“Firing over our heads.” That’s what the person who posted this viral video says happened on Crown land while a group was shooting about 500 metres away.

As a licensed gun owner, this drives me nuts. Tonight on The Political Orphans, I break down the video and revisit the Muskoka case where a temporary foreign worker with a Canadian firearms licence pleaded guilty to careless use of a firearm. He received a 12-month conditional discharge, 50 hours of community service, and a five-year restriction on using firearms. Was that enough? And what does Canada require before someone here on a work permit can get a firearms licence?

Then I’m joined by Tracey Wilson, VP of Public Relations for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, fresh out of day one at the Supreme Court of Canada. After six and a half years of court battles, she says her team had just 22 minutes to make its case against Ottawa’s gun ban. What happened in that courtroom, and what comes next?

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Ontario just became the latest province to introduce a digital ID, joining Alberta, BC, Manitoba and Quebec. But are these IDs really provincial?

Tonight I connect the dots. These provincial digital IDs are built on the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework, the same framework shaped by the federal government, Canada’s big banks, Interac and major telecoms. Ottawa’s new CanadaLogin system plans to accept provincial IDs like Alberta’s and BC’s to access federal services. And Mark Carney’s government has signed an agreement with the European Union to make Canadian and EU digital ID wallets work together.

We also look at what happened in Paraguay, where 3 million people were suddenly locked out of their bank accounts, and why “convenience and security” is always the sales pitch.

So how long before one digital ID gives you access to your banking, your government services, the internet and Europe? And what happens if you question your government?

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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SOURCES

Ontario digital credentials announcement:

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1008185/ontario-introducing-optional-digital-credentials-while-guaranteeing-access-to-physical-id

DIACC – Pan-Canadian Trust Framework:

https://diacc.ca/overview/

CanadaLogin rollout (Biometric Update):

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202610/canada-begins-gradual-rollout-of-sso-for-digital-government-services

Canada–EU joint statement, Oct 30, 2026: https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/10/30/joint-statement-canada-and-european-union-building-together-alliance

EU–Canada digital ID agreement (Biometric Update):

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202512/eu-and-canada-agree-to-collaborate-on-digital-id-mutual-recognition-pilots

EU Parliament research service on VPNs and age verification:

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/

Paraguay central bank – Ueno bank resolution:

https://www.bcp.gov.py/en/web/institucional/w/banco-central-inicia-el-procedimiento-de-resolucion-de-ueno-bank

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Mark Carney just committed up to C$1.6 billion of taxpayers' money to Cohere, a private AI company most Canadians have never heard of. So who is Cohere, what do they actually do, and who's been funding them?

In Part 1 of this series, I break down:

• Who founded Cohere and how three U of T students built a C$35.7 billion company in 7 years

• What Carney really means by "secure and sovereign AI"

• Who uses Cohere: banks, telecoms, and governments around the world

• Every major funding round, from Silicon Valley VCs to Nvidia to Canadian Crown corporations

• The Brookfield rumour: what's false, and the connection I actually found

• Carney's Brookfield stock options and what's in his blind trust

In Part 2, I'll show you why these massive backers are really investing in Cohere, and how it all connects to Bills C-8, C-9, C-22, C-34 and the AI for All program.

Leave a comment. I want to hear what you think.

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https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/canada-stake-cohere-c7-billion-series-e U of T on Cohere's founders: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/ai-company-cohere-founded-u-t-alumni-receive-16-billion-government-canada Ottawa's $240M for Cohere (Dec 2024): https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/12/deputy-prime-minister-announces-240-million-for-cohere-to-scale-up-ai-compute-capacity.html Cohere & CoreWeave data centre: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-startup-cohere-and-coreweave-plan-multibillion-dollar-data-center-in-canada/ Brookfield fund loan for CoreWeave's Virginia data centre: https://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/chirisa-secures-200-million-loan-to-fit-out-virginia-data-center-for-coreweave Carney's Brookfield options: https://bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/03/18/carney-held-us68-million-of-brookfield-options-before-quitting-for-political-run Carney's deferred share units: https://www.cbc.ca/1.7486242 Brookfield COO at the Ethics Committee: https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/18/?page=2

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