In the United States, the midterm elections are now in full swing – and while the outcome on Nov. 8 will determine whether the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives and Senate, the effects will reverberate to Canada too.
Canada
Rex Murphy: Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre is something to look forward to
… It might be nice, for a change, for someone who has a vague idea of ordinary life to run the country for a while.
Who doesn’t dance or prance, but came from a hard beginning, applied himself to the art and practices of democratic representation, didn’t opt for a dilettante career and then simply waltz into high office on name and fame?
Pierre Poilievre’s dominant win is the death knell of moderate conservatism in Canada
With Pierre Poilievre’s decisive victory in the federal Conservatives’ leadership race, the party now has a generational opportunity to radically re-imagine what Conservative policies could be palatable to the Canadian public. With a strong mandate at his back, the man nicknamed Skippy need only to win the trust of a plurality of the electorate to implement reforms that would have been dismissed as untouchable by Stephen Harper.
And if this Conservative leadership race was a fight for the soul of the party, as former Progressive Conservative activist and senator Marjory LeBreton recently posited, well, the results are in. Reform is back, baby. Moderate conservatism is dead, and the harder-right, angrier, rougher edge will live the life everlasting. In the end, it wasn’t even close.
China Moving to Project Power Into the Arctic: Experts
China aims to project power through new economic and military projects in the Arctic, according to experts.
By securing new trade routes and military access in the Arctic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to expand its capacity for “global power projection,” according to Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
Canadian Conservatives look to populist to challenge Trudeau
TORONTO — Canada’s recently hapless Conservatives, losers of three straight federal elections that exposed divisions between their populist and more moderate factions, are poised on Saturday to elect a 43-year-old firebrand with a scorched-earth style and social media savvy as their new leader to take on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
All indications are that Pierre Poilievre has the contest it in the bag.
Punjab Police busts ISI-backed narco-terror-module operating from PAK, Canada
Punjab Police on Thursday busted an ISI-backed terror module jointly handled by a Canada-based gangster Lakhir Singh alias Landa and Pakistan-based terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda.
The Punjab Police has arrested their three close-aides, besides, identifying at least another 25 accomplices who were aiding them in carrying out illegal activities across Punjab and adjoining states, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Thursday.
Any relation to Jagmeet?
Canada’s economy loses 40,000 jobs; unemployment rate jumps to 5.4%
Canada’s economy shed an unexpected, outsized number of jobs in August for the third consecutive month, another indication that growth is slowing as the Bank of Canada attempts to deliver a soft landing while wrestling exceptionally high inflation down to more normal levels.
Ottawa promises review of parole board’s decision to release stabbing suspect from incarceration
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on Tuesday evening announced that the Parole Board of Canada will review its decision to uphold Saskatchewan stabbing suspect Myles Sanderson’s release from minimum security incarceration.
The board ruled in February that it did not consider Sanderson to “present an undue risk to society” in its decision to maintain his release.
Sanderson was initially released from incarceration in a healing lodge in August 2021, but that release was suspended in November after it was determined that he had violated the conditions of his release.
More Healing Lodge is the answer to everything!
Canadians, Americans Say China Is Greatest Health Threat for Their Countries: Survey
A majority of Canadians and Americans say they find China to be the greatest health threat to their countries, while agreeing that Chinese goods should be a top priority for inspection, a Nanos Research poll shows.
This synchronized view of the threats posed by China was published in the latest release of an 18-year tracking survey, co-conducted by the Canada-based Nanos and the University at Buffalo in New York. This latest survey is the seventh wave conducted since Justin Trudeau became the prime minister of Canada and the second wave with Joe Biden as president of the United States.
6M Canadians don’t have a family doctor, a third of them have been looking for over a year: report
More than a third of Canadians who don’t have a family doctor say they have been searching for one for more than a year, all while their health is declining compared to those with easy family doctor access, new research shows.
In the second report to come from an Angus Reid series focusing on Canada’s health-care access crisis, researchers laid out how many Canadians simply can’t find a family doctor.
Crisis upon crisis. Wheels within wheels. Better double the mass immigration number.
GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s parole system puts rehab of criminals above public safety
Canadians are asking — given Myles Sanderson’s history of violence and 59 criminal convictions as an adult — how the man police accuse of fatally stabbing 10 people and injuring 18 more, along with his now-deceased brother, could have been released from prison by the Parole Board of Canada.
Coutts blockaders collected firearms to use against police, RCMP documents allege
A faction that blockaded the Canada-U.S. border in Alberta last winter to protest COVID-19 health measures was stockpiling weapons to use against police, according to allegations unsealed on Wednesday.
The RCMP alleged in search warrant applications filed in court that anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators who six months gathered in Coutts, Alta., were “arming themselves for a standoff against police.”
The allegations were based partly on information collected by police through wiretaps and undercover officers who infiltrated a hangout where a group of protesters met in a basement.
Is that a whiff of Whitmer?
Freeland says she is focused on her ‘really big job,’ but does not deny rumour she’s eyeing top NATO role
OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she “already” has a “really big job” but did not deny rumours that she could be in the running to become the next secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Does this mean her rumoured PM ambitions are no more? Maybe, but this may also suggest they are only on hold & that she figures Junior’s successor faces a Kim Campbell style crash and burn no matter who takes the reins.
Waiting out the storm in a cushy sinecure like NATO Chieftain suits her oversized ego and lets her return to domestic politics if and when things are looking up for the LPC.
What does Liz Truss see in Canada? … Her political inspiration is a failed utopia
Faced with soaring costs of living, increased collateral damage from the war in Ukraine, and widening national inequality, Liz Truss seemed curiously optimistic in her first speech as Prime Minister. What could possibly be driving such bullishness? Absent any sign of a coherent plan of action, we might find her motivation in an Instagram post from 2018, where Truss cited the time she spent in Canada as a teenager as “the year that changed my outlook on life…..#pioneercounty #optimism #maplespirit”.
The risk of political violence in Canada has never been higher
Some time in the not too distant future, when the first Canadian politician has been assassinated since Pierre Laporte, we will all look back and wonder what we could have done to prevent it.
The probable answer is: Not much, in the sense of that particular attack. It is always easy to discover, after the fact, warning signs that were missed, gaps in security that should have been plugged. It is a much harder thing to identify these in advance.
This is really just an anti-Poilievre piece.