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True North’s Daily Brief is a daily podcast to keep you up-to-date on the news you need to know.
Featuring host Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and other True North journalists, the Daily Brief will bring you the top stories of the day and True North exclusive stories you won’t find anywhere else.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford threw the prime minister under the bus, saying he approved a Ronald Reagan ad, which Prime Minister Mark Carney admits is the reason Canada faces a new suite of tariffs.
Carney is set to meet with China’s dictator, President Xi Jinping, in South Korea this week, days after Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Canada aims to strengthen its “strategic partnership” with the communist country.
Alberta’s NDP leader Naheed Nenshi has called Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's attempts to build more pipelines a “pipedream.”
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The President of the Canada Border Services Agency revealed that the agency can’t find at least 32,000 illegal immigrants who were otherwise set for deportation.
The "I am Alberta" rally at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton saw thousands of attendees calling for an independent Alberta.
Canada’s subsidized auto industry is suffering more losses after General Motors dropped out of its pledge to produce electric vans.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney refused to explain what sacrifices Canadians will have to make ahead of his upcoming federal budget.
A senior border official revealed Canada plans to deport less than 10 per cent of people facing removal orders.
A new study shows Alberta’s charter schools are outperforming government-run schools across every grade and subject.
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An American Islamic preacher’s event at a Quebec university is drawing the ire of Quebec politicians and civil society groups over the figure’s extremist rhetoric.
Liberal immigration officials claim they don’t track what happens to migrants after approving their permits yet are still responsible for issuing more migration permits.
Seven elected Board of Directors members of the B.C. Conservative party have requested that Leader John Rustad step down immediately and make way for a leadership race.
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Grocery prices continue to rise, increasing at a rate higher than the target set by the Bank of Canada.
Calgary has a new mayor who won by a slim margin, deposing incumbent mayor Jyoti Gondek’s four-year run.
CBC executives faced harsh criticism over their DEI policies and foreign worker hiring during a heritage committee meeting.
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Civil liberties advocates are warning that Canada’s recognition of the World Health Organizations pandemic regulations, threatens Canada’s sovereignty and violates Canada’s constitution.
The BC Conservatives have lost their fifth MLA since last election, this time the MLA opted to sit in the legislature as an independent candidate.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a hard cap to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s federal deficit spending as Liberals announce a “substantial shortfall” with no target to balance the governments unreleased budget.
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Hundreds of homeowners in Richmond, BC, were warned that their private property rights could become null with a recent ruling granting another tribe aboriginal title over the land.
While other premiers fight for more freedom to use the not-withstanding clause, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew introduced a bill to limit its use in Manitoba.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree quietly admitted that the 1000 new border officers that the Liberals’ promised since the election won’t even all be front-line officers.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney caves to Conservative pressure, rolling out tougher bail and sentencing laws.
Alberta considers back-to-work legislation to end a province-wide teachers’ strike.
Albertans to vote on new licence plates branded with the slogan “Strong and Free.”
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A pro-Hamas Islamist group has hijacked visual and audio systems at four American and Canadian airports. The Liberal government’s Immigration department is advertising Canada’s public healthcare system to attract immigrants, despite experts saying health services are overwhelmed. B.C. Premier David Eby has once again admitted that the province's illicit drug decriminalization experiment was a “mistake.” Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Alex Zoltan!
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joined world leaders in celebrating Hamas’ release of Israeli hostages who had been held captive since Oct 7, two years ago. A Canadian think tank is warning the Liberal government that Canada works best when the federal government doesn’t overstep by making decisions outside of its “constitutional lane.” Diplomatic relations between Canada and India seem to have been mending as the Liberal’s foreign affairs minister travelled to India with both countries agreeing to cooperate more closely. Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Geoff Knight!
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An Ontario elementary school union is offering art workshops, but white members of the union are not allowed to participate.
Elections Alberta has approved a citizen petition which could end the province's decades-old “funding follows the child” and school choice.
U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that he will declare Antifa, which is now designated as a domestic terror organization, as an international terror organization.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said he wants to “salute President Donald Trump” for his role in brokering a peace deal between Hamas and Israel.
