As expected, Snow White’s remake and its lecturing leading lady’s career blew up like a Hezbollah pager this week.
It turns out, nobody wants to line up to be yelled at by a princess-turned two-dimensional boss lady whose kingdom of comrades waged a cultural revolution on their childhood classics.
Canadians are fired up to engage in economic warfare against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The attack on the US economy should include building numerous new Canadian oil and gas pipelines, an astonishing super majority of Canadians say in a new poll.
There are all sorts of rumors about what happened on election night 2016 when Hillary Clinton learned she had lost the election to Donald Trump. After months of polls and media reports suggesting she had over a 90% chance of winning, it must have been devastating. Rumors of drunken violence in her hotel room have been floating around for years. I’d love to know the truth.
After years of bristling at the idea of “vote splitting,” former NDP leader Tom Mulcair has effectively warned NDP supporters not to split the vote in the 2025 election.
In a March 24 op-ed for Bloomberg News, Mulcair warned that the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump is too dire for Canadians to vote for third parties, and that the coming election should be a race “between the Liberals and Conservatives.”
h/t DS
Imagine if the Donald Trump for President campaign demanded that questions directed at Trump were pre-scripted and that the campaign would get the right to pre-approve quotes derived from those interviews.
In his time at Brookfield Asset Management, Liberal Leader Mark Carney personally co-chaired two investment funds dedicated to the transition to a net-zero carbon economy, worth a total of $25 billion.
Those funds were registered in Bermuda, among other locations, allowing investors to benefit from significant tax advantages, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed a ceasefire in the Black Sea but the Kremlin has made it conditional on western sanctions being lifted against key Russian companies.
The White House announced that Kyiv and Moscow had agreed to “ensure safe navigation” and “eliminate the use of force” in the waters three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For nearly 10 years, voters looked from the Liberals to the NDP, and from the NDP to the Liberals, and found it impossible to say which was which.
This is why, when they had tired of Justin Trudeau, they turned to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, rather than Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats. If the Liberals have since been regenerated like an immortal phoenix, the NDP’s trajectory has been more like the live turkeys dropped from a helicopter as part of WKRP in Cincinatti’s Thanksgiving promotion.
Last week, Iraqi authorities intercepted one of the largest shipments of the illegal drug, Captagon, they had ever stopped. Just over a ton of the pills — an amphetamine-like drug that’s highly addictive and popular with users in wealthy Gulf states — were found hidden in a truck heading over the Iraqi border from Turkey. It had apparently come from Syria.
Observers immediately asked: Why were such large shipments of Captagon still being discovered, several months after Syria’s authoritarian Assad regime was ousted?
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Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is behind a corruption-plagued South American toll road scheme, swamped in litigation over bribes paid to the mayor who issued the contract.
The Rutas de Lima toll road project, meant to ease the paralyzing traffic in the Peruvian capital, collapsed into scandal with revelations that the Brazilian firm Odebrecht had bribed the mayor with $3 million in 2013 for a 30-year contract to run the highway system.
Instead of relief, Rutas brought predatory toll hikes that crushed the working poor, while Odebrecht pocketed the money. Brazilian authorities, in their expansive Operation Car Wash investigation of international corruption networks, led to Odebrecht pleading guilty in 2016 to what the U.S. Department of Justice called “the largest foreign bribery case in history.”
h/t Mauser
Donald Trump’s cabinet inviting a journalist to a group chat to discuss bombing Yemen’s Houthi rebels must have given American security officials a collective heart attack.
But, for European and British officials, the most alarming aspect of the extraordinary affair was the single dissenting voice in the conversation that played out on Signal.
“I think we are making a mistake,” JD Vance, the vice president, texted from an economics event in Michigan as defence secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA director John Ratcliffe, among others, weighed up striking the Iran-backed Houthis.
Ousted Liberal MP Chandra Arya barred from running under party’s banner over alleged ties to India
The Liberal Party revoked MP Chandra Arya’s bid to run for the party leadership and his nomination in his own Ottawa riding over alleged foreign-interference concerns involving India, according to a source with top-secret clearance.
Mr. Arya took a trip to India last August and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The source said Mr. Arya had not informed the government of that trip even though bilateral relations are in a deep freeze over accusations that India carried out murder and other violent acts in Canada.
This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, “Trumpism will outlast his presidency”. But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back?
At 09.00 one morning in February 1947, the UK ambassador in Washington, Lord Inverchapel, walked into the State Department to hand the US Secretary of State, George Marshall, two diplomatic messages printed on blue paper to emphasise their importance: one on Greece, the other on Turkey.
Exhausted, broke and heavily in debt to the United States, Britain told the US that it could no longer continue its support for the Greek government forces that were fighting an armed Communist insurgency. Britain had already announced plans to pull out of Palestine and India and to wind down its presence in Egypt.
Maxime Bernier and the People’s Party of Canada launched their official campaign from Saint-Georges, Que., on Monday, focused on slashing government spending while halting immigration.
“We need to stop that to preserve our culture, our standard of living, our economy,” Bernier said.
The former Conservative MP for Beauce is pitching his party — which strongly opposed COVID-19 lockdowns — as the “real conservatives” in this federal election.
Emotions are running so high among Democrats these days that I have created a bookmark folder labeled “Democrat Hate.”
I know that this shocks you because it is common knowledge that Democrats are dedicated to peace, love, and compassion. The voting base is filled with people almost indistinguishable from Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, but one or two have gone off the rails a bit, it seems.
