Why our ruling classes apologize for everything but the slaughter of innocents — and how “sorry” became a weapon for moral surrender.
It is a measure of the world’s inverted values that the entire Western world will take the knee for a homicidal thug and that, bar a few brave souls, the slaughter of innocents today will trigger a deafening silence amongst our erudite elites, governing classes, and leading artistic figures.
Canadian politics enters its era of Illiberals and Unconservatives
Canada has a Liberal Party and a Conservative Party. Broadly speaking, they are supposed to speak for liberalism and conservatism, respectively. Often in the past they have. Where the parties have diverged from their philosophical traditions, it has been more by omission than by commission: what they failed to do, rather than what they did.
What’s going on now is different. The policy direction the Liberals have taken since Mark Carney became leader is revealing itself to be not merely an overdue course correction from the blousy liberalism of his predecessor, but a decisive turn toward illiberalism: harsh on immigration, thuggish on criminal justice, cozy with dictatorships.
Inside one Conservative MP’s ‘Restore the North’ tour, a Canadian take on Charlie Kirk’s movement
With one guiding question, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani hopes to expand a movement and ignite a national conversation.
“How do we restore the North? ” Jivani asked roughly 50 people at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) last Friday.
“How do you make sure we restore the promise of Canada for as many people in this great country as possible?”
WARNING – White Males discussed! Free Speech For Conservatives on campus! Talk of remigration! Immigration Moratorium! Islamophobia!
I smell fear at the CBC.
The case of a single vote which determined the outcome of a federal election in Canada risks sending the “disastrous message” to voters that “some votes count more than others”, says the lawyer of a former MP as a court considers whether to void the controversial election and hold a new vote.
Legal teams in Quebec are midway through a three-day hearing over whether a single vote – and an administrative error – truly swayed a recent election in a suburb north of Montreal.
Bloc Québécois member Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné lost the electoral district of Terrebonne to Liberal Tatiana Auguste in the April vote.
OTTAWA — Despite hundreds of millions of dollars of investments since a devastating 2017 audit, the Canada Revenue Agency’s call centres are still plagued with worsening reliability and accuracy problems as agents give wrong information as often as 87 per cent of the time.
That’s according to a new report by Auditor General Karen Hogan published on Tuesday. The audit found that Canadians are waiting far too long on hold to speak to an agent and, when they get through, they often receive inaccurate general information.
FLAT TAX TIME!
OTTAWA—Under fire over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of the RCMP senior leadership as “despicable,” the Opposition leader’s office instructed Conservative MPs on Monday to reinforce a more positive message about the nation’s police force.
Talking points sent to Conservative MPs who may face public or media questions about Poilievre’s controversial remarks were obtained by the Star by a confidential source.
A “confidential source”, The Star, The Globe and the NatPo all have anti-Poilievre pieces.
A top Canadian defence department official has admonished western leaders for pushing back against Trump administration policies and raising concerns the U.S. is abandoning its allies.
Raquel Garbers, the chief architect of Canada’s new defence policy, accused western leaders of helping Russia and China with their “absurd anti-United States narratives.”
“To suggest that the U.S. can’t be trusted as an ally because it is ‘mistreating its friends’ is to indulge in the fantastical view that states privilege sentimentality over national interest,” she wrote in an opinion piece in the Oct. 15 issue of the Hill Times, a newspaper aimed at Canadian parliamentarians.
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This the Hill Times piece referred to … Indulging in absurd anti-U.S. rhetoric? You’re doing a solid for Moscow and Beijing
Beijing’s biggest fish bazaar is a briny-smelling maze of stalls stocked with massive crabs from Russia, purple lobster from Australia and yellow croaker fish from China’s southeastern coast.
What’s increasingly hard to find at Jingshen Seafood Market, however, are products from Canada: the casualties of a punishing trade war between Ottawa and Beijing.
This lost business is becoming harder for Canada to write off as the United States under Donald Trump grows increasingly protectionist and unpredictable.
China – Too Big to Bail
h/t Mauser
Pierre Poilievre put out a series of holiday-themed posts on social media over the Thanksgiving weekend — photos of the family, praise for the work being done by food banks.
One post, however, departed from all the warm fuzziness. It was an endorsement of a petition from one of his MPs calling for an end to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government. ”Sign here. End DEI. Restore the merit principle,” the Conservative leader said.
Sign here. End DEI. Restore the merit principle. https://t.co/IDanYGgIpv
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 13, 2025
“Conservatives used to respect precedent.”
That was the mocking response from Canada’s leading journalist of judicial supremacy, Andrew Coyne, to legal scholars who raised the alarm recently over the Liberal government’s proposal to limit what remains of parliament’s power by inviting the courts to invent new limits of legislatures’ use of the notwithstanding clause. Apparently, the traditional scope of parliamentary sovereignty is one precedent that Coyne is willing to abjure.
For the sake of our democracy it’s time for Canada to lower the voting age.
I can already hear some of you objecting, “16-year-olds aren’t old enough to vote, they won’t take it seriously.” But, give me a minute.
When I was 16 I couldn’t wait to have my driver’s license. I was at the motor vehicle branch on my birthday. I’ve been driving ever since. Driving a car is serious business. I also had a part-time job at 16 and paid taxes. Lots of 16- and 17-year-olds today have their driver’s license and pay taxes on the income from their part time job.
A Green Party loon no less.
Public approval of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government appears to be on a steady decline as polls now show the Conservatives lurching back towards a competitive stance against the Liberals.
A new Postmedia-Leger poll tracked the Liberals at 44 per cent, against 38 per cent for the Conservatives.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is good at retail politics. Other parties may decry his slogans and three-word mantras, but a note of caution needs to be sounded.
KISS is the basic mantra of any successful politician. It may sound a little condescending because in long form, it reads ‘keep it simple, stupid’. For marketing reasons, the last ‘s’ needs to be replaced because voters are definitely not stupid.
But a simple message is one that resonates. When Poilievre coined the phrase “Axe the Tax” in relation to carbon pricing, it mattered little that the fiscal instrument was supposed to be a price on pollution.
Between September 26 and October 1, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 1,504 Canadian adults on the state of federal politics. With Parliament back in session and economic anxieties simmering, this snapshot reveals a political landscape that is fiercely competitive and one where both major parties are digging in for a battle over economic credibility and leadership trust.
At the topline, little has shifted, but beneath the surface, rising pressure on affordability, mixed views of the Carney government, and some regional softness for both parties are shaping a dynamic fall political environment.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has posted a letter on social media asking the federal government to “immediately” scrap “Liberal bail” and is urging the Prime Minister Mark Carney to vote for a Conservative motion that will rapidly pass the Jail Not Bail Act.
“C-242 (Jail Not Bail Act) repeals the failed Liberal ‘principle of restraint,’ strengthens bail for major violent and organized crimes like extortion and home invasion, requires judges to consider an accused’s criminal history and stops prolific offenders from vouching for other criminals,” the letter addressed to Carney said.
