This election, I’m voting for Gaza. But please don’t call me a single-issue voter

I am prioritizing parties’ and politicians’ stances on Gaza when I vote in the federal election on April 28 — but please, don’t call me a single-issue voter.

As a Palestinian Canadian, Gaza feels like the best test I can use to gauge a politician’s actual commitment to human rights. The core principle behind human rights is that they are universal (apply to everyone) and inalienable (cannot be taken away). Over the past 18 months, I have watched Israel violate just about every human right that I learned about in school, while so many Canadian politicians stayed silent. If a politician isn’t willing to fight for the human rights of Palestinians, how can we trust they’ll defend Canadian rights? You might think our existing laws safeguard your rights against those who would take them away, but I’m sure many Americans thought the same thing about due process, too. Things can change fast.

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SLOBODIAN: Carney’s leadership could trigger ‘Miss Me Yet?’ yearnings for Trudeau

Voters didn’t demand much substance when they handed Justin Trudeau that 184-seat majority in 2015.

Despite a decade of steady decline during three terms of his leadership that brought Canada to the brink of ruin, history could repeat itself in the April 28 federal election. If polls are believable, newbie politician Mark Carney who returned to ‘save’ Canada after years abroad is positioned to head a Liberal majority government.

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EYRE: Westerners facing a crucial fork in the road

Preston Manning’s idea of a “Canada West Constitutional Conference” would begin doing something about the prospect of another four years of Liberal, anti-Western rule.

The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto (1848) reads: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” Well, these days, a spectre is haunting Western Canada, too, but it sure ain’t communism.

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Canada’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decade. The numbers prove it

If Canada had stuck to 2015 trends, we’d all be $4,200 richer per year, and thousands killed by crime, drugs and health shortages would still be alive

Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015.

In sum, the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been.

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Mark Carney wants to phase out oil and gas—just how much would that cost Canada?

Natural resources are an important economic theme in Canadian economic history, and their development is a key source of the nation’s wealth. Whether wheat and barley, timber and pulp, mineral products, or oil and gas, the export of these resources—the export of resource staples— has been instrumental in generating employment and value-added industries as well as helping drive the development of national transportation infrastructure.

Indeed, Canada is generally acknowledged to have what trade economists refer to as a comparative advantage in natural resource products.

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Canada’s doomsday scenario is already here, no need to wait until 2040

As Canadian doomsday scenarios go, it’s a bit of a letdown. But you’d never know it by the headlines.

First prize goes to the American news site Politico: Apocalypse Now. Runners-up: The Toronto Sun’s “Government report predicts 2040 dystopia: Collapsed economy, hunting for food,” Alberta’s Todayville went with Breaking: The Federal Brief That Should Sink Carney, and the Better Dwelling webzine chose Canada To Become A Dystopian Nightmare, Households Will Flee: Gov Report.

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This quiet election campaign is playing right into the lucky Liberals’ hands

For dramatics, the Canadian election campaign was never going to compete with the American one.

How many campaigns do you see where one party’s nominee is the target of two assassination attempts, one of which sears his ear?

How many do you get when the other party’s nominee is in fact liquidated by his own tribe, the mutiny taking place after the poor fellow staggered through a debate trying to look like a vigorous 80-year-old while coming across as 110.

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Carson Binda: Carney’s industrial carbon tax will kill jobs, increase cost of living

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is arguing that he can “tighten” industrial carbon taxes without increasing costs for consumers. That’s a tough sell. After all, a carbon tax on businesses is a carbon tax on Canadians that will make life more expensive for families struggling to make ends meet.

New polling conducted by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that Canadians overwhelmingly understand that the costs of an industrial carbon tax, like the one championed by Carney, are passed on to consumers.

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Poilievre says he would give police more power to dismantle tent cities

HAMILTON — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he would give police more power to dismantle tent cities, which he claims are making public spaces unsafe.

During a policy announcement in Hamilton, Ont., Poilievre said Liberal policies, including the funding of safer supply programs, are responsible for the increase in homeless encampments across Canada.

“For those trapped in these camps, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our neighbours, they are left to suffer in the cold, to overdose, and sometimes to die alone,” he said. “Letting these tent cities spread is not compassion. It is chaos.”

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China says it wants Carney to be it’s lapdog to push back against American ‘bullying’

China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’

OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.

“We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.

“China is Canada’s opportunity, not Canada’s threat,” he said through the embassy’s interpreter.

Wang — whose office requested the interview with The Canadian Press — said that China and Canada appear to be the only countries taking “concrete and real countermeasures against the unjustified U.S. tariffs” imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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‘What steps did he take’? Lawyers query Carney’s role at company beset by sexism allegations

OTTAWA — A year-and-a-half before he became leader of the Liberal party, Mark Carney took on a daunting job. In August 2023, he was appointed chairman of a revamped board of directors at Bloomberg LP, a U.S. financial information and media company.


Carney is a grifter. End of story.

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On this one issue, Mark Carney sounds a lot like Justin Trudeau

Canada doesn’t have a gun-control problem. And Mark Carney should stop pretending it does.

We do have a problem with gun crime, particularly in some of our larger cities. And we also have a problem with intimate-partner violence. These problems need attention and, critically, more resources. What they don’t need is more gun-control laws: everything that should be illegal already is, often several times over.

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Michael Higgins: We are heading for a nightmare — even the government thinks so

Canada is on a dark path with a future that is bleaker and more depressing than most dystopian movies or novels, at least according to one report.

To make matters worse, this stark, despairing existence is predicted by our very own Canadian government.

And unless we change our ways, we have only 15 years before this miserable life is upon us.

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Adam Zivo: Carney’s platform a failure on crime and drugs

Vancouver Junkies – How could this not be considered a successful community integration?

Canadians are exasperated with the crime, violence and drug use that has swept through their cities over the past decade. While the Liberals have promised to fix these issues should they be reelected, it is clear from their platform that they aren’t taking this file seriously.

The Trudeau government’s failures here cannot be understated. The country is awash with fentanyl and over 50,000 Canadians have lost their lives to opioids since 2016. Organized gangs are running amok and violent crime has exploded to levels unseen since the pre-Harper era, reversing what had previously been a 20-year downward trend.

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