OTTAWA—With the federal election shaping up to be a two-way race between the Conservatives and Liberals, front-runners Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney are also the only party leaders whose seats are considered safe at this point in the campaign.
The ridings of the two leaders are also right next to each other, but with different characteristics that, together with the political dynamics, make up for the stark difference in candidate choice.
Instead of seeing the 90-day pause on tariffs for most of the world and the rallying stock market as a sign of trade negotiations going well, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin used her platform on Thursday’s edition of The View to accuse President Trump of “certainly” being “guilty of insider trading.” Her evidence? A social media post vaguely touting the market.
Mark Carney boasted his billion-dollar jet fuel deal was a “fantastic opportunity” for his business, the investment firm Brookfield. But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre now calls that same deal an example of “crony capitalism. ”
Poilievre accuses his political opponent of being a “political grifter” using political influence to make himself and his investor friends rich while driving up costs for the poorest Canadians.
A bombshell new book by Chris Whipple, “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” has exposed Nancy Pelosi’s duplicitous role in President Biden’s dramatic exit from the 2024 presidential race.
The latest seat projections from Nanos Research have put Mark Carney’s Liberals in minority government territory – down 17 ridings from the previous week.
According to the organization, the Liberals would have taken at least 156 seats if the election were held April 6, when the projections were prepared. That’s down from 173 seats in the last projections from March 30.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, meanwhile, would have won at least 114 ridings, up eight from the previous projections.
People are waking up to the Carney fraud.
President Donald Trump mocked Hollywood on Thursday when asked about China reducing the number of American films it will import.
The question came during Trump’s cabinet meeting, and his response left his top officials in bellowing laughter.
HOLY CRAP Pro PALESTINE activists have completely taken over the office of Liberal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly WOW
@l3v1at4an pic.twitter.com/DEjFgDqvg6
— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) April 11, 2025
h/t Mauser
The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.
The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.
“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.
A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.
h/t DS
A mother of two has described her “unspeakable devastation and trauma” after being arrested for “confiscating her children’s iPad”.
Vanessa Brown, 50, spent seven-and-a-half hours in a cell on March 26 after it was claimed she had stolen two iPads.
Easier than arresting real criminals.
The greatest victims of extremist interpretations of Islam are Muslims themselves. This uncomfortable truth undermines Canada’s approach to combating anti-Muslim bigotry, as outlined in “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”
The guide defines Islamophobia broadly as, “Racism, stereotypes, prejudice, fear or acts of hostility directed towards individual Muslims or followers of Islam in general.” This definition creates an intellectual sleight of hand, conflating prejudice against Muslims with criticism of certain doctrines or political movements operating under the banner of faith.
Pro-Palestinian protesters were pelted with eggs as they blocked traffic in central London.
Youth Demand activists with orange flares and banners reading “Free Palestine” and “Stop Arming Israel” took to the streets in the Moorgate district, Farringdon Road and Fenchurch Street.
Passers-by threw a “shower of eggs” at the crowd of activists in Farringdon Road and a truck attempted to drive through them, according to Youth Demand, which organised the protest.
Outside a convention centre where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held a rally in Brampton, Ont., Wednesday evening, two of his supporters unfurled a long white banner that read: “Do you believe the polls?”
“If he’s not going to win, we’re going to lose Canada,” said one of the supporters named Sarah, who didn’t want to give her last name, and wore a sweater with the same message.
“Look at the crowd coming out for Poilievre! We cannot believe the polls are right.”
Crunchy worms au paprika, carrot kimchi and artichoke caviar could feature on the fine dining menus of the future, according to Alain Ducasse and other leading French chefs.
Ducasse and more than 100 fellow exponents of haute cuisine tested this dish and other delicacies at a chefs’ lunch in Meudon, near Paris, this week with the theme “What will we be cooking in 2050?”
The chefs squirmed at first when presented with an hors d’oeuvre of grilled mealworms — the larval form of a species of yellow beetle — spiced with paprika.
The Chinese Communist Party is always changing the way it interferes in elections in Canada and other countries, says former Steveston-Richmond MP Kenny Chiu.
The Conservative party politician was the target of a smear campaign during the 2021 election, which took place when many Chinese-language media outlets in Canada labelled him “anti-Chinese” and a “race traitor.”
As the former Globe and Mail bureau chief in Beijing, I can tell you that Robert Fife is correct in China’s approach to its diaspora in Canada. This has been going on for more than a decade — and it’s important to recognize because in tight elections, even a few hundred votes… https://t.co/r4MCr5ITOd
— Miro Cernetig (@MiroC) April 10, 2025
A Telegraph poll reveals most voters are not in favour of taxpayer-funded security for the Duke of Sussex.
The Duke returned to London on Sunday to attend a two-day hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice to win automatic state security for him and his family.
The Duke has argued that he was “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment” when he was denied the right to automatic police protection after quitting public duties.
Entitled much?
