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Ignored for years, Canada’s vaccine-injured finally get their day in Parliament

The idea of two solitudes in Canada is typically understood as the great divide between Anglophones and Francophones who cannot see eye-to-eye due to cultural and linguistic differences, the latter preventing any meaningful communication to bridge the gap.

But in the post-COVID era, “two solitudes” could just as easily describe the chasm between lawmakers, legacy media and its subscribers who remain uninterested in the suffering that COVID vaccines caused, and the camp of vaccine-injured, their advocates and members of the public who saw through the “safe and effective” lies, understand the damage caused and now want accountability.

While any accountability for the human toll that experimental COVID vaccines wrought has been non-existent in Canada, on Tuesday, Conservative MP Dean Allison’s COVID vaccine injury hearings – dubbed The Allison Inquiry – began on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Whether it will bring Canada’s two COVID solitudes any closer together remains to be seen.

Legacy media journalists were absent, as were any MPs from the governing Liberal Party, which bears ultimate responsibility for these injuries. Of the four Conservative MPs who attended, Mike Dawson (Miramichi–Grand Lake, NB) told the Inquiry he believed his daughter-in-law’s baby died in the womb following a COVID vaccination in the second trimester, and Essex MP Chris Lewis (Ontario) said he believed his mother suffered from turbo esophageal cancer after taking the COVID shot.

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Canada hits the U.S. with tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. exports as trade war escalates

Canada retaliated against the tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on imports from Canada with tariffs on approximately $20 billion worth of U.S. goods. 

The tariffs impact hundreds of American products, including steel, aluminum, cheese, appliances, clothing, cosmetics and farm equipment, the Associated Press reported. 

The tariff rates run from 15% to 50% and match Washington’s tariffs dollar for dollar. They took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said U.S. tariffs could severely impact key Canadian industries and limit the country’s sovereignty. 

Trump, meanwhile, has warned that Canada’s economy could collapse if Carney continued to treat him as an enemy, and the president threatened consequences “worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician.”

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Minister quits over offensive rap lyrics as Kinew’s video resurfaces

A sexually explicit rap video from Manitoba NDP Premier Wab Kinew’s past has resurfaced, days after a Nova Scotia minister resigned over his own offensive lyrics.

The 2005 video for “Stank B*tch” features Kinew performing with Winnipeg hip-hop group Dead Indians, years before he entered provincial politics.

In the roughly three-minute video, Kinew and several other performers wear mullet-style wigs while rapping in what appears to be a Winnipeg neighbourhood.

“I don’t give a f*ck about all these other cliques, and I give less than that for these one-night chicks,” Kinew raps.

Other verses contain graphic sexual references, derogatory language about women, and a homophobic slur.

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Canada’s Tariff Strategy Designed To Interfere With U.S. Midterm Elections

Late last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a trade deal with the United States. According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Canada was “offered the best trade deal of any country on the globe,” but Carney abandoned the deal “at the last minute.”

According to the White House, “the U.S. offered Canada the most preferential market access of any country on Earth, with deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection.” Canada responded with retaliation rather than negotiation, becoming the only other country besides China to do so.

And the reason is that Canada is trying to influence the 2026 midterm elections in the United States.

After the trade negotiations failed, Canadian officials announced that tariffs of up to 50% will hit roughly 700 American products starting September 8, covering close to $20 billion in goods, about 7% of everything Canada imports from the United States. The rates range from 15% to 50%, and tariffs on American steel and aluminum will double from 25% to 50%. This was a targeted economic strike meant to hit key states before the midterm elections.

Ottawa has barely bothered to deny it. Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said the tariffs were built to apply political pressure on specific states, telling reporters: “We are also targeting products that can target specific states in the United States. We are being smart and strategic in order to apply political pressure, and I think it’s the right thing to do right now.”

Asked directly about the political intent by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Joly did not walk it back: “We are putting pressure clearly on different states and different people. We don’t want to do that. We don’t want this trade war. We didn’t start it.”

The target list reads like a midterm map. Cheese products from Wisconsin. Washers and dryers from Kentucky, where GE Appliances is a major employer. Steel, aluminum and auto parts from Michigan. The Wall Street Journal reported that Canadian officials designed the package to protect domestic industry and to “sting President Trump and his Republican Party” heading into November.

“The states that are most reliant on Canada as an export market are often the northern-tier states – Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire,” Ed Gresser told the Wall Street Journal. He argued that Canada is “trying to show the Republican party that there’s a systemic cost to doing this sort of thing.”

Trade consultant Eric Miller, who heads the Washington-based Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, said Canada picked targets with available substitutes, either domestic production or imports from Mexico and China, items like air conditioners and appliances, while simultaneously hitting producers in swing states and reliably Republican territory.

Nowhere was the targeting clearer than Maine, and nowhere did it collapse faster. Ottawa’s original list carried a 25% tariff on American lobster, set to bite during the fall season when roughly half of Maine’s catch goes to Canadian processors. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), facing re-election in November, had already warned that the trade war would hurt her state. The Maine Lobstermen’s Association warned on Aug. 26 that the duty would land at the worst possible moment for an industry running on thin margins.

