In a recent interview with BNN Bloomberg, David McFadgen, managing director of institutional equity research at ATB Cormark Capital Markets, highlighted Quebecor as his “favourite name in the telecom space,” citing a strategy that mirrors its successful disruption of the landline market two decades ago.

Following its acquisition of Freedom Mobile, Quebecor has introduced roaming-inclusive plans that strike at a traditional profit centre for rivals like Bell and Rogers. Before the pandemic, roaming revenue typically accounted for $400 million to $500 million annually for the incumbents.

“They’re including roaming in all their plans, so they’re hitting the incumbents where it hurts,” McFadgen said. “Canadians can travel the world without worrying about bill shock. It’s very appealing, and the incumbents don’t want to match that because they don’t want to lose that high-margin revenue.”

McFadgen noted that Quebecor is steadily gaining market share, a trend he expects to continue “for many years.”

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Environment Canada said that over the past year, its "scientists and meteorologists have been carrying out extensive testing on the hybrid model, running it in parallel with our traditional model to evaluate its performance for predicting weather conditions in Canada."

The department added it will continue to rely on its meteorologists, whose is judgment is "critical" to interpreting results and communicating them to the public.

Am I so out of touch? No... it's the children who are wrong

Obviously its everyone else's fault. Abusive relationship anyone? Pp decides that he hates people leaving him.

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live."

Canada’s sovereignty call-to-arms has largely been expressed through what we buy. Shoppers fiercely scrutinize labels and corporate ownership to determine whether a product is truly “Canadian.” But while we’re paying closer attention to the origin and composition of the products we’re purchasing, we’re not really thinking about how we pay for them. That needs to change.

Kimberly Prost probably thinks about it every day. The Canadian International Criminal Court judge has been sanctioned by the Donald Trump administration since August 2025 for authorizing investigations into alleged war crimes by American personnel in Afghanistan, as well as cases related to Israel’s conduct in Gaza. Those sanctions mean that when Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain why she can’t pay for her stay with a credit card.

Prost is navigating a financial shadow ban because global commerce moves through an Americanized network. In 2025, Visa and Mastercard controlled 96 percent of Canada’s credit card market. We have a strong domestic debit system with Interac, but even that independence is eroding: Visa and Mastercard have partnered with Interac on co-badged cards, while many consumers pay with Apple-issued iPhones or use terminals run by American companies, such as Chase, Global Payments, Square, and Stripe.

A system that inconveniences a judge today could, in theory, be turned against a whole country tomorrow. The United Kingdom is reportedly exploring a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard over fears Trump could use United States–owned payment providers to freeze its economy. European officials have warned the continent is dangerously exposed to such coercion.

The Jian Ghomeshi Loophole

A private company is seeking exclusive rights to part of a treasured coastal park near Victoria, sparking concerns about the B.C. government’s priorities for public wilderness areas.

One With Nature Corp. aims to use 72 hectares of East Sooke Regional Park, an area rich in wildlife, for an outdoor education and wilderness survival skills school.

Five hectares near a popular hiking trail would be used for overnight accommodation and would be off limits to the public if the company’s plan is approved. The total area of the park is just under 1,500 hectares, about the size of four Stanley Parks.

The school would include a bow and arrow shooting range, an outbuilding to process animals, a learning centre, a camping area, seven bathrooms, a boat dock and five cabins built with trees the company would cut down in its exclusive use area, according to One With Nature’s application to the B.C. government.

While the Capital Regional District owns most of East Sooke park, the parcel where Svetlichnyy aims to set up his school is owned by the province and open for approved commercial use.

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François-Philippe Champagne told Canadians in May 2024 that the country would “never” serve as a backdoor for Chinese EVs into North America.

He repeated the pledge in August, October, December, and again in March 2025.

Eighteen months later, as Canada’s Finance Minister, Champagne returned from a four-day trade mission to Beijing where he promoted deeper economic ties with the country whose vehicles he had vowed to keep out.

Canada’s 100% surtax on Chinese-made EVs — which Champagne helped design and publicly championed — was replaced in January with a quota allowing 49,000 vehicles per year at a 6.1% tariff.

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Champagne’s public opposition to Chinese EV imports began on May 17, 2024 ... “Canada has never been and will never be a backdoor for China in the North American market ... it’s fair to say that everything is on the table to protect our industry and our workers.”

At the time, Ottawa had committed tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to attract EV manufacturing from Honda Motor Co., Stellantis, and Volkswagen Group.

Champagne framed cheap Chinese imports as an existential threat to those investments.

On August 26, ... Champagne ... cited 550,000 direct and indirect jobs in Canada’s auto supply chain. “This is about securing the fair, prosperous future Canadians deserve,” he said.

In the government’s October 1 implementation notice, he said Ottawa was “taking further action to protect Canadian workers from China’s unfair, non-market practices” and pledged to foster domestic EV supply chains “from mining critical minerals to manufacturing batteries and vehicles right here at home.”

On October 18, he posted on X: “Tariffs on EVs, steel, and aluminum from China ensure a fair and competitive environment for everyone. But, we also know our businesses need time to adjust their supply chains away from Chinese products.”

The language signalled structural decoupling.

By December 2024, he was still on message, warning on X that “if you say no to Canada you are basically saying yes to China” on strategic supply chains.

As late as March 12, 2025 — ten months before the deal that reversed the tariff — Champagne was asked by CTV News whether Canada would soften its position.

“We’re not. Not with respect to the tariffs that we put because there was a good reason,” he said. “We will say we would never be a back door to cheap Chinese vehicles which are overly subsidized and where they don’t respect labour law and environmental laws.”

He added: “We want to protect our industry. We want to protect our workers. We want to protect our communities. And the reason why we impose the tariff still remains very valid today.”

