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Canada jumps over the edge

An abuser will spook his victim, then prey on her fears to manipulate and control her. Having been stripped of any sense of individual confidence and self-worth, the victim may see her abuser as her protector. Here we have something akin to mass formation psychosis or Stockholm Syndrome.

Losing any sense of self-worth and worn down to the point of submission, many of the abused will then do and say what meets with the abuser’s approval. Critical thinking skills are erased and the victim will blindly conform to authority. They will do what they are told when they are told without question.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

A blustery trade-war election. But now Canada must see the bitter reality

It‘s been an election defined by the trade war and washed in nationalism. At every turn, Liberal Leader Mark Carney played up the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump and his own strength and firmness in the face of that.

Mr. Carney arguably won the election as a result. One survey, on which leader can better take on Mr. Trump, showed Mr. Carney with a nearly 40-percentage-point lead over the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre. Mr. Trump has called Mr. Carney a “very nice gentleman” and brushed off his campaign rhetoric. But fresh with a new mandate, Prime Minister Carney seems tempted to deliver on his words and escalate the fight.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Adam Pankratz: Too many Canadians happy with Liberal decline

In perhaps the most famous scene of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, the titular character walks up to the formidable beadle, Mr. Bumble, to meekly ask for more gruel. Monday night, Canadians voters asked for more of the same thin policy gruel from our own political beadles by sending the Liberals back to power for a fourth term. A decade of lost economic prosperity, denigration of national pride and failed immigration policy was ultimately not enough to turn the stomachs of the voting public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Here’s what the federal election results mean for Doug Ford and Ontario

If you’re a backer of either the Liberals or the Conservatives, you can read the Ontario results in the federal election in both optimistic and pessimistic ways.

For Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, the pessimistic view is that a poorer-than-expected showing in Ontario is precisely what kept him from forming a majority government.

The Liberals lost a string of ridings in the Greater Toronto Area that they had held for the past three straight elections, and Liberal incumbents also went down to defeat in places with notable working class populations such as Hamilton, Windsor and Sudbury.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Ontario's Corrupt Liberal Government, Ontario's Corrupt Political Class

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s claim he wants to make Canada energy superpower is suspect

The problem with Prime Minister Mark Carney saying he wants to make Canada an “energy superpower” in both conventional and clean energy is that Canada is already a superpower in conventional energy.

We’re the world’s four largest producer of oil and fifth largest producer of natural gas.

The problem is that when it comes to exporting our oil and natural gas to anywhere but the U.S., we’re a 10-pound weakling.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Liberals pushed Trump as key election issue, but lost seats on front lines of the trade war

As Mark Carney closed out his victory speech on election night, he reminded Canadians — as he did through much of the campaign — of the challenges posed by the ongoing tensions with the U.S. administration.

“We will build an independent future for our great country,” he said to the crowd. “Vive le Canada.”

But after touting himself as the best candidate to handle U.S. President Donald Trump, Carney’s Liberals lost key seats on the front lines of the trade war — seats that, had they won, could have pushed the party into majority territory.

People know Carney is a carpetbagger.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Not concerned’: Republicans dismiss Canada’s rejection of Trump

It was a wholesale rebuke of Donald Trump. But Republicans are shrugging off the Canadian election results — a race that favored conservatives until it became a referendum on the president — as a warning sign for their party.

The cementing of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party into power on Monday served as an expression of Canadians’ deeply felt anger about the president’s tariffs and annexation taunts. It was evidence of an electorate turning against conservatives in a neighboring country — one Trump has suggested should be the 51st state — when Trump became involved. But on this side of the border, GOP strategists, pollsters and party leaders said they were unbothered by the outcome and dismissed any trouble that may lie ahead for Republicans in the midterms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Doug Ford says Poilievre’s Conservatives were told not to help during Ontario election campaign

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were instructed not to help the provincial party during its recent election campaign, as he explained the source of tension between the two parties that dogged the federal race.

Fractures between the federal Tories and Mr. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives spilled out into public view during the federal campaign, with Mr. Ford and one of his top advisers criticizing the Conservative party’s electoral strategy. In turn, re-elected Conservative MP Jamil Javani – a one-time adviser to Mr. Ford – lashed out at the Premier on election night, accusing him of sabotaging the campaign and of being a “hype man” for the federal Liberals. Mr. Jivani on Wednesday posted a doctored photo on social-media platform X of Mr. Ford dressed as wrestler, ripping off an Ontario PC shirt to reveal a Liberal one underneath.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Canada narrowly missed a far-right prime minister. But we’re not in the clear yet

After a snap election, weeks of breathless campaigning and a surprisingly close race, Mark Carney has been elected prime minister of Canada. It’s a win for Liberals, who were rightly nervous that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s poor performance and late-stage missteps might cost them this election. But Carney’s win isn’t as comforting as it should be, especially when we look at all the events leading up to it.

It’s no secret that over the last decade, Canada’s image as a welcoming, pacifist, melting pot has completely unravelled, revealing a rightwing underbelly that has seen the rise of the “manosphere” and a deepening of its influences on young people, as well as a sharp increase in anti-immigrant sentiment and hate crimes. When it came down to this election, it was Trudeau’s forced resignation and people’s ability to credibly accuse the Liberal party of spending a decade basically twiddling their thumbs while the cost of living soared, that pushed Canadians to the right and helped the Conservative party coast to a near win.

You can only find stuff like this at the Guardian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Trump’s De Facto Election Interference Ensured the Left’s Victory in Canada

Did Trump actually want the globalist candidate to win?

Canada’s Liberal Party, which appeared headed for certain defeat earlier this year, trounced the opposition in Monday’s elections.

This story’s exclamation point, if not the buried lede, involves Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre. He went from the man who would be prime minister to the unemployment line in a matter of months.

It’s what he wanted …

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, USA

Stellantis to move some auto production to avoid U.S. tariffs

Automaker Stellantis is set to shift some vehicle production and revamp its parts supply lines to avoid paying tariffs in the United States.

The maker of Jeep, Chrysler, Fiat and other brands plans to move some pick-up truck production to Michigan from Mexico, and is talking with parts suppliers about transferring output to U.S. facilities to boost the American content in its vehicles and dodge the levies, said Doug Ostermann, chief financial officer of the Netherlands-based automaker.

We sorta dodged a bullet this go round.

68,000 job losses possible in Ontario this year due to U.S. trade war: report

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Bye Bye Canada

Meet Trudeau 2.0.

The Conservatives were defeated in Canada’s federal election on Monday night – after being significantly ahead in the polls just a few months ago – and Liberal leader Mark Carney has managed to cling to power.

Canada just hit its own Great Reset – Klaus Schwab-style. And it’s far from the great win for the country that the Liberal voters of Canada may think it is – unless, of course, they voted for their own country’s destruction, which we know is a desire rooted in the hearts of many leftists residing in any Western capitalist nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Building America‘s Future: ‘It’s Time to Take President Trump’s Southern Border Playbook to the North‘

“It’s time to take President Trump’s southern border playbook to the north,” Building America’s Future (BAF) makes clear in its latest campaign, reviewed first by Breitbart News.

The latest ad comes as an expansion of BAF’s original “Chaos at the Border” campaign, which saw the conservative non-profit spending nearly $2 million highlighting the serious consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies.

In contrast, the new campaign ad, “Predator,” actually focuses on the northern border, which notoriously receives far less attention. Regardless, BAF makes it clear in this six-figure campaign that there are still criminals who are exploiting the loose policies of our northern neighbor, Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA