So, PM Carney can reveal to the NYT that he ran US invasion scenarios, but the Gordie Howe bridge documents and US-Canada trade terms he walked away from can’t be shared with… the Canadian Parliament. Questions anyone?

Canadians face soaring diesel prices, driving up the cost of food, fuel, and everything else. And now the U.S. is threatening a diesel export ban. Conservatives are calling for a Diesel Price Relief Action Plan immediately. Take all taxes off diesel. Use every available legal power to issue emergency permits for projects that get Canadian diesel to Canadian consumers and save you money: conservative.ca/cpc/save-you…

The 8/8/8 Alberta Tax proposal. Proud of this work with Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool and Trevor Toombe @trevortombe The plan is to implement: 8pc corporate tax rate 8pc personal income tax 8pc GST/PST - In 2019 Alberta cut the corporate rate from 12 to 8. Within 3 years we were making more revenue at the lower tax rate. Companies earned more and invested more. Jobs and the economy grew faster and more revenue was earned by the govt on the lower rate because of the expanded economic activity. 8pc personal income tax is a huge opportunity to create a similar expansive economic growth for Alberta families to take home more to save, spend and invest. An 8pc blended (5pc GST + 3pc PST) will add the consumption tax contributions of millions of tourists and business travellers to offset the lower personal rate to Albertans. Detail in the article here in the Hub: thehub.ca/2026/09/17/8-8-8-a…

@DanCostellodeux Carney’s U.S. Invasion Talk Looks Selective Prime Minister Mark Carney told the New York Times that Canada has examined the “extreme tail risk” of U.S. military action. He called it risk management, not a base case. Fair enough. Leaders should plan for remote disasters. What is not fair is treating that remote scenario as the serious security story while brushing past a more concrete warning from Russia. After Canada announced a drone co-production deal with Ukraine, Moscow branded Canada a “warmonger,” said it would publish the addresses of Canadian drone facilities, and reserved the right to an “adequate response.” Russian officials also said they would factor the deal into military and political planning. That is not a hypothetical from a newspaper interview. It is a public threat aimed at Canadian industry. If Carney, and figures such as Solomon, Mulcair, and Bob Rae, were as alarmed about attacks on Canada as the U.S. commentary suggests, that Russian warning would be front and centre. It has not been. Ottawa has offered little public concern and has instead doubled down on supplying the war. That choice needs an honest explanation. Canada is not a bystander. It is helping produce drones that will be used in a grinding war whose human cost falls first on Ukrainians. Supporters call this solidarity. Critics see a government more committed to a 2014 political settlement they regard as illegitimate than to the Ukrainian public now living with the consequences. Carney can study tail risks in Washington. He should also explain why a Russian threat against Canadian drone sites rates so much less urgency than a scenario he himself says is not the base case.

Canada has never formally investigated Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks. A new report traces how Islamist groups have embedded themselves in Canadian institutions, from schools and charities to the federal bureaucracy and electoral politics. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

A Necessary Correction Carney does not hold a U.S. passport. But he has elevated Maia Johnson, an American Democratic operative, to a senior role in the Prime Minister’s Office, including as chief operating officer and adviser on U.S. stakeholder strategy. At the same time, he chaired Brookfield Asset Management when its board approved moving the company’s head office from Toronto to New York. It is a strange posture: invoking Canadian sovereignty while amplifying the prospect of an American military threat, even as his inner circle includes a senior U.S. political operative and his corporate record includes a major Canadian headquarters moving south.

Canada needs capacity, not hysteria When will Canada wake up? PM Mark Carney’s reported consideration of U.S. military action against Canada may be the moment his “elbows up” politics finally jumps the shark. The United States is not simply Canada’s neighbour. It is our largest trading partner, principal security partner, NATO ally and NORAD counterpart. Canada and the US operate the world’s most integrated bilateral economic relationship and share the world’s longest undefended border. To publicly elevate the possibility of an American attack is not strategic clarity. It is a political exploitation of public anxiety. Canadians have every reason to be unsettled. The US is changing structurally: it is using tariffs, industrial policy and national-security tools more aggressively; it is demanding more from allies; and it is pulling investment, supply chains and strategic capacity toward its own market. Those changes matter enormously to Canada. But the proper response is not fear. It is national renewal. For too long, Canada has neglected its extraordinary competitive advantages. It has allowed regulatory paralysis, internal trade barriers and interminable project approvals to frustrate investment. It has underbuilt pipelines, ports, electricity systems, housing and export infrastructure. It possesses abundant energy, critical minerals, skilled workers, political stability and proximity to the world’s largest market, yet too often cannot convert those assets into production, exports or national wealth. Canada should build pipelines to tidewater, expand port capacity, increase oil and LNG exports, develop critical-mineral processing, eliminate interprovincial barriers and accelerate approvals for major projects. It should also rebuild military capability commensurate with its geography and obligations. The irony, Carney holds a US passport and chaired Brookfield Asset Management when its board approved a move of the company’s head office from Toronto to New York. That makes his decision to amplify an American military scenario still more discordant. Canada does not need an imagined invasion to rediscover sovereignty. It needs the confidence to build, produce, trade and compete again.

Belleville's police chief says Const. Jeff Smith was shot before he could even exit his vehicle, and still got out to try to take down the synagogue shooter. What incredible bravery. The GoFundMe for his recovery: gofundme.com/f/const-jeff-sm…

Alberta to drop the provincial fuel tax to zero on October 1. Fiscal cost is a small fraction of the higher royalties the province is now seeing. Govt balance is on track to far exceed the $2b projected surplus.

Evan Solomon on preparing for a U.S. invasion: "Canadians expect that this country's sovereignty is always protected in any scenario and we're always ready."

白宫晚宴上的这一幕，《悲惨世界》经典旋律。不能不联想到背后有安排曲目的意味深长…… 《Do You Hear the People Sing?》中文常译“你听见人民在歌唱”或港版填词“问谁未发声”，在2014雨伞运动和2019反修例示威中被大量传唱，大陆主流流媒体一度下架英文原曲。 香港教育部门后来禁止学校演唱带政治信息的歌曲，更著名的《愿荣光归香港》后来被法院禁制。 所以这首曲在中方官员耳朵里，应该比普通百老汇名曲更刺耳。这次现场主唱的是同一部剧里的《One Day More》，只是掺进了前一首的旋律和歌词碎片，没有把整首“人民在歌唱”完整唱出来。 这首歌在剧情中的位置，恰恰是学生革命者准备起义前夕。 没文化很可怕，也许，在礼炮与红毯之下，也深埋着嘲讽与暗喻……