What Canada’s election results mean for Canadians, Trump and U.S. tariffs

Canada’s Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, is projected to win a federal election that played out against a tumultuous backdrop of President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.

It was not immediately clear whether the Liberals would lead a minority or majority government as votes continued to be counted early Tuesday. Either way, Carney will now have to figure out how to deal with Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on many Canadian goods — and his persistent talk of turning the country into a “51st state.”

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

How Canada’s Conservatives Botched the Election of a Lifetime

OTTAWA, Ontario—In an astonishing come-from-behind victory, Canada’s Liberal Party narrowly won Monday’s election under its new leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney.

As we went to press after midnight, it was still unclear whether Carney’s Liberals would win an outright majority or whether they would need to attempt to form a government through an alliance with minor left-wing parties. However, it was still a remarkable turnaround for the Liberals, who, at the beginning of the year, appeared doomed to defeat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Donald Trump, Election 2025

Adam Zivo: Vancouver car ramming suspect should have never been free in the first place

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event"

Trump to Soften Blow of Automotive Tariffs

WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, preventing duties on foreign-made cars from stacking on top of other tariffs he has imposed and easing some levies on foreign parts used to manufacture cars in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.

The decision will mean that automakers paying Trump’s automotive tariffs won’t also be charged for other duties, such as those on steel and aluminum, according to people familiar with the policy. The move would be retroactive, the people said, meaning that automakers could be reimbursed for such tariffs already paid. The 25% tariff on finished foreign-made cars went into effect early this month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Doug Ford Said What?

He’s Canada’s Most Successful Conservative Right Now — And He Is Disappointed in Pierre Poilievre

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is a canny politician, a throwback to a more ideologically flexible but no-bullshit archetype common in 20th-century, big-city American politics.

Ford’s shrewdest play may have been his most recent, when he called for a snap election earlier this year, and his Progressive Conservatives won decisively. Yet it’s how he went about pursuing victory that’s so instructive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025, WTF?

The scramble to uncover what caused Europe’s biggest power outage

What exactly caused the massive power cuts that swept Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France?

That is the question on the lips of every energy expert in Europe – and theories abound.

Spanish authorities suggested they were investigating the possibility of a cyber attack on grid infrastructure, while some officials in Portugal initially said it was caused by a freak weather phenomenon before backtracking. Both say the exact cause is still unknown.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

‘Hockey and nostalgia’ won’t keep us together: Albertans say they’re serious about separation after Liberal win

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn’t immediately issue a statement when the networks called the federal election for Mark Carney’s Liberals at 10:15 PM EST, but it’s safe to say that not all is calm on the western front.

The Liberals’ fourth straight federal election win keeps Alberta and Ottawa on a collision course, raising the once unthinkable prospect of a referendum on the Prairie province’s separation from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

No, Trump is not the new Joseph McCarthy

In the 1950s, hysterical fears that America was being overrun by Communist subversives had a deeply chilling effect on freedom of speech. Anyone who was outed, or usually falsely accused, of harbouring Communist sympathies lost their jobs or were otherwise ostracised from public life. Everyone from government employees, including teachers and professors, to artists and journalists were treated with suspicion. Many were terrified of revealing the wrong views or saying the wrong thing. This crusade against the alleged Communist threat was led in large part by Republican senator Joseph McCarthy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Mark Carney wins an election that was more about Donald Trump than Pierre Poilievre

Donald Trump went on social media on Canada’s election day to endorse himself as the best leader for this country.

Canadians politely disagreed, handing victory to Mark Carney and the Liberals — a vote for stability amid the chaos Trump keeps wanting to wreak on Canada.

Perhaps Trump will want to let that sink in. Canadians don’t want to be the 51st state, as Trump argued again in that Truth Social post, and when they want to be led by a governor, they mean a former bank governor.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Paris cafés caught cheating tourists with cheap wine

Cafés and bistros in Paris are cheating customers by replacing quality wine with lower-cost alternatives when they serve by the glass, and tourists in particular are on the losing end of the swaps.

Few customers notice the difference when a premium chablis ordered from the wine menu and selling at about €9 a glass is swapped for a sauvignon costing about €5, an investigation by Le Parisien newspaper has found.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance, WTF?

CBC reports Poilievre loses his longtime Ottawa-area seat

Poilievre projected to lose his longtime Ottawa-area seat

Not sure what the future holds for Poilievre.

He was blindsided by Trump’s asinine behavior and I say that as a Trump fan.

I did not vote PPC this election as I felt it necessary to help prevent PM Carpetbagger from retaining office.

The absence of a PPC candidate in my riding made that sacrifice a little easier.

My riding remained Liberal at any rate.

The CPC made impressive gains and I suspect any coalition between the fear-mongering Liberals and Bloc will be short lived.

We live in hope.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

Trump demands permanent ceasefire

Donald Trump has demanded a permanent ceasefire in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin announced a three-day pause in fighting to begin in May.

Mr Trump, who is pushing for a peace deal to be agreed this week, wants to see a “permanent ceasefire” and is growing “increasingly frustrated” with both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary.

Asked about Mr Trump’s meeting with Mr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Pope’s funeral this weekend, she said: “He is increasingly frustrated with the leaders of both countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"