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Trump Declares an End to Selling Canada’s Bombardier Planes in the US Unless They Build in the US as Trade War Escalates

President Trump on Monday escalated the trade war with Canada, announcing that Bombardier, a Canadian airplane manufacturer, will no longer be allowed to sell its jets in the United States unless they build in the US.  

Last month, Trump slapped 50% tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada’s Mark Carney, in response, reportedly announced plans to impose tariffs of 15% to 50% on American goods.

Now, Trump is threatening to decertify Canadian business jets if manufacturing isn’t moved to the United States.

“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough!” Trump said, accusing the company of “treating America like a piggybank.”

“Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A.”

“BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST!” Trump added.

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A.

They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.”

BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Convicted child sex offender wants to serve his sentence in a women’s prison

There are a lot of bad hombres serving time within the walls of the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold, Ont. But there is one particular monster who deserves special attention: convicted pedophile Daniel Senecal.

26-year-old Senecal is a repeat offender, locked up for the sexual assault of young children. His most recent victim was a three-year-old girl in Welland, Ont., last year. Armed with a screwdriver, Senecal forced his way into a basement apartment around 3:30 a.m. and proceeded to choke, torture, and sexually assault the toddler.

He would later plead guilty to six charges in a St. Catharines courtroom. Among those charges were aggravated sexual assault on a person under 16, sexual interference, assault by choking, possession of child pornography, and breach of probation.

So, why is Daniel Senecal back in the news?

Two reasons.

First, the Crown is requesting that Senecal be given dangerous offender status, making sure this creep will likely remain behind bars forever. A decision will be made on that request later this month.

The second reason Senecal is making news: Daniel is now apparently identifying as “Dani.” Translation: he is now claiming to be a she.

That’s right. We have another grifter gaming the system, preposterously claiming he’s a woman “trapped” in a man’s body, and he would much rather serve his time at the Grand Valley Institute for Women in Kitchener. And say, what could go wrong by allowing a violent male sex offender to be incarcerated with hundreds of potential female victims?

Do you want to know who wants “Dani” to get his/her way? Well, that would be the Mark Carney Liberals.

Earlier this week, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced that the federal government has filed its Statement of Defence in an ongoing constitutional challenge to its policy or permitting trans-identifying male inmates to be transferred to women’s prisons. The document is fascinating given that it reveals “transwoman” (male) inmates have already faced sexual-assault charges following complaints by female inmates — even as Ottawa denies that its policy violates female inmates’ Charter right to life, liberty, and security of the person (section 7).

Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre launched the constitutional challenge in April 2025 on behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR). The lawsuit challenges Correctional Service Canada’s Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders, arguing that allowing trans-identifying male inmates to be housed in women’s prisons exposes female inmates to physical and psychological harm and violates their Charter rights.

In its Statement of Defence, the federal government acknowledges that several so-called “transwomen” have sexually assaulted biological females behind bars. Despite this admission, the federal government “wholly denies that any alleged harm to inmates housed in women’s institutions flowed from the implementation of CD 100.”

What the hell?

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‘Unacceptable’: Trump calls out Canadian currency ‘imbalance’ with U.S.

President Donald Trump bashed the Canadian currency “imbalance” with the United States, warning that the situation would be changed.

“Canada’s (currency) Dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable. It has been that way for years — but no longer!” Trump said in a Sunday Truth Social post.

The president did not provide additional details or policy proposals regarding his statement.

His criticism comes amidst the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada, with both countries announcing sweeping tariffs across numerous sectors of the market.

The Canadian dollar (CAD) has long been valued less than the U.S. dollar (USD), with $1 USD equaling roughly $1.38 CAD.

Investopedia explained the impact a weaker currency can have on global markets. A less powerful currency simultaneously means that exports from that country receive a competitive advantage in other markets while the country also faces more expensive imports. If the nation is dependent upon imports, this can lead to trade imbalances, the outlet highlighted.

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated on Friday that the country was focusing on shoring up internal manufacturing.

“For too long, we bought from abroad what we were more than capable of building right here at home. We’re bringing that work back, and we’re turbo-charging it,” he said, announcing the plan for hundreds of passenger rail cars to be manufactured in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

For too long, Canada bought what we could build here at home. 

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132 works vanish from Ottawa’s $14.4-million Indigenous art collection, police never called

The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations says it found no evidence of theft or “ill-intent” after 132 pieces disappeared from its $14.4-million Indigenous art collection.

Police were never called, and the department still cannot explain what happened to the paintings, jewelry, sculptures and other taxpayer-funded works, according to documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

“There was no finding of theft or ill-intent,” officials wrote in a January briefing note titled The Indigenous Art Collection. No explanation was provided for that conclusion.

