OTTAWA – Hot on the heels of the Conservatives’ stunning byelection victory in the riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s, new seat projection data from Nanos Research show ridings considered previously safe for the Liberals are increasingly up for grabs.
“What we’re seeing is the Liberal fortress Toronto basically under siege,” Nanos said. “So maybe Toronto—St. Paul’s is the canary in the coal mine.”
Work is starting on Canada’s newest warship fleet even though government officials acknowledge they don’t have a final cost for the multi-billion dollar project or a final design.
Defence Minister Bill Blair and Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the head of the Royal Canadian Navy, announced Friday that construction will begin for a test module for the first Canadian Surface Combatant or CSC. Eventually 15 such warships will be produced to replace the current fleet of Halifax-class frigates.
OTTAWA – Liberal MP Wayne Long has become the first member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus to call for his resignation.
Long, a New Brunswick MP, penned an email letter to his caucus colleagues on Friday afternoon saying that after this week’s disastrous byelection loss in Toronto—St. Paul’s, it is time for Trudeau to step down.
Another MP from Newfoundland appeared to support his message.
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Liberal MP Chahal among nine MPs demanding ‘immediate’ caucus meeting to discuss ‘extremely concerning’ byelection loss
OTTAWA — First, the Conservatives took Toronto—St.Paul’s. Next, they’re gunning for Mount Royal in Montreal.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is said to be sharpening his knives to take on a Liberal fortress in Quebec’s largest city in the next general election. And after the party’s stunning byelection victory in a formerly safe Liberal seat on Monday, the Conservatives seem more confident than ever.
Hard for me to have sympathy for Housefather. He blocked me on X for pointing out Trudeau was going to admit 5K plus Hamas supporters from Gaza.
The Liberal Party has failed to protect Canada
Did the Chinese Communist Party interfere in the past two Canadian elections? A fantastic series of leaks from Canada’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) over the winter of 2022/23 suggests so. The leaks point to a vast CCP campaign of political interference that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government allegedly covered up. It has been a major scandal: a Liberal MP named Han Dong was forced to resign from his party in the aftermath, and reports suggest that a “network” of two dozen candidates and staffers were affected.
Among the less commented-on results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election was the performance of the People’s Party of Canada, the populist-nationalist party led by former Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier. If you missed it, here it is: they got 234 votes, or 0.63 per cent of the total.
What a disappointment this must be for the PPC, after winning 2.67 per cent of the vote in the riding in the past general election. But it’s in keeping with the trend nationally. In the 2021 election the PPC took nearly 5 per cent of the vote. Nowadays it’s mired in the two-to-three-per-cent range.
Coyne bullshits for a living, but this nonsense is below even his typically low standards.
The mood of Liberals changed abruptly this week, like a switch being flicked.
There were already party apparatchiks and MPs who thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should go, of course. But before Monday’s by-election loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s, there were many who thought Mr. Trudeau was probably better than the alternatives.
He’s a good campaigner, they said. He wins seats in Quebec. Those waiting in the wings might lead the party to oblivion.
Steven Guilbeault has been taking the temperature of the Liberal Party caucus as calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation mount.
The environment minister was in Toronto this week to meet with Members of Parliament who were awestruck by Monday’s upset defeat in the Toronto–St Paul’s byelection. He spent Thursday working the phones with Liberals across the country trying to take stock of how bad things really are.
I know this because Guilbault did some of this work in public, in the Via Rail business lounge, as he sat next to Canada’s least-recognizable columnist: Me.
Let me get this straight. Liberal Minister was unknowingly sitting next to a columnist on a train – was talking trash about Justin Trudeau needing to go and now he’s like “it was taken out of context”
These people will literally sink with the ship. https://t.co/GzX5asGbdK
— Jennifer Elle (@jenniferelle_) June 28, 2024
The head of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg says he is stepping down to continue his medical work and take a position at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, CBC News has learned.
Since 2020, Dr. Guillaume Poliquin has overseen Canada’s only Level 4 virology facility, which is equipped to deal with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases.
Poliquin announced his resignation to staff in an internal email on Tuesday.
With so little public information it isn’t hard to imagine this was much worse than we know.
OTTAWA — Shock and disappointment over Monday’s byelection defeat in midtown Toronto is still rippling through federal Liberal circles, with some insiders stating their party has veered too far from the political centre and gained a damaging association with the “woke” left.
It’s one of the many factors Liberals are pointing at — alongside souring views on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership — to explain how they lost to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives on Monday, in a riding that has elected Liberals reliably in 10 previous campaigns since 1993.
Toronto’s population is the fastest growing in Canada and in the United States, a new report says.
Its growth is attributed to a “surge of immigration,” according to the report, published by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development. The report analyzed population growth data in both countries over the span of a year, from July 2022 to July 2023.
Catherine McKenna, who served as a prominent Liberal cabinet minister under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2021, says it’s time for the Liberal Party to seek a “new leader.”
“The Liberal Party isn’t about one person. It’s about the values it stands for and it’s about improving the lives of Canadians,” McKenna said in a media statement.
“The prime minister has a legacy to be proud of, but it’s time for new ideas, new energy and a new leader. There’s too much at stake in this election, especially on the economy and the climate.”
OTTAWA – The Liberals’ stunning defeat in the Toronto—St-Paul’s byelection this week could be just the beginning of a year of pain for the party: several more byelections are expected; all of them could happen before 2024 is over.
The Liberals currently hold three of the four seats, with some previously considered safe for the party. But so was Toronto—St. Paul’s, which the party held onto comfortably for 30 years until this week.
Following the Liberals’ embarrassing defeat in Toronto—St. Paul’s, Canadian politics has been consumed with a single question: should the party dump the wildly unpopular prime minister in favour of a leader who has a hope in a Winnipeg winter of holding onto government?
For Liberals and their supporters, who imagine the Conservatives are barbarians at the gates ready to smash civilization to pieces, it’s easy to see why that option could be alluring. Whatever the fortunes of the Liberal party generally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is particularly reviled. So, it would seem some partisans believe, the public would snap out of its dalliances with Pierre Poilievre’s Tories and embrace a new leader if only it were presented with one.
Yesha Council chairman and Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz condemned the Canadian government’s decision to impose additional sanctions on individuals and entities in Judea and Samaria.
“In a scandalous decision, Canada chooses to give support to terrorism and to Hamas, which seeks to continue slaughtering Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel,” Ganz said.
