Afternoon front page: Mark Carney: ‘Canada’s civic compact failing Jewish Canadians’; why no one is talking about climate change; and more

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Ottawa's latest plans to combat antisemitism and hate in Canada on Monday. Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK/Postmedia

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It’s Monday, June 1. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Carney says Jewish Canadians are being ‘brutally targeted’ and the country is failing them

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“The crisis of antisemitism in Canada today is specific, severe, and demands a targeted response. Our government is fully committed to that response,” the prime minister said.

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MP Steven Guilbeault walks to a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 27, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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FIRST READING: And just like that, nobody cares about climate change anymore

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“Before Steven Guilbeault announced his resignation… he first had to watch the slow dismantling of his Canadian climate change empire” Tristin Hopper writes. His single-use plastic ban is about all that remains. Hopper argues that now people like Bill Gates, Greta Thunberg and even Mark Carney have dropped climate change as a main issue.

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Maya Gebala at B.C. Children’s Hospital, where she continues to recover from gunshot wounds. Photo by David Gebala/Facebook

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Maya Gebala’s family living ‘between a car and a couch’ after struggling to find housing in Canada

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Cia Edmonds, mother of Tumbler Ridge shooting survivor Maya Gebala, wrote on Facebook that the family doesn’t qualify for the “list of potential benefits covered for traumatized families searching for a new normal in an unthinkable situation.”

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Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault speaks at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 30, 2026. Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK/Postmedia

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Rob Breakenridge: Dogmatic Guilbeault did the most damage to his own environmental agenda

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Carney “has managed to convince Alberta to agree to a higher industrial carbon price and has set the stage for a major investment into carbon capture technology,” Breakenridge writes, adding that it’s a “far more meaningful” legacy than what Trudeau and Guilbeault accomplished.

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Face it, some migrants are totally abusing our immigration system: Full Comment podcast

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Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland explains how former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s wholesale wreckage of our screening, hearing and deportation system has made it easier than ever for people to stay in Canada, despite not being eligible to settle here.

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