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Champagne visited the Chinese capital from Tuesday to Saturday last week ... When asked directly whether he had raised the issue of forced labour or human rights with his Chinese counterparts, [Champagne said], “We did speak about supply chain integrity. That was a core message. Canada puts a lot of importance on supply chain integrity and that our bilateral trade needs to be conducted in accordance with international standards.”

He did not use the words “forced labour” or “human rights” in his answer.

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The vocabulary had changed. “Supply chain integrity” replaced “forced labour.” “International standards” replaced “Chinese labour abuses” while engagement “with eyes wide open” replaced “never a backdoor.”

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The forced labour issue that Champagne navigated carefully in Beijing has intensified since his return.

On Wednesday, Canada’s auto manufacturing lobby seized on fresh allegations against BYD to renew its opposition to the Chinese automaker’s market entry.

Days after Brazilian authorities added BYD to a government blacklist over what labour inspectors described as “slavery-like” conditions at a factory in Camaçari, Bahia, an upcoming report by New York-based China Labor Watch found similar conditions at BYD‘s Hungarian plant in Szeged.

CVMA President Brian Kingston called the findings “deeply concerning.”

Speaking with CBC, he said: “Canada’s auto industry can compete and win, but the playing field must be level.”

It is the same argument Champagne made in 2024 to justify the tariff he now administers the reversal of.

Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.

Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering.

Hundreds dead, entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Reports of ethnic cleansing and open discussion of permanent military occupation.

Prime Minister Carney has rightly condemned the invasion as illegal, but words are not enough.

Canada must bring sanctions against Israel, cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, implement a real two-way arms embargo, and use every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to rein in Israel.

US-Israeli impunity has shredded the international order: Canada should lead in rebuilding it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-lebanon-military-campaign-ceasefire-9.7156168

#cdnpoli #lebanon

Bebawi was sentenced in 2020 to eight and a half years in prison for his role in the corruption scheme between the engineering firm and Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan regime. He was released after serving one-sixth of his sentence.

However, as part of his release conditions, he had to repay a fine of approximately $25 million.

To date, he has only repaid around $100,000, citing lack of funds. It's an excuse the judge dismissed out of hand on Tuesday.

"Mr. Bebawi will not be jailed because he is too poor to pay the fine. He will be jailed because he refuses, without reasonable excuse, to pay it," Moore said.

In 2016, Gladu was voted "most collegial" MP in a survey of her colleagues. But in the years since she has made headlines for different reasons.

She was elected four times as a Conservative and briefly ran for the party leadership in 2020. In April of that year she promoted an unproven treatment for COVID-19 [hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulphate] and questioned the public health response to the pandemic. In 2021 she was criticized by the then leader of the Conservative Party — Erin O'Toole — for saying COVID-19 was less of a threat than polio (Gladu apologized for her comments).

In June 2021, Gladu voted against Liberal legislation that sought to ban conversion therapy. At the time, Gladu said she opposed the practice, but believed the wording of the legislation was too broad. (In a 2020 interview, she said "it's important that every part of the community is made to feel loved and accepted" and that she'd be willing to march in a Pride parade.)

It was also just three months ago that Gladu said any MP looking to switch parties should have to run in a byelection before doing so — a fact that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pointed to on Wednesday while criticizing her move.

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Gladu will no doubt be asked at some point to account for her own views and stances. And Carney may hope that differences of opinion can be minimized — at least publicly. But the prime minister will be poked and prodded now to explain his values.

In June 2024, an Ontario man who was visiting Montreal parked his car, a Honda Accord, on the street in a central neighbourhood. The next day, it was gone.

The man, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals from a criminal organization, filed a police report and received an insurance payment, but he never heard about the car again.

Three weeks later, police officers staking out a warehouse in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough saw his car being loaded into a shipping container.

The officers watched from afar as a group of men placed the Accord deep inside the container followed by two older, used cars and then stacks of mattresses.

The warehouse, located at 407 Lebeau Blvd., was home to Albert Logistique, a business registered in Quebec whose legal activities included mattress exports to Africa.

But a police investigation found that the warehouse wasn’t just used for mattress shipments. It was the headquarters of a trans-Atlantic stolen car export network, according to police investigative documents obtained by CBC.

New poll shows a majority of Canadians want to ban citizens from serving in the U.S. military.

As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.

China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the thousands of migrant workers brought to Hungary from China to help build BYD's first European plant in the city of Szeged — a $6-billion investment intended to supply the European market with around 300,000 vehicles per year.

The non-profit organization launched an investigation and provided CBC News with an advance copy of its findings, set for publication later this month.

"It's important that consumers know what's really behind some of these electric vehicles, and the labour conditions that are behind the production of these cars," said project officer Elaine Lu.

"Chinese workers who are being brought in to work on these sites are being employed in quite horrible conditions."

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The report describes potential violations of Hungarian labour and migration laws, including:

• Seven-day workweeks with no days off to rest, with workers telling CLW they were instructed to lie to inspectors about their working hours if asked.
• Shifts of up to 12 or 14 hours, with only a short meal break and no paid overtime.
• Delayed wage payments of up to three months, with final payments withheld until workers returned to China.
• Steep recruitment fees used as a form of debt bondage, with low-income workers saying they were forced to stay despite poor conditions because they can't afford to default on their contract.
• Workers entering on business visas instead of authorized work permits, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and unable to access services like health care for workplace injuries.

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Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.

Wildlands League, Environmental Defence Canada, Friends of the Earth Canada and Democracy Watch allege Ontario's special economic zone law wrongly abdicates power from the legislature and gives it to cabinet, thereby violating the Constitution.

Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government passed Bill 5, which included the special economic zone provision, last year.

The provision allows cabinet and the environment minister to suspend any and all provincial and municipal laws within such zones as they see fit.