European anywhere in the Western Hemisphere and probably depicts a Norseman. The tiny driftwood carving, which is currently on display at the Canadian Museum of History, measures just 2.1 inches (5.4 centimeters) tall. According to the museum, the featureless face and stumpy arms are common in 14th-century Inuit carvings,...

A fast-moving grass fire that killed at least ​four soldiers at a western Canadian ‌military base on Saturday was sparked by an exercise using live ​grenades, a senior defense ​official said on Thursday. High winds ⁠then propelled the blaze across ​the army base in Wainwright, ​overwhelming dozens of soldiers. The incident was one of the worst peacetime ​tragedies for Canada’s military. “The fire ​initiated on the automatic grenade launcher range … [it] ‌initiated ⁠as a result of routine military training that was happening on that range at ​the time,” ​Brigadier-General ⁠Vanessa Hanrahan told reporters. Officials said 27 people remain ​hospitalized,...

Residents of Alberta voted on Monday to remain part of Canada, rejecting a campaign to try to separate the oil-rich western province from the rest of the country. Voters in a referendum endorsed remaining in Canada over the option of holding a second vote on whether to secede. With just over a third of votes counted, 76 percent of voters chose to remain part of Canada with 23 percent seeking another vote. Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the result. “Albertans chose Canada,” he said in a statement. “All Canadians will move forward together with renewed purpose and high ambition.” In...

Question 10 Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada? Option 1: Alberta should remain a province of Canada. Option 2: The Government of Alberta should commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada. SNIP

Polls open at 9 a.m. Monday for Alberta's 10-question referendum, but Airdrie residents need to check where they're assigned to vote before heading out. Airdrie falls within two provincial electoral divisions, Airdrie-East and Airdrie-Cochrane. Voting is scheduled to continue until 8 p.m. The vote follows preliminary figures released Sunday by Elections Alberta showing 1,356,873 Albertans cast advance votes or special ballots, representing 43.1 per cent of eligible electors. SNIP What are Albertans voting on? Monday's referendum contains 10 questions covering immigration, access to provincially funded services, proposed constitutional changes and Alberta's future within Canada. Questions 1 through 5 address immigration...

Gas line reportedly hit during a training exercise, triggering a large blaze in Alberta At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured after a large explosion at one of Canada’s busiest military bases. A gas line was hit during a live-fire training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, in Alberta, at 4pm on Saturday, according to reports. Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, called the incident “one of the worst tragedies for Canadian forces on Canadian soil in peacetime”. At an address on Sunday, Mr Carney said: “Four service members have lost their lives and their...

This video by Fight for Canada criticizes Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the federal Liberal Party, arguing that despite frequent anti-American rhetoric, Canada remains deeply reliant on the United States for essential resources. Key takeaways from the video: Electricity Dependency: The speaker notes that Ontario has contracted to buy over 600 megawatts of electricity from the United States for the winter, citing ongoing renovations at the Pickering nuclear plant (0:45-1:30). He claims that 100% of Canada's electricity imports originate from the U.S. (1:13). Economic Integration: The video highlights that Canada's economy is heavily tied to the U.S., with over 72%...

Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to rally oil-rich province to stick with country SUNDRE, Alberta—This town nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains is known for its annual pro rodeo in June, which includes a parade of cowboys and cowgirls on horseback, school marching bands and colorful floats celebrating the heritage of rural Alberta.This year, a feud erupted over a proposed parade float festooned with Alberta provincial flags. Volunteer parade organizers rejected the idea as too political amid campaigning around a referendum on Alberta staying in Canada or moving toward independence—and were then met with an onslaught of harassment...

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario Several members of a suspected terrorist ring prayed daily at a storefront mosque in a middle-class city west of Toronto but never spoke of hurting others, one of their prayer leaders said. "I will say that they were steadfast, religious people. There's no doubt about it. But here we always preach peace and moderation," Qamrul Khanson, an imam at the one-room Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education, said Sunday. The 40-50 Muslim families who worship at the mosque were astonished, he said, to learn that police had arrested 12 adults, ages 19 to 43, and five suspects younger...