“Efforts are underway in an attempt to locate the remaining unaccounted-for artwork,” the department said. Another review of its regional offices is now underway.

The collection dates back to 1965 and contains 5,176 works, including individual pieces valued in the six figures. Artworks were stored in an unsecured warehouse or shipped to regional offices for decoration.

The department has contacted 32 artists or estates connected to 47 of the missing works but has refused to identify the pieces or their creators publicly, Blacklock’s reported.

“This went on for decades,” Conservative MP Jamie Schmale told the Commons heritage committee last November.

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Man charged with burning down historic New Brunswick church as social media posts raise new questions

Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show: a historic New Brunswick church is burned to the ground, and a local parishioner is charged with arson. On his Facebook page, he celebrates a friend jailed for fighting a pipeline. Then, in another video of the burning church, a voice calls out that friend’s name and says, “Your wish has come true.”

Saint-Simon is a small Acadian fishing village on New Brunswick’s north shore. Until August 24 it had a 109-year-old church, built by the great-grandparents of people who still live there. The largest wooden church left in the province.

The alarm sounded around 3:30 a.m. Four fire departments responded. It was too late. The building was wood and it was gone in two hours. Only the chimney stands. The fire marshal says arson.

Claudette is co-president of the parish council. She cried when the steeple came down. Standing in the ashes, she asked why.

“He took away our church, that person. Why? Especially since he was a parishioner of our parish.”

The RCMP moved fast. Within hours they charged Gilles Mallet, 68, a local man and a parishioner of the church he is accused of burning. His bail hearing in Bathurst on Friday, Aug. 28 did not finish. It resumes Monday, Sept. 7. 

The charge is unproven. Mallet has not entered a plea. A publication ban covers the bail hearing, so Rebel News cannot report what was said in that courtroom.

Everyone in Saint-Simon offered the same explanation. One troubled man, nothing bigger. That may be right. But Mallet’s Facebook page is public, and it shows a man who spent years inside a political movement two provinces away.

His profile picture shows him beside a war canoe named Chief Dan George, on a trailer marked Takaya Tours, the tourism company of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. His shirt reads “Warrior Up! Ta’ah said.” Ta’ah is Amy George, Chief Dan George’s daughter, who coined the phrase in 2012 against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. It became the rallying cry of the B.C. anti-pipeline movement.

A reader who knew Mallet from an Indigenous community near Lillooet, B.C., where Mallet lived for years, pointed Rebel News to the page. He said he had left that community himself over what was being said there about Christians and the Church. Mallet stayed.

On March 1, 2025, Mallet posted: “In honour of my friend Stacy Gallagher who’s in jail because of his fights against the pipeline.”

Gallagher is a B.C. pipeline protester with a criminal record. On March 2, 2021, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick sentenced him to 90 days for criminal contempt after he defied an injunction at Trans Mountain’s Burnaby terminal. He was released on bail pending appeal the next day. Rebel News cannot confirm he was in custody in 2025. That is Mallet’s description.

There is a video on Mallet’s timeline of the church burning, filmed from the road as the fire trucks arrive. Mallet did not post it. An acquaintance uploaded it around Aug. 30, while Mallet was in custody. A man behind the camera says: “Stacey Gallagher, your wish has come true.”

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Ottawa admits trans-identifying male inmates faced sex assault charges after transfers to women’s prisons

The federal government has acknowledged that trans-identifying male inmates faced sexual-assault charges following complaints from female prisoners, while defending the policy that allows inmates to be transferred to women’s institutions based on gender identity.

The admissions are contained in Ottawa’s Statement of Defence responding to a constitutional challenge filed by Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, or CAWSBAR.

According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is funding the challenge, the government confirmed that an inmate identified as S/M was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in May 2020 after a female inmate complained.

Ottawa also confirmed that another inmate, identified as KF/R, was charged with two counts of sexual assault after a complaint from a female prisoner in October 2024.

Charges have not been proven in court.

The government’s defence acknowledges other complaints involving trans-identifying male inmates in women’s facilities. They include a 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation but no charges, a 2021 complaint alleging sexual and physical assault at Fraser Valley Institution and a 2019 sexual-assault report at Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.

Despite those incidents, Ottawa “wholly denies that any alleged harm to inmates housed in women’s institutions flowed from the implementation” of Correctional Service Canada’s gender policy.

The government argues that individualized assessments and institutional safeguards provide an appropriate framework for managing risks.

CAWSBAR launched the constitutional challenge in April 2025, alleging that permitting biological male inmates to be housed in women’s prisons exposes female prisoners to physical and psychological harm and violates their Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person.

“Female inmates are being exposed to real risks and real harm,” constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury said. “This case is about protecting their safety, dignity and constitutional rights.”

Correctional Service Canada introduced its current gender-diverse-offender policy in May 2022.

In May 2026, the Federal Court rejected Ottawa’s attempt to strike the lawsuit and granted CAWSBAR public-interest standing. The federal government is now asking the court to dismiss the challenge with costs.

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