The Globe and Mail had an unsigned editorial yesterday morning, wringing their hands about the plan for those additional 200,000 permanent residents, and the usual lament about housing and so on. Nowhere did they mention that about a quarter of these temporary residents meant for permanent status are Hong Kongers and Ukrainians who are in the country. In their insistence on wailing and gnashing their death about the supposed shell game around the numbers, they falsely blame the Trudeau government for creating a “massive mess” in the system, and nowhere do they blame the premiers for a) demanding more immigration for labour shortages, and b) then doing fuck all about housing, healthcare, or education capacity to absorb anyone. And no, Trudeau didn’t make a mess. He responded to the signals (lest anyone forget conditions post-lockdowns), and other levels of government didn’t do their jobs.
The Globe and Mail editorial ignores that these 200,000 are largely Hong Kongers and Ukrainians and can't just go home, and that it's the provinces who have abdicated their responsibilities. Again.And of course, the usual suspects ignore the same things.www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit…
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-10T15:31:14.338Z
These people ignore reality and keep trying to turn this into an instance of "trust in the system" and "Trudeau bad" while absolutely ignoring the role of the premiers in all of this is—and let me repeat, they are responsible for housing, healthcare, education AND they *demanded* more newcomers.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-10T15:31:14.339Z
I'm just so fucking tired of the fact that the premiers remain blameless in the messes that they create. We're a federal system. Why can't our national legacy media outlets actually do their fucking jobs? This shouldn't be that hard.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-10T15:31:14.340Z
I absolutely loathe that this government uses Nigel Farage-esque "take back control" language in official immigration department releases. Meanwhile, these are the people that the Globe and Mail wring their hands about housing, and Mikal Skuterud thinks should just "outmigrate."
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-10T19:44:45.435Z
To say that I have lost all patience with legacy media’s refusal to look at the facts and hold the premiers to account is an understatement. They may not be responsible for immigration levels (though they do have some input), but they are absolutely responsible for housing, healthcare, and education, and they have steadfastly refused to properly resource their systems, or do the hard work of reforms that are necessary to build more houses (especially when it comes to building new and maintaining existing social housing stock). And nobody holds them to account for these abject and ongoing failures. Nobody. And because legacy media will only both-sides everything, the provinces will cry poor, the federal government won’t push back and simply mouth some pieties about “cooperative federalism,” and the provinces get away with it again. Once again, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
This brings me to the plan to eliminate homelessness in ten years in the budget. I can promise you right now what’s going to happen, which is that the provinces are going to half-ass their obligations, there will be a mixed response from municipalities regarding their own obligations (such as a city like Ottawa doing as little as possible because the votes don’t come from downtown residents), and when it doesn’t work because the people responsible for the supports didn’t do their jobs, it will collapse in failure and everyone will throw up their hands and blame the federal government. We watched this play out with drug decriminalisation in BC. And when it does happen, absolutely nobody will hold the provinces to account for not doing their jobs, and I will once again be feeling like I’m taking crazy pills.
Ukraine Dispatch:
Russians pounded energy facilities in ten regions early Tuesday morning, and hit more power infrastructure in Kryvyi Riv early this morning. Renewed Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries has reduced their capacity by thirty percent wince October.
Noteworthy:
- The federal government has finally released details on who has been seconded to the Major Projects Office through the interchange programme.
- In spite of new funding, the military has made cuts on soldiers attending Remembrance Day ceremonies, including who can attend unpaid.
- Gary Ananadasangaree is signalling that he won’t entertain amendments to the (unconstitutional) lawful access bill currently in the Senate.
- Roland Paris calls on the Carney government to actually articulate what their principles are, as they keep touting “principled pragmatism.”
- Colin Horgan lays out the federal government’s use of digital asbestos with inadequate rules, safeguards or supervision as Carney pushes even more adoption.
OP-ED – Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash, by Mark Carney
— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) 2026-11-09T16:28:02.833Z
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