Vancouver city officials are apologizing after facing backlash from trans activists for approving a Harry Potter-themed attraction at the city’s Stanley Park.
Ontario’s education minister is condemning a Toronto high school after it replaced O Canada with an Arabic version of the anthem on the second anniversary of the October 7th terror attack.
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A Mississauga university student union hosted an event “honouring our martyrs” where they quoted Hamas death toll numbers among those killed in the Israel-Hamas war. Several Canadian premiers are united against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to limit provinces' right to use the notwithstanding clause. The Liberals and Bloc Québécois have stopped a Conservative motion which would have removed birthright citizenship from a Liberal bill which would grant citizenship to over an estimated 100,000 people. Tune into The Daily Brief with Isaac Lamoureux and Geoff Knight!
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre slammed Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling his "trillion-dollar concession" to U.S. President Donald Trump a move that cost Canada jobs and investment.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called B.C. Premier David Eby’s pipeline opposition unconstitutional and contrary to Supreme Court judgements on provincial jurisdiction.
Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were granted a conditional sentence in the Ontario Court of Justice for their involvement in the Freedom Convoy. The decision means the Convoy leaders will avoid further jail time.
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Canadian doctors have now begun transplanting organs harvested from individuals killed through Canada’s euthanasia program. A new poll shows the NDP Premier David Eby is now tied or ahead of BC Conservative Leader John Rustad in public opinion on several issues, including crime. A Conservative MP grilled the Liberal government over its ban on nicotine pouches, highlighting how contradictory the law is when compared to the Liberals’ stated goal to reduce smoking levels in the country.
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1Quebec Premier Francois Legault has issued a “wake-up” call for the province, warning that radical Islam poses a threat to Quebec cultural values. A conservative MP grilled the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada on what the agency means by its stated goal to “decolonize science,” but the health official couldn’t give a clear answer. Despite voting to recognize a Palestinian state before Hamas signalled it would surrender and release the remaining Israeli hostages, Prime Minister Mark Carney is now thanking Trump for helping to negotiate peace in the region.
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The government’s independent parliamentary budget officer warns that under the Carney government, Canadians will face financial troubles unlike anything he’s seen in his career. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada would be better off with the US-Canada tariff situation if Prime Minister Mark Carney "locked himself in a room.” The Toronto Star published an opinion piece advocating for the criminalization of "residential school denialism," and stated falsehoods about True North's best selling book, "Grave Error." Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Clayton DeMaine!
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A city council in the GTA passed a motion nearly unanimously, making it clear that the community wants federal prosecutors to start prosecuting drug offences in the city.
The PEI government revealed its plans to rename Savage Harbour after it was deemed offensive by a community group.
TikToker Rachel Gilmore has received a new wave of criticism after she downplayed anti-Christian vandalism and arson in a clip from her podcast.
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A new survey finds that a majority of youth in Canada believe that Canada belongs to Indigenous people. Academic Frances Widdowson, a co-author of the True North-published book “Grave Error,” and her team were surrounded, shouted down, and allegedly assaulted by a mob of Indigenous activists. Toronto’s dancing mayor, Olivia Chow, has warned that the feds’ failure to fund housing for asylum seekers on the taxpayer dime could lead to a two per cent property tax hike for residents. Tune into The Daily Brief with Isaac Lamoureux and Walid Tamtam!
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the Liberal government's "deafening silence" on "100 terrorist attacks" in reference to the burning and vandalism of Canadian churches. Canada’s budget watchdog warned that the country faces financial peril as the Carney government's spending threatens to swell the deficit to $68.5 billion by year-end. In 2022, an Ontario school board hired a co-founder of an activist group to provide staff training. This individual's group was later determined in small claims court to have "assisted Antifa." Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Geoff Knight!
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Seems ironic Parks Canada is doing a "colonialism" tour at the same time they are annexing more land https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/07/agreement-signed-new-national-park-reserve-prince-edward-island
wonder who is behind it. guess who wants to shut down alberta oil.