While Prime Minister Carney’s government targets the real threats coming from America and Israel, it’s welcoming back Al Qaeda. Here’s a little flashback. For years, police and CSIS spooks have kept a close eye on the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a former warehouse in east-end Toronto. From the comfort of their cars, anonymous agents watched Ahmed Said Khadr – Osama bin Laden’s senior man in Canada – pray and mingle and collect donations for the global jihad… From the early days of the investigation, police focused much of their attention on a single suspect: 21-year-old Fahim Ahmad, the man distributing the...

A “serious incident” at a military base in Alberta on Saturday caused a major fire and left people dead and injured, Canadian officials said. “I’m saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base,” Defense Minister David McGuinty said at a news conference. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in an earlier statement that a “serious incident creating a major fire” had occurred. In a post on social media, Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, described it as a “significant and tragic fire” that was “affecting many of...

A Canadian cybersecurity executive who specializes in negotiating with ransomware hackers has reportedly been arrested on federal charges in Pennsylvania. Edward Dubrovsky, 54, was arrested Thursday in the Philadelphia area, according to federal court documents cited by Reuters. The arrest comes as the FBI investigates ShinyHunters, a hacking group that recently claimed to have stolen information concerning nearly every FBI employee. Authorities have not publicly confirmed whether Dubrovsky’s arrest is connected to that investigation. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday in a post on X that agents had arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, the group believed to be responsible...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As demonstrators, including the headline-grabbing CodePink agitators, descend on the nation’s capital late Saturday afternoon for a “coordinated global day of action” against Israel, they will join a worldwide wave of marches and planned disruptions that may appear to be unfolding independently. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, anti-Israel demonstrators carried signs deploying emotionally charged language against Israel, including one featuring a Palestinian flag and a bloodied hand with the message, “STOP GENOCIDE.” Nearby, two women carrying mock machine guns flanked a cardboard image of a handcuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a noose around his...

Canada is 1/8th the size of the USA. Losing 68,000 jobs in September would be like the USA reporting over 500,000 jobs cut. The Prime Minister of Canada has caused an economic catastrophe for his country with his "elbows up" strategy. Mark Carney also wants to import 300,000+ more foreigners each year.

According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy lost a net of 68,300 jobs in September. This follows a loss of 41,700 positions in August and wipes out all job gains for the entire year 2026.The alarming results come after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has led all provincial premiers in a coordinated effort to confront U.S. President Donald Trump through an “elbow’s up” program of political antagonism and trade conflict.Based on economic scale, Canada losing 68,000 jobs in a month would be the U.S. equivalent of losing 500,000 jobs. The “elbow’s up” program may be politically...

A woman from Squamish, B.C., who married an ISIS fighter and moved to Syria over a decade ago has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge. Kimberly Polman spent nearly four years in a Syrian detention camp before she was repatriated to Canada in 2022. In 2024, she was charged with “leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group” and “participation in the activity of a terrorist group.” On Thursday, she pleaded guilty to the first charge, one month before her trial was set to begin. The maximum sentence for such a terrorism offence is 10 years in...

snip In November, 2015, Chelsea Rooney, a grad student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) came forward with the claim that Steven Galloway – a then award-winning fiction writer and, since 2013, charismatic Chair of UBC's Creative Writing program – had four years earlier violently raped a student (unnamed, but in internal investigations referred to as MC for Main Complainant, and legally thereafter alluded to as A.B.)... And here Galloway's harrowing journey through the satanic mills of peak feminist misandry began. Rooney had no personal knowledge or evidence for a single claim she made. But she was an ardent...

Elon Musk has backed Quebec independence and said Alberta and Saskatchewan should leave Canada, too, coming days after the separatist Parti Québécois returned to power. “Good. Quebec should separate,” the billionaire owner of X wrote on Wednesday, responding to a post about incoming premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s pledge that Quebec independence would one day be achieved. “They would be better off. Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate, too,” he added. The remarks from one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent allies come amid growing scrutiny of American interest in separatist movements in Canada, including contacts between U.S. officials and separatists in...